#fire nation SUCKS

[psy-ay-ay]

am i a horrible person for laughing all the way through the scene of the bonfire at the beach with the fire nation freaks

#wow like who needs a therapist when they can all work out each others' issues #i know they're all teenagers with shitty homelives but i can not even #rich spoilt kids is all i can see #and it's my problem i know #but they're all just too much and i care so much more about sokka katara aang and toph #live tumblring atla watch #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka <3 #it's amusing anyway cause we get to see azula ty lee zuko and mai on a 'casual day' #but i still dont like them #fire nation sucks #altho everyone looks cool in the new clothes

[evilkitten3]

atla crack au where zuko and azula burn the palace down as kids (like 12 and 10, respectively, pre-banishment but post-grandpacide), run away to avoid consequences, and somehow end up "discreetly" living in the abandoned fire nation ship in the south pole ("discreetly" is a word which here means "all the adults know they're there bc they have massive arguments every other day, and when hakoda's nearby he "drops" things that might be useful")

ozai ends up blaming the palace fire on iroh and banishes him. he must capture the children to regain his honor (translator's note: this is adult speak for "get their asses back here so i can ground them for the rest of their lives")

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #fire siblings #somehow despite having lived isolated on a wrecked boat for four years they manage to still be spoiled brats when aang shows up #ozai is significantly less evil bc a) crack au and b) the burning zuko's face off never happened #like he still kinda sucks but he hasn't crossed the line from throne usurper to child mutilator just yet #azula spends half a minute trying to find a way to blame the fire on zuko before realizing that half the flames are blue #the plot twist is that they actually weren't (fully) responsible for the destruction #ursa did it #she chose terrorism ok #jet is her accomplice #like he hates that she's fire nation but damn if she's not good at what she does #jet: ok so how're we gonna get your children out before we- #ursa: fuck them kids #jet: ...dope let's do this

[sufferingsokkatash]

zukka drawing prompt.

(credit: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe5XSp2W/)

#zukka #it’s so them they even have red and blue cotton candy #sokka would have been a fire nation goth with zuko and mai #this ride sucks and there’s no shopping #zuko find us some food

[peony-pearl]

June was the only woman older than Katara and Suki to show up and help the Gaang in the finale and I think that’s ridiculous. We could have seen Yagoda and the Herbalist in the White Lotus (and Miyuki!! She has a cute miniature lotus collar). Perhaps even Haru’s mom showing up somewhere??  IDK the lack of older ladies as respected guides and teachers is irksome and until further notice I’m headcanoning out of spite that they were there we just didn’t see their scenes but they were there dammit

#atla meta #look I love the old men #they are such blorbos #but Yagoda and Hama as teachers? #they really got the short end of the stick #Yagoda gets forgotten even when Katara becomes a successful healer bc Katara didn't want to go to her class therefore the class sucked #which is ass #and then Hama was a victim of the Fire Nation who began harming citizens and forced Katara to learn a perverse sub-bending ability #don't get me wrong I love the ideas for bloodbending especially the thought of it as a medical aid but the way it was introduced #and forcing Katara to learn it the way she did was traumatic to her #We get barely any lady teachers older than the girls in the Gaang and that's really sad #and this sort of ties into Ursa's lack of complete character and the lack of guiding maternal figures #and how there's hardly any mention of the wives and mothers in the FN royal family and their characters #whoops I'm starting to ramble

[jetantifa]

I don't accept that the Fire Nation should be allowed to keep their monarchy and maybe Zuko tries and tries to cling onto power because he's convinced he can change things in the Fire Nation from the inside out. It's ill thought out, he's naive but he's desperate to try and the Avatar lets him, just as misguided.

Zuko talks the right talk when he's suggesting they need to pull back from the Earth Kingdom, but when an advisor points out that the quarry only exists because the firebenders made it possible to mine, that if they're pulling troops back then Earthbenders will lose their jobs, and what else will they find to do? Will they go backwards without people to guide them? He sounds troubled as he says it, it reminds Zuko of Iroh and something in him twists.

Zuko doesn't recognise it for what it is he's done until the military stationed there are drowned out, like rats, and the advisor begins to let spite bleed into his words, when he calls the Earth kingdom leeches who don't even know what's good for them because they aren't accepting that hand the fire nation offered them, and Zuko can't find a reason to disagree, he knows they can't govern themselves

It keeps happening, nobility stopping him from doing a smooth, clean break, a unit gets maimed, and Zuko doesn't know how to navigate it, he doesn't even know who could be involved. It's tied to the Earth kingdom but that just draws suspicion, after all, wasn't Zuko in Ba Sing Se for a while? Who's to say he wasn't murdering them in cold blood to stir some terror, to make his advisors push back, Ozai liked to do this then cut down anyone too unwilling to fall into line quickly.

The way it looks to the people, he's attempting to snatch away power from the nobility who usually back him, his family? Zuko can't get rid of them, because he knows too much change could set up a coup, so he's moving slowly, but in doing so, he's not removing fire nation bases, or pearing down his army, he's stagnant. When people start talking about Ozai again, in whispers, he doesn't understand, he thought if the head of the snake was removed, the rest would follow along so he could rebirth the fire nation into a new era.

But the imperialistic fire nation was always more than one man, it's systematic, it's a disease and Zuko only realises it when the walls are closing in and he's abdicating under threat of being usurped, he's stuck trying to figure out what's happening and anyway, I just think Zuko finding the freedom fighters, with Jet alive and making sense of what the fire nation represents, that the advisors and nobility obviously don't want to let go of their power because war is profitable, so ofc they dress it up as benevolent rather than controlling

I just think class traitor Zuko finally joining the freedom fighters could be so fun because the Palace was always stifling but he's only realising it when he's in the trees again, when the blue spirit comes alive again because you can't wash away 100 years of imperialism when it's embedded in the structure itself and they should start getting along in their shared ideal of wanting to resist. For Zuko it's to remove the rot, the corruption from the Fire Nation, for Jet and his people, to get the Fire Nation army to stop oppressing them, to leave them to govern themselves.

That it's Fire Nation propaganda that they (the Earth kingdom) can't function without the Fire Nation, it's nothing more than a way for the Fire Nation bourgeoisie to line their pockets because war is far more profitable than demilitarising like Zuko wanted so ofc they'd be at odd ends with him

#jet atla #jet #jetko #Freedom fighter Zuko #zuko #atla zuko #prince zuko #Freedom fighters #I honestly think it'd be better if Zuko gets to this line of thinking without his uncle #I think the problem of the fire nation is never really addressed and I need it to #People like Iroh don't get it #Iroh works through inaction he dithers and doesn't completely buy into imperialism being bad #he just never takes that last step #Iroh might personally be good now but politically he still isn't and Zuko should recognise it #anti monarchy for the fire nation #iroh critical #Just to be safe #netflix atla #I can't believe I'm getting sucked back into one of my old ships so easily

[thatonewierdo]

SCENE FROM CHAPTER 6 OF A TALE OF SPIRITS by @unorthodoxx-page​.

Check out the fic cause I promise it’s worth your time, my first impressions of it were like “wtf how is this so good?!”

took some time given I’m preparing for college at the moment and way underestimated how my almost 2 year art break affected my digital skills but now that I’m back I’m just PUMPED to get back into it. Might do some other scenes in the future who knows (send recs and I might just be tempted to do other scenes and fics).

Beware they may be simpler than this tho cause wtf even is coloring and backgrounds? Give me my pure sketchy goodness

(segue into my messy sketch. idk man I just like seeing artists being messy and not giving a fuck about ‘clean’ art)

#rottmnt #Rise of the Teenage Mutant Turtles #avatar the last airbender #a tale of spirits #fanfic art #fanart #okay look I know some details are off like the position donnie descends and the fire nation boots/shoes #but look #you seriously telling me those mutant turtle toes of his are fitting in those god awful shoes? #have you seen how fitted those things are? no way jose #I wasn't putting my boy donnie inside those for my first attempt at drawing him #also the arm screen thing is mostly a pre-movie thing I know #I have no excuse for that one I just sketched him based on how he looked in the series since I had more references that way #and halfway through I realised 'wait fuck this is post-movie and movie donnie has those cool black wrappings not this purple stuff' #so I just kinda... colored it black and said it looked good enough? yeah let's just say that in my headcannon donnie got his arm screen back #flawless logic #damn I suck at this tagging stuff #donnie rottmnt #rottmnt donatello #avatar gaang #yeah that ough to do it #welp it's midnight so g'night everybody

[flilisskywalker]

ATLA is the kind of show that makes you tense because the bad guys found a way to make a baloon.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #excuse me you fire nation fellas can fly now #are you kidding me #weren't the tanks enough #you gotta dominate the sky too? #sometimes technological progress sucks

[sharlmbracta]

i've seen a couple of fics where azula and zuko has a third op sibling but i could find none, zero(0) fics where ozai has a sister over him-

i'm saying this because i want his ass pummeled and headwrapped by his (not too much) older sister. i want him to be raised by an older sister

iroh, being like a decade or two older than them both, would neglect them both serving war on propaganda during his prime and takes his leave after his loss not unlike canon

the sister would have a couple (or more?) years with her mother so she picks up some actual parental love and how it's supposed to be before ozai is born

(or not and they end up like zuko and azula except they have just a little more agegap then them, ozai is more ill-tempered than zuko, and the sister pummels him more than azula does zuko but not brutally (or not) and they have a lot of sibling fighting and bonding and normal sibling shenanigans minus the parental love so probably some angst as well)

and if it still somehow ends up like canon where ozai takes over the throne due to either by his plotting or some fucked up misogyny by azulon or sozin's law or whatever she will be fucking furious and she will show it

(if so ozai could team up with her for her support but betraying her when the idea of power gets to his head)

(or or ozai would keen to her after iroh's loss and she would be like "no you little shit i knew all of your antics even better than our elderly dad and ever since you were baby" but if somehow he manages to convince her to her that he'd "do well" on the throne with his personal method of pleading to his sister (you choose) and then betrays her-)

-boy would she be fucking livid. ozai is absolutely afraid of her but pretends he absolutely isn't. she is definitely going to pummel his ass for good

zuko and azula would be mostly clueless at first thanks to ozai's efforts. azula would be a bit more keen though. she may not completely understand what really transpired between them when she suddenly left, but when she finally finds her again bidding for her time she would find the whole situation so fucking hilarious once she got over the initial shock of reunion - the sheer idea of how her imposing father was so afraid of his own sister (who technically didn't actually even do anything to him) that he yeeted her out of the fire nation.

azula would fucking love her.

#ozai #azula #zuko #sister #ozai's sister #seriously disappointed in y'alls lack of creativity /j #fandom you did literally literally everything except giving ozai a sister #starting from zuko adoption/ozai adoption/waterbender zuko/waterbender ozai/time travel/body swap/erasing ozai out of fucking existence #+ good dad ozai/letting other nations take turns for imperialism/reviving dead key characters/premature killing off living key characters #+ phoenix/dragon/modern/don't get me even *started* on abo/littles/mpreg/that one fic where ozai breaks his fucking*rib*sucking himself off #+ timespace ripping just so*you*could beat up his mfing ass/a regretful ozai dying in prison to be reborn as a concubine for the earth king #yet not a single one of you didn't even think of giving ozai a third sibling #you gave zuko and azula a third sibling!! you gave katara and sokka a third sibling!! yet you couldn't give one(1) for ozai #not even for a oneshot comedic purposes?? #sacriligious i say #sacriligious #atla #fire nation #royal family

[vhalesa]

I've been reading this sick mayakuro avatar au and just had to draw something for it. (It's soo good! Now I don't have to write one myself yay!)

#revue starlight #mayakuro #saijou claudine #tendou maya #kuromaya #avatar #avatar au #art #for real the concept of making Maya the avatar is just so cool #drawing ice sculpting sucks but whatever #fire nation ships just have the blandest exterior ever #so it's not my fault the background looks boring I even googled how these damn ships look like #btw changed the dialogue a bit so that it fits better in the comic/art

[deaths-wife]

I'm sorry but Katara the whole gaang in fire nation attire will forever be unmatched and I will never be over the Kataang moment where they danced in that cave

#atla #avatar #the last airbender #katara #aang #sokka #toph #kataang #fire nation #in other #news #had my first proper work shift #today #it sucked #im very tired #naptime #xoxo

[attackfish]

So much analysis of Azula and the Fire Nation Royal Family fails because it presupposes Ozai's framework for judging his children. And you know, I think the last character on whose terms we should be analyzing anything about Avatar: the Last Airbender, is Ozai's.

#a truly staggering number of the analyzes of the Fire Nation Royal Family's dynamics boil down to #Azula fit the criteria that Ozai was looking for in a favorite child #therefore Azula deserved to be favored and is better than Zuko who sucked #which presupposes the idea that parental favoritism is not a bad thing in and of itself and also that Ozai's criteria weren't vile #wtf #azula needs her own warning #zuko is a dweeby little turtleduck #noodle lord ozai #avatar the last airbender #posts i created

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Americans "having a single iota of sympathy for the literal thousands of Canadians who have had their homes and communities destroyed by fire instead of yelling at us for making their sky orange" Challenge (impossible)

#yeah i get it the air quality in New York sucks ass right now #did you know the air quality in Canada also sucks ass right now #and did you know that millions of people in Canada are affected #thousands have fled their homes #so many people have lost everything #towns and first Nations communities burned to the ground #but y'all don't fucking care #because the sky is orange in New York and you cannot fathom a degree of sympathy for anyone beyond your own borders #when you even acknowledge that we exist #anyways #Emily talks #rant #wild fires #America #us centric #America remembering other people exist challenge #Canada #us politics #Canadian politics

[eruverse]

Gonna say it Now but I’ve been trying to spread my personal agenda of non depressed, non glasses wearing, and thicc stocky Mongolia. There are many other things included within my agenda also BUT these 3 are most crucial, in that exact order.

I burn with fire on hating the depresso, glasses wearing, and skinny Mongolia.

#series: hetalia #character talk #i fucking hateeee the glasses hate hate hate i will burn them with FIRE #1) i hate drawing them 2) doesnt fit the image of Mongolia in my head #coincidentally while glasses wearing mongolians OFC do exist i prob see less mongolians with glasses than other nationalities #personally? himaruya’s mongolia design SUCKS ASS i will burn with fire #himaruya you are not great at designing mongolia personally speaking

[ooc-miqojak]

When so much of North America is on fire that first, the sun turns this nifty shade of pink, and it's weird but cool - then, the sky goes black and all you feel is a deep sense of dread, and realize that you already live in the cyberpunk dystopia.

#ooc #everything changed when the fire nation attacked #I'm just saying that seeing the grey sky at this point #after hearing so much about it #it's unsettling in a primal sort of way #monkey not like smoke-skies #wear a mask #smoke is terrible for you #also think of your animal friends! #my poor cats don't get much outside time now that the air quality sucks

[orcelito]

and you know what, i can speak in the language of business people. i can cater to logistics for why we shouldnt fire someone just for pay cuts. im not going to let someone just get fired for such little reasons.

#speculation nation #like if someone is actively performing badly i cant help them #but our employees are all decent employees. #my biggest concern with it from a logistical standpoint would be the demoralizing factor #if we fire someone who for all intents and purposes has been doing their job well #then that's demoralizing to the others. they will lose their sense of job security. and it would make them consider leaving too. #because if one person is fired for little reason. who's to say any of Them are safe either? #boss was talking about how we want our workforce to be the best it can be. so we need to cut out any bad eggs #now that we are no longer so understaffed it's painful #but we just dont have any bad eggs. #some better than others sure. but they're all people. they all deserve a chance. #and the biggest problems are with tardiness and attendance. Not actual performance. #there isnt any one employee i dread being scheduled with bc i know they suck #that's happened in the past. but it's not how things are now. #and tardiness can be addressed. our biggest offenders are already working to be better about it. #and attendance is most commonly bc of things outside of their control. #genuinely very uncomfortable with the idea of firing someone just to 'cut out the bad eggs' #i may not have singular control over this situation but my word is still respected. #i'll do my best to stand up for the employees. bc i really dont want to fire any of them.

[vexahlla]

all im saying is they just HAD to make him threaten to kill an entire civilization JHDSKJBVDS

#leaders suck bc fire nation wiped out all the airbenders. anyway time to wipe out all the airbenders. #make it make sense. (i will. in my politics heavy canon compliant red vs white lotus prequel zukka fic) #ppl are hypocrites is basically it. also i love ends-justify-the-means characters