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fan and sword part two!!

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kyoshi and toph in warrior outfits what will they do

Tear down the patriarchy <3

But honestly, more Suki and Toph!

> Toph having an older girl sister who is equally headstrong to look up to (honestly, Toph does respect her)

> Suki teaching Toph how to use the fans so she can bend like Kyoshi (honestly I feel like if you combine the two of them you kinda really do get Avatar Kyoshi)

> Suki and Toph doing what they do not letting sexist`s and Ozai sympathizers breath 

> but also Suki taking Toph on trips through the whole earth kingdom (of course starting with Kyoshi island) so she can experience all that what her parents disconnected her from for so long 

> and Suki making sure that Toph always remembers that she is the greatest earth bender and first metal bender and powerful fighter but also a real person with feelings and needs, not just a fighter 

> and Toph on the other hand dragging Suki into slightly illegal or just really insane things where she can get let go of having to be the responsible leader of the Kyoshi warriors and just enjoy herself (by scamming the elite of Ba Sing Se, probably)

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Hija

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they really galaxy brained on this one

also yue and korra are probs related since they both came from northern water tribe royalty 👀🤯

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* a view takes on air nomad culture *

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Actually on the thing about Aang 'being a bad father' Bryke has said he wasn't. They said in an interview or something that he was just very busy and to make time for airbending training he would take Tenzin with him at the same time. The idea of him being a bad father was the other two exaggerating his time less spent with them because of those things. They said he tried to be the best father he could and loved all his children but repairing a broken world and destroyed nation is hard work.

Bryke really love to tell us what things mean while showing us something else, don’t they?

Rant time!  Thanks for giving me the opportunity, anon.

Okay, first off, Aang.  You guys remember Aang, the sweetest, most well-intentioned, fun-loving, adorable, moral, peaceful child that ever lived.

I can’t think of a single time he ever hurt anyone’s feelings on purpose.

I also can’t think of a single time he hurt anyone’s feelings at all—other than out of character moments like him hiding the letter from Hakoda to his kids, or accidental moments like when he burned Katara with his firebending.I’m sure they exist, but it is very significant that I can’t really think of a time that he truly hurt someone emotionally.

He’s very careful to speak kindly and gently, even when, for instance, Toph is mistreating and beating up his staff, a handcrafted airbending relic by the monks that must have been his most prized possession.He’s careful to include people and be kind to them—he tries to befriend Zuko back when Zuko is still trying to capture him (The Blue Spirit), and after he realizes Zuko has changed, he’s quick to make a friend of him and help him join Team Avatar (The Firebending Masters & so on).

All this to say that Aang is one of the most kind souls ever.

If he is kind enough to rescue essentially his archenemy from his other enemies (Zuko in The Blue Spirit) and try to befriend him, he is kind enough to love all of his children.

“oh but he loved all his kids he just had stuff to do with Tenzin”

That’s ridiculous.

If he could bring Tenzin “to Kyoshi Island to ride the elephant koi" and build “amazing sand palaces” on Ember Island [x], then he would have brought his other kids too (he would have brought the whole family).  Tenzin was the freaking youngest; there is no reason that the older kids couldn’t have come too since they could have easily occupied themselves when Aang and Tenzin were doing airbending or whatever.

Furthermore, Aang’s culture was so important to him that I’m sure he would have taught all his children about it.  If Bumi and Kya didn’t care to learn all about it, then I guess he wouldn’t have forced them to learn, but I have a strong feeling that they would see how important this was to their dad and they would listen.Aang took freaking nonbending strangers with him everywhere (The Rift) to become air acolytes and learn about his culture; I’m sure he would have done the same with his children—provided they wanted to.  And from Bumi and Kya’s resentment, they obviously wanted to.

That brings us to another thing: in the episode we find out ”Aang was kind of a sucky dad“ (Civil Wars Part 1), Tenzin is 52 freaking years old.  According to the family picture, Bumi looks at least seven/eight years older than him, and Kya maybe two years older.  That means Bumi and Kya are ~60 and 54, respectively.

THEY ARE FREAKING 54 AND 60 YEARS OLD.

IT HAS BEEN ALMOST TWENTY YEARS SINCE THEIR DAD DIED.

IT HAS BEEN FORTY YEARS SINCE ANYWHERE NEAR THEIR CHILDHOOD.

AND THEY ARE STILL PISSED AND UPSET AND HOLDING RESENTMENT ABOUT HOW AANG TREATED TENZIN DIFFERENTLY.

THAT IS NOT NORMAL.

THAT DOES NOT MAKE AANG A NORMALLY FLAWED PARENT.

THOSE ARE SOME DEEP EMOTIONAL WOUNDS IF THEY LASTED THAT FREAKING LONG.

If Bryke wanted to reveal stuff like “Aang was as good a dad as he could be, but sometimes he paid a little more attention to Tenzin” (which I think would still be a bit out of character, but maybe not if they explained it properly) then they should’ve shown it in a flashback or something, not made characters during The Legend of Korra still upset about it fifty years later.

Finally, not only does this throw Aang’s character out the window, it also destroys Katara’s.

Katara.  The girl who directly challenged the sexist Northern Water Tribe master and called him a “sour old man” to his face.  The girl who told Toph and the others exactly what she thought of their scams, even when they teased her about being a mom for it.  The girl who THREATENED TO KILL ZUKO SHOULD HE MAKE ONE WRONG MOVE WHEN HE JOINED TEAM AVATAR.Even if Aang DID become a completely different person, there is NO FREAKING WAY she would let this damaging favoritism go on and not give Aang a piece of her mind and straighten him out.

And THAT. is why Aang was a good dad.  Why the narrative says otherwise.  And why I’ll never accept that part of the narrative as canon.

[Not upset at you anon, just to be clear—just upset about the writing!  Feel free to shoot me any more asks for further discussion/explanation if you like!]

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For those who were missing Suki in my last post. 

It won’t happen again my friends.

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i know she’s at breaking point but she looks so cute here 😭

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she is beautyy, she is grace, she will stab u in the face

<ty lee and azula are coming up next ┌( ಠ‿ಠ)┘>

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All now available on my redbubble!

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ATLA HIGHSCHOOL AU <3 Zuko trying to flirt with Katara and the fire nation ladies as the atla universe mean girls

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Art for someone on Twitter! Zuko got the gay rainbow fire she gets the lesbian fire.

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hell yeah!!

can i get a hell yeah in the chat for ty lee

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firenation kids!   or the kids that desperately need therapy.  anyone else thinks azula looked realy cute in her earthkingdome outfit?  just me?  okay ;;;  _________________________

art by - @chiptrillino

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It’s been a while since I posted art but I can’t stop thinking about an au with Azula as the avatar (partially inspired by this post)

this was so fun to do… kinda wanna make this a comic ngl

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aang is the friend who stares adoringly at his friends when they go on a passionate rant about something

he’s also the friend who boops his friends noses

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