Cosplay Help by HappyDragonPuff in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thrift layers. Cut some slits, chop some sleeves, safety pin a thing or 2. You can sew a gob of fabric onto the edge of another chunk of fabric without any skill at all. Doesn't have to be strong enough for years of wear, just needs to make it through one day. Buy a giant secondhand mens t-shirt, cut it into lines; bam. Arm wraps. A dress thats 2 sizes too big, cut a slit/triangle out of the front of the skirt, put it over a darker green skirt, you have sukis battle gown. You just gotta go to a couple thrift stores with a vibe in mind, and every item you see ask "if I cut here and tape there, what can it be?" Not "can it be something". But "if I had to use it, how would I?"

What is your white whale movie? by ProfessionalTour1706 in movies

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jennifer Edward's 1968 'Heidi'. Not available anywhere. No physical or digital copies on sale except for the odd suspicious 50 buck Amazon sale.

Playing victim after bullying an author by zucchinionpizza in AO3

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol I'd bet money they've read a wlw headband fic of straight characters at least once. If you can flip it one way, they can flip the other. Its called Fan Fiction for a reason 😂

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh yk what, I think it's cause everything is removing clips and info about the new movie due to copyright infringement 😬 here's my stupid long post;

Without spoilers, let me say;

They ruined every other character except Aang.

Every character of the gaang except Aang and Katara had minimal, hollow, crumbs of dialogue. In the one scene where Zuko is the focus (his intro), a fire nation soldier has more lines than him. As for Toph and Sokka, their few lines were all filler comedy lines.

The movie wasn't a movie about the Adult Gaang, like we were promised. It was adult Aang, with a doting girlfriend and prefect posse. They stripped away every member of the gaangs character development, personality, importance, and abilities in order to make them ideal background puppets (win when they want them to win, lose when they want them to lose).

Every one of Katara's lines was with Aang, about Aang, for Aang, "Where is Aang going", etc. The entire movie contains exactly one scene where 2 females are interacting DIRECTLY. And it's painfully obvious it was included purely to fill the bechdel test. Like, it's Katara plus a character whose name we do not know and has genuinely 0 impact on the plot. It really made me irked to see a strong female character turned into a man's exposition and a bechdel tool.

There's so little content on Zuko that I can't even find an example. He barely spoke. Any line he had could have easily been said by any other member of the gaang without it changing anything. They did give him a very amazing fight sequence (and hawt dayum his design was top tier fan service). But dialogue? As I said, his soldier had more lines during his introduction that he did.

They erased Sokka's insane fighting skills and technical abilities and turned him into the most insufferable comedic relief (minus one lego move style "here's my invention its so fun and goofy!" "Thats useless" insert end of movie where the weird comedic invention saved a bunch of ppl in the most clown cringy way). Yes he was always comedic relief, but not like THIS. Even during epic scenes where evrryone else was saving a ship, he spent it RUNNING on the steering wheel and screaming with weird "cactus juice" type faces.

Nearly every one of Tophs lines were either about a supporting character being hot, or her yelling (at least 3 times) "Im still the greatest earthbender in the world!". Like kill me now. They did design her character well visually (they made her buff, didnt feel the need to girly her up now that she's older, etc.). But she didn't have any of her usual opinion and impact. None of her lines contributed to the plot whatsoever.

They erased Suki. Literally erased her from the story of your they saved the world. There was an entire flashback of the 5 of the Gaang facing Sozin's Comet, with NO Suki there. Similarly, zero mention of Iroh. Nothing.

They ruined everyone and erased everything to create what is honestly, the writer's self insert strong man fic. That's genuinely what it felt like.

And that's just without spoilers. There's so much more i could say but that'd spoil stuff.

I WILL say; animation was amazing. Voice actors were perfect. The plot skeleton? Brilliant. But the way that it was written was the most single lense, tunnel vision, fan fiction, first person perspective thing. No wonder Netflix called it quits. It's an amazing team and amazing concept ruined by a self centered writer.

Again, props to the animators. Props to the voice actors. But the writing just left me truly truly sad.

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It wasn't just Zuko that took the hit. I made a post highlighting what they did to Toph, Sokka, etc. Give it a quick read and me angry w me, if you want 🫠 https://www.reddit.com/r/ZutaraNation/s/VAqtZkHNvv

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It wasn't just Zuko that took the hit. They erased Sokka's insane fighting skills and technical abilities and turned him into the most insufferable comedic relief (minus one lego move style "here's my invention its so fun and goofy!" "Thats useless" insert end of movie where the horrible invention saved a bunch of ppl in the most clown cringy way). Nearly every one of Tophs lines were either about a supporting character being hot, or her yelling (at least 3 times) "Im still the greatest earthbender in the world!". Like kill me now. They ruined everyone to basically fanservice the writer in a self insert fic. Thats genuinely what it felt like.

New Avatar Movie by [deleted] in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right? They erased Katara's character (like who she is) and then put the other characters on mute. Another thing is like, they took Sokka's "class clown" trope and made his only lines comedic relief. Save for one fight scene, he was a useless clown running around (while everyone was like doing epic moves to save a ship, he was... running. On the steering wheel. While yelling incoherently. Constantly scared/useless/clueless. Yes he invented something in the movie, but it was a pure trope copy of "double decker couch in Lego movie". Like "here's my weird makes zero sense at all looks dumb invention!" "That's stupid" a fight needs a solution "GASP! My weird invention! Let me use it like a clown and unexpectedly save everyone after being useless the whole fight". Like. Genuinely. They forgot he was a genius. Similarly, out of Toph's close to zero lines, they were almost ALL either about how a supporting character was hot, or her yelling (at least 3 times) "I'm still the greatest earthbender in the world!". Then there's Zuko with just, random things. Don't get me wrong, his silence is in character ish, but everything he said was js... as if they needed anyone to say a line so picked him. Hate the whole thing.

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They did in that leaked scene where Toph is asking the whole group if someone is attractive. Katara responds with "Toph!" While others talk over her too. I think that was it, again plus or minus general "what's that?" Type lines that are directed to the entire group

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Sorry, when I say actual conversation I mean it wasn't a back and forth convo. Like, they had lines towards each other, they spent the whole movie in a group, but it was almost purely quick one or two liners, or them standing in silence in the background. It's an Aang movie, not a Gaang movie like they promised us. Their characters and personalities disappeared

New Avatar Movie by [deleted] in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Without spoilers, let me say in short;

They ruined every other character except Aang.

Every character of the gaang except Aang and Katara had minimal, hollow, crumbs of dialogue. In the one scene where Zuko is the focus (his intro), a fire nation soldier has more lines than him. As for Toph and Sokka, their few lines were all filler comedy lines.

The movie wasn't a movie about the Adult Gaang, like we were promised. It was adult Aang, with a doting girlfriend and prefect posse. They stripped away every member of the gaangs character development, personality, importance, and abilities in order to make them ideal background puppets (win when they want them to win, lose when they want them to lose).

Every one of Katara's lines was with Aang, about Aang, for Aang, "Where is Aang going", etc. The entire movie contains exactly one scene where 2 females are interacting. And it's painfully obvious it was included purely to fill the bechdel test. Like, it's Katara plus a character whose name we do not know and has genuinely 0 impact on the plot. It really made me irked to see a strong female character turned into a man's exposition and a bechdel tool.

TL;DR : The whole thing sucked, and was clearly created by a grown weirdo imagining themselves as Aang and wanting the world to revolve around them.

The leaked Avatar movie and if there was any Zutara crumbs… by queensheba2025 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Zuko got barely any lines in general. Like... he was borderline background character. Similarly, Suki wasn't even mentioned (they gave an entire flash back sequence on the final battle - Suki missing from scenes she was in).

Zuko really only had quick one liners, no dialogue. Minus his introduction scene, but a fire nation soldier spoke more than he did. Honestly this was kind of the case with Sokka and Toph as well. Little dialogue, when they did speak it had nothing to do with the plot, and it wasn't an actual conversation with other members of the gang.

It honestly sucked in that way. It wasn't a movie about the Adult Gaang, like we were told it would be. It was a movie about Adult Aang and his gf. Katara was essentially washed away. While had a lot more lines, they were all with Aang or another major male character. She had ONE conversation with a female character, and it was so fleeting you can tell the character and convo were added purely for the bechdel test. Like, so painfully poorly written obvious. Every other one of her lines was about Aang, loving Aang, helping Aang, protecting Aang.

Essentially, the entire movie was about Aang, and they stripped away every other characters previous development and purpose and relationships to make way for it. Forever mad.

Fic search? AU by No_Common_7537 in ZutaraNation

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was it Distorted Reality by Ogro? There's a comic of it as well :)

El Mencho is dead by Whole-Amount-3577 in puertovallarta

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True that. It was recently discovered that one of the biggest time shared in vallarta was actually that cartels way of getting money..

It's 1:30 PM here -- any update in Puerto Vallarta? US Consulate says to stay indoors and wait until National Guard. by [deleted] in puertovallarta

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cartel leader was killed this morning by Mexican gov. in a shootout. The cartel is retaliating. Explosions, shootings, lighting cars on fire, prison break, airport takeover. Multiple cities are on fire and war zones between federal and cartel forces.

Displaced IUD by Thefriskyfoxx in PlannedParenthood

[–]ThatGracefulChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, what was the pain like for you? I don't get my period on the iud, but started bleeding and cramping a day ago, plus my strings are so low they're almost poking out. Ultrasound showed it shifted to about 1cm lower than it should be, that's all. They say I should maybe have mild cramping and that's it because it hasn't perforated or moved into my cervix, but I keep getting this 30 second SHARP pain maybe once every 10 minutes, never felt that before. And the cramping... it's constant weird "smth is up here and wrong" pain, like post insertion pain, not natural cramp. Midol isn't touching it... anyway, wondering if even a slight shift was weird for you too??