Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism šš¾ you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
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what if during their life changing field trip toph and zuko picked up a new chill hobby
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asami: is three fingers too much?
korra: not at all! most people have 10 :)
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korrasami "spirity" vacay
I've been thinking about this Korrasami concept for the past three weeks. I needed to get it out of my system so I can finally move on with my life.
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ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.
black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.
bruce: howād you get your scar?
zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.
bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: thatās terrible. how do you feel about capes.
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Old Asami art! I kinda like how I drew back then :ā )Ā
instagram!
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OK OK LAST ONE I PROMISEEE then iāll stop using miss maam from thailand as my refffff
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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?
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I'm tired of people defining Aang as this boring little vanilla guy. Aang helped Katara destroy a factory. He participated in Toph's scams. He shrugged off Katara's theft of the waterbending scroll and heartily laughed at her jokes about it. He was delighted by the Painted Lady ruse. He mastered airbending at twelve and the avatar state at thirteen. He snooped around the old ship after Katara said it was booby trapped and dared her to follow and stepped up to take the blame when it went badly and then surrendered himself to protect the village because he knew he could hand everyone on that ship their asses and escape. He outright lied to two communities that had been bickering for a century to get them to stop. He egged on Katara when she decided to throw hands with Pakku. He wants to ride every big animal in the world ("they don't like being ridden but that's what makes it fun" -unhinged take). He has sick burns for everyone which are doubly funny because they're almost always unintended as such. He threw a clandestine dance party in the nation that banned dancing and thought he was dead and wanted him dead. Before that he corrected and argued with teachers, beat a bully without lifting a finger and then brought his teenage friends to pose as his parents. The whole Bonzu Pippipadaleopsicopolis the Third thing. The being idiots with Sokka in Ba Sing Se thing with the bowing and the busboys disguises. He rightfully asked "what's cosmic power compared to a girl". Let's add all the badass stuff he does as a bender and as the Avatar up to and including energybending and the conversation with Koh the Face Stealer. That time in The Chase when he finished the fur trail and then decided to just sit down, sleep deprived, to wait and face whoever it was chasing them. Aang is one of the funniest and coolest characters I've ever seen and he deserves more respect. Absolutely unhinged kid with immense powers and the world is lucky he's goofy and has a good heart.
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avatar aang is badass wdym it's good to have goals Imao š
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right, expansion of my ābolin is an insanely good earthbenderā
bolin is an earthbender of legendary skill and the thing isā he doesnāt even realise it because for some reason no one in the show points it out??
lets start with his earthbending education or rather his lack there of. there is very little indication that bolin is anything but a self-taught earthbender, he and mako grew up on the streets which never really gave them the opportunity or money to have a formal education in such things, meaning bolin had to create his own way of bending, a way to help him on the streets and in the pro-bending arenaā even toph was taught by the badgermoles but living in the city, bolin didnāt have that.
look at those flips!! iāve never seen earthbending like it before!! bolinās way of bending is uniquely his and i donāt see anyone else move like him.
quickly looking at metalbending, i think itās his lack of formal training that makes it so hard for bolin.
his entire life, bolin has had to be adaptable. this completely goes against earthbending in its traditional sense. everyone we know to be a metalbender, even the nameless republic city policemen, have been trained in traditional earthbending. as stated before, bolin never had that and i donāt think it detracts at all from his skills as a whole. i do like reading fics where he learns how to metalbend but i liked that he didnāt in the actual series.
onto the next point, bolin has also managed to teach himself how to earthbend without touching the ground. watching atla and lok this seems to be quite a rare talent but this just tells us that bolin is incredibly sensitive to his element which is!! amazing!!
you can see this elemental intuition in other scenes as well, particularly in fights, but for bolin the earth just seems to jump to his command
heās an incredibly fast bender, able to pull earth from the ground and form barriers in secondsā and not just pebbles, these are boulders and huge slabs of earth
the only time we see bolin have to take a moment before bending is when he topples the skyscraper in the finale of season 4
and when it comes to lavabending??
bolin is a way better lavabender than ghazan and that is the hill i will die on
ghazan seems to have this āstart-upā stance that he does before bending large quantities of lava which slows him down a few seconds. bolin? he can lavabend pretty much instantaneously
here, ghazan only lavabends enough to weaken the bottom of the wall of ba sing se which you could argue is all he needed to do but if we look at bolin, he can lavabend more lava and do it much quickerā even without his hands!! as shown in the first gif below
and this is a talent that very, very few people have. itās not like bolin had a teacher to help him, he had to master a very volatile and dangerous skill by himself, and he did!! in just 3 years!! can you imagine?!?!?
and not only is he an incredibly skilled bender, he also has a heart of gold
given the opportunity to escape, bolin instead goes back to save the people who threatened him into helping them (granted they were well within their rights to do so but ya know) and bends the lava with ease. its not hard to find more examples of his loyalty and devotion to his friends and even strangers. heās compassionate, optimistic and a veritable badass!!
i just wish heād gotten more recognition for his talents instead of constantly playing the role of comic relief.
also @polyglottishthings yes to everything you said!!
tldr; bolin is an earthbender of legendary skill and no one in the show seems to notice.
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