[tessera1995]

I wanted to draw her with a summery vibe.

—her big smile and her heavy, resounding footsteps.

[diasnoodlelie]

rose, they could literally never make me hate you

[smilychi]

they're soooo cutee🤲

[sparklecurlyart]

Some random stuff for u it’s been a while

[glorious-spoon]

honestly i think the selling point of romance for me (and where it usually fails to land) is 'can i imagine these people sharing an in-joke'

like, are they in cahoots. can they laugh together. do they have a similar enough or at least complementary enough outlook that they can connect over something being funny (even if it's funny in a fucked up way! sometimes those are the best in-jokes!)

that's not necessarily true love in and of itself, but it does feel like an essential component to me

[ibleedglitterandrainbows]

Peridot again!!! <3

[bananarpfunky]

I couldnt post, i was a little busy,,, take some steven and connie art!!

[swordsareforthegays]

Some day, when I finish writing Piece of a Diamond and start my Rose Quartz-Steven roadtrip fic it’s going to be all over for you hoes

[swordsareforthegays]

Like this is so fucking good why didn’t I finish this

[swordsareforthegays]

Some day, when I finish writing Piece of a Diamond and start my Rose Quartz-Steven roadtrip fic it’s going to be all over for you hoes

[anrimortis]

☆ミ❤️+💙.。o○

[nicijones]

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

[liesmyth]

#it’s called sending me an ask and I tell you way more info than you actually wanted @newbromantics

[yourhighness6]

Can we talk for a second about what they did to Sokka's character in the atla movie? Because why is Zuko having to hold his hand and talk him through simple tasks like piloting a ship while he's out there fighting for his life? That is #notmySokka. The Sokka I remember is competent. The Sokka I remember has a whole arc that revolved around gaining confidence in himself and his leadership. The Sokka I remember is a warrior who took down three comet-powered firebenders on his back with a broken leg while keeping Toph from falling to her death with one hand. I don't know who that was in that storm but that was not Sokka

[swordsareforthegays]

You know, I’m just thinking about how no one in the show really understands Aangs loss, the depth of the grief

Katara says that her and Sokka are his family now (and later that would surely include the rest of the gaang). Guru Pathik talks about how Aang has “felt a great loss” but “the air nomads love for (him) has not left this world” and is reborn in the form of new love

And they’re both right, of course, and those are kind, comforting things to say. But they’re very individual-oriented. Aang still has a family, Aang is still loved

But Aang isn’t just feeling a personal loss - the loss of friends he had, Gyatso, 100 years he missed. He’s also feeling the loss of an entire culture - lost traditions and stories and rituals and beliefs, an entire way of life, and he’s the only one who carries it on now. It’s so much bigger then just him, it’s grief for people he didn’t even know that were killed, for a future that was taken from the airbenders as a whole, for a world that will never know what it lost. He can’t go home, not just because it’s different but because it’s gone completely

It’s so much for one person, let alone a kid, and there’s literally no one else who can ever fully understand it

[swordsareforthegays]

Like, you ever think about the things Aang doesn’t remember, or doesn’t remember fully? And how they’re truly lost? And how guilty that must make him feel?

A meal that he grew up eating, that was so common place and familiar he never gave it much thought, and he never learned the recipe, and now he’ll never eat it again

A festival that was held every year and he remembers parts of it - playing with the other kids during it, making colorful flags to be strung between the buildings, sitting for a long time while grown ups gave speeches - things kids remember. But he doesn’t remember what the festival was really for, and how could he not have realized how important it was?

Certain prayers, certain sayings, the ceremonial part of things. He wants to properly lay to rest the remains of the air nomads at the temples but he doesn’t remember the words to the funeral prayers the monks used to say, so how can he do it properly? He can’t even say goodbye to them right

He was just a kid. He was supposed to have time to learn those things later

[swordsareforthegays]

So this is relevant again after the movie

[swordsareforthegays]

See: Katara and Aangs conversation at the start of the movie when she’s healing him. He says “I’m the last airbender, if I die, my culture dies with me” and she responds with “you may be the last airbender, but you’re not alone” and praises him for the creation of Republic City and how all the nations “live there together”, to which Aang points out “except mine”

Again, she’s putting it down to a solely personal loss - the airbenders are gone, but you’re not alone - completely missing the point he makes about how no one else can carry on the Air Nomads culture but him, how it’s completely up to him and it weighs on him so much that, when facing death, he thinks about what that loss would mean rather then the loss of his own life

Katara’s sentiment is kind, and I’m not sure what would have been the right thing to say, but again, no one, even the people closest to Aang, truly get what he’s going through

[swordsareforthegays]

I love the Air Acolytes!!! I love Aang passing on the knowledge of his culture so that it doesn’t have to die with him!!!

But if you asked any person to tell you everything about their culture, their spiritual beliefs, their home country, they couldn’t do it. Because it’s too much for one person to remember. And Aang was a child when it was all lost

So, as the point above, what about the things he doesn’t remember? The things he never learned? The things he was too young at the time to really be apart of or care about? The things they can’t piece together from the few airbender relics that weren’t destroyed? They are still gone forever

And you just know that kills him - that he wracks his brain for every small piece of information he can recall and beats himself up because it’s not enough, it’s not everything

[swordsareforthegays]

You know, I’m just thinking about how no one in the show really understands Aangs loss, the depth of the grief

Katara says that her and Sokka are his family now (and later that would surely include the rest of the gaang). Guru Pathik talks about how Aang has “felt a great loss” but “the air nomads love for (him) has not left this world” and is reborn in the form of new love

And they’re both right, of course, and those are kind, comforting things to say. But they’re very individual-oriented. Aang still has a family, Aang is still loved

But Aang isn’t just feeling a personal loss - the loss of friends he had, Gyatso, 100 years he missed. He’s also feeling the loss of an entire culture - lost traditions and stories and rituals and beliefs, an entire way of life, and he’s the only one who carries it on now. It’s so much bigger then just him, it’s grief for people he didn’t even know that were killed, for a future that was taken from the airbenders as a whole, for a world that will never know what it lost. He can’t go home, not just because it’s different but because it’s gone completely

It’s so much for one person, let alone a kid, and there’s literally no one else who can ever fully understand it

[swordsareforthegays]

Like, you ever think about the things Aang doesn’t remember, or doesn’t remember fully? And how they’re truly lost? And how guilty that must make him feel?

A meal that he grew up eating, that was so common place and familiar he never gave it much thought, and he never learned the recipe, and now he’ll never eat it again

A festival that was held every year and he remembers parts of it - playing with the other kids during it, making colorful flags to be strung between the buildings, sitting for a long time while grown ups gave speeches - things kids remember. But he doesn’t remember what the festival was really for, and how could he not have realized how important it was?

Certain prayers, certain sayings, the ceremonial part of things. He wants to properly lay to rest the remains of the air nomads at the temples but he doesn’t remember the words to the funeral prayers the monks used to say, so how can he do it properly? He can’t even say goodbye to them right

He was just a kid. He was supposed to have time to learn those things later

[swordsareforthegays]

So this is relevant again after the movie

[swordsareforthegays]

See: Katara and Aangs conversation at the start of the movie when she’s healing him. He says “I’m the last airbender, if I die, my culture dies with me” and she responds with “you may be the last airbender, but you’re not alone” and praises him for the creation of Republic City and how all the nations “live there together”, to which Aang points out “except mine”

Again, she’s putting it down to a solely personal loss - the airbenders are gone, but you’re not alone - completely missing the point he makes about how no one else can carry on the Air Nomads culture but him, how it’s completely up to him and it weighs on him so much that, when facing death, he thinks about what that loss would mean rather then the loss of his own life

Katara’s sentiment is kind, and I’m not sure what would have been the right thing to say, but again, no one, even the people closest to Aang, truly get what he’s going through

[swordsareforthegays]

You know, I’m just thinking about how no one in the show really understands Aangs loss, the depth of the grief

Katara says that her and Sokka are his family now (and later that would surely include the rest of the gaang). Guru Pathik talks about how Aang has “felt a great loss” but “the air nomads love for (him) has not left this world” and is reborn in the form of new love

And they’re both right, of course, and those are kind, comforting things to say. But they’re very individual-oriented. Aang still has a family, Aang is still loved

But Aang isn’t just feeling a personal loss - the loss of friends he had, Gyatso, 100 years he missed. He’s also feeling the loss of an entire culture - lost traditions and stories and rituals and beliefs, an entire way of life, and he’s the only one who carries it on now. It’s so much bigger then just him, it’s grief for people he didn’t even know that were killed, for a future that was taken from the airbenders as a whole, for a world that will never know what it lost. He can’t go home, not just because it’s different but because it’s gone completely

It’s so much for one person, let alone a kid, and there’s literally no one else who can ever fully understand it

[swordsareforthegays]

Like, you ever think about the things Aang doesn’t remember, or doesn’t remember fully? And how they’re truly lost? And how guilty that must make him feel?

A meal that he grew up eating, that was so common place and familiar he never gave it much thought, and he never learned the recipe, and now he’ll never eat it again

A festival that was held every year and he remembers parts of it - playing with the other kids during it, making colorful flags to be strung between the buildings, sitting for a long time while grown ups gave speeches - things kids remember. But he doesn’t remember what the festival was really for, and how could he not have realized how important it was?

Certain prayers, certain sayings, the ceremonial part of things. He wants to properly lay to rest the remains of the air nomads at the temples but he doesn’t remember the words to the funeral prayers the monks used to say, so how can he do it properly? He can’t even say goodbye to them right

He was just a kid. He was supposed to have time to learn those things later

[swordsareforthegays]

So this is relevant again after the movie

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i think the reason i can't get behind the bender/nonbender conflicts as they're presented in the atla movie & lok is that in atla, the primary bending-based oppression is firebending vs literally every other type of bending - the genocide of the air nomads and southern waterbenders, the treatment of earthbenders in "imprisoned". in the southern water tribe and many parts of the earth kingdom, the idea of nonbenders being oppressed by benders would be completely ridiculous. you're hiding your bender loved ones from the people who want to take them away. maybe fire nation nonbenders would feel oppressed by benders in their own country, but they're not exactly being oppressed by water and earth benders. the idea that people 10 years after this war would think of bender and nonbender as more meaningful distinctions than nation just does not make sense to me. i can maybe be a bit more forgiving of lok bc it's later in the timeline & specific to a city with more unity amongst nations (thus allowing new divides to emerge) but i still don't feel like there was a ton of acknowledgement that nation was the primary axis of oppression for 100 years

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

the nonbender activists are always portrayed as villains but it's never framed as like. hey it's fucking wild to be acting like waterbenders are oppressing you when the southern waterbender population is only JUST starting to bounce back from genocide. wanting to eradicate waterbenders and earthbenders is old fire nation genocide shit and you're disguising it as "anti-bender" sentiment. i think lok did at least show amon targeting airbenders & highlight how awful that is but i don't think they were trying to establish that anti-bender sentiment was related to fire nation oppression given that one of the main equalist characters joined the movement bc a firebender killed his wife. the problem with anti-bender logic is that it lumps all benders together as one oppressor group with no regard for their actual histories, but despite showing anti-benders as wrong that's never what the show/movie actually critiques

[crimson-constellations]

I can’t with old Zuko in the spirit world fainting like a victorian child while he was flip kicking and fighting waterbenders in the full moon in Korra. we see you faking bad joints so sokka can carry you zuko speak your truth