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Why Korra's decision to keep the portals open bugs me:

It’s not done with the consent of ANYONE except Tenzin - there’s no thought to the other nations and the general world 

If the portals have to be closed/opened on particular days, Korra could have closed the portals, had a discussion with the world leaders, and the reopened them the next year. 

Avatar Wan KNEW what the spirits are capable of - he even LIKED spirits - but he recognized they presented a serious threat to the human race so he closed the portals

In Avatar Wan’s day, the spirits had forced humanity into isolated small communities protected by lion turtles - the spirits had successfully invaded the world and claimed it from humanity. In Korra’s time, there are no lion turtles to provide safe heavens and the human population couldn’t fit on them anyways. 

From how the worlds are set up and what background Beginnings gave us - it appears that the Spirit World belongs to the spirits and the Human World to the humans and other physical creatures. I think the divide is there for a reason - to each their own  Spirits invading the human world and setting up shop is not okay, likewise humans invading the spirit world. Maybe the odd human or spirit is allowed to live in the other world, but that’s limited. 

Spirits don’t play by human morals - and they don’t value human life (as seen in Beginnings). In folklore in our world, spirits often retaliate with significant and sometimes deadly violence for offences humans would see a minor (such as eating fruit from the wrong tree or trespassing without knowing they’re trespassing and without causing any harm). In the Avatar world, take Hei Bei which blamed an innocent village for harm to its forest, terrorized and abducted people from the village. It was only the Avatar who was able to do anything about this. 

Korra is taking Unalaq’s word over Wan’s. Aside from the whole Vaatu problem, Unalaq never lived with spirits for the entirety of his life and he was able to consistently control them when he did encounter them. On the other hand, Wan lived with spirits and was mostly at their mercy until he gained bending. Even with bending, he still had trouble controlling/dealing with spirits. 

Korra no longer has help from past Avatars who have dealt with spirits which remained on this side nor does she have help from Wan. Any research or knowledge on spirits has probably been lost over the centuries. Korra, and maybe Eska and Desna and Jinora, are the only people who know how to fight spirits (granted - that we’ve seen). 

***If Air has spirit-bending as its secondary, then there are only four, potentially five, Airbenders in the whole world - and three of those are too young and untrained. That leaves one fully capable twelve-year-old and one semi-capable adult to deal with spirits. Adding in Korra means three people to handle all spirit problems - a preteen, a only partly skilled adult, and Korra. Maybe five if you can convince me Eska and Desna are altruistic enough to help out - which I highly doubt they are. 

As for everyone else…good luck. They’re basically defenseless. The best they can do is ‘think good thoughts’ which is BS because negative emotions are part and parcel of life.

In my opinion, Korra’s decision to keep the portals open is thoughtless, reckless, and dangerous. The stated reason of it 'feeling right’ doesn’t work for me - Roku felt he was doing the right thing with Sozin, Kuruk didn’t bother confronting the Face Eater until it came after someone he loved, Kyoshi didn’t stop Chin the Conqueror until he went after her home. Avatars relying solely on their personal 'feelings’ have caused trouble. Somewhere along the line LOGIC and caring for people beyond their circle has to enter the equation.  

However, Korra’s decision is not out of character. I hope seasons three and four do justice to the consequences of this decision. I hope the writers don’t gloss over the potential damage done by spirits and pretend it’s all hunky-dory except for, you know, one spirit which gives a few people nightmares and stops as soon as Korra says to stop. I hope Korra has to deal with victims of spirits and wrestle with her decision - consider if the hurt/deaths inflicted by the spirits are worth keeping the portals open. If Korra was unwilling to sacrifice Jinora to prevent Vaatu (the evilest of evil) from escaping, I think she be forced to understand she should be equally as unwilling to allow any stranger to be harmed by the spirits because of their presence in the world due to her choice. 

***Since Water can also spirit-bend in addition to Air, I can’t help but believe that all elements can. Maybe over the centuries, Earth & Fire forgot how. Which means that spirit-bending is not a secondary to Air. Air would still have an unknown secondary bending. 

#all of this #anti lok

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Sometimes it’s the little things.

All I wanted to do was rant a little teensy weensy bit about Korra’s enlightened and mature decision to leave the Spirit Portals open. But somewhere along the line, I started to feel really sorry for Republic City’s inhabitants, (e.g., that kid trapped in the building about to be demolished). In particular, I just can’t take my mind off this poor woman:

“How soon can we expect public water service to resume?”

Legend of Korra takes place in Republic City, modeled after 1920s New York. In 1920, the population of New York City was 5.6 million.

Korra has just single-handedly and without any warning left Republic City wide open to invasion by spirit vines, resulting in, among other things, at least some parts of the city losing basic services like running water.

Let’s say only 1 out of every 1,000 people was affected by the water pipes being trashed by the spirit vines.

That’s still 5,600 people without potable water.

1 out of every 100? 56,000 people.

Does Korra know what happens in a city of 5.6 million when there’s an immediate threat to the public water supply that could strike anywhere, anytime, and there is no end in sight?

Does Korra know how much it costs to repair damage to city infrastructure—roads, power lines, water pipes, gas pipes—all at the same time?

This reporter was doing her job—asking the authority who was responsible for this mess when it would be cleaned up. She didn’t yell. She didn’t threaten. And Korra looks at her like this woman just slapped a baby.

Of course, considering Korra’s attitude throughout the whole spirit debacle…maybe that’s exactly what she did.

But you know what the worst part is? The worst part is that LOK fans tout the series as a more mature look at the world of A:TLA—a more grown-up show, if you will. But look at the way this whole scene is designed. The creators want us to view the reporters as pesky annoyances that the Avatar is having to put up with while she’s busy trying to fix things. Korra is not portrayed as being in the wrong at all. A show that is actually mature would treat a problem with the city water supply as the crisis that it is, even if “boring” things like public health aren’t as eye-grabbing and action-oriented as  Korra grappling with the spirit vines. Instead, we are expected to side with the most adolescent person in the scene. No, thanks, Legend of Korra. My sympathies are with the reporter.

#currently watching bk 3 #and these are my exact feelings #the decision to keep the spirit portals open was ridiculous and counter to everything we were shown in the show #just imagine how many people have been displaced by this shit #and the show never really explains how asami fixed this shit #we don't even know of those displaced people have homes again #anti lok #bad writing #i love this reporter lady #she's the real mvp

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#finally something accurate

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i mean there are multiple starbucks in pretty much every airport in washington so getting a starbucks immediately after they get off the plane isn't too farfetched

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#lmao this state

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Okay so I don't know why people say sex or love is what makes us human. Lots of organisms in nature have sex or mate for life. You know what makes us human? Cooking. Nothing else in nature cooks except humans. Checkmate aphobes. Sincerely, an ace cook.

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is that true??

Holy shit!!

#nice

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goddamn, people are really this mad about a fact?

Imagine thinking Ancient Rome was white.

#look. . .at the fucking MAP my dudes #see that part of rome that's in north africa and the middle easg and just fucking TRY to tell me that rome was all pasty white you fuckers #fucking really? #this isn't hard you know #???? #why

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all the avatar kids are denied adults to look after them and set an example for them. they are a group of war orphans and runaways traveling the world alone. but, in brief glimpses, they get to see heroes who give them a sense of their own futures. 

sokka has a hero: it’s piandao. he also has his dad, when he gets to see him. and bato. and the mechanist.

aang had heroes who are now gone, like gyatso, while others are still around for him to talk to: guru pathik, roku, her highness sifu katara herself.

zuko has uncle to help him work through his problems. suki looks to kyoshi as a role model for the kind of strength she wants to model someday. toph, ever the individualist, learns to take her inspiration from sokka once she comes to grips with the idea that she should rely on more than just her own big muscles. 

we don’t know a lot about sokka and katara’s relationships with kanna, so if we set her aside, i think it’s interesting that katara, who was never really seen by any adult in all her life after her mother’s death, imprinted so quickly on a strange woman who shared her history and abilities. it is completely normal to want to believe in a liar when you’ve never had anyone to believe in before. katara’s day or two with hama speak to katara’s larger trauma that comes from not seeing a future for herself. but her willingness to disavow hama and her actions as soon as her real actions became clear–that speaks to katara’s unshakable moral compass, and the fact that she will always do the right thing, even if she has to forge a path forward based on nothing at all. 

#how dare you make ny heart hurt like this #atla #my babies

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Imagine thinking Ancient Rome was white.

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EVERYONE STOP AND LOOK AT THIS

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Amazing art of dinosaurs in the wild American West? Yes please!

There’s so many he’s done and they’re all just the best aesthetic.

What I never knew I needed but a void has definitely been filled.

Go to his website and give some support!

http://shaunkeenan.com/

#inspiration #designs #beautiful #i love all of these so much hol SHIT #they're so beautiful #the mongolian warriors w the mammoth & sabertooth cat are my favourite!

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the world was severely lacking weird little girl memes so i had to fill the void

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Hey, billionaires!

Stalin’s ghost is trapped inside the Siberian permafrost.

If we don’t reverse climate change and soon, the ice will melt and release his spirit back into the world to enact Vengence and Communism!

Only you can stop the rise of Ghost Stalinism!

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~reblog if I can send you a question about your wip~

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Let’s play Writer’s Would You Ever

Send me an ask that says “Would you ever write…” and continue the sentence.

I’ll respond with yes or no and give an explanation as to why if I want to.

#ask games

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guess what y’all?? i watched the death of stalin last night and i had some thoughts. and because i also have no self control, i made this mess of a wip to implement my improvements. enjoy!!

#other ppl's wips

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"Once, I called you brother. Once, I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted."

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Noatak (x) Tarrlok

#ow #my heart #for all the issues i have with lok i will still always love these two #noatak #amon #tarrlok #lok

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Np! I'm glad it made sense, haha. (Also shout out to tumblr for not messing up my comments on other posts for once 🙃)

Yeah, I can totally understand that reservation. I tend to think of it as a very specific type of people writing outside their own experience (which i don't usually have a big problem with) where the creator just,,, doesn't even try to research or get input from the group they're writing abt, but I can see how some ppl would take it to the extremes. Personally, I would only make the jump to calling something tragedy porn if it got an actual outcry from the ppl it represents, like 13rw and American Dirt did.

Genuine question to people who make this complaint: what qualifies a story as "tragedy porn", as opposed to just... y'know... tragedy?

#tumblr comments are impossible #about fiction #disk horse #intpdreamer #hey wait i'm an intp too! nice