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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago

this is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema to me it’s the moment oogway denies tai lung the dragon scroll it’s a moment i understand. because it’s a moment when the exceptional child realises he has darkness in his heart https://t.co/w9ZSEmmxKr https://t.co/MnSBxqx4jj

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

what does an exceptional child do? when he has been told he has a destiny https://t.co/AlHWTNhqHN

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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that moment of wrongness is everything. it is hell. it is exile to hell. it is separating the child from his only basis for existence https://t.co/OX26l5WOVg

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

the ability to exist, without being exceptional

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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to have a stain on you. ā€œof darkness.ā€ with no tools to fix it if desperation breeds desperate choices, these children are the most desperate of all https://t.co/kM0CCAJUHF

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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oogway saw darkness in tai lung’s soul . he wasn’t wrong . but it was š˜øš˜³š˜°š˜Æš˜Ø of him to deny the scroll when oogway said no, and turned away, he cleaved reality, putting the barrier of ā€œdarkness in his heartā€ between tai lung and the dragon scroll https://t.co/bcMz2KZd3N

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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and tai lung had internalised that greatness was his destiny. that it’s why people cared. why people lived so oogway had just separated tai lung from his life

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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to a normal child, this would have been sad, devastating even, but not existential. it might not impact that secure attachment to the world. but for tai lung, this was his attachment to the world this was his basis for existence. his being in the world https://t.co/OX26l5WOVg

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

the ability to exist, without being exceptional

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

i don’t think oogway understood what he had done. i don’t think he would have done it the same way if he had

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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it can be simultaneously true that oogway was right to deny the dragon scroll . to protect whom he had to protect . and that there was a wrongness to it

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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it was š˜øš˜³š˜°š˜Æš˜Ø of him to not offer kindness after that. forgive him, for he was not perfectly enlightened https://t.co/QpTWgGk1MH https://t.co/5fsYHGdpTg

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago

pity the others who are not infinitely kind to you, for they are not infinitely enlightened

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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https://t.co/fHPGkpZRf6

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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> And Shifu had to destroy what he had created. > But how could he? shifu is literally humanised more than tai lung lol https://t.co/X8Mt5xfYGy

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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the movie chooses to humanise shifu, other oogway. to humanise po, other tai lung. these are fine cinematic choices for the movie they made: but it’s always worth noting:

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago
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who are the people depicted ā€œfundamentally like usā€ but made different choices? who are the ā€œother kind of peopleā€? https://t.co/jr04dMvHli

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago

here’s the secret to when celebrities or other people tell you about an experience you cannot directly relate with: instead treating them as a fundamentally different kind of human being (ā€œwoah, i could never imagine that!ā€) https://t.co/25uDpEuqi6

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ā§Ø falling forever@alex_with_ease• over 1 year ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Great thread, one of the mysteries of being human: what to do with darkness you cannot (yet) metabolize?

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