#iroh&sokka

[comradekatara]

I think it’s so funny during the exchange on the balloon when sokka is like, “yeah being good at war seems to run in the family,” and zuko gets all defensive and goes, “hold on, not everyone is like that!” and at first sokka thinks he’s talking about himself, but then zuko reveals that he’s talking about his uncle. and sokka just has to sit there mentally calculating whether it would be a good idea to bring up the fact that historically, his uncle is great at war. if i had to attempt to transcribe his inner monologue in that moment it would just be “don’t bring up the dragon of the west don’t bring up the dragon of the west this guy is willingly sacrificing his life for your self-indulgent suicide mission you need him on your side don’t bring up the dragon of the west…” at which point he then looks back up at zuko and says thru gritted teeth, “haha yeah. no, cuz like, totally. for sure.”

#I think if zuko HAD been talking about himself tho sokka would’ve gone thru a similar mental calculation #‘don’t agree with him in a way that bitchily implies that he’s bad at war due to his incompetence DO NOT INSULT HIS INTELLIGENCE etc etc’ #zuko is currently enabling at least 12 of sokka’s mental illnesses so sokka just has to sit there like ‘whatever u say man’ #👍🏽😬👍🏽 #<- sokka emoji #zuko #sokka #iroh #sokkaxzuko #iroh&zuko #iroh&sokka

[chiptrillino-art]

Just boys things! its a continuation of this illustration!

#atla #chip!art #zuko #sokka #aang #iroh #momo #lilly pad frog! #thezukka if we squint but none of us truly squints

[aboutiroh]

You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.

#iroh’s content and comments #atla #avatar: the last airbender #i was actually thinking about Sokka and how his opinion on bending changes throughout the show #but this turned into a Katara post anyway #I’ll leave my Sokka thoughts for another day

[mugentakeda]

in my opinion the best "zuko joins the gaang early" fics are the ones that take place in book 1. the comedic potential is unparalleled

#I reread my favorite one out of them all #aka “winter solstice: an addendum” on ao3 #its zukka flavored. and its unfinished. very fun #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #aang #katara #sokka #iroh #jet #jetko #jetara #alicias art

[erindrawsstuff]

i've been rewatching og avatar and I just really love these guys :,>

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #drawing #art #avatar the last airbender #avatar fanart #kataang #avatar aang #atla #sokka #zuko #katara #iroh #aang #fanart

[ponury-grajek]

My comic to @recovery-zine <3 ❤

I drew it two years ago and my style has changed a little but I'm still really proud of this piece, I'm happy I can finally show it ❤!

#avatar: the last airbender #atla #zuko #sokka #uncle iroh #katara #zukka #I believe I could draw it better now but I'm proud of past me that it still looks really nice and I'm proud to show it~!

[acarillustrated]

fuck it. avatar as calico critters

zuko, iroh and toph

#softboy art time #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #atla fanart #avatar #avatar fanart #katara #sokka #i dont think the aang one turned out as good as the katara and sokka but eh #still cute #u can see the vision #i want to do zuko iroh and toph next

[itscuriosu]

my first girlfriend turned into the moon🌕

sokka finally joins my ATLA series! you can view the rest of my atla series below⬇️

#sokka erasure is no more #i let yall wait im sorry but he is finally here #artists on tumblr #my art #character art #fan art #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender fanart #atla fanart #toph fanart #sokka fanart #zuko fanart #katara fanart #iroh fanart #aang fanart #atla toph #atla zuko #atla iroh #atla aang #atla katara #atla sokka

[americassoldierboy]

The Avatar Crew!

#azula #suki #avatar the last airbender #iroh #zuko #appa #momo #aang #sokka #mai #toph #katara

[luciifer666]

In trying to make ATLA "less sexist" they just ran in a circle right back into sexism. They made Suki seem boy crazy instead of giving both her and sokka a good storyline. Same thing with June and Iroh, what was the point of switching it from Iroh flirting and June hating it to June flirting and Iroh not caring??? It's just so Women Written By Men™.

#avatar the last airbender #avatar #atla #netflix #avatar the last airbender netflix #aang #avatar aang #zuko #uncle iroh #sokka #atla suki

[thelasttoastbender]

I'm only one episode in so far but

Yeah not a total trainwreck so far!

#I like Aang Zuko and Katara's actors #I need to make peace with a new Iroh #Sokka....... we'll see #ATLA #Netflix #Netflix Avatar #Netflix ATLA #NATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender

[comradekatara]

I think Sokka would low-key resent Iroh for reminding Yue that she is blessed by the moonspirit, resulting in her sacrificing her life without question. Sure Iroh did it because there is no other choice, and really sokka would understand, but really, that boy has the right to atlest dislike someone who encouraged his (ex) girlfriend to die turn into the moon.

Thoughts?

yeah i’ve talked abt this exact thing before (can’t be bothered to locate the post but it basically just states this) and i definitely think that it’s one of many reasons sokka has to resent iroh. i mean despite being such beautiful foils (in many ways, iroh is just oldass sokka), sokka is the only member of the gaang to not trust iroh implicitly (which is funny only because they all at least vaguely know that he is the dragon of the west, and yet sokka, as usual, is the only one with enough common sense to be wary of him due to this fact) and treats him with a baseline hostility throughout the entire show (my favorite detail being how offended he gets when iroh puts his hands on sokka’s shoulders. and actually just sokka’s outrage whenever anyone he doesn’t like in general places a hand on him, it’s so funny). i mean even in their final scene, i always sort of read sokka asking “what about us? what’s our destiny today?” not as like, an earnest, deferential question, but rather as a sort of challenge. he obviously thinks that iroh sounds kind of cuckoo whenever he talks about destiny or intent-based morality (“good inside him isn’t enough, come back when it’s outside him too!” speaking of which, sokka would beat immanuel kant to a pulp you know it’d be on sight), and so here (at least how i read it), he’s kind of just saying “okay smart guy, so you’ve got this whole day mapped out according to your prophetic dreams and visions, but what about us? are you just forgetting about three perfectly good soldiers?” and i think iroh’s response here is the first time he actually sort of wins sokka’s approval, because he turns that question back around to sokka and says, no, “what do you think you ought to do?” recognizing sokka’s role as the planner, the delegator, the strategist, affording him the respect he deserves. and obviously sometime in the (near) future after the war, sokka is going to join the white lotus and work more closely with iroh and play the same game of pai sho with him for days on end, etc. but i think that one tiny moment really lays the groundwork for any possible future relationship they might have in good faith. and i also think that at some point, sokka would ask iroh to teach him how to enter the spirit world, at which point he will have finally atoned for the fact that yue sacrificed herself upon his suggestion.

#salt-popcorn #asks #iroh #sokka #iroh&sokka #sorry for giant wall of text & all the parenthetical asides I have a fever rn & it shows✌🏼 #anyway iroh & sokka are such gorgeous gorgeous foils and no one ever talks abt. a shame!

[muffinlance]

Edit: Yes, the original Sokka sexism arc is great and important. But we don't live in a world where the live action show runners decided to include it in the same form. So:

Unpopular opinion time: Sokka unlearning sexism isn't actually a large part of his character arc--it literally only takes the opening episodes. And removing it COULD be a sign that the live action is taking seriously the complaints I've seen from native fans about the original show runners deciding to make the Water Tribes that sort of sexist to begin with. Sokka's actual character arc is about gaining confidence and leadership skills, and they have the opportunity to focus on that MORE if they change the Kyoshi episode to focus on Suki as a fellow teenager forced into a leadership/protective role in her community and rocking it rather than using her as an object lesson on sexism for a male character to learn from. Whether they will ACTUALLY do that is on them, but it took me less than ten minutes to think up, so I sure hope someone in the writers' room actually cares about using the live action to expand on new angles of the characters. Big ask, I know.

Now the real question is: did they also remove Uncle Iroh's unwanted physical advances on a literally paralyzed Jun, and all of Zuko's snipes about girls? Because THOSE are the actually "iffy" sexism parts in AtLA, not Sokka's five minute arc.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #Sokka #Zuko #Iroh #So help me if Iroh still gropes Jun #Our girl is looking FANTASTIC and she deserves better

[carebooks]

overlooking all the other reasons why the show went downhill: katara’s feminine rage missing, aang getting guilt punched every episode, bumi being ooc, almost zero gaang bonding episodes, three episodes compiled into one (done twice), azula being introduced too early + given too much screen time, the cave of two lovers being in s1 when it was a s2 episode— all of that is valid but the show can really be pointed out in two ways where they went downhill:

aang never waterbended once during a season where it is literally called book one: water.

yue’s wig.

#thats it #everything else can be fixed by the next season (hopefully) #there’s still hope #maybe #but these two things can never be undone and i wont forgive them for it #avatar the last airbender #aang #katara #sokka #zuko #prince zuko #azula #princess azula #uncle iroh #princess yue #toph beifong #atla #atla netflix #that’s rough buddy

[petricorah]

which zuko hairstyle is your fave? [id in alt]

#zuko #zuko fanart #zuko atla #zuko avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender fanart #avatar fanart #myart #this all started with me drawing short haired sokka but i got distracted and drew zuko's short hair and then it was all over #it was fun drawing them all. i wanna draw shorthaired zuko more #also drawing the one where iroh did his hairstyle was actually fun #not sure im gonna finish short haired sokka i feel like it only looks like him if it's beside his long hair version

[wileycap]

Crackfic Idea:

30-year-old Zuko gets randomly flung back in time to his 16-year-old self. For a couple of hours at a time. At the most random times imaginable. Imagine the potential.

Zuko assumes that it's a dream or a vision, but definitely not real. He tries not to freak everybody out too badly, but he's also fully enjoying himself and seeing all of his friends as their young selves.

ZUKO, as he and Aang circle each other at the South Pole: I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training, meditating. You're just a [Spirit Shwoop Sound] ... baby Aang!

AANG, confused: Well, more like preteen Aang. How do you know my name?

ZUKO, looking around: Wait, where are we?

AANG: Um... this is the-

SOKKA: Don't answer him! He's trying to get information out of you. You can't give away our location!

KATARA: Sokka, he's standing in the middle of our village. I think he knows.

ZUKO: We're here? This is so weird. I was just here for the Annual Penguin Race.

AANG: THERE'S AN ANNUAL PENGUIN RACE?!

ZUKO: Well, yeah, it was your idea... you gave a whole speech about cross-cultural cooperation and friendship, but I know you just wanted to go penguin sledding with a bunch of people...

AANG: Well, I-

SOKKA: Stop giving him more information! He already knows about the penguins!

Everybody else is confused, bewildered and even befuddled except for Iroh, who assumes that it's Spirit Shenanigans™️ and just fully accepts that his nephew likes tea and hugs and Pai Sho sometimes while being his usual shouty surly traumaball self at others.

ZUKO, stepping into the cabin: Hi, Uncle. I brought you some ginseng. How about a game of Pai Sho?

IROH, tearing up a little: I would love that, my nephew.

ZUKO: I wish we could do this more often, but you live so far away...

IROH, mentally calculating that he lives exactly three doors away from Zuko, and nodding sagely: The rat-viper may never climb the mountain that a hog-monkey can, but the monkey does not know what lies underneath it.

ZUKO, sighing sadly: I know, Uncle. I do appreciate my position in life, even if it has disadvantages.

IROH: Hmm. Your move, nephew.

The crew of Zuko's ship is terrified by the fact that whenever it happens, Zuko is somehow even more hyper-competent, seems to be weirdly calm about everything, and most unnervingly of all, he's polite.

SOLDIER: Here is a report on the best teahouses within three days travel of our current location, Sir. And, uh, Commander Zhao sent a messenger hawk.

ZUKO: Excellent. Thank you very much, Sergeant. I think we can ignore whatever Zhao has to say. In reply, I want you to send him a list of the most famous officers in Fire Nation history, and point out that none of them had sideburns. I want to see if he shaves them.

SOLDIER, sweating nervously: O-of course, Sir.

As a matter of fact, the whole fic could just be Zuko trolling Zhao. It would be glorious.

#atla #atla spoilers #atla fic #avatar the last airbender #crack fic #time travel #atla zuko #atla iroh #avatar aang #sokka #katara #zuko #atla zhao #iroh