and i will watch cartoons until my eyes go square

Animation sideblog for @sensicalabsurdities (mid-20s) || AtLA, TDP, KatAoW, MHA, SRatPoP, VLD, YOI, Disney Movies, etc. || Title is a reference to a line from "When I Grow Up" from Matilda

[atlaculture]

Cultural Fashion: Sokka’s Choker

From what I’ve researched, chokers are traditionally worn by some Native American tribes rather than by Inuit, who traditionally prefer looser fitting necklaces. But Sokka’s particular choker is identical to traditional Inupiat bracelets, which are made from walrus or whale ivory.

Which means that Sokka might just be wearing a bracelet as a choker. And I can’t think of anything more perfectly Sokka than using an item for something beyond its intended purpose. I can totally imagine how the whole thing started:

Mother Kya: “One day, when Katara gets married, I’ll give her this necklace that Gran-Gran gave to me.”

Lil Sokka: “No fair! Why don’t I get anything?”

Hakoda: “Sokka, this necklace is for girls only.”

Lil Sokka: “Fine, I’ll just make my own necklace.” *ties his bracelet around his neck and immediately starts choking*

Gran-Gran: *sighs* I’ll get more string…

[za-ra-h]

Zuko from Avatar the last Airbender

[rakarchive-deactivated20191109]

really love imagining a bunch a kids and teens on their pokemon journeys staying the night on the couches and floors in the lobbies of pokemon centers, having long talks about their experiences and feelings sharing funny and scary stories and myths about legendaries and trading items and sharing TMs along with sugary snacks and pokedex chargers all while their pokemon are out of their pokeballs and all bundled up in blankets sleeping soundly next to their trainers while they stare up at the stars shining through the glass ceiling over their heads

[dubustuff]

#this is what pokemon’s all about

[jollysunflora]

#this is…so nice

[prof-peach]

I just…really like this idea man. So I drew a thing.

[deansbisexualflannel]

barbie anyone?

[demaparbat-hp]

Someone save Sokka

[luriuan]

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

One time they just stuck him in a hole in the ground for a whole episode.

[ectojester]

This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.

If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.

[faerose-art]

💗🦋

[goblinchief]

Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

[hippy-craic]

[suitcasesoffeathers]

This was my entry to the Voltron Summer Art Contest! I didn’t win, but I had a lot of fun working on this and it’s been a while since I’ve pushed myself this much, so I’m grateful for that haha! (Also congrats to the winner!!!)

Please enjoy each individually painted cloud LOL

[thief-of-eggs]

I will never get over Aang using Zuko’s own BED to beat him up. Like the absolute gall??? Aura- unmatched. Absolutely destroyed him. Bamboozled and befuddled him.

I honestly don’t blame Zuko for his blind rage/obsessive desire to catch Aang because honestly, after that?? I’d need to catch the man who did that to me too

[wileycap]

I have no idea what to do with this, but wouldn't it be neat if Aang started doing all of his bending using the wrong style of bending? Just because he can?

Airbending? No, actually, it's humid in here. I used the water in the air :) nope, just manipulated the temperature with firebending. Common mistake! They look very similar!

Oh no, that wasn't earthbending. That was airbending. I'm basically just compressing the air! Sokka came up with that!

Avatar Aang comes in to give a bending demonstration, and immediately 60-year-old masters start gnawing the furniture because what do you MEAN that was waterbending!!! You made flames!!!? We've been studying this all our lives why would you come in and do this to us

[ai0lisauce]

Do NOT leave these in tags OP

[treatop]

superhero birthdays 🎂

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

More on “Zuko doesn’t know who anyone is at any given point” and “toph is NOT helping him get better”

[ironinkpen]

one aspect of avatar canon i feel like isn't talked about nearly enough is the fact that zuko canonically has prophetic dreams

[ironinkpen]

like during zuko's Morality Coma in season 2 he has an incredibly vivid dream about two red and blue dragons, and then in season 3 he just fucking. meets the exact same dragons for real? there are slight differences in how they look but otherwise he genuinely just dreamed about ran and shaw months before actually seeing them in person? and it's never elaborated on but huh???

[ironinkpen]

zuko: yeah i had some weird fever dreams. there were like these two dragons circling me, and the blue one sounded like azula and wanted me to die or whatever, and the red one sounded like you and was telling me not to do that—

iroh, the only person in this house who should know what those fucking dragons look like: hey What

[ironinkpen]

zuko for sure keeps having dreams like this for YEARS without connecting the dots that it's weird spirit shenanigans. aang eventually has to point it out to him and even then he thinks it's Uncle Bullshit for several more years

[puppetmaster55]

so what you’re saying is—

Zuko, freshly scarred: I had a dream that Uncle and I were clinging to a piece of driftwood for weeks before we ended up at a lovely spa and tended to and all my injuries were healed up

Iroh, years later, on week two of driftwood era: maybe I underestimated the sense of humor that the spirits have

[saitoakirachan-fangirls]

[crystallizedtwilight]

am i wrong

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I don't think I realized how funny Cobra Bubbles' line "It won't be easy to explain this back at headquarters" is until I remembered that he's former CIA. He's going back to the Department of Child Services and will have to explain that aliens exist and that keeping this family together is now a matter of planetary security. It's gonna be a long week in the office.

[outpastthemoat]

personally i think there should have been at least one episode where sokka collects aang and zuko and is like, “looks like we’re running low on supplies.  time for a GUYS-ONLY field trip.  three days of hunting and fishing and polishing our swords.  y’know, manly warrior stuff.  (aang, sotto voce: actually sokka i’m a vegetarian as you know–)  you girls have fun sitting around braiding your hair and talking about your crushes” and then the entire episode is just zuko and sokka lying around by a river, plucking blades of grass and staring up at the stars confiding in each other their deepest feelings and most secret insecurities while aang braids flower crowns, and whenever the screen cuts back to katara and toph and suki, they’re fighting and screaming and hacking away at river pirates and evil spirits and legions of assassins and hired mercenaries with swords.  you know, as girls do.

and when the boys finally drag themselves back to camp (they stayed up way too late discussing what true leadership really means and whether or not power always corrupts)  they find suki and toph and katara lounging around with black eyes and fresh bruises and bloodstained weapons and sokka shrieks, “what were you guys DOING while we were gone???”  and karata just shugs innocently and says in her sweetest voice, “oh, you know.  just girly things”

[outpastthemoat]

they are absolutely still wearing the crowns and they don’t have a single fish to show for their efforts

[hofudlaus]

i did it