#kind of atla

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

#baked bean originals #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #sokka #before i watched the show everyone told me he was such a silly guy but he had the biggest stick up his ass #he acted like a miserable babysitter the entire season #while katara was busy being a revolutionary and aang was busy being a silly guy or the avatar #yeah i kind of ember island ified aang here but it's for the bit

[mountainshroom]

Tried using watercolours :) not too proud but im learning slowly

#aang would absolutely shred a wooden flute #i accidentally drew on a wrong kind of paper on the first pic.. #so the paper is very wobbly now :( sigh #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #avatar aang #zuko #prince zuko #watercolor #art #my art #fanart

[bonksoundeffect]

The Boiling rock in a nutshell

Y'know, this was supposed to be posted next week but I've decided that gay month deserves to start out a lil fruity

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #zukki #zuko #sokka #suki #fanart #while i dont really ship zukki specifically i still find it very compelling and also hilarious #i kind of wanted to post kyoshi and rangi art but ive not had the time to finish it 😔

[petricorah]

thankfully, he didn't get it [id in alt]

#zukka #zukka fanart #zukka comic #zuko #sokka #zuko fanart #sokka fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #this has been in my wips since like APRIL and before i started the new year i wanted it DONE lol #i have no many more projects to work on for the next year #and im so excited to share them! #thank you all so much for your kind words and support this year <3 #myart

[venator-signum]

I always see the "sunshine" character reduced to someone who is simply happy and bubbly all the time and I was thinking about how I wanted a sunshine character who is sunshine but because they choose to be - because they wake up every day and choose kindness

and then I remembered aang exists and that want has been filled

#rosi shitposts #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #atla aang #hes the best boy #hes been through so much #so much trauma and guilt and anger that he could have taken out on the world and on zuko in particular #but he didnt #he offered and chose friendship love and kindness every time #he defeated ozai as an air nomad and according to what HE thought was right not anybody else #aang supremacy

[mugentakeda]

kataang for @malignacht

#the first of what will soon be more. amen. more kataangs to come..... #kataang #katara #aang #tw blood #<-well. kind of. idk. #atla #avatar the last airbender #alicias art

[bryverros]

#warm up doodles gone long (spent like 7 hours on this lmao??? worth every second :D) #i got kind of carried away because cleaning up sketches is very convenient when watching something because i lose track of whatvevers going #on less #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla fanart #katara #sokka #ceesar(t)

[bellwethers]

It’s suki!

#I’m playing ghost of Tsushima and I’m kind of obsessed with samurai armour atm #I’m assuming the Kyoshi warriors are samurai inspired anyways #but forgive me if I’m wrong #kind of want to draw her more … #also I’m obsessed with tabi shoes.. #I’m going to draw her more… #I love her #if she isn’t in the new movie I’ll throw up #atla suki #suki #suki avatar #atla #atla fanart #fanart #avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender

[llmsos]

Mamas Boy off

#jason todd #red hood #dc #batman #jason todd fanart #robin dc #my art #zuko #atla #atla fanart #prince zuko #atla zuko #they r so similar #in some ways #anger controlling them because they don’t know how to rely on anything else #and when they did it ended in their demise #children born of war #wanting to prove themselves to their fathers #auch #fire #their love and kindness from their mother

[emkini]

AZULA GET BACK HERE-

Any fire siblings concept that gives them this vibe is an automatic favorite 

#do NOT tag this as ship I will sic azula on your ass #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #fire siblings #comic #em draws #atla fanart #I like the idea that Azula is Zuko's passive-aggressive court behavior translator #Zuko: So like. did it seem like that noble was being kind of a dick? #Azula: Currently I have a private investigation underway to uncover an assassination plot I believe he is spearheading #Zuko: Ah

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

So we all agree that Sokka has a huge crush on the blue spirit right

#zukka #zuko x sokka #atla #zukka fanart #kind of blue inspired #because that fic was 90% of my personality for a month #I’m experimenting with new art styles every 3-5 business days

[thatssroughbuddy]

I feel like the first thing Sokka would do after the war would be to go hunt for his space sword. It landed on land, right? It’s made of space rock and it’s his favorite thing. There’s no doubt in my mind he’d be out there hobbling in that crazy terrain on his busted leg trying to find that thang

#Aang would fly over on Appa and be like are you SURE you don’t want help??? #and Sokka would be like no I’m sure I got this and then would scream bc he heard some kind of noise #and then him and Aang and Appa would find it together #gaang #avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #aang

[chiptrillino]

...older Fire Lord Zuko with a sheer top and his tits out you say?

ID: three drawings of aged-up zuko from Avatar the last airbender as fire lord. on the left side a full body of zuko front view. In the middle, zuko from the waist up leaning over a cluttered table growling and spitting flames at the viewer. In the third image on the right, zuko from the waist up sits bored and exhausted in his chair. cluttered desk and paperwork in front of him. End ID

I probably did advertise the sheer top wrong! it's more like a robe! just… a bit seethrough… because… you know… self-indulgence…? for me… ? for us? (yes he only has one lense in his his glasses becasue we in the fandom just know why!)

art-blog: chiptrillino-art

#chip!ask #chip!art #zuko #atla #fire lord zuko #me finishing art??? uhm... maybe? idk #listen sometimes you need to like... just go by vibes because you have to get it out of your system.... #and you don't feel like fact checking if this is accurate or not you just saw it thought it was preatty kind of fit and went with it #that... that is the result of that... -sweats- #and then you kind of like it a lot.... #also fight me i refuse to give him a propper top knot! #it will always be messy... some how... this guy is just a mess... fight me! #the loser lord #said apriciative #i was vary close to give him just a monikel but i didn't know how to attach it #also glasses gaang yaiiiii

[your-royal-momoness]

Zuko, hungover: please tell me I’m imagining that I claimed I was the king of all the turtleducks

Sokka: I would, but then I’d be lying to the King of All Turtleducks

#turtleducklord strikes again! #you can’t tell me that Zuko isn’t the kind of drunk to just SOB over how cute things are #like turtleducks #or Druk #or Sokka - it’s how they get together #Zuko and Sokka are catching up and they get drunk and Zuko thinks he’s finally got enough courage to tell Sokka he likes him #so he starts waxing poetic about Sokka to his face #but actually #Zuko is very drunk #and he’s really just incoherently crying about how beautiful Sokka is and squishing his cheeks #still works tho #zukka #sokka #zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #trashbending

[comradekatara]

I am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #azula #art #mart #not sure whether to tag this modern au bc the suit is symbolic #but oh what the hell #modern au #i have a similar illustration of asami and considered putting them side by side as a diptych #but yknow what I’ll post that one separately #this art is kind of old lol i can’t believe i forgot to post it #i need to organize my illustration folder better lmfao #anyway… babygirl <3

[ecoterrorist-katara]

Zutara, romance novels, and the female gaze

Okay so I’ve been thinking about the female gaze a LOT so I checked out a subreddit about romance novels, despite never having read one. I came across this meme (which was initially a Tumblr post and then got posted to Instagram and then to Reddit and I’m now bringing back to Tumblr — Internet telephone, pls never change):

And…what is The Southern Raiders, if not a platonic grovel? Katara’s pain is central to the episode. It’s central to Zuko. Zuko asks Katara what he can do to make up for his betrayal; she demands the impossible. He reads between the lines, cockblocks her brother to get the necessary information, and then waits outside her door overnight (which he also did for Iroh, the one person we know for sure he loves). He basically makes himself a receptacle for her rage, and he holds space for her by coming with her on her revenge quest and carrying their bags and not saying a damn thing about what she should and should not do beyond like…asking her to rest. And obviously the grovel works! She forgives him and then they’re thick as thieves, bantering and fighting and saving each other’s lives, etc.

On a different note, I’ve been told that enemies to lovers is one of the biggest tropes in romance novels, similar to YA lit and fanfic. Here’s something else I found in the romance novel discourse:

And…yeah. In TSR, Katara really does show Zuko her worst self, because she doesn’t feel the need to perform for him. She doesn’t feel the need to perform moral perfection OR cold blooded vengeance. She bloodbends in front of him and he just goes with it. She doesn’t kill Yon Rha and he just goes with it. He doesn’t treat her any differently afterwards. Maybe they talk about it off screen, but I kind of like the idea that they don’t, because Katara doesn’t need to explain anything. And it’s so interesting, because some people in the ATLA fandom have a totally different read on TSR. They think Zuko was encouraging Katara to get revenge (by what, keeping his mouth shut?), and that Aang is the one who acts as her moral compass. I believe that either Bryan or Mike said in the DVD commentary that Aang is the angel on her shoulder the entire time. And this interpretation does make sense if you see it from the male gaze, where Katara as an object of affection is acting in an angry, irrational, threatening way. But if you see it from the female gaze, you recognize that actually it’s probably the most emotionally taxing experience Katara has to go through, and she doesn’t owe it to be nice or perfect to anybody. Katara’s formative trauma literally comes to a head, and she has to make a decision — no, a discovery — about who she is in relation to the tragedy that defines her life and even her identity (as a waterbender, as a parentified child who becomes the mom friend, as a genocide victim), and she’s accompanied by someone who trusts her judgement and validates her feelings.

I’m not saying TSR is explicitly romantically coded, but when it conforms so well to romance novel tropes…is it any wonder that so many people thought “yes this is her man?” And then he takes lightning in the heart for her and reaches for her when he’s literally dying, I will never be normal about that either

#Zutara #Katara #Zuko #the southern raiders #Pro zutara #anti Bryke #I guess #I swear I’m not a Bryke anti but I feel like they just don’t get #The female gaze #and the fact that Zutara is so female gaze is kind of an accident and I find that fascinating #atla fandom critical #The southern raiders turned me into a Zutara shipper #one ep away from the finale #Zutara meta #My meta