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Benioff and Weiss Adapt Avatar: The Last Airbender
What if Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff & Dan Weiss (D&D) were given the chance to adapt the ATLA as a live-action show?
They name it “The Fire Lord.”
They encourage their actors not to watch ATLA.
Azula is made more sympathetic. Ozai and Ursa had a third child, a younger brother, and we learn in a flashback that Azula was his quasi-mom for a bit and very protective of him. But he died in a firebending training accident. She bonds with Katara in Crossroads of Destiny about it. When giving an interview about that scene, Weiss says that this “speaks to the complexity of who Azula is as a person” and Benioff says, “she’s always manipulative…at the same time I believe her that she was distraught at the death of this brother.”
Zuko is made less sympathetic. He didn’t give a shit about the younger brother in a flashback. When D&D give interviews about Zuko’s behavior in the flashback, they say “this is the real Zuko. You know, he’s the monster who burned Suki’s village down. He’s a beast who loves killing.”
Iroh and Jeong Jeong are combined…Iroh warps to where Aang is to teach him the breathing technique in “The Deserter” and then warps back without mentioning it to Zuko or anything else changing. Zhao’s backstory is dropped as a result.
Mai and Ty Lee are combined into just Ty Lee, who wears her bikini outfit for all her fights. Instead of chi-blocking or sword throwing, Ty Lee is made more empowered by being a firebender who’s pretty much as good as Azula. At one point she captures Sokka, but decides that if he compliments her appearance, she’ll just let him go. She pops out her tits to enable this. He does, and nothing else comes of this scene.
Ty Lee is also is the one to date Zuko for a bit during the events of early Book 3, but because of the Madonna-Whore complex the show has established it’s made evident that it’s a really bad thing.
Speaking of, Azula is desexualized as much as possible, in contrast to the source material (also this, point #3).
Yue is made more empowered by being a badass waterbender. She runs around the Northern Water Tribe sass-talking everyone, and despite the arranged marriage thing, hops into bed with Sokka soon after meeting him. The whole “women have to heal and not fight” thing that Katara challenges is dropped.
Yue is killed by Zhao in battle rather than sacrificing herself. The spirits don’t exist, so it wouldn’t have served any purpose to have her go out that way. However, when Yue is killed, we cut to Sokka to see how sad he is, and how her death helped spur his growth.
Aang is made toxically masculine. He has no hang-ups about going into the Avatar State. In fact, he LOVES the Avatar State. He only ran away from the nomads when he found out he’d have to be celibate.
The “read more” is for length, but I also want to give a quick warning before the jump: even though I did tag the triggers, this is an intense read. Like…it was actively difficult for me to write this post. But hopefully it’s illuminating.
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Benioff and Weiss Adapt Legend of Korra
What if GoT showrunners (D&D) were given the chance to adapt the Legend of Korra as a live-action show?
Korra is made more empowered by continually fighting people, which is the only way D&D show her character development. Instead of confronting Amon with Mako, she goes off with Iroh II to fight Hiroshi’s fleet. To get new airbenders to join the Nation, she challenges them all to duels. In her Korra Alone segment she saves a town from bandits.
After the events of Book 3, Korra never actually loses her ability to walk, nor does she have any supernatural visions or is shown struggling with PTSD. On occasion she makes remarks about how her “fighting feels slower” so we remember she’s apparently recovering, but she’s the victor in every battle despite that.
Every spirit is cut except Raava and Vaatu. There’s still the Spirit World, and Korra still opens the portals, but other than the airbending coming post Harmonic Convergence, nothing changes.
There’s no Wan flashbacks. Korra still goes to the Fire Nation to get help, but she has to sneak in because they all want revenge on Aang for reducing their borders (except the Fire Lord who is the one reasonable person). A hilarious fight ensues between Korra and some locals. Izumi refuses to help so Korra just goes back. Later, Raiko tells her Avatar Wan’s backstory.
Mako is the ultimate woobie. Everything with the love triangle that occurs happens only because Korra and Asami are being catty with each other.
He’s also an unquestionable hero with no flaws. Mako ends up confronting Amon alone because he is so threatening to the Equalist, but he wins. His lightning bending kills Amon in the process.
Bolin gets killed off by Ghazan, but then Mako distracts him with a clever witticism and kills both him and Ming-Hua in one shot. Bolin never learns lavabending. It didn’t affect the end-game.
Asami is given airbending post Harmonic Convergence to make her more interesting, and she decides to get revenge on her father. She is given a side-quest during the events of B3 to kill him, and she enlists the help of Iroh II. He ends up raping her, but it is never talked about, and the two of them continue the mission as if it didn’t happen. When asked about it, D&D reply “the sex became consensual by the end.”
Lin and Suyin are combined (but still named Lin). She’s a mom who left her kids to go be a Tough Cop and she walks around attacking people rather than talking out her problems.
Iroh II is always announcing who he is. He’ll walk into a scene and go “I am Iroh II! I fight for the United Republic!” They wanted to make him unique, so instead of being a firebender, he’s a sandbender.
When Opal first meets Bolin and goes “just kidding!” she pops out her tits, to demonstrate what an empowered woman she is.
Once Bolin dies, Opal immediately rushes into Mako’s arms. They end up together and any fight they have is clearly all her fault
Bumi and Kya don’t impact the end-game, so they’re cut. Aang was the perfect father and Tenzin has no internalized guilt.
Tenzin disappears for the entirety of Book 3’s events. When asked why, D&D tell us “he’s just training the airbenders, which is going to take quite some time and isn’t particularly cinematic.”
There’s only one Water Tribe. Eska and Desna are replaced with Wing and Wei. They’re still Lin’s sons, but we meet them in Book 2 to give us “buy-in” to Zaofu. They still fight alongside Unalaq, but randomly switch sides later on. It doesn’t influence the fighting at all.
Tonraq sounds too similar to “Tarrlok” so they changed his name to “Teapot.”
Senna is cut. Pema takes on her role by staying behind after Tenzin is sent off and getting implicated in the Civil War. Once she is found innocent, Pema warps back to the Air Temple with her family
Kuvira is established as the villain earlier by helping the Red Lotus sneak into Zaofu. But she still needs to be given her Uniter role, so she sexually manipulates Raiko.
Kuvira doesn’t bring her troops to Zaofu. The story is streamlined so that she just shows up one day with Mega Maid in Republic City.
Baatar Jr. is aged down ten years for comedic purposes. He and Kuvira still have a sexual relationship, but he thinks he’s really lucky so it’s funny.
Zaheer is turned into a problematic fave. He makes really compelling points all the time. The Earth Queen ends up trying to have him murdered, so he has to kill her in self-defense. He still gets taken down, but it’s really sad when he does.
The Yakone backstory is cut: Amon was dumped by a firebender who Tarrlok later dated.
An invented character named Tompkins takes on Bumi’s role in Book 2. He’s a small child from the Water Tribe that Tenzin passes some fruit to at the feast. He disappears from the screen, but then when everyone tries to get into the Spirit Portal he shows up again with a flute to save the day.
Tompkins then proceeds to travel with the Krew throughout the rest of the journey (it would make sense, right? I mean where else would he go?) and he ends up being the one to kidnap Baatar Jr. just before the final fight.
Varrick never apologizes to Zhu Li or shows that he cares about her in anyway. She never confronts him about his behavior. She still loves him and they still get married.
Grandma Yin’s role is expanded and she’s made sassy. There’s no need for two sassy old women, so Toph is cut. Grandma Yin services Mako’s plotline better, so that’s why she was included. She travels with the Krew and makes homophobic remarks once Korrasami starts, but it’s funny when she does it, because she’s sassy.
Korrasami begins earlier in the narrative to be more progressive. Korra and Asami spend their entire time from then until the end talking about their sexualities and making jokes about who wears the pants in the relationship. But don’t worry; Kuvira makes homophobic remarks so that we know how progressive it is.
Korra kills Kuvira in the end, to give it more of a punch. Afterwards she flexes and goes “I think I’ve fully healed now.”
The Shadow of Kyoshi official cover!
Featuring Kyoshi and Rangi! The hotly-anticipated follow-up to The Rise of Kyoshi hits shelves on July 21st.
Kate Bush- Wurthering Heights
The gang’s all here!
“She would fight her ill fortune, her bad stars, and protect those who might despise her to the very end of her days.”
- Page 439, The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
It is supposed to be that Henry [IV] was married, since he certainly had four sons, but it is not in my power to inform the Reader who was his wife.
Jane Austen, “History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st, By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian” (1791)
Or, watching The King (2019) and going... hey, where is Joan of Navarre?
Zillenial things
Being young enough for Minecraft but too old for Fortnite
Being alive for 9/11 but not remembering it at all cuz you were like 2
Seeing reruns of 90s shows when you were really little but being to young to really remember them
Feeling betrayed by Butch Hartman
Listening to the bops of ~2009-2012 in middle school gym class
Growing up through the transition from clunky PCs for nerds and flip phones to smartphones and sleek and easy laptops
Pictochat
Being called a millenial by baby boomers and Gen Z by millenials
1994-2002 generation put your hands up
Avatar Instagram AU. Everything is the same, but there is Instagram somehow. Partially did this because I wanted to make the “followed by prince Zuko” joke.
Apparently alt text doesn’t work per picture like on Instagram like I thought, so I moved the descriptions under the cut instead (because it was already a long post):
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i was never the same after the show ended
1) favorite theme from a series soundtrack
2) climax @ 0:30 is when katarra and aang finally kiss
3) feels ugh
i STILL get goosebumps when they FINALLY kiss. the three season buildup to this very moment + the music made for a really satisfying ending to arguably one of the best written shows of all time.
But honestly though?? The musical symbolism here.
EVERY single musical signature in this track has a purpose. The beginning is “*Safe Return,” which always comes up when a character (usually Aang) is talking about or having some sort of important moment regarding where they belong (first and most memorably when he was leaving the Southern Air Temple in episode 3), so to have it play HERE? Means the music is telling us that his home is with Katara.
Secondly, the Two Lovers song playing juuust before, and during the kiss. The episode happened so long ago… But you remember exactly where it came from, and it gives you just enough time to know exactly what’s about to happen. They’re still in love, like they were when they were trapped in that cave, but they’ve both come such a long way and they’ve grown enough and been through enough with each other to show their true feelings now. Parallels!
And of course, the four notes at the end making the Avatar theme. Only plays at integral parts of Aang’s journey. Showing that not only has the story ended with Aang saving the world, but when he and Katara’s story came to a conclusion. It’s just as significant to Aang’s personal growth and story as when he defeated Ozai.
Fucking A:TLA, man.
And we’re crying in this chili’s tonight
they’re all men, the fuckers.
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
TODAY
Being a procrastinator with a violent fear of failure is almost hilarious because like 80% of the time I’m like “I’m not even going to think about this” and then there’s like a distinct moment when everything switches and it turns to “I can’t fail oh my god I need to turn this into an A in like a day why am I like this”
Catherine of Aragons hairnet in The Spanish Princess 1x06
“ In the records, Catalina is identified as a slave and royal bedmaker. She is not accorded a surname and Catalina was probably not her real name. She was born in Motril, Granada, which until 1492 was an autonomous Muslim kingdom. As such, she almost certainly grew up a Muslim moor. But before 1501 she was enslaved, probably converted and placed in the service of Catherine of Aragon.
- By 1527, Catherine was menopausal and only one living daughter was born to the couple. Henry sought an annulment on the grounds that Catherine’s marriage to Arthur invalidated their union. Catherine insisted her first marriage had never been consummated. Catalina’s first-hand knowledge of the princess’s bedsheets became a matter of national importance.
By this point Catalina had left Catherine’s service and England, marrying a Moorish crossbow-maker called Oviedo in Ezcaray, northern Spain. To travel freely and marry, Catalina must have been liberated from slavery. It is not clear whether Catherine manumitted Catalina formally (in Spain this usually involved the payment of a redemption fee) or if Catalina’s service in England, which lacked a code for modern slavery, freed her. Catalina returned to Granada. She and Oviedo had two daughters before he died in Malaga, by 1531. As a widowed mother, Catalina moved back to her hometown of Motril. There, she was sought by Spanish agents seeking to confirm Catherine’s story, but if Catalina provided testimony about Catherine’s virginity, it has not been recovered. After 1531, Catalina disappeared from the records.” The Other Catalina, - Lauren Johnson