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so Avatar 2009 was one of my favorite movies when I was in elementary school. and every time I used to watch it I remember thinking, "Man I wish we all had tails, reflexive ears, big eyes, etc. It would be so easy to tell how people feel and I could also display my own emotions. Sucks that stupid human bodies don't do any of that >:("

Anyway.

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"The way of the desert has no mercy and no bias. The sands stretch endlessly, embracing all who tread upon them. The desert is your crucible, shaping you through trials and hardships. The desert gives its wisdom sparingly but rewards those who persevere. In its vast emptiness, you find clarity; in its relentless challenges, you discover your true spirit. The Barren Lands are harsh but fair, stripping away the superficial to reveal the core of your being."

Antiphonus guiding Kalina through the ways of their people. The Barren Lands are unkind but wise.

Antiphonus is @villainsimpqueen desert na'vi oc

Kalina is our mixed baby :3

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oh yea, if Yor'näm was male in the canon, he'd be much more of a menace. Kuru'wä would have no chance in that canon lol Male!Yor'näm is way less undestanding and actually would be more "mean" when it comes to messing with Kuru'wä's feelings

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Tried greyscale to colour on a new Na'vi oc💙🩵

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fairy kiri for a collab im doing w my friend :33 also letting yall know im lowkey gonna turn this into a multi account 🙏🙏

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Some Wips of my Night Na’vi girl Pompom! She is still a work in progress as I read the creator’s fanfic that includes (The Creator of Night Na’vi @choclodox ) and that fanfic is

Highly recommend reading it!!

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my pookie popping off w mixed wipkayan

Wipkayan x Mountain na'vi mixed baby from @dmifyouknowagoodpsychiatrist na'vi clan :3

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THANK U BABES <3

Saurrrr finally drew the cause of my sexual awakening, only took me over 10 years 🤡

the things Jake sully does to me 🤤

I’m kinda proud of this?? I think it ended up looking pretty nice, not sure if I love it yet but… what artist likes their shit anyway 🙄

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some process pics bc idk, here ig :] jake sully >>>>>>

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Saurrrr finally drew the cause of my sexual awakening, only took me over 10 years 🤡

the things Jake sully does to me 🤤

I’m kinda proud of this?? I think it ended up looking pretty nice, not sure if I love it yet but… what artist likes their shit anyway 🙄

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FUCK THIS IS THE ANALYSIS SHIT I LIVE FOR

OKAY SO ZUKO’S MOTHER TOLD HIM IN THE FLASHBACK TO “NEVER FORGET WHO YOU ARE” AND THEN IN THE SAME EPISODE WE SEE ZUKO ANNOUNCING TO THE EARTH PEOPLE THAT HE IS THE SON OF THE FIRE LORD. SO DID ZUKO TAKE HIS MOTHER’S LAST WORDS IN THE LITERAL SENSE THAT HE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT HE’S THE PRINCE? AND IS THAT ANOTHER LAYER TO THE REASONING AS TO WHY HE’S SO INSANELY DEDICATED TO FINDING THE AVATAR TO RESTORE HIS HONOR TO REGAIN HIS HOME AND HIS THRONE?? IS THAT WHY HE’S SO FOCUSED ON HIS IDENTITY? BECAUSE HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM TO BE? BUT THEN HE REALIZES IT WASN’T HIS IDENTITY AS THE PRINCE SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT, IT WAS HIS REAL SELF APART FROM HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD. AND WHEN HE REALIZES THAT, WHEN HE REALIZES THAT HE ISN’T REALLY HIS TRUE SELF IN THE FIRE NATION, HE LEAVES.

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Bro i really need to get back to watching kinn porsche

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THISSSS

I think an important thing to also consider about "Crossroads of Destiny", which you touched on in your comment was about Zuko not being happy with his life in Ba Sing Se, and forcing himself to act happy for Iroh's sake - which is really no different than forcing himself to chase the Avatar regardless of personal cost for the sake of his father. They're both desperate attempts to gain approval, and Zuko's arc is so powerful because he ultimately discards that need for external validation.

I think there is a crucial difference between the two situations. Iroh never forces anything on Zuko. His main effort is trying to restore Zuko’s agency that Ozai took from him and give him a safe space to grow and figure out who he is and what he wants from life. 

When Zuko chooses to free Appa, he’s finally ready to confront (in his fever dream) all his deepest demons and the lies he’s been telling himself, paralleling Aang’s meditation-journey through the chakras. So I think, the happy Zuko we see in Iroh’s teashop for a blessed day is not “faking” or forcing himself, but is a spiritually awakened version of Zuko who is able to look at the world in a fresh way and appreciate the simple blessings that came his way - a safe home, food on the table, his uncle’s love - instead of lamenting the things he’s lost. 

But eventually, Zuko - just like Aang - was unable to fully open his seventh chakra and let go of his most prominent earthly attachment -  his need for his father’s approval - leading to his choice to side with Azula. 

But I agree that Zuko arc is so powerful, because he does get his “seventh chakra” moment not as a default of choosing to accept what he has because everything else is out of reach, but after getting everything he thought he wanted and he’s able to walk away from Ozai out of his own free will leaving all those attachments behind - country, family, wealth, power, romance. 

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The fact that we don’t see Ozai’s face until season three emphasizes him as a villain who is a villain more for what he represents than an actual character, but the fact that the first time we do see Ozai’s face isn’t until Zuko comes face to face with him in season three for the first time in three years is specifically done to show what Ozai means to Zuko.

Ozai is Zuko’s father but for much of his life Ozai wasn’t a father, he was this terrifying force that he both loved and feared. That’s why he appears as this faceless, fractured entity. Showing only a part of the whole is one way to make something appear to be visually larger than it is, and it is through this use of camera angles that the show tells the story from the perspective of child Zuko. A shadowy silhouette, a turned back, a frowning mouth, a hand on the shoulder, a monstrous, imposing figure literally blotting out the sun:

It emphasizes how Ozai is practically a superhuman figure in Zuko’s mind, and how small Zuko felt in comparison. But then, after Zuko comes home in “The Awakening,” we, the audience, see Ozai clearly for the first time, and Zuko does, too:

…And Zuko sees, for the first time, what his father is. That coming home isn’t the joyous occasion he thought it would be. There is no fatherly embrace. No warm celebration because Zuko has returned. Oh, Ozai says plenty of times that he’s proud, he tells Zuko that his honor is restored, the exact words that Zuko wanted to hear for three years. But it’s empty. Ozai still looms over Zuko and Zuko is still clearly afraid, but he’s no longer the cowering child that he was and this is the moment that the seed of realization is planted. This episode is called “The Awakening” after Aang’s literal awakening after getting shot with lightning by Azula, but it’s also Zuko’s metaphorical awakening leading up to his final confrontation with his father in “The Day of Black Sun.”

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THIS. I will never understand why people view the scene this way. The writers have always been so incredibly detailed and intentional with their writing, especially when it comes to fight scenes and the nuances of the unspoken during said fights, and really all throughout the show. There is always a deeper layer with avatar to be analyzed and too many people only see the superficial top layer of it.

It’s time for people in the fanbase to finally accept that Aang was in complete control of the avatar state in that battle with Ozai. He was furious and his rage is clear as day, and he had every right to be. It’s tired to see people crediting Aang’s anger to Kyoshi or whatever all the time. The jokes are funny, but not here, not in this battle.

Aang enters the avatar state right after Ozai says this to him: “You’re weak, just like the rest of your people. They did not deserve to exist in this world, in my world. Prepare to join them—prepare to die.”

Aang reaches out from under those rocks and grabs Ozai, and then when Ozai tries to burn his face in the face place he burned his own son, Aang smacks his hand away and then blasts him into a rock pillar with airbending, the first element he uses against him once in the avatar state is the same element Ozai just called weak. There’s a reason Aang surrounds himself with an air bubble, and there’s a reason Aang’s airbending is so violent and unrelenting in this fight. He literally airbends so violently that he erodes a rock pillar all the way through in like 2 seconds. It’s a blatant display of the power airbending actually possesses, a big fuck you to Ozai who starts running away like a coward.

Aang is coming face to face with a man whose family line is directly responsible for wiping out his entire race of people, his entire culture. They took everything from him. He had nothing but Appa and the clothes on his back and his glider. That was it. That was all that was left of their genocide, a genocide justified by the view that Air Nomads were undeserving of life, that they were the weakest of all the nations. Imagine how full of rage he must have been. And still, he does not kill him. Not because he can’t, but because he won’t let the Fire Nation complete their genocide against the Air Nomads, he won’t allow himself to be robbed of his own culture, a culture that exists through him only, now. I feel like people really just don’t understand Aang’s character, and they definitely never give him the credit or praise he deserves.

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This is the literal reason dark haired fluffy emo guys are my exact type.

don't mind me just thinking abt fluffy hair

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personal feelings make your sword dull.

my country: the new age — ep 7 // ep 9