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I always see the "sunshine" character reduced to someone who is simply happy and bubbly all the time and I was thinking about how I wanted a sunshine character who is sunshine but because they choose to be - because they wake up every day and choose kindness

and then I remembered aang exists and that want has been filled

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peace at last.

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Ugh I will always love the concept of Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko after the last agni kai, mostly because it makes no sense to me that Zuko was able to bounce back so easily after being struck by lightning, but also because the way the show treats bloodbending is just odd to me. It was a defense mechanism created by a traumatized victim of some of the most devastating parts of colonization, and although I understand that Hama was supposed to symbolize the "bad parts" of waterbending and was important for Katara's growth in realizing that the world isn't entirely black and white, its still disappointing to me that the show never explored the gray areas of blood bending, especially since that episode was, as I stated above, about understanding the gray areas of the war. Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko would add so much to the last agni kai in demonstrating that she has truly realized that "good" and "evil" are relative concepts, and Zuko being saved by both a defense mechanism of a survivor of colonialism and a type of bending used to terrorize his people would have even added to his arc, as the narrative required him to save and subsequently be saved by the physical embodiment of everything his family sought to annihilate.

#yes!! this also completes the idea of katara-zuko-aang being three point character foils #bc this scene would be paralleled with aang honouring his people’s history by sparing the firelord and inverting the expectations #that he was expected to follow as the avatar #and therefore both he and katara would be subverting the idea that bc of the war they would have to resort to violence #so it would have dual significance by completing her arcs with both zuko and aang and cementing them as a trifecta #anyway. this is my rant.

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The gaang + zuko + azula

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I could be a good mother

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Aang and gyatso still melting my heart but this time in colour!

I think I maybe lost Some of aangs expression from the sketch but it’s still cute I think

#whatever i say about natla the cast is adorable and deserve the world

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Katara >///<

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theyre both so busy but the reunions are so so sweet

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kataang for @malignacht

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Hello Zukki Nation, please let me in

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Oh

#how do you pick up the threads of an old life? how do you go on when in your heart you begin to understand #there is no going back. there are some things time cannot mend. some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold. #ok i’m gonna show myself out now

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it’s them <3

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#kyoshi in the book: a bottom

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“my first girlfriend turned into the moon” “that’s rough buddy” is adorable not only because zuko positioning himself as sokka’s friend is simply wishful thinking and desperate projection on his part, but because sokka referring to yue as his girlfriend is also just. incredibly lovely. like, back when they were together in the northern water tribe, yue was trying not to explode from overwhelming lust and affection, but meanwhile sokka was like. “we’re literally just friends. this dynamic is nothing more than an innocuous, platonic friendship. the fact that we’ve kissed and clearly want each other and have spent the past month solely in each other’s company talking little strolls around the city and romantic bison rides on appa (and who knows what else) means nothing as long as you just. repress all the emotions and desires and every last shred of humanity you’ve ever had and convince yourself that this is a reasonable way to live a life.” even while yue was adamant that living in utter denial was intolerable, actually, sokka was just like “i don’t get what the big deal is. repression is so easy.” but then yue changed everything by giving up her mortal life to become a spirit, and in the process transcending the human, patriarchal paradigms that prevented their love from being realized. like, if anything, yue wasn’t sokka’s girlfriend, he was her mistress. but then again, yue never wanted hahn; she wanted sokka, and they both knew it. so by shedding those limitations as she sheds her corporality, she is also giving sokka (as well as herself, of course) the permission for them to redefine their relationship on their own terms, beyond simply being forced to succumb to the patriarchal stipulations that dictated the terms of their love. and who knows whether sokka ever admitted it before, to himself or otherwise, but here, in this moment, he can reevaluate what they shared, and instinctively, he knows. she was his first girlfriend. his first love.

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i love being a hater of media that i’ve never seen or listened to. no i will not give it a chance. it’s called listening to my heart

#natla #i categorically refuse to watch it

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Prince Zuko 🔥