I'll win the war

Fandom side blog for @actuallyitsqueen

[actuallyitscaptain]

Gyatso Lives AU

I went looking for Gyatso!Lives fanworks, and came up empty-handed. This seems wrong, so I thought I’d share some of my ideas for how a Gyatso Lives AU could work and hopefully spark some interest. Feel free to adopt and modify any of these prompts. Credit isn’t necessary but I would appreciate a link to anything made along these lines so I could appreciate it.

It should be obvious but there are major spoilers for Avatar the Last Airbender below the cut.

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[actuallyitscaptain]

I am once again posting this, as I was reminded of it earlier. I really think we're missing a lot of potential comedic opportunities with people thinking Gyatso is the avatar.

How long does it take Zuko to figure it out?

While it's more likely it takes him a minute, imagine he figures it out quickly but no one believes him!

Anyways, I still really like this au...

[bauliya]

i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

[bauliya]

someone should remake lord of the rings as a grandfather telling a fantasy story to his grand child with flashbacks to world war one showing the dead boys and men the characters were based on. grandpa why didn’t they just fly. because they didn’t. they didn’t.

[bauliya]

i’m fine

[moonlightredfern]

I will never get over how Tolkien & Lewis took the horrors of war and spun them into fantasy.

Shivering in the trenches dreaming of cozy hobbit holes, shaking as bombs pockmark a forest and imagining each shallow mud-filled crater contains a new world—that maybe there are still as many beautiful things in the universe as there are bombs—that maybe the world is bigger than this moment and this ugliness and one day this will be a peaceful forest again full of small ponds.

I mean look at these photos of the shell craters in Sanctuary Woods, near Ypres Belgium and tell me it’s not the Wood Between The Worlds:

[alkatyn]

grandpa why didn’t they just fly. because they didn’t. they didn’t.

You get your wings only after its all over

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[blueprxde]

Family by Norm

[bernard-the-rabbit]

Toph Beifong

[sokkastically]

zuko, going in for a forearm handshake, suddenly remembering that sokka is ambidextrous, and his brain short-circuiting a little as he stretches out both of his hands:

sokka, of course, happily dives into the hug

[headaching]

really fucking. hate when i see a meme edited to use atla characters on social media and the replies are inevitably “what is toph doing on twitter? she’s blind, she can’t have social media lol”

i truly don’t have the patience for it. i know it stems from ignorance but it’s ignorance that could be easily researched on the individual’s behalf, and if they did they would quickly find out that blind people do in fact have the ability to enjoy social media. (what do you think image ids are for?)

it’s just incredibly telling about the way the general public infantilizes blind people (and disabled people as a whole) and i wish they would take two seconds to google it before making blind people feel like shit in the replies

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#ableism#another thing i see is having toph just keysmash as if her not being able to see a keyboard is the joke#like what…. theres speech to text? or braille? or literally anything else. 

This is particularly funny because being able to type on a keyboard without looking at the keys is in fact an extremely common skill, and the stated goal of most touch typing courses.

[theimaginatrix27]

I was taught to touch-type at age nine. I’m typing on a normal-ass external keyboard right now. I am permanently totally blind and have been since infancy. Don’t you dare insinuate Toph cannot type. She would get eloquent just to spite you.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Make the dumb content you want to see in the fandom.

[kumeko]

Oh Billy, you look so small right there…

[mcstack]

Superman’s sheer anger over Billy Batson’s situation is a sight to behold. Batman and Robin get away with it because he knows it’s the world’s best internship and that Bruce is willing to put out all the stops to protect him. But Billy? He doesn’t have anyone looking out for him. And that pisses off Superman more than anything.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Seriously, Clark’s face here

He is ready to kick the ass of whoever put this boy in this situation SO HARD

[rael-rider]

Next page he really lets the Wizard Shazam have it.

[nerdgerhl]

Shit, son. I might have to buy this book for those last two panels alone.

[catbountry]

When Superman is written well he is an amazing goddamned character.

[incognitomoustache]

these few pages are some of my favourite in comic book history. So good. For anyone wondering what the next few pages look like, here you go:

This is a bigger deal than some of you might think, because Superman is one of the heroes in the DC Universe who keeps his secret identity pretty damn secret, because as probably the most powerful and influential person on earth, a lot of people do not wish him well - and would jump at the chance to hold people dear to him as leverage.

Yet, he trusts this poor, scared little kid. To comfort him, and entrust him with his biggest secret - just as Billy did for him.

Superman is just really important, ok?

[fipindustries]

this for people to truly understand superman

[ghostalebrije]

…. :’<

[keenarnor]

If I don’t reblog this assume I’m dead. This is top quality Superman

[sagolii-sandcat]

[emeralddarkness]

Superman is such a tricky character to do well, because he is so powerful. He is SO powerful. And people who are basically limitlessly powerful are real easy to make into boring characters, and as a result a lot of people think he is a boring character. But this, this right here, is what Superman is supposed to be, this is what he can be when he’s done well. I love Superman, he’s so good, and I just wish more people knew that.

Superman, at his best, is not written as some kind of god, but is written as a man, one who sees individuals for who they are and meets them there. I wish we got to see him more often.

[forestlingincorporated]

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[stardust948]

Iroh: Listen to what your heart says, Zuko.

Zuko: Ba-bump. Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

[silima]

i like to give myself feelings :’)

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Azula seems to associate her mother with inadequacy and that's such an interesting concept that could imply a lot more about Ursa and how anyone who isn't Zuko might remember her than just "Azula hates her because she was mean/not a good mom"

[professorsparklepants]

Honestly yeah... If you take her comics backstory as canon, Ursa would have been really bad at being royalty. She's from an entirely different social class and has no familiarity with what duties she would be expected to fulfill as the wife of a prince. Given that Zuko's grandmother is likely dead and Iroh's wife is never mentioned, it's probable that Ursa would have been in charge of running the palace's household staff, which I doubt she had any idea how to do at the beginning of her marriage, and may have floundered even after receiving training.

Soft politics is also an important part of being the wife of a public figure (slightly less so in Asian countries where women were historically expected to play very small roles, but we see in canon that the fire nation isn't like that). I can absolutely see Ursa not realizing this was a part of her duties now because the men of the royal family overlooked it or assumed she would just know how to do it. I can also see her trying and failing to insert herself into the fire nation's nobility in an effective way, since the women she'd be interacting with would have been playing politics for way longer.

Overall... I can see it.

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Oh man, this is so in-depth for things I was figuring happened but wasn't even gonna bring up. Like you springboarded into this other facet I wasn't even actively thinking about and explained it better than I could. have.

I meant like, the results of stuff like this, like maybe the stress of it got her picking up unhealthy coping mechanisms. Excessive drinking, breaking her own things, disordered eating, that kind of thing. Little things she'd be too embarassed to share with Zuko. Things that would make Iroh worried while not entirely sure if he should bring it up. Things that Ozai would point out to Azula as signs of weakness and she'd feel special and grown up for noticing them now too while her brother still didn't know.

I guess that would be the other side of the coin to your analysis. Like it would be pathetic enough if she was just bad at things she should know how to do, but she can't even accept her failures. She just wallows in shame. Like Azula sees her mother as everything she refuses to let herself be.

And then when her self-doubt is at its strongest, she sees her mother in the mirror, hears her talking as if they are the same. Azula's imperfect -- a failure -- and her mother -- a greater failure who sees herself in her daughter -- would still love her for it. How could she react in anything but violent anguish?

[gaiuslickedcoins]

A baby Elyan practicing his fighting skills with a spatula at home.

Gwen catches him one day, and he gets defensive (aka the sibling response to knowing you've just handed over teasing material). He says that he was swatting an annoying fly, totally not training or anything, and of course he can reach the shelf where their father keeps the swords, thank you very much.

Gwen of course teases him, and then tells Leon who also teases him. Elyan storms off into the forest. Gwen and Leon find him after a while. Gwen asks him to teach her what he knows and Leon offers to show them tricks he learns from the knights.

They sneak away from home every other day to practice together. They even borrowed real swords once (Gwen and Elyan helped a clumsy Leon wield it).

The days Leon can't come with them, Elayn and Gwen stay at home practicing with spatulas and pans.

[gaiuslickedcoins]

#i love them <3 #it's all about the ✨ bonding ✨#i have so many feelings about them as children #leon getting mocked because he's so desperate to be a knight and has no shame in asking all the questions #elyan and gwen always being there when people go to tom and getting told off for trying to touch everything and having no self-preservation #and leon deciding he wants to protect these two with his life and them thinking they're taking him under their wing and helping him #and just the three of them looking out for each other and actually being kids for once #leon loosens up a little around them#apart from when he panics that elyan has eaten a frog or gwen has cut herself on a sword #but at least neither of them fall out of a tree twice in a row like he does #(leon is not made for climbing) #the smith siblings  @lit-beyond-measure​ these tags! Im lauging XD

Gwen would be so exasperated with Leon worrying about her bec “It’s just a tiny cut Leon, we’ve both had worse.”

Elyan confesses that he ate the frog to give Leon company bec Leon drank water from the pond the other day which had tadpoles in them and those tadploes are now growing in his stomach. Cue baby Leon freaking out about becoming a mother to a buch of frogs. The three of them come up with a whole plan to parent these frogs together.

[purrincesskittens]

Just had a funny thought for my dragon atla au for @muffinlance that I may expand on and write out later but dragon Azula getting jealous that Zuko has a new dad that loves him and gives him affection no matter what form he is in. No she is not jealous how dare you imply that. Her father is a much better dad then Zuko's new water tribe dad. Even if Zuko's water tribe dad let's him coil around him and climb him and strokes his scales and scratches behind his horns all things Ozai has never done before not even with her his perfect golden child. No she isn't jealous at all she doesn't need those things she isn't a hatchling.

Zuko smirks at her and gives a hiss rubbing his cheek against HIS dad. How dare he claim a non dragon blood as hoard as family in front of her!! Hoards weaken you everyone knows that. Ozai beat it into them both when they first shifted. Mai and Ty Lee are not her hoard thank you very much they are her subordinates not her friends. Hoards make you weak and she isn't weak. How dare Zuko look down on her just because he is coiled around his new father who is taller then her no matter what form she takes. She is superior he should know this by now. She finds her own perch a even better one then Zuko's. Hers is taller and a dragon!

Bato did not agree to being a climbing post for a small lightning dragon especially one who doesn't seem to care if her claws HURT. He tries to unsuccessfully pry her off. She just bites her new perch. Most of the crew find it hilarious that their chief and chief's second have young dragons coiled around them that are hissing and glaring at each other. The other two dragons on board the Akhult can't understand what the two are saying but they don't really need to in order to know they are having a petty argument over fathers and human shaped perches.

Panuk cheerfully roots Zuko on instead of helping his fellow dragon disentangle the fiesty young dragon who has claimed him as a perch. There are plenty of sparks flying between the two dragon siblings literally and figuratively. Bato finally gives up and shifts forcing Azula to uncoil herself from him as his is much bigger as a dragon then she anticipated not that it will stop her from using him to tower over her brother. Bato did not agree to adopt a fire nation teenager one is enough as a unoffical honorary nephew.