aangisbaby

[avatarobi]

Holy shit Uncle Iroh takes no prisoners when it comes to being an ally

[pinceauarcenciel]

Here's my full piece for @crossroadszine vol. II! This comic was done in collaboration with @squidpro-quo as a sequel for their fic Iro(h)ny 🍵

Leftover sales are open, don't miss your chance to get a copy of the zine or pretty Atla merchs ✨

※ Fanart: Avatar: The Last Airbender © Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko

Bonus Madame Miyuki concepts:

[emkini]

Guileless son, I’ll shape your belief And you’ll always know that your father’s a thief And you won’t understand the cause of your grief But you’ll always follow the voices beneath

[sockfus]

currently thinking abt when sokka and piandao hug before sozins comet...

[bernard-the-rabbit]

and they called it puppy love

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I just love the moments when Zuko acts younger than his age due to his severely stunted social skills.  like when he’s acting like a bratty preschooler while being gently bossed around by iroh in ba sing se or when he’s trying to socialize with the gaang for the first time.

I mean, let’s be real: Zuko has been starving for the attention of his peers for years, and once he gets his first dose of social approval and acceptance on his field trip with aang, he ends up going a bit off the rails chasing the high of Friendship.  like he’s trying SO HARD to be Just A Normal Guy here, but he waaaaay overshoots his mark and ends up going all the way back around to “something’s a litttttle off about this dude” again.

I can’t get over how Zuko, when confronted with the mystifying quandary of how to make friends for the first time in his socially-deprived adolescent life, draws an absolute blank and, with no actual hands-on experience to draw from, simply defaults to “imitate Uncle.”

Zuko’s thought process immediately after joining the gaang was clearly: “I really want these people to like me.  Uncle would say that I should just be myself and show them the real me.  but that will never work!!  I’m not likable!!!  …but Uncle is.  everyone likes Uncle.  obvious solution: just be Uncle and everything will be Fine,” and then proceeded to give his best imitation of iroh down to the tea and bad jokes.

Zuko after possibly the world’s worst punchline delivery: “This is great! I’m going to get a good grade in Being Uncle, a thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve!” 

“nailed it”

[adriancatrin]

just a reminder that azulas hair arc is just as important to her character as zukos is to his

her first real intro draws attention to the perfection of her hair (“only one hair out of place”)

after ty lee and mai betray her, while she’s attacking the western air temple & zuko, her hair frays and she eventually pulls out her hairpin to catch herself on the cliff side, a hint at the self destruction she’s willing to endure to achieve her goal

and ofc when she becomes firelord and has her psychotic episode, she cuts her hair into a ragged mess

zukos arc is about rejecting the original idea of what honor is and coming to and achieving your own sense of honor, and azulas is about failing to achieve perfection and losing control of yourself in the process. the evolution of their hair shows this so well—zukos is just more obvious

[aangarchy]

my favorite chaotic scene in atla has to be the one where Zuko and Aang get glued stuck in the sun warrior ruins. just Aang yelling bloody murder bc he's never been in a situation like this without someone eventually helping him out, Zuko telling him to be fucking quiet bc he's used to being left to his own devices, Aang asking what they should do instead and Zuko proposing to have an existential crisis together. absolute gold i'm telling you

[im-the-batmann]

[my-atla-fan-blog]

[artvaultz]

2D pamdemic animation doodles reel (2020-2021)

basically all of the finished and perpetually unfinished animation i did since the beginning of 2020 through 2021

// tw for alucard transformation between [00:23, 00:26), also flashing images during and immediately following this.

i felt like i hadnt done much of anything since finishing school, but i guess ive at least not done nothing :) its cool seeing some improvement!

used: clip studio paint EX, wacom intuos pro, every last ounce of willpower ;u; (took me so long to even start putting this together)

[crispykodraws]

The hairdresser was banished

[dukeofdelirium]

god can’t stop thinking about that post talking about how lightning is a representation for abuse and how lightning redirection is Zuko letting it pass through him but not destroy him and now I can’t stop thinking about how Iroh refuses to conjure lightning because Iroh, unlike Ozai, loves Zuko as if Zuko were his own son. and how Zuko specifically teaches Aang how to redirect lightning, because Aang is 13 now, and Zuko probably seems himself in Aang. sees his own 13 year old self begging for his father’s forgiveness, his father who burned half of his face off just for speaking out of turn. how he probably is scared sending this kid off to go face his father because Zuko knows that his father has no issue with murdering a child. and how Aang shows Ozai mercy by redirecting the lighting back into the sky and not killing him, shows him the mercy that he couldn’t and wouldn’t show to his own son. and all of it on the 100th anniversary of the Air Nomad’s genocide, no less. just like how when Aang first entered the avatar state, Ozai tried to burn his face in the same spot he burned Zuko’s, but Aang smacks his hand away, like a subtle way of standing up for Zuko in that moment, standing against the abuse Zuko went through, standing up for his friend. and how lightning redirection was invented by Iroh by watching waterbenders, water being an element of change and healing. god damn. god it fucking hits different. shut up this is literally the best show ever, literally nothing will ever top it.

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today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one.  it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy.  zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive

[mugges]

just another day at the tea shop

[aimasart]

just realised i never posted this here omg

[sabellart]

god bless iroh’s patience