#avatar thoughts

[eywaseclipse]

We deserved more domestic family bliss scenes.

I was thinking about that non canon scene in the original script where Neytiri and Jake were at the communal dinner with the clan and she was breastfeeding Neteyam, and I wondered if she more than likely breastfed Kiri as well. Since she’d had a fresh milk supply and two newborn babies. I would assume she’d be doing so for Kiri. It would be adorable. And it’s a beautiful thought that Neytiri took Kiri in as her own and nourished her and bonded probably through Tsaheylu the first few months of her life.

This is all just me rambling.

[ml-typhonverse]

I had a thought today of the Fire Nation and dragons. A nation that believes that within every heart is a dragon, and that dragon hoards the people the person loves. After all, what is a dragon without a hoard?

Zuko's hoard starts out so small, because he has a lot of love to give but isn't great at recognizing it when it's given back. He's been taught through his childhood that a hoard has to look a certain way. High quality jewels and gold coins. Traditional.

But Zuko's hoard winds up full of smaller things. A scarf woven with turtleducks from his mother, a tea-scented scroll of proverbs from Iroh. A golden hairpin sharp enough to kill from Azula. Those were the only things in his hoard when he's banished.

But it grows slowly, full of things no dragon should add to his hoard. A crown of dried flowers and a ball of skybison fur shaped like a poorly made turtleduck. Blue and silver beads and a bone skewer perfect for roasting meat. A moonstone tumbled from a waterfall with all the power within. A lump of obsidian perfectly shaped and powerful, and all the more beautiful for it. A simple fan, both lovely and deadly. A set of throwing knives and a pair of bells.

Yet it doesn't stop there. His hoard fills with tea and letters and drawings from children he's never met because 'dad and mom are home again' and the war is over and the hoard grows taller and taller until one could barely see the walls around it. But Zuko knows where everything is. For a dragon knows each and every piece of their hoard, and in Zuko's heart, there's room for it all.

Azula's hoard, on the other hand, starts small and stays that way. She only wants quality items in her hoard; her love will not be wasted on those unworthy of it. Eventually though, there's nothing left.

A golden crown from her father. (Melted by his own flames because what is the Fire Lord to a Phoenix King?) The dragon-embroidered scarf from her mother. (Ripped to shreds; she always thought Azula a monster). Iroh's scroll, a perfect match to Zuko's. (Burned to a crisp as he always favored Dumdum over her.) Mai's daggers and Ty Lee's bells. (Crushed to powder. They betrayed her, and for Zuzu?!)

In the end, Zuko can bury himself in warmth and love while Azula rages at her emptied hoard, before curling herself around the one remaining treasure to sleep.

A dragon scale, red to black from a burned face. (It's all she has left.)

[your-royal-momoness]

[demaparbat-hp]

Be careful of what you believe in.

[aboutiroh]

You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.

[tadpole-art]

The Legend of Mob and His Very Credible Definately Not Suspicious Teacher !

[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.

[wheneclipsefalls]

I couldn't agree more and it truly makes a ton of sense. However on the flip side what pisses me off is that you have Quaritch and all the other recoms just magically buff and able to take on the Na'vi easily. Jake and Quaritch battle it out on a sinking ship with Quaritch in a new Na'vi body he has not fully adjusted to while Jake has not only been in his Avatar body for a over a decade but also training to use both military and Na'vi combat during that entire time. Not to mention a few months of breath training with the Metkayina. I'm just saying, my man Jake should have been able to knock that mother fucker out within a few seconds, especially once the guns were down.

Quaritch wouldn't have stood a chance.

Anyways, that's my little ted talk.

You know, one of the details I appreciate about the first Avatar movie is that Jake is notably physically weaker than all the other Na'vi for at least the first half of, if not the entire, movie. Because he hasn't been living in and training that body his whole life. It makes perfect sense, but it would have been so easy to have him keep up with them with no issue as the movie's Big Tough Macho Man Protagonist - but no, at his Iknimaya he's the only one panting and wheezing when they finally reach the top, and on top of that he doesn't have the strength required to restrain his ikran with his arm alone, and has to do it in an atypical way by using his legs while he reaches for its kuru.

[l-a-l-o-u]

Korra's Wardrobe | 2025 edition

Over 10 years ago, while LoK was still airing, I drew Korra in each of her outfits. I recently found that post again, and thought I should revisit my old obsession, and add the outfits that were missing. This has been really fun, it was like meeting up with some old friends - both my younger self and Korra herself!

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to finish this!! ♥ And hi to the people who were in the fandom with me back then, I'm waving at you from over here in the future :)

None of these are show-accurate, I thought it would be much more interesting to give each design a bit of a twist while keeping their original visual language. It was a really fun challenge, and I love comparing the old and new.

Some of these are a lot further into my own interpretation - the chains ghost, for example, is super bloodied because I'm not restricted by a TV network censor and the Zaheer fight was violent. And it left scars, too! The Raava fusion designs are extremely self-indulgent (Raava I love you, you will always be famous), and the kid designs are pretty far from the depictions of Korra in Friends for Life and Weaver's Ball, but I wanted to make them into a real evolution getting closer to the Book 1 design over time.

Here are the two full lineups side by side:

how far we've come...

Here are some line versions also! I had a lot of fun drawing all the little tiny details:

I once said that if I ever stop posting Korra redesigns, assume I'm dead. and well. I guess it's still true

[muffinlance]

Some spirit manages to get the gaang and zuko a link that connects their minds. They can share thoughts and their past with each other.

Tweaking this to “and they share dreams” because that’s how I started writing it.

---

“Okay,” Sokka says, wrapping his sleeping bag around himself, and grabbing a comfort Momo, too. “Whose dream was that?”

No one ‘fesses up. But it was kind of a rude question, and also a little rhetorical, anyway.

They all have nightmares with fire.

Having the Fire Lord himself looming over them, while they were on their knees? Not exactly a stretch.

---

“Okay,” Sokka says, “how does Prince Jerkface keep finding us?”

---

“Okay,” Sokka says, “how did he know that seal jerky seasoned just right with honey—not too much, just enough to add a sparkle of sweetness to the depths of savoriness, a perfect balance for the distinguished tongue to relish—was the perfect bait for his Sokka and Sokka-affliated-parties trap?”

“Maybe if you stop dreaming about it, Sokka,” Katara snaps.

...And they all stop.

---

“I’m going to think really really hard about being friends,” Aang says.

“I’m going to think really really hard about that time my boomerang hit him,” says Sokka.

---

Snatching the boomerang out of midair? Impressive.

Ignoring the Avatar to go hit Sokka with it? Repeatedly? Uncalled for.

---

“Sokka. The city is under attack. Right now.”

“Okay,” Sokka says. “But this is a strategic nap, Katara. We need to know what evil things our Evil Other is up to.”

It’s not like the evil fleet part was a surprise, at least. They’ve been dreaming of it for weeks.

---

“Okay,” Sokka says, looking down. “So the ship-blowing-up-thing. Not a nightmare?”

“No,” says Zuko, glaring up with his glare-face all glare-ful but his thoughts mostly full of bruises so deep they’re making Sokka’s ribs ache, and also his legs are going numb.

“Going to get out of the turtle-seal tunnel now?” Sokka asks, still standing over the opening. With his boomerang.

“...No,” the Prince of the Fire Nation says, as he clings onto the edge of the hole, his legs still very much in freezing water.

---

“Okay,” Sokka says, when they have a Fire Prince all tied up in Blankets of Imprisonment. “So. What actually was your plan here? Do not,” he interrupts, before the teenage-shaped bloodhound-leech can do more than open his mouth, “say ‘capture the Avatar.’”

The prince closes his mouth. Glares. And kind of fuzzes at the edges, in the way all of them do when they’re about to fall asleep.

BOOMERANG, Sokka thinks, and Prince Largely Ineffective As An Enemy jerks back upright. His Momo hat chitters a complaint.

“Since we both know your answer is ‘I had no plan, Sokka, ‘plan’ starts with ‘p’ and there’s no ‘p’ in ‘Avatar’’, we’re going to play a game instead. It’s called ‘sleepy prince free association interrogation time.’”

“...What?”

“Battle plans,” Sokka says. “Attack. Fire Navy fleet. Ship numbers.”

Alas, “Fire Nation intelligence” is not something with which the prince’s brain is overly burdened.

“...Are you insulting me?”

“Are you proving my point?”

Elsewhere, Yue laughs in all their heads. Zuko flinches. The prince has a very marked reaction to the laughter of princesses.

---

“Okay,” says Sokka. “So that just happened.”

Commander Mutton Chops is groaning. Kind of flopping. Much like the bag he tried to fireball. Yue picks it up, and gently wrangles a fish back into water. Sokka is still not clear on what the fish-napping was about.

“It’s the Moon,” Aang says. “Or maybe the Ocean?”

Aang’s thoughts are full of a FACE STEALING EVIL CENTIPEDE MONSTER THAT IS JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE THIN VEIL OF REALITY and that is NOT helping Sokka think.

“Okay,” he says again. “So. At least we can all agree on one thing.”

This is a very diplomatic way of saying they all wanted to dropkick Zhao. But some of them wanted to do it more than others.

The prince of the Fire Nation is even paler than normal, and staring across the clearing at his uncle.

“I can explain,” the prince says, while he’s thinking, oh shit treason oh crap uncle wouldn’t hurt me thought that about father too

Sokka wordlessly plucks Momo from the edge of the pond, where he’s been swiping at the spirit-fish, and drops him on the prince’s head.

Everyone needs a comfort Momo, now and again.

---

“A raft, Zuko?” Sokka says. Outloud. Because it makes things louder when you say it and think it. “A raft?”

Aang is bouncing on his toes. “We should go get him.”

The Avatar is grinning. And thinking, really hard and deliberately, as behind them the Water Tribe ship finishes packing, We should capture the Fire Prince.

“Okay,” Sokka says, with a grin of his own.

[eywaseclipse]

This might be niche. Or maybe not! But Trudy knew she wasn’t making it out alive. Her body language and her eyes say everything. The very very subtle shift in her gaze and that little sigh of disbelief is easy to miss if you don’t pay attention. The unconvincing smile that instantly fades as soon as it appears… I think deep down Trudy knew she would be dying for this cause. It’s why she followed Jake and believed in him, and rescued Grace and Norm and him. She believed in the greater good of what she was doing. She believed in Jake and the Na’vi. Her heroism and bravery is so overlooked. I wish everyone watches the extended edition of the directors cut with all the deleted scenes at some point. It gives a much better sense of her character. She is so badass and selfless. Trudy, you’re a real one.

[beif0ngs]

alright look, i just wanna know who is the writer that came up with the dumbass idea of replacing the line “Ever since I lost my son, I think of you as my own” with “Lu Ten would have been proud to have you as his father” in this scene for the Netflix live action series???

[paracosmicka]

sonic tma au? 👀👀👀��👀

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I’VE POSTED IT ABOUT IT EVEN THO I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF ABOUT MY SONIC/TMA AU

Okay to start out with, I’ve been calling the “Primal Fears au” and it started out as a working title but I don’t really have any better ideas and the tag I have on all of my posts about this tma au is #primal fears au (idk how to imbed a hyperlink into text but like if you go into the search thingy over my blog and just type that tag in you’ll see all my previous posts about it that are from OVER A YEAR AGO IT’S BEEN SO LONG 😭)

Okay uhhhhh idk how to organize this so just get ready for a shit ton of sketches and art lol

here are some more fleshed out character sheets (than my very post about them) for Sonic and Shadow, they’re not final yet tho obviously

was fighting demons drawing Shadow’s main design for some reason

general sketch ideas for Sonic and Shadow

And my favorite part of this au is that I just get to categorize all the Sonic characters into which fear entity would they serve so here are some character sheet ideas:

Okay this last one is Infinite and I know he’s not everyone’s favorite bc he’s just so…..mid ig in the games but redesigning him as an avatar of the Spiral has been so fun. Also bonus points if you know what Doctor Who episode I stole this dialogue from lol:

and finally I thought I’d just share an idea I had of a “cover” for my Primal Fears au

Okay I think those are all the presentable sketches I have but there are so so so many more ideas I have and it’s not going to help bc I’m feeling the annual urge to relisten to The Magnus Archives again especially bc the new season of The Magnus Protocol comes out soon.

But yeah anyway feel free to ask any questions/share ideas if you’d made your own TMA/Sonic au I love yapping about horror and this au is like my child. Actually that’s not a very good analogy bc all of my sonadow aus are my babies. I just love sonadow sorry I will continue to be insane

[buzzing-honeybee]

for some reason watching atwow i can’t help but to question why it’s shot in the way it is. perhapse its a stylistic choice. perhaps they plan on having all the movies in the future also be shot in this style and maby have flashbacks or what ever and maby cover some stuff?? like it just seems like the movie progressed so fast but many thats cuz i have a weird time perception of movies and media.

i mean it’s nice to see the different story lines and watch them progress but u just hope we get some of all the other characters in the future films.

or maby its just the writing style of whoever was the screen writer or like the person who creates the script.

[demaparbat-hp]

They would.

[skipppppy]

I love how despite not being a bender, Sokka is the biggest embodiment of everything the Water Tribe values in the show, both good and bad.

Change. Sokka who humbled himself when the Kyoshi warriors proved him wrong and took their teachings to heart. Sokka who always had a plan, a few hundred backup plans, and could still get out of a sticky situation on the fly. Sokka whose friends became bored and aimless without his quick wit and initiative.

Kindness. Sokka who went to save Aang before Katara even had to ask him to. Sokka who saw the humanity in an old man from the fire nation. Sokka who gave Jet a second chance despite being the first one to be suspicious of him. Sokka who showed Zuko to his room and held no resentment against him. Sokka who shielded Toph from falling debris with his body.

Ingenuity. Sokka who invented airships and submarines. Sokka who took down the drill. Sokka who broke into a Fire Nation prison rig and out of the highest security prison in the country. Sokka who levelled Ozai’s entire sky fleet in one tactical manoeuvre.

Love. Sokka who couldn’t remember his mother’s face but carries the grief of her death so deeply that he protects every woman he meets with the same unhealthy hypervigilance. Sokka who instinctually jumps to defend his sister despite their constant bickering.

Community. Sokka who gave up his childhood to become the sole protector of his village and dedicated his time to training the younger boys in combat. Sokka who learned to let go of his hypervigilance and put his trust in the people he’a afraid of losing so they can protect him like he protects them. Sokka who stood alone guarding the gates of his home as Zuko’s ship towered over them.