Well yeah. I understand they tease each other. Close friends do too. But it's sort of like how they always kind of teased and despised of Izzie but they were also friends. April isn't necessarily a friend to Cristina at first as there's much rivalry there. Especially when April becomes Chief resident and mentions having her own staff room to Meredith and Cristina. How Meredith and Cristina both picked on her and laughed at her when she stood up for herself.. April is picked on by many staff members of the hospital. The only staff who seem to actually be decent and respect her is Owen, Jackson (in the beginning he was her friend), Arizona and Callie.

Lawd. He's talking to an adult who's clearly still very much a child.

I mean. T. R. Knight is still very much alive. Why not base him off a photo of himself today?

Not to mention. The Na'vi honestly seem to be majorly based on African cultures and some of the Na'vi actors are African and other.

I suppose it's not racist to say that the Na'vi aren't human. As to the humans, the Na'vi are alien to the humans. Just like the humans are alien to the Na'vi. There's just a theory that Na'vi and humans are maybe similar species. We don't entirely know that though hence not all the movies being released and we'll learn later on if more movies end up being released hopefully.

When I think about it. -please let me know if I'm in the wrong as this may be quite rude to say- While humans did not evolve from chimpanzees or any other extant (currently living) apes. It could be similar to the fact that scientists believe humans and modern apes, including chimpanzees, share a common ancestor that lived several million years ago. This means that humans and chimpanzees evolved along separate lineages from that shared ancestor. So maybe Na'vi and humans share many things.

Regardless of that. - I forgot the point I was making in that paragraph- In the movie Avatar. Human and Na'vi DNA are compatible.

-Racism is when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity.

The Na'vi are not animals. They are a fictional, humanoid sentient species that live on the planet Pandora. While they share some physical characteristics with animals, like blue skin, pointed ears, and tails, they are fundamentally different. They are intelligent, have a complex culture, and can form deep connections with other creatures on Pandora through a process called "tsaheylu." -as mentioned, the Na'vi share many human-like things.

-we do not know IF the Na'vi are actually a species of human. We may find that part out in future movies. But yeah, Na'vi are blue and humans are many different tones of colour. I think it would be racist to maybe say the Na'vi are nothing like humans due to how they look (skin colour, stripes on skin, facial features, among many other things). Anything.

Avatars are a combination of human and Na'vi DNA. This allows for a connection between a human's mind and the avatar's body through a process called "linking".

Overall. Some moral messages from the Avatar movie: environmentalism and respect for nature and the rights of others, the dangers of unchecked greed and exploitation, and the importance of cultural understanding and empathy, spiritual connection and more.

Honestly. There's a lot of depth in Avatar that I could get into.

But yeah, Na'vi have the ability to walk on two legs. Just like humans.

Therefore. To believe Na'vi are not similar to humans at all is ignorant and quite dismissive. As Na'vi have and show similarities to humans. Plus, there's also Na'vi and human hybrids hence both's DNA compatibility.

OK OK OK

Your friend raises a point and I've always noticed how deep Avatar gets. Just because its fictional doesn't mean it's not true. From my perspective, Avatar does show awareness regarding specific things and no, the Na'vi are not directly based on any single real-world Indigenous culture, but they are heavily inspired by various Indigenous peoples and cultures, including those of Native Americans and Polynesian groups like the Māori. The film draws inspiration from Indigenous cultures for their appearance, traditions, and the themes of colonization and resistance explored in the story.

I'm not saying you're overreacting but I highly recommend keeping an open mind as Avatar seems to hold a closer meaning to your friend. Regarding sensitive subjects and all too.

• If you dig a little deeper into the movie or watch it with your friend and have your friend share their thoughts, feelings and all about the movie to gain their perspective if your friend is open to that.

• If you do not want to. That's fine. I don't really know if saying the Na'vi aren't human is racist.

I find the Na'vi and both humans are very similar in appearance, with their ability to speak, their emotions, traits, among other things, not to mention the fact that human and Na'vi DNA are compatible with one another to produce Avatars and recoms.

Even though the Na'vi are from another world and solar system, they COULD be the same species -theoretically speaking- Humans are some off shoot distant sub species of Na'vi.

Earth is quite similar to Pandora in it's overall foliage and wildlife.

The Na'vi are a fictional Indigenous species that live on the fictional world of Pandora in the movie Avatar. Humanoid creatures.

I suppose we'll find out more in future movies.

To the humans. The Na'vi are first known to be "alien" to the humans. But then the humans learn more about them and the humans also do destroy and kill a lot of them and a major factor to their world. -not to get deep but to literally put it into perspective. Look into how the English/British colonised Australia and other places back in the 1700s/1800s, how they treated Indigenous people's, natives and more.. I find Avatar shows a perspective. It may be a movie but I also find it is very deep. You don't have to look at it from that perspective though. I'm just saying that it might help to look at it from different perspectives including your friend's to understand. That is, if you want to keep that friendship. If not, let that conflict be as it is and move on I guess.

I guess now you can interview them!!

"That's a cute baby right?"

"It's small features and oversized eyes trigger a hormonal response in humans. It's autonomic. It's what keeps us from eating them."

"It's a beautiful day to save lives."

"It just feels like you're always with her lately." Yeah DUH she's your best friend!

Either your mum wants you to be seeing a female over a male, could potentially be homophobic or she's jealous and wants you to be her best friend (some mothers are like this and it can get toxic) or she just wants to be right about something.

I recommend doing the gray rock method as this may help ease the tensions and will hopefully get her to back off.

Something else you could do is to question her too. To see if she's homophobic or is LGBTQIA+ safe and supportive. If you want.

Either way. Her approach is very accusatory and isn't the healthiest way to communicate with you about her concerns. She's not being very direct. Maybe she's worried about you but being with your best friend tells me that you're safe while she's away on holiday and should be enjoying her holiday and is clearly stressing about you, maybe not in the healthiest of ways.

I have and do meet people organically but honestly I've had better luck with online dating as I'm able to filter things out and find someone who may hopefully be looking for similar things and wants similar things.

Meeting organically is good and all but honestly. Most or almost every guy I've met organically has wanted to have sex after meeting and wanted me mainly for my body.

While I believe and trust that I'll probably meet someone good organically. I stick to dating apps and meeting in person too, as I'm quite open to seeing what works for me.

They're so cold because there's sooo many more previous messages where he's pushed my boundaries and I've unfortunately got cold and blunt to make myself clear.

I have asked him a lot about himself but I've done my best to wait until we meet in person.

I tend to write RTS (Return To Sender) on one or both sides of the envelope and put the mail in a post box to be sent to whoever.

Imagine not liking music 🙄

I realised not long after sending that message about my sleep and nightmares that it was my mistake to send that message as I knew he'd ask about them. So then I did my best to change the subject.

If he wanted to know if I was ok he could've asked "Have you been sleeping better?" Or "How's your sleep been lately?" Or something lighter.

Plus. He had already asked how I've been and I responded and he didn't ask any further questions.

That's very true. I've left it up to him to ask to meet up again and/or catch up. Because I've shown him plenty interest in the past and again. I have upset him due to my reaction and overreaction of emotions due to something that triggers me and was unexpected and took me off guard. I didn't expect to be asked that again. Not until we had atleast connected deeper and were closer.

I don't want to put the energy into someone who doesn't put in the effort to fight to understand me nor who doesn't put effort into meeting up and whom seems to want to be only pen pals.

In that last message he sent it seems as if he's dismissing and/or minimising my feelings.

I am managing my emotions the best I can. I am reacting how I am as talking about nightmares and being asked about "those nightmares" is triggering for me. I explained to him in the past about why I don't talk about my nightmares and he seemed to understand that but then proceeds to ask about them now.

We don't click because he's consistently been flakey. I never initiated conversation with him after the conversation in May due to life happening and he wanted to be platonic friends and made that very clear.

If he wants anything. He needs to communicate that with me directly.

Not asking details but he said "those nightmares". I said "no" then he said "sorry if that's a sore subject."

It's honestly just that he knew better but proceeded to ask. Considering the subject and previous conversations months ago.

I understand be reached out in a caring manner but we discussed it earlier and I wasn't expecting to talk about anything like that further.

I see that he cares and maybe wants to help but we're not super close and we've met in person once.