Day 2 of Kataang Week: Comfort

Hnnghghghhhh Aang you cutie I can't 

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new chapter of kindred spirits up! excited to dive a little more into his pre-stranger backstory ♥️♥️

Avatar Kuruk: The Hunter.

These are not accurate traditional Inuit clothing, but inspired on them.

*starts talking about kataang* they are kids *starts crying* fighting a war. *sobs uncontrollably* THEY ARE THE LAST BENDERS OF THEIR HOMES *falls on the ground* THEY FELL IN LOVE.

Idk I did this one for a video but it didn’t work out lmao

i DO NOT need what she was on 😭😭

i don’t often talk about atla by itself here unless i’m comparing it to spop, but there’s something i’ve been meaning to talk about.

i hate how the fandom reduced Toph to “chaotic murder child” when she’s clearly so much more than that.

the thing that especially pisses me off is when fans act like Toph is reckless and stupid, when her WHOLE DEAL is that she’s extremely observant and patient when it comes to fighting.

this is what set her apart from other earthbenders, she doesn’t just use brute strength to win fights. she concentrates on the sound and vibrations, and she waits for the perfect moment to strike. this was the main reason WHY Toph was one of the best earthbenders.

and the fandom acknowledges that she’s the best, but somehow doesn’t seem to realize WHY she’s the best, when it was practically spelled out for us. Toph isn’t the best because she’s super strong or muscular, she’s the best because she crafted her own form of earthbending that utilizes patience and attention to detail. how do people not understand this?

saying the information we got on the fire nation and air nomads from any of the chronicles of the avatar novels is “the result of out of touch white guys” is so fucking funny considering both of the authors we’ve had are poc….. like ribay is filipino and a lot of filipino characteristics/themes/and culture was written into the reckoning of roku…. including the way the fire nation was represented coming from a filipino’s perspective

can yall be for real?? 😭 just cause you’re mad your favs and their nation are canonical colonizers doesn’t mean you get to call everything that doesn’t make them look good racist or out-of-touch. the call might be coming from inside the house

Look, I haven’t read RoR yet. But from what I looked up…… did people forget that the whole point of a prequel is to provide context to the original story? Do people honestly think that the Fire Nation was this perfect paradise with no prejudice or issues what so ever up until Sozin plopped on to the throne one day and said “You know what? I’m going to take over the world today!”

THIS!!

i fear a lot of fire nation stans genuinely believe that the fire nation’s issues started with sozin when that is just not at all realistic. we can literally trace the fire nation’s nationalism to the kyoshi novels, which acts as one of the setups for the war that started roughly a century after her era

sozin may have been the one who launched the war but it had been simmering for a long time (we see this in the way his own father spoke). he was just the one who stoked the flames

thankyou so much! 🧡 i actually posted fanart of her just now. she’s one of my favorite characters, i need to draw her more

thankyou so much <33

more yangchen! she’s so fun to draw 🧡 

i love my screaming queen

not beating the “you have the face of the person you loved most in your past life” allegations. surely this has been done before, and will be done again

the scheming avatar

Anyway Aang is the boy of all time

the way everyone loves him so much. my son is so loved and cherished. so special

the greatest earthbender in the world 🪨

I’m sorry! I didn’t know it belonged to The Avatar!
Avatar: The Last Airbender | Book Two: “The Desert” 

many are wondering. who was the bad bitch szeto (most likely) fumbled. and how hot is the next avatar going to be.

happy boy 🔆

big brother bumi and his little sibs 🧡

Avatar The Last Airbender

Sozin’s Comet, Part 4

As the two main characters, Katara and Aang’s series-long arcs come together in the finale as they face their enemies: Azula and Ozai.

Katara vs Azula:

After Azula broke the Agni Kai she made with Zuko, Katara was forced to fight her, dodging fire and lightning while hopelessly looking for any means to defeat the comet-powered firebender on her home turf.

Finally Katara baits Azula into approaching her close enough to freeze her over the drains. However, Azula moves to lightning bend Katara once more. In a split second, Katara bends the water and freezes both herself and Azula before the lightning sparks. Not only is this a testament to her speed, mobility and precision as a fighter, but it also shows how risky this move was as she was so close to being electrocuted and losing her life in an effort to subdue Azula.

[Azula is about to shoot lightning at her when Katara freezes them both with the water under the grate.] - Transcript:Sozin’s Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang

Aang vs Ozai:

Similarly, Aang has spent majority of the final battle running from Ozai as he tried to find a way to get close enough to him to take his bending away.

In the beginning, Aang gets the opportunity to take Ozai’s life by redirecting lightning, but chooses not to. Instead, Aang subjects himself to ~ 20 minutes of almost getting burnt alive just because he didn’t want to end Ozai.

A chance encounter with a rock physically unblocks Aang’s avatar state and he pins Ozai down before coming out of the avatar state on his own. Again, another opportunity where he could have ended Ozai but chooses not to. As Ozai berates Aang’s people for the last time, Aang holds him in place to take his bending away. There was absolutely no way he could’ve known for certain that this would work or that he could even do it successfully until he did it for the first time here.

[Aang remembering.] To bend another’s energy, your own spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupted and destroyed. - Transcript:Sozin’s Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang

To summarize, both Katara and Aang risked their own lives to spare the lives of their enemies. Just as Aang’s journey to the final battle builds up this moral dilemma of how he would end the war, so too, episodes like the Puppetmaster and the Southern Raiders introduce a similar theme for Katara where is she faced with the temptation of enacting extreme violence in the name of justice and vengeance.

In a show about child soldiers, the main theme I picked up from ATLA was “How does one win a war without losing oneself?” The protagonists, Katara and Aang, are both challenged with this at different points in the series and finally defeat the firelords of the nation that decimated their cultures without forsaking their personal beliefs and morals in the process.

gyalaya and princess mononoke, same thing really

GOING INSANE!!!!! 😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

low effort expression sheet of gyatso

The discourse around the Roku Novel has been so amusing to me for the past few days that I just had to make my own post about this lmao. Ok so for all of the morons in this fandumb who are hating on Gyatso for what he said to Roku (despite the fact that he was entirely within his rights to do so. There is nothing better than to have someone being blunt with you about something when you absolutely need that reality check) and saying “why are they trying to make the Fire Nation look worse?! This is terrible writing” I just have one thing to say: THAT’S THE ENTIRE DAMN POINT🤣. Of course we’re going to be shown the Fire Nation being shitty and whatnot, this is before the freaking 100 year war started! You really think that the Fire Nation was all sun shine and rainbows before Sozin’s reign? Looks like Roku wasn’t the only one who needed that reality check from Gyatso. If the Fire Nation was this place where nothing fucked up was happening and everything was perfect, it would have never given rise to a man like Sozin, and he never would have done what he did. The novel is pretty much giving us a glimpse of what the Fire Nation was like during Roku’s time, and how it ultimately resulted in the war. I don’t know how or why that’s so hard for some people to understand.

Also, the Fire Nation committed a genocide. Pretty sure you can’t get any worse than that lol.

This is definitely going to be one of my weirder posts, but it has been itching my brain for about two weeks now so I figured I’d share it with you all.

There’s this Chinese fried dough snack called yàuhjagwái (油炸鬼) in Cantonese, which literally means “Oil-Fried Devil”. It’s called this because, in Chinese mythology, the ninth level of Hell (地獄) is reserved for false accusers and the punishment is to be boiled in oil. There was once a Chinese politician named Qin Hui (秦檜) who had a beloved war hero, Yue Fei (岳飛), executed on false charges. The people of China expressed their outrage at this injustice by eating fried dough as a not-so-subtle way of telling the politician, “Screw you, we hope you boil in Hell!”

I bring this up because, in the episode “Avatar Day”, Aang learns that Kyoshi supposedly killed the beloved war hero of Chin Village, leading its residents to hate the Avatar. Aang claims that his past self did no such thing, only to be proven false. His punishment? Boiled in oil. Of course, once Aang saves the village from the Rough Rhinos, the people of Chin change their tune and celebrate Aang by eating unfried dough. In other words…

“Congratulations, we hope you don’t boil in Hell!”

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aang doodle 🧡

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continuing with the whole… cleaning up and posting old sketches from the beginning of this year

you may also like: zuko, sokka, ty lee,

the SEA (khmer) and japan inspired ones are based on @ranilla-bean fic the iconoclast.

(i think its the last one i have)

Kyoshi Generations portrait vs My edit without the white face paint

(Tbh, it’s how I think she looks for most of Shadow of Kyoshi, she doesn’t wear the white face paint, but has at least the lipstick on. I’ll try to edit out the eyeliner/eye streaks for a different post
Edit: I changed the titled a bit, to clarify where the portraits came from)

Thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear this, I’m glad my art was able to make you love kataang more 🥹🧡 hope you have a great day/night as well

Thank you!! I’m so glad 🧡🧡 and definitely for sure lol, absolutely love fem!aang being a disaster lesbian for Katara