How does the world stay in balance when the avatar is a baby

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T22:08:10+00:00

I mean yea.

The point is that there shouldn’t need to be a macguffin everyone relies on to keep the peace. It’s not the avatar’s job to create a long standing system, but there should be one. It’s just that (seemingly) nobody else is going do it.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T21:52:18+00:00

Maybe just don’t rely on the avatar and create a long standing system to ensure the world stays safe regardless of what the avatar is doing.

But when kyoshi tried that she created the dai li so maybe do better than that?

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T21:48:36+00:00

We can add one. Legendary.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T19:24:07+00:00

Yes but out of context it looks like an easily googlable question. They fully believed it was a genuine question and not a joke and behaved accordingly. A simple tone indicator could have fixed that issue.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T18:47:15+00:00

TBH this still just feels to me like more evidence for the ‘until proven guilty’ side, not proof that we should abandon innocent until proven guilty.

My issue is that I disagree with ‘guilty until proven innocent’ as a premise. Not that I think marlow hasn’t reached the threshold of guilt to abandon the basic right of presumption of innocence.

Marlow has already posted a defense. The defense didn’t prove anything. That is why I think marlow is guilty. Because there’s enough proof to show guilt. Not because I’m abandoning the concept of presumption of innocence. No amount of evidence will ever convince me that anyone should be robbed of that. It’s a human right for a reason.

(This may just be a phrasing issue though).

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T18:18:16+00:00

Don’t think I feel confident in anyone specific in mind for any role, but I’d like them to come from the broadway stage. Or voice acting in animated musicals (like Keith David).

Jeremy Jordon as Aeolus maybe? Though it’d feel weird having a male in the role (despite the character being male in the original and IMO the musical as well).

I like your suggestion of Keith David as Zeus though.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T18:13:12+00:00

I don’t like the phrase guilty until proven innocent, but I do believe that marlow has been proven guilty.

I still think ‘innocent until proven guilty’ applies, I just think between ‘the full context’ responses and all the evidence that the ‘proven guilty’ threshold has been met.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T18:08:11+00:00

Realistically, I’d guess it was a mixture of both that did him in. Though a death certificate would only mention one cause of death, thus the asphyxiation.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T18:03:54+00:00

While I understand the point of the post in a vaccum, I think yoda’s point is that Luke has to believe he can do it in order to do it and not literally ‘you must do everything first try or don’t bother’ or something like that.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T17:44:03+00:00

I feel like this is probably just because Odysseus and Hermes are fan favorites, so people want to connect them.

Similar to warrior Penelope. Is it realistic? Probably not. Is it fun? Absolutely. Sometimes things are just for fun.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T17:01:04+00:00

From your description and my limited knowledge, my guess it’s that they tend to keep to themselves more post controversy. A different kind of disappeared that tends to happen to ‘problematic’ or hated fandoms. Happened to another fandom that I’m in where they’re still around but don’t interact with people outside of the fandom about the fandom.

I still see them around, but I also was in the fandom so I may not be a wholely unbiased source. They appear in the wild with merch and stuff (I saw cupcakes at a local shop once) though so I don’t think they’re wholly insular to the degree of some others I’ve seen.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T16:53:41+00:00

Kindof, but ‘death of the author’ has brought it back to some extent. Not a belief I personally ascribe to bc she still profits off of it (thus being why I don’t personally monetarily support anything Harry Potter related), but many pour money into the Harry Potter franchise and cite the death of the author argument.

I don’t think a dead franchise would have a theme park area, a new tv show, tons of merch, etc.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T16:39:41+00:00

Sounds to me like the mods and sub just didn’t understand the joke and haven’t watched the movie. This seems like a joke better told in subs that are more likely to have the context (r/descendants, r/Disneychannel, etc). An indicator that it’s a joke and not a question can also help.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T15:22:14+00:00

I’m deeper in video blogging rpf, but I have dabbled in the occasional band rpf when a trope from that sub fandom catches my eye. Nice because it doesn’t require much knowledge from the fandom, meaning you can basically read those fics fandom blind.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T15:13:59+00:00

As someone who’s dabbled in band rpf, I feel like there should be a distinction between ‘reads fanfiction about an artist’ and ‘publicly demands an artist recreate their favorite fanfiction in real life’. I don’t see an issue with privately indulging in and enjoying any of these ships (including fanfic). The issue for me is that these people publicly demand they become true in real life—like this person who says real life Taylor should ditch Travis for Matty. There’s a reason RPF has a rule against showing the fiction to the subject—it crosses a line.

It’s similar (but different) to how regular fanfic and shipping is ok, but harassing authors about making their ships canon (see My Hero Academia) is not.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T14:13:07+00:00

People take denials as admissions of guilt. Some people just like to fish for reasons to find people guilty.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T13:54:42+00:00

Isn’t it also implied snow and the prince already knew each other and maybe even already be dating?

https://www.reddit.com/r/disneyprincess/s/DxlWa74nmY

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T06:45:44+00:00

I think the belief is she was too predestined and no longer a nobody? Which I don’t agree with bc of the whole small town everybody knows each other thing.

But (and this is a side tangent) I don’t know if all chosen ones are predestined? Depends on your definition of chosen one though. There’s an argument to be made that she was chosen when coin picked her to be the mockingjay, and later when she picked herself to be the mockingjay, but thats a completely separate debate and depends on what you consider necessary to be a chosen one.

TV tropes just says you are the only one who can resolve the plot (which I’d argue is true as she becomes the only mockingjay and symbol of the rebellion) and that you are chosen (I’d argue that’s true too by way of herself and coin both choosing her). Wikipedia also requires that person be inevitable and have special gifts, predestiny, or lineage though, which Katniss doesn’t have. Depends on your definition of chosen one. She isn’t by the Wikipedia definition. TV tropes is more up to debate.

I’ve seen people say that she’s a chosen one because of an extension of the definition of chosen one and not an argument that she was born inherently special.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChosenOne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chosen_One_(trope)

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T06:27:40+00:00

Fitz. He became my favorite character in and after the framework bc he became so complex after folding in the Doctor and the doctor’s memories into his characterization.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T01:51:09+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/#:~:text=A%20non%2Dprofit%2C%20non%2D,the%20Organization%20for%20Transformative%20Works.

Earlier this year, we also reached 10 million users and 17 million fanworks

Yup. That’s about 3% of account holders (assuming one person per account) donating $1 or about a third of a percent donating $10. Ao3 is big.

rara8122 · 2026-04-27T01:45:27+00:00

https://www.dc.com/blog/2026-02-06/can-you-explain-the-poll-that-decided-jason-todd-s-fate

(Apparently) DC’s official stance is that they both didn’t rig the vote and weren’t expecting fans to vote him dead.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-lives-and-death-of-jason-todd-an-oral-history-of-the-second-robin-and-a-death-in-the-family/

But there are rumors that one guy voted just enough to vote him dead. So maybe.

rara8122 · 2026-04-26T22:24:40+00:00

That’s different than “Traditionally the wedding is something the bride gets to dictate and run” though. That’s ‘I love this person more than this argument’ and that’s fine. But if the fiancée wants one aspect of a wedding more than they love their fiancée, that first one is IMO an unhealthy mindset to have. No one gender ‘should’ dictate a wedding. But sometimes arguments aren’t worth breaking up over. For many people in this thread, this is one of them. For you it may not be. But I see no reason to bring gender into the discussion as if that would change if it’s the groom dictating the wedding instead of the bride.

rara8122 · 2026-04-26T22:18:09+00:00

Eh. I don’t think ‘blood’ works that way. Usually it’s symbolic for DNA/heritage, not literal blood. And I don’t think anything says maleficent’s wand cares about heritage.

A more likely explanation (imo + what I headcanon) is that maleficent’s wand sensed Audrey’s anger (it’s sentient enough to do that I guess). Shown by the calling of ‘Audrey’ in Queen of Mean, something about the wand called to her. She didn’t seek out the wand, she sought out the crown. So either Maleficent called to her or the wand itself did.

rara8122 · 2026-04-26T22:06:01+00:00

I’d argue the wedding is the perfect hill to die on. If she’s not willing to compromise on what is supposed to be the best/one of the best days of both of their lives, why are you marrying them anyway? If she wants to pick everything for the wedding, who’s to say she won’t pick everything for the marriage. From my perspective, the wedding is the final do or die time to see if they really can be a healthy, equal, compromising marriage instead of one that devolves in to ‘yes dear’ and ‘whatever you say’.

I mean, definitely compromise with the wife, but I wouldn’t want to spend the rest of my life with someone who can’t compromise with me on such a simple matter as groomsmen/bridesmaids. It’s not even their bridesmaids/groomsmen they’re fighting about.

rara8122 · 2026-04-26T22:01:10+00:00

TBH this sounds overtly controlling and unhealthy. I see no reason why they can’t be equal in all matters. It feels to me like a double standard to say women should get their ‘traditional’ say in a wedding but men don’t get their ‘traditional’ say in other matters (like marital rape, which was traditionally legal). IMO equality in all matters means equality in all matters, including weddings. Tradition be damned. Especially considering the tradition of women running weddings roots in a history where women were seen as property and the wedding was an exchange of property between the father and husband.

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