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"we need more angry, traumatized female characters" you guys could barely handle katara

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toph was never actually a cop, it was all part of an elaborate con she was pulling, but she never told the rest of the gaang and didn’t care to let korra in on the secret

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Ty Lee + Traditional Thai clothes

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best way to get Azula to be nicer to u is turn it into a competition

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Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)

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CSP has new automatic bgs feature.

[ID: Mai in hanfu walking through the woods. She is holding her hands together and walking briskly. Her hanfu is dark purple, red with gold details. End Id]

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hakoda borrowed it and forgot to give it back <3

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Shit, I am now thinking about that throwaway line from The Serpent's Pass of Avatar: the Last Airbender when Toph told the ticket lady that Momo was her seeing-eye lemur. Which canonizes some form of guide-animals in atla's cultural history.

If I had to guess, I would bet there were a few historical cases of blind people training animals to perform tasks such as bringing things and stopping them from bumping into objects, maybe full-on guiding. I bet a writer would have been inspired by this and made it into some kind of mythology, poem, book, or play that made the idea popularized.

We never see another blind character in the show, and therefore never see any non-earth bending forms of orientation and mobility. So it's impossible to say if this is just a thing in atla's pop-culture that Toph expected anyone would just know, or if there are known contemporary people with service animals.

It puts the behavior of her parents into question, because it is easy to dismiss a lot of their coddling as ignorance. Lao Beifong seems like the kind of man to utilize his money and power if he thought it would make his daughter safer, but he also doesn't believe in the possibility of her being independent.

Though I doubt Toph would want a guide animal if one was offered.

One, she is fully capable of her own navigation. When she leaves with Aang, she does encounter situations in which she feels her disability (flying, in the air, on metal floors, wood, sand, water) but she does learn how to navigate those with the tools she has available.

Two, she has that mentality of "I pull my own weight" and not wanting help from anyone that she has to unlearn throughout the show.

Then there is the aspect of how much responsibility goes into taking care of a pet. There's a reason that blind children are expected to wait until they are teens or over the age of eighteen before they can apply to get a guide dog. By our modern standards, Toph would be too young to get a guide dog.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, all stemming from one throw-away line. Toss me a question about world-building if you have it.

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it’s been a while but i just saw another person call azula psychotic in a derogatory way so here’s a reminder that that’s actually very ableist so please don’t do that! psychotic doesn’t mean evil or violent, it just means experiencing a break from reality (often in the form of delusions and hallucinations) and you shouldn’t demonize azula for experiencing psychosis because her psychosis is not what made her a bad person (never mind the fact that she’s a 14yo child abuse victim and while she’s done a lot of horrible things that she should be held accountable for she still deserves sympathy and a chance to recover), so stop using it as an insult towards her because you’re just telling psychotic people that you view them all as inherently evil and they aren’t safe around you

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I’m watching atla and this is my first impression

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smol Katara and Sokka in the snow

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for the character color palette: aang (or any atla character really, since you already did aang :D), b4, caramelldansen please :)

……..how about Aang plus one??

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toph when a historical godlike figure believed to be dead for a hundred years shows up at her house asking her specifically to teach him: damn that’s crazy. anyway

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Can you imagine how hard it is to be a geologist/paleontologist/archeologist in the ATLA universe? Really any job involving rocks and dating things via rock layers must just be exhaustively difficult. But I bet there’s also a whole branch of science devoted to dissecting old earthbender battles based on rock formations, which sounds like delightful fun.

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goth girl and her pink gf

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Ty Lee: Bottling up negative emotions is bad for your health, so you shouldn't do it.

Mai: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out.

Ty Lee: Th-that's not how that works-