#earthbending

[dkrosi]

🪨Kagami as an Earth Bender Kyoshi warrior🪨

Did a poll on ig, and most of my followers voted for Kagami, so here comes her ATLA design as an earth bender! ❤️

One of my friends mentioned to me that Kagami, in their opinion, would rather be a Kyoshi warrior instead so I thought, "why couldn't she be both?"

So I made her into an earth bender who also happens to be a Kyoshi warrior, hence her fan and her make-up! I kinda like how her design turned out (even though I struggled a lot with it 😂especially with the colors 🙈).

Hope you like it guys! ❤️❤️

The next one will be Luka! 👀

#kyoshi #kyoshi warriors #suki #atla suki #kagami tsurugi #miraculous kagami #earth #earthbending #toph beifong #atla fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #miraculous fanart #miraculous #character design #earth nation

[operationbeifong]

𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝒀 𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑯 — EARTHBENDING + SUB-SKILLS APPRECIATION POST.

#EARTH MONTH #♡♡♡ #earthbending #legend of korra #avatar the last airbender #earth kingdom #appreciation post #beifong family #avatar fandom #tlok #atla #avatar #suyin beifong #toph beifong #lin beifong #avatar kyoshi #bolin #kuvira #happy earth day #operationbeifong:gifsets

[spibbee]

toph you will always be famous

#toph beifong #atla toph #earthbending #atla #avatar the last airbender #toph avatar #toph is the goat

[quillsparkle]

in honor of our girl Toph's day

#earthbending #toph beifong #Earth Day 2 #Avatar #avataredit #atla

[onlyyours2love]

Also I just think is so ironic that the Earth kingdom is canonically the most homophobic (based on what Kya says in the Korra comics) yet it’s the earth bending women who pull all the queer women in the fandom?!?!?!

Bro you’re deadass just gatekeeping the most attractive earthbenders 😭

#wlw #ATLA #Lok #Kyoshi #Kuvira #Li Beifong #earthbending #earth bender

[samleewins]

Baby Bending

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Animated by me.

#atla #airbending #firebending #waterbending #earthbending #aang #azula #toph #sokka #Katara #zuko #cute

[yummygus]

I finally drew all the benders!! Now just Sokka left to complete team avatar!

#avatar #atla #zuko #katara #aang #toph #team avatar #art #illustration #airbending #firebending #earthbending #waterbending #fire #water #air #earth #avatar the last airbender #characterart

[fuforthought]

Fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender might like this one.

This is a proof of concept earthbender fight scene. It just goes to show what great fight choreography and a few special effects can do.

The actress is Diana Tsoy.

#Diana Tsoy #Avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #earthbending #earthbender #fight scene #live action #martial arts #Kung fu

[iaim]

Something that always bothered me in the avatar universe is when two characters, in the midst of battle, perform a perfectly synchronized attack (or defense) as if it were planned or something.

Until I watched Zuko and Aang drill the firebending exercises

Then I realized that Katara and Toph have had synchronized moves with Aang too, but in these contexts, they were engaged in combat. So they must've practiced these forms together during their training sessions, just like Zuko above, and I just never put that together until now. Here are the scenes I'm referring to.

I really really love the progress that Aang makes from his training and shows here, also it's a great example of the implicit storytelling that the avatar series does so well.

(p.s. I wanted to use screenshots rather than gifsets to really see the symmetry between each of the characters.)

#atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #avatar #avatar aang #katara #toph beifong #zuko #waterbending #earthbending #firebending #text

[sofiialyt]

the Blind Bandit 🪨

#atla #toph beiphong #the blind bandit #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #the last airbender fanart #avatar toph #earthbending #earthbender #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr

[comikadraws]

Did a little Toph fan art as the last illustration for my school project :3

#not naruto art this week #i'm sorry :') #my teacher doesn't need to know i'm obsessed #toph beifong #avatar the last airbender #atla #earth #fan art #my art #illustration #semi realism #digitalart #painting #earthbending #blind bandit

[tumblerlina]

something different from what I use to update. girls night for ATLA girls! of course they are listening to secret tunnel...

Katara, Suki and Toph

(yeah toph is using a melon lord pijama)(and suki using soka´s boomerang guy shirt)

#atla #avatar the last airbender #waterbending #earthbending #earth kingdom #atla au #girls night #toph beifong #suki #katara #the gaang #avatar fanart #digital art #fanart

[leantailean]

The Great one

#toph #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #atla #artist on tumblr #toph beifong #earthbending #lok #korra #my art #leantailean art

[a-todd-illustration]

The Blind Bandit spirit, who will rise to any challenge someone says out loud.

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #avatar au #toph #toph beifong #earthbending

[luriuan]

Au where Sokka is an earthbender but just didn’t know. Like he grew up around ice and snow and water, nothing to bend there. He tries to throw a punch at Zuko on Kyoshi island and a huge ass cube rises from the ground and pummels him. That’s how he finds out. He’s in shock.

#sokka alta #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla sokka #Sokka #Zukka au again #bending Sokka #earthbending

[wileycap]

Okay, so I had a thought (and I'm about 300% sure I'm not the first one, but I was too lazy to check, I also don't know if canon has adressed this already):

When Wan Shi Tong was dragging the library into the Sprit World, how was Toph able to hold it?

Because Toph learned from the badgermoles.

Let's back up a little. The Ocean and The Moon are explicitly spirits. Fang, Roku's dragon, is able to traverse the Spirit World (and on the Solstice, even the physical world) freely, even though Roku isn't. Appa is spiritually connected to Aang and able to perceive it (with help) and follow the connection to Ba Sing Se.

I think all of the original benders are either spirits, or animals that crossed over from the Spirit World. And all of the bending styles we've seen have distanced themselves from the original sources of bending - even Airbending, because Aang and the historical benders don't fly freely, like Appa. Firebending is fueled by rage, that's explicitly stated, I don't have anything good for Waterbending so the source is firmly trust me bro, and in Earthbending, Toph's moves are based on a different martial arts style (Zhujia/Chugar family kung fu rather than the Hung Gar style used by other earthbenders*) than the other earthbenders we see - there is explicitly something different about learning from the original source. I also think all of the original benders, when crossing over, used their bending to anchor themselves into the physical world. For dragons, fire was life and the sun, for Tui and La, their eternal dance was their life and power, etc.

That's a long paragraph to say that no other earthbender could have held up the library. Toph learned her bending from the badgermoles, not as a fighting style, but as a way of interacting with the environment - the same way they do. I don't think she's necessarily aware of it, but I think that, because badgermoles are spirits that crossed over a long time ago, as Toph learned, she also unconsciously learned a style of bending that is much more spiritual than human-taught bending.

This also weaves nicely into the show's themes of destiny. Aang was destined to find Toph (he saw her in a vision, after all), and Toph was destined to teach Aang. But not only that, Toph was the only person who could have held up the library. She wasn't just holding up a big rock. She anchored it into our world.

And I think that's beautiful.

*BUT NOT WING CHUN THO THAT INFORMATION WAS LITERALLY ONE GOOGLE SEARCH AWAY ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS WING CHUN I SWEAR I HEARD IT SOMEWHERE AND INCORPORATED IT INTO MY BELIEF SYSTEM FOREVER thank you dear person in the tags i don't know if it's polite to @ you considering it was in the tags but thank you srs

#atla spoilers #atla #toph beifong #atla toph #toph #earthbending #fan theories #fan theory #avatar toph #avatar the last airbender #spirit world #i really like that #i really like that you can make up fan theories for this show without breaking canon at all #it shows a depth of writing and worldbuilding