#meng avatar

[the-air-nomad]

A predestined match

You were one of Toph's students and also one of her best friends. 

So when the Gaang decided to take a trip to Makapu Village for Aunt Wu to read Zuko, Suki and Toph's future, you were invited. 

You didn't have high expectations but you liked to laugh at Sokka. It was clear that he hated that village with all his heart.

You arrived in Makapu in the evening and camped in the forest, and the next morning you set off for Aunt Wu's house. 

She was happy to see Aang and Katara again and to meet the rest of you but she wasn't too happy to see Sokka again. 

You laughed seeing how much hatred the two looked at each other and accidentally bumped into someone.

 You apologized and helped the girl up from the floor. 

You looked at each other blushing but were interrupted by Suki who was impatient to know her future.

While Aunt Wu was reading Suki's future, Meng brought you snacks. She congratulated Aang and Katara on their new relationship and winked at Aang. Aang blushed and Sokka chuckled. 

You, Toph and Zuko started talking about superstitions and the supernatural. Although Zuko fully believed that there were signs foreshadowing certain events, you and Toph were skeptical. 

your debate was interrupted by Meng who complimented your big ears which made you blush.

 Your friends started to laugh heartily. 

You thanked the girl for the original compliment and complimented her hair. She blushed and started playing with her tails. 

You chuckled, in your defense the girl did seem cute. 

You invited her to sit next to you. 

While Aunt Wu was reading your friends' fortunes, you continued to talk to Meng.

Finally it was your turn. 

Aunt Wu said you picked the love bone. You threw it into the fire, and the fire rose up to near the roof, which worried you a little.

 Aunt Wu looked at the flames with a frown and told you that you recently met your future wife, that she is not a bender but has a gift given by the spirits. 

When you left the room, you noticed that Aang was helping Meng spy on you.

You rolled your eyes at their silly excuses. 

You looked at Meng with an evil grin and told her that a future fortune teller should be able to guess what's going on in the room without spying.

 And then it hit you. 

Meng had received the gift of fortune-telling from the spirits and you had met her today. 

Meng blushed and told you stammering that she knew it was you since she saw your ears. 

Aang ran off to tell the others and you asked her out trying to look disinterested.

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#meng #meng avatar #avatar #Avatar The Last Airbender #aang #gaang #xreader #avatar x reader #aunt wu #katara #katara x aang #kataang #Zuko #suki #sokka #toph #toph beifong #reader #earthbender reader #metalbender reader #atla #atla x reader #meng x reader

[longing-for-rain]

Wired Different — Chapter 4

Zutara, post-canon politics, rated M (warnings in fic)

“The Fire Lord and Lady share everything in marriage,” Zuko says proudly, breaking the silence. “Including the crown. Any proposition you have for me will be heard by Fire Lady Katara as well.”

Kei Lo swallows and looks at Zuko with a faint frown, as if it’s taking every ounce of self-control he has to prevent him from showing his true colors—the ones he showed Katara before.

Read on AO3

#zutara #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #zuko #meng x kei lo #fanfic #mine #fan art #fic: wired different

[electricsoul-rpg]

Meng Ziyi (孟子义) - Han Chinese

as Wen Qing in The Untamed (陈情令)

#meng ziyi #meng ziyi avatars #cdrama #the untamed #wen qing #chen qing ling #cql #陈情令 #孟子义 #chinese fc #period fc

[raj0n]

#meng ziyi #avatars #avatars 200x320 #tumblr rpg #icons girls

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

FIRST KISS: 100 Drabble Challenge

Summary: First kisses mean different things for different people. Here’s a look at some of our favorite Bender’s (and Non-Benders) first kisses with each other.

Each chapter will be a single drabble for a single  ship. I am not including canon ships in this because we saw those happen in the show. (Ex. Sukka, Kataang, etc.)  

Chapter 74

Rating: Mature

Chapter Characters: Smellerbee, Meng

Chapter Pairing: Smellerbee/Meng

Tags: Fluff

#avatar the last airbender #atla #Smellerbee/Meng #Smellerbee #meng #the muse writes #first kiss 100 drabble

[ljf613]

For character bingo: Meng from ATLA

Honestly, it took me a minute or two to remember who Meng even was.

She seems like a character it would be fun to tease?

Ask me about a character

#avatar the last airbender #thoughts #character bingo #meng #ask me stuff #she exists #thanks for the ask! #all queued up

[increasingly-verbose-quotations]

[...] and you’ve got some pretty big ears, don’t you?

Meng, Avatar: The Last Airbender [imdbid-tt0417299], S1:E14, 6m:10s

#avatar the last airbender #meng

[firelxdykatara]

I actually really don't want to hear anything about how 'overcoming misogyny' is a major theme in Avatar: the Last Airbender when "The Fortuneteller" exists and the ultimate thesis of that episode, in the context of the show as a whole, is that if a girl is in unrequited love, it's cringe and kinda pathetic and she should move on cause the boy will never want her; but if a boy is in unrequited love, he just needs to be patient and wait for the girl he wants to come around cause he's a hero and how could she not?

Its secondary thesis is that you need to make your own destiny and not rely on someone else's words to tell you what your life has in store...if you're a BOY; if you're a girl then what the fake psychic told you will actually determine your ENTIRE life even if you are only fourteen years old.

Meng's existence really would have been the final nail in the coffin for Kataang even if the arc of the ship in Book 3 weren't so abhorrent to me personally (sorry but I have higher standards for romantic relationships than 'the girl is completely oblivious to the boy's advances for the entire show, is actively distressed when those advances become more pronounced, and then her feelings are resolved completely off screen between episodes so that the boy can get his prize in the end')--because her relationship with Aang is deliberately paralleled to Aang's relationship with Katara, and yet Meng, the one-off character, learns a lesson which Aang is quite literally told he must learn in the Book 2 finale... but he never ever does.

Aang has an entire season to internalize that lesson and come to terms with it--that maybe she doesn't have feelings for me and that's ok because I still love and care about her and that's enough--but he never even comes close. His possessive attachment to her gets worse, culminates in the EIP kiss, and Katara just capitulates because we're meant to believe that she went through the entire development of her romantic feelings for the love of her life off-screen between the penultimate episode and the four-part finale.

This was misogynistic even in 2008, and the idea that the show truly had anything meaningful to say about sexism/misogyny when uncritical and unchecked misogyny was baked into its very DNA (assuming we're meant to agree with Brychael that Kataang is 'in the DNA of the show) is just laughable to me. When it comes to 'overcoming misogyny' the show doesn't actually say anything more profound than 'girls can fight too!!!!!'

And that wasn't good enough for me then, it certainly isn't good enough for me today.

#atla #k*taang salt #salt for ts #bryke salt #atla salt #really just sick of the notion that atla was actually great about misogyny and it's so terrible if the live action does away with some of i #atla actually kind of sucked about misogyny for anyone who is older than a young child and more capable of reading between the lines #long post

[starlight-bread-blog]

The Fortune in The Fortune Teller

This is an isolated look into this specific episode.

The Fortune Teller is the 14th episode of book 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It is famous for supposedly developping the show's romantic subplot between Katara and A\ang. The episode does two things: A\ang attempts to flirt with Katara, and Katara is finally willing to consider him as more than just a friend.

However, I believe that this episode could have masterfully foreshadowed the pair not getting together in the end. In this essay I will detail how each step the episode takes towards a Kat@ang endgame is actually foreshadowing the opposite.

1. Katara and the Nature of Destiny

In the beginning, the Gaang meets a person getting attacked by a bear. He is acting incredibly passive, simply dodging the bear's attemps at his life. Then, A\ang and Appa interfere to help the man. When the Gaang questions him on why he was so passive, he says it's because the Fortune Teller told him he'd have a safe journey. They then have the following exchange:

The man's logic is obviously flawed. If the Gaang didn't interfere, if the man continued to passivaly dodge, the bear would have attacked him. Fortune and destiny come from agency – from actively shaping them.

However, Katara is delaited at the prospect of seeing the future. Her and the Gaang go to meet the Fortune Teller, Aunt Wu. Aunt Wu tells her she'll marry a very powerful bender. Later, she comes back asking more details about her future husband. Remember her excitment, fantacising about her future husband:

After that, Katara becomes somewhat reliant on Aunt Wu's prophecies. She goes as far as to ask her what she should eat.

And she obeys her "prophecy", despite not wanting to. She became like the man from the beginning. She knowingly follows the fortune even though it doesn't make sense. She had given up on forging her own destiny.

Although by the end of the episode, she is no longer in this state of reliance, she still believes in the prophecies. Then, Sokka says that A\ang is a very powerful bender. This reminds her of what Aunt Wu said about her future husband. I don't want to cherry pick, so I took 4 different pictures of her face when she realizes A\ang might be the powerful bender she is to marry:

With the look in her eyes, with her mouth tilted down and with the ominous music, this could easily be read as disappointment. Especially when remembering how she fantacized about the powerful bender earlier in the episode. She doesn't smile, but looks concerned. As if she doesn't want this. Earlier in the episode, she says this:

A\ang is like the papaya. The fortune says he's right for her, but Katara doesn't want him. Now, she isn't like the man, passively dodging the bear attacking her. She shouldn't sit and wait for the prophecy to come true point blank. She has the agency to shape her own destiny and not to choose A\ang as her future husband.

2. A\ang, Meng, and First Crushes

In this episode we're introduced to a girl named Meng. Aunt Wu told her she'd end up with someone like A\ang, and so she developped a one sided crush on him. Throughout the episode she attempts to talk to him, all to no avail. Because A\ang is not interested in her.

Interestingly, her one sided crush is directly paralleled to A\ang's crush on Katara.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

Please note that in exhibits B and C in particular, there is an emphasis on the other party not reciprocating their feelings.

In this parallel the show draws, A\ang is Meng, the younger, shorter one the one who is in love; and Katara is A\ang, the older, taller one who... *checks notes*... doesn't reciprocate.

But in the end, A\ang and Meng have a heart-to-heart.

Sometimes you'll like someone, and they aren't going to feel the same way, and even though it's hard, it's okay. They're young, just kids having a crush. A\ang responds to this with "I know what you mean". Because he, just like the audience that watched the parallels, knows that Katara likely doesn't return his feelings.

———————

In conclusion, The Fortuneteller could have been brilliant foreshadowing to Kata\ang not being the endgame couple, and it would have done so through beautiful, mature lessons about first loves and destiny. Thank you for reading.

#anti kataang #zutara #atla critical #anti anti zutara #pro zutara #zutara analysis #zutara evidence #zutara forever #zutara meta #zutara nation #zutara should have been canon #zutar #zutara supremacy #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #katara #meng

[comradekatara]

for tbe atla people who has had in-universe fanfiction written about them (along the lines of tina belcher who came from bobs burger belcher)

your asks are always so strange (both in content and wording) that I end up having to read them like 5 times before I can begin to parse them. anyway I love that you cite tina belcher instead of just. rpf. like the literal terminology for this phenomenon that we do very much have at our disposals. so I even can’t tell if you’re asking “who would have rpf written about them” (which also presumably differs from historical fiction about past avatars or smth like that) and “who would write freaky friend fiction (like tina)?” i’m gonna go with the latter bc it’s way funnier.

i think that girl meng would definitely have written some….things…..about aang, iykwim. zombie apocalypse au, enemies to lovers, there was only one bed, etc etc.

i can also just kind of see jin doing this (abt lee from the tea shop or otherwise) i can’t explain it she just has fujoshi vibes. like, whenever ppl talk about how jin, zuko, and jet should have all been friends in ba sing se, i’m usually like “uhh… why tho….” but now i see why. it’s so that she could write jetko rpf about them.

for therapeutic purposes mai probably writes a lot of really cathartic short stories about her entire family, the entire royal family, and ty lee all falling into a sinkhole. but then mai saves ty lee from drowning at the last minute, which teaches ty lee to appreciate her instead of that stupid sinkhole bitch azula (this is all pre boiling rock, obviously).

at one point mai and sokka find a notebook of really angsty fanfiction about the blue spirit and they’re like, “oh my god this is amazing we gotta show this to zuko, he’ll get a kick out of this,” not realizing that zuko actually wrote it himself as a way to work through his identity crisis. he’s just like, “yeah….wow….so cringey, right? but also, kind of incredible how this writer articulates the struggle of the bisected self in extremis so beautifully……right? you guys think so too?” and sokka and mai just look at each other and silently go, “okay…. we may have made a mistake…..”

when katara was a child she would make up stories in her head about finding the avatar and befriending him and having him fall in love with her due to her courage and beauty and (hopefully, someday) waterbending talent and they would defeat the firelord together and live happily ever after. but thankfully she never wrote any of this down, because paper is a very scarce commodity in the southern water tribe and even she knows better than to invoke gran gran’s wrath on that. she never tells aang. although at some point (in sworn secrecy) she does end up telling zuko (assuming that he’d understand considering he also devised fantasies of finding the avatar to cope with his miserable existence), and he laughs for hours.

during their time together in the nwt, yue’s diary gets filled with all kinds of lurid fantasies of sokka killing hahn (in increasingly brutal ways) and sneaking her out of the palace so that she can join team avatar and they can be together forever. of course, whenever they talk about it, she’s just like “yes I love hahn he is great and I love my people and I would never leave my home” so sokka’s just like “okay girl you do you.” but then during the siege, yue actually sees sokka kill a man, and she’s suddenly so conflicted because all her self-indulgent fantasies were a bit too real (and in reality, he’s way more efficient about killing people than he was in her fantasies, almost like he’s done it before….) and she has no clue how to feel about it. anyway, thankfully, yue has learned how to hide her diary really well at this point, because if arnook ever found those particular pages he would’ve tracked down sokka and killed him without hesitation.

ok bonus follow up to the fujoshi jin writing jetko rpf au: eventually they find it (or maybe she’s bold enough to just straight up give it to them. you know what, she might be) and read it. jet’s like, “uhhh…. jin….. i’m not gay. you know that, right?” (he’s actually been hitting on her for… a while now…) and zuko’s like, “okay well i might be. BUT NOT FOR HIM!!!”

#bigpansy #asks #you always get me to write the darndest things #I don’t even know how to tag this #the gaang and #but not really? #meng #jin #jet #zuko #mai #ty lee #sokka #katara #yue #arnook #mai&sokka #maixtylee #sokkaxyue #katara&zuko #tis the thing itself! #(sorry jetko truthers) #(you know I had to do it to em)

[justsomeguypoll]

After much deliberation, here they are... the contestants competing for the title of "Just Some Guy Of All Time"!

On the left side of the bracket, we have:

Connecticut Clark (Flork of Cows) vs. Molly Grue (The Last Unicorn)

Bow (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Paul Matthews (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals)

Gordon Freeman (Half-Life/HLVRAI) vs. Hughie Campbell (The Boys)

Makoto Naegi (Danganronpa) vs. Mishima Yuuki (Persona 5)

Arthur Dent (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) vs. Camila Noceda (The Owl House)

Mumen Rider (One Punch Man) vs. Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)

Ethan Winters (Resident Evil) vs. Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)

On the right side of the bracket, we have:

Stanley (The Stanley Parable) vs. Stuart "2-D" Pot (Gorillaz)

Sokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs. Gilear Faeth (Dimension 20)

Joshua Gillespie (The Magnus Archives) vs. Agustín Madrigal (Encanto)

Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf) vs. Kim Kitsuragi (Disco Elysium)

Bilbo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings) vs. Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket)

Philip J. Fry (Futurama) vs. Brett Hand (Inside Job)

Hiroshi Satou (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) vs. Prax Meng (The Expanse)

Larry (Pokemon) vs. Stu (What We Do In The Shadows)

Voting on the right side of the bracket will commence on Thursday, April 6, at 5pm PST!

#just some guy poll #character bracket #character tournament #character poll #tumblr bracket #tumblr tournament #tumblr polls #poll tournament #bracket #tournament #this was a surprising amount of work to put together #I know the bracket image looks rather plain #but please understand I am not good at graphic design #this is not my specialty. #I'm excited to get started though! yippee!

[ecoterrorist-katara]

I think it’s really crazy for kataang shippers to say Aang isn’t “stereotypically masculine” not only because….yeah….any 12 year old isn’t “stereotypically masculine”……but also due to how when he grows older he DOES look like that

dcinejncejn EXACTLY and it’s very funny when KA stans say “see? Aang got hot!” / “adult Aang is taller than Zuko!” Like ok first of all I thought he was a short king who is not super ripped and that was part of what made the ship so “””wholesome.””” And second of all Aang is canonically really attractive to girls in his age range? For all that we joke about Water Tribe Rizz, Aang isn’t too shabby himself. Meng and On Ji liked him just fine, plus all those Air Acolytes. (And as an aside, the only people on Team Avatar who don’t pull are Toph and Suki. I recognize that Toph may be too young but Suki would be a prime target for simps and it’s weird that’s not canon. Zuko has negative rizz but he still pulls, and I respect that)

Anyway it’s funny to me when KA stans and Aang stans act like he’s this super unattractive individual in comparison to Zuko. Like, he’s not — he’s just twelve batting outside of his league (puberty).

#anti kataang #can i ask you a question?

[longing-for-rain]

Wired Different — Chapter 1

A post-canon Zutara AU, in which Meng’s latest crush is the Fire Lord and she forms an unlikely friendship with Katara after being unknowingly thwarted once again.

Rated M for heavy themes.

Read on AO3

#zutara #meng x kei lo #meng #katara #zuko #atla #avatar: the last airbender #fanfic #mine #avatar the last airbender #fan art #fic: wired different

[electricsoul-rpg]

Meng Ziyi (孟子义) - Han Chinese

as Wen Qing in The Untamed (陈情令)

#meng ziyi #meng ziyi avatars #cdrama #the untamed #wen qing #chen qing ling #cql #陈情令 #孟子义 #chinese fc #period fc

[nono-bunny]

"The Fortuneteller" is such an interesting episode to me because like? Aunt Wu is never wrong in the end, kinda like how in "Jet" Sokka's instincts are always right as well- the show tries to play it off in the end by saying "sometimes they're right and sometimes they're not", but throughout the whole episode his instincts led him to eventually save an entire town! If they never ran into Jet, he WOULD have destroyed that town, not to mention how Jet does eventually change through his experiences with the Gaang, but! This isn't about Jet rn

Aunt Wu not seeing anything about romance for Aang while she DOES see it for Katara is strange to me if we're to assume he's the man she's ought to marry, because like? Wouldnt their fates be intertwined? Which is why it's a good thing I fully don't believe she WAS talking about Aang, and this episode unintentionally serves the anti-Kataang narrative so well its not even funny (well, okay, it's a little funny, seeing Aang get subtly rejected over and over is very healing). Even if we take out the fact that I believe she was talking about Zuko because, c'mon, he's a fantastic bender who already loves Katara a bunch by the end of the show (platonic? romantic? nevertheless they share an incredible bond)... The Avatar isn't the only "great bender" in the world by a long shot, and I'd argue Aang doesn't even qualify because of his poor work ethic and lack of interest in bettering himself, like- Aang is acknowledged by more ATLA fans than just me to be the weakest bender in the group (until he enters the Avatar state, at which point, he's just the weakest Avatar because he has no control of it) and? Yeah being born with the Avatar Spirit is never gonna be enough to become a great bender by itself, which is something even all the other Avatars aside from Aang seem to recognize, y'know?

I forget who it was, but I saw a post saying that in a better written show, this episode that has such a big focus on unreciprocated feelings would be when Aang recognizes his situation for what it is, recognizes seeing his own lack of interest in Meng when looking at Katara and her lack of interest in him, and have him start to accept that and move on, but... Aang ALWAYS shows himself to either be incapable of understanding or just straight up ignoring Katara's nonverbal cues, not to mention how he goes on to ignore her express vocalization of her discomfort with him, so.

This episode also has Bryke use Sokka as a mouthpiece to give a very incel-y feeling pick up artist lesson and? Yeah, what could I have possibly expected? For Sokka to show some consistency? He fr never takes his own "advice" here, it's so weird! He's always been very forthright about his feelings, so him teach Aang to play coy is so ooc for him unless the point they want to end up making is "love makes fools of us all", which. Doubtful

It's yet another episode with a morality lesson about "Destiny", but fr this one feels so weak when compared to Zuko's whole thing later on about CHOOSING his destiny, where we actually see him do it when he defies and upends his harmful legacy in favor of peace, because here? Here everything plays out as foretold, with a "you control destiny" messaging tacked on at the end- the cloud bending was cool, but I hate the implication that Aang legit goes on to twist and bend Katara to a shape he sees fit, right by his side forevermore, but... Yeah, that's fully what he does, so? Thanks a lot, I guess, Aunt Wu! Look what you did! He was the closest he ever comes to giving up in this episode, some tough love would've done the trick!!! But noooo, god forbid Aang has to face and acknowledge any sort of REAL rejection, Katara simply... Doesn't yet understand that her ultimate role in life is to end up as his trophy wife, that's all! God, fuck comics and LOK Katara!!!

#avatar the last airbender #atla #anti aang #anti kataang #anti bryke #atla critical #the fortune teller #katara deserved better

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

FIRST KISS: 100 Drabble Challenge

Summary: First kisses mean different things for different people. Here’s a look at some of our favorite Bender’s (and Non-Benders) first kisses with each other.

Each chapter will be a single drabble for a single  ship. I am not including canon ships in this because we saw those happen in the show. (Ex. Sukka, Kataang, etc.)  

Chapter 66

Rating: Mature

Chapter Characters: Meng, Teo

Chapter Pairing: Meng/Teo

Tags: Fluff

#avatar the last airbender #atla #meng #teo #meng/teo #the muse writes #first kiss 100 drabble