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yugirimistwalker

ɪᴛ ʟᴏᴏᴋꜱ ꜰᴜɴɴʏ, ʀɪɢʜᴛ?

#so true

lycanthology

whoa you guys arent gonna believe this but i just saw moses come down the mountain again with a medium sized rock and he said theres a thirteenth commandment that just dropped and its that you cannot watch videos with sound on in public or you go to hell forever

lycanthology

he said those ones are only applicable to canadian geese that live in parking lots so we dont have to worry about it

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.

ninjaotta

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

toughtink

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

biglawbear

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

ironbite4

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

learnerteachergentleman

The airbending thing is also part of why Zaheer is such an effective combatant. Despite using a fighting style that he is in practical terms very new to, he still wins a lot of fights - some of it’s pure skill in combat in general, but a lot of it is because no-one that he fights really knows how to manage airbending.

Except other airbenders.

It makes it exceptionally satisfying when he duels Tenzin and is completely outmatched. We realise that Zaheer isn’t really that good of an airbender; he’s just a good fighter outright and has a ruthless streak that other airbenders don’t.

mikkeneko

Just… shout out for Tenzin, poster child for Asskicking Equals Authority mentor trope.

Aang was a very good airbender, but he was also still a child. And by the time he was an adult, he had to split his attention among the other elements.

Tenzin was a fully grown adult who had practiced airbending, and nothing but airbending, for his entire life, and he took it seriously. And his focus was rewarded by being the best damn airbender in any season of this show. He was the master. And I really appreciated that the show let him be the master, and didn’t feel the need to Worf Effect him to make Zaheer look like a bigger threat.

modogoblin

nakedbrownie

paper-mario-wiki

day 12 of quarantine

paper-mario-wiki

day 1046 of quarantine

queenophydea

Me n the girls sitting upon the shattered corpse of a false god

memorycycle

while kissing eachother

adarchives

Grace Jones ‘ Pull up to the Bumper’

in i-D Issue 33, February 1986

contributor i-D

#old music cw

theunfairfolk

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

chassdraws

Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act

nobrashfestivity

Kawanabe Kyosai

Skeleton with Flowers (Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum Collection). Kyosai’s handwriting,

"Angry as a hamster" doesn't sound intimidating, but it should

cryptotheism

Agree to do petplay with a girl and I just run around naked in the bushes devestating the local ecosystem for several weeks until I get hit by a car and go to hell because I can't be Catholic