tyler may be 6’8 or whatever but he does exude fragile victorian child energy sometimes
the hardest thing about raising zuko for iroh is that he is simply too much of a chad to understand zuko’s sexual repression. emotional repression? yeah, he gets it. he was raised in the same environment, after all. but zuko looking like he wants to die when iroh informs him that jin is into him is just. completely new territory for iroh. yes azulon raised him to be a ruthless general but it’s not like that ever stopped iroh from getting mad pussy. he never had this problem with lu ten bc lu ten was also such a fucking chad. but no one ever gave iroh a handbook on how to raise sensitive gay boys, and for that reason alone iroh embarrasses zuko daily. smh uncle, smh
i don’t know much about filmmaking but i do know this
directors who focus on hands: knows about the tender language of touch, can show you painful emotional distance between two people, can rightfully articulate the true soul-crushing enormity of yearning
directors who focus on bare feet: need to be hunted for sport and shot on sight
behold antoni realizing that while he was at fancy expensive horse riding camp he could’ve been having his first gay experience instead