#avatar the last airbender

[tamberella]

The Dragon Dance

[nyancrimew]

When I was a freshman in college I accidentally joined a cult based on Avatar the Last Airbender. A dude with a goatee and a fire nation beanie was legit trying to start a religion for his senior thesis.

All my friends now are people I met through that group and now I have to deal with the fact that all my friends (and me to be fair) are the kind of people to stick around after a white guy told them he’s starting a religion based on a children’s tv show.

(One of those friends left a drum circle they joined to go to avatar nights, and that circle later turned into a vaguely Wiccan confessional spiritual group. And I’d just gotten out of homestuck paganism. So yknow. There were already trends.)

HOMESTUCK PAGANISM??????

[changeling-droneco]

Honestly learning about food and culture keeps leading to a lot of interesting revelations like of COURSE Sokka won’t shut up about meat, as someone based on the Inuit people his diet would be 99% meat and his body would be a lot worse at getting proper nutrients from vegetables and grains and the like. Like it’s also the “haha sokka likes meat joke” but he and katara are likely not getting anywhere near as much nutrients from not meat meals, especially because when they do get meat, it’s a lot leaner then they would be used to. Katara is just likely better at bottling it up then Sokka. Sure, they would be used to eating some plants, like foraged berries, but their bodies are much more adapted to heavy fatty meat based diets.

[ghxxuls]

I forgot wan halfway through so there’s a little photo of him😭😭

[mesapies]

[memopmiff]

He’s just trying to be a good brother

[demaparbat-hp]

Thinking about @stygiovictoria's Roleswap AU.

[bebss29]

the fashion strikes again 🌊

[allhailnarusama]

See the full image without noise or watermark on my patreon

Hands really are the bane of my existence lol -sob-

I saw someone headcanon Katara still having the scars from when Aang burned her, and I was like yeah I'll download that into my belief system. 😂 Basic idea, for me at least, is that she just wasn't entirely successful at healing them. Listen, it's magic. It doesn't have to make sense, and she doesn't have to be successful at her first try.

Tried to follow the pattern of the burns as shown in the episode. Did I succeed? I'll let you be the judge. Will probably turn this into a charm to sell on Etsy.

[sillybillylulu]

My excuse to practice lady muscles 🩷

[whatifitookalilnap]

We all knew Equalist Asami would win:

[lilith-91]

"You, me and Appa; we're all that's left of this place. We have to stick together."

this is an official art btw

[mrboomeranguy]

Sokka cookie,,,,,

[redbayly]

Zutara headcanon #35594

When he realized that Katara didn't have any sort of image of her mother (as the Water Tribe isn't really known for its paintings), Zuko hired the most talented portrait painter in the Fire Nation and then consulted with Hakoda and Gran-Gran for as many details as possible in order to commission a life-size painting of Kya to give to Katara.

The painting was so beautiful and so true to life that Katara almost thought her mother was about to step out of the canvas. It became one of her most cherished possessions.

Many decades later, after Katara passed away, the painting was considered a masterpiece and placed in the Southern Water Tribe cultural heritage center and museum. It is the most beloved work in the gallery and remains a symbol for many Water Tribe and Fire Nation people of love, courage, and kindness.

[zukodragon]

I think every zutara shipper should read The Worst Prisoner and Stalking Zuko trilogies by Emletish once in their life.

[aangarchy]

Ok but the fact aang is a child. And thinks u have to forgive someone who killed ur family. I bet Monk gyatso and the others were rolling in their graves devastated they can't ever tell Aang the real deal that he would've been told when he got older.

Monk gyatso probably: NO AANG. ITS JUST ABT LETTING GO

Ah, yet another shining example of someone who missed the entire point of the show.

If you think monk Gyatso would be "rolling in his grave" (which he doesn't even have, and i'm pretty sure air nomads don't do graves anyway) to see Aang grant Ozai mercy, you have completely misunderstood what air nomad culture represents. Air is the element of freedom. Yes, it's about letting go, not having any attachments. But not having attachments also means letting go of your feelings of hatred, letting go of grudges, and not letting your feelings consume you. Aang understands that remaining angry and bitter will not bring his people back. All he can do, is try his best to preserve and protect his culture, and part of that culture is an oath of pacifism. Aang choosing to spare Ozai does not mean he forgives him, or his predecessors for what they have done to the world. Instead, he lets go of his anger and hatred towards them so he himself can be free. Maybe eventually Aang will forgive them, but i personally don't believe it's then and there.

If anything, monk Gyatso would be proud of the decision Aang made in the end. It's the ultimate middle finger to the fire nation to show that they failed at destroying the air nation. Aang is not only a symbol of hope for the other remaining nations to end the war, but also for his own culture to prevail, and keep existing in whatever limited form Aang can preserve.

I think what you're referring to is TSR, with "thinks u have to forgive someone who killed ur family", when he tried to teach Katara about letting go and forgiving. Aang wasn't doing that bc he's against Katara getting justice. If anything, he agreed Katara needed to face Yon Rah for her own closure. But he's not trying to teach Katara forgiveness so he can save Yon Rah, he's doing it so he can save Katara. He knew that if Katara went through with this she'd get consumed by hate and anger for the rest of her life. Zuko even admitted in the end that Aang was right about what Katara needed, and it wasn't killing her mother's killer. And Katara did end up forgiving someone at the end of the episode, namely Zuko. Katara still learned and accepted Aang's lesson by the end, when at first she insisted forgiveness was impossible.

Also I think you're forgetting that Air nomads swear a non violence oath. Gyatso swore this oath as well. So again, idk where you're getting this idea that Gyatso would be "rolling in his grave" to see Aang stick to this oath.