cringe zuko moments compilation

onion | she/her | atla/lok sideblog, reblogging stuff i guess

[zukonion]

this is how yall mfs look trying to capture the avatar to regain your honor

[ponytailzuko]

zuko finally deciding to join the avatar, pictured. (2008)

[aangarchy]

Yall don’t understand this post was broken for like three months and all of a sudden it’s rebloggable when Eli already made the joke I-

[zukonion]

apparently just now tumblr has approved this post since it got fucking flagged im going to combust

[katara-aang]

atla ladies + iconic quotes

[atlasapphics]

[ID: A gifset with six gifs in total, all of different female characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The first gif shows Mai drawing one of her knives which catches the sun and shines brightly for a moment, There is white text on top of the gif reading “I guess you just don’t know people as well as you think you do” and as the knife flashes in the sunlight, the words “you miscalculate appear bellow those above. 

The second gif shows Azula with her hair down, and a mischievous smile on her her face as she hangs from a rock wall using her hair piece. Her hair flutters in the wind, and there is what appears to be a billowing cloud of dust just behind her. White text reading “don’t flatter yourself” in a thicker font appears quickly, one word at a time, and then another line of thin white text appears reading “you were never even a player. 

The third gif shows Ty Lee running up at the viewer, doing a cartwheel, and hurling herself upwards before summersaulting mid-air and landing. Bold white text reading “circus freak” is shown beside a thinner section of text reading “is a” and then below this, think white text appears reading “compliment”. 

The fourth gif shows Toph in a could of dust, her arms upwards and head tilted slightly down as she sidesteps through the dust. She is wearing an expensive-looking nightgown, and she has an angry but determined expression as the words “ I am the” in a thin white font appears, followed swiftly by “greatest earthbender” written in thick white text before shifting again to think white text which appears reading “in the world”. 

The fifth gif first shows Suki in “The Boiling Rock” in combat with a prison guard who throws fire at her, which she dodges, and then moves under him and flips him over, leaving the guard on the ground as she runs forward. There is white text overtop of this which reads “I’m a warrior”. Then, the scene changes to show Suki in her bathing suit looking off at someone and smiling with white text overtop reading “I’m a girl too”. 

The last gif shows Katara in the North Pole while fighting Pakku as she raises a cylinder of ice from a pool of water in which she is standing, and then proceeds to slice this cylinder and throws these slices forwards. There is white text which flashes by reading “you can’t knock me down”. This text turns blue and then white again just as Katara starts slicing the ice cylinder. END ID]  

[azulapropaganda]

top five atla characters who say slurs

[azulapropaganda]

zhao

[siobhanroygf-archive-deactivate]

[image id: a reply by @/edrics reading "zhao". /end id]

[benditlikekorra]

[mysieee]

The gang is all here! 🌊⛰️🔥🌪️🤡

[kyoshisgf]

the worst self-insert in fandom history: michael dante dimartino’s white washed aang

[azulapropaganda]

s1 Zuko: heart empty head full

s2 Zuko: head empty heart empty

s3 Zuko: head empty heart full

[sukiyoshi]

you’re laughing. people still forget suki when they draw art of the gaang and you’re laughing.

[zukonion]

can you please explain the title of your blog

its literally the combination of zuko and onion!!

zuko because zuko is my favourite atla character

the onion part stems from 1) shrek 2) bald ponytail zuko looking like an onion 3) the term popular in polish teen slang a few years ago that poked fun at polish middle-aged cheapskates

[charlesoberonn]

The Avatar cycle but there're 12 elements instead of just 4.

[ajthebumblebee]

What are the twelve elements?

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Light

Mind

Time

Breath

Void

Rage

Doom

Heart

Life

Space

Blood

Hope

[seasaltcosmos]

[ponytailzuko]

[ID: An edited screenshot from the Chibi Shorts of Avatar: The Last Airbender. From left to right, it shows Momo, Appa, and Iroh sitting on a stone bench. Appa is lifting a sign that says, “Lost Gays: If you’ve seen them, contact Appa” with a photo of Toph, Katara, Zuko, Aang, Suki, and Sokka together under it. Momo is also lifting a sign with a picture of all of them in a group hug. Iroh is clapping and has the Philadelphia inclusive flag and the trans flag sticking out of his topknot. Appa has facepaint of the bisexual flag on one cheek and facepaint of the asexual flag on the other cheek. Momo is holding a lesbian flag with his tail. End ID.]

hello! together with @maigender​, @airbendertylee​, @cardboardseagulls​, @zukonion​, and @dykesia​, we’re reopening appa’s lost gays now that there’s a lot of new fans due to atla and lok being added to netflix. it’s a discord server for avatar fans to get together and talk about the show and make friends! we’d love to see you there!

some requirements/basic guidelines on joining: -be 13+ -you don’t have to be lgbt but homophobia/biphobia/transphobia/terfs/etc isn’t tolerated. -no racism, colorism, islamophobia, antisemitism, etc. -no supporting incest or pedophilic ships.

link: https://discord.gg/UAMpZFC

[miamitu-illust]

AU where Sokka’s high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)

based on this beautiful tumblr post

bonus:

[iloe]

siblings stealing each others fits and making fun of each other. thats all

[cloudbends]

Iroh's speech to zuko in lake Laogai:

to be fair price zuko, you have to have very high IQ to understand the meaning of honor. Your inner fight is very subtle, and without a solid grasp of the true meaning of humility most of it will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also your nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into your character - your personal philosophy draws heavily from the teachings of the fire nation's literature, for instance. The local fire nation citizens understand this stuff: they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of honor, to realize that it's not just a word - it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who don't appreciate the meaning of honor ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the meaning in your own existencial crisis "COME ON, STRIKE ME!!!!", which itself is a cryptic reference to the epic play Love Amongst the Dragons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their hears in confusion as your own meaningful journey unfolds in the history books. What fools... I pity them. 😂 joy and yes by the way, I DO have a jasmine tea tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferable lower) beforehand.

[transtenzin]

[ID: 3 edits of Tenzin from the Legend of Korra. In all 3, his skin is edited to be light brown, brown eyes, and a wider and flatter nose. In the first edit, he is shown from the chest up, facing the audience. He sits in a chair outside the Air Temple, holding his baby, Rohan. Tenzin looks at something off screen with a soft expression on his face. The second edit shows Tenzin from the shoulders up. He stands on the deck of Varrick’s ship, wearing a serious expression with his mouth open as he talks. The third shows Tenzin from the neck up. He raises an eyebrow in mild annoyance as he glances to the side, one eye only partially open. End ID.]

thanks for 1000 followers omg. here are the tenzin edits i promised 😭😭

white people can reblog but don’t comment or reply to this post.

[avaarts]

three gals with buns

[ponytailzuko]

as a bunch of new fans are getting into atla via netflix and there’s been a resurgence of fan content (as well as whitewashed fan content), i’m gonna say for artists looking to make fanart of atla:

google images is probably not the best place to pick your references, unless you’re going to be critical about which ones you use. a lot of the images are lightened. i see people defend themselves for whitewashing by showing they used a reference, but that reference was lightened too. 

i’m going to use some pictures of katara i found on google images as examples: 

[id: three images of katara from avatar: the last airbender. each image is a side by side comparison of the coloring of a scene. in the first image, she is from the waist up, smiling and looking at her friends who are off camera. 

the second image is of katara sitting on a staircase, leaning down and putting her face in her left hand. she looks exhausted.

the third image is a closeup of katara’s face, with her looking up at someone off screen. the screenshots on the left of each image are picked from google images and significantly paler than the ones on the right, which were screenshotted directly from the show. end id.]

the ones on google images are paler than the show. this is also a problem i see with gif makers putting filters on katara and sokka. i would not use edited gifs as reference either.

this post is not saying you shouldn’t use google images at all for reference, or that all images found on it are bad. a lot of the katara images on google look just fine! i just wanted to bring awareness that people should not blindly trust their references and instead pick directly from the show if they can. if you do not have netflix or the atla dvds, avatarspirit has had an archive of screenshots from each episode of the show for a long time.  i also advise choosing references that have a similar background and lighting you’re going for. colors will appear differently if you’re using them on red, or blue, or etc. 

this post is not defending or giving excuses to artists who whitewash by saying they just picked bad references. this post is specifically to point out how to AVOID whitewashing by not picking bad references.

this post is also not arguing over if whitewashing is bad or not. if you comment about how whitewashing is not racist, i will delete your reply and/or block you.