Arc

Sideblog for the cartoony shows I love! Occasionally art blog, feel free to send in a request!

[sheramara]

Hello why is all the worst art of my life suddenly getting removed again

Maybe I'll redraw them oop

[riza-hawks-eye]

But who's taking whose last name when they get married???

[arc-randd]

" Quirk singularity theory is the theory that as generations progress and more quirked couples have children, the quirks that will develop will be too strong for the bodies that hold them."

[silvercistern-deactivated202307]

so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there. 

hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.

so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me. 

[thunderc1an]

“Hey, hey, what do you think he’s dreaming about?”

“Who, great-grandpa Graystripe?”

“Yeah, he looks happy, look.”

“Pff, I dunno, probably dreaming about chasing rabbits, or something like that” 

[sheramara]

A quick doodle of horde!adora going to princess prom

[hellbendermaw]

"There are twice as many stars as usual"

sculpture inspired by Laura Gilpin's poem, Two-Headed Calf

[saddlepunk]

hhhhhorses

[zivazivc]

Character Study

[original post]

[arc-randd]

and kith

[gayavatarstyle]

people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange

[gayavatarstyle]

One of the best twist moments in Avatar is when Ty Lee suddenly and dramatically turns against Azula at the Boiling Rock. Azula was completely convinced that Ty Lee would obey her without question forever, but Azula wasn’t the only one fooled. Mai is just as shocked when Ty Lee rebels as Azula is. Ty Lee’s survival instincts were so sharp that she never let anyone know what she was thinking, not Azula, not Mai, and certainly not Zuko.

Zuko really believed that Ty Lee didn’t understand who he was at all. He completely bought into the act that she’s just a puppet for Azula, who lives in her “little Ty Lee world where everything’s great all the time”. But the thing is, Ty Lee is one of the most perceptive characters in the show, and she’s excellent at keeping that on the down low, but she sees a lot more of Zuko than he thinks, and a lot of what she sees is very familiar to her.

Overshadowed by prodigious siblings?

Wanting to be acknowledged for the talents you have rather than the talents you don’t?

Kept in line by fear?

Spending your whole life bending over backwards to fit the persona the royal family has set for you?

So yeah Zuko. She knows you.

[earthshaker1217]

This characterization is definitely emphasized with Ty Lee’s acrobatics, flexibility, and ability to hit pressure points. There’s a level of subtlety and precision that is required for such skills. She had to know her own body to be able to bend it in such ways, and she has to know other people’s bodies to be able to disable them.

[serialreblogger]

And pretty much from the moment you meet her, it’s fairly clear that there’s more to her than her lighthearted, bubbleheaded persona, long before she uses her battle skills. Look at what happens when Azula recruits her. 

Azula used blatant intimidation tactics to get Ty Lee to comply, ordering the net to be set on fire and all the animals released (which, for the record, would not only have endangered Ty Lee but the circus creatures themselves–I bet Ty Lee was attached to them, and that would’ve been a double threat in itself). Ty Lee is visibly terrified, but instead of calling her out or letting Azula see that she was intimidated, she says this:

Instead of endangering herself by pointing out that Azula crossed a line, Ty Lee falls back on her talk of “the universe” and “auras,” talk that canonically gets her indulged or dismissed but never taken seriously. 

She knows that Azula’s dangerous. There’s no way she doesn’t know that Azula is threatening her. But if she can keep Azula from realizing she knows that, she’s a little safer. 

Because she’s one of maybe two people Azula never considered as potential enemies–even (especially, but that’s another thread) Ozai is a threat in her mind, but Mai and Ty Lee are the closest thing Azula has to trusted friends, right up until their betrayal. 

Ty Lee’s spent a lifetime cultivating a personality that not only allows her to stands out among her siblings–it protects her from being treated as a threat. When you’re friends with Azula, that is an essential facade to maintain.  and she does it consistently enough that no one ever sees through it.

All of the Fire Nation kids are so messed up. Zuko’s just the one who gets in the most trouble, because he’s the only one who doesn’t have a mask.

[phynali]

Amazing discussion and there’s one more thing to add to it, specifically in the context of the episode with The Beach.

Azula gets jealous of the male attention that Ty Lee is getting. It’s not the same as being a threat, but it does put Ty Lee in a dangerous position because she has something Azula wants. It doesn’t take much for Azula to turn dangerous and threatening when there’s something she wants and perceives an obstacle in the way, and Ty Lee knows this. And with just a few words, a compliment to Azula, she sets her at ease and makes herself seem vapid (“just laugh at whatever they say even if it’s not funny”) while giving advice. Which means Azula can take or leave her advice but won’t perceive Ty Lee as a real threat to the attention she craves because Ty Lee is getting attention for “being vapid” and not because she’s naturally beautiful and charming.

Its a simple, efficient, and incredible manipulation of a very dangerous and volatile person. Again the agility and flexibility, and no wonder Azula didn’t see her betrayal coming. Every time Ty Lee has entered even the possibility of being a threat to Azula in any realm, she’s immediately flipped the situation to put Azula seemingly back in control and put herself back into a nonthreatening role. Right up until her betrayal.

[doodlefox2]

their kiss literally saved the universe lol

[sheramara]

A quick doodle of horde!adora going to princess prom

[sheramara]

WHY ARE MY POSTS GAINING TRACTION AGAIN TF???? do I suddenly make more posts on lesbian horde Adora?????

[sophelstien]

why is this youtube comment the best analysis of what i’ve ALSO thought was a cop-out for the past ten years

[almost-always-eventually-right]

Are you telling me my YouTube comment from like a year ago has been getting up to 37,000 notes this whole fucking time. 

Like are you for real??? 

 holy fuck

[almost-always-eventually-right]

Important update to the people in the notes. I never said Air Nomad culture was ignorant or wrong or insufficient. I said Aang’s actions were an act of defiance against this hypothetical notion, one which was being drilled into him by all the previous Avatars he contacted and all of his friends. This is made clearer with the example of the scene with Monk Gyatso’s remains. Just wanted to clarify. I feel it’s very important to the analysis with regards to its intent. A character having flaws or less-than-perfect attributes is a necessity when they inhabit a complex world, and I don’t think that Aang is evil for not wanting to go against his culture by committing murder. He’s a complex individual and a child with the fate of the world thrown on his back as well as being the member of a genocided culture which he alone is capable of rebuilding. The show gave him an out. I think he deserved it. That’s the point.

[tartrazeen]

Dude. I love the nuance in this.

[bulletproofteacup]

I gotta be real, hate the ending of avatar, but love this discourse. This is the kind of nuanced discussions I want to have.

[taikova]

saving the world, meeting locals. i can’t believe i finished this drawing.

[silima]

katara is down for crime just not down to get caught 😎