I Really Refuse To Accept The Bs Excuses People Give For The ATLA Live Action. We Have Seen That A Live

I really refuse to accept the bs excuses people give for the ATLA live action. We have seen that a live action adaptation of an anime can have amazingly accurate casting (from Netflix themselves!!!!) with OPLA.

There is no excuse to not check into the backgrounds of the people you are casting when we have had pretendian actors like Taylor Lautner as the most popular actors playing indigenous characters. Not necessarily for tribal membership but literally just give me something! Something that connects you to the culture!

Even when I thought Ian Ousley was native, I wasn’t on the bs train of “he looks so much like Sokka.” Where? He looks like a white man! And while indigenous white passing ppl are still valid, that 100% plays into the intense colorism in the entertainment industry! Creating a diverse water tribe with real native actors (and especially Inuk actors!) would have been awesome! But as main characters Katara and Sokka were literally dark enough that many ppl thought they were black or identified with them as black people. So how did we even end up casting him??? Refer back to colorism.

The fact of the matter is they had an opportunity to uplift indigenous actors on a scale never before seen in something that wasn’t about indigenous trauma. But people don’t care about indigenous individuals. You don’t care about our voices.

This community which has claimed to love these characters and their culture, their home, their story, has disappointed me beyond measure. You care so little about others that you couldn’t simply take the time to boycott or even bootleg?! Or to uplift our voices enough to FORCE them to change these things. It’s shameful.

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Me to my old English teacher

Seeing footage of the aftermath of the flour massacre in Gaza is so painful

"Where is my daughter? Tell her I don't want flour anymore"

"My brother was shot holding a bag of flour. He kept holding on to it so they kept shooting him"

"Why does flour have to be stained with blood?"

Over 100 have been killed. Every single one of them hungry. Every single one of them has someone waiting for them to come back with the bag of flour.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against innocent civilians. Israel ambushes starving Palestinians and shoots them. Israel is not fighting a war to defend itself. This is another episode of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Thick of It/Ghosts crossover where Adam's evil homophobic grandfather dies and he and Fergus are going through his stuff and finds pics of the Captain but he's never heard of this man before even though they're clearly related so he does a bit of digging and decides to visit the Button House guesthouse and make Alison scream.

And then they go digging through the House because they're both pricks and don't have boundaries, and find Mike's ghost board and are like what, and meanwhile the ghosts are going nuts assuming Cap has some secret great grandchild even though Cap insists that is Literally Impossible for Unspecified Reasons.

And also at one point they realise it's the house Julian died in and Fergus is a bit creeped out about dead doppelgangers and dead politicians and weird shit that keeps happening around them while Adam thinks he's an idiot and they do the classic asshole couple in a haunted house thing.

And eventually it turns out that Adam is Cap's great nephew, and his brother never spoke of him after his death, and one of the reasons his evil grandad was so evil to him was because he's the spit of him and also attracted to men (which are the only two things they have in common lol) and his grandfather hated the fact that Cap's legacy had lived on despite everything they'd done to try and erase him from their family history.