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lightdancer1 · 1 year

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In addition to wrapping up the 1940s arc in my ongoing Sandman story, finally started my 100 Year War trilogy:

This work concerns, at the broadest sketch, the Air Nomad Genocide and the onset of the Hundred Year War. It will be one of three such stories, each of which explores particular events in the war and how and why they happened. As this will be bluntly showing the scale and the nature of the Genocide and the planning that went into it, anyone expecting the canon romanticized Fire Nation is going to be woefully disappointed.

#the war of air and fire #avatar: the last airbender #hundred year war #atla fanfic

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detectivedeckerstar · 8 months

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WE'RE SO CLOSE

#who will be air?#Murph is it time?#dimension 20 #burrows end #brennen lee mulligan #matthew mercer #aabria iyengar #exu calamity #the ravening war #critical role #fire #water #earth

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53v3nfrn5 · 6 months

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The Lockheed AC-130 in action

Due to the cloud of smoke left behind after flares are released, this aircraft is widely known as “The Angel of Death”

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brighteuphony · 14 days

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I love Chiyo- and I kind of headcanon her as a Witch of the Woods (Sands???) archetype- a bitter old woman who has sacrificed too much, experienced and committed more atrocities than anyone can imagine, and who knows the truth about what lies in the hearts of men to live among the villages anymore.

In my AU she's got a pretty dark backstory. Back in time when Villages were just getting established, women weren't allowed to be shinobi in the same capacity as men. There was too much warring and death among the clans to risk women, so they were only ever allowed to serve as spies or medics. (Chiyo started off as a medic).

And like any military/fascist dictatorship, serving the state was more important than anything else- so women who were kunoichi were given missions to steal and return with powerful bloodlines. Even before villages, this was a common fear among clans (which is why so many of them have protective measures and inbreed/arrange matches very carefully).

Chiyo was one such woman, who took a X-rated mission in her youth because she was told it would 'serve her nation'. There was a powerful bloodline whose Kekkei Genkai could harden sand to something akin to Steel- something Suna very desperately wanted.

Chiyo succeeded in her mission, but despite the veneer of 'serving your nation', when she returned, she was considered, in her words, "Just another whore."

Then when her son didn't manifest the bloodline- it was worse, but Chiyo was happy because that meant her son was HERS. (This is when she met Enji, and he saved her son's life at great cost- so Chiyo owes him a blood/life debt.)

Then the war came, and they needed women to fight so now serving the nation meant something different, and Chiyo became a full fledged 'shinobi' and turned her healing towards poison and death- especially when she had to fight the Salamander.

Then she sealed Gaara and that was the atrocity straw that broke the camel's back and she dipped out Suna and retired to an oasis. She's still a healer, but adamantly refuses to serve shinobi.

Once again, thank you so much for these asks and all the support for this AU?

@youngpeacearbiter

#naruto #haruno sakura #granny chiyo #coven!sakura #nations always celebrate serving the military but no support for anyone who comes back #veteran's aid? what's that and we all know how they would see women like this #there's no more xrated missions in villages and its like a shameful secret they all gloss over #you never air the dirt out when you've gotta indoctrinate your next wave of children into child soldiers #also chiyo is a pretty cruel woman IMO #first thing she did when she learned Sakura stepped between two attacks was to laugh so hard she started crying #Chiyo has both HEAVY internalized mysogyny but also really wants to protect women- its a balancing act #queen of tough love throw em in the deep end no floaties #trial by firing squad #also chiyo just HATES the hypocrisy of being venerated as a war hero when its convenient for the nation- she just hates shinobi villages #thank u kishimoto for keeping Chiyo's backstory vague as hell so i can play #chiyo as an embodiment of female rage

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cinnamonrollsledge · 1 month

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Masters of the Air: Episode 9 + shots that took my breath away

#masters of the air #MOTA #mota spoilers #motaedit #hbo war #i was SO close to doing a water earth fire air theme but alas afaik the only water in this episode is either snow or a muddy puddle

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dnd-shows-have-my-soul · 8 months

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I absolutely love the continuing joke of “Fire, Water, Earth” brought to life in Burrow’s End. It’s such a good bit, one that transcends specific series and instead centers itself on a group of friends.

That being said, I’ve seen multiple people begin to predict who is gonna be air. I figured I’d throw my hat into the ring.

First of all, though I love him as a DM, it’s not gonna be Murph. This joke in particular centers around people who are intertwined with both CR and D20. And, as much as I love him, Murph is not that guy. I have no doubt that he’s at least friendly with the Critical Role cast but it’s obvious that he’s closer with Brennan then he is with Aabria or Matt.

So if I had to make a guess, it probably be Spencer. Not only is he involved in CR related content (Candela), he is good friends with both Brennan and Aabria. I’m fairly certain that he was part of a private campaign that involved Matt, Brennan and Aabria.

Something else that I’ll throw out, is that the next time we see the joke, it will probably be during an new season of EXU. I have no insight on when the next campaign of EXU will come out, but I have a fairly strong suspicion that Spencer would be the one Dming it. And that is where we will find our missing joke.

Speaking of, this is off topic. But if anyone feels like drawing Brennan, Matt and Aabria as Fire, Water and Earth Gensai respectively, I will love you forever. Please.

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chaoticpersontale · 3 months

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It didn't disappoint me :") keep up the good work Netflix.

Avatar: the last airbender.

#netflix #avatar #avatar the last airbender #aang #elements #live action #avatar the legend of aang #air bender #water bender #earth bender #fire bender #katara #zuko #sokka #appa #momo #spirits #war

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its-zaina · 14 days

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University of Buenos Aires, Argentina🇵🇸.

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fanflair-collective · 1 month

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Avatar the Last Airbender inspired bracelets are now available! ✨

#atla #avatar the last airbender #fandom inspired #fanflair collective #anime #fire nation #air nomads #water tribe #earth kingdom #zuko #katara #sokka #toph beifong #aang #legend of korra #there is no war in ba sing se #secret tunnel #zutara #kataang

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echoxbuggs · 5 months

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#star wars #the bad batch #tech bad batch #ahsoka series #avatar #avatar the last airbender #tbb #tbb tech #tech tbb #air bender #water bender #fire bender #earth bender #poll #star wars polls #buggsytalks

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anastasiamaru · 2 years

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We have really hard morning today

russia is inflicting massive missile and air strikes on the territory of Ukraine,using strike UAVs

In the morning the aggressor fired 75 missiles

Our air defense system neutralized 41 of them

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lightdancer1 · 1 year

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An excerpt from the upcoming next chapter of The War of Air and Fire:

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Toghun Chagatai paced around the table as the Fire Lord listened with increasing eye rolls and contempt and the generals thoughtfully. "It is true, my lord, that my people take great pride in the deeds of our ancestors, as yours do of yours. It is also true that my ancestors waged terrible wars and gleefully committed atrocities that resonate still eight thousand years later. For us it was not a simple matter of barbarism, it was strategy." He turned to look at them. "Slaughter a few cities, depopulate an island, and the very terror of your name instills peace and you spare your people at the expense of the dunghills of other nations."

There were shifts and mumbles of 'barbarian' from others and he gave them a cold and merciless grin just as his ancestors would have done in the same situation. "But, in the end, it was these same deeds as much as the divine wind that brought Caldera and the Yamato to power. We instilled terror and we made it plain the price of resistance, and people in the end decided they were willing to pay that price." Now there was a subtle shift and the Fire Lord kept rolling his eyes and murmuring beneath his breath.

"I do not doubt in the least, great Lord Sozin, son of Enzozhu, son of Zenzhu, that we can fall upon the Air Nomads like a thunderbolt. They are a peaceful people, who learn deeply of the arts of spirits and care little for the arts of war. We are the warlike sons and daughters of the western islands, born in harshness and living likewise." He gave them all a careful look. "Suppose, my Lord, that our plan works flawlessly. We unleash Steel Rain, we fall upon the Air Nomads. We bloody our swords in their necks, build pyramids of their skulls, bring to an end a fourth of humanity in one fell swoop. What happens, my lord, if what happened to my ancestors happens to all of us? Suppose we strike and the world sees this as proof that we are treacherous murderers and fathers and mothers of murderers and that there is no peace short of one nation or another in a graveyard much as the one we shall make of the Air Nomads?"

"My ancestors never anticipated that the great massacres they unleashed on the mainland and in the islands would come back to haunt them and lead the other nations to the side of the Yamato and the Battle of Karakorum. It happened all the same. If that is the fate the Gods will for us, what will happen then? We could face a war of a hundred years where our armies are ever-victorious, winning themselves to death for no nation will swear peace or accept a victory short of one of ashes and bones as ruinous to the victor as to the defeated. My ancestors did such things, and I am of their line. I will fly with you, and I will shed the blood of innocents, if you wish. But I will not, my lord. allow it to be done without these questions asked and faced directly."

Sozin scoffed. "That will never happen, Lord Toghun. The other nations will hear of the fate of the Air Nomads, of our capacities to move forces across the world, of their annihilation. They will know we can go anywhere we please and slaughter all we will. They will know and then I will win the war as the great master said it is best done. a win without fighting. The pyramids of skulls are the price of peace. Blood-money, yes, but a price worth paying."

#atla fanfic #the war of air and fire #fire lord sozin #air nomad genocide #fire nation

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thewingedwolf · 10 months

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a lot of my free time is spent listening to a podcast run and researched by a professor of genocide studies who went into those studies specifically bc in an attempt to escape the violence of his angry, alcoholic father he signed up to go off to war in afghanistan only to realize that the whole war and war in general is a) stupid & boring and b) a series of horrific war crimes that had made the civilian population deeply suspicious of him even tho His Morals Were In The Right Place (tm). when he got home and threw himself into being anti violence, joining anarchist orgs & studying theory & trying to understand why he was sent to the other side of the world to be traumatized for no good reason while traumatizing the local population with his very presence, his shithead father died & he found out that his father was Like That bc their family was chased out of armenia because of genocide and it kicked off a cycle of violence & anger in the men of his family. he absolutely lost his shit, got his degree in genocide studies, and moved to armenia (do not ask me how he convinced his wife to do this with him. he’s really open about every other aspect of his life except his wife and kids which is imo very valid).

all that to say, he has this interesting perspective of war in that he has this cultural trauma of being the victim of a horrific crime while also himself being the perpetrator of imperialism & serving in an area that had recently been the site of several horrific war crimes (really similar to tim o’brien, who served in my lai several months after the massacre but didn’t know the massacre had happened & pieced together what happened from the horrified whispers of the civilians & brags from soldiers). it makes him both hyper critical of soldiers who do terrible things & empathetic to soldiers who are forced from home to do terrible things & angry on behalf of civilians who are victims of war crimes. i have ragged on him for being Very Midwestern about certain things but his research is interesting & sad & well done, & it’s really made me think about my own place in The Greater World & every time the internet loses its mind over some aspect of history i am violently reminded that most people just look at history and go “but MY SIDE was justified actually” when that’s such a BABY IDEA OF HOW HISTORY AND WAR WORKS.

#‘the allies were justified’ i do not think most people criticizing oppenheimer are japanese nationalists actually i think they just think #that the fire bombing of tokyo & dresden were war crimes which they objectively were.#i think it’s interesting how most people can acknowledge that some german soldiers were pressed in by force & mostly innocent #but can’t keep that same energy for japan. and default to ‘all asians hold the same opinions’ when faced with criticism #rani makes text posts no one will read #anyways the podcast is lions led by donkeys and if u find dark humor tacky don’t listen to it bc he cracks a lot of jokes to cope #but it’s also funny bc he has a specific hate for rhodesia bc he got death threats from some white nationalists when he criticized them so #now every time rhodesia comes up he blows an air horn aksjdjdjd

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phoenixkaptain · 1 year

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Thinkin about Star Wars bending AU andndhdj

Anakin should be the Avatar, obviously, but I think he would begin as a water-bender. I mean, his name literally means “water bringer” or whatever. It’s pretty clear.

But I also think he would have the most trouble with water-bending. Not the fighting part, but the healing part. He’s too impatient or he just can’t understand how to do it, no matter how often he’s shown or it’s explained, and that leads to him feeling even more guilty about everyone who dies. His mother dies and he thinks “This wouldn’t have happened if I’d just done better.” His fears of Padme dying are multiplied because he feels so useless.

Anakin is great at fighting. He’s intimidating. He can lift up mountains and hold them threateningly over the heads of his enemies. He can stop the very air they breathe and pull it out of their lungs. He can use their blood to manipulate them like puppets. He can reduce an entire village to ash in seconds.

But he just can’t heal people. Even as people say he’s mastered every other element, he feels like the very element he began with isn’t mastered. He feels like he’s failing, failing the moon and the Jedi and the water itself. He just can’t figure out what he’s doing wrong, and he’s tried for so long, and it makes him equal parts furious and depressed.

(Palpatine is the one who the Jedi get to train Anakin to heal with water-bending, and Palpatine sees how nervous he is about it (Anakin could never get it to work on Tatooine and is worried he’ll fuck up and the Jedi will send him back) and teaches him wrong on purpose so that he only gets worse. But, he promises to lie to the Jedi, because Anakin is so worried about it, and tells them he’s doing fine, the skill just needs to be practiced. Then, we still have his manipulations and Anakin’s reliance.)

When it comes to Anakin’s children, I think Luke and Leia should be different.

Leia fits earth-bending. She’s loyal and unyielding and absolutely bends metal in her fists when she’s angry. The ground shakes when she walks, mountains crumble when she looks at them, she’s terrifying to the enemy because she learned to lift mountains just like the Avatar did. The unyielding sturdiness of earth, but the softness too. Things like farming and building things and making games. There’s softness to earth, a springiness that makes it strong, and Leia is both the unyielding bedrock and the soft sandstone. I like to think she’s good at bending sand itself, because she uses techniques she sees other benders use and so doesn’t treat sand like rock. She treats it as water and so bends it accordingly.

This is a super unpopular opinion but hear me out! Luke should be a firebender. Hear me out hear me out hear me out-

Luke is the twin suns of Tatooine. He is immediately powerful and dangerous, despite his looks. More than that, he’s the life that fire brings. He’s the life that comes after all the Jedi are killed. He’s the lava that changes Anakin Skywalker yet again. He’s the warmth of a nice day and the heat of an oven. He appears harmless but can only be harmless because he’s learned to temper his ability to harm.

Luke has incredible self-control, especially later on in life. That self-control translates awesomely into fire-bending. And Luke being uncertain of his abilities is the weakness he would feel on Dagobah. Luke is hesitant because he doesn’t want to hurt people who don’t deserve to be hurt, and he doesn’t want to hirt himself. So he didn’t use firebending to fight, he used it for comfort. To light fires in hearths. To cook food. To amuse little kids. And he tries not to get angry because his explosive power when he’s angry is unstoppable. A star going supernova. It’s intense and destructive and terrifying.

But also, I imagine Luke learning to redirect lightning. I imagine him redirecting Palpatine’s lightning, the lights setting him aglow as electricity crackles over his form, his eyes glowing and intense as he directs that lightning harmlessly into the ground and smiles in the face of Palpatine’s abrupt fear.

And Leia being the earth and Luke being the sun is just kind of canon. Leia is the one who holds people together, who can lead people. Leia is the earth the seeds are sown in. Luke is the one who stands off to the side smiling ominously, but who is just as protective of people as Leia. He’s driven to protect them but he also holds himself apart, almost unthinkingly. Luke is the heat that gives those seeds the confidence to grow.

I think it fits nicely and I have the mental image of Anakin finally learning to use water to heal and using it to heal Luke. Luke, who got burned by his own fire because he was reckless for a second. An Anakin who learns to heal because Leia can describe it to him, because she studied waterbending for her sandbending. Just, a little family of people who don’t fit perfectly but are willing to learn and change and commit murder.

Also it’s just really funny to have none of the “Skywalkers” be airbenders pfft

#star wars #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #leia organa #star wars original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #of course this would all change the story quite a bit #but i think i got my point across #making luke a water or air bender is fine #but i think he suits the uncontrollable flame #he is a fire that palpatine can’t stifle #he is a warmth that palpatine can’t outburn #he is as unpredictable and wild as a forest fire #but with all the warmth and care of a hearth #that’s how i think of luke #long post

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nando161mando · 4 months

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On Electric Cars (and their shortcomings)

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spinteresting · 3 months

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Currently listening to Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

It’s a good overview of policies, practices, and first hand accounts. Both sad and interesting.

Yes this is the result of my obsession with Band of Brothers & Masters of the Air.

#coming out under fire #gay ww2 #hbo war #masters of the air #band of brothers #chances are someone depicted in these shows was gay or bisexual

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