#my avatar rambles

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Avatar The Last Airbender(Netflix). Episode Four.

Crying in my bed about Zuko and Uncle Iroh…

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

*rolls up 15 years late with Avatar the Last Airbender thoughts*

So I've been rewatching clips from the show lately to refresh my memory while I'm writing my Zuko Alone fanfic. And last night I rewatched the clip where Iroh teaches Zuko how to redirect lightning and I have had thoughts about this scene for years so I might as well finally throw them into the void of tumblr.

So, this scene is insane to me, because at the end of learning how he could-hypothetically- redirect lightning, Zuko looks at Iroh and, completely seriously says "okay I'm ready to try it with the real thing now". Like, Zuko, the boy with a massive scar on his face from where his father burned him just looks at his uncle and says, "shoot me with lightning".

And yes, he's 16 and not thinking but that's part of the point because the amount of blind, complete trust Zuko has in Iroh to look at him and say "shoot lightning at me" after the insane trauma he had at the hands of his own father- that is WILD to me. Zuko literally trusts Iroh so much that he just assumes, without even having to think about it, that no matter how volatile and unpredictable the lightning is, Iroh won't hurt him because Zuko cannot fathom his uncle hurting him.

And of course, Iroh's appalled because Zuko's standing there with a massive scar on his face from when his father misused firebending against him and likewise, Iroh cannot fathom hurting Zuko. And since IROH knows how volatile and unpredictable lightning is and how it could literally kill his son nephew he is absolutely NOT going to use it just to let Zuko practice redirecting lightning, but he's so flabbergasted that Zuko would even ask him that that he just kind of splutters angrily that he will ABSOLUTELY NOT shoot lightning at Zuko. (it's also just another layer of how messed up Ozai is because he shot lightning at Zuko without a second thought later)

But I hope Iroh thought about it later and realized the amount of pure, unthinking trust Zuko has in him because ;-; the child didn't even THINK about it. "Okay uncle shoot lightning at me now. I know I'll be safe because it's you." I love them so much 😭😭

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i love your zukka art!! have you ever drawn them in a modern setting? i would love to see you interpret their clothing styles!!

sincerest apologies that their outfits are kinda boring especially sokkas, designing modern clothing for the atla gaang is very difficult for me haha

[looks-at-you]

have you ever considered an all-avatar group chat BECAUSE I KNOW I SURE HAVE:

Jon gets added when he wakes up from his coma and spends all his time ignoring it

Micheal sends awful quality memes at ungodly hours (not 100% sure if Helen would tbh..)

Nikola and Annabelle in a war over the chat name (Helen joins the fight on Annabelles side)

sometimes elias sends pictures of jon and everyone clowns on him

^this is also what was happening when he first discovered the chat sdsghsfdsdsds

jon: "hey could i not get kidnapped today?" everyone: "hmm no"

feel free to add on idk im tired

[biboomerangboi]

Think we should actually talk more about Zuko and Aang being old men together. Like Aang is 112 and probably has like really old fashioned out of date things he’s really into and Zuko was literally surrounded on a boat by his uncle, the old dudes that worked for him and his uncles weird Pai Sho friends he’s raised to be a old man by like 20. I need the clearly teenage political leaders getting really defensive of an old person snack, have at least one piece of clothing they really like that’s like 100 years outta season and say phrases like “whipper snapper” unironically.

[korielle-writing-fanfics]

how dare i have an opinion the quotes are crazy 🙄

[eywaseclipse]

We deserved more domestic family bliss scenes.

I was thinking about that non canon scene in the original script where Neytiri and Jake were at the communal dinner with the clan and she was breastfeeding Neteyam, and I wondered if she more than likely breastfed Kiri as well. Since she’d had a fresh milk supply and two newborn babies. I would assume she’d be doing so for Kiri. It would be adorable. And it’s a beautiful thought that Neytiri took Kiri in as her own and nourished her and bonded probably through Tsaheylu the first few months of her life.

This is all just me rambling.

[live-laugh-neteyam]

suddenly I’m pregnant-

[artdolliewishes]

Small rant but I’m like 85% sure the reason why Spider Socorro haters are so unwilling to try and understand Spider’s situation in the movie is because he’s human and not blue.

Because how do you watch this movie with your eyes open and not see that Spider(a teenager, mind you) was put in an extremely difficult situation and ended up making some bad decisions as a result?

“He saved Quartich after watching Neteyam die he clearly didn’t care about them-“

Yes, he saved Quarich after watching Neteyam die which wasn’t a good thing, but he also only did that after Neytiri was LITERALLY ABOUT TO KILL HIM and Quarich actually ended up showing that he DID care about Spider. If I was in Spider’s shoes, I’d want to save the man I spent months with who took care of me and actually gave a shit about me too.

Not to mention the fact that Spider endured torture for the Sully family(torture which only stopped because of Quarich btw). I could go on but I’ll leave it there.

I don’t think anyone’s obligated to like Spider in the same I don’t think anyone is obligated to like any character, but if you blindly hate Spider and refuse to acknowledge the complexities to him and his situation I’m just gonna conclude that you’re either extremely stupid or extremely biased or both.

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Something I find interesting but also kind of devastating about ATLA is how you can't ignore the characters mortality,,,

Like with most stories after they end you might get an epilogue or something and you could make an educated guess how these characters lives continue but for the most part these characters are frozen in time right where you left them, not growing or aging or changing.

But with ATLA its very straightforward. These characters will live their lives, some short, some long, and then they will die, and their children will die, and their children, etc. Until these characters we know so well are just footnotes in history.

The Avatar cycle will continue and the wheels of time will keep turning, leaving that little boy in the iceberg further and further behind.

[demaparbat-hp]

Almost

[etirabys]

it's really funny to me when my partners are like "a pretty lady :)" and snap a picture of me, and when they show it to me I look like a middle aged Korean man

like, thank you. I'm truly glad you see something in me & I believe in your beliefs. I do. but in fact what you are showing me is just a 1980s photo of my father

[quadrantadvisor]

Sokka's character arc is so interesting to me because, as much as Avatar is a show that celebrates tradition and culture, Sokka doesn't begin to thrive until he starts to travel and learn from different kinds of people. He actually parallels Zuko in that way; they both begin with a closeminded perspective, and have to spend a lot of time being exposed to new ideas to realize their own potential. Zuko's arc is so much more drastic, though, whereas the way Sokka changes is almost subtle.

Crucially, he never lets go of his roots. Sokka is a warrior and a hunter and a tracker, and those skills are the base on which he builds his abilities as an tactician and inventor and politician. But Sokka needed to leave home and let go of the ego that his culture encouraged before he could accomplish any of that. He needed to learn to acknowledge women as warriors, and respect bending as an art, and think of the fire nation as people instead of monsters. He needed to meet other people who could help support and nurture his strengths like Piandao and the inventor. Sokka trades pride for humility, and then builds himself back up to real, earned confidence. It's kind of incredible to see. Just compare how stiff and unhappy he is in the first episodes to how easy and free he seems late in the series.

And after everything he's learned, I really can't imagine the Sokka at the end of the series just, going home and taking care of his tribe again. I think that he would do it, if they needed him to, but that environment would be almost stifling to him. I imagine a Sokka who travels, meets new and interesting people, uses his big whirring brain to solve problems. But who, of course, always has a familiar place to go back to when he needs it.

[only-lonely-www]

So basically ATLA brain rot has hit me like a truck

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I hate the fact that bloodbending was demonized and made illegal in LoK. Bloodbending could've been insanely useful in medicine, it could've saved lives. Just because something sounds creepy and has been used to hurt others, doesn't mean it's inherently evil or problematic. If a part of waterbending is considered "problematic" enough to be forbidden, why not ban all kinds of bending altogether? You could suffocate people with airbending the air out of their lungs (remember Zaheer from LoK?), you could burn people alive with little effort using firebending and hell, you could pulverize people into fine paste just using earthbending. Compared to these, death by bloodbending sounds rather quick and merciful.