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In a modern au this two would definitely be into cosplaying

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more drawings of my random swap au yay click image to see better if u want

ignore how my writing is barely legible but like. this stupid au has been the only thing i can draw for a week and it’s been at the forefront of my mind for even longer. agh banished katara… “evil” sokka… my babies im gonna bite their heads off waaaa

i don’t think i’m like ever gonna write a fic about it because i have bad writing but like God i need to talk about my au and draw about it 😣 i also need to flesh my story out more but that’s . sigh

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Wow, that's such a incredible work! Keep going i'd love to read a fanfic about this concept you are really creative with great ideas ^_^

(And, Yes, i definitely would like to read about katara and sokka redemption arc!)

i drew the water tribe siblings from my generic little role swap au :3 ive been drawing traditionally a lot so my digital art skills have all but vanished forgive me 💔 anyways SOKKA!! KATARA!! THE SIBLINGS EVER!! except they're a little troubled in this au as expected

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Me seeing sokka in Azula's role: YES, my boy is so badass. People have to remember that he is an extremely intelligent person and could be even more dangerous if he use his intellect and skills to bad. He would create incredible and unexpected plans and being a manipulative king

Also me: OMG, i don't want my boomerang boi suffering 😭😭😭

i drew the water tribe siblings from my generic little role swap au :3 ive been drawing traditionally a lot so my digital art skills have all but vanished forgive me 💔 anyways SOKKA!! KATARA!! THE SIBLINGS EVER!! except they're a little troubled in this au as expected

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ATLA Theory: Water Tribe Settlements Pt. 1

In Book 2, we learn that a group of water benders had settled down long ago in the Earth Kingdom’s Foggy Swamp. I’ve always felt that this little detail added so much to the world of Avatar, as it indicates that there had been plenty of intermingling and cultural exchange between the Four Nations long before Sozin decided to “share the Fire Nation’s prosperity” with the rest of the world.

Really, if any of the Four Nations were to have a long history of seafaring and resettling, it would have to be the Water Tribe. I imagine that the poles can sustain only so many people and the ability to manipulate water certainly lends itself well to ocean exploration. This is why I love the inclusion of catamarans (Polynesian Double Canoe Ships) as part of the Water Tribe’s fleets; it implies a golden age of sea travel that happened long before industrialized colonization, paralleling the real-life history of Polynesia.

With this context in mind, my first Water Tribe settlement theory is…

Kyoshi Island

Evidence 1: The Proximity

Kyoshi Island is in close proximity to TWO Water Tribe settlements, the Southern Water Tribe and the Foggy Swamp. Putting it near one concentration of Water Tribers could be a coincidence, but right in between 2 areas known to have waterbenders feels very intentional. Frankly, given a choice between living in a swamp or living in the South Pole, I would also choose to live near a giant eel monster.

Evidence 2: The Look

Kyoshi Islanders are really, really in love with the color blue. Only the Kyoshi Warriors wear green and that’s specifically to honor the woman who created the island. Otherwise, blue seems to be the most prominent color in their culture, just like in certain other places…

They even have similar fashion sensibilities to the SWT; notice the cross-collar shirts, waist ties, and how many of them rock the “short sleeve over long sleeve” combo, just like Book 1 Katara and Sokka. You can even see that a lot of Kyoshi Islanders have blue eyes, a trait that’s otherwise exclusive to the Water Tribes.

Finally, lets take a moment to appreciate that Suki even wears her hair in a “Warrior’s Wolf Tail” when she’s not in her Kyoshi gear.

Evidence 3: The Cultural Inspirations

The Water Tribe is heavily inspired by Arctic and Subarctic cultures. These cultures include Inuit, First Nation, Mongolian, and various Siberian groups. Kyoshi Island draws inspiration from two cultures: Japanese and Ainu.

While Japanese culture needs no introduction, the Ainu are an indigenous group native to snowy Northern Japan and Siberia. In other words, one of Kyoshi Island’s cultural inspirations is very thematically similar to the Water Tribe’s. In fact, if you wanted to create a group of people that are a mix of Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe peoples, the Ainu would be the perfect people to draw inspiration from. They’re subarctic and tribal, but also East Asian. They’re basically the perfect cross section of Water Tribe and Earth Kingdom elements.

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Realized the other day we got kinda Neville Longbottomed by Ferb. Couldn't let this thought go without including the entire, wholesome Flynn-Fletcher sibling unit!

THEY LOVE THEIR SISTER

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why do kids cartoons always have the best most nuanced and layered plots and characters and adult cartoons are always just “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck”

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my favorite frequently mischaracterized sunshines...

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If it's possible for you, please send donations and humanitarian aids to Myanmar for the earthquakes. We don't have a good plan for earthquakes in place because the country literally is going through a civil war. Though I'm not minimizing the damage in Thailand in anyway, Myanmar's situation has been very largely ignored for the last few years so this was very hard-hitting since we were already going through so much. Mandalay is especially in shambles, and it is known as the second most populous city in Myanmar. People and businesses really suffered from this and they won't be able to rebuild this at all for the next few years because of the civil unrest. And even places not affected too much by the earthquakes, like Yangon, is facing electricity cutoffs. They were rationing electricity before and now there are not even rations. The whole grid is down. Phone lines are also still partially down. What's worse is the military junta hates the word "donation" or "charity" so sometimes they would shut down bank accounts for it and give out arrest warrants, even if the donation is not about supporting the defense forces. So we're in a bind as people who want to send money over will already have to disguise their help as something other than a donation because they don't wanna be flagged and arrested for this. Foreigners have the upper hand as they can just prove their aids truly is a humanitarian aids, while people in the country don't even get a first chance. So please send any (monetary or otherwise) help over if you can and I hope y'all can at least spread the news even if you cannot contribute to the cause.

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what he means: my first girlfriend sacrificed herself for the good of her people, and she didn't think twice about it. i saw firsthand what it meant to truly protect those you love, and in that moment i also experienced what it meant to be loved enough to be protected. but i wasn't ready. i didn't have enough time to say goodbye. she was gone before she fell back to me, and i knew it even before i looked for a pulse that wasn't there. she was heavy, until she wasn't, because i saw death happen in a way i never thought it could when her body vanished from my arms. i now know what it feels like to kiss a spirit, and it's the last touch i have of her. she sacrificed herself because she believed it was her duty, an expectation she felt she needed to face, and it should never have happened. but she got dragged into a war that we brought to her home. there was nothing i could do to protect her from its devastation, and i blame myself for her death.

what he says: my first girlfriend turned into the moon

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if Sokka is kinda like a prince then Katara is sort of like a princess

closeups down below

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I made this to get through the day and honestly? It’s helping

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image description: the “do it for her” meme from the Simpsons, edited to say “do it for him” and featuring pictures of Sokka. /end ID.

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The spirits don't tell them zip.

One of their kids just starts sprouting stuff about spirits and murder and they collectively go 'Oh, it's that one'.

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Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe

Finally in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of Book 1! We meet the wonderful Princess Yue and shenanigans ensue. I wanted the Northern and Southern Water Tribes to have related yet distinct tastes in fashion. Yue is still wearing a fantasy combination of Inuit/Yakut/Mongolian clothing but with a little bit of Great Plains Indigenous Regalia. Oh and her very important hair reference to Chinese "fairy maidens" (It's a Tang* Dynasty hairstyle associated with minor deities).

(Reoccurring disclaimer for this art series: This is for fun, they are inspired by the show's costume designs and then extrapolated out with historical fashion or things I think will be fun to draw. These are not meant to be accurate, only inspired. I hope you like them!)

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram, tiktok or check out my coloring book available now \ („• ֊ •„) /

https://linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

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Things I noticed during my A:tla rewatch

It probably took 40 years for the Fire Nation to wipe out the air nomads, since they started wiping out the southern water tribe members 60 years ago, and the attack on the air nomads was 100 years ago.

The Fire Nation was wiping out the waterbenders from the southern water tribe because they were beginning the same tactic of extermination as with the air nomads. They knew the avatar would be reborn into the water tribe and probably assumed that (even if they hadn’t caught him) the air nomad avatar would have died of old age by then.

The Fire Nation had to wipe out all of the air nomads because, famously, all air nomads were benders, so any one could be the Avatar. When attacking the southern water tribe, they only exterminated the benders.

Every female Avatar before Korra must have learned waterbending in the South Pole, since women couldn’t learn in the North.

The herd of sky bison we see on the Fire Nation island in the Legend of Korra could have been used to attack the Air Temples, since balloons weren’t invented until the events of A:tla and “the only way to get to an air temple is on a flying bison.”  The fire healer we meet in LoK also states that they had been raising these bison “since the hundred year war.”

Ozai had never seen Zuko’s scar before coming back home after his banishment, he had only heard stories and seen drawings of how he scarred his son.

Guru Patick has his dream of training Aang before Aang even came out of the iceberg.

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Things I noticed during my A:tla rewatch

It probably took 40 years for the Fire Nation to wipe out the air nomads, since they started wiping out the southern water tribe members 60 years ago, and the attack on the air nomads was 100 years ago.

The Fire Nation was wiping out the waterbenders from the southern water tribe because they were beginning the same tactic of extermination as with the air nomads. They knew the avatar would be reborn into the water tribe and probably assumed that (even if they hadn’t caught him) the air nomad avatar would have died of old age by then.

The Fire Nation had to wipe out all of the air nomads because, famously, all air nomads were benders, so any one could be the Avatar. When attacking the southern water tribe, they only exterminated the benders.

Every female Avatar before Korra must have learned waterbending in the South Pole, since women couldn’t learn in the North.

The herd of sky bison we see on the Fire Nation island in the Legend of Korra could have been used to attack the Air Temples, since balloons weren’t invented until the events of A:tla and “the only way to get to an air temple is on a flying bison.”  The fire healer we meet in LoK also states that they had been raising these bison “since the hundred year war.”

Ozai had never seen Zuko’s scar before coming back home after his banishment, he had only heard stories and seen drawings of how he scarred his son.

Guru Patick has his dream of training Aang before Aang even came out of the iceberg.