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[avatar-news]

Hey guys! Today, September 6th, 2018, is officially korranews’ fifth birthday!

Wooo!

Five years ago today, this blog was started to bring you all your Avatar & Korra updates, and what a five years it has been! To put it into perspective, on September 6th, 2013, Book 2 of Korra hadn’t started airing yet. Yeah. Time flies. But since then, we’ve had so much cool stuff to report on and discuss and freak out over, and it’s still full steam ahead with so much more awesome stuff coming our way!

To celebrate this big milestone, we’re doing something very exciting…

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The korranews 5th anniversary GIVEAWAY!!!

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After five years of posting about so much amazing Avatar stuff it’s only fitting to get some in your hands. So we’re doing a giveaway to make that happen and say thanks for sticking with korranews for half a decade now.

🎟️ How to enter:

You must be following this here blog, @korranews on Tumblr.

You must reblog this post. That’s it!

📜 Rules:

Multiple reblogs won’t count.

Sideblogs are allowed.

You can live anywhere in the world!

Entry will be open for one month starting when this post was published.

You’re gonna have to be willing to give me your name and address so I can send you your prize(s)!!

You need to have either your ask box or messaging open so I can contact you!

So speaking of prizes… we’re leaving it up to you!

·⟢💖 PRIZES 💖⟣·

The prize is…

Choose from any one of these big items:

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Art of the Animated Series

The Legend of Korra - The Art of the Animated Series - Book One: Air

The Legend of Korra - The Art of the Animated Series - Book Two: Spirits

The Legend of Korra - The Art of the Animated Series - Book Three: Change

The Legend of Korra - The Art of the Animated Series - Book Four: Balance

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Library Edition

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search Library Edition

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift Library Edition

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow Library Edition

Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South Library Edition

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Poster Collection

The Legend of Korra - The Poster Collection

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Legacy

The Legend of Korra - An Avatar’s Chronicle (preorder) 🔥 hot

The Rise of Kyoshi (preorder) 🔥 hot

OR

Choose from any three of these smaller items:

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures

The Legend of Korra - Turf Wars Part One

The Legend of Korra - Turf Wars Part Two

The Legend of Korra - Turf Wars Part Three 🔥 hot

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Imbalance Part One (preorder) 🔥 hot

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Imbalance Part Two (preorder)

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Team Avatar Tales (preorder) 🔥 hot

Avatar: The Last Airbender - coloring book

The Legend of Korra - coloring book

Zen Monkey Studios Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra ⭐pin⭐ (you can get pins for two or all three of your choices!) 🔥 hot

Whew! There you go.

And because it’s our fifth birthday…

FIVE winners will be chosen!

The selection will be completely random from the reblogs, and each winner will have full access to the above prize list regardless of what the others pick.

So what are you waiting for??

One last thing: be sure to also follow korranews on Twitter! We’re gonna do another giveaway over there once we hit a special followers milestone.

Actually wait, this is the last thing: I just set up a ➡️ PATREON ⬅️ for korranews! If you want to, you can go be a patron over there and help support our next five years! 💖

Alright you got a month. Peace!

[avatar-news]

With all the crazy exciting news the past while, don’t forget this is still going on! 💖

[avatar-news]

About a week left to enter!

[avatar-news]

Check out this mindblowingly cool Legend of Korra fanart by John Staub!

Original DeviantArt posts: 1 2 3 4

Why are we sharing this? Because John Staub did the first official concept art for the new live action ATLA series.

He’s a professional visual development artist currently working at Marvel Studios, and while the above pictures are of course just fanart, they show that he’s been a longtime fan of the shows, and if he does more official visual development for live action ATLA, those are just a taste of the excellence coming our way!

See more of John Staub aka dustsplat’s incredible art on his DeviantArt and ArtStation.

[kagkik]

Whisper of the Heart (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

[mariecastor]

Just have a little patience. Creative work is hard work.

[citrusrealm]

(insp.)

[bryankonietzko]

Mike and I were informed that today — June 19, 2018 — marks the 10th anniversary of the airing of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s finale episode. The international, multigenerational community built around this series we created together has grown so much over the past decade… It’s overwhelming. A HUGE thanks to everyone for the continued support and interest in the world, characters, stories, and animation we had the opportunity to manifest with the invaluable help and enrichment of so many talented, hardworking, dedicated people.

Love, Bryke 🔥❤️💙💨

P.S. That’s Sara Kipin’s awesome Aang & Momo print in the background. @sarakipin

[littlefairylights]

       country roads, take me home 

[mobpsycho100]

[mariecastor]

Hyyype -- @headinthecloudszine is scheduled to come out on May 20! It will be full of NEW Kataang art and stories, including a new fanfic from me! Don't miss it!

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

A research tip from a friendly neighborhood librarian! 

I want to introduce you to the wonderful world of subject librarians and Libguides. 

I’m sure it’s common knowledge that scholars and writers have academic specialties. The same is true for subject librarians! Most libraries use a tool called Libguides to amass and describe resources on a given topic, course, work, person, etc. (I use them for everything. All hail Libguides.) These resources can include: print and ebooks, databases, journals, full-text collections, films/video, leading scholars, data visualizations, recommended search terms, archival collections, digital collections, reliable web resources, oral histories, and professional organizations. 

So, consider that somewhere out there in the world, there may be a librarian with a subject specialty on the topic you’re writing on, and this librarian may have made a libguide for it. 

Are you writing about vampires? 

Duquesne University has a guide on Dracula

University of Northern Iowa: Monsters and Religion

Fontbonne University has a particularly good one on Monsters, Ghosts, and Mysteries

Washington University in St. Louis: a course guide on Monsters and Strangeness 

How about poverty? 

Michigan State: Poverty and Inequality with great recommended terms and links to datasets 

Notre Dame: a multimedia guide on Poverty Studies.

Do you need particular details about how medicine or hygiene was practiced in early 20th century America?

UNC Chapel Hill: Food and Nutrition through the 20th Century (with a whole section on race, gender, and class)

Brown University: Primary Sources for History of Health in the Americas

Duke University: Ad*Access, a digital collection of advertisements from the early 20th century, with a section on beauty and hygiene  

You can learn about Japanese Imperial maps, the American West, controlled vocabularies, Crimes against art and art forgeries, anti-Catholicism, East European and Eurasian vernacular languages, geology, vaudeville, home improvement and repairs, big data, death and dying, and conspiracy theories.

Because you’re searching library collections, you won’t have access to all the content in the guides, and there will probably be some link rot (dead links), but you can still request resources through your own library with interlibrary loan, or even request that your library purchase the resources! Even without the possibility of full-text access, libguides can give you the words, works, people, sites, and collections to improve your research.

Search [your topic] + libguide and see what you get!

[animeadmiration]

[mariecastor]

The adorbs

[princessesfanarts]

Elsa by clc1997

[mariecastor]

Can't hold it back anymore

[silvermoon424]

[mariecastor]

Oh, this hurts my heart. I grew up on Sailor Moon, and although I love that Madoka is *not* a sugary remake of Sailor Moon, there is a part of me that wants to imagine that Madoka had some happy magical girl times.

[zechs]

[mariecastor]

*glomp*

[redandpointy]

I wish you would write a fic where...

Send me an anymous (or not) summary of the fic you wish I would write. (maybe I will write a tidbit)

[mariecastor]

I'm trying to get back into writing, and fanfiction is always a great way to get back into that habit.

[hellm0uths-relocated-deactivate]

*pulls up to the fanfic drive-thru window* uh yeah, i’ll take a fake relationship with a side of mutual pining and thinking the other isn’t interested, thanks

[nextraordinaire]

#*bored author’s voice over the tannoy* d'you want fluff with that? (via @amarriageoftrueminds)

[dealanexmachina]

#sure and if you can throw in an extra “sharing one bed” trope, that would be great.

[lolcat76]

How much is it to supersize to smut?

[kremblor]

So if you get smut and fluff from a drive thru where do you go for angst and dark?

[captaincrusher]

That you order from the guy in the trenchcoat in the alley. “You want angst? I got angst”

[roachpatrol]

*sticks my withered goblin paw out from under the bed* psst kid i got ‘they both think the other one is dead for like seven chapters’ 

[sunshineoptimismandangels]

Reader: “How much will that be?”

Author: “Just a comment. Please for the love of God leave a comment.”

[mariecastor]

This is beyond accurate

[umeliquor]

[beallamy]

You see that rough surrounding stone? You can polish it all you want, but it’ll still be worthless. But there might be something much more valuable inside that you can’t yet see.