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Wait... hang on...
Did Silent Salt almost doomed or but Earthbread into dangerous territory?
Fount’s friend part 2!
Angel is already on the way🫡
Fount’s Friend part 1!
I fear this fandom doesn't like to actually engage with who Lin beifong was and often pushes blame on everyone else except her.
Like, no, it's not suyins fault that after 30 years Lin and her still haven't reconciled when Lin has gone out of her way to avoid family. Was she wronged? Sure, but when Suyin tries to bridge gaps and Lin blocks every attempt it is not suyins fault that her middle aged sister is still upset.
Its pretty clear Lin and Tenzin wanted different things out of life and their relationship was rocky even before pema showed up. Tenzin throughout the series shows he loves being a father and cares for his wife. He idolized aang and katara so it makes sense he'd want a life like there's.
Lin and tenzin break up because they want different things out of life. Lin is allowed to be upset but it isn't tenzins job to put his life on hold until she's healed from the relationship. Lin is clearly shown to be someone who doesn't like dealing with emotions and vulnerability.
There's also the fact that Lin did find purpose in her life. Work. She hasn't dated anyone because she hasn't felt the need to. Her and tenzin are on civil terms and he trusts her to protect his family just like she trusts him to work with her. Yes there is that bitterness of a bad break up but the fandom heavily over plays it to me.
Why does she have to be with tenzin for her to live a good life? Why is she only allowed to be tragic because she never had a happy ending with him?
She's allowed to be single.
It's not an ask, but I have this silly idea of Shen being Liena's subconscious, which plays out like the souls of the innocent meme.
Po: Hey Liena, what do you want to eat? Shen: To be dead. Liena: A bagel. Shen: Nooooo! Liena: Two bagels.
In all seriousness, Shen does comeback, but more in a "changed psyche" type of way.
What do you mean in the original Korean version they outright stated wanting to execute Fount of Knowledge?!
But then that would mean that...
Oh no...
Fandom spaces have GOT to stop finding out about concept art & saying they were supposed to have x or y. That’s not how concept art works, there isn’t a secret better show they decided to hide from you for no reason
You were not robbed that is a sketch done in a few hours by a single overworked artist. It’s not a developed plot point
Obviously there is nuance but it feels like a lot of people have taken “executives often force teams to shift their art towards profitability & marketability in a way that’s frustrating” and decided that means “every single concept released post-season was something the Art Team as a homogeneous whole wanted for their True Vision™️ and was forced out of.”
Which is just not how the artistic process works for anything, let alone animation.
As someone working towards becoming a concept artist & who has worked on a few short films: I promise every single person on that creative team had a slightly different vision for the show and that’s fine. Clashing of ideas is part of the creative process and 9 times of 10 it makes the final product better.
Don’t look at one or two drawings and be mad you didn’t get a whole storyline you made up because that’s probably not even what that 1 artist had in mind either.
If it inspires you that’s awesome! It’s what fanfiction is for. Please don’t harass creators or make it more than that.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
MAGIC POTATO GO!🥔
here we go again
reblogging the golden potato
hoping it will work
that my life will get a perk
Always reblog the potato.
Please potato
the quiet one
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(mr ping socks a cloth into water and turn to shen)
mr ping"Brave little boy, you are where are your parents?"
(he gentle places the cloth to shen's head, cleaning the blood off)
mr ping"....do you have a name?"
(nothing)
mr ping"Well, aren't you the quiet one"
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The amount of people trying to justify themselves that it is alright to leak the movie is honestly quite sad.
Just be honest and admit that you were impatient.
All I'm going to say about the ATLA movie leaks is that...
It's a beautiful movie that should've been on theaters.
Btw, I’m not going to reblog any leaks.
I will converse in other posts comments, but don’t expect me to answer any questions regarding the movie.
It’s 2026 and Kataang and Zutara shippers are still beefing.
Good.
In such turbulent times, it’s comforting to see that some things truly never change.
All I'm going to say about the ATLA movie leaks is that...
It's a beautiful movie that should've been on theaters.
Recently rewatched a bit of LOK’s Book 2 and it’s surprising how much the Kataang sibling bickering has nothing to do with them directly calling Aang a bad father, or even a neglectful one. I think stating from what we see shown here as a black and white “Aang was a bad father” take is really reductive to the dynamic happening there.
The whole reason Bumi and Kya are angry is specifically Tenzin and his behavior. He’s entirely dismissive of their feelings of inadequacy for not being airbenders (at the time, at least, for Bumi). He doesn’t acknowledge the special bond he had with Aang and just assumes it was Kya and Bumi’s own choice to be slightly more distant. They’re not angry at Aang for favoring Tenzin, they’re angry at Tenzin for not being thankful for that special bond he had and trying to pretend that Kya and Bumi’s feelings were completely unimportant, or even incorrect.
There’s not a point throughout the episodes in which it comes up where they even imply that Aang didn’t care about them. They just point out that Tenzin had a lot of bonding time with Aang due to his responsibilities as the next and only other Airbender. There’s also a lot of evidence that Kya and Bumi were not 100% interested in being fully immersed in the air nomad culture, which to a degree shows Aang’s maturity to let his children choose their own paths. Hell, he even tells Tenzin from beyond the grave to not try to be a carbon copy of him and do his own thing. Kya directly states she didn’t pay attention to the air nomad history stuff. Using the “he took Tenzin on more vacations so he loved him more” thing is purely a fan reach. The older siblings only brought it up to point out that Tenzin was blissfully and hurtfully ignorant of the responsibilities his existence placed on his father and how it affected their family.
I don’t think Kya or Bumi are mad at Aang for how much he had to focus on Tenzin, nor were they at the time. I also don’t think there’s anything there that says he never spent time with his other kids. Older siblings of low-functioning special needs children often feel left out in ways, but they’re not mad at their parents for having to put a lot of energy into their younger sibling. It’s an unfortunate situation, and in Tenzin’s case, when said younger sibling tries to write off those feelings, it sucks. But I think both of them are mature enough to understand the pressure Aang had. And the fact Tenzin didn’t appreciate that pressure would be infuriating.
This 10000000%
I have done my rewatch of these episodes with the sibling fight fairly recently while working on the later in life timeline for my Kya fic. And it cemented the take I'm running with for Kya and Aang specifically but also how Aang is with his children as a whole.
The closest we get to anything 'bad' being said about Aang is Kya being angry with Tenzin, and likening him to their father, for putting his responsibilities to Republic City and the legacy of their father/the Air Nomads first. Over his own family as well as, in that moment and I'm sure many many times prior, over his siblings' feelings and the reality of their upbringing.
Kya and Bumi are frustrated with Tenzin specifically for disregarding and outright denying their experiences. They never seem to take direct issue with Aang and if anything they, and Kya especially, understand the unique dynamic and struggles of their family (and father in particular). Shown when Bumi is talking to the statue of Aang saying he wishes he could have been an airbender but he did his best to protect the world like his father did and hopes Aang would be proud of him. And Kya knows and reminds Bumi that of course their father was proud of him. As he most definitely was of all of them.
I know this has been discussed before but Bumi and Kya are nine and four years older than Tenzin. By the time he's in the height of his own airbending training and likely traveling the world with Aang, getting specific instruction and training that the only airbending child would get? Bumi and Kya have likely either left home to live their lives out in the world or have already shown they might not have much interest in fully dedicating their entire lives to Air Nomad philosophy and tenets. And Aang is a person who would absolutley respect that and want for them to be happy. He would want them to live their lives how they want and he would be proud of them.
That being said I think it's pretty safe to assume, especially given that Kya eventually cites the gurus specifically as something that used to bore her, that Aang did spend time teaching all of his children about their people. Regardless of whether they were all airbenders or not. Going off how Aang was in ATLA (I realize people change as they become adults/also have more responsibilities. Particularly someone like the Avatar in this world, I'd imagine), the man loves a field trip. By the time we get to the TLOK timeline where this issue came up and all the siblings are traveling the temples together as adults, all the temples have been restored and are occupied by Air Acolytes.
So between the comics and TLOK, Aang likely often frequented the temples to oversee restoration as well as help out and continue advising the acolytes. I think it's, again, safe to assume that he took his young children to the temples to teach them of their people whenever he could. Sure it might not have been often and maybe only even once. But no matter the specifics or frequency, Aang did spend time with all his children to teach them about the Air Nomads.
Throwing in another TLOK reference point, all of the Yakone stuff was clearly something that could be considered one of Aang's responsibilities to Republic City that likely took up a ton of his time. This is the only event/issue we know of specifically that could be one of the things Kya is referencing when speaking about Aang's duty to Republic City and how it took precedence over spending time with his children often (as she then goes on to get angry at Tenzin specifically for when denying this in regard to himself as well as their father).
The Yakone business happened in 128 AG. Bumi was 18 and potentially already in the United Forces, Kya was just 13, and Tenzin was 9. The age discrepancies alone are probably a huge factor as to why Bumi and Kya are so frustrated with Tenzin and his refusal and inability to see things how they actually were. It does not mean that they had a poor relationship with Aang overall or felt neglected by him. I'm sure there were issues they had with Aang (and Katara for that matter) as children that affected them and were worked through or maybe not. But no family is perfect and no parent is perfect. And overall, we have evidence that all three of Aang and Katara's children felt loved and happy within their family. Just because they also had things that they struggled with doesn't negate this fact. It's just a realistic portrayal of a complicated family dynamic in a complicated world.
For Bumi, he was a nonbender and the oldest. During the flashbacks of the Yakone trial, we see that the Air Nomad representative on Republic City's council is an Air Acolyte. Not Aang. It stands to reason that if Bumi had shown interest in dedicating his life to the Air Nomads in a similar way that the Air Acolytes do, despite not being airbenders either, then he would have been able to be more actively involved. And thus maybe would've naturally experienced the equivalent of the 'airbender time/attention' that Tenzin evidently received. However he clearly did not and instead dedicated his life to protecting the world just like his father also did as the Avatar.
For Kya, she is a waterbender and the middle child. Her experience is a bit more nuanced here. She's obviously going to have training/teaching specific to her being a waterbender. I would argue that Aang probably had a hand in some of her teaching as well. He is a waterbender too, after all. And Katara might not have always been able (she assumedly is busy and has stuff going on as well). But obviously primarily we can assume Katara is her waterbending master and it would likely be very important to her to pass on her knowledge/skills/culture to her waterbender daughter.
Katara and Kya, like Tenzin and Aang, would have a very innate and special bond. When you additionally factor in her observance of her older brother's experience with not being an airbender and how that might have informed his interaction with Air Nomad legacy/culture? As well as how Aang might have handled it and supported Bumi's decisions for himself and his life even if that took him away from dedicating himself to the Air Nomad way of life? Kya is already existing within a reality of their family and the world where there are still no airbenders besides Aang and no framework for what carrying on that legacy would be like for someone who isn't an airbender. Let alone someone who is half Air Nomad but also a waterbender.
The way she and her older brother interact with their culture isn't going to be the same as it would be if they were airbenders. It just isn't. But that doesn't mean they didn't learn about it, appreciate it, and that it isn't important to them. It also doesn't mean that it wasn't important to Aang that he teach them of their culture. Clearly it was. Because he canonically did teach them about it. All of them. Not just Tenzin.
However there is no getting around the obvious which is that Tenzin is an airbender and all Air Nomads were airbenders. The way he is going to interact with his culture is vastly different than for his siblings. The way Aang is going to approach his teaching/training is going to be vastly different. Particularly when you take into account that, again, his older children have shown primary interests elsewhere for themselves/their lives and are even potentially off traveling and working by the time Tenzin is hitting the bulk of his airbender training.
Now, that's not to say that Bumi and Kya wouldn't have naturally had feelings of resentment or inferiority when it came to the relationship Tenzin and Aang would inherently have and when it came to not being airbenders. I'm very positive this is something they would have had to contend with and examine and process at some point in their lives and maybe often in adulthood too. Particularly after their father died and they are directly dealing with the grief of that and the responsibility of upholding his legacy. But once again, it doesn't mean that they had a neglectful or poor relationship with their father. And they very clearly knew this and felt this. They both seem very aware and realistic when it comes to how their lives were growing up and how the dynamic of their family was. They seem to accept and know that being children of the Avatar was complicated and not always easy but they loved their father and knew he loved them. Their main frustration was Tenzin's denial of this reality and his over idealized view of their father and their childhood as a whole.
Additionally, so much always wants to be said here about Aang and the Air Nomads and his role as the Avatar when it comes to how Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin were raised. But he is only one of their parents. And they are only half Air Nomad. All of them, regardless of bending or not, are all half Water Tribe as well. I'm sure they were all also taught the culture of their tribe and spent much time with this aspect of themselves and their heritage too. They most likely took trips south. It was probably just as important to Katara, the last southern waterbender, that her children were taught the ways of her tribe and for Kya specifically, to be taught waterbending and healing.
In TLOK, all three of them are in the south for the Water Tribe tradition of the Glacier Spirits Festival. They probably spent a lot of their childhood in a similar fashion. When considering their perspective of their childhood and the relationship they had with their father? As well as the time they felt they spent connecting with him and their Air Nomad heritage? I think it's super important to consider that they also have an entire second parent and entire second culture that informs their family dynamic and sense of self as well.
Furthermore, all three of them were raised in Republic City. A place of all nations. Not fully traditionally Water Tribe or fully traditionally Air Nomad. This too is going to be a huge factor of how they interact with the cultures of their people and how their parents raise them in regard to them.
A lot goes into their family dynamic, their childhood, and how they experienced it and perceive it as adults. Way more than simply 'Aang was a bad and neglectful father' or not. It's a bit absurd to jump to this conclusion, and also continue to run with it for years and years at this point, when it was also never said or harped on by the characters that people cite as evidence to why this is the case?
Before the three of them go on this trip to the temples where they have this argument, Katara is very visibly troubled and upset when she notes the strained relationship between her children. The relationship the siblings have with one another, not their father. She suggests they all take the trip together to their father's home because she is clearly hoping and senses this might be helpful for them to sort through the issues they have with one another. As a lot of those issues, particularly in Tenzin's case, stem from the relationship they all had with their father and the responsibility of their shared legacy.
Tenzin is clearly on the outside of Bumi and Kya during this moment that Katara picks up on and is concerned by. And why might that be? Maybe because he has taken it onto himself (due to a lot of factors that have been discussed enough and often so I'm not gonna here) to uphold this legacy of the Air Nomads and his father to an unhealthy and unrealistic degree. Which has resulted in this alienation from his siblings. Something that has harmed the relationship on both sides.
Tenzin clearly is unhappy with it and feels alone and isolated. Bumi and Kya are unhappy with it and feel invalidated and left out of their own legacy. This is the entire crux of their argument in these episodes. Aang and their relationship with him is solely a factor in this core issue and used as a primary example when expressing how they are all feeling about one another. Their father as well as how they love him and how he loved them is never the point of contention or in question literally at all. Not one single time.
At the end of their episodes long argument arc, all three of them are looking at the picture of their family. They are smiling and reminiscing and Tenzin says that it's a photo of a happy family, that they were a happy family. Bumi and Kya smile and are in agreement. They don't argue this statement or become angry again or accuse Tenzin of doing more of the same, denying their experiences or the reality of the nuances of their childhood. Because he isn't doing that in this instance.
Just because the three of them did have a complicated and not always easy childhood does not mean they weren't loved and happy. Bumi and Kya, just the same as Tenzin when he expresses as much while looking at the photograph of the five of them, consider their family to have been a happy one. Because it was. They all know that. And were never unaligned on that fact.
Episode 11 Sally got me hating her, lol.
Like girl, you already have a boyfriend.