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Legend of Korra Blog/ Main "may I bud and never flower"- 4st 7 Manic Street Preachers She/Her 20

[makanidotdot]

stop being so selfish, lin

[linnorabeifong]

This is Zolt’s character arc after he loses his bending btw. Runs the wackiest business.

[atlaculture]

Cultural Cuisine: Seaweed Noodles

In LoK's fifth episode, Bolin takes Korra to a Southern Water Tribe restaurant called Narook's Seaweed Noodlery. Judging by how thick and green the noodles are, they most closely resemble wakame udon noodles. Wakame, also known as "sea mustard", is a type of edible seaweed (kelp) native to Northeast Asia and udon is a chewy Japanese noodle made from wheat flour. Wakame udon noodles are made by kneading wakame paste into udon dough. The result is a vivid green noodle with a mild and savory flavor. This style of noodles is a specialty of Japan's Awaji Island, although you can also buy dried sea mustard noodles from Korea.

Since seaweed is a popular ingredient in both East Asian and Inuit cuisine, it makes sense to feature it in a Water Tribe dish. Since Kyoshi Island is inspired by Japan, my head canon is that the dish was introduced to the SWT by Suki. Since nations were able to more easily trade after the war, wheat flour became common enough for Southern Water Tribers to start putting their own spin on the dish, such as using species of kelp native to the Arctic. I'd like to think that seaweed noodles came to represent the SWT's post-war culture and prosperity.

As for the broth and toppings, perhaps five-flavor soup with some stewed sea prunes?

[witchstone]

your weird obsession with having a fully formed white picket fence found family who all speak like they've inhaled their therapist who you subconsciously want to be adopted into is ruining your ability to interact with the source material

[twentynine-scribbles]

hei-ran’s agni kai scar

[allgremlinart]

girl's best friend..... undomesticated wild animal filled with bloodlust

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

open na noor

2020 :)

[sleepy-sham]

Taking a break from my mini Tumblr hiatus to make a post for Assyrian Martyrs Day. It's on August 7th every year in honor of the day the Simele Massacre started in 1933 carried out by the Iraqi government and allied Kurdish tribes, but it is a day to remember all of those we have lost over the years, from the genocide of WWI, to the destruction Daesh (ISIS) has wrought on Assyrian communities & historical sites, to even a week or so ago when Turkey was burning down Assyrian villages yet again. We are still here. We mourn and honor those you have taken from us but we refuse to disappear.

[sleepy-sham]

For Assyrian Martyrs Day this year, I wanted to share this excellent article that highlights the effects on our women in the wake of the genocide of the Assyrian people & the ongoing violence against us

[enchantedbook]

'Hylas and the nymphs' (detail) by John William Waterhouse , 1896

[rusholme]

[woman who has never been gentle with herself voice] I just need to be more disciplined

[orangepanic]

what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

My father taught me a dish that involves stir-frying whatever is in the fridge that looks like it'll at least passably stir fry. It's been my go-to since I could cook.

[sangohigurashi20]

This!

[moriishaii]

baby korra & naga

[weepingchoir]

When a book is bad, oh well, the failed artistry of one rube, maybe co-authors. But when a movie is bad, and you consider the military-like scale of production, man-hours, the money involved: you must understand, it feels like I’ve been at war with the world for 29 years.

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i think the reason i can't get behind the bender/nonbender conflicts as they're presented in the atla movie & lok is that in atla, the primary bending-based oppression is firebending vs literally every other type of bending - the genocide of the air nomads and southern waterbenders, the treatment of earthbenders in "imprisoned". in the southern water tribe and many parts of the earth kingdom, the idea of nonbenders being oppressed by benders would be completely ridiculous. you're hiding your bender loved ones from the people who want to take them away. maybe fire nation nonbenders would feel oppressed by benders in their own country, but they're not exactly being oppressed by water and earth benders. the idea that people 10 years after this war would think of bender and nonbender as more meaningful distinctions than nation just does not make sense to me. i can maybe be a bit more forgiving of lok bc it's later in the timeline & specific to a city with more unity amongst nations (thus allowing new divides to emerge) but i still don't feel like there was a ton of acknowledgement that nation was the primary axis of oppression for 100 years

[lizardlicks]

It feels like that part of the plot was wedged into the movie to try and legitimize the conflict in LoK, but even as presented in LoK they don't actually give the conflict any true legitimacy or a satisfying resolution. Amon capitalizes on this existing unrest, but as soon as he's revealed to be a charlatan and defeated, the rest of the city just kind of forgets and drops the whole conflict, and it's never bright back in later seasons, so was it actually that serious? We don't ever see a clear class split between benders and non-benders. The characters keep saying it's there, but our core bending group are low class underdogs, while the non-bender rep is extremely well off and politically influential. There's a lot of telling and little to no showing, because the premise of the conflict is at odds with the aesthetic vibe they want for our heroes (plucky underdogs with checkered pasts), and then the bad guy of the season is defeated and the show acts as if that fully addressed the supposedly societal level issue.

It has the same feel as... okay you know the opening to the Don Bluth version of the story of Anastasia? Where the grandmother is recounting the glory days of the Russian aristocracy and painting it as some kind of fairytale utopia, but then the common people were suddenly and for no reason turned against them because of the mean, evil, power hungry wizard??

That's exactly how the Amon+bender vs non-bender conflict plays out. Except the writers keep trying to convince us that there was a legit grievance in the non bender population, but they won't commit to actually showing on screen what that grievance is because it would leave our heroes' position as the good guys in a precarious place at best, and at worst we'd be actively rooting against them. Instead of facing this and fixing it, the writing team just keeps going, "no really, they're super big mad over how bad things are (you can't see it, but trust us, it's bad. No, not bad enough for the have to notice or do anything about it though. It's just the right amount of bad to be A Plot Point. Trust)."

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i think the reason i can't get behind the bender/nonbender conflicts as they're presented in the atla movie & lok is that in atla, the primary bending-based oppression is firebending vs literally every other type of bending - the genocide of the air nomads and southern waterbenders, the treatment of earthbenders in "imprisoned". in the southern water tribe and many parts of the earth kingdom, the idea of nonbenders being oppressed by benders would be completely ridiculous. you're hiding your bender loved ones from the people who want to take them away. maybe fire nation nonbenders would feel oppressed by benders in their own country, but they're not exactly being oppressed by water and earth benders. the idea that people 10 years after this war would think of bender and nonbender as more meaningful distinctions than nation just does not make sense to me. i can maybe be a bit more forgiving of lok bc it's later in the timeline & specific to a city with more unity amongst nations (thus allowing new divides to emerge) but i still don't feel like there was a ton of acknowledgement that nation was the primary axis of oppression for 100 years

[miniaturehouse]

A tiny dressmaker shop by new youtuber Itty Bitty Owls.  Check out the process video here!