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wilcze-kudly · 2 months

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Roughly. How many people do you guys think died due to the Earth Empire's actions? Or were otherwise injured?

#Republic City was evacuated but you cannot tell me that people didn't get FUCKED UP in those 're-education camps'#earth empire #kuvira #baatar #baatar jr #bolin #legend of korra #tlok #avatar #the legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok

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loklove48 · 11 months

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Just a quick messy Suvira

#tlok fanart #the legend of korra #Kuvira #kuvirafanart #suyin beifong #Suyin #Suvira #great uniter #metal bender #metal clan #earth kingdom #earth empire

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knightofthenewrepublic · 18 days

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#my memes #star wars #star wars memes #avatar show #avatar legend of korra #avatar memes #korra #lok season 4 #kuvira #earth empire #united republic of nations #iroh ii #iroh lok #snow speeder #T-47 airspeeder #lok colossus #general kuvira #“Echo station 5-7 we're on our way”#“Alright boys keep tight now”

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tamras-shieldmaiden · 1 year

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Kuvira and the re-education camps

First, since I’ll be using these terms, let me first provide the definitions.

A Watsonian perspective tries to interpret the text from the standpoint of the text. This is sometimes called an in-universe perspective.

A Doylist perspective stands outside the text, and is sometimes called a real-world perspective. Things that happen in canon happen because of decisions made by the author or the Powers that Be (TPTB); inconsistencies are probably authorial error. These explanations will sometimes be written right into the canon.

Okay, so my theory goes as follows:

In Ruins of the Empire, Vol 3, Kuvira said the following to the court:

“And though I wasn’t fully aware of everything going on in the re-education camps, I should have been.”

I personally believe the creators realized that they had gone too far in giving Kuvira all the Build Your Own Dictator 101 attributes as if they compiled a list and ticked on all the boxes including the always favorite concentration camps/gulags, etc. So when the moment came to redeem a character that had apparently knowingly greenlit on such atrocities (because I also believe they intended Kuvira to be redeemed eventually by certain choices they made on B4 to always keep her sympathetic), they realized the uphill battle they faced if that thorny issue was overlooked. So they went and fixed the conundrum by writing themselves out of the corner they had trapped themselves into in the comics. So this is my Doylist interpretation. However, there are enough elements in canon to grant a Watsonian interpretation which is the one that follows.

My in-universe interpretation is based on a couple of things. In S3, we saw how the Dai Li rounded up the airbenders on forced conscription in order to build airbending corps. Who’s not to say they hadn’t done the same with waterbenders and firebenders? The Dai Li is well known to work under secrecy so these things weren’t probably known by the majority of the people so, leading me to think that what came to be known as the reeducation camps had their origin in these secret camps. Besides, the Queen was very vocal about what she believed was an illegal land grab of Earth Kingdom territory concocted by King Kuei, Aang, and Firelord Zuko to create the United Republic so it’s likely that both the Dai Li as well as several people in key positions of the government and the military held a similar line of thought. I’ve already posited that although the Ba Sing Se branch of the Dai Li was obliterated by the Red Lotus, some members remained at large and when Kuvira was given the authority to lead the country and manage its resources, she had to deal with the power of the Dai Li and had no other choice but to reach a compromise in order to avoid having them as enemies of her efforts. I’m sure she had heard nasty stories about the camps as well as everyone else (including flaming hypocrite Varrick because a guy who can orchestrate a civil war knows quite well how to obtain intel) but decided to willfully ignore it, believing her influence to be far-reaching enough to allow for reforms in said camps, but as we later found out, our girl was wrong, very wrong. So, what we see in ROTE is the truth. A mixture of naivete and arrogance, along with a corrupt institution that preceded her tenure, ending up with one of the most tragic chapters of the Earth Empire.

#the legend of korra #legend of korra #tlok #lok #kuvira #earth empire #meta analysis #character analysis #miscellaneous musings #ruins of the empire #rote

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hai-kazumadesu · 1 year

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Kuvira commission!!

Artist: Wolfbird art (facebook) and wolfbirdie (toyhouse)

#kuvira #legend of korra #the legend of korra #avatar tlok #avatar the last airbender #earthkingdom #earth empire

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pluralzalpha · 9 months

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Galactic Gazetteer: Androzani Minor

Twin planet: Androzani Major

Type: terrestrial/desert planet

Location: Sirius system (Alpha Canis Majoris)

Distance from Earth: 8.6 ly

Nearby planets: Sirius Alpha, Sirius IV and V, Quagreeg

Inhabitants: humans, androids

Animal life: magma beasts, cave bats

Affiliation: Earth Empire/Dominion of Sirius; Sirius Conglomerate

Visited by: the Fifth Doctor and Peri

Appearance: The Caves of Androzani (1984)

Fun fact: source of the fungus spectrox, which grants extreme longevity when refined, but causes deadly spectrox toxaemia if touched when raw.

Another fun fact: a war was fought across Androzani Major and Minor for the control of the spectrox source.

#doctor who #galactic gazetteer #fifth doctor #sirius system #earth empire #the caves of androzani #desert planet

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original-sheepsandwich90 · 1 year

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The Blind Bandit!

#Gifs #gifs #GAang #Anime-inspired #Anime-style #American cartoon #Toph Beifong #The Blind Bandit #Earth Empire #Earth Rumble 6 #vs. The Boulder #Earthbending #Seismic sense #Neutral Jing #Tomboy

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earth-empire-updates · 1 year

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sorry for not posting for so long, i was temporarily banned from the earth empire

#earth empire updates #earth empire #kuvira #kuvira lok #legend of korra #the legend of korra #lok

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familyjoule · 2 years

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THIS LADY STRAIGHT SACRIFICED HER HUSBANDO TO THE GAME. WE STAN A KING. THE GREAT UNITER.

6.7.22 | rewatch marathon complete!

#kuvira #the legend of korra #earthbender #earth kingdom #earth empire #the great uniter #king #marathon #netflix #and #grill

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lepucide · 9 days

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DIRT VS SAND ON PONY TOWN

April 19th, 1:00 cst 2:00 est, there will be a WAR between the Earth empire and the Sand soldiers, lead by mlp youtubers Eff minus (Dirty) and Star Strike (Sandy)

Watch their videos - Eff Minus EXPOSED by sandy spartan Star Strike And STAR STRIKE EXPOSED!! by muddy madman Eff Minus - for details

Make sand and dirt themed skins if you want, but it's not required! CHOOSE A SIDE AND SPREAD THE WORD!

#pony town #my little pony #eff minus #star strike #dirt vs sand #sand soldiers #earth empire #GUYS GUYS GUYS #GET IN HERE #I AM ENCOURAGING WAR

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wilcze-kudly · 6 months

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Sure we can rag on Bolin for not realising he joined the Earth Kingdom equivalent of the Nazi party and call him an idiot for it (deserved) but honestly I can't really fault him for it?

Like the ostrich effect is a thing and we are watching it in full effect here. We've seen that Bolin is a character that deals very poorly with conflict. Like it's super obvious he'd avoid standing up to Kuvira as much as he could.

One of Bolin's biggest hurdles as a character is that he is looking for a purpose, the rest of team Avatar having 'found themselves'. So it's not out of character for him to join Kuvira.

I feel like he's also compensating for the loss of Korra, who was in recovery at the time by following Kuvira.

It's very obvious that Korra had a huge impact on Bolin's life, as she did with all of Team Avatar. But Bolin had definetly attached himself very strongly to her. He's been following Mako around his entire life, been a follower for most of his life. And then his first real friendship outside of family follows a similar pattern.

Korra is like the perfect character for Bolin to project his weird codependency thing onto. She's an effortless leader, very forceful, decisive and straightforward. Someone who he can easily listen to and carve out a path he can follow. And following the Avatar around allows him to do something worthwile and good. To actually help. With the added benefit that it gets him people's approval, something he so clearly desperately needs and craves.

Then Korra becomes so injured that she has to be placed in physical therapy for an indeterminate ampunt of time.

So Bolin projects that need and codependency on someone else. Kuvira. In his argument with Mako he states it clear as day: 'I mean, Kuvira is basically just like Korra. She might seem hard to deal with, but just because she's so passionate and believes in what she's doing.'

He gets to continue doing good and making people like him while under very clear orders he can follow.

I mean, this boy is traumatised. Clearly, Mako took the brunt of the horrors of their childhood, but it would be incredibly stupid to say that Bolin isn't fucked up as well. Clearly in a different way but fucked up nonetheless. I think this codependency thing is something both brothers benefitted from as kids but that's a conversation for another day.

And the events of the first three books are also traumatic?

Like he's just been part of a civil war/end of the world so excuse him for hoping to catch a break. I will once again refer you to the ostrich effect. Another war breaking out is probably like worst case scenario in his mind.

I feel like for him, if he opens his eyes to what Kuvira is doing is accepting that there is once again a 'big conflict' in his life. And that his loved ones are once again in danger. And worse, that he's contributed to it.

I can also see it all being a case of 'well ive waded neck deep into this swamp, now i gotta see this through'. Like he's sunk so much time and energy into this cause, it can't be all wrong, right?

Sure, ego is probably a big part of his behaviour. Everyone is telling him that Kuvira is bad and that automatically puts up the defences. Bit I can see how these warnings feel like a direct personal attack at Bolin himself. He was also incredibly isolated from most of his friends when serving Kuvira. Other than Zhu Li and Varrick, who aren't exactly peers.

So he's lonely on a train most of his time and when he does reuinte with his loved ones they start criticising his life choices . I can see him getting defensive and automatically resistant to critisism.

And Kuvira is also shown to be very good at emotuonal manipulation and threats and stuff. And Bolin, a chronic people pleaser whith a lot of trauma is, like, the perfect victim for those shenanigans. Bolin is canonically bad at reading situations that are detrimental to him (look at the entirety of his relationship with Eska)

You know, sure, he's an idiot for staying with her as long as he did. But it's not as black and white as a lot of people make it out to be?

#bolin is a much more complex character than most people give him credit #bro i made it that deep #it is so late rn and im rambling about the silly lavaboy #bolin #tlok bolin #kuvira #korra #avatar korra #mako #tlok mako #tlok #lok #the legend of korra #legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok #earth empire

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loklove48 · 2 years

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Well, just had to draw Kuvira too.

#kuvira #kuvirafanart #tlok fanart #suvira #great uniter #avatar the legend of korra #legend of Korra #tlok #tlokfanart #my tlok queen #gay for kuvira #earth empire #metal clan #metal bender #earth kingdom #Zaofu #suyin beifong #I pledge my loyalty to you great uniter

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ruubesz-draws · 5 months

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He's a little confused, but he got the spirit!

(He's trying his best, leave him alone!)

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smileymoth · 10 months

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Hello! I decided to do a research presentation on the "cannibalism" tag and it's relations to the MCYT communities on AO3! I looked into time frames, overall fandom data, individual character data and made a hopefully coherent conclusion on the information I gathered. I will be posting a link to my very messy excel file where I stored the base information via reblog, so check the notes.

I used canva for the statistics graphs and indesign to put this together... And a big big thank you and a shout out to my very good friend @theslyvoid9 who made 99% of the drawings used in this presentation and who also helped me look up data!!!

I hope you enjoy this little project of ours! Also please remember that this was made in pure fun, so please don't be rude to anyone. If there are typos or weird number errors, or if we missed out on some SMPs I am very sorry ^_^

Enjoy!