#kiawentiio tarbell

[the-bluespirit]

DALLAS LIU & KIAWENTIIO | Entertainment Weekly

[do0hwa]

I'VE RISEN FROM MY GRAVE

omg thank you atla live action for giving me the scarf scene

The scarf looked SO PRETTY on katara I was sad that she took it off the next scene 😔

So I had to draw a scene of zuko later in the series gifting her a new scarf mumbling sth like "it suits you better than what that jet guy gave you"

[lukasadss]

Still finishing the show but had to draw that picture of Dallas and Kiawentiio as zutara :)

[billykcplan]

SIFU KATARA ↪ the north

[i-am-mldy]

The thing is, Netflix could've kept Sokka's underlying misogyny while also emphasizing his older brother protectiveness (which I do actually like in this adaptation).

He could be "girls are inherently weaker than boys" while also being "as her older brother, I need to protect Katara". Just let the former inform the latter. Let both sides of him coexist to create a compelling character. Then, let him realize that Katara is not a little girl anymore and that girls don't always need to be protected and saved.

It would've made such a compelling theme of how war and hardship conditions young men into strict gender roles. It's not ideal, but it's how they've survived. Sokka had a tremendous burden put on him from a young age, and thus, he had to be a "man", and a "man" protects the "weak" (women and children).

However, women like Katara and Suki show him that it doesn't have to be that way. He doesn't have to bear the burden of protecting the weak alone because women are warriors, too.

[parkiebearr]

had to draw that kiawentiio clip cause she literally IS KATARA

[bloomsbury]

i just wanted to draw kiawentiio tarbell as katara and dallas liu as zuko 🔥🌊 modern zutara if you will

[lari-draws]

Kiawentiio in her Katara inspired dress

[animegirlsicons]

Katara and azula icons

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[where-our-stories-start]

So, this song I’m about to sing you, it fits appropriately enough on the circle of violence in this album, and it just, it’s like a poem set to music that I suppose tries to credit the experience of going to different parts of the world that have indigenous names, so Apalachicola, Hushpuckena, places in Australia that we would visit, and then I would ask locals, “What does this place name mean?” and no one being able to tell me what it meant. And it just, I suppose, credits that experience. And recognizing as an Irish person, that although there’s many place names, there’s a great written history in Ireland, and we’re very fortunate that we can still learn much of the language and it’s very accessible to us, the place names and their meaning is very accessible to us, and that is not always the case everywhere you go in the world. (x)

[chocomd]

NATLA did Katara's actress dirty

So I discovered that Katara's actress in the ATLA live action, Kiawentiio Tarbell, is actually incredibly talented. She is Ka'kwet in "Anne with an E," a show that I have not watched, but I found this clip and oh my god can she act. This was so heartbreaking that I cried.

(cw: Ka'kwet's story is about indigenous children being forced to attend "residential schools" in Canada, so there is violence in this clip, including against children)

I don't know what happened in NATLA, whether it was the writing or the directing or Netflix!Katara just wasn't the role for her. Seeing her acting in "Anne with an E," she probably would have been amazing if NATLA didn't nerf Katara's character to basically nothing.

(also please consider reblogging because this deserves to be known!!!)

[adouxrable]

♡⁠˖ avatar (the last airbender, season 1 - 2024). icons by © adouxrable, don't repost. cr screencaps @neverscreens

[lukasadss]

Quick one of the gaang so far

[xenogaby]

The cast reacting to their audition tapes, I'm crying OMG!!

[thepropagandists]

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[alinahdee]

Kiawentiio Tarbell as KATARA