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smoochy smoochy

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When you finally find that war criminal who murdered your mother and he offers his own elderly mother’s life as reparation

Katara and Zuko confronting Yon Rha in The Southern Raiders

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Katara and Zuko confronting Yon Rha in The Southern Raiders

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Some underappreciated Katara ships 🌊💙

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Based on this ancient meme

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Katara’s stubborn hope makes me highly emotional and she inspires me and she’s my hero ok

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The girls 💅💅💅

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This fic has rendered me incapacitated

the long walk back

A storyboard I did as a missing scene after the confrontation with yon rha in tsr episode. I imagined the walk back would be quite, challenging, to put it lightly. For both of them but for Katara mostly ofc

I am not a storyboard artist (obviously) but I did spend a lot of time on this haha oof. I got inspired seeing hayleynwong’s beautiful animatics a while ago and they left a chokehold on me in the best way ❤️. I am thinking about trying to make this into a slightly better quality comic and perhaps add an addition but I would have to brace myself since this took so long already 😭

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Some closer ups 🤦‍♀️

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the long walk back

A storyboard I did as a missing scene after the confrontation with yon rha in tsr episode. I imagined the walk back would be quite, challenging, to put it lightly. For both of them but for Katara mostly ofc

I am not a storyboard artist (obviously) but I did spend a lot of time on this haha oof. I got inspired seeing hayleynwong’s beautiful animatics a while ago and they left a chokehold on me in the best way ❤️. I am thinking about trying to make this into a slightly better quality comic and perhaps add an addition but I would have to brace myself since this took so long already 😭

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Feels almost criminal you would post atla sketches with the caption "felt like doing headshots" and NOT include sparky sparky boom man

Oh my god I’m a sham

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Felt like doing headshots

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‘Zoola

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Thoughts on season 4 of Dragon Prince? I, like half of the fandom, found it underwhelming/disappointing 😅

Ha ha it didn’t escape my notice that s4 seems to have this fandom more divided compared to the three previous seasons I’m sorry to hear it left you feeling discontented.

Personally I did enjoy it though I wouldn’t say it would make it in my personal top 3 😋 I think my reaction overall can be summed up like this:

Historically I don’t enjoy time skips and I find them a bit jarring. They make me feel like I am missing out on a lot of gradual development on certain things but this might be a matter of preference as some people like filling in the blanks and some like it less 😅 I prefer to have things more spelled out personally.

I liked the expansion of the sunfire elves’ lore and the conflict between Janai and Karim but I felt like it kind of fizzled out in the end. But perhaps this was a deliberate set up by the writers to make Karim more susceptible to Aaravos’ potential future manipulations. He, like Callum, is a mage after all. Kind of like a callback to Kasef unknowingly helping out the man who is responsible for his father’s state as Karim’s eldest sister was killed by Aaravos.  The Rayllum reunion I have no notes about 🥹🤌 that to me was done perfectly. Also really liked Terry! Didn’t expect him to kill Ibis so early in this season. As for his coming out scene I feel I have no place to critique as I myself am cis but it did surprise me because I thought I read somewhere that in the world of tdp there was no such thing as homo- and transphobia? Not sure where I read that. Not complaining about it jsyk. It just surprised me a bit and makes me feel bad for Terry.

The fart jokes are kind of…meh. I don’t mind them generally but the amount did feel a bit excessive. Like I understand this is still a kid’s show at it’s core but it did feel like it regressed a bit in age and I think the fart jokes are the biggest culprit here. From what I gathered on one of the writers twitter account is that most of the writers are dads with quite young children so that offers an explanation on that. I think the fandom’s negative response to them will convince them to tone it down a bit in future seasons.

One thing I really feel though a lack of female friendships. The Jamaya ship is exquisite and the Rayla/Claudia relationship is wonderfully complex but understandably antagonistic. I am hoping that Rayla at least gets to have a female friendship because I am personally a sucker for those and I feel the clear absence of it in this show currently as there is comradely among the boys.

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Sometimes I think about where Callum and Claudia's relationship would have gone if the assassination attempt never happened. I feel like the two would have eventually gotten together but I sometimes wonder if it would have worked out in the long run due to their different morals with Claudia even taking a page out of her father's book by manipulating Callum to do things he's against similarly to how Viren manipulated Harrow for the "Greater Good"

It is something to think about 🤔 Ultimately I have acquired a soft spot for these two being doomed to fail. Definitely think you might be onto something with your observations.

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the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate. I hate it so much.

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100% agree about Callum crush on Claudia ending unceremoniously. Like its easy to understand why he lost interest in her, but I wish the show dived more into the fact that Claudia pretty much broke Callum heart in a million pieces. After all, it wasn't just that she was his crush but also close friend.

Absolutely 👍 I’m with you right there. It’s just too big of a thing to be brushed under the rug. All we can do for now is wait and see how much our hearts will be collectively broken 💔