it is not lost on me that people do not appreciate the writing of aang's prolonged grief about his people in the middle of one of the most horrific genocides of our generation
Let me tell you something. Yuri Lowenthal and JYB were voice acting in this scene like the rent was due and the eviction notice was on the door. I remember watching this scene for the first time and being on the edge of my seat.
"i was trying to pour into it my catholic pain, my lessons learned first as a son & then as a father, trying to make mary shelley's pangs & teenage questions as burning & as genuine by asking them again in the solitude of the creature & the indifference of the universe." - GDT
Not a single woman. I'm begging you to read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman. Women have been masters of short horror, and the short story in general, since its inception.
It's not queerbait, and it's not yuri. The two women almost certainly love each other, yet can't envision a romantic future together because that framework doesn't exist for them
It's set in early-2000s Japan and it captures that era with unflinching honesty