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burst-of-iridescent · 4 months

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ana's meta masterlist

Pro-Zutara:

the official zutara dissertation: part 1 | part 2

zuko, aang and taking lightning for katara

zutara and romantic coding

"you rise with the moon, i rise with the sun" is a zutara line

zutara and thematic significance

zutara vs jetara

zutara parallels in the awakening

zutara's narrative culmination

zutara in the crossroads of destiny:

azula vs katara

love as resistance in the catacombs

zutara in the southern raiders:

the true source of katara's anger at zuko

katara bloodbending before zuko

the narrative relevance of zutara

zutara and bloodbending

zutara's narrative symmetry

why zuko had to betray katara in ba sing se

Anti Anti-Zutara:

the official zutara dissertation (p.3)

"zutara would face too much opposition from their countries"

"zuko and katara are a colonizer/colonized ship"

"zuko and katara would fight all the time”

"platonic zutara is better than romantic zutara"

"fire lady katara is racist"

“zuko would’ve taken lightning for anyone”

ATLA Ship Criticism:

the official zutara dissertation: part 4 | part 5 | part 6

why mai.ko was never intended to be canon

why mailee is a better ship than mai.ko

how kat.aang could've been fixed

kat.aang's lack of trust in the southern raiders

emotional labour in kat.aang

kat.aang’s narrative imbalance

comparing katara and aang's parenting

“the fortuneteller” does not foreshadow kat.aang

ATLA/LOK:

azula/katara parallels

katara's choice in the crossroads of destiny

was zuko's betrayal in-character?

zuko's comments in the southern raiders

zuko's comments in the southern raiders (pt. 2)

zuko is not a “bad boy”

sokka didn't feel inferior to katara

did mai fear azula?

comparing mai and toph

sexism in the water tribes

thoughts on the atla comics

gratuitous violence in the legend of korra

The Hunger Games:

zutara and everlark parallels

zutara and everlark parallels (pt. 2)

gale's arc in the hunger games trilogy

the myth of humanity's inherent evil

the ending of lucy gray

Squid Game:

individualism under capitalism

the ethics of billionaires

#zutara #anti kataang #anti maiko #zutara meta #been intending to do this forever but i'm on this hellsite so much that going through my archives took an eternity lmao #anyway here's a collection of patented ana rambles

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allgremlinart · 3 months

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"who would win Korra vs Aang" >:( they would NEVER fucking fight they would have fucking huggies they would hug each other very hard IDIOTS

#that being said. its Korra sorry youtube poll results. you are delusional #atla

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phosphorus-12 · 3 months

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I'm really sad bc imagine how everybody who knew Aang feels when they meet Korra.

Imagine Toph who really just wants to hear him ask her to show her that earthbending move 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘩 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦! And she'd give anything to hear him fall when he tries to dodge. Even as she laughs, or berates him for not doing it correctly, of course she'd help him, as many times as he needs to get it right. All she wants is to hear the unique rhythm of her friend's heartbeat just 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

Imagine Zuko who sees Korra and he wants to be with his friend again. Just talk to him once more about history, from the serious issue of figuring out what the Fire Nation had taught that was true vs false, to the traditions that the Air nomads had and the holidays and festivals in the Fire Nation that Sozin, Azulon, and Ozai had banned or canceled. He wanted to sit in comfortable silence with Aang one more time just watching the turtleducks wander around in the gardens. All he wants is to see him gently hold a baby turtleduckling just 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

Imagine Katara who wants to hold his hand while they walk through the beautiful forest, just together. She would do anything to see him again, even watch him do that 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 marble trick every day for the rest of her life, because it made him smile. All she wants is to see him smile just 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

One day, all three of them watch as Korra sees a little wood frog and picks it up with all his gentleness, and smiles the same smile. Then Toph senses Korra's heartbeat, gaining the courage for the first time to actually listen to it. She nearly cries when she realizes that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦.

#toph beifong #atla zuko #zuko #katara atla #katara #legend of korra #avatar korra #avatar aang #aang

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tourneys-by-me · 9 months

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Welcome to the Element Specific Character Tournament!

This is a tournament is to see which character that specializes in a specific element is the best!

There will be 10 different elements represented in this tournament, and they are:

Pyromancy (fire)

Aquamancy (water)

Aeromancy (wind, air)

Geomancy (earth)

Phytomancy (plants, vegetation)

Electromancy (lightning, electricity)

Cryomancy (ice)

Ferromancy (metals)

Umbramancy (darkness, shadows)

Luxomancy (light, holy)

There will be 10 different brackets to decide which characters of each element is the best of their respective elements. Then there will be a final showdown of all ten characters to see who is the best overall!

RULES

Be nice and respectful please. I don’t want any insults thrown at anyone.

Characters have to use the element that you submit it as (ex you submit Zuko as a fire character, not a water character).

If the character uses multiple elements, submit them under an element they’re best known for/most proficient at (ex Soren fire emblem can use multiple elemental tomes, but he is a wind mage and only he can use SS rank wind tomes).

You are allowed to submit as many characters as you want but it has to be one form at a time please.

No submitting the same character multiple times please.

Please specify where the character is from and please no acronyms!

Propaganda is allowed and encouraged but no anti-propaganda (aka character hate).

My time zone is EST and I won’t be active all the time to answer questions (sorry I got real life stuff to do).

There will be certain guidelines on certain characters and media (I’ll get into more detail later) this is because specific media can be weird on how they classify what power is what element. Especially with certain elements being more vague and loosey-goosey.

I don’t particularly mind who you submit as long as they stick to the guidelines, but I might have polls if I’m unsure about a certain character.

Anyways I’ll edit this post as it goes on if more questions are raised.

Elements, Characters, and Media clarifications

Do they have to be magical

Toph is going to be put as a geomancer. I know she invented metal bending but she’s better known as an earth bender and I don’t want her on both earth and metal brackets.

Since Aang is the avatar, he can use all four bending styles, but he started off as an air bender and the show is literally called “the last air bender” I’m going to put him under aeromancer.

Korra on the other hand, won’t be in this tournament at all. Even though she is apart of the water tribe, she doesn’t really have a bending style that’s she more attached to (I mean she was able to do three of the four bending styles much earlier than Aang).

Todoroki won’t be in this tournament. His fire and ice powers are basically on the same level of importance.

I’m going to in-act the same rule I did for Korra and Todoroki for characters like Kirby and Arceus. Just because they can do/become that element, doesn’t mean they are going to be in the tournament. Their whole shtick is they can be any type (arceus) or copy abilities (kirby).

The exception to this rule is Ben 10 with his alien forms. This is because the aliens will be considered as a representative of their species, since 1. people are more familiar with Ben’s names for the aliens 2. Not all alien species have an official canon name.

NO DEMON SLAYER CHARACTERS WHO USES THE BREATHING STYLES! The breathing styles aren’t actually summoning elemental powers, it’s a visual metaphor. Submit only those who can summon actual elements!

Both rock and ground type Pokémon will be considered geomancers

Umbramancy regarding dark and ghost type Pokémon

Luxomancy regarding psychic and fairy type Pokémon

Aeromancy regarding flying type Pokémon

Ferromancy and robots

Magnetism: Ferromancy vs Elctromancy

Why I am also calling Luxomancy “holy”

If the character is a god that doesn’t mean they are inherently a Luxomancer. They have to have something holy about their attacks.

Please don’t submit necromancers as umbramancers. Being able to raise the dead≠umbramancy, if the character can raise the dead ON TOP of general shadow/darkness manipulation they are allowed.

Have fun and let the submitting begin!

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atlaculture · 11 months

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Can I ask why you don't like the Avatar comics or is that too off-topic? I'm not judging you, I'm trying to decide whether to buy them or not.

To me, ATLA's strength was the simplicity of its story--- the genocidal empire must be stopped--- and its dedication to exploring the themes and questions that come with that kind of plot as thoroughly as a children's show could. Its episode count of 61 also gave it plenty of room to breathe. The story could explore themes, develop characters, and still have room for plenty of fun over the course of the series.

My main issue with the comics is that they set unreasonable expectations for themselves. Each comic has only three issues to explore really complex subjects that we still wrestle with in our world: de-colonization, geopolitics, national and ethnic identity, the limits of cultural preservation, industrialization vs environmentalism, exploitative labor practices, and wealth stratification.

Most adults can barely have nuanced and mature discussions on these issues, so it's basically impossible for a series of short children's comics to tackle these themes competently. The limitations of the format just leave the comics completely out of their depth. My problems with Korra also come from the same sort of structural issues.

On top of that, the complexity of these stories also results in characterizations being set aside. Our favorite characters don't have much time to breathe, so they come off as much flatter versions of themselves.

They're just not fun reads, in my opinion. This is why my favorite Avatar comic will always be "Relics", a one-shot. Because the actual plot is so basic, we have room for worldbuilding and characterization. We learn about the Air Nomads' culture, the Fire Nation's predatory tactics, and really get to feel Aang's yearning for his people and culture. And it manages to do all this in 10 pages.

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

#replies #I'm just not much of a story person I guess #It's the English major in me #I'm way more interested in characterization and worldbuilding

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tokyosmega · 11 months

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finished the rise of kyoshi, here's my word vomit about it:

SPOILERS AHEAD !

• i LOVE how they treated lightning !!! that's probably my favorite part. looking at how lighting is revered in kyoshi vs how its so mundane in korra is just . so cool ???

• the sapphic representation made me eternally happy <3 even though i could have done with more (i'm a romantic at heart) seeing kyoshi and rangi being soft and close was sooo sweet. the lgbt rep in avatar really makes me feel represented and i hope we can see it more on screen

• the worldbuilding around the pre-existing worldbuilding is so cool !!! the si wong tribal traditions, the deep politics of the earth kingdom, the reverence of yangchen and kuruk, i loved it all ! also, loved the little references to the show, like the cabbage jokes + the gan jin vs the zhangs

• the fights were amazing. there were a couple times when i couldn't really comprehend what was going on, but i think that might be because kyoshi's bending is just like that. they went in a direction that was far more graphic and brutal than the show, but i feel like that was completely vindicated because kyoshi lived a graphic and brutal life

• jianzhu was a REALLY interesting villain! the overarching theme of good vs evil within the avatar universe played well with him. he is a man that thinks only of the good that will come while doing evil deeds, and kelsang mirroring him as a man who thinks of the evil he is doing despite knowing it will be good in the end is really great. nice foiling avatar

• kyoshi's element training seemed to go a little fast for me, but that might be because aang took three seasons to master the elements. but i don't know, kyoshi going from being an inept bender to suddenly being proficient in everything with minimal training was a big jump, even though it took like 300 pages

• i LOVED kyoshi's origins !! her parents being daofeis + her mom being an air nomad was super unexpected but a great way for the story to go. it really helped set her avatar journey apart from korra and aang

• i fully subscribe to the theory that lao ge is guru pathik btw . also the fact that they couldn't find the avatar for multiple years and then just pointed at some guy and was like "yeah that's him" is HILARIOUS to me

ok that's all guys thanks for coming to my ted talk

#avatar #atla #avatar kyoshi #kyoshi #the rise of kyoshi #rangi #lao ge #kelsang #jianzhu #rangshi #book review #avatar the last airbender #tlok #the legend of korra #mega.exe

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yandere-avatar · 9 months

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Masterlist

I Guess I'm doing this

Updated: Feb. 25, 2024

TLOK

Korra

Yandere Korra Headcanons Yandere! Asami Sato vs Korra Headcanons Jealous Korra

Kya

Yandere Kya Headcanons

Tenzin

Yandere Tenzin Headcanons

Asami Sato

Yandere! Asami Sato vs Korra Headcanons

Opal Beifong

One-Sided Enemies

Suyin Beifong

Yandere Suyin Beifong Headcanons

Mako

Yandere Mako Headcanons

ATLA

Aang

Yandere Aang Headcanons I'm Not Obsessed The Woman with a New Face Letter to the Avatar Letter to my Lover Daughter and Father I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little Yandere GaAng Creepy Reader

Katara

Yandere Katara Headcanons I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little Yandere GaAng

Sokka

Yandere Sokka Headcanons Yandere Sokka & Suki Headcanons I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little Yandere GaAng

Azula

Yandere! Obsessive Azula Headcanons Siblings Never Get Along I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little Yandere Fire Nation Squad Yandere Headcanons

Zuko

Yandere Zuko Headcanons Siblings Never Get Along I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little Yandere Fire Nation Squad

Suki

Yandere Sokka & Suki Headcanons I'm not Jealous... Well Maybe a Little

Toph Beifong

Yandere Toph and Mei Headcanons Yandere Toph Headcanons Yandere GaAng

Mei

Yandere Toph and Mei Headcanons Yandere Fire Nation Squad

Ty Lee

Possessive Ty Lee Yandere Fire Nation Squad

#yandere avatar #atla #yandere atla #yandere avatar x reader #yandere tlok #tlok x reader #yandere the legend of korra #avatar the last airbender x reader #avatar the legend of korra #the legend of korra #yandere tlok x reader

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avatarshippingshowdown · 20 days

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ROUND 1, MATCH 14

#avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #atla #the legend of korra #tlok #korra #azaang #aang #avatar aang #azula #avatar korra #tenzin #animation #shipping #tournament #bracket #polls

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rwoh · 4 months

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Theory

The lack of linguistic diversity in AtLA is due to the fact that up until the start of the war, language was derived from the spirits and so forth. There is no linguistic miscommunication in the show. While usually literacy is more static in comparison to language, class and bending is not correlated, at least in the way that benders are not more likely to be higher class, they still enjoy an advantage over the non benders as shown in Korra. This means a lack of Latin Vs Vulgar Latin, in which the upper and lower class develop varying dialects until the Latin is no longer spoken or understood by the Vulgar Latin class. If bending is universal and connected to the spirits, and language is also connected to the spirits, then there is no linguistic evolution in this way.

When they go to the library, there is no worry that the Gaang, including Sokka and Katara, whom it would be assumed that due to their isolated upbringing would not have received a classical education, will not be able to read any of the entries to the library. This implies that the script used in the library has been static for its entire existence, and that learning the standard script most literate people read in the AtLA world is enough to read pretty much anything, including ancient documents. Aang, who would likely have received a more classic education in a temple, is not asked to interpret any old scripts at any point.

This is continued through the fact that Aang can read and understand everyone without comment of an accent whatever nation they pass through, and that most of the terms he uses and fails to be understood with are slang terms. If the war and a lack of balance had continued it is my theory that this would be a Babel type event, in which language would begin to diverge, but as language is derived from the spirits and their connection to them, language evolution is more stationary due to their immortal nature and their close interaction with them through bending and in daily life.

Maybe with the increase in technology this will also cause a Babel type event, but due to the increased connectivity, this may not occur.

Thoughts?

#atla #i have been thinking about this all day #I'm probably talking out myself lmao someone who knows about linguistics come tell me about their field

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bitchinstrawberry · 29 days

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Traditional benders vs sub benders

Imagine a world where all the subcategories of bending have become so common, that "pure" elemental bending has flipped over to being more rare. And we've already seen the potential of this. In the og atla lighting was rare (only the royal family was using it) and metal bending was just created, but in tlok both sub bendings were being thrown around like extra boomerangs.

We also saw how people adapted to their environments via sand bending and swamp/plant bending. Which poses the question, did sand benders learn "traditional" earth bending before sand? Or did they learn sand first, and would need to change tactics when asked to earth bend? Was there swamp benders who needed to learn how to move water independently? In atla the North Pole only taught healing to women, therefore there was a whole class of waterbenders that could heal, but not much else.

So by taking in real world experiences, where as groups of people mix in communities, and have kids with each other, cultures and identities get mixed and/or diluted down. (Not necessarily in a bad/evil way, but like how some parents put emphasis on their kids learning the new culture and end up neglecting their own cultural heritage). As the kids today might say, we are losing recipes, it could happen here too. We get the new age of benders, that struggle with learning "traditional" bending. Maybe this is following after a age of benders that "specialized" their bendings to a extreme.

Like if a few more generations in, Toph's family only knows how to metal bend. Some fire benders can't actually bend fire, only lightning. There are some communities where fire and earth nations got so intertwined, they only seem to produce lava benders. Generations down in katara and aangs family we get a self proclaimed cloud bender.

This could lead to a conflict where we have traditionalists that view subcategory benders as lesser than those who align with the original tradition bending. We could get a evil avatar out of this story line where from a young age the avatar is raised with these ideals but later gets their redemption (i could go on another messy rant how this is my favorite possibility) Reinforcing the lesson about how being open minded and learning from others with always improve yourself. Or a story line about how it's no longer just four elements the avatar is representing, and shows the lesson about how representation and understanding is still needed after every one got mixed in (because there could easily be 7+ decently sized, different, yet still comparatively niche, ways of bending/culture along with tons of smaller ways of life)

Another conflict that could happen is how rare "traditional" masters are, so that when it's time for the avatar to learn all four elements, it's become increasingly hard. Then we get to see the avatar and their friends learn bending from the original benders, and the lesson is along the lines of how it's still important to understand your roots, and while its impossible to know every fact about the past, the information should always be available to look back at. Maybe the villain is a organization that views "traditional" bending as dangerous and made people too unpredictable or it's a way to nerf civilians (bc a earth bender could potentially learn BOTH metal and lave bending, but preventing knowledge would keep metal and lava benders restricted to one subcategory)

I have so many half baked ideas that all stem from me wanting to see more of the subcategories of bending. And with all the talk about getting to see a new avatar, we've all been wondering what the story could be. I personally love how aang and korra contrasted each other. it doesn't leave much room narratively for a new avatar. BUT by continuing down the themes of how quickly the world has changed, we already saw people questioning the need for a avatar. This also ties in to the ending of tlok, where the avatar cycle has been restarted. A perfect time to introduce a change of duty.

#avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #atla #tlok #I've read zero percent of the comics #so plz be polite if you want to correct anything #my knowledge on how subcategories of bending work could very well be based off a wrong assumption i made as a kid #if you hated this treat it like a fun lil what if #if you love it plz share ur own ideas w me

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 3 months

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avaetar · 3 days

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"aang vs korra" this — "x is the stronger avatar" that ... anyways.... this would be aang and korra

#ALL THE FORTNITE MEMES ARE SO SILLY THEY'RE SO DUMB #but no fr begging people on twt and tiktok to stop pitting them against each other PLEASE #CANT WE JUST LOVE BOTH OF THEM #* ▍ °•°•❈•°•°• : [ ooc ] .

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Exclusive: Avatar Studios' slate will consist of a new animated movie AND show debuting every year starting in 2025, including the adult Gaang movie and new earth Avatar show in 2025, and the now RE-CONFIRMED ZUKO MOVIE and KYOSHI MOVIE, both now UNDATED

Here’s the followup to yesterday’s big news that a new animated series following the next earth Avatar after Aang & Korra is coming in 2025.

Today, we can provide a more complete picture of the long-term animated slate and some specific updates to previous projects we reported on.

First: the big picture. Starting in 2025, Avatar Studios will release an animated movie to theaters AND an animated show on Paramount+ every year.

The current animated slate is concretely planned to cover the first three years (2025-2027) but there are more projects than slots in development so it will likely continue beyond that as well if the franchise is as successful as we all obviously hope it is, which we’ll get to.

Here’s an idea of what I’m talking about:

2025

Animated movie: adult Gaang - 10.10.2025

Animated show: next earth Avatar

2026

Animated movie

Animated show

2027

Animated movie

Animated show

This is the exact information I have right now from Paramount, what I don’t know is whether the shows will be cumulative, i.e. whether 2026 will have Season 2 of the earth Avatar show AND Season 1 of the 2026 show. I do know that the 2025 show and 2026 show are two different things, so either the 2025 earth Avatar show will be a one-year limited series, or 2026 will have both and 2027 will potentially have all three. (I will say the 2026 show is NOT a mainline entry in the franchise. Bryke said they were exploring different mediums, styles, audiences, and this one is more of a side thing, so I’m personally guessing the earth Avatar show will continue, but that’s just my guess. I haven’t been given permission to share any of the 2026 or 2027 shows/movies yet.)

Onto some more specific things I can share...

The Zuko movie still exists and is separate from the adult Gaang movie

So glad I could finally sort this one out. For a long time it’s been unclear whether the “project with a Zuko-focused story” and the adult Gaang movie were the same thing or not. I can now say that the newest info I’ve gotten from Paramount is that they’re two separate movies. It’s fairly safe to assume that the Zuko movie is still second in the slate, meaning 2026, but without 100% hard evidence I’m gonna call it undated for now, which in this case means maybe 2026, maybe 2027, maybe post-2027.

The Kyoshi movie still exists and is now undated

So we arrive at the big confusion, which I will address in depth below. 😂 But first I wanted to say that based on new info shared with me, a Kyoshi movie definitely was one of the earlier projects in the works earlier this year. Based on the wider picture of the slate I have now, it seems that it has been delayed to outside of the first-three-years slate and is now undated, which in this case means actually undated and post-2027.

(Source for Kyoshi movie *update*: DanielRPK)

(I haven’t heard anything new about Korra stuff in a while so I don’t have an *update*, but I strongly assume she’ll still have movies and/or shows at some point post-2025.)

So there you have it! We now know the cadence of Avatar Studios’ slate is one movie and show per year, and we know both the movie and show for the first year. We also know some of the other projects without certain dates yet.

If you’re just here for the news, that’s what I got for you today. If you’re interested in a long, super nitty-gritty explanation of the whole “Kyoshi movie first” mistake from earlier this year, a mystery I mercifully FINALLY solved thanks to yesterday’s and today’s news, read on!

Finally an explanation for the Kyoshi movie debacle from earlier this year

With the new info I learned and shared yesterday, I finally got the last piece of the puzzle explaining what happened with the whole Kyoshi movie vs Aang movie mistake I made earlier this year.

I’m doing this because I was wondering what happened as much as everyone else, because I would never lie or make something up and have no reason to and no desire to, and I can finally give you an exact play-by-play of what went wrong.

Here’s how it all went down:

1) Avatar News on May 16: “Animated Avatar prequel and Zuko theatrical films in development”

Entirely innocuous, I never said any dates or orders, just that these were two of the projects in development. One thing I want to clear up here is that I never said that they were only working on these two or that they were only working on two at all, just that two of the many projects happened to be these. So the fact that they later publicly said they’re currently planning on releasing three is completely orthogonal to this post, I never said how many they were doing, just... at LEAST two, because we knew of two.

2) Avatar News on June 17: “Paramount and Avatar Studios’ slate of animated Avatar movies coming to theaters: Kyoshi (2024), Zuko (2025), Korra (2026)”

Obviously where it went wrong, but we didn’t know it yet.

So this is what happened.

By June 16th, I had publicly said

A prequel movie was in development

A Zuko movie was in development

Privately, me and my sources knew, but I didn’t have permission to post publicly:

An Aang-era movie was in development

A Korra-era movie was in development

The first movie was targeting a 2024 release

The second movie was targeting a 2025 release

The Zuko movie was definitely the second movie

All of this was directly from Paramount, none of it was a guess in any way.

We didn’t know how many movies total were currently planned or what the first was. We didn’t know whether the Aang-era movie and Zuko movie were the same. We didn’t know if the prequel movie was the same as anything else either.

On June 17th, Avatar Studios announced that they were working on three movies. This meant that we knew the second movie but not the first and the third.

They also released a teaser for their first project exclusively for attendees of the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. I spoke to one of the audience members (an Avatar fan that already followed me, which is quite common because of how big my accounts are, ffs this is not a conspiracy lol) and they told me what the teaser contained (which is explained in post 2). The main takeaway: they told me it ended on the earthbending symbol. I also had no reason to distrust them as they were a public-facing journalist invited to the festival.

So with all this new info out, I reached out to my sources to see if we could put together what the three movies were (specifically, what the first and third were).

That day, the main new thing I got confirmed was a certain movie in development: a Kyoshi movie (which was probably what the “prequel” movie was, but that was never really a point of controversy).

So we now knew:

A) First-year movie B) First-year earth element project C) Kyoshi movie in development

These were incorrectly conflated into one thing during this game of telephone:

First-year (A+B) Kyoshi (B+C) movie (A+C)

So there you have it... a really boring, mundane explanation lol. I apologize for incorrectly conflating them and thus believing Avatar Studios’ first project was a Kyoshi movie. BUT. At the time it was not spelled out literally as easy as ABC, it was lots of small bits of information from different sources in different contexts. Another really important thing to note is that it would have been nearly impossible for Avatar Studios to make more than one project by 2024, so we assumed there could only be one in the first year, which psychologically made it the natural human outcome for all info about first-year projects to be treated as one first-year project.

I also want to note that I was aware of all this which is why I said very clearly in the post that the order and dates of the projects could change. It was still fact that a Kyoshi movie was in development, a Zuko movie was in development, and a Korra movie was in development. The dates were also fact (well, 2024 and 2025 were, 2026 was a preeetty safe assumption).

And now I’ve explained why the subject of the first movie was wrong, which I only myself finally figured out yesterday with that new info, so I’m personally really glad the mystery was finally resolved.

3) Avatar News on July 22: “Breaking from SDCC: The first Avatar Studios movie coming to theaters in 2024 will no longer be about Kyoshi, but rather Aang! And, exclusive from Avatar News: it will be set in a time period where Team Avatar are young adults!”

Avatar Studios publicly announced the subject of the first movie at SDCC, contradicting my June 17 post.

I always knew the schedule could change so I didn’t really think this was a huge deal. Keep in mind that they literally had a teaser with the earthbending symbol a month earlier. I assumed that in that month the plan had just changed.

At some point between June 17 and July 22, I also learned that the Gaang would be adults in their first Avatar Studios appearance. This gave me the PERFECT place to announce that, and I want to point out that as of today that’s STILL an Avatar News exclusive that hasn’t been contradicted. The official statement is just that it’s “Aang and his friends”. Them being (young) adults is not official and comes only from Avatar News.

4) Avatar News on November 10: “BREAKING: Avatar Studios’ first animated movie, featuring Aang and Team Avatar as young adults, hits theaters on October 10th, 2025”

This was publicly officially announced in the film industry.

As I mentioned before, the launch year target of 2024 was directly from Paramount, I didn’t guess it or make it up (which I also said in the original post!).

Movies take a long time to make so it’s no conspiracy that by the time they made a public announcement the release date was one year later than their earlier internal estimates.

5) Avatar News on December 22: “Exclusive: The next Avatar animated series, featuring the earth Avatar after Aang & Korra, is coming in 2025 from Paramount and Avatar Studios”

and

6) Avatar News on December 23: “Exclusive: Avatar Studios' slate will consist of a new animated movie AND show debuting every year starting in 2025, including the adult Gaang movie and new earth Avatar show in 2025, and the now RE-CONFIRMED ZUKO MOVIE and KYOSHI MOVIE, both now *UNDATED*.”

(You’re reading 6 right now lol.)

FINALLY it all came together.

Their plan is one movie and show every year. This will start in 2025 and it makes complete sense they wouldn’t be able to do two projects by 2024.

We’ve known about the first-year movie since July (adult Gaang), now we know that the first-year show is the next earth Avatar.......... which explains the teaser at Annecy with an earth symbol, and the domino effect that caused everything I explained in section 2 above.

Once again, I’m glad this mystery was finally solved and that anyone who cares is satisfied by the explanation, I know it was insanely satisfying for me to finally get that last piece of the puzzle yesterday!

To any troopers who made it this far, thanks for reading, thanks for supporting Avatar News, and get hype for all the cool projects on their way in the years to come! :)

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