#statue of atlas

[costumedump]

#rockefeller center #rockefeller center christmas tree #rockefeller center skating rink #statue of atlas #christmas decorations #christmas in nyc #nyc #2021

[biboomerangboi]

Sometimes I think about Zuko being the Firelord and I just giggle like yeah it is an angsty situation, yes it’s got great fanfic material but guys your just going to give a 17 year old a whole country. Like not even a normal trained from birth Prince you’ve got a guy that was officially the Crown Prince for like 3 years and then he was out at sea causing problems. His special skills include hunting the avatar, B&E, being buddies with mythical beasts, prison breaks and customer service and you gave him the ultimate power to do whatever he wants. Not to mention he’s got friends who are just as insane and feral and he’s got all the money. Toph and Sokka are going to talk him into the most insane purchases in seconds. Guys c’mon.

#atla #zuko #like yes Angst evil ministers removing your country’s genocidal rage with your guilt complex that’s all there too but guys he’s 17 #he’s going to make the biggest shinest statue to just aangs bald head to piss him off and say it’s in the name of peace #melon lord is going to become an offical title with duke status #zuko somehow not setting the palace on fire by accident is an achivement #firelord zuko #avatar the last airbender #zuko meta

[detailedart]

Atlas — Amsterdam, royal palace (baroque and classical architecture), opened July 29, 1655.

#statue #mythology #history #atlas #baroque #aesthetic #classical #sculpture #looks like patriarchy thinking it has made a poor choice #photography #space

[pinkiemachine]

I would also like to propose we build this statue in the North Pole’s Spirit Oasis effective immediately.

#avatar the last airbender #AtLA #fan art #princess yue #moon #moon spirit #statue #art #North Pole #spirit oasis

[the-badger-mole]

What is your NUMBER ONE headcannon for each person in the Gaang (Katara, Zuko, Aang, Toph, Sokka, Suki [and Appa and Momo if you feel so inclined])

Katara: After the war, she goes back to the NWT to train with Yugoda and becomes a master healer as well as a master of the NWT fighting style. From there, she goes back to the Foggy Swamp Tribe and masters their bending style, too. With the help of Sokka, Zuko, and (in some headcanons) Hama, she also rediscovers SWT waterbending and not only masters it, but teaches it to the new benders in the SWT. By the time she leaves the SWT, there has been a school established where all bending styles are available for study. She's one of the few who actually has mastered them all, though.

Sokka: He is eager to return home after the war. He throws himself into infrastructure and policy revamps, and he almost singlehandedly staves off the soft colonization attempts of the NWT. Under his efforts, the SWT rebuilds and reestablishes parts of its culture that had been lost during the war. With the discovery of oil on SWT land, he is also instrumental in establishing eco minded extraction techniques, and in trade ties with the rest of the world (although he is very much helped by his sister's deep ties with the Fire Lord). It's a surprise to no one when he's chosen to lead the SWT after Hakoda retires.

Toph: She does not become a cop. Instead, she goes back home and takes over the Earth Rumble, taking it from an underground even to a world wide phenomenon. She eventually allows benders of other elements to join, and the Earth Rumble becomes pro bending. She does also establish a metal bending school. In the end, she is wealthier than her parents, but because she couldn't really care less about money, she keeps enough to live at the standard she wants, and gives the rest away to causes that interest her...like the guy who wanted to set the record for the biggest bao bun ever, and needed funding for an oven big enough to cook it. She also establishes a halfway house for runaway teens.

Zuko: During his tenure as Fire Lord, he establishes a robust social services program that includes subsidized healthcare, education, and housing for the lowest income families. Under his reign, the Fire Nation becomes home to some of the earliest pioneers of mental health. At his wife's advice, he also makes paid maternity leave standard across the nation, and includes several programs to help single parents stay afloat. Taking inspiration from the SWT, Zuko makes some changes to how his advisory staff is selected. Instead of choosing from among the nobility, Zuko has the different provinces elect a representative to speak on their behalf. A lot of the nobles hate this, blaming his wife's influence, but the people adore their monarchs and despite their best efforts, there's little the nobles can do except start campaigning in their home provinces. It's not a perfect system, but it does open the door for the Fire Nation to end the monarchy within a couple of generations.

Suki: She continues to lead the Kyoshi Warriors for a few years after the war. She also helps train troops around the world as they pivot from active war service to more local work. She helps establish something like the coast guards for several different countries. Eventually she retires from that to help her husband run the SWT. She and Sokka make a wonderful team as he handles the domestic policies and she handles foreign affairs. She often jokes with her sister in law, Fire Lady Katara that they ended up with the same job.

Aang: I'll go with my most optimistic headcanon for him. He's an okay Avatar. Not great. Not the worst. After the war, he tries to take part in rebuilding efforts around the world, but he finds his help isn't needed much. He turns his attention back to salvaging what's left of the Air Nomad legacy, and discovers that there are actually airbenders still around. A few of them are even interested in learning to live like the Air Nomads. Many of them aren't, though, and after learning how to actually use their powers, they go off and do their own thing. To Aang's shock and dismay, eating meat has no effect on the strength of their bending, He does learn to deal with it and enjoy his time with the air benders who embrace the Air Nomad culture. He does go on to have kids, and he still favors the benders over the nonbenders. Ultimately, his legacy as Avatar boils down to taking Ozai's bending, and that's it.

#atla #headcanons #katara #sokka #toph #suki #aang #anti kataang #zutara #sukka #katara has a statue #she also has hospitals and libraries and schools named for her

[finn0cchio]

Hi 👁️v👁️!

I just saw a video, and I wanted to share information, and if you already knew this sorry for bothering ig.

Apparently Zuko was the one who ordered this statue of Aang from lok.

Tho there's also statues of others gaang members, including Zuko himself (the most boring statue is his own lol) someone might say, but Aang`s is just GIANT. Bro stated his priorities right here.

OKAY OKAY I KNEW THAT ZUKO LIKE COMMISSIONED THE STATUE OF AANG IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY AND YOU'RE SO RIGHT BESTIE, HE STATED HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT THERE. LIKE I MADE A JOKE-POST ON WH0L3M1LK AND I WROTE THIS

LMFAOOO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS UP BTW I LOVE MAKING FUN OF ZUKO FOR BUILDING A GIGANTIC STATUE OF HIS "BEST FRIEND" IN THE CITY HE BUILT WITH HIM. MY MAN WAS THE BLUEPRINT FOR MLM YEARNING

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zukaang #zuko is a loser #HE BUILT A STATUE OF HIS BEST FRIEND THERES NO STRAIGHT EXPLANATION FOR THIS

[blueiskewl]

A Statue of Atlas Emerges From the Ruins of Sicily’s Ancient Temple of Zeus

In the fifth century B.C.E., 38 looming sculptures of the Titan stood guard at the structure.

After 20 years of restorations, a 26-foot-tall statue of Atlas is once again standing guard at the ancient Temple of Zeus in the city of Agrigento (once called Akragas) in Sicily.

The statue, created in the fifth century B.C.E., was one of roughly 38 similar Atlas monuments built into the temple. They stood in a line between columns with their arms raised, appearing to hold the holy structure upright.

In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who rebelled in a war against Zeus. As punishment, he was forced to hold up the sky on his shoulders. Unlike the mythological Atlas, however, the stone likenesses were unable to hold up Zeus’ temple forever. Ultimately, earthquakes and other events caused the structure to crumble.

For many years, pieces of the statues were scattered around the site amongst other ancient ruins. In 1812, Charles Robert Cockerell, a prominent British architect, first identified one of the Titan’s giant sandstone heads during a visit to Agrigento. A century later, in 1920, archaeologist Pirro Marconi became the first person to attempt to reconstruct one of the Atlases, which is now housed in the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento.

The seeds of the current project began in 2004, when the Valley of the Temples park conducted a sweeping research campaign at the site. Experts cataloged 90 fragments from at least eight Atlas statues.

“The idea was to reposition one of these Atlases in front of the temple so that it may serve as a guardian of the structure dedicated to the father of the gods,” Roberto Sciarratta, the director of the Valley of the Temples park, tells the Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo.

But rebuilding Atlas in a standing position was particularly challenging, as researchers couldn’t simply stack the pieces of the statue on top of one another. Instead, they attached the fragments to metal shelves, which are supported by a larger metal structure.

The restoration has faced scrutiny ever since officials first announced it several years ago.

“No archaeologist would endorse the use of ancient sculpture, no matter how fragmentary, to create a modern sculpture, even if the purpose is to highlight the site’s antiquity,” C. Brian Rose, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times’ Franz Lidz in 2020.

But officials like Renato Schifani, the Sicilian governor, think that the statue’s resurrection is a commendable feat.

“Today is an important day for Agrigento and for all of Sicily,” says Schifani in a statement, per Google Translate. “This stone giant of ancient Akragas, which after many years of studies and research we can observe in its natural position, is the heart of an important museum project of the entire area of ​​the Temple of Zeus."

By Julia Binswanger.

#A Statue of Atlas Emerges From the Ruins of Sicily’s Ancient Temple of Zeus #Akragas #Agrigento #Sicily #Valley of the Temples park #temple #Temple of Zeus #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #roman history #roman empire #greek mythology

[cantankerousreviews]

The real reason Katara didn't do anything in LoK. She was not taking this disrespect.

She doesn't get a statue? When even the cabbage merchant did? Get out of her house.

#atla #tlok #avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #katara #katara deserved better #Tenzin got disowned #for living next to Aang's giant statue while she has none #that's why she didn't show up at Jinora's ceremony #no statue no gran gran #you can deal with your crap yourselves

[myimaginationplain]

AU where Katara & Toph both set up premier waterbending & earthbending academies in Republic City; the two schools are dedicated to teaching holistic, unified forms of their respective elements, bringing together previously disparate styles. Katara's school teaches Southern style, Northern style, & Foggy Swamp style waterbending, without any gender-based segregation between self-defense or healing classes (no, bloodbending wouldn't be taught because Katara don't like that shit). Toph's school teaches her personal seismic style of earthbending, metalbending, & more classical forms of earthbending. Katara's academy is on the coast of Yue Bay, in sight of both Aang's memorial statue & Air Temple Island; Toph's academy is far inland, to the east.

Rather than Toph, Suki is the one who establishes a police/security force. Suki's police academy could have a special program with Toph's, so you'd still get those cool metalbending officers. But the school prioritizes non-bending combat first & foremost. Ty Lee's chi-blocking technique is taught there as a required course.

#also katara's statue is a white marble fountain because I like that image #I know these ideas are probably not at all fresh or new but I've just been thinking about it a lot recently #also for synergy's sake there should be a fire bending academy but there's not really anyone in the main cast who would establish one #maybe azula if you like to believe she'll be totally redeemed one day. or maybe kiyi once she's grown. idk #and I have no love for the police or the concept of policing. but let's be real if anyone were to create a police force it'd be suki 100% #she's already head of a martial group that's her bread & butter #atla #avatar the last airbender #tlok #the legend of korra #katara #toph beifong #suki #republic city #au #headcanon

[thejourneyofwan-fanproject]

New eras brought about by Avatars of Fire & Water

I just like this idea that since Korra started a new avatar cycle, she doesn’t want to be one to take all the credit for the avatar’s history with Raava and Harmonic Convergence and she doesn’t want Wan to be forgotten and completely lost to history so her statue is shared with a revamped version of Wan’s and both are embraced by Raava.

#avatar wan #avatar the last airbender #legend of korra #raava #atla #beginnings #first avatar #waava #waava week #waava month #duality #fire and water #water and fire #avatar cycle #Korra #harmonic convergence #statues #avatar statues #waava week 2023 #waava month 2023

[theluckiestlb]

This ending makes me want to karate chop my desk with my goddamn face.

Remember atla and how amazing and validating it was to see Zuko tell his abusive father off and denounce him?! Remember how to this day we’re still praising that choice in writing?! Astruc clearly doesn’t!!

I could kill to witness Adrien lose it on his father. I crave justice.

LMAO imagine if Bryan and Mike decided to give Zuko amnesia and make Team Avatar build a statue of Ozai to commemorate all the good he's done for all four nations??????

#INSANE #ml #miraculous ladybug #mlb #ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug spoilers #asks #ml recreation #ml recreation spoilers #atla #of course gabriel wanted to be glorified for the remainder of time #even the statue is smug

[r0semultiverse]

Hey so Avatar Kyoshi can just physically manifest & take the wheel at any time? That feels kind of over powered??

We’re just not gonna talk about how Kyoshi possessed Aang? 👀

Also feels like the avatar detection statues in Zuko’s ship got retconned already. Iroh asking how Zuko knows he’s on the right path to find the Avatar but neither of them acknowledge the avatar tracking statues that this adaptation spawned in. 😩 It was a little frustrating to watch. Either leave them in & acknowledge them or just leave them out.

#my partner speculated that 2 different writers were trying two different things at the same time which made the scene with Iroh & Zuko very #jarring when the avatar state detection statues weren’t acknowledged #also Aang is plural or a system? #good for him! #also I feel like Kyoshi would have been more merciless but it seems like she was on a limited power budget? #still felt over powered af that she can just... do that #like oh my god; also gender fluid Aang headcanon?? gotta be feeling something strange after turning into a cool warrior lady #I don’t remember this ever happening in the show #I’m pretty sure Aang never got transformed into Kyoshi against his will lmao #Netflix avatar is such a wild adaptation #mine #op #avatar live action #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla

[kstarlitchaotics]

I know they're not really Zuko royalty but the ironic thing of Zuko calling the water tribe siblings peasants is something

He probably never knew afterwards huh especially if no one said Chief Hakoda

#because yes he doesnt know #they're father is chief and the fact #that both siblings had responsibilities #as regular citizens but its just funny #to me that they could have gotten almost #the same credibility as an mayor status #if that make any sense 😅 #atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zuko #katara #sokka #avatar fandom

[p2ii]

redemption arcs where instead of the character having to do through the arc with the person they wronged and have the end goal be forgiveness they go through the arc with a completely different character that has no involvement in the main conflict with the goal being self improvement>>>

#feel it opens up alot more character exploration possibilities with the character being 'redemed' where you can explore their end of the #conflict (which tends to be less focused on as the actual conflict in relation to whoever they wronged is what happens in-story) without it #being 'apologism' #and the arc is more about self improvement than forgiveness/fitting the main characters status quo #it also feels alot more fair on the one who suffered from the conflict because to be able to say 'this person needs help but I can't give i #to them' is rlly good #obviously there are times where both characters SHOULD work together for overcome the conflict in question. but with the common/popular #structure of redemption arcs rn (I blame zuko personally) we need more variety #I'm growing to love this trope it's rlly fun #esp if your're a fan of rarepairs/are more interested in the villains pov #current examples floating in my brain: atlas/denkou. 0124ji. morro/echo (but as a long term citrusshipper...when am I not thinking about #them? XP)

[savrenim]

watched the first 30 minutes of the new live action ATLA bc I was Curious and they have already committed three different mortal sins that I can't Not Rant about, spoilers for the first 30 minutes below the cut

1. They rearranged the order of storytelling to open with the Fire Nation attacking the Air Nomads.

And I'm not.... totally sure why? Like, my guess is either "we need to make an immediate dramatic hook for the people who have never seen ATLA before!" or "we need to explain the background for the people who have never seen ATLA before!" But the truth is, people never saw ATLA before it came out, and they were perfectly fine catching on to learning about what happened to the Air Nomads and the geopolitical state of the world in media res!! That is not an excuse!

By opening with The Attack On The Air Nomads, not only do they rob the audience of getting to do my favorite thing throughout, which is the ability to piece together backstory via being told details as the story goes on, but it also..... vastly undermines the impact that That Attack Happening is going to have later in the story. Instead of piecing together tragedy from 100-year-old ruins and getting the moment of "oh god" and imagining it, we're shown it directly upfront onscreen, which not only to me comes across as unnecessary and gratuitous violence, but it means that every time in the story that The Air Nomads Are All Dead is going to come up, instead of it being this weighty thing that we can only imagine that each small detail adds even more to that weight, the payoff was all upfront. We've seen it, there's nothing to imagine, any detail they give us is not adding to our understanding of the tragedy and increasing the tragedy to us at all, it's just a reference to the opening scene.

2. STATUS!!!!!

So 'Status' is a concept that I rant about a lot and am highly sensitive to in writing, probably bc in the gay theater camp day camps the first thing you need to teach your 8-year-olds in improv workshop is How To Respect Status if you want to have at all a reasonable adventure game; otherwise you have kids interrupting the king's big dramatic speech and hence Undermining The King's Authority and the adventure game falls apart but also so you don't get trapped in scenes where you've got two characters yelling back and forth "well I'm [this thing] so you should respect me!!" and the complete lack of respect between them totally undermines what both of them are saying and the fiction falls apart. I kind of joke but not really that I stopped watching Supernatural in like. season 8?? 9?? because there was some episode with Greek Gods and you got to the finale of the episode and Zeus was going "dO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? I'M ZEUS. I'M A GOD. PUNY MORTAL" and Sam and Dean went "dO YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE??? WE'RE THE WINCHESTERS. WE TOOK DOWN SATAN AND ALSO SATAN'S MORE EVIL OLDER COUSIN. PUNY MONSTER OF THE WEEK" and I went "by day three of camp my nightmare 8-year-olds can do Status better than this. Why am I even watching this?"

In the first scene, the live-action ATLA severely undermines the status of the Fire Nation and Fire Lord and then continuous to do so throughout the entire opening.

The initial scene is some random Earth Kingdom spy running away with Fire Nation plans to attack the Earth Kingdom and getting captured and dragged before Fire Lord Sozin (to be?? monologued at by Fire Lord Sozin of 'HAH you fell into my TRAP, those plans were FAKE, we're attacking the AIR NOMADS' which is just. dumb. kill the spy, don't monologue at him and kill him, but also why the fuck are you letting an Earthbender spy into your presence in the first place???????) which besides the aforementioned letting?? an earthbender spy??? into his presence in the first place????? He:

is not wearing particularly fancier clothes than the other people around him; like, they're okay, but the 'total desaturation of all colors including/especially in the clothing' aesthetic that Netflix has going makes it not look very royal. that shit should have been BRIGHT red or 10x fancier to make up for the fact that it wasn't Bright Red

they are STANDING IN THE THRONE ROOM and INSTEAD OF BEING BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF FLAMES he's just STANDING DOWN THERE on the SAME LEVEL AS EVERYONE ELSE????? WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN THE THRONE ROOM IF THE FIRE LORD IS???? NOT ON THE THRONE?????? JUST STANDING AROUND???? THE FIRE LORD DOES NOT JUST STAND AROUND WHERE IS THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE OFFICE????????????

and then beyond the absolute idiocy and letting a nobody no-name spy into his presence like that and dramatically revealing battle plans fucking idiot deserves to be assassinated for letting a spy earthbender get within three feet of him that's just extremely bad royal security, Sozin personally Murders this Random Spy. with his own firebending hands.

One of the whole things that makes ~the Fire Lord~ so terrifying is the sheer amount of weight around The Institution Of The Fire Lord, the courts and the backstabbing nobles of the fire nation, both the extreme imperial politics and complications there but also the almost deification of the office itself. The Fire Lord is untouchable, I forget if it's fanon or canon that they've got a 'descended directly from Agni / divine right' thing going but if it's fanon at least canon has those vibes, and one of the biggest aspects of the finale of the whole show is the combination of Azula's meltdown making it so that even though she was 'Fire Lady' she.... wasn't particularly scarier because in panicking and banishing everyone she'd totally undermined her own power structure, but also realizing that Ozai was Actually Just Some Dude Who Sure Was Pretty Good At Firebending And A Really Shit Person And Terrifying For What He'd Done With His Power but he wasn't a god, he wasn't impossible to defeat, when push came to shove he was just a firebender and as such his power could be stripped.

Fire Lord Sozin standing on the same level as his advisors and a random earthbender spy, and then doing things with his own hands, instead of, you know, sitting on that throne behind that wall of fire while this scene was happening if this scene really needed to happen in the first place, totally undermines that sort of deification level of status that the Fire Lord is supposed to have. Sozin becomes an Evil Scary Murderer Villain, sure, but what proceeds to be established about his character is. Nothing to set him apart from "a particularly skilled Firebender." Hell not even that, as nothing ever demonstrates that he's substantially more skilled than the firebending soldiers around him!!!!!!!

And it undermines the severity of the threat of the whole Fire Nation to undermine the status of the Fire Lord and hence the Thing That Makes The Next Fire Lord So Scary. hnnnnnnnnnng.

3. Every single character keeps giving extremely stilted monologues about how they're feeling?

It just feels like Bad Writing. And it also kind of feels like incorrect characterizatons? Big "he would NOT say that" mood but also just, like. Aang giving a three minute monologue purely to Appa about how he never asked for the responsibility of being the Avatar, he just wants to be like other kids, that just feels. So Cookie Cutter. So "gotta check off our refusing the call so our protagonist is Relatable!" and also just he would not say that.

This doesn't quite bother me as much as the other ones because it doesn't feel like a fundamental undermining of the narrative and/or the setting but it is Highly Annoying.

anyways defs not worth the watch. 30 minutes of my life Wasted. some of the costumes are kind of nice tho so might go back for the costume refs.

#live action atla #netflix avatar #just some random musings but it's been a While since I've dropped any sort of writing analysis #and I kind of miss doing it #do truly love how like. the Vast majority of my media criticisms #or at least the ones that I get Annoyed enough to Go On Rants about #are the ones that break the rules of Status #bUT HNNNNG STATUS IS SO IMPORTANT!!!!!! YOU LITERALLY CANNOT TAKE ANY CHARACTER SERIOUSLY UNLESS THE CHARACTERS #OR IN THIS THE FRAMING OF THE SCENES THEMSELVES #RESPECT THAT STATUS #HNNNNNNNNNNG

[the-badger-mole]

I really think people wanted to put up a monument to Katara as a war hero, they consulted with Aang as her husband and avatar, and he was just like "Nah, I don't think she needs it."

I wouldn't be surprised. No way would Katara see all of her friends getting their own statues and not feel slighted at not getting her own. A lack of appreciation is something she has been frustrated by throughout the show. You mean to tell me the girl who told Aang she wanted to be acknowledged as his sifu, just like Toph was just cool with not getting her own statue? Not having her contributions to the war recognized? The only thing that makes sense to me is that someone turned it down on her behalf, and the only one I could see doing that is Aang.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #give katara her flowers #and her statues #and the hospitals #schools #cities named for her