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sideblog. mostly miraculous ladybug and avatar: the last airbender

[thespiritofeon]

yo…. when jet breaks in the tea shop and accuses zuko and iroh of beinh firebenders….

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:

[colorful-bees]

Jet: He’s a firebender!

The Patrons to the Tea Shop internally: You fucking stupid, sir? I think you might be stupid.

[anaiisapphic]

THE TAGS

[captainlordauditor]

#if someone shouted something racialized at a food service worker and he pulled swords#if be like ‘yeah that’s fair’

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[rizadyke]

I like that costumer service actually helped Zukos redemption arc along instead of just making him more evil like it does to literally everyone else

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

We say this a lot, but if we actually think about it Zuko’s betrayal in Ba Sing Se immediately followed his month of customer service, so it’s possible that it did in fact make him more evil.

[moonblooch]

iroh: choose the right path zuko

zuko: *about to join his uncle and the avatar*

zuko: *remembers the time a customer ordered ‘chilled tea without leaves in’ then yelled at him for bringing them water*

zuko: you know what the earth kingdom can burn actually

[lackadaisy-world]

FINALLY SHE GOT A NEW DESIGN, MARINETTE LOOKS AMAZING WITH HER NEW OUTFIT PLUS SNEAK PEEK OF THE NEW BEE MIRACULOUS HOLDER, HER DESIGN LOOKS AMAZING, ALMOST LIKE WASP INSPIRED

SO EXCITED FOR S4

[hella-marshmella]

(Miraculous) New York:

Everybody’s a hero! The doorman? Yeah! The hot dog vendor? You know it! The damn President? OF COURSE!

Paris:

[hamsternamedmarinette]

I feel like kids in Paris would make tiktoks where they prank people by sitting next to them on a park bench or on the train, waiting a few seconds, and then saying "yes, Hawk Moth" to themselves and watching as the person freaks out and scrambles to get away from what they think is gonna be a new akuma

[bananagreste]

ladynoir, oh, ladynoir ↳ day 214

[sunniespot]

imagine being an elite warrior who’s been traning for war since you could walk and having to watch some vegan kid, your boyfriend, and his sister, the guy who burned down your village, and an heiress with no shoes try to save the world. I have no idea how Suki didn’t loose her damn mind.

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i've seen the occasional joke about bato and hakoda being suspicious of zuko dating sokka and supportive of aang dating katara, and though i understand why you might make that assumption i think it's worth noting that hakoda's first impression of zuko was "guy who helped break me out of prison" and bato's first impression of aang was "weird kid who insulted my cooking and stole my mail"

[charlesoberonn]

Zuko: And finally, allow me to introduce the Avatar, Aang.

Aang: Ambassador Aang.

Zuko: Ambassador of what? You’re the only member of your nation.

Aang: And whose great-grandpa’s fault is that?

Zuko: Touche, ambassador.

Aang: I changed my mind now I’m King Aang.

Zuko: What.

Aang: King of the Air Nomad.

Zuko: That doesn’t even make any- whatever. Let’s just proceed with the meeting.

[ardent-38]

Vice President Aang

[salytierra]

Zuko: Wait, who’s the president then?

Aang: *lifts baby Tenzin*

[marauders4evr]

Aang: Don’t forget Lord Momo of the Momo Dynasty.

Zuko: I am not calling him that.

Aang: You’re disrespecting his dynasty, Zuko.

Zuko: Since when does he have a dynasty?

Aang: Well, most of it is gone, now.

Zuko:

Aang: Because of your great grandfather.

Zuko through gritted teeth: Your Momoness.

[bugababe]

I just want Mari and Alya to have sleepovers that Chat Noir randomly crashes (pre-reveal) and Marinettes just like “ugh fine whatever go make us popcorn if you must be here” and Alya’s like silently spazzing the Fuck out like: marinette oh my god why is chat noir in your room. why aren’t you freaking out about this. why does he already know which cabinet the popcorn is in

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

Iroh: so Toph, what are your goals in life?

Toph: I’ve been banned from every major city’s transportation system except Omashu

Toph: I don’t know what their limit is but I will fucking find it 

[probsjosh]

King Boomie, having exactly zero limits:

[theotheristhedoctor]

Unstoppable object meets immovable force

[gaangarang]

[Toph eventually slips up and is captured by the city guard force. Instead of being imprisoned or exiled, Toph finds herself being given audience with the King of Omashu.]

Bumi: Well, well, well. It seems I have finally met the troublemaker who has been causing such chaos with my rail systems.

Toph:…

Bumi: I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with your earthbending abilities. You remind me of myself when I was a lad.

Toph: Get to the point.

Bumi: I see great potential in you, Toph Beifong. I want you inherit my title once I am no longer fit to rule.

Toph: Wait what the fuck

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Why wasn’t this Toph’s future instead of becoming a freaking cop. This would have made so much more sense. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

My favorite part of this is “when I am no longer fit to rule” because

1. Implying Bumi was fit to rule at any point

1.1 except maybe in the sense that he was completely shredded

2. That he has no plans to die, (nor would death necessarily make him unfit to rule), but that he apparently intends to like. Tuck his arms and legs into himself and just roll off into the sunset.

3. Given that the Earth Kingdom has an actual ruling family that causes some drama in LoK, Toph continuing to cause monarchy confusion is both 100% in character and fucking hilarious.

[https-graces]

Japanese legend: you have the face of who you loved most in a past life

[loveable-korrasami]

THE NEXT AVATAR ABOUT TO LOOK FINE AFFFFFF

[cupofsorrows]

Oh, so YOU guys can just see a face and be like “I like that face, I’m gonna make it my face” and everyone’s just COOL with that. But when I, Koh the Face Stealer,

[herebeatla]

Broke: Kyoshi being disappointed Aang didn't kill Ozai because she loves to bathe in the blood of the enemies

Woke: Kyoshi approving Aang not killing Ozai because she said "only justice will bring peace" and Aang taking the Firelord's bending was poetic justice at its finest, and the bloodthirsty Kyoshi is a fanon exaggeration

[benditlikekorra]

[gayavatarstyle]

can you imagine how the whole energybending scene must have looked to Sokka and Suki

[gayavatarstyle]

[doritoprincess]

Sokka: “ohmygod, I think aang’s losing!”

Suki: “you dont know that, maybe red is aang’s color”

Sokka: “you think the motherfucker who was planning to genocide the entire world with fire has a *blue aura*??”

Toph: “what the FUCK are you guys TALKING about”

[podcastwizard]

only atla is bold enough to have a beach episode but exclusively for its villains