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I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.

It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.

theriu

Researcher, equally eager and afraid to ask: “So…so why was she called Stinky Jess?”

Cheerful Swamp Elder: “Well y’see, them gases what come out of the swamp in the real dank places, they’s as smelly as a skunkcoon’s hind end, and Stinky Jess, so the legend goes, well she were a bit of a prankster, an’ she’d find a real ripe part o’ the swamp, and then she’d whip up her wind magic an’ waft them stinky smells right into yer house and get er’body hollerin’. They say no one annoyed Stinky Jess for fear o’ being visited by her stink in the night! O’ course, Ol’ Stinky Jess also taught us that soma them gasses are flammable, on account o’ the time she sneezed durin’ a stinkup an’ set half the town on fire, an’ that’s the story o’ how our tribe learned ter harness methane and ter fireproof things even when they’s surrounded by water—”

Researcher: (scribbling notes so fast his quill is smoking)

somethinginterestingithink

I just wanna add, this probably wasn't just a Water thing. As we know there were remote groups of Fire and Earth, too. Not as isolated as the Swamp Benders, but remote enough that they likely didn't truly understand what it meant. (Air was pretty close knit, despite the nomad moniker. So I don't really see a remote Air group being a thing. Each Air Temple was already remote.)

Truly, each time it happened, though, EVERYONE was super confused. Legend has it, the Avatar has learned valuable lessons from the Avatars of Unknown when accessing the Avatar State.

lucidarachnids

I’m just picturing the various avatars in the spirit world and there’s this sub group who are the chill avatars who never had to deal with international diplomacy due to living their entire lives in isolated communities.

So the avatars that did deal with the whole world have advice like “that one time in the dispute between the city which was the earth capital of the time and the Northern Water tribes which revolved around shipping lanes which crossed the Fire nation…” and this other small group are “this reminds me of that time I had to mediate between Auntie and the neighbors across the river because one of the neighbors baked Auntie’s famous pie recipe for summer festival and didn’t ask permissions to use the recipe”

selftrepanning

where’s it’s friday like it fucking matters

thecureinorange-deactivated2021

grickle14

A Lizard Wizard and a Croc Warlock getting ready to battle!

the-haiku-bot

A Lizard Wizard

and a Croc Warlock getting

ready to battle!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

smallestbubs

sweet roll

earthdungeon

spider pronouns it/ze/bit/xe

ankle-beez

So Prismo got recast in the Fionna and Cake show cuz Kumail Nanjiani's agents didn't let him know the crew was trying to get him back to reprise the role

thesparkwhowalks

I remember back in 2011 there was a little flap caused when Weird Al put out his song “Perform This Way” for free online because Lady Gaga had denied permission to put it on his album (permission he never needed, but always got anyway). He’d been asked to supply not just lyrics but a recorded version before being denied, hence putting it out online. Fans of both artists were surprised and upset by this news.

One Weird Al fan who was massively surprised by all this was Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga. It turns out that her manager had been the one handling the situation and never actually played the song for her. She quickly OK’ed it, and the song was still the lead-off single for the Alpocalypse.

And just makes me wonder how many of these “we actually asked but your team said no without consulting you” things happen.

bonnettbee

This also reminds me of the Gary Larson/Jane Goodall thing, where Gary Larson (the guy who does “The Far Side”, of “Cow Tools” fame) put out the following comic:

TLDR version: The Jane Goodall Institute was not amused, and bugged Larson to pull it from publication… But Goodall herself saw it when she got back from the research trip she’d been on, thought it was HILARIOUS, and let the PR people who made the decision HAVE IT for giving him grief about it without consulting her first, before giving Larson the go-ahead herself; as a result, it got to go back into print. She even signed a copy of it for him!

One of my favorite stories, tbh.

sainamoonshine

I have heard of MANY similar stories. Especially since the strikes began. It turns out that many actors want to do indie movies, and ask their reps about it. The indie movies want them, and contact the reps. The reps refuse and never tell the actors about it.

I have also seen a situation where an author of colour wanted a certain director of colour to adapt her book, and the director also wanted to adapt the book, and both asked their agents to contact the other side… both agents returned, over and over again, for YEARS, with “refusals” from the other party. Only when they met at an event and both hesitatingly broached the subject did they find out the truth.

aqueerkettleofish

The Goodall story is slightly more complicated than that.

Larson got a scathing letter from the Jane Goodall society. He sent an apology, and that was that, until a few years later, when National Geographic was doing an issue dedicated to Dr. Goodall. They asked Larson if they could use the comic and he went "I would ordinarily say yes, but she was pissed about it." And they went "we know her better than that. We'll call her," and called her. And she said "hold on I have to scream at someone but yes, I freakin' loved it."