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ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool

the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because

sokka’s fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.

and sokka threw a boomerang at her.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #sokka

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This fanfic is amazing!

New Chapter is up!

It answers the question - how would the Fortune-Teller ep have gone down if Zuko was along for the ride? Shenanigans abound.

#i love it #one of my favourite zutara fanfics #zutara #zutara fanfic #atla #avatar the last airbender

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I do!

Reblog if you ACTUALLY READ TAGS

#most of the time

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Lets do this!

#lets see what happens

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Agreed.

I had too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#i wish we got to see some of her backstory in the show #whyyyyyy #why didn't this happen #whyyyyyyyyy #tmnt 2012 #mona lisa

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This is so adorably cute!!!

Mona Headcanon

I have this headcanon that after Mona decided to stay on Earth, she was at the lair one evening when she saw some talent competition show on TV like America’s Got Talent or something like that. When she heard someone sing she was amazed because on Salamandria there is no singing. It was like people were doing what instruments do but with their voices and putting poetry to it. She never wanted to attempt it herself, fearing she’d be no good. She’d get mad at the judges for insulting bad singers because she couldn’t tell the difference between good singing and bad singing. It was all beautiful to her. Raph thought it was cute how much she loved hearing people sing, and since she couldn’t tell the difference between good and bad, he felt comfortable singing to her sometimes as long as no one else would hear.

#it's beautiful #i love it #could someone please write a fanfic about this #i need it #ramona #raph and mona lisa #mona lisa #tmnt 2012

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Yes!!!

When Nino transforms into Carapace, how neat would it be if he ‘flicked’ his glasses, they turned into his goggle mask, and then he pulls down his hat and it turns into his hood?

I just … want cool transformations~

#absolutely #i need this #i hope this happens in the show #miraculous ladybug #ml season 2 #ml spoilers

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I love it!!!

didn’t know my heart

And yet, in a matter of days, she has managed to worm her way under his skin, has cracked open his rib cage and has begun to patch up the endless amount of wounds on his heart.

Pairing: Zuko/Katara

Rating: Explicit

Status: Complete

Notes: This story has been my pride and joy for the last two months. I’m incredibly attached to it and I hope anyone else that reads it enjoys it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

{read here on ao3}

He was born under a cursed sign. A bad star. Born on an unlucky day. Or someone had cursed him the minute he emerged from his mother’s womb. Something.

How else is Zuko supposed to explain this constant, life long string of bad luck?

No. Not just bad. Horrendous.

Bad enough that he’s so far away from home. Bad enough that he’s on the run. Bad enough that he has to resort to stealing just to get a scrap of food.

But to stick him with his former enemy? There’s just no other explanation for it. Some being in the universe has it out for him.

From the hostile looks the waterbender has been giving him, he wonders if maybe it’s her.

#this is amazing #one of the best zutara fanfics i have ever read #zutara #zutara fanfiction #zutara fanfic #zuko #katara #avatar the last airbender #atla

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I agree and I too would love to see the original script for that episode.

Is Zuko REALLY a Vengeful Person? The Southern Raiders & Why I Think Zutara was Cheated

Something that always bothered me when I first saw the Southern Raiders was how the episode seemed to go out of its way to show how Zuko is this character who is very cold, vengeful and unforgiving, as opposed to Aang, who is just this perfect saint of forgiveness. So recently I found out that Elizabeth Ehasz, who wrote the Southern Raiders, had to rewrite the episode multiple times to demonstrate that Zuko was a very toxic influence on Katara. The original episode had them showing just a bit  “too much chemistry”. It was like a lightbulb went off for me. Immediately it made perfect sense of everything I had thought was weird when I first saw the episode.

Aang has always been a very merciful and forgiving person. But he was never so…preachy and trite about it. We see this when he chooses to spare Zuko’s life many times. During the Siege of the North, the characters are left with a choice to either leave him to die, or to take him with them. Sokka has no problem leaving him. He is an enemy who has tried to do them harm, so Sokka’s suggestion is not unreasonable. Aang doesn’t want to do this, but he never judges Sokka, or lectures him about the value of life. He simply decides to follow his heart. But he never displayed a tendency to push his beliefs onto others in a judgmental way. His attitude to Katara in TSR made him seem quite insensitive, which is pretty out of character; especially towards the girl he claims to love.

The same can be said of his preaching about forgiveness. We know Aang is not above having his anger get the best of him at times. We also know that Aang puts Katara on a pedestal, and does not like to see her display any negativity. Yet, her anger and reluctance to forgive Jet do not cause Aang to lecture her about forgiveness. Sure, Jet is someone Katara liked at one point, but Aang never seemed to be so petty as to treat Jet any differently than anyone else, just out of jealousy. In fact, Aang’s possessiveness toward Katara seemed to come about only in Book 3 as well (maybe that’s a post for another time). Suffice to say, I found Aang to be uncharacteristically moralistic in TSR. The episode seemed to sacrifice the nuance of Aang’s character for the purpose of beating you over the head with a black-and-white morality message about Aang being “good” and Zuko being “bad”. I didn’t like this because Avatar is usually so good with handling mature subject matter with shades of grey and leaving the audience to come to their own conclusions.

Which brings me to Zuko. I also found his sudden propensity for vengeance to be surprising. This kid has a lot of flaws, but I did not remember Zuko to be especially vengeful. He was devoted to his “duty” as a Fire Nation soldier and Prince to capture the Avatar, someone who his country has falsely made out to be an evil tyrant who started the 100 year war, yes. I am not saying that Zuko would not feel contempt for Yon Rha, or believe that he didn’t “deserve” Katara’s wrath. But I found his glibness and vocal support of revenge to be unusual, especially toward someone who had just recently forgiven him. The episode also seemed to suggest that Zuko was pushing Katara for revenge as well, something Bryke imply in the commentary on the DVD. So what’s going on here? Is Zuko really so vengeful?

This is Zuko after his Uncle tells him that his sister is “crazy and needs to go down.” The last two times Zuko saw Azula, she tried to murder him in cold blood, and then tried to murder his Uncle right in front of him. Yet Zuko, apparently so used to abuse, does not see this as a reason to hate his sister. In his family, such behavior is “normal”. He has a look of anguish on his face. In spite of it all, Zuko loves his sister and the thought of taking her out causes him a lot of pain. One could argue that Azula is his family and his feelings toward her are not representative of his views on revenge in general. Ok, so let’s get to another non-family member, then.

Here we have Zuko in his Agni Kai with Zhao. Zuko has been disrespected by Zhao and wants to prove himself against him. Throughout the fight, Zhao displays dangerous levels of force against Zuko. Zuko comes very close to losing, and is clearly triggered at one point, remembering the last time he fought an Agni Kai and suffered unimaginably. Yet Zuko is victorious. In Fire Nation imperial culture, strength is valued above all else, and Zuko would be expected to demonstrate his victory by burning Zhao. Zuko has been insulted by Zhao, and as a Prince, this is a great dishonor. As a Prince, Zuko would be expected to uphold the values of his culture and family, and burning Zhao would be seen as a sign of strength; as a man, as a soldier, and as a royal. Yet Zuko is unable to bring himself to do this, despite the fact that it would single him out as being labelled weak. He is simply unable to bring himself to enact that level of violence on another person; the same violence that he has suffered. Zhao showed Zuko no such consideration. He is a man who was visibly happy when Zuko received his scar, after all. This is not a man that Zuko has any type of bond with.

But that’s not even all. Later in the series, Zhao hires pirates to assassinate Zuko, and he nearly succeeds. Zuko barely survives to confront Zhao. They fight and Zhao makes every attempt at finishing the job the pirates failed at, before Zhao is grabbed by the Ocean Spirit. As he is being dragged away to a guaranteed death, Zuko responds. Even after trying to murder him, Zuko is moved with pity and reaches out his hand in an attempt to save Zhao. Clearly the actions of a very vengeful person, wouldn’t you say? I’m sure Zuko just wanted to finish Zhao off himself. Yep.

Has anyone else tried to kill Zuko? Oh yeah, there was. When Jet discovered “Lee” and his Uncle were firebenders, he attacked in a very vicious way that could have easily killed him. When Jet is finally taken away by the Dai Li, we would expect Zuko to be very happy, right? Well, here is his reaction. He and his Unlce aren’t celebrating. They look rather solemn, they entire ordeal being sad and unfortunate. So we see that Zuko is not particularly vengeful when people harm him. I suppose some would argue that his attitude is more tied to his mother. Sure, Zuko being harmed is one thing, but his mother? Surely that’s why he’s so vengeful, right? He wanted to live out his revenge for his mother through Katara, right?

Well, Zuko does actually get to confront the person who took his mother away. Zuko learns everything. His own father was not only was responsible for his mother’s disappearance, he planned to have him killed as a little boy. A little boy who wanted nothing more than to get his father’s approval and love. His immediate reaction to hearing this news? Not rage or violence. He is overcome with emotion that his mother may be alive, and that her loss was a result of her love for him. Zuko’s father is helpless during the eclipse. Zuko probably could have taken him out in the little time left, if he wanted to. But he does not. He only redirects the lightning in self-defense after Ozai attempts to kill him.

So yeah, I find it insulting to Katara, Aang and Zuko’s characters how TSR played out due to Bryke insisting that Aang be the “angel” for Katara and Zuko be “the devil”. They obviously wanted this to be a Kataang episode, where Aang’s statements to Katara stopped her from “going astray”. It reduces Katara’s agency to come to terms with her pain with her own morality. It’s funny how Zuko’s supposed propensity for vengeance conveniently shows up only when he and Katara may have bonded, making him seem like a huge jerk and a totally horrible love interest, right Bryke? And it backfired and made Aang look like even less of a good match for Katara than before. Not to mention seriously lacking in empathy. I would have loved to see the original script for the episode that Elizabeth Ehasz wrote. Even so, I see shades of the original intent even in the final version, and applaud her fantastic writing, as usual.

#why did bryke have to ruin this #whyyyyyy #i will always be salty about the fact that zutara never became cannon #why couldn't they just let aaron and elizabeth ehasz write those episodes #and make season 4 #zutara #zuko #katara #anti kataang #normally i try to avoid shiping wars #but zutara has been my ultimate otp #for quite a while #avatar the last airbender #atla #zutara meta #atla meta

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🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

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This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help. 

#reblog #spread the word #save the internet #net neutrality

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XD

In which Nino doesn’t give a single fuck

Idk I had some time to spare and then this happened; I hope you all like this little sketch animatic! I also uploaded it on YT if you want to check it out:

https://youtu.be/xH8SXcx7Cw4

Audio from: https://youtu.be/bAIbvlobWDM

#this is gold #so good #lol #nino how can you be so calm about this? #miraculous ladybug #ml spoilers

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Breath of Fire

[For Zutara Week, Day 3: Memories. An homage to ST:TNG’s “Tapestry.”]

@zutaraweek

And for @honxrable

“We. Will. Not. Disarm.”

The wiry, green-glad nobleman shifted his spectacles and tried to narrow his eyes at the firelord. Zuko gave an answering look that made the ambassador quail.

It was easy to glare when one of his eyes was set in a permanent frown.

Daquan, though he lowered his gaze, retained his grip on the scroll. “This,” he said, “is an edict signed by all the minor Earth Kingdom royalty, that we will halt all trade with the Fire Nation unless you immediately cease your naval operations near the colonies and dismantle the gates of Azulon.”

Zuko all but tore the document from the ambassador’s hands, wondering whose son Daquan had to be to get such a prestigious position. The thought faltered as Zuko remembered whose son he was.

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#i love it #zutara #zutara fanfic #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #katara

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Agreed.

I- I just can’t get over Zuko and his arc. Everything he did - everything - was out of this insane drive to prove everyone wrong, to prove that he was worth something, and it amazes me that he never realized just how valuable he already was. 

His sister tells him ‘You waste all your time playing with knives. You’re not even good!’ and he masters dual swords.

His sister is a prodigy and he’s told he’ll never catch up. He learns from dragons. He trains the Avatar. He takes her down (with the help of a very skilled waterbender)

He’s left behind by his mother, cast out by his father, hunted by his sister, and Zuko still learns unconditional love. 

His father tells him he’s worthless and unloved, that he was ‘lucky to be born,’ and he becomes a man that the world is proud of. 

Anything his family said to him, he managed to turn around and build on it. He thrived on it, exploded from it, turned all the negativity into a positive path and it’s just… it’s amazing.

There’s just no end to my love for this character. No fucking end. 

Bonus: The weak, banished prince has fangirls for all the ages. Take that, Ozai.

#avatar the last airbender #zuko #my favourite character #atla

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I would like to see that happen!

when these two gonna meeeet

#yessss #let it happen #we need to see more of janna by the way #star vs the forces of evil #svtfoe #eclipsa

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Wow

People were basing her off of a moth!!!

Please reblog!

#this is amazing #star vs the forces of evil #svtfoe #fanart #eclipsa

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Net neutrality ends on the 27th but they’ll try and fool you tomorrow by acting like the repeal of it is okay. Do not be fooled, that is state propaganda to keep you complacent and to stop riots and rebellion from happening! Do not give up! Keep calling who you need to call and keep signing petitions and texting! I know it’s a lot of emotional labor but we cannot give in! 🔥

#reblog this spread awereness #net neutrality

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THIS!!!

(SVTFOE) History is a Story Told...

**Minor spoilers ahead**

Okay, so, perhaps this is just me being biased and wanting a good giant monster-loving relationship to have a happy ending. But I have a theory on why Globgor is portrayed the way he is in certain places.

My theory: Globgor is not evil, it’s a big misunderstanding on our part.

Hear me out, guys, before you start sharpening your pitchforks. I have a phrase that should make you pause: History is a story told by the winners of the fight […] History is a story told by the people who survive. –lines from A Story Told, from the Count of Monte Cristo musical

(Holy shit I went on a ramble. This is super long, guys, but I hope you agree with me in the end)

This is okay to reblog if you want to, even add to this with your own theories ^^

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#preach #star vs the forces of evil #svtfoe #eclipsa #globgor #meteora