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kyoshi-lesbians · 1 month
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The Blind Bandit | The Bullpen
[video description: an amv of Toph as the Blind Bandit set to The Bullpen by Dessa, focused on her earthbending skills fighting in Earth Rumble VI. the ending sequence shows her leaving her home to join Aang, Katara, and Sokka. end description.]
forget the bull in the china shop / there's a china doll in the bullpen
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sofiialyt · 11 months
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the Blind Bandit 🪨
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oneatlatime · 6 months
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Sokka's stupid face in The Blind Bandit
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bestepisode · 1 month
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facinaoris · 1 year
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The Blind Bandit.
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sokkastyles · 6 months
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None of you will be able to understand Sokka's worship of The Boulder unless you were in middle / high school during Dwayne Johnson's heyday as The Rock and witnessed all the boys in your class simultaneously lose their minds.
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skialdi · 2 years
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Toph holding all the plushies Sokka wins 🤝🏻 Sokka winning Toph all the plushies
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zukkaart · 7 months
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Do y’all ever think about “Fire Nation Man”?
I’m rewatching some of my fave episodes and I have so many questions
Why is he called fire nation man when he’s an earth bender? He could be from the colonies but then why is he in Ba Sing Se? And then why does he love the fire nation if he’s seen the war? If he’s from Ba Sing Se why does he love the fire nation so much? Why were people Boo-ing him if they don’t know about the war? Why was he Russian and literally NO ONE ELSE in either series was? How was he so good he could compete against the boulder? What is happening?????
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sunnyyyyyyyynnus · 2 years
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Stan Avatar The Last Airbender for making sure that everyone makes a weird face at least once
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concernedbrownbread · 4 months
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I didn't include Melon Lord, Lord of all Earth and Mountains, because that would skew the results.
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brionysea · 5 months
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small measure of freedom
The Blind Bandit as an exploration of how Earth's tenacity can trip itself up. Toph turns down Aang's offer to join the Gaang, and then she doesn't. This is why.
Earth is tenacious and refuses to give up ground, so it outlasts an enemy doomed to burn itself to ash and dust. This is the privilege of tenacity: this small measure of freedom. Earth is unwilling to budge when Air suggests that she simply fly away with him, because Earth is tenacious and refuses to give up ground. This is the downfall of tenacity: this small measure of freedom.
Her parents may have sight, but they don't see her. They don't truly love her because they don't truly know her. They think her incapable because she is blind, they think that it makes her some helpless, broken thing, when what it truly makes her is great. The Greatest Earthbender in the World.
She plays the part for them anyway, and it's not freeing like playing The Blind Bandit is. It's suffocating.
She is Toph Beifong, perfect daughter, helpless daughter, fragile daughter. Daughter sculpted from clay made to sit on a shelf while everyone frets endlessly over what will happen to her if she ever tumbles onto the carpet.
This is not Toph.
But Earth refuses to give up ground. Earth refuses to retreat, even when it knows better, so she stays. She stays, and when she runs to the badgermole caves and she learns to see like they do, she returns, and when she runs to the Earthbending arena and she learns to fight like they do, she returns. She stays. She stays this small measure of freedom, this porcelain doll.
To be Earth is to outlast your enemy. To be Earth is to never make the first move.
But her parents are made of Earth too, and they were never going to crumble.
Earth doesn't give up ground, it simply doubles down until you're suffocating under the weight of it.
It isn't until the freedom of Air swoops in and makes a whirlwind of her Earth, it isn't until Air forces her hand, forces her to reconcile that this double life she's so carefully balanced out for herself is untenable, that she cannot be both herself and their clay daughter at once, that even the Earth needs to breathe - it is only then that Toph faces this truth: there are better hills to die on.
So she runs to the sky bison, and for the first time, she gives up ground.
She runs, and for the first time, she doesn't return.
For the first time, this clay girl made of Earth and gravity who craves freedom, she flies.
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daisymooonart · 1 year
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Quick Toph painting for my art class
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oneatlatime · 6 months
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The Blind Bandit
I had honestly forgotten that the Gaang were trying to find an earthbending teacher, so the 'previously on' segment was actually useful instead of spoilery.
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Nobody's face is having a good time.
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Look at this sweetheart. You go ahead and treat yourself honey. You've single-handedly escorted a pair of earth-shatteringly overpowered tweens around the world for months; the least you deserve is a shopping trip.
"You kids like earthbending?" Has the same energy as "wanna buy a sun dial?" from that animated Hercules movie.
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This guy is one of those strip mall karate types.
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I take back everything I ever said about Zuko's season 1 haircut. This guy has a dust bunny poop on his head.
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Momo's bag now.
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My absolute favourite girl power: incredible violence!
The acoustics at this earth rumble place must be great. I don't see any microphones.
"That's what I paid for." Sokka is a simple creature at heart. Likes food and violence.
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Something very strange about this guy's face. I think his mouth moves but his eyes don't.
So apparently earthbending gets you mad air.
Oh! I get it. This is a WWE parody. Somebody on the writing team did their homework too. Don't ask me how I know, but this is a very accurate parody.
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Sokka thinks listening to big muscles is a very good idea actually.
And here's the heel. Complete with russian accent. And oddly homoerotic anthem. And cowardice when challenged! Yep, total heel.
I LOLed at the zamboni badgermoles and hockey organ.
She's like two feet tall!
I'm. in love.
I could watch little girls beat up grown men all day.
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Earthbending sonar?
Omigod it predicts. She can see moves before they happen.
Well it's a good thing Bumi said to look for someone who Waited and Listened rather than Watched.
"I don't really want to fight you. I want to talk to you." Says the guy who just volunteered, in front of a full stadium, to FIGHT her. Time and place, Aang.
Get back on the ground you flighty airbender. She sees with that ground. No fair.
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This is about the face I made when Aang pulled that move. Does this boy think at all? I love him, but what part of stealing her well-earned title is supposed to convince her to talk to him?
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You messed up.
I love sartorially inclined Sokka. It's a tiny an innocuous little trait, but it rounds out his character so well.
I get to watch two different girls terrorise idiots this episode. I am blessed.
So I'm guessing the two idiots at the earthbending academy are doing that excercise where kung fu people stick their hands in sand (I've seen videos of it) but it really looked like they were in the 'beat back the dough' phase of making bread.
In this universe of plot-convenient clothing blindness, how do Dumb and Dumber recognise Aang as the one who beat the Blind Bandit?
I think the voice actor for the dumb kid with actual hair did a bunch of voices in season 1. The soldier who gives Aang Bato's map comes to mind.
Have I said recently how much I love Sokka and Katara?
These wrestling guys keep switching between first and third person. Too many rocks to the head.
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This could be a board for a murder mystery board game. Or a map for a DND dungeon.
It's her hair. I thought the Blind Bandit had a cap type thing with a little brim for her costume, but it's just a pile of her hair? Like a beehive?
A lesson in character writing: if you want to make someone look super dumb, have them earnestly believe in the credentials and authenticity of a guy you have previously set up as a borderline con artist. Lookin at you, Blind Bandit's dad.
"Basic forms and breathing exercises only." That line is just so funny. And they're all so stupid. She snapped like half a dozen spines last night and this guy is preaching breathing exercises.
Wow! I hate her dad!
I hate him more!
Sokka going ham on some rice rather than listen to the idiots. Good priorities.
This passive aggressive fight between the girl and Aang at the dinner table is so fun.
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Looking for somewhere to store your meal after you've face planted into it? Try the top of your head!
I need to get a hold of some of those magic napkins. Wiped up a whole multicourse meal in like 5 seconds.
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That is indeed the appropriate reaction to this pint sized badass. Glad Aang is learning. (Also this episode needs more Appa. The last couple have been sadly bereft.)
Called it. Earthdending sonar. Or is it more like echolocation? No! Whiskers!
How does this pint sized badass - who if I am understanding correctly, is not known to exist outside the walls of her house - have more emotional intelligence than the entirety of the Gaang put together?
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So much for the guards in the garden. They'd actually be useful now.
Sokka. Priorities. Although given how many times Aang has escaped custody/kidnapping he's probably ok to take a minute to fangirl over an autograph.
These idiot parents don't know their daughter at all. That chafes.
"I'm not smiling." I LOLed at that too. Perfect delivery.
Hippo man having a snack before he gets down to business. No wonder he's missing teeth.
All this blind and tiny and helpless and fragile talk is really making me hope someone smacks the crap out of the dad. What an awful thing to say, nevermind saying it where your daughter can hear.
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SMACKDOWN INCOMING
This is gonna be good.
If this girl does join the Gaang the writers are going to have to nerf her in every major conflict. She's too powerful. I bet she could take on the firelord now.
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And that's why you don't announce sneak attacks.
So remember how Sokka was absolutely losing his shit over the Boulder? That's me right now.
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She waits. All these idiots are losing because they're getting impatient and attacking first. Which means that, to her senses, they're telegraphing their moves. That is so cool. And so is this visual.
Here's your chance Dad. Are you going to mess it up?
"I love fighting. I love being an Earthbender. And I'm really really good at it." me:
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I don't have words for how much I LOVE when little girls STAND UP for THEMSELVES and THEIR INTERESTS. This would have had me HOLLERING if I'd seen it as a kid. It was a message I needed to hear too.
Wow I want to kill her parents.
OH FUCK OFF
COME ON
You made my girl cry.
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Get wrecked belt stealer. I LOLed at this too.
Sokka just beaned a blind girl on the head. Not a good look. I laughed though.
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Fun fact: everyone in this picture is a piece of shit.
I haven't been this steamed since Zuko's dad burned half his face off.
Final Thoughts
IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, this episode feels like it's movie quality. This show is usually excellent, but this feels like a cut above. I feel like I could sense the love the writers, animators, voice actors, everyone had for this episode. They had a good time making it and were enthusiastic about it. And there were lots of tiny background details in this episode too. I'm sure I missed quite a few. Oh No! I'll have to rewatch it!
New team member! That hasn't happened since Momo. Actually, no wonder the episode was so good. Introducing the first new team member in at least a season's worth of episodes is a delicate operation. I bet they were workshopping this episode since early in the first season.
And Toph! (thank you credits for how to spell that - I was really hoping it wasn't Toff). Be still my heart I love Toph. She may well take Sokka's spot as my favourite character. Strength of character, self-assurance, emotional intelligence, badassery, mastery of violence, what's not to love!!!
How did she get so emotionally intelligent and articulate if her parents have kept her caged her whole life? I don't know but I'm not complaining!
How did her parents get away with caging her for her whole life? I do know (money) and I am complaining. Very much so. And yet Toph can still find it within herself to have an honest conversation with them, including apologising for leaving said cage. I never would have had the maturity to do that in a similar situation. I would have gone the Katara explosive rage route.
A little girl who stands up for herself. Against HER PARENTS. I just. Do you know how amazing that is? Especially in a kids' show? I was ROBBED by not being able to see this show when I was Toph's age.
Does bending work like a muscle, in that you build up stamina? Because if so, then Toph is the strongest human earthbender in the world by default. If she's using it in place of seeing, then she's using it 100% of the time that she's awake, all day every day. By the time she was like 5 years old she'd probably used her bending more than the average earthbender does in their whole lifetime.
My one complaint is Toph's voice. Nothing wrong with it; this is a me thing. It fits her perfectly, but my ears do not play well with nasal voices, which hers is. I had to rewind quite a few times and resorted to subtitles by the end. Hopefully I'll get used to it like I did Zuko's.
Sokka! My soon to be demoted beloved! He shone in this episode. I love that he has fashion sense and is not afraid to show it. I'm thinking, what with how hung up he was on masculinity at the start of the show, that the water tribes have a different conception of masculinity: one that classes fashionability as a masculine or gender neutral trait. Even back in season one it didn't take much to get Sokka into the Kyoshi warrior uniform, and he's shockingly good at applying face paint symmetrically. Which I still cannot do with winged eyeliner.
Katara! Not headed for a career in diplomacy but so satisfying to watch. I would love to have a Katara in my pocket that I could unleash on people. And her and Sokka bouncing off each other this episode was great. Every one was at peak performance this episode, except Aang. Not at his brightest this episode.
Checking for typos before I post this and I realise I'd already forgotten that Toph is blind! Just like in the Northern Air Temple, this is how you do disability right: as just a part of who they are, rather than an entire personality. This show is so good.
In sum, Toph:
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allo-ho-mora · 9 months
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it's been so many years but I've finally realised why the ember island theatre troupe cast avatar aang with a female actor (which was obviously for comedy, etc.). the play is based on civilians testimonies with creative liberties taken at every turn but at the earth kingdom tournament when aang challenges the blind bandit, toph calls him a little girl (which is a reasonable assumption to be fair). did your brain just explode or was this smth everyone knew...?
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marvelsvariant · 1 year
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rewatching atla as a marvel fan when
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