#also yeah this is my avatar

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

#This is literally Storytelling 101: Show Don't Tell #I'm sorry scriptwriters I know you were working before your union won minimal staffing in writers' rooms and decent pay and all that #but You Know What You Did #Also cgi artists plz unionize #A few more hours on Momo would have maybe taken him further out of the nightmare monkey puppet category #I know some people are reporting him as cute #But all I can see is a creature from the Magnus Archives #that thing is the skin of Momo being worn by something that doesn't quite move right underneath #And maybe it is looking for a better fit #Don't let it touch you adorable child actor Aang #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #Anyone looking to block the live action posts I'll be tagging all of these with that natla tag going forward #But yeah not going to post about it much #I came I saw I deemed it not worth the hours of my life it asked #I can literally write a better Avatar AU than this #Anyway back to Toph beating up Blind Zuko! #*write write write" #(their big budget fanfic can't hurt me it can only introduce more fans to the original)

[whinyandcheese724]

can’t believe sokka spent 3 seasons telling dad-jokes, likes expensive atlases, viscerally hates getting sidetracked on road trips, thinks he’s the greatest detective, carries a beard with him as a disguise, pretends to not like physical affection but secretly loves it (see group hug in the earth king), is obsessed with meat, is constantly sarcastic and complaining, is overprotective of his sister, LITERALLY HAD A WHOLE ARC ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE HIS DAD PROUD AND ENDED UP LEADING THE INVASION FOR HIM, and y’all still have the audacity to call ZUKO the Dad Friend

#i mean he literally pretends to be aang's dad #also the whole refusal to believe in magic and spirityness #like yeah zuko is the oldest #and hes the most strict #but thats just cuz hes suffering from abuse #the amount of times the gaang has had to stop him from being stupid in the comics #*shaking my head* #sokka #zuko #katara #aang #toph #suki #team avatar #the gaang #avatar the last airbender #atla

[only-lonely-www]

So basically ATLA brain rot has hit me like a truck

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #toph beifong #what happened was I was forced to watch the live action #which is actually pretty good if you get past the first few episodes #and if you don’t have someone in your ear telling you it’s awful the whole time #first episode is definitely the weakest and that’s 50% gran gran’s fault #aang and katara are also pretty flat but whatever #sokka’s good and zuko’s fantastic actually #they did goof on a few things but overall I think it’s a fun time #just don’t expect it to be as good as the cartoon and you’ll be okay #ANYWAY it got me missing toph #so i rewatched the blind bandit episode #and then wound up watching the entirety of books 2 & 3 in a few days #and now I’m brain rotted #which is especially weird considering when I first watched it I was like #yeah that was good! and then never thought about it again #i dunno what changed but i need help it’s taking over my life #wanted to draw Sokka too but he looks hard to draw #and i had enough trouble with these two #maybe someday #sorry for rambling in the tags goodbye

[bruhstation]

a few days ago, I revived my years old hyperfixation. so what better way to keep it in memory than to make an AU based on it with my current special interest <-- has happened several times before

I present to you all: ttte atla AU! set in an era (or rather alternate universe) where the hundred year war didn't happen, the air nomads are still around, and the main conflict -- though it still came from the same source which is the fire nation -- is different now; which is a crazed nonbender scientist from the fire nation with a strong dislike for bending arts and having his own army of technology-boosted soldiers

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte lady #ttte thomas #ttte percy #ttte edward #ttte james #ttte henry #ttte gordon #ttte atla au #senjart #yeah the crazed nonbender is definitely diesel 10 #I'll draw toby and duck and others someday.... just wanna get these quick sketches out of my system #ahhhhh avatar. one of the greatest shows of all time #did you know that drawing dynamic poses is hard (laugh track) #anyways here comes my latest obsession.... hitting fast and hard like a truck!!!!!! #all of these characters joining one by one (sans thomas percy edward) are like: #''leave your country'' ''why'' ''join team avatar'' #also in this AU the rws trio used to attend ba sing se university in their youth and were close friends #then they had a huge fight and went separate ways. here comes lady and co bringing them all together without them wanting it (laugh #and james joined team avatar after they witnessed the convoluted ember island theatre play #and he's like Woah the avatar's here? You should let ME join your troupe #that's all for now..... I have info on other characters but my back hurts too much ouchie ow ow #hope you enjoy seeing the cstm ensemble again after weeks of TUGS posting #(they have a role in the AU as well but that's a story for another day)

[the-magpie-archives]

My cat as Smirke's 14:

(part 1)

The eye:

The hunt:

The web:

The desolation:

The dark:

The slaughter:

The flesh:

The vast:

The buried:

The end:

#This is my version of posting school photos of my kid.... He's literally my little baby avatar <3 #Shoutout to everyone on the discord chat where we have the first picture as an emoji... #I also got vinyl stickers printed of it 😌 #But yeah he's the admiral to me or whatever #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus institute #tma avatars #Tma the fears #smirke's fourteen #tma the admiral #cats of tumblr

[agent-sapphire]

it’s baffling to me that no one missed or mentioned spider after he was kidnapped. not once. no “i wonder if he’s okay”, “hope he’s alright”, “wish spider was here to see all of this”. norm? max? no one asked about spider’s whereabouts or wondered? nope, the kid was straightout forgotten. jake asked if kiri missed spider once and that was it. and it’s more shocking that it’s apparently been months.

you’d think they don’t care at that point, excluding perhaps kiri and lo’ak. but you know who did? quaritch. he’s the one who stopped the scientists for further torturing him. he’s the one who kept him around instead of locking him in some room. he’s the one who presumably saved his life, assuming neytiri would’ve killed him.

“but he’s a murderer, spider saw what he did and he caused neteyam’s death!” “the sully is suppose to be his family, he betrayed them!” and yet, quaritch is the one who have apparently shown more parental affection than all of the adults around him combined. which makes it all the more tragic and conflicting for spider, doesn’t it? he probably hates it too, to have such a horrible person care for you, apparently more so than the people you want to save.

he is loyal to na’vi, but it just doesn’t help that the enemy they hate displayed more affection than jake and neytiri, does it?

#no hate to neytiri tho <3 #i especially understand her of all people #jake....well i feel like he couldve been a bit more understanding #also #THEY COULD'VE JUST WENT 'HMMM I WONDER IS SPIDER IS OKAY' JUST ONCE #anyway he's an interesting character and i like him #was he cringe? yeah... #spider avatar #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #spider socorro #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #atwow #avatar the way of water spoiler #atwow spoilers #text. #my post.

[fiendishartist2]

web jon is so sillay

#hes so funny to me #i think he would be the biggest self important dorkus on the planet as a web avatar #like yeah hes actively choosing to fuck with ppls free will but. i think hes funny about it so its fine #also i think he would be kinda bad at it lol. like he makes it maybe 2 seasons and then he has to stop bc sasha figured it out #and then hes just a morally gray friend <3 #my art #doodles #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #web avatar jon #archivist sasha #sasha james #kinda #martin blackwood #timothy stoker #jonmartin #i just finished this web jon fic that was pretty good but it had this bit where martin has dreams of spiders and i think thats awesome #ofc its horrifying there but i think its funny. i keep telling my coworker about my romantic spider dreams and he gets so weird about it #if you cant read my handwriting. sorry lol best i can do

[ur-frndly-neighborhood-memer1]

Okay but these are the exact same eyes of Ozai!

So much that at first glance, I thought it was him-

It's kinda scary tho...

I mean...

Like, the only difference between them is that Ozai has more wrinkles

It basically makes it look like the eyes of the older Azula🤔

#atla #azula #avatar #avatar the last airbender #azula in the spirit temple #Ozai #fire lord ozai #Azula really has the best features of both her parents #Like both Ursa and Ozai are frickin gorgeous #And Azula definitely has the best features #No wonder she is the most beautiful cartoon character I've ever seen #(And also my childhood crush lol) #(Yeah you can tell why I end up toxic relationships now lol😂) #Avatar comics #Atla comics #Azula comics

[weaponizedducks]

why did the gaang think the ember island katara was accurate. ember island katara preaching about hope and forgiveness bsfr she literally attempted murder last episode and every episode before that. she is literally rage personified the only reason she preaches hope is because she hopes to kill more people in a badass way

#it's so funny that the southern raiders ep was right before the ember island #they go from katara hunting down her mother's killer and bloodbending and literally attempting cold blooded murder #how do they look at the ember island katara preaching hope and think 'yeah seems legit' #also the Natla katara is basically ember island katara #I love katara she's my girl no slander accepted #katara defense squad #avatar the last airbender #atla #the ember island players #the southern raiders #katara

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[syn0vial]

i had to talk to withers as astarion after a near full-party wipe to revive everyone and this skeleton starts grilling astarion about his lack of a love life 😭

what the hap is fuckening 😭 i didn't even know companions could have personal conversations with the camp NPCs. is withers hitting on astarion? please send help

#i know this isn't a conversation meant for my dragonborn paladin bc he's romancing wyll #also help. the visual of astarion dragging the three bodies of his comrades back to camp covered in blood and near-dead #and the resident avatar of the divine is just like ''yeah i'll revive em. but first: why can't you get any bitches? 😔'' #hilarious! #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #withers

[cuteniarose]

Personally I find it really funny that based on what the twins said in the Book 2 finale re: having to tell their mom about what happened to Unalaq, it's literally canon that Unalaq's wife a) exists, b) is alive, and c) is just chilling in the Northern Water Tribe

She took one look at all the spirit fuckery her husband was getting up to and went "Well that's none of my business" and honestly I respect that

#oh and when I say spirit fuckery I mean it in both the literal and metaphorical sense. blame kat's latest raava and vaatu fic #yeah I'm just gonna start posting random LoK opinions on here now. this blog's been dead long enough #not really an incorrect quotes girly anymore sorry #not even a girl anymore. but you know #most of my red lotus and oc posting will remain on my personal blog though bc no one wants to see that #anyway. yes. Unalaq's wife. when I say the avatar franchise has a mom problem this is exactly what I mean #80% of characters don't have a mom. the moms that are alive either have little to no screen time or mentions #or they're basically Schroedinger's mom in the sense that they exist but not really #the exceptions being like. pema and suyin. and maybe senna though she also has very little screentime #my point is. the twins are younger than korra. I know avatarverse has a precedent for putting kids on the throne. looking at you zuko #but really we should have gotten unalaq's wife as chief of the nwt #introduced her in book 3 during the lead up to p'li's prison break #but that's just my objectively correct opinion #northern water tribe chief raspberry when #(according to avatar wiki her name is malina so I've been calling her raspberry in my head ever since I found out #malina means raspberry in russian that's why. probably in a bunch of other slavic languages too idk I'm not an expert #and she shares a name with katara and sokka's weird white stepmom from the comics which no sane person considers canon. so that's fun) #the legend of korra #unalaq

[skimwing]

spider and recom!quaritch as inverted mirrors of each other makes me so... [screams]

they're both "miles", named after the same man - who they have never met, yet whose legacy deeply haunts both of them.

spider as a product of quaritch's body and recom!quaritch as a product of quaritch's mind.

spider who is loyal to the na'vi and completely immersed in na'vi culture/practically is na'vi in many ways... except for his body (and to an extent - his "blood"), which immutably sets him apart from them. recom!quaritch who is loyal to humanity and largely ignorant of na'vi culture/language, yet has a na'vi body which allows him to partake in culturally important na'vi things that spider is forever unable to (ex: bonding with an ikran and, theoretically, connecting with eywa).

and yet. there is the irony that neither of their bodies can survive in the environment of their respective "side" of the conflict. recom!quaritch needs a mask in bridgehead and spider needs a mask out in pandora.

kiri to spider: "spider, you are not him" / recom!quaritch to spider: "i'm not that man"

also - their first one-on-one conversation with each other takes place in a mirrored room, which i do not think was coincidental at all

#i feel like i see people talk about recom!quaritch vs. human!quaritch and their differences/parallels but i wanted to talk about this angle #spider socorro #miles socorro #miles quaritch #recom quaritch #avatar the way of water #atwow #my posts #theres probs more but YEAH. absolutely surrogate father-son dynamic but theres more there too #also think there's a lot of additional symbolism to the mirror

[yuenity]

As someone who was part of the 2020 zukka renaissance, it’s so bizarre to see atla get popular again and witness all the kataang vs zutara discourse i completely missed out on the first time around

#I got so deep into zukka so fast that I somehow just avoided all ship wars #like I knew there was discourse #I would hear my zukka folks mention the ship wars #but I never saw it with my own eyes #but now I’m seeing it all the time 😭😭 #and I’m also seeing ppl discover zukka for the first time and it’s just so funny #to hear people be like ‘yeah sokka is so straight’ 😭😭 #i dunno you ever just accept something as fact for so long that it’s weird to see people assume the complete opposite #if that makes sense #anyway #it’s good to be revisiting my roots #atla was the whole reason I joined tumblr in the first place #peep the yue in yuenity #atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #zukka nation

[moon9931]

hey guys

gaming, with my sister and brother

hey guys, more will be here soon

#should i tag it #hmmm #yeah #okay uh #sorry for bothering anyone that looks through these tags but #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #the noise #noisette pt #Mr stick (in one photo) #pizzano (in one photo) #roblox #my avatar #shitpost #hey #here's a fun Mr stick hc I have #if he were to get roblox he would tell kids “hey give me your parents credit card number for FREE ROBUX 🤑🤑🤑” #also I'm so sorry

[sometipsygnostalgic]

What is a piece of media that had a terrifying or bad fandom that scared you away, but once you sat down and experienced it, you found it amazing?

#she ra #adventure time #homestuck #voltron #korra #steven universe #avatar the last airbender #these arent examples necessarily im just getting some tags #the dragon prince #chuckles evilly as i add #the locked tomb #arcane #for me it was definitely shera #homestucks audience was also terrifying and my opinion on that has never changed but it didnt scare me away #the owl house #i watched toh from day 1 but yeah the fandom was. uhhh #makes sense as they were so young