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[bakedbeanchan]

The Gaang take another vacation at the library

#baked bean originals #btw the scroll Katara is holding here is the waterbending scroll she stole from pirates #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #sokka #aang #zuko #toph #the gaang

[pencilscratchins]

atla renaissance pt 3 calls to me like a siren

#back to my roots #atla #zuko #sokka #toph #avatar the last airbender #avatar #to everyone arguing whether or not it’s accurate to say they do have ODS consider a few things #a) it’s a joke i made while high #b) toph wouldn’t care she would just say shit to piss them off because she’s 12 #c) maybe welcome joy into your life. consider taking even a second of a break from whatever compels you to ruin my desire to post #and just chill. because this is and has never been that deep #art #my art #my fan art #fan art #is this the last thing i ever post on tumblr? who knows #im high and its 2am lets get wild

[m-r-moth]

who should i add to the giant group pic?

the silly little cats have gotten out of hand, i love them so much

(for the rest just search the catla tag on my blog)

#CATLA #art #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender #but make them cats #them right now: from left to right #mean girl trio: #mei #tai li #zuzu 1 #azula #the gaang #suki #sokka #katara #aang #zuzu 2 #zuko #toph #momo and appa #white lotus squad: #uncle iroh #king bumi

[bernard-the-rabbit]

i like those ff where zuko gets paid minimum wage

#like hell yea miserable man #miserable pitiful blorbo #suffer like the rest of us #all my knowledge about barista comes from ff bc i dont work in that field #so gang gang fra #my trashy art #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender fanart #atla #atla fanart #zuko #zuko fanart #toph #toph fanart

[rmbunnie]

she was my fav since i was like 8. the girl the myth the legend.

#i will not be watching the live action but i am so so unthrilled it got confirmed for two more seasons. #they will NOT be writing her well :( from what i've seen of katara and suki #i have absolutely zero faith #toph beifong #toph #atla #my art #avatar the last airbender

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

#This is literally Storytelling 101: Show Don't Tell #I'm sorry scriptwriters I know you were working before your union won minimal staffing in writers' rooms and decent pay and all that #but You Know What You Did #Also cgi artists plz unionize #A few more hours on Momo would have maybe taken him further out of the nightmare monkey puppet category #I know some people are reporting him as cute #But all I can see is a creature from the Magnus Archives #that thing is the skin of Momo being worn by something that doesn't quite move right underneath #And maybe it is looking for a better fit #Don't let it touch you adorable child actor Aang #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #Anyone looking to block the live action posts I'll be tagging all of these with that natla tag going forward #But yeah not going to post about it much #I came I saw I deemed it not worth the hours of my life it asked #I can literally write a better Avatar AU than this #Anyway back to Toph beating up Blind Zuko! #*write write write" #(their big budget fanfic can't hurt me it can only introduce more fans to the original)

[yourhighness6]

I feel like people who dislike Zuko miss how important his character is, especially to IRL abuse victims. The journey from scared, angry, isolated and abused to confident, calm, loved and accepted while being handled almost perfectly in the context of his abuse is so underrated even while being hailed as one of the best redemption arcs of all time.

#this goes for toph too #I think that he just gets more hate from certain fans #and also his journey is a little more apparent with the redemption arc #anyway both are wonderful characters and I cannot stand the new wave of victim blaming in the fandom #anyone participating in victim blaming on any capacity can actually go fuck themselves #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #toph beifong #its important I'm telling you

[your-royal-momoness]

Sokka: are you ready to commit?

Zuko: like, a crime or to a relationship?

#toph *yelling from across the temple*: to the CAUSE sparky #zuko: either way I’m down #sokka: uhhh… both? yea both is good.road to el dorado gif #atla #trashbending #avatar #avatar the last airbender #incorrect quotes #incorrect atla #zukka #Sokka #Zuko

[dragonbonez]

And what’s the first thing I do after finishing finals? Indulge in a little meme redraw of my favorites. 💚💛

Honestly Aang is going to be right there with Toph for these mugshots. The guy went to prison and made friends with all the other prisoners like it was nothing! That and I’m sure whatever they did was probably Toph’s idea and worth it.

#taang #toph x aang #aang x toph #avatar aang #toph beifong #atla #atla fanart #my art #they probably have a bunch of these from each nation #they probably make it their yearly picture they sent to their friends #kinda like people send pictures during Christmas in movies #like ‘Happy Avatar Day from the Earth Kingdom!’ #and every year someone has to remind aang that he should be setting an example as an avatar #and they do eventually stop but not before getting one last hoorah and sending their last (last in the liberal sense) mugshot #and Aang has a plate that says Toph will you marry me? #and Toph’s sign says ‘DUH!’ #and behind their picture is a note that says there won’t be a wedding ceremony but everyone can send cash to Sokka #and they’ll go crash at his place at some point and pick it up #… ok I’m stopping now

[whinyandcheese724]

can’t believe sokka spent 3 seasons telling dad-jokes, likes expensive atlases, viscerally hates getting sidetracked on road trips, thinks he’s the greatest detective, carries a beard with him as a disguise, pretends to not like physical affection but secretly loves it (see group hug in the earth king), is obsessed with meat, is constantly sarcastic and complaining, is overprotective of his sister, LITERALLY HAD A WHOLE ARC ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE HIS DAD PROUD AND ENDED UP LEADING THE INVASION FOR HIM, and y’all still have the audacity to call ZUKO the Dad Friend

#i mean he literally pretends to be aang's dad #also the whole refusal to believe in magic and spirityness #like yeah zuko is the oldest #and hes the most strict #but thats just cuz hes suffering from abuse #the amount of times the gaang has had to stop him from being stupid in the comics #*shaking my head* #sokka #zuko #katara #aang #toph #suki #team avatar #the gaang #avatar the last airbender #atla

[comradekatara]

katara discovered something very important and somewhat appalling that day.

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #zuko #katara&zuko #sokkaxzuko #zukka #yeah what the hell i'll tag it #art #mart #to be clear the important discovery and the appalling discovery are separate but related #yet another [one sided zukka comic simply for the punchline of katara's reaction] comic from yours truly #she oscillates between teasing zuko about his crush and wishing it was on ANYONE ELSE #(and for what it's worth she still suspects toph)

[splinnters]

welcome to my cole should fight like an earth bender agenda in this essay I will

separate images no essay sorry ;-;

#reference photos directly from miss toph beifong herself o7 #anyway I love all avatar animation but earthbending is very dear to me I’m obsessed with it #splintered art #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago fanart #cole brookstone #ninjago cole

[yukkue]

The atla obsession has been coming back to me I’m rewatching the orginal series 🤭🤭

#atla fanart #atla #atla zuko #atla toph #Lee from the tea shop #avatar the last airbender #avatar zuko #avatar toph #toph beifong #zuko #prince zuko #my art #avatar 2005 #avatar the legend of aang

[itscuntingseason]

zuko: just be confident katara! boys like that

toph: how the fuck would you know what boys like?

zuko: cause i'm a BOY toph, i'm a real live boy

aang: oh yeah like pinocchio

#text #atla #avatar the last airbender #toph #katara #zuko #aang #derry girls #shitpost #quote from derry girls btw #just imagine zuko is helping katara with boy advice idk #idk like even though zuko isn't the only guy in the friend group i just feel like he's the James in comparison to derry girls

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

#for the record if you ever find something kind of rancid in my fics #do please let me know #EX: I've rewritten scenes to be better Actual Blind Rep for Toph based on blind reader feedback #and I'm debating how hard it would be to ignore/re-write the canon issues of Water Tribe sexism (for the Southern Tribe at the least) #because that is a common complaint I see from the people who's RL cultures the Water Tribes was based on #probably I can do more interesting things with that going forward #in other words justice for Hama and Hahn #at least the show itself made Hama excellently complex #anyways back to doing actual writing #please no follow up questions #though I will say anyone who wants to update their own fics to use Wanyi (or any other name): go for it! #all you need to do is plop your chapters in a word editor and find/replace the ship name! it took about 40 minutes to do literally #all of my fics and I had some other editing to do besides! it'll be even quicker for you! #let's sink the Wani #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko

[yourhighness6]

It's funny to me when people insist that "ATLA was really feminist" as if there wasn't really only one feminist message which was the very generic "girls can fight too" spiel that every 2000s show had going on whenever they briefly tried to jump on the feminism bandwagon or whatever

#the main female characters who ended the show in relationships had all of their depth removed because of those relationships #I'm talking specifically about katara and mai but suki was by no means exempt from this either #also the only way female characters were ever shown to have an empowered role in society was in fighting #whereas male characters were political leaders strategists inventors ect #and its also worth mentioning that even though female characters could supposedly fight just as well as men #there were never any women in high ranking positions in the military and we were only shown any women in the military in breif cameos #and that was only in the fucking fire nation which sends entirely the wrong message #atla #avatar the last airbender #anti bryke #anti kataang #anti maiko #katara #mai #suki #toph #ty lee #ty lee is actually a really feminist character but I would say shes probably the outlier here #sexism #atla sexism #fandom sexism