#cabbage merchant

[pears-palette]

On my recent cabbage merchant art someone commented on this man’s sheer resilience and how he was the Sisyphus of ATLA and that inspired me.

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#cabbage merchant #cabbage man #my cabbages #atla art #atla fanart #atla meme #avatar the last airbender #atla #sisyphus #id in alt text

[the-bluespirit]

#cabbage guy #cabbage man #cabbage merchant #aang #katara #avatar #avatar the last airbender #atlaedit #natlaedit #netflixedit #tvedit #natla #gifs #* #natla 1.03 #natla 1.04 #natla cabbage man #natla cabbage guy #natla cabbage merchant

[crazymuffin1]

#post fresh from the muffin1 bakery #atla #avatar the last airbender #cabbage merchant #natla #dont expect most people that see this meme to actually have seen ep3 lol i know he says 'hey watch out for my-' #unless he actually says my cabbages? idk i havent watched the whole ep i just rushed this because the meme economy is rough

[lowcountry-gothic]

Avatar art by Michael “M.K.” Matsumoto and Courtney Matsumoto.

#art #matsumotoart #avatar #the last airbender #legend of korra #aang #korra #wan #cabbage merchant

[timeofdeathnote]

can’t wait to see this legend again

#atla #live action avatar #avatar the last airbender #cabbage merchant #my cabbages #cabbage man #Netflix #avatar memes #avatar: the last airbender #avatar aang #katara #sokka #zuko

[aangarchy]

Btw there's still one first look we haven't gotten

Where is my King?

#avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #cabbage merchant #atla netflix #atla live action

[fanonical]

cabbge guy: my cabbages! cabbage spouse: no cabbage spouse: our cabbages

#Avatar #ATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender #Cabbage Merchant

[failingradish]

If other atla & tlok characters had bear dog hybrids

From top left to bottom right:

Asami: Panda x Cocker Spaniel

Bolin: chow chow x brown bear

Aang: Aussie x Amercian black bear

Kuruk: Poodle x Polar bear

Sokka: Husky x Grizzly

Katara: Panda x Dalmation

Mai: Spectacled bear x Borzoi

Azula: Short-faced bear x Neapolitan mastiff

Zuko: Asian black bear x Shiba Inu

Toph: brown bear x Boxer

Ikki: Sloth bear x Papillon

Cabbage Merchant: Sun bear x Bull terrier

#12 - why did i make 12 it's such an inconvenient number... #oh well #my art is trash #atla #avatar #aang #kuruk #korra #asami #bolin #sokka #katara #toph #zuko #azula #mai #ikki #Cabbage Merchant

[overworkedblorbobattle]

Overworked Blorbo Battle Round 4 Poll: 8

#tournament polls #avatar #avatar the last airbender #avatar: the last airbender #atla #the last airbender #homestuck #hs #the cabbage merchant #the cabbage man #atla cabbage merchant #cabbage merchant atla #cabbage merchant #peregrine mendicant #homestuck pm #pm homestuck #parcel mistress #round 4 #tournament poll

[xan-from-space]

Damn, the Ember Island Players were actually kind of radical, weren't they? The more I think about it, the more it feels like the only way it makes sense in-universe is if being Fire Nation propaganda wasn't the point of their play at all. Aside from a barely tacked on ending where Ozai kills Aang, the play is remarkably sympathetic to the Avatar and a bunch of enemies of the Fire Nation, even framing them as being heroes. Even at points in the story where theyre literally killing Fire Nation soldiers, the narrative still seems to be on their side; they're the underdogs, the relatable ones. Its true that the Fire Nation values strength, but still, you'd expect that in a propaganda play they would be portrayed as at least a little bit more sympathetic... And sure, to some extent the gaang's characters could be seen as defamatory caricutures (the slander on Iroh specifically was probably intentional), but that also might be due to the Players getting a lot of their information from the cabbage man, someone who actively hates the gaang and only ever really sees the worst of them. (And notably, that also means that the Players had worked with an Earth Kingdom merchant to produce the play.)

Mocking the gaang is also just clearly not the point of the play or what people are there for. Sokka's actor says that he's constantly being approached by fans; people genuinely love these characters. The gaang have built entire dedicated fanbases in the Fire Nation because of this play. Honestly, the fact that they're on a remote island is probably the only reason they're able to perform the play the way it is. I imagine it would get shut down pretty quickly on the mainland. Considering all the propaganda in the Fire Nation that we've seen so far, I wouldn't be surprised if the ending was only written that way because it's illegal to write a story where the Fire Lord doesnt win. The play reads less like propaganda and more like 'we're doing the bare minimum to get this story past the censors.'

I'm really curious about what it's like behind the scenes for the Ember Island Players. Are their shows just simple, shlocky entertainment, or could they also be deliberate political commentary? With no recording technology, a play is easier to slip under the radar than something like a book: it's impermanent, stays in one theatre, and performances can be easily tweaked if, say, Fire Nation royalty happens to come by. It's interesting to me that Ursa seemed to like them, while young Zuko had a disdain for them, saying they 'butchered' the story of Love Amongst the Dragons; in all likelihood the version of the story Zuko grew up with in the palace was heavily propaganda-filtered itself. Although, to be fair, they're arguably just not very good playwrights. When it comes to the characterization, I do think some of it only seems bad because we know what the actual characters are like, but a lot of it is just bad writing clearly meant for cheap entertainment. For example, they sexualize Katara quite a bit (and there's other, better analysis out there I've seen that examines how they fetishize her as a Water Tribe girl). And, of course, all of the characters are reduced to shallow and stereotypical comedy.

Still, I think they're worth commending for doing their research and telling a story about enemies of the state that's both sympathetic and surprisingly accurate to actual events, if not the characters' personalities, amidst the Fire Nation's rampant propaganda and misinformation. From the little amount of information about them we can extract from the show, they seem like honestly very interesting people. They're walking this tightrope line between being very close to the heart of the Fire Nation but also separate from it; between being cheap, inconsequential entertainment and being a source of actual news for Ember Island citizens; between telling the underdog story about a ragtag group of children and still trying to make it look like Fire Nation propaganda. I'm not trying to make any big argument on whether they were 'actually good people' or whatever, I just want to know more about them. I kind of wish we could see their production of Love Amongst the Dragons now...maybe I'll write something about them someday

#I wrote this in a haze after randomly catching the episode while my sister was watching it #I'm so fascinated by the inner lives of these people. What does it look like to write and produce these plays? #What does their day-to-day look like? How do the actors feel about their characters? #Actually if anyone has any fanfic recommendations in this vein please tell me #atla #avatar the last airbender #ember island players #the ember island players #atla analysis #zuko #uncle iroh #katara #ursa atla #cabbage man #cabbage merchant #fire nation

[nariko-senpai]

Why is no one talking about THE TEA JOKES IN ATLA LIVE ACTION? THE CABBAGE GUY BEING THE ORIGINAL VA? JUNE CALLING IROH CUTE? Living for the live action humour, whenever Sokka opens his mouth, I'm already smiling I kin him so bad.

#atla #atla live action #avatar the last airbender #cabbage merchant #uncle iroh #zuko

[pears-palette]

This man needs a break and not a breakdown.

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#cabbage merchant #cabbage man #my cabbages #atla meme #atla art #atla fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #reaction image #id in alt text

[chaos-enchanted]

It's him!

#atla #baldur's gate 3 #cabbage merchant #man larian really stacking in the easter eggs #and honestly I'm so here for it #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

[comradekatara]

the cabbage man embodies sisyphus in his futile quest to peddle his wares even as they get destroyed day after day. zuko embodies sisyphus in his futile quest to capture the avatar even as aang evades him effortlessly day after day. and sokka embodies sisyphus because his life is full of struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted.

#cabbage merchant #zuko #sokka #synthesis #sokka literally tries to rationalize suicide #camus would have a field day with this character #quick someone revive him so he can write an addendum to the kafka addendum #il faut imaginer sokka heureux #or whatever .

[dorkphenix]

#avatar #the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #cabbage merchant #cabbage man

[personinthepalace]

Aang disguised as the Cabbage Man

from Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh’s instagram (costume designer)

#MY CABBAGES #THIS PLACE IS WORST THAN OMASHU #I adore how he says it haha #gordon cormier #aang #the cabbage merchant #cabbage merchant #cabbage man #cabbage guy #natla #avatar the last airbender #atla #netflix atla #netflix avatar the last airbender #natla video #farnaz khaki sadigh #natla favorite #gordon cormier favorite #natla behind the scenes #behind the scenes #costume fitting #farnaz khaki sadigh instagram #natla deleted scenes #I haven’t watched the live action or the orginal cartoon yet #but I have seen a thousand clips and stuff so far #and once I do actually watch it I will reblog a lot I think haha #atla video