#aang the builder

[survivalove]

Air Temple Island, the Water Tribes & the Real Life Influences that bring them together

I was gonna screenshot a post I saw and add it to my post but I don’t feel like giving that individual attention (and the 300+ notes they got), so I just decided to make my own standalone post debunking this narrative that air temple island is this fully air nomad brothel (yes they said this) with ZERO water tribe motifs which katara is forced to live in until aang passed away.

frankly it just reminded me of how little people in this fandom actually bother to analyze the actual content, instead preferring to write entirely made up scenarios of katara being reduced to an air nomad incubator along with dozens other female acolytes (yes they also said this lmao. also them acting like both male AND female acolytes weren’t living on the whole other side of the island 😭)

when in truth, i’ve come to find a lot of elements of both water tribes as well as traditional inuit elements across air temple island:

1. the paifang

a traditionally chinese element that for some reason is exclusively found in the northern water tribe (why do they have a gate inside a throne room, you ask? ask the white people that made this show). the one on the left is actually one of two aang BUILT, at the main entrance and another at the temple entrance. this is just one example of water tribe design on the island.

2. the bagua mosaic

another structure is the bagua mosaic on the training grounds. bagua is a set of traditional chinese symbols of the cosmology, taoism. the bagua composes of 8 sets of broken or unbroken lines that represent yin and yang. where have we seen yin and yang in the original series? oh yeah, as tui and la of the water tribe! (because atla is a mess of asiatic and indigenous motifs joined together and spread out across each nation, mainly traditionally chinese elements at that.) aang building this right next to the air nomad training grounds is a symbol of the dual bending heritage their children will have.

3. gold and blue accents

now, gold and blue are the main colors of the exterior structures but is also very strong inside the air temple itself. note, the massive air nomad symbol designed fully in blue in the center and the blue banners and rugs throughout the temple. this is no doubt, for me, a visual depiction of both katara and aang’s representative cultures, but of course this is not limited to color only.

4. cloud carvings

now, this is a slight detour since clouds aren’t a significant part of either of their individual cultures (that we know) but i love the kataang monopoly they have on clouds as a couple so i’m talking about it. if you look at these images very closely what do you see? CLOUD CARVINGS!! specifically near the ceiling of the pavilion (left) and the arches and walls of the temple (right) just imagining aang painting and etching these very consistent swirls, like he’ll never be the selfish inconsiderate unromantic loser you people want him to be, but let’s get more into the southern water tribe style interior.

5. interior design

so here is a southern water tribe white lotus outpost vs the air temple island main dining room. first thing, the seat cushions and rug! while we don’t see air nomad eating quarters we do get to see enough SWT customs both in atla and lok, to know this is how they traditionally eat compared to the north (limiting myself on pics cuz mobile).

another thing is the dining table itself. both have what i believe to be built in fire pits (i couldn’t actually tell for the air temple island one cuz of the quality but if you zoom in you can see the lines go in the table plus the hanging kettle on it makes it obvious to me idk). the southern water tribe one however is clear and likely a more traditional version of what aang and katara have.

thirdly, the exposed timber on the ceiling. i actually looked it up and found this is a common element of these two inuit structures: left is an aasiaat peat house and right is an igloolik turf house. all this for me to believe not only did aang build air temple island to be a haven for the TWO of them but also that katara herself had a lot of input on the interior than people care to notice lol.

maybe instead of projecting these loser fantasies of katara being some unwilling air nomad baby making machine so you can feel better about your fantasies of katara living in a red palace with people that tried to wipe her out for a whole century, you all can go study the actual canon you were shown and the real life cultures the franchise takes from.

6. lastly, some of my own headcanons/stuff i want to see in the movie

the bathroom because I LIVE for a white marble tiled bathroom. i just know katara has to have a HUGE tub and they have one of those insane glass showers that can fit like 3 people, with cloud swirls everywhere because aang clearly got it like that

the KITCHEN, i imagine it being timber like the dining room and is probably on the other side behind the built-in shelf (get into the details like hello). in a perfect world, it would be open plan but hey

the bedroom, now we saw it in lok a bit but i wanna see it in the gaang movie too. i’m on pic limit but there’s a lot of artwork and flowers throughout the whole house which i give katara credit for because I can. like the desk, the bookshelf, that fancy looking vase thing? these two clearly have taste like don’t talk to me rn

I also didn’t show the rooms and aang’s study but there’s a lot of blue decor in those places which makes me think katara decorated the whole house, even the acolytes’ hall has blue sitting cushions and columns which i think is such a nice detail.

if you guys have any air temple island headcanons of your own please reply with some i’m feening lol

big shoutout to this user:

atla-annotated (their page is so great and filled with a lot of incredible information if you guys like this sort of stuff)

#atla #kataang #anti anti kataang #anti anti aang #aang the builder #i’ll keep saying it #anti anti katara #anti zutara #enough of with these loser fantasies #i’m sorry kataang will never have that cold sad narrative y’all desperately want them to #they need their own architectural digest house tour at this point #katara interior decorator fic when?? #i need the hgtv kataang fic too btw #my fic ideas #my headcanons #air temple island #lok #cloudfamily #water tribe #air temple

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Ranvaripper

Altura: 240 metros (En 2 patas) 120 metros (en 4 patas)

Longitud: 480 metros

Peso: 30,000 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: Melbourne [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Controles: Tierra Control [Excavación] Fuego Control [Explosión Concentrada] Aire Control [Vuelo/Planeo] Agua Control [Nado]

Guarida: Monte Uluru [Tierra: Teratoverso] Ba Sing Se [Avatarverso]

Aspecto: Varan Showa (Cuernos) + Megalania

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko, Toph

Kaijus y otras bestias: Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula

Kaijus y otras bestias: King Ghidorah

#avatar aang #avatar: the last airbender #avatarverse #kaiju #tokusatsu #toho #showa era #varan #varan the unbelievable #destroy all monsters #megalania #jurassic park builder

[darklydesigned]

Great shots taken by @jason.aperture at our Avatar shoot on Sunday. @animenorthcompass @nickelodeon #princessazula #avatarthelastairbender #azula #firelord #aang #zuko #tylee #cosplay #cosplayer #cosplaylife #cosplaygirl #cosplayersofinstagram #cosplayfun #sewersofinstagram #seamstress #builder #handmade #masterlevelcostumer #sewing #fallforcostume #canadiancosplayers #costumemakers #darklydesigned #darklydesignedcosplay (at Anime North) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgNObEgpRoD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#princessazula #avatarthelastairbender #azula #firelord #aang #zuko #tylee #cosplay #cosplayer #cosplaylife #cosplaygirl #cosplayersofinstagram #cosplayfun #sewersofinstagram #seamstress #builder #handmade #masterlevelcostumer #sewing #fallforcostume #canadiancosplayers #costumemakers #darklydesigned #darklydesignedcosplay

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

#I also have minor critiques like #Why are all the guards drawn as short and noodly-armed as Sokka pretending to be a guard #Why are the guards the only ones allowed to have funny lines #Did anyone consider using a lack of dialogue in some panels to establish mood and let the visuals speak for themselves (no they did not) #Why is Azula villain monologuing for so long at the start #She does like her villain lines but in the show they're short #And generally aimed at fresh opponents #Not last week's old news #I kept wondering why Azula was even there instead of generic lackeys especially since she had to have been dealing with the conquest of #Ba Sing Se around then. big This Could Have Been An Email vibes #Also as a gardener #HOW FAST WERE THOSE PRISON PLANTS GOING TO SEED AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME #Apparently they needed minimal (almost no?) light and tiny cracks of space and were nutritious and tasted good raw and grew so fast they #Could substantially affect the diets of multiple prisoners within a short time span? #I WANT THEM IN MY INDOOR SETUP ASAP #Screw lettuce I want Suki's Magic Beans #avatar the last airbender #atla #Suki #There continue to be no comics in Ba Sing Se but this was a better attempt than some #Suki Alone

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.

#oops it became a taang au how did that happen #i just think it wld be neat if the air nomads worked more like irl monks/nuns #not necessarily celibate but still made up of people who choose to follow the way of life #instead of the iffy implications of all monks/nuns having no choice because they were born airbenders #i dunno it's iffy to me #taang #my posts #atla #atla headcanon #do we need to rewatch Ice Age 2 ppl?? #repopulation is not a good reason for two people to be together! #avatar: the last airbender #i do also think that given them being nomads the fire nation probably want able to wipe the air nomads out completely #bu they just had to survive in hiding/ in a very diluted form #maybe like the sun warriors do #airbender!Ty Lee my beloved #also wld reflect the themes of unity vs division well if there were more than just airbenders among the air nomads #like how a waterbender can be a ruler of the Fire Nation or a Firebender can run a tea shop in the Earth Kingdom #toph x aang #edited cos someone got upset at my introduction and while i reckon they were willfully misreading i didnt want anyone to misconstrue #to clarify -> any child of aang's wld be an air nomad but there's no guarantee they wld be an airbender #esp if he had a child with an earth or waterbender #and we see how this had a negative effect in canon #hope that clears things up xx

[punkeropercyjackson]

The lack of self-awareness game in Zutara shippers is crazy as shit,Katara and Zuko were obsessed with Aang the whole show while thinking the other was the biggest loser in existense and Katara said 1613948 times she hates having to act like a mom and wants to be a real kid and rizzed up Aang like almost every episode starting from The Boy In The Iceberg and Zuko's redemption arc only worked because he was actually willing to unpack his baggage and improve as a person and rid himself of his bigoted ways and selfish treatment of others because he didn't deserve to be babied after all he did to the Gaang and it's hammered into our heads in-text and so's that Aang and him are platonic cosmic soulmates by choice against the universe trying to keep them apart and Katara is Litte Miss Punk Tactics(reclaiming femininity against traditionalism and cisheteronormatovity and fucking eco-terrorism at 14 as her lifestyles??????Damn okay slay babygirl)and YET,

Okay i can't even list off everything Zutaras gentrify in the fandom because the list is longer than Iroh's beard but i will say that Katara ending up with Zuko is about as dark richer storytelling than Kataang + Dadko as telling Bob The Builder 'No we can't',about as feminist as Rick Riordan and about as positive rep for woc as The Hunchback of Notre Dame

#anti zutara #zuko #katara #aang #pro zuko #pro katara #katara deserved better #pro aang #aang defense squad #aanglove #punk katara #bi katara #trans katara #autistic katara #dadko #trans zuko #autistic zuko #aang and zuko #pastel punk aang #audhd aang #genderfluid aang #atla geekery #anti natla #pro maiko #pro zukka #pro ty luko #pro jetko #💌 #summerposting #anti percabeth

[orangecharactersmackdown]

(sorry for the graphic-design-is-my-passion level editing)

6 brackets! 192 characters! 96 pairs enter, 1 character leaves! (Well, it's weeded down to 6 characters, then we have some semi finals, and THEN 1 character leaves!)

The voting will begin Wednesday, March 15. First, Round 1 of Bracket 1 will be posted, then the next day, Round 1 of Bracket 2, and the day after, Round 1 of Bracket 3, and so on and so forth. They will be under #orange poll. Propaganda (if anyone chooses to make any) is under #propaganda. Each of the polls will be up for 3 days, so each round of voting follows each other.

Under the cut is all the pairs and their respective brackets. Get ready to vote!

BRACKET 1

Garfield (Garfield) VS Applejack (MLP)

Hinata Shouyou (Haikyuu!!) VS Kel (Omori)

Broken Vessel (Hollow Knight) VS Claus (Mother 3)

Cole Brookstone (Ninjago) VS Skylor Chen (Ninjago)

Rory the Builder (Club Penguin) VS Orange Puffle (Club Penguin)

Emma (The Promised Neverland) VS Ava Ire (Ava's Demon)

Raihan (Pokemon) VS Misty (Pokemon)

Dexter Grif (Red vs Blue) VS Felix Gates (Red vs Blue)

Zenitsu (Demon Slayer) VS Nami (One Piece)

Stella of Solaria (Winx Club) VS Amber the Orange Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

Orange Inkling Girl (Splatoon) VS Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)

Ernie (Sesame Street) VS Pepe the King Prawn (The Muppets)

Jack (Candies 'n Curses) VS Jack Pumpkinhead (The Marvelous Land of Oz)

Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin) VS Toad (Frog & Toad are Friends)

Orange Blossom (Strawberry Shortcake) VS Jade Chan (Jackie Chan Adventures)

Leo Tsukinaga (Ensemble Stars) VS Ren Jinguji (Uta no Prince Sama)

BRACKET 2

Annoying Orange (Annoying Orange) VS Orange Side (Sanders Sides)

Davesprite (Homestuck) VS Tavros Nitram (Homestuck)

Merida (Brave) VS Scar (The Lion King)

Numbuh 4 (Code Name: Kids Next Door) VS Lazlo (Camp Lazlo)

Nemo (Finding Nemo) VS Marlin (Finding Nemo)

Sundrop (FNAF: Security Breach) VS Jack Kennedy (Day Shift at Freddy's)

Waai Fu (Arknights) VS Jodie Caldwell (Super Lesbian Animal RPG)

Shannon (OK-KO!) VS Penny Polendina (RWBY)

Panette (Fire Emblem: Engage) VS Pandreo (Fire Emblem: Engage)

Marine The Raccoon (Sonic franchise) VS Cream The Rabbit (Sonic franchise)

Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) VS Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Hagumi Kitazawa (BanG Dream!) VS Chika Takami (Love Live!)

Pump (Spooky Month) VS Pumpkin Pie Cookie (Cookie Run)

Scooter (The Muppets) VS Gobo Fraggle (Fraggle Rock)

Pukin (Magical Girl Raising Project) VS Top Speed (Magical Girl Raising Project)

Scootaloo (MLP) VS Sunburst (MLP)

BRACKET 3

Darwin Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball) VS Wander (Wander Over Yonder)

Winnie (Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School) VS August (Cryptid Crush)

Grillby (Undertale) VS Seam (Deltarune)

Phineas Flynn (Phineas & Ferb) VS Candace Flynn (Phineas & Ferb)

Calcifer (Howl's Moving Castle) VS Ponyo (Ponyo)

Juri Arisugawa (Revolutionary Girl Utena) VS Sailor Venus/Minako Aino (Sailor Moon)

Gordon Freeman (HLVRAI) VS Darnold (HLVRAI)

Morshu (LOZ: The Faces of Evil) VS King Harkinian (LOZ: The Faces of Evil)

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) VS Starfire (Teen Titans)

Hamtaro (Hamtaro) VS Heathcliff (Heathcliff)

Cure Soleil (Star Twinkle Precure) VS Cure Sunny (Smile Precure)

Zora Salazar (Epithet Erased) VS Arthur Kingsmen (Mystery Skulls)

Oz (Monster Prom) VS Ritsuka Fujimaru (Fate/Grand Order)

Mo Guan Shan (19 Days) VS Beebi (Wonderlab)

Orange Bird (Disney) VS Peacock (Skullgirls)

Olette (Kingdom Hearts 2) VS Gumi (Vocaloid)

BRACKET 4

Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto Shippuden) VS Narancia Ghigira (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Tigger (Winnie the Pooh) VS Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)

Leon Kuwata (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc) VS Hiyoko Saionji (Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair)

Puss in Boots (Shrek Universe) VS Firestar (Warrior Cats)

Torchic (Pokemon) VS Tepig (Pokemon)

Tangy (Animal Crossing) VS Orange Cookie (Cookie Run)

Gordon Freeman (Half Life) VS Chell (Portal)

Amanda O'Neill (Little Witch Academia) VS Lotte Jansson (Little Witch Academia)

Mothra (Mothra films) VS Timid Bookworm (Sky: Children of the Light)

Matt (Wii Sports) VS Daisy (Super Mario Bros)

Levy McGarden (Fairy Tail) VS Hazuki Fujiwara (Ojamajo Doremi)

Futaba Sakura (Persona 5) VS Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4)

Tracy Reznik (Identity V) VS Andy (Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure)

Vee (The Owl House) VS Coran (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Yoimiya (Genshin Impact) VS Edna (Tales of Zestiria)

Rena Rouge (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Takao Kazunari (Kuroko no Basket)

BRACKET 5

Tails (Sonic 2, 1992) VS Handy (Happy Tree Friends)

Padparadscha (Steven Universe) VS Jasper (Steven Universe)

Opened Can of Well Cheers (Lobotomy Corporation) VS SCP-999 (SCP Foundation)

The Second Coming (Animator vs Animation) VS King Orange (Animator vs Animation)

Giraffe Furby VS Witch Furby

Chester Cheetah VS Tony the Tiger

Tsukasa Tenma (Project SEKAI) VS Tsukasa Ebisu (Revue Starlight: Relive)

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files) VS Roman Torchwik (RWBY)

Son Goku (Dragon Ball) VS Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo) VS Fry (Futurama)

Saki Nikaido (Zombieland Saga) VS Toralei Stripe (Monster High)

Beelzebub (Obey Me!) VS Tohri Nishikikouji (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Gaius (Fire Emblem Awakening) VS Hershel Layton (Professor Layton)

Retsuko (Aggretsuko) VS Flame Princess (Adventure Time)

Kiri Koshiba (Beauty Pop) VS Sakura Chiyo (Monthly Girl's Nozaki-kun)

Asano Gakushuu (Assassination Classroom) VS Akito Shinonome (Project SEKAI)

BRACKET 6

Mikey (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS Dirk Strider (Homestuck)

Troy Barnes (Community) VS Oluwande Boodhari (Our Flag Means Death)

Tigress (Kung Fu Panda) VS Tigress (Carmen Sandiego)

Kim Possible (Kim Possible) VS Tulip Olsen (infinity Train)

Waddle Dee (Kirby) VS Morpho Knight (Kirby)

Ace (Katamari Damacy) VS Shikao (Katamari Damacy)

Kim Possible (Kim Possible) VS Tulip Olsen (infinity Train)

Orange Juice (Inanimate Insanity) VS The Lorax (The Lorax)

Athena Cykes (Ace Attorney) VS Damon Gant (Ace Attorney)

Rio Ranger (Your Turn To Die) VS Gin Ibushi (Your Turn To Die)

Caleb Widogast (Critical Role) VS Neil Josten (All For The Game)

Tracer (Overwatch) VS Samus Aran (Metroid)

Portia (The Arcana) VS Navra (The Arcana)

Sphene (Houseki no Kuni) VS Zircon (Houseki no Kuni)

Penny (Big Top Burger) VS The Sorceress (He-Man)

Ahiru (Princess Tutu) VS Sara (Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch)

Kipper (Kipper the Dog) VS Ruff Ruffman (Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman)

#orangecharactersmackdown #masterpost #a few hours later than i expected to get this done but here it is!! #im excited!! #if theres an issue somewhere in here (misspellings etc) lmk

[avatars-and-fire-lords]

I know no one follows this blog because I haven’t been here in fully two years but —

A dark Avatar AU where Zuko finds Aang in the iceberg instead of Katata and Sokka, so none of the events of the show’s main timeline take place. Zuko takes Aang home to the Fire Nation and gets everything he thought he wanted long before Iroh had much effect on him. And the Fire Nation disposed of the Avatar. So over the following fifteen years, both the world and Zuko get much worse than they were in canon.

At one point, Azula and Zuko conspire to murder and overthrow Ozai, a thing Zuko fully expects (being very angry and confused) will make him feel better, but instead it makes him feel much worse, though he denies this to himself and others.

The story begins when Zuko is 30, and his royal doctor tells him he’s dying of alcoholic organ failure. The Fire Nation has just dealt the resistance a devastating blow in a battle that was widely considered the resistance’s best chance. So Zuko decided he has one last great act in him before he kicks the bucket: He will end the war. Since he’s had so much luck hunting symbols before, he decides he will hunt down and kill the symbols of the resistance, Toph the Builder and the Turncoat General Iroh. With their heroes dead, the resistance will crumble, and Zuko can die at peace knowing he made the Fire Nation’s supremacy enduring and complete. (What he doesn’t realize is that he is very much mistaken about the causes of his lack of inner peace.)

There’s just one problem: Azula knows Zuko is a drunk, even if he is also a capable military commander, so she sends a trusted aid of unknown origin but unquestionable loyalty along with Zuko: The intelligent, sarcastic Soza. They dislike being on this mission together immediately, and things don’t get any better when they come across a man and a woman in the forest outside the Fire Nation stronghold in Ba Sing Se. The woman is someone who Soza fears will recognize him—resistance spymaster Katara. She’s just busted out this man, who claims he’s an escaped mental patient who used to believe he’s the Avatar—and who Zuko alone knows *is* the Avatar, which means Azula has been hiding important things from Zuko all these years.

So with a little luck and a little skill, Zuko convinces this strange crew to help him find his uncle—lying to them that he just wants to see the man again. The rest of them would love to find Iroh’s hidden encampment, since the fractured nature of the resistance means they don’t always know where he is. So they set out together, Zuko absolutely filled to the brim with betrayals waiting to happen, Soza working very hard to not go within six feet of Katara, and Aang battling the deeply ingrained belief that he cannot trust his own mind for anything.

#zukka #zuko #avatar AU #Sokka #avatar #zuko redemption #zuko fanfic #zuko angst

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Skin & Scale (Part 25)

She could be doing something productive. At the very least, she could be doing something that isn’t completely ridiculous. Mother and father are taking too long to pack. Evidently she doesn’t know why they are taking so long and she isn’t; they don’t usually pack so heavily. They typically don’t pack at all! Perhaps it is that they now have things to pack or that they want to fit in. 

Either which way, they have left her, fully packed and fully transformed to wait in the throne room. The builders in charge of making repairs to the palace walls have left her a sizable dragon door, this alleviates some nerves. But not enough of them for her to kick her dragon instincts to the side. 

She feels quite foolish but clamping her dragon jaws onto the throne room pillars alleviates some of the tension in her mind and body while simultaneously driving Zuzu completely bonkers. His frantic gestures and exaggerated expressions of outrage coax her to keep up the chewing. 

“Can you guys, do something about this!?” She hears him shout. 

By the time, mother and father coax her away from the pillar, it has a very impressive collection of bite marks. It is as respectable as it is embarrassing. She can inflict some rather serious damage, a commendable amount really. But at the same time she has inflicted some rather serious damage to her own ego. 

She knows that Sokka will keep bringing this up. As if he needs anymore leverage against her. 

Without the pillars to chew on, she finds herself pacing. This is more like her, with each step, a bit of those dragon impulses withdraw. Clarity and the unobstructed feelings of embarrassment come fill in that gap.

“You’re nervous about seeing your other mom again, aren’t you?” Katara asks and she gently holds her palm against Azula’s cheek. 

That woman isn’t her mother and she will never be. Even still she is, indeed, nervous all the same. Now that the prospect of finding the woman is a tangible, plausible thing, she finds herself twitchy and unsettled. 

She shouldn’t be nervous, not when the woman’s opinions of her matter so little. But she can’t shake the instinct. That agitating longing for approval from a person who couldn’t disprove of her any deeper if she tried. That one instinct that is almost as intrinsic as her need to claw and scratch and bite at those pillars. 

“We’re all still getting ready, why don’t you transform back into a human and…?”

She shakes her head. It would be a waste of chi to do so. And right now she would rather feel big, would rather have an impenetrable armor of scales and an excuse to not have to talk to anyone. 

She doesn’t like herself when she gets nervous. She doesn’t like how biting and sarcastic she gets. It is when most of the fighting happens. When everyone begins calling her cruel and evil again. When they accuse her of not changing at all only to apologize later when she grows distant enough. 

Sometimes she wonders if they only do that to ensure that she doesn’t make some sort of dramatic revert. 

“If you can make amends with all of us, I’m sure that you’ll be able to get your other mom to warm up to you.” Katara assures her. They are pretty words, well meaning ones. But the girl doesn’t understand that she doesn’t want that. She doesn’t want amends and acceptance. She wants closure and a chance to tell the woman that she had no right to call her a monster after what she had done.

“Okay, so who is riding with who?” Sokka asks. “We’ve got Appa and three dragons.” 

Of course Aang sticks with Appa. Toph sees fit to once again vocalize her mistrust for anything that flies. 

“I’ve always wanted to try riding a dragon!” TyLee exclaims and Azula knows that she will be carrying her. 

“I think that I’ll also take a dragon.” Sokka looks in her direction. A bold move considering all of the quips he has been giving her lately. 

“You want to fly with Azula?” Zuko asks. 

Sokka shrugs. “Azula and I can keep eachother entertained.” 

She supposes that she isn’t opposed to letting the oaf come along with her. His ridiculous commentary and jokes do give her something else to think about. Things that don’t leave her longing to use trees as scratching and biting posts. 

.oOo.

“Does your back ever get sore from flying?” Sokka asks as they are arranging sticks for a fire.

Azula seems to think for a moment. She arranges a final log and sets it ablaze “A little bit, yes. Father says that I will get used to it and that it won’t throb as much after my wings get stronger.” She replies. 

She had been flying for quite a while today. Long enough for him to imagine that she might be uncomfortable. “Maybe a shoulder massage would do the trick?” He suggests. 

He might be imagining it but he thinks that her eyes light up. “That’s actually not a horrible idea. I will go ask TyLee!” 

Sokka sighs. “I was thinking that…” he trails off. That, what? He could do it? Of course TyLee is the optimal choice. “We should try setting up the tents next, it’ll be easier before the sun goes down.”

Azula rolls her eyes. “Of course it will be.” 

“Sorry, I just…I can’t imagine you as a camping sort of person.”

“Because I am not.”  She nudges a stick back into the fire with her foot. “But we did a lot of camping on our spirit mission, do you recall?”

“Right.” He replies. “I actually try not to think much about that.” 

Azula nods. “I also would rather not.” She stuffs her hands into her pockets. 

“Camping in the Earth Kingdom is going to be a lot different you know, it gets a whole lot colder there.” 

“I can manage just fine, Sokka. If Zuzu can do it, so can I.” She shrugs. “I’d just like to know why Ursa decided to go to the Earth Kingdom.” She pauses. “I suppose that it probably has to do with being as far away from the dragons as possible. But then the best option would be the Water Tribes…” 

“Father made it sound like she enjoys travel.” Zuko interrupts. “She always wanted to see Ba Sing Se.”

“Then what are we doing in the middle of a forest?” Mai frowns, twirling a golden-brown marshmallow on a stick. She holds it out to TyLee. 

“Giving my wings a break.” Azula replies. “It was difficult enough making it all the way from the capital to Earth Kingdom territory. Speaking of…” she turns her attention to TyLee.

“Your shoulders are a little more than sore, aren’t they?” Sokka asks. 

“No.” She denies. “But I am thoroughly tired.” She admits. 

He can see it on her. She is quieter today, her voice slower. He wonders if they have once again pushed her too far. But she hadn’t protested. Hadn’t mentioned wanting to stop. 

She never protested in the past either. Mostly she just toughed it out.

They should probably make a point of asking her next time. 

She is such a strong person; sometimes he forgets that even she has her limits, whether she like to admit that or not. He supposes that he won’t tease her from gnawing on the palace pillars tonight. 

.oOo.

Back and shoulder pain is a good excuse. 

Truly, it is more of a mental exhaustion. TyLee can’t massage that out of her but she does make good work of the knots in her shoulder blades. 

Each wing beat, each step takes her closer to the woman who had once called herself her mother. She stares at the dragons teeth stone glittering under the moon. Were she in dragon from, there would probably be several trees with bite or claw marks. The ground below her would certainly be gouged. She is toying with blades of grass as it is. 

Across the clearing, mother and father are making themselves comfortable. They have decided to retain their dragon forms for the night. Admittedly, that is the more practical decision, she is starting to wonder if even making one transformation daily is too draining. Perhaps some of this lethargy is due in part to shifting so often. 

“You alright, Azula?” TyLee asks. 

“Just fine.” She replies. Perhaps she will just remain in her human body and let her chi settle once they get to Ba Sing Se. “Thank you for the massage.” A dull ache still remains but it is nothing that she can’t sleep through. 

She gets to her feet and wanders over to her parents. She curls herself up between them just as she does in dragon form. Mother carefully scoops her into her palm and cradles her there. 

“You forgot your blanket!” Sokka shouts waving the thing around frantically. She doesn’t feel like getting up so she pretends like she is already asleep. Besides, she is already quite comfortable. “And your pillow.” He adds.

She hadn’t expected him to actually bring them to her. 

Father observes Sokka with a cautious eye as he drapes the blanket around her. That watchful eye doesn’t seem to dissuade him. “Good night, Azula.” 

“Yes, Sokka…” she murmurs. “Good night.” 

She doesn’t understand why he is fussing over her comfort. Mother and father are usually the only ones who bother with that. It is just one more thing for her to mull over as she tries to get to sleep. As cozy as she is swaddled in blankets and cradled by mother, she finds that she still can’t get any sleep. She ought to…she needs to. But for the better part of the night she listens to her the crickets, the scamper of nocturnal animals, and her own train of thought. 

They will be in Ba Sing Se tomorrow. 

She might not see mother so soon. But she will see uncle.

#Avatar The Last Airbender #Azula #Sokka #Zuko #Katara #Dragon Azula #Fanfiction

[smol-green-angry]

so zuko, azula, mai, and ty lee got a beach episode and it was amazing. but what about one with the whole gaang? 

#zuko doesn't know how to play nicely in beach volleyball #'what the fuck zuko you're gonna kill someone' #okay but imagine: katara and aang swimming in the ocean #toph spends her time trying to really figure out sandbending #she wins the sandcastle competition #it makes sokka sad #he thought he was the best sandcastle builder #going back to the beach volleyball thing #ultimate showdown between suki and zuko #atla

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Yup, Sure Was a Finale

I had an epiphany. The reason why I never re-watched the final two parts of Sozin’s Comet even though I’ve popped in episodes at random many times over the years isn’t that I can’t bear the sadness of seeing one of the best, most engaging narratives out there come to an end.

It’s simply that the finale isn’t all that good.

Some honorable mentions of what was enjoyable.

(+) This

Just this.

(+) The Church of Zutara has another convert

“Are you sure they don’t get together?” Hubster, 2020

(+) The tragedy of Azula

And the fact that it’s acknowledged as such. I hope Zuko will do his best to get her help and have a relationship with her…

(+) Sokka being a big bro

And the whole airship sequence in general. It’s wonderfully paced and plotted, with moments of humor, real stakes, Toph being both badass and a scared crying kid, Sokka strategizing and protecting, Suki saving the day, and non-benders being instrumental in thwarting the bad guy firebender’s plans. Would be shame if Bryke never portrayed them this capable ever again…

And now for the main course.

(-) Blink and its over

The wrap-up feels too quick (hashtag Needs More ROtK-style False Endings). A part of this is due to how fast the story goes from the thick of the action to hastily tying up a bunch of loose ends, but the larger issue is how Book 3’s uneven pacing comes home to roost. After spending half a season on filler episodes that at best subtly flesh out established characters while dancing around a huge lionturtle-shaped hole, and at worst contradict the theme of “no one is born bad” with “you’re a hot mess because your great-grandfathers didn’t get along too well”, the frantic “go go go” rush of the second half screeches to a halt with “they won and everyone was happy because now the right people have power and it will be all good from now on yup nothing more to deal with baiiiii”.

Yes, I know, it’s a kids’ show. But goddamn, this particular kids’ show has proven so many times it can do better than the expected tropiness. Showing the characters in their roles as builders of a new world was the least that could have been done.

Oh well!

(-) Ursa

We’ll never know. There will never be a story that delves into this. Yup. Shall forever remain but an intriguing mystery. Is good, though. Mystery is better than a story where Ursa shares her son’s penchant for forgetfulness. Imagine how embarrassing that would be. Speaking of which…

(-) What does Mai see in this jerkbender?

Look, I like to harp a lot on the mess of inconsistent writing that’s Mai but let’s unpack this scene from her perspective, shall we?

Zuko forgot about her! It totally slipped his mind that the one person who prioritized the safety of his dumb ass was rotting in the worst prison in the Fire Nation—because of him! And she was rotting there long enough after the final Agni Kai for the news of Zuko’s upcoming coronation to spread and her uncle to feel sufficiently secure to release her. But then the coronation scene is attended by every single member of Gaang & Friends that was imprisoned?

So what this tells me is that either a) the invasion force had the ability to break themselves out the whole time and for some reason decided not to exercise it until after the war was over, b) Zuko forgot about them as well and no one thought to remind him there were prisons full of POWs until Mai arrived, or, and that’s even better, c) Zuko took care to free every single resistance fighter while making sure Mai would be the one to stay behind bars.

Never thought I’d say this but Mai? Honey? You deserve so much better.

(-) “What does Katara want?”

Asked no one in the writers’ room ever, apparently.

This is not so much anti Cataang as anti romance stories that pay attention to the needs, opinions, and wants of only one partner in general. Over the previous 60 episodes, Katara actively expressed romantic interest in Aang exactly, wait for it,

Once.

And it got retconned out of relevance by the following two interactions where the possibility of a romantic relationship came up, making the Headband dance pretty easy to reclassify as just one of those examples where Aang “teaches” Katara to have fun (as if one of the main obstacles to her having fun wasn’t him constantly fooling around and offloading his duties). And because the writers not only didn’t succeed in portraying Katara’s internal state of mind, but also failed to root her reluctance to pursue a relationship in outside circumstances that could change, her sudden state of unconfused once Aang steps into the spotlight has a single canonical explanation that as much as approaches coherency.

The fact is, though, that trying to interpret canon Cataang from a Watsonian perspective is an exercise in foolishness. Because there is no Watsonian justification for the ship and never has been. Bryke simply conceived of Katara as nothing but a tropey prize for Aang, never saw her as anything beyond that, and were perfectly happy to go on and immortalize her as a passive broodmare for the rest of her life.

And I fully intend to die mad about it.

(-) Iroh dips

OK, it’s been long apparent that the show doesn’t intend to do anything about Iroh’s complicity in AzulOzai’s regime in any meaningful way, and that his sole motivation for doing anything whatsoever is Zuko whom he views as a replacement son which is supposed to be good for some reason. But the finale has him abandon even that, and instead turns him full-on YOLO, idgaf anymore. It really throws Iroh’s supposed love for Zuko into doubt when his last act in the entire show is to take a half-educated 16-year old with no political savvy or an heir to secure a dynastic continuity and plomp him on the throne of a war-mongering imperialist regime where the entirety of the militarist and ruling class is guaranteed to fight him tooth and nail for power.

(I sure hope Mai’s ready to start popping out babies by tea-time otherwise the whole country is fukd in about a week)

Christ, how hard would it be to have Iroh keep the throne warm for a few years while Zuko is getting ready to succeed him? Not only would it make the whole FN reformation bit quite likelier to occur, it would require Iroh’s hedonistic ass to actually sacrifice something for once. And not having Zuko ascend to power, instead spending some time bettering and educating himself first, would be a wonderful message that no matter what you endured and overcame, you never stop growing. A kids’ show, remember?

(-) The conquering of Ba Sing Se

Gee, I feel so blessed to have my attention diverted from battlefields which actually matter to an old dude vanity project I would have been perfectly happy to assume resolved itself off-screen.

The White Lotus in general just bugs me. I was fine with the individual characters and their overall passivity when they were portrayed as lone dissenters living under circumstances where it wasn’t really possible for any single person to mount a meaningful resistance. But as members of a far-reaching shadowy organization that’s left the real fight to a bunch of kids for 59 episodes straight and didn’t turn up until a perfect opportunity presented itself to take control of the largest city in the world and bask in the spotlight?

Yeah, no.

Similarly to the lionturtle-ex-machina, the White Lotus represents a huge missed opportunity for a season-long storytelling. Here’s just a brief list of what they could have been doing throughout Book 3:

orchestrating a Fire Nation uprising;

gathering those directly persecuted by AzulOzai’s regime to help Zuko keep his hold on power once he’s crowned;

establishing themselves as a viable alternative to Ozai;

sabotaging Fire Nation’s war efforts from the inside;

countering Fire Nation propaganda (Asha Greyjoy’s pinecones, anyone?);

running a supply network to alleviate the suffering of Earth Kingdom citizens.

Instead, they sit on their asses until the time comes to claim personal glory.

You know what, good on Bryke for making me conclude that in comparison, the Freedom Fighters were perfectly unproblematic, actually.

(-) Fire Lord Dead-by-Dawn

Yes, a kids’ show, I know! But ffs, this is the same kids’ show that came up with Long Feng and portrayed courtly intrigue, kingly puppets, secret police, spy networks, and information wars. Was it really too much of me to expect something other than “enlightened despot solves everything”? Especially if said enlightened despot has persisting anger issues, no personal support system, no base of followers, and no political experience whatsoever?

If Zuko’s actually serious about regaining the Fire Nation’s honor (i.e. by dismantling the country’s military machine, decolonizing the Earth Kingdom, paying reparations to everyone and their lemur, and funding any and all cultural restoration projects Aang and the SWT come up with), then there is no way, no way in the universe that he doesn’t face a civil war, deposing, and execution within a month.

One reason why his future as a Fire Lord seems rather bleak is that little’s been shown about the actual subjects of AzulOzai’s regime. While we get a vague reassurance that “no Toph, they’re not born bad” (le shockings), they largely remain a voiceless uniform mass of brainwashed clapping seals. What is their view on the Fire Nation’s crimes? Do they associate their condition with their country’s war-mongering? How will they react when Zuko starts dismantling the country piece by piece to rebuild it, bringing it to economic ruin? What will they do when noble Ozai loyalists come out of the woodwork and begin rounding them up under the banner of “Make the Fire Nation Great Again?”

I have no idea, and Zuko doesn’t either because he’s unironically more qualified to rule the Earth Kingdom than his own people.

You know what would have been better? Fire Lord Iroh, White Lotus pulling the strings to maintain the regime, and Crown Prince/People’s Champion Zuko travelling the Fire Nation with Aang and an army of tutors to promote the new boss, only to realize that absolute monarchy is kinda crap for the people he’s one day supposed to rule and gaining their support by ceding some power to them.

I’d laser holes into my TV due to how much I’d enjoy watching that.

(-) All hail Avatar Rock

Literally and metaphorically. Aang doesn’t sacrifice anything, gets everything, and the clever solution of going about getting said everything is handed to him on a silver platter, requiring no active participation on his part whatsoever.

He doesn’t work to unblock his chakras, spiritually or physically.

He only speaks to his past lives to get a pat on the back and a bow-tied solution he could mindlessly follow.

Energy-bending doesn’t require any sacrifice from him, leaves no lasting marks, and only serves for the narrative to praise him as the rare individual that’s unbendable and thus so very very special.

The most infuriating thing is, however, that Aang is clearly shown as being able to beat Ozai without either the Avatar state, or energy-bending.

And he chooses not to. From this moment on, Aang no longer fights to save the world. He fights to preserve his beliefs, going directly against the instructions of his past lives and effectively reneging on his duties as the Avatar.

Again.

It’s not like you can’t portray Aang’s faithfulness to his spiritual beliefs as the key to beating Ozai and saving the world. But that’s not what the show did. There is no link between Aang sparing Ozai and securing a better future, quite to the contrary—Ozai’s survival ends up being a massive problem for the continuation of Zuko’s rule, and consequently a threat to the world at large. His survival benefits Aang and no one else.

Aang’s spiritual purity and his status as a savior of the world are allowed to coexist only due to a deliberate stroke of a writer’s pen.

And I hate it.

Welp, nothing to do about it now except to bury myself up to my tits in fix-it fics I guess.

#atla #atla rewatch #meta #zutara #anti bryke #anti-kataang #anti-aang #anti-maiko

[milf-harrington]

i think about dragons too much so

fuck it: zukka dragon rider au where the fire nation still hunted dragons to the point of extinction (but only in the fire nation so the rest of the world still have their own dragons) and Zuko finds an egg buried somewhere near the edge of the volcano that Caldera was built on and Ozai finds out about the egg but Zuko refuses to tell him where it is because he doesn’t think it’s right to kill an innocent and unborn baby dragon and Ozai burns him so Zuko runs away and smuggles the egg out of the city by stealing a boat.

He’s still badly burned and idk somehow he ends up drifting into water tribe waters. He gets briefly attacked by some wild ocean dragons before being rescued and then captured by SWT warriors.

He and Druk bond some more in “prison” before Hakoda decides that Zuko is only a kid and he’s badly hurt and lets him stay in their village where he’s not adopted by a single family, they all just kinda call him their nephew. He becomes besties with Katara and Sokka (and Katara’s snow dragon) and then 3 years later they all find Aang.

also it’s a friends-to-lovers thing, Zuko and Sokka never really saw each other like That until they started ending up having to fight bad guys a lot (pirates, rogue dragon riders, thieves, regular ol’ bandits) and basically it becomes:

1. wow hot

2. oh god what if he’s hurt.

so there’s lots of tenderly patches the others wounds and “You idiot! Why weren’t you paying attention, now you’re bleeding!” 

some more stuff

- the fire nation was basically put in, like, exile because they hunted dragons; and now Ozai wants to rid the rest of the world of dragons bc he thinks fire benders should be the only ones capable of wielding fire

- before they were properly exiled though, Sozin led an attack on the air nomads and wiped most of them out (they’re nomads so i’ve decided they fire nation couldn’t have killed them all)

- there wasn’t a war but there were a lot of attempts at fighting the other nations, but the other nations still had dragons so the fire nation troops were often brutally defeated

- so, kya was still killed by fire benders

- aang was still in the iceberg and appa is still a bison, (but now momo is a dragon native to the air temples)

- only benders can properly bond with dragons, specifically the dragons of their region

- along with mastering all 4 elements, Aang now has to also learn how to communicate with and ride dragons from all 4 nations. 

- each nation has their own language, and due to the Fire Nations isolation, Zuko struggles to communicate when they travel, so he mostly just talks to Druk and the Water Tribe Trio. (Sokka, Katara, and Katara’s dragon.)

- in the NWT women aren’t allowed to ride dragons either, so Katara and her Dragon throw hands with Pakku

- the raid on the NWT doesn’t happen and Yue ends up joining the group and then later falls in love with a badass Kyoshi warrior (Suki).

dragon ideas!!

- the water tribe dragons are designed for the ocean and the ice: some can breathe underwater, some have nice fluffy coats as an extra protection against blizzards, most are very thick and warm and have strong legs and stronger claws for gripping ice, they don’t tend to breathe fire; usually water dragons can “breathe” very hot or very cold water, or very cold air that can freeze whatever it comes into contact with, they eat fish and seals and are very good at hunting in snow

- earth kingdom dragons are burrowers and builders: some of them live underground and are blind like badgermoles, most of them are pretty big and have strong teeth for crushing rocks and have very wide and hooked claws for digging through dirt and stone. they have thick scales that are hard to penetrate and they use their wings for shade and for packing in the dirt around their burrows to make it stronger, and they also use their wings and/or butts to crush enemies/predators against the side of their burrows inspired by wombats. also! inspired by meatlug from the httyd movies, earth dragons eat rocks or dirt in order to breathe fire. 

- the dragons in the air temples are hollow-boned like birds, and have big wings for optimal flying/gliding. they live in high-altitudes and entertain themselves by diving towards the ground like falcons, the air nomads used to do it with their gliders as a form of playing. like water dragons, they’re fluffy to withstand the cold of being so high up. the bigger ones are gentle in nature and live entirely off of fruit and long grasses, whereas the smaller ones are cheeky and cunning and will eat insects or small rodents (taking after momo in appearance) they aren’t usually offensive creatures but when forced they can either let loose an explosive scream or blow a thin gust of wind with enough force to bruise or break bones. usually they just whistle and twitter like birds, or use their breathe to warm or dry each other.

- the fire nation dragons are the same as in the show, long and winding and breathing fire; modelled after traditional Japanese dragons. they like sunlight and warmth and could be found draped over large rocks before they were culled. they’ll eat any meat as long as it’s lightly burned and dance with each other to show affection. like firebenders, they need the sun to make fire; but they’re still deadly even without it. there’s not much to come up with for them because they’re already introduced in the show and the original atla world.

#okay this kind of got away from me but #!! dragons !!! #i just love dragons and dragon riders and i just think it would be neat #zukka #zuko x sokka #zuko #sokka #zukka au #atla au #atla fic ideas #zukka fic ideas #headcanon #avatar the last airbender #katara #aang #canon-divergent headcanon

[everythingloveandanimated]

Avatar- The War Memorial

During Aang’s tenure as Avatar the leaders of the world agree to make a memorial garden in the Earth Kingdom that is equidistant from both Water Tribes. Each of the entrances open to in the general direction of the homelands of the fallen.

Upon entering the garden are arches with the inscription “May all who enter never forget.”

A book of names and their locations on the towers is near the entrances of the Memorial. Every recorded death from the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom,  and the Water Tribes is accounted for. In the the case of the Air Nomads, Aang can only estimate, since the records that acted like a census at each Temple were burned by the Fire Nation. (Or if there were Air Nomads who escaped the Genocide, they would have the records and would have provided them for the builders.)

The Fire Nation towers are made of black or red granite.

The Water Tribe towers are made out of white granite, white marble or diorite.

The Earth Kingdom towers are hexagonal made of marble or sandstone

The memorial towers for Air Temples have faces in the direction of each Temple. There is a special section in the Memorial Garden for the Air Nomad children who were slaughtered on the night of Sozin’s Comet.

On the front side of each tower is the number of deaths and an epitaph that honors the spirits of the fallen, on the other three walls are the names. So, so, so many names. So many lives lost over a hundred years. It is gut wrenching to the point of instant illness to see how many lives have been lost in a war of conquest.

There is path to from each tower section that leads to the center icon of peace and healing. A way to say, “We are all connected”.

There is a garden with running water called “the Garden of Tranquility”. It is a place fro healing. Flowers of mourning, death, new life, rebirth, and hope are planted in ground. 

The meaning of the quote “may all who enter never forget” takes on a several meanings. “May we never forget the atrocities that were done to our own people, and the atrocities that have been done to others. May we never forget the losses done to both sides, the families that were torn apart on both sides. May we never forget the courage of those who fought against tyranny. (this applies to those who fought against the Fire Nation, and those who defected, deserted, and sought repentance for their crimes in Fire Nation Armed Forces) May we never forget those who saw past nationalities to help those in need. May we never forget that we are all human.”

At night fires and incense burn, and crystals glow. Keeping vigil, illuminating the night. Either to beckon souls to rest, or to show that even in the darkest of times, light still shines.

#Avatar #fire nation #earth kingdom #water tribe #air nomads #in universe mourning

[darklydesigned]

Blue Flame Magic takes….MANPOWER. 😏 🔥 🌊 🔥 📷: @ooc_photography Azula: @darklydesigned Zuko: @consistencycostumes Aang: @antigravcosplay 🎪: @comicontoronto @nickelodeon #princessazula #avatarthelastairbender #azula #firelord #bluefire #ridethefire #cosplay #cosplayer #cosplaylife #cosplaygirl #cosplayersofinstagram #cosplayfun #sewersofinstagram #seamstress #builder #handmade #masterlevelcostumer #sewing #fallforcostume #canadiancosplayers #costumemakers #darklydesigned #darklydesignedcosplay (at Metro Toronto Convention Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbcyDzGLeXl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[nightcoremoon]

it's evident people haven't watched enough kids media to adequately understand just what constitutes a kids show as opposed to a show that kids can watch and be entertained by

when I was a kid I watched king of the hill and blues clues (among other things). king of the hill is NOT a kids show by any stretch of the imagination; it is an adult animation, replete with fairly heavy subject matter, sexual themes, political humor, cultural references that kids won't understand, discussion of religion in the modern day, depression and suicidal thoughts, adultery, puberty and sexual awakenings, body image, propane, propane accessories, and ultimately above all else what it means to be family. and blues clues is a show about a man who plays with a shovel & pail, talks to his condiments and mailbox, and sometimes he teleports into the felt dimension, all while playing Sherlock Holmes hercule poirot with his dog, and teaching kids how to count and draw and recognize colors and learn their ABCs. do you see the fucking difference? no? then I'll make it more clear.

dora the explorer & go diego go, mickey mouse clubhouse, handy manny, octonauts, bob the builder, super why, wild kratts, zoboomafoo, jojo's circus, wow wow wubbzy, stanley, doc mcstuffins, max & ruby, wonder pets, bubble guppies, ni hao khai lan, backyardigans, little einsteins, caillou (ugh) and p*w p*trol (double ugh), these are all undeniably kids shows. their audience is children (and the occasional adult by age with severe intellectual disabilities) and maybe the parents whose brains are too fried to care what's on the tv. these shows main purpose is to educate while entertaining on subjects one would encounter in preschool and kindergarten. counting 1-10, ABCs, basic color, basic language, basic intrapersonal skills, basic emotional literacy, problem solving, using your imagination, what sounds do animals make, breaking the fourth wall to ask the audience to answer what's 2+2 or tell them a lesson they learned today like I LEARNED TO NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER or some simple message like that. it's always light, there's no edgelord grimdark "what if they were dead the whole time" bullshit. it's just good clean simple wholesome [except for paw patrol] programs for kids to be distracted for a little bit of time, while also letting them walk away having said they learned something. at least half of the time dedicated to every single one of these shows is devoted to the same shit over and over again. I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map I'm the map WE FUCKING GET IT YOURE THE MAP! backpack backpack I'm the backpack loaded up with things and knickknacks too, anything that you might need I've got inside for you. we did it we did it we did it HOORAY! come on vamanos everybody let's go, come on let's get to it, I know that we can do it,

WHERE ARE WE GOING

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

THESE SONGS ARE BURNED INTO MY BRAIN AND THEYLL BE STUCK IN MY HEAD UNTIL I DIE

say click take a pic, the hot dog dance, CAN HE FIX IT???, pizza! spaghetti!, THE DOC IS IN AND SHELL FIX YOU UP, max & ruby ruby & max max & ruby ruby & max MAX & RUBY RUBY & MAX MAX & RUBY RUBY & MAX, wonder pets wonder pets we're on our way to help the friend and save the day, we're not too big and we're not too tough but when we work together we've got the right stuff, goooOOO WONDER PETS YAAAAY~, yoooour backyard friends the backyardigans (weve got the whole wide world in our yard to explore, thATS WHY EVERY DAY WEEEEERE BACK FOR MOOOORE), were going on a trip in our little rocket ship SOARING THROOOOOUGH THE SKY!!! little einsteins!

I swear to god I've been forced to watch so much children's television in my life it's no wonder there's no room left for serotonin executive function or the ability to speak to morons

point is I know my way around kids shows. my sisters were born in 98, 02, 05, 06, 10, and 18, I think, I don't even know because they're all a blur, I'm literally closer in age to my parents than to my youngest sibling, I never stopped being exposed to kids shows. I know what is and is not a kids show.

adventure time? not a kids show even though kids watch it. it's a "for everyone" show. it's got a target audience of 100% of the planet. steven universe? not a kids show even though kids watch it. miraculous ladybug? not a kids show even though kids watch it. scooby doo? not a kids show even though kids watch it. I'm not discussing the history of adult acceptance of animation, adult animation, or anime, so don't ask. dexter's laboratory. the grim adventures of billy & mandy. codename kids next door. teen titans. fairly oddparents. kim possible. invader zim. AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER. totally spies. courage the cowardly dog. the proud family. SPONGEBOB F*ING SQUAREPANTS. powerpuff girls. foster's home for imaginary friends. oh yeah you know what's coming next. my little goddamn pony friendship is mother fucking magic is not. a. kids. show. even though kids can watch it. it is a cartoon. it is an everyone show. that's why it's disingenuous and fucking stupid to decry any fan over the age of 7 as a pedophile and a weirdo creep; it participates in the infantilization of femininity. why is it ok for 20somethings to keep watching aang and squidward and finn & jake and zim and "return the slab" and everyone's totally fine wth that but when it's twilight sparkle suddenly everyone's like whoa you're a huge fucking loser for watching this girly wussy baby show for girly wussy babies. oh some bronies are sex crazed perverts? I'm sorry have you seen just how much porn there is for spongebob? oh some bronies are cringe? I'm sorry have you met half the steven universe fandom? oh some bronies are fascist rick sanchez kinnies with fedoras and katanas? BREAKING BAD FANS, HELLO!?!?!?

this is such a stupid tiring boring argument. maybe magic talking horses being friends and turning their friendship into magic rainbow nuclear fucking arms and blasting the evil out of a demon and turning her into the coolest fucking half-unicorn biker lesbian in the world is something that brings me, and adult, pure wholesome joy, in between bojack horseman and dark souls and breaking bad and deftones and fallout new vegas and jojo and cannibal corpse and other bleak depressing edgy shit that also brings me comfort. and MAYBE me at 16 starting to watch MLP:FIM becoming finally comfortable with the outward public expression of "traditionally feminine" interests is the main reason why I realized I was a girl when I did, and MAYBE I just like how pretty the colorful ponies look, AND MAYBE I KIN WITH ONE OR TWO OR EIGHT CHARACTERS, WHAT OF IT?

AND MAYBE ITS LITERALLY THE BEST LONG RUNNING FANTASY TV SERIES ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW* SINCE GAME OF THRONES FUCKING SUCKS

but whatever, kids watch it sometimes so it's illegal for anyone who's not a kid to enjoy it, but only if it's something girly because liking girly things is bad because girliness is inherently bad, and the only things that are good have predominantly male casts*. right? right??? wrong, fucker. g4mlp has so much more in common with adventure time & atla than with blues clues or dora the fucking explora...r.

but keep in mind I'm saying this while hugging a blues clues plushie my grandma gave me for valentine's day because it reminds her of when I was a baby because I may not watch blues clues but it still means a lot to me for nostalgia and is 50% of the reason why I love ray charles. kids media isn't necessarily bad. I still do enjoy watching it with my little sisters. all this is is me being anal about categorization because I'm autistic and I LIVE for categorizing everything.

*besides atla obviously

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Sometime after the war, there was a cultural revival in the Water Tribes. New holidays were established and old ones were brought back into public conscious. Libraries all over the world were scoured in an attempt to reconstruct the Southern waterbending style, the oral histories and folktales were written down, and people with Water Tribe heritage made pilgrimages to their ancestral homelands.

Among those with mixed heritage were a composer and liberettist, touring all around the world for extensive research that they could use to write an opera about Princess Yue and her great sacrifice. Katara gladly contributed to the project, having seen they meant to do her justice. They had also requested an audience with Yue's parents and close friends to discuss it, and even interviewed a few Fire Nation soldiers who were at the siege to get a more thorough understanding. Sokka was also contacted about it, but even after hearing a fictionalized version of him would be the leading man, he couldn't bring himself to discuss the events with strangers. He wished them the best in any case.

The project was titled The Love of the Moon and all the singers cast were unknown talents from the Northern and Southern Water Tribes. The creative duo studied hundreds of garments, sketching, taking notes, and diagramming them for the costumers to refer to, and did the same with archetecture for set builders and household objects for prop makers. (These guides were later cleaned up and published for the public.) The orchestral arrangment was the standard one could expect, but with extra woodwinds and a set of water glasses for a more ethereal sound. The plot was close to the actual events, if a bit dramatized. The main artistic liberty taken was referencing the story of Tui and La in regard to Sokka and Yue's relationship, allowing the latter to follow the beats of the former.

After a premiere in the Northern Water Tribe the production toured the Earth Kingdom to positive reviews, praising the accuracy and attention to detail of the visuals, the fresh vocal talents, and the heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice.

Katara loved it and she and Avatar Aang took their children to see it when there was a new production. Sokka, on the other hand, could never bring himself to listen to the music or look at the production guides. The singer who originally played Yue, however, received a small bundle of flowers and blueberry twigs tied with sinew and a strip of seal skin with a short note thanking her for keeping the Princess's legacy alive. It was unsigned but mentioned the Southern Water Tribe, so it may have been from Sokka, but she kept it secret for the rest of her life.

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