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YO THAT IS A HUGE OCEAN I’M NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT TBH
Avatar: The Last Airbender → live action and as it should have been
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished…
bonzupippinpaddleoppsokopolisiii:
I think mine would be air. It’s not really a harmful element and you can fly!
ALL OF THEM DUH
*avatar swag*
Hydrogen.
Because honestly if I’m good enough at Hydrogenbending I can make whatever else I might need…
eytancragg asked: can we get a post on how the names of people are kind of like in-jokes?
This is only a list of the
ones I can remember at the momentimportant ones, not comprehensive..
Momo - means ‘peach’ in Japanese. Named thus by Aang since he ate one.
Aunt Wu - ‘Wu’ means witch in Chinese
Kuei - Kuei means puppet in Chinese, and the Last Emperor is also known as the ‘Puppet Emperor’
Bumi - Bumi means earth in Indonesian
Ran and Shaw - the dragons are named ’ 燃烧 to combust, Ran - 燃 to burn
Shaw -烧 to roast ’ in Chinese.Jeong Jeong - jiong jiong - jiong means fire in Chinese
Zhao - Zhao is a common family name in Chinese, it can also mean ‘to set afire’.
(a lot of the FN names can be translated as fire/fire related)
Piandao - 騙到 to trick, dao can also mean knife/sword 刀
Tenzin Gyatso - is the name of the current Dalai Lama
Möngke - is the name of a Mongol Khan
Longfeng - long feng means Dragon and Phoenix, Emperor and Empress, royal principle in Chinese
Dai Li - is the name of the KMT head of secret police, it can also mean ‘great strength’
Yue - ‘yue’ means moon in Chinese
Suki - can mean ‘like or love’ in Japanese, but also, if transliterated Tsuki (sounds similar), it means ‘moon’.
Sokka just can’t help dating the moon.Laogai - was the name of real life prison camps in China
Posters from the signing today! And look, older GAang!
OH MY GOD I LOVE THESE
ZUKO. OH MY SPIRITS I CANNOT HANDLE THE FEELS I’M JUST GONNA… fall off my chair.
JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, ZUKO.
KATARA AND SOKKA’S OUTFITS.
SCREAMING.
SCREEAAAAAMMMIIIIING.
NO NO NO NO I JUST WANT THEM BACK. GIVE ‘EM BACK TO US. PLEASE. NO NO NO NO NO.
ADSDVYBSUUBRFVLSUV OMGGGGGG
I AM FUCKING SCREAMING AKJSDGALSHAFSDKASDHJSD BABIES
ADULT KATARA
ZUKO
EVERYONE
OH
MY
GODDD
I see no one is going to mention how Katara and Sokka magically lightened 293847329473 shades
I will.
What the fuck kinda bleach cream were they using?
I see Zuko is still fine as heck, but damn, yeah, gotta echo, what’s up with the bleach, Katara and Sokka?
by nikohl
Rarity and Zuko hanging out? Nope, I’m done with life. I can’t cope.
Meet Omolara -
“Omolara is a character in the fanfic Legacy. She is also the main character. A native of the Wende Air Temples, an African-inspired culture of Air Nomads, she is the third predecessor of Avatar Korra.
The second and last child born to Amaka and Matata, two gifted Air Nomads, she was sent to live and learn at the Wende Air Temples, at the age of three. By the time she was six, she was considerably gifted enough to receive her tattoos early. At that time, it was discovered that she could bend all four elements, and she made a show of it. Of course, by this time, anyone who claimed to be the Avatar would be marked for death by the The Empire. After some talks with the few remaining members of the The Order of the White Lotus, it was decided that she would be trained in secret, starting on her fourteenth birthday.
Quiet and painfully shy, Omolara is far more withdrawn than her past incarnations. Because of that, she feels that she won’t be as brave or good like them. When she was younger, the idea of bending not just one, but four, excited her. But now that she’s at the cusp of adulthood, she can finally grasp the severity of her situation. She wants to be brave, like Aang and the Avatars before her, but she’s afraid that she will fail. She tries to put on a face of determination and strength, but on the inside, she’s scared.
And not of just of the Dimani Empire, but of the fact that what she does in this lifetime can effect the world for years to come. Other than that, she’s a surprisingly sweet and personable girl with a love for paper crafts and rice crackers. While she may be shy, she is particularly forgiving when it comes to someone trying to insult or harm her or her friends. She is shy, but definitely not patient.”
CC: I can’t breathe with how perfect this is.
Also, I spilled my tea from fangirling.And her name is Yoruba.
So yay.
if you haven’t watched avatar the last airbender, you’ve been living a very sad life
but you can still fix it
oh my god……………………………………!!!!
1. Oh, look, she faints twice within 3 minutes of each other.
2. Ah, the plan was “Send Mako, that’ll HELP her reach her lowest point!”
3. No explanation as to why she couldn’t reach her spiritual side, while everyone else could?
4. I don’t think I could say “Fuck you Mako” more times if I tried. “Oh, hey, I know some really fucked up shit happened to you, but hey, what about mah man-feels for you?!? Stop wasting time being sad, aren’t you graced with the LOVE and DISHONESTY that only Mako can bring?!?”
Season 1 in summary:
A show about an ineffective female “protagonist” who accomplishes nothing by choice, action, or attempt, and everything by luck or someone else helping her out.
Seriously:
Azula - went from a spoiled, powerful princess with a huge rift between herself and her brother to a super villain with fully realized powers, serious familial issues, completely wrecked but bent on revenge all with the means to achieve it (but, of course, failed).
Ty Lee - went from a waifish acrobat, possessing skills to get her away from her problems without confrontation to a serious force to be reckoned with and the ability to stand up for herself, know what’s right, and all without needing to rely on anything but herself.
Mai - went from a apathetic misanthrope with nothing to lose and little to gain, and a sometimes-thing with Zuko to someone with a will to live and a drive to get there, and the knowledge the she is worth it.
Suki - smaller story arc (imo) but a kickass warrior, who learns how to trust her heart and not just her training, all while finding a partner in a fellow non-bender.
Yue - a sheltered princess of literally what 3 episodes? who finds love, questions family/tribe duty, but ultimately chooses the greater good over her own desires.
Toph - jesus where do I start with Toph? an undercover princess and pro-wrestler bender with a lot on her shoulders and something to prove. a skilled gambler and con artist, wanted criminal and Mellon Lord. a girl that was always treated as fragile because of her blindness and left with a serious fear of letting herself trust others lest she appear weak. a hero and warrior and friend and teacher and young person that still wanted to know if she was pretty. Toph… I could go on.
Katara - ugh, as if Toph wasn’t hard enough! surrogate mother to a broken family, heart of her nation and hope water tribe. a nurturer and stand-in water-god for a village in need, a bender unwilling to accept gender roles in a male dominated arena. a daughter bent on vengeance who grows up to chose what’s best for herself and her friends. a sister who never let her brother down but never let him stagnate. a friend who refused to give up her values but refused to do anything less than her best for those around her. a waterbender who didn’t just fall in love with the avatar, but trained him and lead as an equal. Katara is amazing??
Korra… don’t tell me they can’t write female characters. The writers let Korra down. She deserved better, don’t tell the fans thewriters can’t do better. Some of these characters had a literal handful of episodes all within a greater story arc, Korra had an entire 12 episode series devoted to her.
She deserved better.
Bumi… He was raised by Antarctic wolves or something.
I don’t have sob stories like all of you. I could sit her and complain how our mom liked Zuko more than me. But I don’t really care. My own mother thought I was a monster. She was right of course, but it still hurt.
I have been SAYING and SAYING how no matter what Ursa’s intentions were, she’s still a mother who called her daughter a monster (which, kids’ memories being what they are— selective based on emotional impact— is not in itself an overall character judgement, as potentially a non-repeated single moment in those characters’ lives, BUT STILL) and then left her kids with Ozai without any support network or backup plan. Zuko lucked out with Iroh, and Iroh had to have his own personal struggles to get to the point where he could be the adult his nephew needed him to be; but Azula had no one.
Ursa’s not a good mom.
DFJHKSHFKJSDHFKJSDHFK HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THIS??
FOR ALL YOU NON-CHINESE SPEAKING FANS :
triva fact:
the sign on the wall of toph’s school (where there would usually be an encouraging phrase or quote like “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”) actually says a slangy phrase that means something along the lines of “do i owe you a beating??”欠揍嗎= a tough and somewhat hoodlummy thing to say, and so so beautifully toph.
as a pretty slangy phrase, there isn’t really a direct translation that would mean the exact same thing but yeah. something along the lines of “do i owe you a beating”/ “are you owed a beating”
omg, i dieeedddd
DIED.
the amount of detail that goes into the avatar universe never ceases to amaze me.
Holy crap, this is cool.
I would like to see some sound bending!
it makes…so much sense…
The Complete Worldbending series. Avatar (The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra) as depicted by Windy-Asylum @ DA. (Pugletto @ Tumblr).
Information/Separate Threads:
- Ancient/World Avatars - The one that started it all.
- Air Nomads - The different Air Nations, as influenced by South America, Africa, and East Asia
- Earth Nation - The different states of the Earth Nation, as influenced by the North American Southwest, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- Water Nation - Water peoples! As influenced by Hawaii, Mongolia, and Madagascar.
- Fire Nation - A look at the last and final part of the Worldbending series - the Fire Nation! As influenced by Mesoamerica, India, and Japan.
this is so fucking awesome.
my god i wish this was real.
