#sand bending

[mids-dumbbrain]

The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra fans, it's time for a question, and the question is

What is your favorite sub-bending style

↑ some examples

[my-atla-fan-blog]

[jasten69]

pls not this again :'(((((

[indigo-inferno]

Day 13; Dune.

A young Suyin hitting the desert with the sandbender crowd.

Please do not repost my fanart anywhere. Thank you. 🙏

[anomenofdarkness]

Hey you. Stop scrolling and sit down

So this stuff. Based on amount of lateral elements alone, earth is quite possibly the objectively best element to be able to bend.

So, let's start by looking at how many lateral elements earth has. There's metal (obviously), lava, sand, seimic sense, crystal, possibly wood, theoretically bone. That's 7 lateral elements for earth. Now let's compare that to the other elements.

Fire has (possibly) 3. Lightning, combustion and, theoretically, mind control through bending neuroelectricity via lightning bending.

Air has 3. Levitation, sound and spirit projection.

Water has either 3 or 5 depending on wether or not you consider state shifting and healing elements (which im going to). Those elements are state shifting (obviously), healing (again, obviously), blood, spirit and plants.

So to tally up those scores we have

Earth: 7

Water: 5

Fire and Air: 3

So yeah.

TLDR: based purely on number of lateral elements/techniques Earthbending is objectively the best element.

Obviously this is far from truely the case though, as there's a lot more to it than just lateral bending options. This probably isn't a great post but i didn't wanna keep bothering my family with this rant so yall get it instead.

[the-lucky-catt]

Okay so someone has probably thought of this before but

In avatar we have sand bending

And we have lava bending

And molten sand becomes glass so can an earth bender glass bend if they could do both of those

[itszero2hero]

I am very excited for the resurgence in popularity of the avatar series. Which, coincidentally occurs a month after I introduced my partner to the series. We just started The Legend of Korra when The Last Airbender was released to Netflix.

Now, my fiancé introduced me to Wu Xhia, which is a martial arts based serial drama based on multiple books least of all that of Jing Yong, whose world is legendary. It’s only after rewatching do I realize HOW MUCH of that format was used for TLA, and I absolutely love it. Let me know if you want me to talk about that more.

Today, I wanna talk about the viral “bending hands” that went about the internet and my own reaction to it.

I have “Earth Bender Hands” now, it being a genetic trait, I find something like hand size and shape completely plausable as an indicator of a bender’s ability.

I’ll be honest, I was initially really disappointed that this was the case. To me, it was another way to jab at the fact that I wasn’t tall, I wasn’t lanky, and I wasn’t what people considered “ideal” in a lot of ways and I felt I was being punished for it. This was TOTALLY besides the fact that Earth bending is probably one of the most versatile, badass, and most useful styles of bending. I mean. Toph.

But I think the sensibility of Earth Bending is what caused my disconnect. It required one to be firm, grounded and unyeilding. Though, I see myself in that description I’ve always been attracted to flow, and adaptability, and grace. Something that’s always been associated with water bending. Now, I sat with my biases all this time until I rewatched The Avatar with my partner and you know what I realized.

Sand bending. It takes a lot of the teachings of water bending because the fluid motion of sand, and yet you also are able to bend earth like Toph.

I’m not the first person to say this but. DO YOU REALIZE HOW BADASS THAT IS?

I mean literally Gaara

[arjengelly]

Sand bender Gaara