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comradekatara · 1 day

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a really defining moment of aang and sokka’s relationship is that sokka literally lets himself get beat up for aang’s amusement and entertainment like a day into knowing him. like he is literally letting aang drop him onto the ground from a not insignificant height over and over again just to see aang smile and laugh. he is putting his own safety and physical wellbeing at risk because it makes aang happy. and there’s a lot we could get into here about how sokka fundamentally views himself and his body as a vessel through which to provide services to others instead of a whole human being in his own right, but what matters for the purposes of this post is that it’s very immediately established that sokka will do anything to see aang enjoy himself, to the point that he will quite literally put up with physical abuse without complaint to make aang happy. so when people are like “it’s crazy how sokka is so smart and yet loses all his braincells whenever he’s around aang,” it’s like yeah, teenage boy adhd2adhd communication will do that, but also a large part of it is sokka contorting himself into an image that he thinks aang will appreciate, because he knows just how valuable preserving aang’s childhood joy and laughter is.

and what’s beautiful is that through actively becoming this person for aang’s benefit, he also actually starts to internalize the sentiment. through the process of letting himself be silly and goofy for the sake of making aang happy, he also absorbs some of that sillygoofy happiness and regains some of his own childhood joy and laughter and sense of wonder he truly thought he had lost forever. he’s not just helping aang retain his childhood, but aang is also helping sokka regain his sense of humanity. the sokka of book 3 is someone who enjoys “wacky, time wasting nonsense” and throws beach parties, a far cry from the sokka of book 1 who thought fun and joy were luxuries no one could afford. his selfless love for aang is also self-affirming, helps him to embrace aang’s point of view, to love himself slightly more than he otherwise would have. because to love aang is to necessarily let kindness into your life; it’s to learn how to be free.

#sometimes i remember that aang is fictional and i cannot actually be friends with him and i feel genuinely distraught #but i am comforted by the knowledge that we WOULD be friends were he real and that’s what matters #aang #sokka #aang&sokka #analysis #there are a bunch of rly fucked up directions i could take this post #but i think I’ve talked abt the fucked up aspects of their relationship plenty lately #and there’s also smth just so beautiful & poignant & sweet about how sokka doing his whole ‘denying the self to serve another’ shtick #kind of just backfires with aang because he inadvertently learns how to have fun #i do also think suki is really the person who increases his general happiness levels the most tbh #but like. aang laid the groundwork for sure #holds them….

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timeofdeathnote · 2 months

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stop that's so funny 💀

#avatar #avatar: the last airbender #netflix avatar #avatar the last airbender #general zhao #aang #james cameron #sokka #katara #zukko #humor #meme #spilled ink #atla #natla #live action avatar

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lilith-91 · 18 days

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Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending

Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here

There are no airbenders in the crowd

All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.

No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.

Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.

Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.

This is so heartbreaking.

#aang #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #zuko #sokka #momo #appa #toph beifong #if i remember well another post mentioned the crowd #because it's true #:(

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m-r-moth · 1 month

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decided to make silly cat versions for the whole avatar team

( psssst, there are more cats under the catla tag on my page)

#appa would 100% be a giant fluffy dog #atla fanart #art #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #toph beifong #aang #sokka #katara

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astra-kamari · 1 month

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Ok can we talk about how toph held up a huge ass building? I feel like this is never addressed.

The Gaang is in the sand, which is already hard for Toph to see/feel, and then she holds up this giant library?? While trying to protect Appa.

Also, can we talk about how its not one mass of rock-it's made of bricks, and being held together by gravity. She really said "Every one of you blocks, pillars, tiles, boards, and the rest of you are going to stay in your exact spots and not sink to the spirit world BECAUSE I SAID SO!" while she was fighting super mystical spirit magic. While fighting and actual spirits power. For who knows how long, because Sokka and Aang had time to check every date till Sozins comet would hit at least a few months away.

Can we also talk about how Toph was so upset and ashamed about loosing Appa due to sand bending skill that she practiced hard to perfect it.

#honestly this sene is so underrated #astra rambles #atla #avatar the last airbender #toph #toph beifong #Gaang #sokka #aang #katara #zuko #sozins comet #appa

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bakedbeanchan · 26 days

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I love the first season of atla

#baked bean originals #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #sokka #before i watched the show everyone told me he was such a silly guy but he had the biggest stick up his ass #he acted like a miserable babysitter the entire season #while katara was busy being a revolutionary and aang was busy being a silly guy or the avatar #yeah i kind of ember island ified aang here but it's for the bit

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chiptrillino-art · 5 months

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Just boys things! its a continuation of this illustration!

#atla #chip!art #zuko #sokka #aang #iroh #momo #lilly pad frog!#thezukka if we squint but none of us truly squints

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mistbix · 30 days

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so i've been re-watching atla....... expect more art soon

#atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #aang #sokka #kataang #i've made exactly 1 fanart for avatar before so i decided You Know What i'll make an art feast now #since the new live action came out i tought “hey now i can at least have refs of their clothes etc” and got a study as a bonus yay #mi arte

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calmingthoughtsinyourhead · 1 month

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Poor Zuko

He just wanted to join the Gaang but now the blind girl is moving metal, the sweet watergirl is bending blood and the kid is talking to spirits

At least he can count on Sokka to be normal. Oh, where did you say that sword was from?

Yeah, that’s right, fucking outer space

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animentality · 3 months

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#twitter #atla #sokka #katara #aang #avatar the last airbender

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taakiitoo · 1 month

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Comfy

#fanart #atla #atla fanart #zuko #katara #toph #aang #sokka #atla gaang

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comradekatara · 2 months

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i know that ppl like to joke about iroh having to tutor zuko in algebra after he’s banished, but i also like to think about how during that week or so that aang was enrolled in a fire nation middle school, he would have just surreptitiously handed assignments to sokka to complete on his behalf so as to keep up appearances. and then, after he mysteriously disappears, the faculty get together to be like, “that kuzon sure was a troublemaker, but just take a look at his homework. in all the three days he was enrolled in this school, he got a perfect score on every math test, but somehow managed to get every single detail bizarrely and offensively wrong on his history assignment. what a strange, brilliant kid”

#aang #sokka #aang&sokka #aang comes back with a 0 on his history essay like ‘CARE TO EXPLAIN’#and sokka’s just like ‘I COULDNT ADHERE TO THEIR INSANE REVISIONIST PROPAGANDA IM SORRYYYYY’

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timeofdeathnote · 1 year

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