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If that ain’t the truth.
Recent studies, trying to learn how to paint places and it’s slow progress. ☀️
How cool is this?!
Here’s a link to a news article and some videos about production (posted before the film was released)
Their Moana is very talented, and their Maui is a local newscaster whose daughters made him audition!
Rachel House still voices Grandma Tala, Temuera Morrison still voices the Chief, and Jemaine Clement still voices Tamatoa.
Rob Ruha and Jemaine Clement translated and rearranged the music so that the songs still worked while sung in a different language, which is super impressive.
Also: Air New Zealand will feature the Maori version on their in flight entertainment starting in November!
this news is from earlier this year, you can now actually listen/watch the te reo version in clips on youtube now. this one is pretty exemplary of the original and new voice actors together! <3
Where can I buy the soundtrack tho?????
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The Māori soundtrack is on Spotify :-)
Holy cow that clip gave me GOOSEBUMPS.
Yes and YES!!!
And im still working to part my bills. This is a very fitting metaphor
Sokka and Suki absolutely deserve more time with each other
Suki made Sokka drink respect women juice one time and he proceeded to chug it for breakfast for the rest of his life
Gullfoss. South Iceland.
i thought this looked familiar…
and i was RIGHT.
Here’s the thing about the air nomads.
I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements, and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an airbender.
And that got me thinking.
This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.
Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.
Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.
Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.
We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.
This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.
But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.
To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.
And then we have this guy.
The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.
Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.
But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.
It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.
Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.
Fun helps you see past your differences.
Fun is what fuels curiosity and openmindedness.
Fun is the first thing to die in a war.
OP went and ended hard with the last line.
My mind still trying to fathom how Mai and Aang get along
You know when you’re writing something and then you get to these two characters that are very different, but have no reason for conflict and one is very friendly… They almost always end up in some sort of odd friendship, so this didn’t surprise me, weirdly as it may seem. XD
It seems to me that Mai dislikes boredom and insincerity, and Aang is very sincere and fun
I feel like Aang is one of the few people who can get Mai to laugh (and it pisses Sokka off immensely)
Mai’s best friend is TY LEE, the bubbliest character in the show. Of course she’d like Aang.
wait but i love the idea of sokka failing miserably to make mai laugh but then aang just sneezes and goes flying backwards or some shit and she just loses it
Mai also loves Zuko, and Aang is very close with Zuko, so I think she appreciates that.
Also Aang saved her baby brother
It’s all very sweet really
This is very good
Can you imagine being fuckin being lost in the desert for a couple days and out of nowhere hearing Africa by Toto?? I would lose my fuckin shit that would be the moment id be like damn im actually losing it and gonna die out here, what a banger tho.
it’s just one of those croissant days
we love a recovery
The original Number 5 was a reference to how many continents he’s had sex on, so this kinda implies that Lou’s quarantine is being spent fucking like a beast at the Antarctic Research Station
I want to know which inhabited continent you think he’s avoiding by making Antarctica his 6th
You wouldn’t notice it on cobblestones, but horseshoes throw sparks on asphalt.
amish back to the future
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road ft. Ghost Rider
Horse: that ground was ANGRY.
A surprising result - A pair of paintings by William Henry Hamilton Trood (British, 1848-1899).
this dude spent like a year and a half painting a victorian reaction gif