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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@retired2requrium
I got overwhelmed with how many atla plot points I needed to rewrite in order to make my ships (and the overall story I wanted to tell) make sense.
So I just decided to go for the easiest thing to rewrite. Which is Pro Bending! I care less about the sport and more so the atmosphere around it. So expect my next post to be about my rewrite of Pro Bending!
"babe can you go get the—" "WHAT???" "can you go get the—" "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
Shy kisses
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We got a Zutara crumb from one of the artists that worked on the movie
Here's the link to the original post:
“just as intense as me”
Korrasami and Zutara are two of my favorite OTPs because of their similar dynamics. At the core of both relationships, is the unconditional, non-judgmental acceptance of ALL sides of each other.
In the Spirit World, there’s this beautiful scene when Korra and Asami are figuring out what they mean to each other. Korra reveals that she’s never felt understood because everyone else perceived her as ‘too much’:
I really loved this panel because Korra presents as extremely confident and unconcerned with other people’s opinions, even from a young age. “I’m the avatar, you gotta deal with it.”
But here, in this panel she lets her guard down and is extremely vulnerable in confessing that she does notice how people view her and that, in a way, before Asami, it made her feel alienated, alone.
The way that Asami is able to accept even her emotional, intense, and wild side (and even indulge in it–like their race car date) is so special because a strong relationship should be founded on complete acceptance of a person. It shouldn’t involve picking a choosing which traits you like about a person and ignoring or criticizing the traits that don’t fit into the idealized image you want to see.
I think Zutara represents the same thing to me, unequivocal acceptance of the person’s whole self. (Yes this is gonna be an excuse for me to talk about the southern raiders again)
Something I notice a lot of antis say while expressing dissent of Zutara (and support of kat/a*ng) is that “Katara is hot-headed and needed someone calm like A/ang to balance her out.” I’ve even heard someone refer to her as needing a ‘talk-me-down partner’ and while I’m not going to get into the nuances of why THAT take annoys me (and is canonically incorrect due to HER actually being the one to remain calm/level headed in emotionally charged situations except southern raiders), I think it fundamentally misunderstands Katara as a character.
Anyway, like Korra, I think the people closest to Katara have a tendency to think of her as being “too emotional and intense.” Of course, there was that jokey line the writers threw out in Ember Island Players:
But on a serious note, there are several scenes that contrast how differently Katara and the rest of the gaang (particularly Sokka and A/ang) see things. For example, when Katara is initially unsuccessful in rescuing Haru, she refuses to leave without helping the Earthbenders and Sokka ‘we don’t have much time. get on!’ and then when he realized she wouldn’t change her mind ‘i hate when you get like this. come on, let’s hide.’
It’s emphasized again when Katara challenges Pakku to a duel and also, when Katara and Toph quarrel. Both times, A/ang as the mediator remarks, “she didn’t mean that.”
And again, in The Painted Lady when everyone else (Toph, Sokka, and A/ang) are willing to leave the polluted FN town and go about their mission. Then Katara delivers her powerful line, “i will never ever turn my back on people who need me.”
That intensity, the drive to help everyone in need and her sacrificial nature, is most intently paralleled with Zuko’s arc. “you’re just as intense as me.”
And finally, I’d be remiss to not mention The Southern Raiders. This is probably Katara’s most emotionally intense episode. And it is clear that her friends do not understand her motivations in this episode. She’s met with comments like “Um…what will this accomplish?” “You sound like Jet.” “She was my mother too (but I don’t feel the need for revenge so why do you?)”
In this episode, Zuko is able to be in a supportive role for her because he understands and also had the same drive to confront the person who took his mother away from him. Katara rarely shows emotion, but here she is clearly in pain and instead of deescalating her anger, it is exacerbated by her conversations with a/ang and sokka because they think she’s being too intense.
I just think the fact that zuko accepted her negative emotions and never made her feel bad for having them shows how much he accepted all sides of her. And like Korrasami, it’s one of the things I love about what their relationship could’ve been.
how it feels opening the zutara tag right now
There is something tolkienesque about Zutara.
I'm confused. Is bending genetic or something anyone can do?
Because on one hand it's "genetic" and only some people have or don't have it. It's random I guess.
But all of the Air nomads are benders because they're more spiritual than everyone else???
So this causes more questions. Is any other bending genetic except for Airbending? Why so?
Is ALL bending spiritual and you just have to be more "in tune" to get it? Because Tenzin says himself that he isn't a spiritual leader and Kya isn't spiritual in Korra either, yet they're both benders?
But if it's true that it's spiritual. Then why can Mako, Bolin, Lin, and Korra bend? They weren't spiritual.
If it's something ANYONE can do with enough effort, then why didn't Sokka try to learn waterbending by using the fish? Why didn't anyone in the Fire Nation try to water bend? They live in an archipelago!
Why is anyone in this series a non bender if you can simply learn some tricks from the animals? Why didn't anyone from the other four nations try to pick up some bending from the animals.
You're meaning to tell me the Water Tribes got waterbending from learning with the fishes and NO one from the other places was like "I'm gonna travel to the water tribes and see if I can it learn too!" ???
My understanding is that everyone has the latent ability to bend, but genetics determines whether or not that power is already active for you at birth (with some noticeable anomalies being Katara and pre-B3 Bumi). If it isn't active, you would need intervention from the spirits somehow to unlock it for you
The Air Nomads being comprised of all benders supposedly increases the likelihood that their offspring are all benders too (and maybe the non-bending kids get shipped off elsewhere)
Its connection to spirituality is whatever is convenient for the story they want to tell. It's really just magic with an Eastern philosophy-inspired coat of paint
Thank you!
I'm confused. Is bending genetic or something anyone can do?
Because on one hand it's "genetic" and only some people have or don't have it. It's random I guess.
But all of the Air nomads are benders because they're more spiritual than everyone else???
So this causes more questions. Is any other bending genetic except for Airbending? Why so?
Is ALL bending spiritual and you just have to be more "in tune" to get it? Because Tenzin says himself that he isn't a spiritual leader and Kya isn't spiritual in Korra either, yet they're both benders?
But if it's true that it's spiritual. Then why can Mako, Bolin, Lin, and Korra bend? They weren't spiritual.
If it's something ANYONE can do with enough effort, then why didn't Sokka try to learn waterbending by using the fish? Why didn't anyone in the Fire Nation try to water bend? They live in an archipelago!
Why is anyone in this series a non bender if you can simply learn some tricks from the animals? Why didn't anyone from the other four nations try to pick up some bending from the animals.
You're meaning to tell me the Water Tribes got waterbending from learning with the fishes and NO one from the other places was like "I'm gonna travel to the water tribes and see if I can it learn too!" ???
"They weren't allowed to make Sokka too hot"
Movie concept art under the cut
this summer i am WRITING and PAINTING and READING and GETTING OFF OF MY EVIL IPHONE
Saw this post on X, and I have a few thoughts:
How exactly was it the best option for Toph?
In the original series, Toph cared very deeply for her friends and her family.
The GAang was her family and she went to hell and back, put her life on the line, multiple times, over and over again, just to protect them. She was twelve fighting a war, just to protect the people she loved more than anything.
Additionally, despite popular belief, Toph cared for her family. In the original series, her choosing to abandon her parents (even though her childhood home was very oppressive and isolating) was a tumultuous and difficult choice for her. Before she ran away, she pleaded to go with Aang, and when they wouldn't bend, she decided to flee. This decision is one that weighs down on her across Season Two and Three (with her wanting to meet up with her mother in S2, and, in S3, deciding to write to her, in hopes of salvaging their relationship) - she wants to have a good relationship with her parents.
She's always been family/friend centered. That is why she's the one to ask Aang if their friendship will last a lifetime. She craves these bonds. Toph is an adventurous and free spirit, yet, she still holds onto those she truly sees as her family.
She does want a family. Be it her adopted family or her blood-related family. Family is important to Toph.
It is one of the pillars of her character.
So, how exactly, does Toph having two baby daddies, who are absent from her and her daughters' lives, the best outcome for her?
Toph in LOK is miserable. Her daughters are miserable. She doesn't have a support system to help her in her tribulations of raising two kids all on her own. She's alone, struggling. And people truly think this is the best outcome for Toph?
Toph chooses to runaway from her family, something that in the original show, was one of her greatest struggles and something that weighed her conscious down with guilt.
People truly don't see Toph beyond the badass, ass-whopping tomboy. They don't see her as this emotionally mature character that values her friendships and family.
They see her for her little bits, the small little jokes that are often through at her expense.
Oh, Bryke make jokes about her slight crushes (such as Sokka and that one dude from the comics, who I cannot remember)? Oh, yah, so that totally makes sense that she would be okay with the fathers of her children being absent and neglectful!
Oh, Toph is a tomboy who isn't naturally nurturing nor motherly like Katara? Oh, so it totally makes sense she would value her job over her own children, ultimately abandoning them in the future and leaving them with mommy issues (so much so, her eldest doesn't even call her mom.... BRYKE ARE YOU INSANE?!?)
I don't enjoy the fact that Toph, the only tomboy of the group, was portrayed the way she was in LOK.
I didn't need Toph to be a stay-at-home mother. I didn't need Toph to be family oriented.
Her being a single-mother would be great if they had handled it with much more care.
But Bryke's own biases about motherhood and femininity bled through when they wrote Toph the way they did in LOK.
It's infuriating to see, once more that people (not even Bryke themselves) care enough to see Toph beyond her exterior layers. She's much more than this amazing earthbender.
Why would someone who was isolated all her childhood, choose to isolate herself from her own kids?
Futurely, I will analyze and criticize Bryke's take on motherhood in LOK - especially with Katara and Toph, because I have a lot of thoughts that I need to organize!
Toph meant a lot to me as a little girl myself! Seeing her end up that way made me so upset. It was like the series forces women to choose between family (Katara, Pema, Suyin, Zhu Li) or flat out misery (Kya, Lin, Kuvira.)
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Over the past few days, a group of people have been spreading fake screenshots about me to slander me
if you see that someone is distributing these screenshots in the comments on tiktok, PLEASE file complaints. I never wrote that. Yes, I don't like dickbabs, but I've never written anything like that. The first screenshot is dated February 21st, and there are no comments in my comment history at all for that date. Do we even need to talk about the second one? I'm a fan of Barbara, you can see it in my arts.
evidence of the absence of a comment for February 21
I'm asking you to repost this post. It's really unacceptable that a group of people is seriously and MASSIVELY slandering me because I don't like their ship (It all started with a popular editor 4yuebravi if you care)
Femlock week day 5!
Prompt: university/college AU
Decided to just do some character/AU designs today to keep it simple. Might expand on them later!
Prompts and og sketch below the cut 👇
Lin: "Ma, look! Suyin is doing push-ups too!"
Toph: "Lin, Ma's eyes might be just for show, but that right there is called 'crawling'"
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Wtf is that...
Like... what the hell?!
Please no 💔
Well damn! I thought Seven Havens would come out next year (2027) but nope! It's coming straight to Paramount on October 9th this year.
A lot of people are talking mostly about Korra and her reputation. This was one of my concerns honestly. I am worried that the show or the fandom will focus too much on Korra and less on Pavi herself. I really hope that's not the case and I hope that they'll actually flesh her out.
Other concerns I have.
1. Jae. He's the one I'm the most interested in (I'm not sure why that is.) I hope he actually gets developed! On the other hand, he's (allegedly) a gay man and might have future romances. This is all speculation on the Seven Havens subreddit. I'm honestly worried since Bryke has shown themselves to be incompetent in writing romances. I hope that there's LGBT people but especially gay men in the writers room (probably not.)
2. The animation. It is something I'll have to get used to. It looks almost fan made? Not that it's a bad thing but I honestly preferred how the original looked.
3. The spirits. The legend of Korra already fumbled with the spirits, that's a common talking point when discussing Korra. I personally believe that the spirits were overexposed in TLOK and ruined their mysterious appeal. The appeal of the spirits to me was how morally ambiguous they were and how none of the characters tried to assign a moral code to them. They just existed. I fear that Seven Havens's plot makes the spirits even more prominent and I'm worried if they'll follow the original portrayal they had in the original ATLA series vs the good vs evil spirit nonsense they tried to do in Korra.
4. Nisha. Are they actually going to do something with her outside of the whole "twin" thing? Will she actually get depth and an existence outside of Pavi? Because the trailer doesn't show a lot of her personality. Just how she relates to Pavi.
5. The Twins. Pavi and Nisha are twins. I'm very picky about how siblings are portrayed in media so this will be interesting to see. What I'm concerned about is that a big focus will be put on the bond the two sisters have and their relationship. According to the trailer, Pavi didn't even know she had a sister until now. I was burned by Arcane and the false emphasis on sisterhood so I'm going into seven havens very guarded.
That's all for now. Maybe I'll expand upon my feelings later.
