PRINCESS

azula + avatar aang. toph + sokka. cruella + jasper. helga + arnold. spencer + toby. blair + dan. gina + ricky. katherine + stefan. tory + robby. padme + anakin. hermione + tom. wednesday + tyler. alina + aleskander. kiara + rafe. alison dilaurentis. rebecca du winter.

[colduaire]

“ maybe it's a blessing in disguise, i see my reflection in your eyes. ”

[moonss-and-stars]

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”

- Charles Bukowski

[dollynatally]

[ivy-afterglow]

teen wolf be like: someone dies another person dies the town is under supernatural attack again

and then there’s a lacrosse game

[bcywonder-a]

“gary giggles?” “yeah?” “it’s carmen cortez.  i need you right away.” “i’m there.”

that’s love honey

[libraryofbrokenhearts]

i just need this kind of found family in my life 😭

[lunamonchtuna]

— Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017 (via lunamonchtuna)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[waywardavatarenthusiast]

The Best Thing About Azula?

Can I just say that the best thing about Azula is her strength. Not as a fire bender, or a leader, but as a character. 

She gets half the screen time of her brother but still manages to get at least 2/3 as large a fanbase of his own. Her fan base is also much more intelligent. 

They give her red lipstick and other “older girl” things. Note the way Katara is constantly acknowledged as the pretty girl and despite Azula being just as if not more beautiful, every other guy in the series describes her as scary or weird. Is Azula those things? Yes. However, Katara got that attention without saying anything, and Azula got her own attention without saying anything. Like the beach episode where the guys are all over Mai and Ty Lee before Azula even does anything when she’s prettier than both of them. I know it sounds dumb that I’m comparing the beauty of cartoon characters but the idea behind that is because Azula is conventionally beautiful but that’s not the image the story is trying to project. The story is trying to project an older, seductive, and dangerous woman and rarely show her without makeup to downplay the fact that she’s a child. Fandom edits the makeup right off her and shows the little girl underneath.

The writers joke about her breaking down on Sozin’s Comet and call her a soulless, scary mess. It’s supposed to be funny. Instead it’s the most tragic ending in the story, it gains her twice the sympathy she had prior, and unleashes all this media and a new part of the atla fandom. 

Now this one isn’t on Bryke. It’s on Gene Luen Yang (I’ll do another post on him later). Azula’s mother is her kryptonite, she’s the Ozai to Azula’s Zuko on a less physically violent note. Instead of following that development, Yang tries to make Ursa this perfect woman and writes just the stupidest snap shots of Azula doing “bad things” (stealing mochi and burning flowers). The only thing is shows anyone with a brain is Ursa’s terrible parenting. He tries to perpetuate the idea that the love and affection Azula doesn’t receive is a result of her own behavior which is just the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. But the best thing is Azula fans noticing this and it only adds fuel to the dislike for Ursa and leaves more sympathy for Azula.

But by far, the worst sin those comics did was Kiyi. Yes, I’m talking about the toddler, and I do mean everything I say. Kiyi is Ursa’s other daughter. She’s a great firebender for her age and calls Zuko by the name Zuzu. Her very existence crushes half of Azula’s chance of redemption and all the chance of her reconciliation with Ursa. Aside from the fact that the child and Ikem feel like a huge blemish to the Royal Family’s story line, she is exactly Angelic Child! Azula. I get to say that because there is absolutely no other personality to her. And I am so thankful that she didn’t popularize like Yang wanted her to. Most people don’t know she exists and the ones who do haven’t forgotten about Azula. 

I change my mind. The best thing about Azula is her fanbase. Not all of it, but the part that is whole enough within themselves to see past a harmful and false narrative and see a child. A child whom they will never, ever, give up on. 

[0bscvr1ty]

Gee, thanks, uncle.

Zuko: "Uncle... you were unconscious. Azula did this to you. It was a surprise attack."

Iroh: "Somehow, that's not so surprising."[Groans.]

Zuko: [Hands Iroh some tea.] "I hope I made it the way you like it."

[Iroh takes a sip from the cup and his eyes widen. He lets out a cry of disgust, but manages to mask it.]

Iroh: [Grimaces.] "Good. That was very ... uhhh ... bracing."

[He is handed another cup, which he throws out secretly behind his shoulder.]

Zuko: "So Uncle, I've been thinking. It's only a matter of time before I run into Azula again. I'm going to need to know more advanced firebending if I want to stand a chance against her. I know what you're going to say: she's my sister and I should be trying to get along with her."

Iroh: [With the exact opposite of Zuko's thoughts.] "No, she's crazy, and she needs to go down."

[Zuko nods.]

Zuko expecting his uncle to want to help out with the relationship he has with his sister, plus his conflicted looking expression is something I think about sometimes.

Yes, Iroh, she shot you. Yes, Iroh, Zuko will need to know better firebending for self defense. No, Iroh, you can't say that about your own niece. You've done worse things.

Zuko here, well,

[kaiselinn]

Aang redraw from Sozin's comet part 3 💞

[devinellekurtz]

When we first met

[kaiselinn]

Aang redraw from Sozin's comet part 3 💞

[poodpoopsie]

So an old man meets an old friend with a new face...

[the-ody-ssey]

I've recently been on the avatar side of tiktok and I've been BAWLING over this freaking comment

THE CREATIVITY??? OH MY GOOOODDD IM LITERALLY SOBBING

SERIOUS APPLAUSE TO THE ONE WHO WROTE IT

[zeke-best]

This artwork by the artist for the first five comics is canon I don't care what anyone says Azula redeemed herself and she and Zuko reconciled and are both happy and loved

[aesilvy-blog]

Azulaang modern au!

The unconventional highschool couple haha,im obsessed with them ^-^

…i just realized i left a dot when i was drawing the sketch..goddammit =_=