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[mostrovskaa]

Some art of my beloved ocs Lechior and Rutyk :-D (btw I have made an instagram account so if you prefer that platform feel free to follow me there as well: mostrovskaa on ig).

[adalheidis]

Knight and mermaids

[anasabdin]

Blue Hour Inc.

[zuko-always-lies]

What do the chakras tell us about Aang?

First Chakra:

Pathik: First we will open the Earth Chakra, located at the base of the spine. It deals with survival, and is blocked by fear. What are you most afraid of? Let your fears become clear to you. Aang sees images of things that cause him great fear, including the Blue Spirit attacking him, General Fong sinking Katara into the ground, himself merging with La at the North Pole, Fire Lord Ozai, and Sozin's Comet, which make him scream.

Aang is afraid of

The Blue Spirit

Katara getting hurt (while he's helpless to save her)

Sozin's Comet (and the danger it poses to the world?)

His own uncontrolled power in the Avatar State

His own uncontrolled power as Kaiju Koi

Firelord Ozai

Second Chakra:

Pathik: Next is the ... Aang: Water Chakra? Pathik: Brilliant! Maybe one day you will be a guru too! This chakra deals with pleasure and is blocked by guilt. Now, look at all the guilt which burdens you so. What do you blame yourself for? Aang: [Sees the image of him leaving home.] I ran away. [Sees images of him in the Avatar State at General Fong's base.] I hurt all of those people.

Aang feels guilty over

Running away and abandoning his people to their fate.

The people he hurt in the Avatar State.

Third Chakra:

Pathik: Third is the Fire Chakra, located in the stomach. Aang: [Holding his stomach.] My Fire Chakra would like to eat something other than onion-banana juice. Pathik: [Chuckles.] Good one! Moving on. This chakra deals with willpower, and is blocked by shame. What are you ashamed of? [Cuts to Aang's vision of his first attempt at firebending, which resulted in him accidentally burning Katara's hands.] What are your biggest disappointments in yourself? Aang: I'm never going to firebend again. I can't.

Aang feels ashamed over losing control of his firebending and burning Katara.

Fourth Chakra:

Pathik: The fourth chakra is located in the heart. It deals with love and is blocked by grief. [Aang smiles and looks at a Air Nomad statue nearby before looking sad.] Lay all your grief out in front of you. Aang sees images of many airbenders, including Gyatso and Yangchen. He smiles upon seeing them, but becomes saddened as they start to vanish into smoke. Pathik: You have indeed felt a great loss. [The airbenders appear floating in the clouds.] But love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us. [Aang is lifted into the air and sees the Air Nomads floating in the smoke.] The Air Nomads' love for you has not left this world. It is still inside of your heart, and is reborn in the form of new love. The smoke in front of Aang forms a face and shows the first thing he saw upon waking up from his iceberg: Katara. Back in the real world, Aang is starting to cry tears of joy. Pathik: Let the pain flow away. [Aang wipes away his tears.] Very good.

Aang feels grief over losing his people, and Katara is the antidote for this grief.

Fifth Chakra:

Pathik: The fifth in the chain is the Sound Chakra, located in the throat. It deals with truth and is blocked by lies. The ones we tell ourselves. Aang flashes back to when he, Katara, and Sokka first began their journey to the North Pole. Katara (flashback): Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar? Back to the real world, Aang finds himself answering the question. Aang: Because I never wanted to be. Pathik: You cannot lie about your own nature. You must accept that you are the Avatar. [Aang inhales and, seeing an image of himself on a cliff looking down at the ground, exhales, and accepts his nature.] Very good, Aang. You have opened the chakra of truth.

Aang's greatest deception is refusing to accept that he's the Avatar.

Sixth Chakra:

Pathik: The sixth pool of energy is the light chakra, located in the center of the forehead. It deals with insight and is blocked by illusion. The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same. Aang: [An image is shown of the world, with the four nations' territories marked.] Like the four nations. Pathik: [The image changes so the territories become the same color.] Yes. We are all one people, [The territories become separate again.] but we live as if divided. Aang: We're all connected. Everything is connected. Pathik: That's right! Even the separation of the four elements is an illusion. If you open your mind, you will see that all the elements are one. Four parts of the same whole. Even metal is just a part of earth that has been purified and refined.

Aang must realize that everything is connected and nothing is separate. This is the only chakra that isn't about Aang.

Seventh Chakra:

Pathik: The Thought Chakra is located at the crown of the head. It deals with pure cosmic energy, and is blocked by earthly attachment. Meditate on what attaches you to this world. [Images of Katara appear before Aang.] Now, let all of those attachments go. Let them flow down the river, forgotten. Aang: [Coming out of his meditation.] What? Why would I let go of Katara? I ... I love her! Pathik: Learn to let her go, or you cannot let the pure cosmic energy flow in from the universe. Aang: Why would I choose cosmic energy over Katara? [Aang throws his hands up.] How could it be a bad thing that I feel an attachment to her? Three chakras ago that was a good thing!

further

Aang: I'm sorry, but I can't let go of Katara. Pathik: Aang, to master the Avatar State, you must open all the chakras. Surrender yourself. Aang: Okay, I'll try. Pathik: Now think of your attachments and let them go. Let the pure cosmic energy flow. Aang sees an image of him letting Katara go, and a bridge that will lead him to Avatar State mastery. His image looks down, smiles at the bridge, and walks up to the Avatar Spirit, which is an enlarged image of himself in the Avatar State. The Avatar Spirit is holding a ball of energy, and Aang walks directly inside of it. As he does so, his tatooes glow, and he closes his eyes. Right before he is able to completely open the final chakra and master the Avatar State, however, he hears a shriek from Katara and sees a vision of her in chains. At this, he jumps out of the energy sphere and runs away from the Avatar Spirit. The energy bridge that lead him there slowly vanishes behind him until it catches up and falls from underneath him, causing his image to plummet toward Earth. This cuts his connection to the Avatar State, which forces him back to reality. Aang: Katara's in danger! I have to go! [Prepares to exit.] Pathik: No, Aang! By choosing attachment, you have locked the chakra! If you leave now, you won't be able to go into the Avatar State at all!

Katara is Aang's biggest attachment, but he was reluctantly willing to let her go until he realized she was in danger.

P.S. As a final note, it's interesting that Katara appears in 5 of the 7 chakras.

[heylsgowt]

[probablily]

me in the echo chamber: exactlyyy, literallyyyy

[boitterfly]

exactlyyy, literallyyyy

[bobdevikingking]

yyyyllarxectlttyyy

[myovin]

Finally opening commissions!!

[luna-azzurra]

Ways to describe Green Hair!!<3

[phobic-human]

“The Palestinian Nakba is unsurpassed in history. For a country to be occupied by a foreign minority, emptied almost entirely of its people, its physical and cultural landmarks obliterated, its destruction hailed as a miraculous act of God and a,victory for freedom and civilized values, all done according to a premeditated plan meticulously executed, financially and politically supported from abroad, and still maintained today, is no doubt unique”

— Salman Abu Sitta (via farahfilasteen)

[cymk8]

karbubu and sharbubu for my brithday

(full art and other versions on patreon)

[faerie-fang]

oh harrow.. what did you do?

(pic from me and @discount-kirishima 's harrow cosplay shoot)

[horoart]

gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines

[pantamonte]

Blehh 💕

Drawing stuff on magma on a borrowed device til my laptop is fixed

[bobdevikingking]

HOT

[gaangsta]

[bobdevikingking]

Welcome to my Avatar Magic System Diatribe

All elements in are a mix of different philosophies, alchemical ileals, and soul mixing.

Like in most magical systems “Magic” is a physical manifestation of the soul, of the supernatural. We “human” tm is in someways the Pysical manifestation of the “mind” tm this is a reliticlty straightforward binary that eveIn this way many there are other binaries that the elments can be undterstoods as.

I believe our first major hint for what is possible is the symbols of the nations them selves, in alchemy the shorthand for perfection is a circle and this waves living aesthetic looks very perfection or isolation of ideal. In each of these is an ideal perfectly contained, a way of living life.

Just like in real life these ideals are constantly mixed an no person really lives one ideal, or even a coherent ideal without awareness and disaplin.

Within these ideals they can also be informed by the Jing like nutral Jing and there’s like 80+ of these so trying to track them all, many of which are more subjectively diffrent is impossible and I don’t believe are closely followed to the eastern philosophy anyways but are more consetual.

I think our magic system can be best understood by what they can actually do. We take the material reality of what we see in sub elements and use that to figure what is actually happening in the minds our the characters in this world.

From that we can see that we have a number of diffrent sub elements, the tenqniques used to ultilize some of these give us our most explicit examples of how people in this world who understand the magic system the most can express to us the audience the more specific Jing that exist.

This would be things like flight that is an expression less of the soul purely but of the spirit of a person that when once has no spirt and lives for nothing can detach themselves from what weighs people down, literally. This hollowness is a kind of extreme expression of using ones spirit to change the soul.

There is combustion bending which is a fire bending teqnique but is most heavily influenced by the type of aggressive change that we see water benders use to heat things up.

We see Korra in some of her fire bending create some of these little blasts and it’s known that they way we get combustion benders is though drip water torchure, seeming using the spirit of change in its most aggressive Jing which appears to being creating areas of compression which can then explode.

Now the most interesting to me is spirit bending. This seems to be something that water benders, air benders and likely all benders could to but is rarely learned. It appears anyone given the ability to bend any element can work towards this but doing this over bending the elements to express intent or achieve a goal of the mind is rare and only done when heavily interacting with the magic of this world who’s rarest expression is what I’ll call cosmic bending when one interacts and bleeds their soul with the fabric of the universe. The only people we’ve seen do this is our 2 resident I really can figure this magic system out people who are Toph who can sense all people in the world with using a form of swamp bending that connects her sense with everyone in multiple planes and Guru Pathik who may not have the ability to have a physical expression of his mind but has gained some longevity though connecting his spirit though the understanding of Charkras, something decidedly different but connected to the ability to use certain Jing.

This understanding of cosmic energies allows Korra to become a giant spirit when mixed with the air bending form of astral projection, combining the mind and spirit to imagine a Titan form of one’s self where they’re most needed by using the connection that all things have to each other is only able to be done with cosmic spirits of the avatar and the dark avatar.

So to understand all the many combinations of bending I believe it can be done in a few ways, one though the will to physically manifest though mental will and manifestation of the body which is most of the bending we see. Second is connecting with others and bleeding your spirits with others. That is the most pure form of the power that makes the magic system work and is states throughout the series. Thirdly is taking a manifestation and using the discipline or an ideal or Jing to create something that is within a physical manifestation of something and is followed to the point that it creates a unique physical manifestation, a mixture of which can create most of the factions that we see. The Opression the Di Lee creates gives them unique control over their earth bending, the Sun Temple Firebenders belief in harmony and life makes them different from any other firebenders we see and even individuals like Mako who at the end of Ledgend of Korra with his very grounded Jing lighting focus is able to survive bending the vines spirit energy and defuse a volatile spirit, a completion of his bending arc in the series.

Thoughout the series many of the most powerful benders are those who can connect with others and understand the philosophies of others, the pinical of this being Iroh who used this to ascend his body into the spit world without explicitly dying.

This can be an explanation for many of the stranger bending practices that we see, using the ideas of stagnant binaries is mostly useless in this world and the better understanding is that these are all manifestations of peoples souls given the ability to express themselves outside of only their bodies.

This liberation is what I think makes the avatar magic system feel so fresh and free. That yes I, can have the will if I just lock in to actually make the world aware of my soul beyond our available expression is really beautiful and the way that that expression is made to seem so natural gives us the audience a real place to dream.

[quentims]

Neck kisses

[quentims]

Lovers’ Sanctuary