Hybrid Animal Enthusiast

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[0tterpenguins]

Bumi comic to round off my Aang with kids series!! You can view the rest here: Tenzin Kya Lin Jinora

[eerna]

I love her bad temper and mean words <3<3 rip every spinoff and adaptation but I'm different

[sokkalore]

hello!!!!!!

[kataangfanworks]

happy kataang week! here’s a commission done for us by the amazing talented @synne-i a while back, that we thought was very fitting of the team “power couple.” this is inspired by the ryan reynolds and blake lively picture with their children - you know the one! but imagine that it’s katara and aang with their children bumi and kya at a celebration - perhaps the anniversary of the end of the war? or the anniversary of the unveiling of republic city?

@kataang-week

[chiptrillino]

"the gaang hears how zuko got his scar" troupe is old "aang shows zuko his marble trick!" is new! --- tumblr artblock

[farewell-to-lorien]

Aang, Katara, Toph, Zuko, and Aang Avatar State, by Nogi San.

[ash-and-starlight-deact]

Old friends

(click for better quality!)

Putting these closeups here bc the horizontal format nerfed the whole picture 😤

[silima]

all the cool avatar artists have at least 1 fancy portrait of yue so here i am trying to join the club 😫😫😫 also merry christmas lol

[yinza]

Recent commission for @kataangisforlovers of an outtake from the famous family photo. Thanks again for commissioning me!

[Image Description: Sepia-toned digital fanart depicting adult Aang and Katara with their three young children. Kya is standing on a small circular table with her arms crossed, her head turned to the side to stick her tongue out at Bumi. Bumi stands beside the table, turning towards his sister to stick his tongue out in turn, except he is smiling as he does so. Katara stands behind and to the right of Kya, looking down at them with a smile. She holds a baby Tenzin in her left arm, and with her right hand she is reaching to tug a lock of hair free from his grasp. Behind them, Aang is looking down at Kya with an open-mouthed smile, his right hand hovering over Bumi’s shoulder and his left reaching around Katara’s. /end ID]

[sereiiinnn]

Avatar 🍃🌊✨

[sitta-pusilla]

[morganhazelwood]

So true. It doesn’t have to be life or death. It has to be the stakes and how much you care. How much you’re emotionally invested. It could be the tiniest thing – she finally takes his hand – and your heart could break for them.

[sffan]

I feel like there’s a whole generation of creators that never watched the movie Apollo 13. It’s based on history, we know they survive.

It was the most stressful, suspenseful movie I’d seen in YEARS. I spent the whole movie going “OMG, are they going to make it?!!”

You don’t have to kill anyone to keep your show/movie “interesting”. You just need to be a good writer.

[mierac]

“Apollo 13″ is a great example because everyone who walked into the theater the day it opened already knew the ending. And you still get this enormous sense of relief when that first crackle comes over the radio. When Ed Harris sits down, you sink into your chair in relief.

Because the characters don’t know the ending. And we care about the characters. We’re experiencing what they’re experiencing vicariously, through them. That’s the catharsis of good storytelling. 

And the people who made the movie understood that and they were all good at their jobs.

You create tension by getting your audience to care about the characters (which, honestly, doesn’t take all that much, as humans can form an emotional attachment to a Roomba [literally] and will). Once your audience is invested, you can create tension a million ways. 

It’s entirely possible to tell a story with life and death stakes that’s full of tension, of course, but if you have to have life or death stakes or there won’t be any dramatic tension, you’re not doing your job as a storyteller. 

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[thevioletcaptain]

“Because the characters don’t know the ending. And we care about the characters. We’re experiencing what they’re experiencing vicariously, through them. That’s the catharsis of good storytelling.”

Quoting @mierac for emphasis because this is it.

[catprinx]

how can the world be so cruel, yet its people are so kind

find me at crown_prinxe @ twitter where I cry about my ATLA rewatch

[vanderwauwau]

Wow

[sabertoothwalrus]

more older gaang

[chiptrillino]

Oogies! get a room! not infront of sokkas salad!

[infected]

Kobayashi Kiyochika, Firefiles at Ochanomizu, 1880

[lovely-english-rose]

what a week huh?

[greentrickster]

NEVER FORGET

[greentrickster]

If anyone’s feeling a little tense at the moment, and can’t quite put their finger on why, here’s a reminder of how last November started and why this might be the case. o_o

[jessielefey]

Apparently I badly want to go on my “stop making fun of plague doctors, they were ahead of their time and doing the best they could with the primitive equipment they had available” rant.

[jessielefey]

They weren’t stupid.

They shoved herbs in their breathing hose because they knew the air was bad and hoped it would help, and *they were right* in theory. The plague itself was not an airborn virus, but they couldn’t know that and it wasn’t the only thing killing people at the time anyway, and they covered *all* their bases. If they’d had the technological knowhow to make air tanks, or even better air filters, they would’ve. They just made the best air filters they could.

What we think they wore isn’t exactly what they wore, and what they actually wore would later be repurposed into scuba suits (and thus spacesuits too) and *actual hazmat suits*, because the theory was sound, the materials were just lacking, and honestly what they did with the materials they had was hardcore.

they wore full face protection which avoids the most obvious mucosal transmission routes

INCLUDING GLASS IN THE EYEHOLES. They invented safety goggles before most of the world had nailed down corrective eye glasses yet

they wore additional head protection to cover seams in their mask/hoods

they oiled and waxed all their clothes to make it fluid-resistant

they wore separate but tight fitting equally if not more fluid-resistant gloves and/or armcuffs so they could keep hand contamination to a minimum even when dressing/undressing AND they only wore the suit in areas they thought was contaminated and took it off before entering uncontaminated areas

they may have used herbed vinegar to clean, and if the stories are true this was clever because 1) it’s available and portable 2) pretty effective as far as medieval disinfectants go versus the damage it does the the user (as opposed to what they had for bleach at the time, and the actual percentage level in alcohols at the time which was mostly insufficient for task as well as being needed for more important things); vinegar is *still* a decent disinfectant even now

It honestly took doctors well into the twentieth century to get that level of obsessive attention to hygiene and cross-contamination back. A whole lot of babies and mothers wouldn’t’ve died, for instance, if a plague doctor instead of an obstetrician supported the birth because A PLAGUE DOCTOR WOULD KNOW TO WASH THEIR GODDAMNED HANDS.

Actual plague doctor’s outfits:

[jessielefey]

Who was responsible for turning plague doctors into laughingstocks instead of primative but honoured medical and scientific predecessors anyway?

Was it the Victorians? It was probably the Victorians. Those pretentious sanctimonious jerks ruined everything.

[xekstrin]

#i did not realize people made fun of plague doctors #ive mostly seen people freaked out by the aesthetic #they always seemed to me like a bittersweet example of humanity scared shitless #and still trying really really hard #i’d get very poetic about it #sometimes its a stare out the window and empathize with plague doctors kind of day and that’s just how it is #that’s just how growing up is #i feel like thanks victorians is a strong contender for thanks obama’s throne (tags via @cicadianrhythm)

[petermorwood]

Bravo!