I just found out about this livejournal thing called capslock_zutara.
And I’m just reading their comments about stuff like.
I won’t say anything but judge for yourselves.
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How did Avatar Aang’s face end up on Yuan paper bills
Basically it was all Zuko’s idea.
Zuko: AANG
Aang: Yes, Zuko.
Zuko: I HAVE… A… GREAT IDEA.
Aang: Oh god, not again.
Zuko: JUST HEAR ME OUT OKAY.
Aang: No, Zuko please—
Zuko: JUST LISTEN.
Aang: What is it now.
*Zuko tips open a bag of Yuan bills*
Aang: what is th— ZUKO
Zuko: ISNT THIS NEAT
THE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY USING THEM
Bloodbending scenes — requested by anon
This episode was so flipping dark btw; I didn’t think they would go there, but oh my god.
Hama is a BAMF, no two ways about it. Her skills were so finely-honed as to be able to take Waterbending to levels that were apparently previously-untouched. While the results & applications of this level of skill raise a lot of ethical questions, there’s no denying that it rivals Toph’s introduction of Metalbending in terms of innovation & mastery of skill.
I think her story is also an interesting study on some of the effects of oppression & genocide that are usually not really discussed.
^^ Yes yes yes, all this commentary. This episode is one of my favorites of the entire series. So much awesome, so little time to appreciate it all.
These scenes were so intense, I wish Katara was able to use blood bending more to fight but I know she was fearful that power and of having that much control over a human life and the technique itself seemed complicated. But it just seemed it could have been more handy when they were fighting.
Fire vs. Water
Oh wow. Did not notice that.
NIIIICE
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Thinking Too Much About the World of Avatar
Views of the Southern Air Temple Sanctum from Episode 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (I tried to upload them in a photoset but Tumblr was being a butt.)
Each of those statues is a statue of an Avatar. There are hundreds of them. Has it ever dawned on anyone else just how long Avatars have been around? Let’s assume, just for ease and the sake of argument, that the average lifespan of an Avatar is 100 years. Roku and Aang died earlier than that, but Roku died from toxic inhalation and Aang had that whole century-in-an-iceberg thing. Kyoshi, in contrast, lived to be over 250.
I’m not going to do any major mathematics here, but there seem to be about fifty on the ground level, and I counted ~60 in that shot going up to the ceiling. That’s only part of the room, so I’m going to make the poor, but mathematically convenient, assumption that there are 150 Avatars in the upper levels.
200. Two hundred Avatars. So that’s ~20,000 years of Avatars. Do you know what we were doing 20,000 years ago? Painting caves. We hadn’t even inhabited the Americas yet.
I’m no anthropologist or historian, but from my limited understanding, “modern civilization” began something like 6,000 years ago. With this came the rise of the city, defined political systems, writing, architecture, all that stuff. If you have a statue of every Avatar, you’re going to need to have records dating back to that time. This means that the Era of the Avatar has occurred entirely during that world’s “modern civilization.” In fact, as the Avatar arose as humans discovered the four elements and split into four nations, it might even be said that the two eras are the same. (And now we ponder the question: which came first, the Avatar or civilization?)
If there are any people out there who are still griping about how all this technology in Korra came too quickly, I think this might be the last nail in their coffin. Their society has been around for more than three times as long as ours. I daresay it’s high time they had cars.
This kind of stuff really interests me. If we had been around for 20,000 years, we would probably have colonies in Andromeda. (Hopefully.) But the influence of the Avatar, it would seem, has served to maintain the status quo. A grand mediator keeping humanity in check against nature has slowed development incredibly.
Of course, things have changed on Avatar Earth in the past 170 years. And why is that? Well, the Avatar wasn’t there for a hundred of them. In that time, the Fire Nation developed internal combustion engines and nearly conquered the entire world. Even with the Avatar restored, the world has been irrevocably changed, and the speed of development has gone into overdrive. Humanity is outpacing nature - and is even beginning to chafe in nature’s elemental shackles. After having a taste of what they can do without an Avatar - without the world holding them back, we get people like the Anti-Benders.
The conflict of Legend of Korra, then, could almost be framed as one between the status quo and progress. Suddenly, the lines of good and evil aren’t as clear. I’m not sure the world is back in balance quite yet. Korra’s got her work cut out for her.
But, back to my original point, at least she’s got a shitton of past selves to back her up.
I like this *U* yes i love this world it’s complex and so interesting how much thought they put into this show. i wonder if they will show us MORE past avatars with korra!
I noticed that when i rewatched the episode recently! How many there are, yes this explanation makes sense :’)
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I think this is the most deep and meaningful parallel yet.
Imagine what it would’ve been like if Sokka hadn’t managed to catch her hand when it slipped. If he was the only one of the two who had been saved here. I would’ve cried. He would hate himself; she’d never gotten married, grow old, and had children. The secret of metalbending would’ve been lost, and Lin Bei Fong never would’ve existed, let alone been the head of the police force. And if Lin Bei didn’t exist, she probably isn’t going to have some future badass scene where she saves Korra from the jaws of death and Korra would probably be killed.
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT? ;~;
It gets worse.
Put yourself in Toph’s place at this moment. The only thing she is touching — the only thing she is holding onto — is Sokka’s hand. That’s all. She can feel the wind and hear the yelling, but she can’t see any of it. Her world is the world she feels through her surroundings, but right now she can only feel Sokka. So her world is Sokka’s hand, and it’s slipping away.
D,:
YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME HERE
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MY HEART??
I don’t often wear shirts with words on them, but when I do, it’s THIS ONE OMG GIVE IT TO ME
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Put yourself in Toph’s place at this moment. The only thing she is touching — the only thing she is holding onto — is Sokka’s hand. That’s all. She can feel the wind and hear the yelling, but she can’t see any of it. Her world is the world she feels through her surroundings, but right now she can only feel Sokka. So her world is Sokka’s hand, and it’s slipping away.
tear bending
“Baby, you’re my forever girl.”
that was my heart
What was that?
Just the sound of my heart shattering into a million tiny pieces.
And yet M. Night Shamalan couldn’t do it with millions of dollars.
(Source: hunters-assemble-upon-gallifrey)
The Seven Chakras
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Derse. Prospit. Long ago, the two planets lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Dersite queen attacked. Only sburb players, inhabitants of both the planets could stop them. But, when the world needed them most, they vanished. A hundred years passed and four earth kids discovered new sburb discs, including a Breath player named John. And although his windy thing is great, he’ll need a lot of help from his friends before he can save anyone.
But I believe, John can save the world.
(Source: ectobiologist)
Zuko is actually a ninja.
Zuko is a ninja.
Or the Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia: The Quest for Zuko’s Pride
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