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@atlaonline event 03: elements ➢ WATER

Water is the element of change. The people of the water tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything.

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facinaoris

I love Zuko more than I fear you.

ianime0

Avatar: The Last Airbender | Book 2 | Someone looks very well rested, judging by your bed head.

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Aang, Katara, Toph, Zuko, and Aang Avatar State, by Nogi San.

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Kya learned it from aunt T.

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thinking about atla thematics as usual and fascinated by how many fans insist they wanted aang to “grow up” more at the end of the series without considering how one of the show’s major themes is the terrible ways war and imperialism rob people of their childhoods. one of aang’s major gifts to every single character is restoring a piece of their lost or stolen or brutalized childhood. aang reminds katara there’s still joy in the world, and fuels her hope.

he brings wonder to sokka’s life with his flying bison. he sees zuko not as a terrifying enemy but as a boy he might have been friends with and had fun with, he offers toph a way out of her repressive home to have the adventures she’d been longing for, and all these characters rise to fulfill their destinies through honoring their inner child - the parts of themselves that are hopeful, kind, gentle, fierce, innocent, deserving of protection - and breaking the cycles of violence and abuse that interrupted their childhoods. azula was convinced she had no need for her inner child, and killed aang in cold blood in ba sing se, after which she slowly but surely lost everything she cared about, including her sense of self.

and finally, aang shows ozai mercy, thematically reminding the latter that the children he tried to kill and brutalize are a force capable of rising above petty violence, and reshaping the world. you could even argue that the original rupture in the mythos was when both sozin and the air nation sought to rob a child of their right to childhood - sozin by hunting a child, the air nomads by hastening aang out of his childhood so he could help them - and that balance is restored when aang, who represents the world’s lost gentleness and mercy, and upholds values that a war torn world regards as “childish” and “immature”, manages to end the war with a gesture that honors those values and affirms everyone’s right to a safe and loving childhood, to a life free of violence.

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kiegotakami

and so maybe my home isn’t what i had known what i thought it would be

lenaikart

Поняла что практически ни разу не рисовала Суюки

lenaikart

Modern Azula

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— Oscar Wilde

kyoshi-lesbians

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

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he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

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his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’