Holy Shittt Im Not Even A Shipper But....WOW

it's been a while since i've posted arcane, but here's my tribute piece for the Art of Arcane exhibit by Gallery Nucleus! this piece was a little wish fulfillment because i wanted to see these guys together ☀️ If you're able to attend, the show runs from May 10-25! if not, you can also see the work here: https://gallerynucleus.com/events/1085

TRUE DAMAGE EKKO IS SO PEAK ITS LEGIT HOW I WAS INTRODUCED TO HIS CHARACTER.

I believe in TD Ekko comeback

- You’re just saying that.

- Do yourself a favor, cupcake. Go back to that big, shiny house of yours and just… forget me, okay?

replace one word of your url with bitch

you’re still not my type

Thank u for feeding us queen

How I feel giving fanart to the 8 other remaining Carmen Samdiego fans:

Dang

zuko's redemption arc actually kind of sucks, and you should stop heralding it as the greatest in fiction.

there are three main reasons i say this.

one) zuko is never actually challenged by the narrative and made to question his imperialistic, racist, and xenophobic beliefs about the alleged inferiority of other nations, people, and bending.

you can say, "but he realizes he sucks during zuko alone!"

but i have to ask you: does he ever actually question the fire nation's values? or does he just realize he's been mean and scary?

his redemption arc is largely made into a personal issue of kindness instead of a social issue of him needing to make amends for both enforcing and benefitting from the fire nation's imperialism.

furthermore, zuko's redemption is boiled down to a moment in which he chooses a family member who is not abusive to him over a family member who is abusive.

two) zuko's redemption arc relies on audience bias. you like zuko because of how sympathetic the narrative is to him even when he's being a racist imperialist, and thus you want zuko to redeem himself. you root for him to be part of the gaang because of all of these moments of sympathy given to him by the narrative and these little moments he has with them that tease at his potential goodness.

zuko absolutely gets to the point where he starts to make better choices in the narrative and wants to do better. i'm not saying he doesn't.

but does he ever textually earn the gaang's trust and make amends with them? you might say, "well, yeah, he goes on life-changing field trips!"

think about it, though. how quickly does the gaang decide they like zuko fully now in book 3, despite him having hunted them and tried to kill them repeatedly throughout books 1 and 2? what does zuko actually do besides take a few of them on "life-changing field trips?" how does the gaang trust zuko so much after a few weeks of him being one of them and months of him being their enemy that they don't even think it's suspicious or weird or scary when he starts firebending aggressively at aang?

the answer is that bryke took too long getting to zuko actually starting his redemption arc and relied so much on audience bias that they decided the gaang had to forgive zuko and trust him that easily, regardless of it made sense.

three) zuko's choice of his uncle over his father is a matter of filial piety: should he abide by it by paying respect and obedience to his father or break it by choosing to go against his father? however, it is never portrayed through this lens. the choice is whitewashed and westernized for the consumption of a white, western audience. it gives no nuance to what it means to be raised with filial piety as an unquestionable staple of your culture and go against it.

this last one is racist, if you were wondering. because atla is racist.

love this casting !! Always thought Briane Tju would be the perfect cinder but im liking alexa loo as well! 

I did a The Lunar Chronicles fancast

Here's part 1 with Cinder, Kai, Scarlet and Wolf!

Cinder (age 16):

She's supposed to be mixed, so I picked:

Olivia Rodrigo (2003. American. White/pacific islander: filipina)

Alexa Loo (2003. Canadian. White/east asian: chinese)

Kai (age 18):

Cha Eunwoo (1997. Korean. Note: not fluent in English)

Xiao Dejun (1999. Chinese. Note: semi-fluent in English. Tiny note: as a fan of him I think he would really like to act in something YA-like where he gets to play a prince)

They are both mostly singers/dancers but it's what I could find

Scarlet (age 18):

Kyra Leroux (2001/2002?. Canadian. Note: fluent in French)

Francesca Capaldi (2004. American)

Wolf (age 23):

Youssef Sawmah (1997. Lebanese/egyptian. Note: not an actor but a model)

Faris Al Bahri (age unknown but most likely 20-25. Lebanese).

I wanted to try and make an updated 2021 version that was as age-accurate and ethnicity-accurate as possible, so those two were my main criteria. So if they look a little too young it's because yeah the characters are pretty young in the books.

After that I considered acting experience, fluency in english (bc I imagine if this were to really happen it would be a Hollywood production ya know) and then physical appearance matching the canon description.

I put two options for each character, one usually a little older than the other so I basically ended up making two full(?) fancasts, for most of them the younger actor is more age-accurate.

This was very hard oh my god I spent like 3 weeks researching like it was homework for absolutely no reason

Shoutout to everyone on tumblr and tiktok that has ever made a fancast because I probably looked through ALL of them (special shoutout to tiktok user @/sista.krista, she started making a good one a while ago but unfortunately only did a few characters)

Also note: I didn't consider the "book trailers" existing on youtube bc I don't really like them lol

Also I tried to avoid actors who were problematic but I'm not super sure I did well on that, you can always inform me! I'd be grateful

Part 2:

Becky

The Lunar Chronicles fancast pt.2

Here's my part 2 with Cress, Thorne, Winter, Jacin and Iko! Cress (age 16): Kyla Matthews (2004. Canadian) She has played a character simil

she is magnificent

shes pretty