#airbenders being airbenders

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

#baked bean originals #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #sokka #before i watched the show everyone told me he was such a silly guy but he had the biggest stick up his ass #he acted like a miserable babysitter the entire season #while katara was busy being a revolutionary and aang was busy being a silly guy or the avatar #yeah i kind of ember island ified aang here but it's for the bit

[snailwriter]

Two halves of one whole haircut

#they’re both missing hair and honour #Zuko #taigen #blue eye samurai #atla #avatar the last airbender #bes

[gentletrees]

Shoutout to all fanfics that have my sweet soft boys sleep like this! <33 You're so real for that!

(also, if you have fanfic recs that feed me this well do tell me!)

#Zukka #prince zuko #sokka #snuggling all..platonically........ #just boys being boys #sharing body heat #in the middle of the earth kingdom #atla #avatar the last airbender

[endless-nightshift]

Something Something Avatar The Last Airbender was fundamentally about showing the horrible long-lasting effects of both war and violence in a grand sense (the way people suffer under fire nation occupation including the air nomad genocide and the state of the southern water tribe) but also a personal sense (zukos entire arch) and the show goes to great lengths to avoid glorifying war, often specifically choosing only depict the aftermath of terrible violence while not graphically depicting the violence itself.

And I think it's a profound misunderstanding, maybe even an insult to the source text to continually depict gratuitous death and violence as a focal point of the live action.

#i can provide example of this if need be #the depiction of the air nomads being invaded by the fighting #kataras mothers body #zuko and ozais agni kai #theres probably more #but thats what ive gathered from cultral osmosis alone #atla #atla live action #atla netflix #avatar #avatar the last airbender #live action avatar #prince zuko #atla zuko #zuko #avatar aang #aang #atla aang #air nomads #katara #katara atla

[a-chuffed-floating-panda]

(This was almost 11k the last time I checked and speed edited too. And yes, completely forgot to post this here when I first posted the chapter.)

Chapter 49: timeskips

“How come your air spouts are so good?” Gawa said. “Mine are far from as refined and elegant as yours. I’m envious.”

--

Timeskips. Adulthood, celebrations, children, marriage and date at a museum.

#a love in the eye of the hurricane #atla oc #atla fanfic #atla oc fanfic #oc centric #oc fanfiction #airbenders & airbending #fic update #fanfic update #fanfiction update #oc jamyang #oc gawa #they have an actual child now like actually #airbenders being airbenders #they’re still my children I love them and I’m a grandmother now #pre yangchen era #stories from people at ordinary temples series

[dareduffie]

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

#the WHOLE POINT of animation is that its NOT live-action #because if it's not live-action then it's not held back by realism #like. mcu costumes don't look the same as their comic counterparts because yes they would look silly! #and mind you the mcu will run too far with that but point being that you use the different mediums of art for different reasons #spiderverse would suck if it was live-action #i haven't watched the live-action atla and i'm not going to for several reasons #avatar the last airbender #winx club #riverdale #the lion king #disney remakes

[mugentakeda]

couldnt stop thinking about this idea i had of lu tens spirit being tethered to his medal that zuko gave iroh at his funeral so hes now cursed to have a front row seat to all their life-threatening shenanigans without actually being able to do anything about it so hes the most stressed guardian spirit of all time

#not even being able to finally chill in the afterlife after dying brutally would definitely happen to an eldest sibling i feel like #i always find ways to insert my beautiful lovely oc lu ten (joke) into everything. but this time i dont really have to try hard thank god #ALSO I THINK IM GETTING THE HAND OF DRAWING NATLA IROH... AMEN #iroh #zuko #lu ten #netflix avatar #natla #avatar the last airbender #atla #alicias art

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Sokka, trying to be more friendly to Zuko after becoming Aang’s firebending teacher: relax, guy, I like gay men

Zuko, sweating profusely: that’s nice but…I’m not gay

Sokka, who has been daydreaming about kissing him, KNOWING his fantasies were based off of some fact: [squinting] I don’t believe that

#memes #avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #zuko #zukka #zukka memes #I just love this audio it’s so funny #relax I like gay men #Zuko aka mr gay gayman the gay man #im not gay #NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE THAT ZUKO #I like to think that Sokka has like #cringey middle school anime drawings of him and Zuko kissing #he doodles in the middle of aangs bending lessons #in between hassling Zuko and being a general nuisance #he needs his hobbies #and I support them 100%

[prideprejudce]

the fact that reboots used to be like thirty or forty years apart and are now instead like 3-10 years apart is absolutely ridiculous. like are we so trapped in a capitalist hellscape that instead of us naturally cherishing a beloved piece of media like it deserves and looking forward to NEW stories with NEW universes we have to watch the same thing over and over and over again with reboot after reboot after reboot until that media has been so sucked dry that us as an audience are literally sick at the mere mention of it

#harry potter #harry potter tw #avatar the last airbender #disney #disney movies #it’s the same thing with disney and atla and now harry potter #like deathly hallows came out in 2010!!!!!!! why do we need an entire fuckin series reboot??? #besides being able to generate more cash from an already billion dollar franchise????? #I don’t want a retelling of harry fucking potter!!!!!!!! think of something new!!!!!!

[junotter]

projecting my want to be in an outdoor onsen rn on them

#zukka #atla zuko #atla sokka #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #my art #my entire world shifted after being in an outdoor onsen in 20°F and in the snow #hhh i want it back

[comradekatara]

oh book 1 gaang....... my silly rabbits <333

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #aang #sokka #art #mart #spent way too many hours drawing this yesterday #and then i looked at it today and was like. okay something is wrong with this. #and then i realized. that sokka was smiling. sokka smiling???? in my book 1?????? #so i just went back and changed it lol #katara and aang being sooooo cute sillygoofy precious angel babies #meanwhile. the struggler. #and i love them all so dearly <3

[bernard-the-rabbit]

friendship bracelets for the gaang <3

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#i cry #i love them #i love them so much #i cry thinking about them being happy #my trashy art #avatar the last airbender fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla fanart #the gaang #the gaang fanart #gaang #aang #aang fanart #zuko #zuko fanart #sokka #sokka fanart #katara #katara fanart #toph #toph fanart #toph beifong

[a-chuffed-floating-panda]

“What is it?”

She looked up at her, brows furrowed and expression unsure. “Can I stay with you? I don’t really wanna stay with anyone else.”

--

A truly embarrassing moment for Jamyang. Her children leave the nest. She gets the go ahead for training. She is chosen for something else as well. Gawa finds something interesting. It's also surprisingly wholesome?? Like family vibes wholesome

#a love in the eye of the hurricane #atla oc #atla fanfic #atla oc fanfic #oc centric #oc fanfiction #airbenders & airbending #fic update #fanfic update #fanfiction update #oc jamyang #oc gawa #they’re adorable #airbenders being airbenders #they’re my children they’re adorable I love them #pre yangchen era #stories from people at ordinary temples series

[psychronia]

I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender because why not and I'm losing my mind at Zuko's proper introduction. I don't know if it's hindsight, shifting characterizations, or just me not watching this in a long time, but this was amazing.

We start off showing he's an impatient and very angry kid. Reasonable, and the sort of flaw we might expect to see in a villain. Kinda funny that he expects to go up against an adult and fully 4-Element realized Avatar, but the kid is desperate and Iroh clearly expects his nephew to get the banishment-denial kicked out of him.

What's important here, though, is Zuko's introduction to the Southern Water Tribe.

Here, we have a very intimidating entrance where his entire ship just sails through the ice right up to the village's front door. It's quite ominous and this is our first proper introduction to how the Fire Nation interacts with a foreign people.

Sokka charges, I'm assuming fully prepared to die, and Zuko casually knocks him out of the way. Okay, so clearly the Water Tribe are entirely outgunned.

He asks "Where are you hiding him?" and the people of the Water Tribe go silent. I assume they're either just too scared to talk or actually protecting Aang.

Whatever the case, it's important to note that the Southern Water Tribe know the terror the Fire Nation can inflict. We have a whole episode dedicated to tracking down a division of raiders. Sokka was able to not only identify the ash-mixed snow as signs of an incoming attack, but estimate how many ships the amount of ash measures to. These are a people who have experience being terrorized and are probably expecting something terrible to happen.

And then, after they don't answer, Zuko grabs Gran-Gran. There was a horror sting to it, and everything the tribe knows about the Fire Nation suggests that Zuko is about to threaten or straight up hurt her to get answers. Classic "terrorize the elderly" bad guy stuff.

And then...

He goes "He's (the Avatar) be about this age and is a master of all four elements!?" and lets her go.

And all of a sudden, the tension that was built up is shattered as Zuko went "I know, I'll give them a reference for the person I'm looking for because clearly they're confused and I wasn't specific enough."

This went from a show of villainy to a show of Zuko being totally socially awkward and misreading the situation entirely. Not helping is that when he does try to menace them a moment later, his fire is slow and angled quite safely.

It still worked on the Water Tribe because they're understandably scared, but all I could think of is that this was the equivalent of a playground bully trying to make someone flinch with that fake-out lunge thing.

Because the fact-and something we'll come to learn-is that Zuko is TERRIBLE at being a Fire Nation oppressor. He's capable of doing morally dubious things and is a competent fighter. But he's lousy at terrorizing people and cruelty-that's kind of the point of his banishment.

And while we can see the story paint this picture of Zuko's true character as the story goes on with hints of good and conflicting loyalties, here we get to see just how bad he is at being "the bad guys".

#avatar the last airbender #atla #you're not an imperialistic conqueror you're a BABY #a BABY BEAN #diffused tension #bad at being bad #can you imagine how horrible this would have played out if Azula was the one that came? #psychronia

[emkini]

AZULA GET BACK HERE-

Any fire siblings concept that gives them this vibe is an automatic favorite 

#do NOT tag this as ship I will sic azula on your ass #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #fire siblings #comic #em draws #atla fanart #I like the idea that Azula is Zuko's passive-aggressive court behavior translator #Zuko: So like. did it seem like that noble was being kind of a dick? #Azula: Currently I have a private investigation underway to uncover an assassination plot I believe he is spearheading #Zuko: Ah

[theotherpacman]

anyway zukka is so fucking good it's about zuko feeling like his bending will never be good enough and then meeting this brilliant badass nonbender boy it's about sokka feeling underestimated/unseen and zuko seeing him as so talented and intelligent that he's literally irreplaceable it's about zuko seeing himself as irredeemable and sokka treating him like an equal

it's about both of them growing up lonely and finding company in each other it's about both of them being surprised by how easy it is to be around each other it's about sokka talking and zuko listening it's about zuko having trouble understanding people and sokka being endlessly patient and helpful

it's about both of them growing up with warrior fathers who expected them to be warriors and turning out to be softhearted diplomats

#mostly it's about zuko being utterly fucking obsessed with this dorky ass beautiful man #oh my god it's so good #zukka #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla zukka #atla zuko #atla sokka