#the only thing i know about avatar is:

[marsneedstherapy]

have you ever read fanfic for a fandom you're not a part of and have never seen/read the source material because I have. I've been trapped in zutara rabbit hole for the past 4 days. don't come rescue me. I like it down here.

#the only thing i know about avatar is: #the 4 nations live in harmony. then everything changed when the fire nation attacked #thats all i got #random post #fanfic #ao3 #fandom #avatar the last airbender #zutara #fanfiction

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

#This is literally Storytelling 101: Show Don't Tell #I'm sorry scriptwriters I know you were working before your union won minimal staffing in writers' rooms and decent pay and all that #but You Know What You Did #Also cgi artists plz unionize #A few more hours on Momo would have maybe taken him further out of the nightmare monkey puppet category #I know some people are reporting him as cute #But all I can see is a creature from the Magnus Archives #that thing is the skin of Momo being worn by something that doesn't quite move right underneath #And maybe it is looking for a better fit #Don't let it touch you adorable child actor Aang #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #Anyone looking to block the live action posts I'll be tagging all of these with that natla tag going forward #But yeah not going to post about it much #I came I saw I deemed it not worth the hours of my life it asked #I can literally write a better Avatar AU than this #Anyway back to Toph beating up Blind Zuko! #*write write write" #(their big budget fanfic can't hurt me it can only introduce more fans to the original)

[dirtytransmasc]

the Sully kids' reaction to Jake saying Spider "knew everything" breaks my heart.

they knew him better than anyone else, better than their parents. they knew his love for Eywa, for Pandora, for The People, for the clan, for their family. they knew he would never tell the RDA anything... not willingly at least.

they knew they were leaving because Spider would be tortured for information, he'd be forced to reveal their home, their plans, their numbers, their weaknesses. their brother would be tortured and they were being forced to leave him behind.

they knew they were being forced to find a new home, without their brother, because their dad knew he would be tortured.

#I like to think. for the sake of my sanity. Jake knew Spider would be loyal to them. that he would only blab once broken by torture. #anything else would kill me. the level of anger would be lethal. #but regardless. I think the kids would also need to believe the same thing. they *need* to think their dad has faith in their brother. #but back to the reactions themselves. the heartbreak and confusion on Kiri and Tuk's face. the way Lo'ak looks dissociated. #we can barely even see his face. but even Neteyam looks surprised and painted. even if its kept under a calm guise #(I will never let anyone convince me 'tey didn't love Spi. James. give us more about them please. more than these little crumbs) #they were just little kids and he was their big brother #he was Lo'ak and Kiri's best friend #Tuk was his baby #I feel it in my bones that Spi and 'tey were brothers with a complicated history. I know 'tey was scared to lose him. #I don't have proof but I know James is cooking up something with them #they would never believe Spider would just give them up. but that opens up their minds to so many things to think about #they had to be so scared for him and angry he was being left behind #(especially since in the comics Kiri. Lo'ak. and Tuk risk their lives to save him when he was kidnapped by Nash) #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #spider socorro #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #kiri sully #lo'ak sully #tuk sully #tuktirey sully #neteyam sully #lo'ak #kiri #tuk #tuk tuk #tuktirey #neteyam

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

i have a teeny, tiny superiority complex because i didn’t watch the atla live action.

#but i appreciate the ones who sacrificed their mind to watch the show and report back #y’all are so brave. thank you for examining the danger and relying the information back to me so i wouldn’t have to. #i have read so much about this show and i will literally never watch it #i actually intended to but got locked out of netflix when it premiered #then i heard all the shitty things about it and said “fuck that noise” #they took everything from me #they took away zuko’s character development for the sake of “time” not even gonna touch that it makes me so angry #they took away sokka’s character development for the sake of being “woke” #which was actually very very un-woke of them #they took away katara’s passion & anger and made her a flat boring person #i loved her anger so much???? #they took away our shock at the OG southern air temple ep #seeing monk gyatso in a room full of firebenders he had been forced to kill >>> seeing the actual genocide as if we didn’t already know #they took away aang’s sweet childishness and made him way too mature #it sounds like the only people who enjoyed it were zutara fans because of the scarf scene #y’all can keep it. it’s yours. i don’t want it. #atla original #avatar the last airbender #atla aang #atla zuko #atla katara #atla sokka #avatar the last airbender aang #avatar the last airbender katara #avatar the last airbender zuko #avatar the last airbender sokka #aang #katara #sokka #zuko

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[adriancatrin]

i wanna talk about iroh’s “four seasons” and why it’s used as the musical motif for sokka & yue

i’ve seen a few different videos/theories about why this song is used for sokka & yue, but none of them matched my personal thoughts, so i figure i’ll just share them. it’s a stretch in regards to what the writers were probably intending, i admit, but it’s how i’ve always interpreted it

winter, spring, summer and fall (x2)

four seasons, four loves

four seasons, for love

the lyrics have Always reminded me of the japanese idiom 一期一会 (ichi-go ichi-e), which is usually translated to something like “one season, one meeting” or “for this time only.” it’s like a reminder that every moment happens only once, and you should cherish the moment and the memory, for it cannot be repeated.

the analogy: four seasons is to one season as four loves is to one meeting

why have iroh sing the song first?

the idiom is heavily tied to japanese tea ceremonies; the fire nation is partially inspired by japanese culture, and iroh is characterized by tea. also it’s just the kind of sentiment iroh would appreciate.

and then we have sokka and yue, whose relationship is brief but unforgettable. within a span of what i assume is a few weeks, they meet, fall in love, and then tragically part

one could look at what happened to them as only a tragedy, and i imagine sokka probably does for a little while, but in time i feel he would learn to love and cherish the time he had with yue for what it was—that he would simply be glad for having met her and having gotten to know her. and of course he’ll always love the moon for its reminder of the time they had together.

it reminds me a lot of that post by @/starpeace:

the love was there. it didn’t change anything. it didn’t save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there

one season, one meeting—it doesn’t matter that it was just for a short period of time. this one of sokka’s many seasons will always have been for his love for yue

#i’ve been thinking about this for ages and i’m glad to finally get the thought out there #一期一会 has always been beautiful to me and it’s a great excuse to whip out the japanese keyboard as well haha #i don’t know much japanese but typing on that thing is sublime #i also put it as a small detail in my zukka tea shop sculpture lol #because i can imagine in the AU that sculpture takes place in.. their relationship Could turn out to just be an example of 一期一会 #obviously the moment the sculpture captures only happens once #but also they could just have their one fling and then never see each other again #and simply appreciate the time they had together for the fact that it happened at all #anyways #atla #avatar the last airbender #iroh #sokka #yue #thoughts #atla meta #yuekka

[anonymous-winter]

so I got their ages wrong but. hamter 💥💥💥

#behold: my first and only fanart of enstars. I think #not counting my avatar as a r*bbits member which I haven't shared here #I know like... two things about these characters #this is a dcmk au kinda thing btw

[dimitrscu]

all this talk about wanting to fight bosses in their prime in the dlc is so annoying istg. “i want to fight prime godfrey” brother that was prime godfrey he isn’t getting any stronger. just go fight him rl1 with no stat boosting and a +0 weapon. there you go, prime daddy loux.

#it’s like the whole pre nerf radahn bs #yeah cool you fought him when he still had trash hit boxes congrats #literally they didn’t even nerf him they just fixed him #and accidentally tweaked his health in the process but they put it back to what it should be in the next patch #the way folks talk about it you’d think he was a completely different fight #the funny thing is though i still remember ppl complaining like fuck about him before that fix #anyway would really rather not have repeat bosses from the main game #especially the main bosses #imagine waiting two possibly three years for a dlc only to fight the same guys again but this time they have a few new attacks #besides you just know that if they add bosses from the main game it'll be things like tree spirits or avatars lol #or more watchdogs and godskins #oh god lets not speak that into existence #elden ring

[mbat]

sorry for the james somerton jumpscare but im finally getting to finish hbomberguys video and the fact hes wearing this hat is painful to see. YOU DID CRIME. AGAINST YOUR OWN COMMUNITY! THATS NOT WHAT BE GAY DO CRIME MEANS!

#my post #james somerton #hbomberguy #im literally only at the halfway point in the video rn #im already in pain just from having seen the first half #especially the guy who had the harold avatar with antisemitic fans. help. what the fuck was that #the only person out of the first half of the video i knew was blair. i didnt even care about any of her videos except for like 5 of them lo #like. her video on the scouts. her video on salvation army #good to know those were also most definitely plagiarized #im absolutely dreading this second half. cause i actually used to watch james for a little while. #i havent watched him in months because he was exhausting to watch. like the way he talked and presented things was becoming a pain #like he sounded pretentious but i didnt know what it sounded like before. but he sounds pretentious when he talks

[alexis-royce]

Hello! Question: is Lee trans by any chance?

If you've ever felt gender euphoria from looking at Charlie Day, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

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#NonPlatonic Forms #The original punchline was going to be that he only gave Celeste a 6/10 #Which is how he knows he's transmasc and not transfemme #But that was too many panels #But yeah Lee being trans is a big part of why I keep enjoying writing him #You see when I write Stanley it's kinda in the back of my head that Stubborn!Stanley enjoys the Parable #in part because he's trans #When I'm in VR Chat and I've got my Stanley avatar on it's really funny and cool to be this dumb glitch man #And Stubborn!Stanley feels all of that #I'm not gonna put Lee back in The Stanley Parable because I think I could use these two to make something cool #And I'm working on making them vibe in their world the same way Stanley and The Narrator clicked in Advanced Ludology #It was fun cracking open those storytelling conceits #And I legit have a lot to say about immersion vs being aware of craftsmanship #And y'know being trans means Lee and I might really love the craftsmanship side of things <3

[zigreth]

what's the point of the glider if he can just fly without it?

#i know they said that in korra #but wasn't there a whole thing about how only airnomads who abandoned all attachments could fly? #atla #natla #avatar the last airbender #zigreth rambles

[constantvariations]

I remember someone saying "there's no such thing as a good racism allegory" and it's been bouncing around in my head for a while. I'm someone who typically thinks anything can work if given the right circumstances, but then I really started thinking about it and I believe they're right

Because if you want to talk about racism, you should just talk about racism

(This is unpolished and ramble-y, so strap yourselves in)

Racism is deeply ingrained into our society, no matter where you live. Imperialism and colonialism has ensured that no corner of Earth has been left untouched. Choices from hundreds of years ago are still being felt today. There's practically no end to the discussion of its effects on the world and its people

So, why should anyone feel the need to dress it up in cat ears?

I've consumed a lot of media where writers have consciously echoed in part some aspect of racism in their fantasy story: Bright 2017, Dragon Age, RWBY, the MCU, Harry Potter, Detroit: Become Human, etc. The biggest thing they have in common is that the narrative is told to side with the victims, but it somehow always ends up against them

It always sides with the status quo

It's confusing, maddening even, because the narrative oft goes out of its way to show how horrible the system is and how these folk don't deserve their treatment, so why are we going back to normal as if it's a good thing? Why are the people actively working to improve the system decried as annoying at best and monstrous at worst?

Then you look at the people who write these storylines. The beliefs they hold, the people they vote for, which charities and organizations they give to, and it all makes sense. Centrists (at best) trying to look progressive are the ones who need to dress racism up in cat ears and rainbow freckles. They set aside the long, brutal histories and crushing systemic realities to play pretend that racism is Not That Bad and is only done by Those Bad Individuals

That's why Velvet's ears are tugged instead of culled. That's why the Mantle drunkards say mean things to Blake instead of attempting to assault her. That's why everything surrounding the SDC's labor practices is so vague as to be useless while the biggest evidence of their malice is hand-waved away by a writer who says the victim "had it coming" as if someone can deserve being branded by being too much of a brat

These stories aren't meant to make the audience question why our society works off the bloodied backs of the exploited or demands we take good, hard looks at ourselves and how we've been duped into believing so much garbage about entire swathes of people. They're meant to satisfy the people who only feel bad that these things are happening because they (white folk) look like the bad guys. It's a self-congratulatory wank about how "I'm not like THOSE guys, therefore I'm a good person!"

And then there's the characters meant to convey this story in the first place: always inoffensive, mostly aimless, "not like the other girl" types that pander to that delicate palate. Blake - a conventionally attractive, pale skinned girl in fashionable clothes - used to be passionate about equality but only in the right way, and demonizes anyone who does not conform to this mindset despite having no reasoning to back it up while never once demanding better of the privileged people around her even when they do racially insensitive things

The biggest downfall of these racial allegories, be they about cat girls or orcs or elves or robots, is that they do something that marginalized folk have been forced to endure since the dawn of time: literal dehumanization. There are tangible differences between humans and whatever the allegory is, which undermines the very fundamental fact that black/asian/queer/neurodivergent/disabled/whatever folk are unapologetically, undeniably, exceedingly human. By dressing up their plights in cat ears or spottled blue skin, you're creating theater not for the people who actually live through these struggles as a means of connecting with them and providing them a safe outlet for their feelings, but giving the people who benefit from passively allowing the system to enforce said struggles a pat on the head for not being the grand wizard

I don't really know where I'm going or how to end this, so I'll just sign off with if you're going to talk about racism, just talk about racism

#rwde #like i said this is pretty all over the place bc i know what im Feeling but not how to word it yknow? so hopefully i got it somewhat across #i am whiter than sour cream tho so if i got anything wrong DO NOT HESITATE to blast me like team rocket #this did get me thinking abt star trek specifically the ep w the dudes who are black on one side and white on the other #and they hate each other because the colors are on different sides #that might be an okay allegory since its so on the nose its dancing on your sinuses #but its not my place to say one way or another so who knows #ive only seen people play detroit but holy fuck david cage should be tossed into a pit for that absolute nonsense #this dude had robots standing in the back of busses and quoting mlk jr but had the audacity to claim it wasnt the 60s civil rights allegory #this is just a really weird thing to happen over and over again #can they just not connect w people of color or whatever their target allegory is? #its almost always black folk tho james camerons avatar had LoAdS of fun w that indigenous parody #and theres like. never any sensitivity readers to double check this shit or the target group actually doing the writing #who said 'white people love talking about race as if they got something to say'? bc that should be the slogan for every one of these deals #yeehaw ig :?

[seasideoranges]

I first watched ATLA back in January but I have yet to read the comics. I’ve heard everything from “they’re great!” to “eh, they’re alright” to “they’re absolutely terrible and they ruined all the characters” so I’m genuinely curious what ppl think! Go ahead and share you’re thoughts as well if you’d like! I’m curious if I should check em out.

#the only thing I saw from the comics was Sokka driving a forklift #and that’s fcking hilarious #that’s the only thing i know about them #atla #avatar the last airbender

[biblionerd07]

Future Man has ruined my ability to see any mention of Avatar or James Cameron without laughing.

#future man #i just saw a picture from avatar? i assume? it said avatar on it #anyway literally the only things i know about avatar come from that episode of future man

[yousaytomato]

this is insane. who are you people

#have any of y'all seen it? #do any of you know anyone who has seen it? #maybe it's just because i havent made it to the cinema in a while but. huh??? #avatar the way of water #i couldn't tell you if it's good or bad. i couldn't really tell you anything about it #james camerons avatar feels so much like a fake phenomenon #like we're supposed to care about it. it's supposed to be this big influential thing #and just. no one actually cares #there's next to no fan content. merch. people talking about it - online or off #past articles likes this #which technically talk about it. but only as a concept #not like. the actual content of the movie #anyway. weird #woes of emily

[bl00dw1tch]

Do you guys ever think about Punching. Im starting to feel like we take it for granted sometimes, bc like.... bro thats an Us thing. Thats like, pretty much exclusively a Human Thing. It Requires our highly specialized hand anatomy in Order to perform a punch without self injury. Like wwee evolved to punch? Nobody else does that really? We can turn a our delicate crafty highly specialized paws into a Devastating Bone Club at will. Idk man makes me go crazy

#horse.txt #for the avatar mutuals; listen. i know it sound weird and Off to claim the Na'vi dont know what a punch is. so i wont #but i WILL say that if you look at their hand anatomy. um. listen idc about the carbon fiber shit if they do it wrong! #those things are gonna Crunch!!!! theres not as much surface area without the pinky finger and i just cant see it going well #So i can't imagine they do it *often* #and we dont actually see it at all in canon iirc!!! only the avatars go punchy. the Na'vi always go for their knives. or.. tackle a mfer #this is long for; I Dont Blame AoNung for Falling for Lo'ak's Shit. i can fully believe he hasn't seen a punch before #and Especially not one that turned out well for the delivering party