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The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.
oh my god @murple
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not wanting to be outdone by the benders in the gang, sokka invents the flamethrower, the supersoaker, the leaf blower, and the concept of throwing rocks at people
this is canon. to me.
wait did anyone draw this already
Sokka explains that because of his boomerang he was the first metalbender and Toph buries him so far underground only the whales can hear him scream
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not wanting to be outdone by the benders in the gang, sokka invents the flamethrower, the supersoaker, the leaf blower, and the concept of throwing rocks at people
this is canon. to me.
wait did anyone draw this already
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they really galaxy brained on this one
also yue and korra are probs related since they both came from northern water tribe royalty 👀🤯
the avatar seemingly was destined to fall in love with the southern water tribe leader’s family. yue —> sokka, aang —> katara.
think of it. every previous avatar we’ve seen in a relationship wound up with someone in the same elemental group. aang was a unique case since his entire culture was wiped out and he wanted to repopulate it a century out of his proper time. so his soulmate moved an element forward in the ordering (air, water, earth, fire). on a deeper level, in moving a century forward via the iceberg, aang still had the family the avatar in this generation was supposed to have; with the water tribe. “Sokka and I, we’re your family now.”
this ripple effect even makes sense of korra. the first two elements aang masters are the easiest for him, as air and water are complimentary. but korra, a water tribe native, is awful with airbending. she’s great at earthbending, she’s great as a firebender, and she’s good at waterbending because that’s what she was born into. but she’s awful at air. she’s bad with air like aang was bad with earth. because air and earth are opposites. and korra is an earthbender avatar in a water tribewoman’s body. everything makes sense now with this context
going absolutely crazy on this: if aang hadn’t trapped himself in the iceberg and learned all four elements in a year (like we know he can) but when he was meant to be trained, then he defeated firelord sozin, meaning the technology resulting from the conflict was able to progress beyond weapons of war, it’s possible that the technological advancement of korra’s time would’ve been around in yue’s time. meaning that the equalist movement would’ve naturally been on the rise. so, of course, the universe would want the avatar to see the complexity in this situation. which would explain why yue’s southern water tribe soulmate is a nonbender interested in technology. with sokka.... just like korra’s is. in asami
W H A T
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Anonymous asked:
hiii! i was just wondering are there any traditional thai dances that could be incorporated into a firebending character? i’m trying to make a very heavily thai inspired oc but im worried, as im not thai myself, that i may make a bad choice and use something that shouldn’t be used.
thank you!!
Thai Dances with a Fire Nation Vibe - Part 1
Going to split this post into two parts...
Before I delve into detail, I want to establish my lack of credentials on the matter, haha. I'm of Cambodian heritage, and while there's a lot of similarities between Thai and Cambodian culture due to a shared history and geographic proximity, I don't want to set myself up as a Thai cultural expert. Also, I grew up in America and in a fairly secular environment at that. My family would go to the Buddhist temple for holidays and funerals, but I don't necessarily have the best sense for what would be considered offensive in a Hindu-Buddhist context.
With that disclaimer out of the way, there's actually a Thai dance known as Fawn Tian (กวางเทียน) or "The Candle Dance". It's very ethereal and it reminds me of Zuko and Aang's firebending adventure. This type of gentle firebending would definitely have been banned in a post-Sozin Fire Nation. According to Wikipedia, the female dancers pay homage to the divinities that protect the eight cardinal points of the Earth, asking them to pass through the candlelight.
There's also Wai Khru Ram Muay (ไหว้ครูรำมวย), which roughly translates to "Mentor-Honoring Boxing Dance". Wikipedia put it best:
...the Ram muay is a series of choreographed movements often performed before a Muay Thai bout to show respect and gratitude to the fighter's teacher, parents, and ancestors... Upon entering the ring, fighters circle the ring in a counter-clockwise direction and pray at each corner. They bow their heads at every corner three times in salutation to Buddha, Dharma, and the Sangha of monks... The ram muay is a personal ritual, ranging from the very complex to the very simple, and often contains clues about who trained the fighter and where the fighter is from.
I could see this being a ritual performed before an Agni Kai, pre-Sozin. I imagine that dance was phased out of Fire Nation society because it doesn't center the Fire Lord or the nation as the object of respect.
Similar war dances (wai khru ram/ไหว้ครูรำ) are performed when wielding weapons. Below is one for dual-sword wielders, called "Standing Bhramma, Four Corners". I could see Zuko doing this one before doing anything Blue Spirit-related.
Here's two guys doing some ritualized dual sword fighting:
In part 2, I'll go over some bouncy Thai dances that are reminiscent of a flickering fire and some dances that I think the Fire Nation ladies would enjoy.
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"got your nose"
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Jet from atla is so funny bc like, he's fighting zuko and taunting him being like "bet you wanna use some fire instead of those swords, dont u fireboy" which is a funny thing to say to a guy who is clearly very eager to fight using swords
someone pointed out (1) time how big of an a-hole move it would have seemed like for jet to accuse the kid with the giant visible burn scar on his face of fire bending.
not only was zuko very clearly eager to fight using swords, i'm betting several members of that crowd were also eager to see zuko kick jet's ass with said swords
Epic tag discourse going on here
# There is no good conclusion to come to about Zuko’s scar.
This is the truth. Zuko’s scar is too carefully placed and too old to be anything other than the act of a firebender deliberately burning a child. A child who would have been held or restrained in some way for the damage to be so contained.
That’s the sort of thing that once the tea shop patrons realized that, it didn’t matter where “Li” was from, only that he never be forced to go back.
[Image description: tags which say #other things of note with this scene: #jet has seen a water bender freeze and unfreeze water #it should stand to reason that a water bender should totally be able to heat up drinks as well #also wroth noting that golden/amber eyes seem to be a fire nation exclusive trait #the same way bight blue eyes indicate water tribe #and green is typically only seen in earth benders #i think if you paid close enough attention to their physical looks as well as their mannerisms #refugees who have traveled as far as they had should be able to tell that iroh and zuko are fire nation #at least a few of them #i also think they shouldn't *care* #like yeah people are going to be dicks anyway #but that is very clearly a young kid from the fire nation with a horrible burn scar #and a very gentle old man who *looks* like he's in no shape to fight #there is no good conclusion to come to about zuko's scar #and iroh tried to teach a mugger how to fight properly because he felt bad for him. he's absolutely too nice #for anyone who knows him to think about turning him in #they might be fire nation; they maybe pretending they aren't; but the fact that they are refugee's is not a lie #lastly; if you look at how many fire nation colonies their are #alongside existence full siblings with different elements in legend of korra #it's entirely possible for zuko to have been an earth kingdom fire bender #which would probably have been a deeply unpleasant cultural experience growing up during the war]
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ATLA fandom: Aang tried to force his ideals on Katara and stop her from confronting her mother’s killer.
ATLA episode transcript: Katara: Don’t try to stop us. Aang: I wasn’t planning to. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man. But when you do, please don’t choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him.
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What’s funny is that Katara said herself she will never forgive him and that’s okay. Aang was fine with that and he accepted that. The whole thing was that Katara was not gonna let anger get the best of her. She didn’t need someones life on her conscience at such a young age too. Bryke pretty much explains this but fandom likes to be that dramatic.
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I would argue that Aang did get it. He found out his entire culture and everyone he knew and loved - except Appa - had been murdered by the Fire Nation. Including Monk Gyatso - the closest thing to a father he would ever have. Aang understood.
genuinely there are so many people who get foaming at the mouth angry at an animated twelve year old monk because they have such a knee-jerk reaction to “maybe there are other viable options for justice besides violent revenge”
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Anonymous asked:
headcanons for an au in which the entire gaang mentally time travels back to the past?
- woe! you went through a character arc but now you're right back in your pre-character arc body. and by woe, I mean woe for zuko specifically. get ponytailed, stupid. he's cutting that off and growing his hair back out the first chance he gets.
- actually you know what would be really funny? they don't even return to the same point in time. zuko gets yeeted back into his past self's body first, right at the north pole only to find that his friends don't remember him at all. which uh. sucks. and is also extremely awkward- so he just decides to ask them if the avatar is there, and when they say no, he just leaves because he has no idea what else he's supposed to do.
- aang gets his memories back after going into the avatar state at the southern air temple and abruptly realizes that zuko must have gotten his back too. now he has to convince his friends that they need to go find him. you know. the guy who showed up at their village and asked to find the avatar? that guy. yeah he's our friend I promise for real.
- suki gets her memories back right before meeting the gaang again on kyoshi island and just rolls her eyes at pre-character development sokka. oh my god. also they don't have to find zuko because he's slipped away from his uncle and is chilling on kyoshi island, waiting for them. they have to show up at some point, right?
- katara and sokka don't get their memories back until the north pole. which means they have to deal with aang, zuko and suki acting like they're besties the entire trip there and are only told that they're all time travelers, actually.
- (meanwhile, toph is getting very impatient. she's NOT going to the north pole of all places to find her friends, but she doesn't want to miss them so she just stays put. but could they maybe HURRY UP?)
I feel like Zuko chilling out at Kyoshi would consist of him attempting to do some sort of penance for setting the village on fire last time by trying to do things like fix roofs like he did for Lee's family in the Earth Kingdom. Except he hasn't gotten any better at it and possibly ends up making the house he's trying to fix worse. Cue another "why am I so bad at being good?!" min-rant before he asks Suki to just, like, tie him up for a while (like what happened to the Gaang when they arrived before they found out Aang was the avatar) so he can do penance that way.
She leaves him like that for a few hours, then "breaks him out of jail" the same way he did for her.
And then he probably spends the rest of the time legitimately chilling and showing the warriors common firebending techniques that Fire Nation soldiers typically use so they can get in some extra practice.
zuko showing up on kyoshi island fully ready to be taken prisoner because he assumes that suki doesn't have her memories back either if no one at the south pole did. this is his best chance to actually talk to aang and the others though- and besides, he probably kind of deserves it after what he did the LAST time he was on kyoshi island...
...only for suki to also have her memories.
(also, does she really have to laugh at his hair? he barely even has the buzzcut. it takes time for hair to grow back! I wasn't keeping the ponytail!)
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Building Up: Air Nomad Cuisine - The Dynamic Duo
When conceptualizing Air Nomad cuisine, I took inspiration from dishes of the Himalayas, primarily Tibetan. Since Air Nomads spend much of their lives living in high altitudes, I felt their cuisine should reflect the needs of that lifestyle. It would also take advantage of the dairy that sky bison could likely provide. In short, while all dishes shown will be vegetarian, very few will be vegan. If you’re interested in trying any of these foods, click on the name of each dish for a recipe or product website.
Tsampa (རྩམ་པ་) is roasted barley flour and a staple food in Tibetan cuisine. It can be blended with milk and butter to make a savory porridge or mixed with leftover Tibetan tea to create an energy-dense edible dough. It’s a nutritious and hardy ingredient, making it the perfect foodstuff for nomads traveling at high altitudes and in cold climates.
Also known as “Tibetan tea” or “churned tea” (cha süma / ཇ་སྲུབ་མ), this beverage is iconic to Tibetan culture and is popular throughout the Himalayas and Central Asia. Traditionally, it is made by boiling tea and then churning it with yak butter and salt. I imagine that the ATLA equivalent would use sky bison butter. Since butter is the main ingredient, the tea provides plenty of caloric energy and prevents chapped lips from harsh winds.
I can imagine Iroh being a big butter tea fan. 8)
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Honestly learning about food and culture keeps leading to a lot of interesting revelations like of COURSE Sokka won’t shut up about meat, as someone based on the Inuit people his diet would be 99% meat and his body would be a lot worse at getting proper nutrients from vegetables and grains and the like. Like it’s also the “haha sokka likes meat joke” but he and katara are likely not getting anywhere near as much nutrients from not meat meals, especially because when they do get meat, it’s a lot leaner then they would be used to. Katara is just likely better at bottling it up then Sokka. Sure, they would be used to eating some plants, like foraged berries, but their bodies are much more adapted to heavy fatty meat based diets.