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A series of one-shots focusing on the Dai Li set before, during, and after Avatar: The Last Airbender. OC-Centric with some canon cameos. Not in chronological order.
Because why not?
I just thought I’d share with all y’all. Please enjoy!
(Individual chapter links and character pictures behind the cut so I don’t kill your dashboards)
highlanderhufflepuffhugmachine:
One thing I really LOVE about Katara is that she’s a woman who really OWNS her anger.
Like, girls are taught to never get angry. Never be rude. Don’t yell. It makes you unlikable. It’s not lady-like.
And Katara just says fuck you to that. She’s sweet, and mothering, and caring, and nurturing almost all the time. But when she’s angry? She’s ANGRY. And she OWNS it.
She yells at people, she threatens people. Sometimes she’s vain and jealous on top of it all too, and she owns up to that. It takes a special kind of courage and strength to look someone in the eye and honest to god YELL at them.
Especially the fight above. Pakku is an elder, a man in charge. He’s in a privileged position of power over her. And Katara doesn’t take that shit anyway.
God damn A+ Female empowerment right there.
Yes! Katara is amazing, both in her strengths and the way the narrative acknowledges her faults.
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arson, murder, and jaywalking.
Commission for darkpuck of her ATLA OC Lanh, Dai Li trainee and pickpocket extraordinaire. Not … not always in that order, apparently.
To quote what I said on YouTube:
Half of this video was created for a contest on AtLALand.
Half of this video was created 50,000 feet above the ground.
Both of those halves are the same half, and were finished way back during the spring of 2011.
I finished the other half nearly exactly two years later.
So here is “Welcome to Ba Sing Se”, a trailer for the Ba Sing Se arc of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s second season.
This video falls under “fair use” as I own nothing and merely transformed the scenes to make something new.
Please enjoy it!
Reblogging again for the day crowd!
The Last Raid - What the Raids did to the Southern Water Tribe
When you compare Hama’s memory of their village, to Sokka’s memory of the day his mother died, while there is a noticeable difference in village size and construction, that difference is nothing in comparison to what we see in season one.
It is very obvious that the reason the raids stopped is that the FN won. Had Aang not defeated Ozai and the Northern Water Tribe not sent people, that settlement, and the Southern Water Tribe, would have been gone within a lifetime.
#Sokka’s memory #atla #avatar #Avatar The Last Airbender #katara #sokka#hama #water tribes #water tribe #southern raiders #fire nation #this make Jin sad
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darkpuck Asks:
beckyh2112 Said:
My otp: Long Feng/Song
My most hated pairing: Long Feng/Kuei
My unusual otp: Long Feng/Zhao
My crossover otp: Long Feng/Fidelias (Codex Alera)
My brotp/friendship otp: Long Feng and Hyo-sir
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…
I’m pretty sure this is how we ALL pictured it.
giancarlo
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“Countless others have come before you, seeking weapons or weaknesses or battle strategies!”
this is one of the truly brilliant things about this show. while most kids’ shows will have good vs evil conflict, atla has a war. a real war, between people, with all the moral greyness and points of view made clear. the fire nation isn’t evil: it’s a repressed country under the strict control of its ruler. we’re shown how history is altered and propaganda is taught as fact, so the people grow up moulded to hate all other nations.
and then we get lines like this, which make us stop and think wait, is what the other nations are doing really right? after all, Ba Sing Se was supposed to be a haven, but turned out to be repressive and full of lies.
in this case we know that Aang is justified, and we trust him to do what’s right because he has such high moral standards. then we get to the finale and all that is challenged again.
it’s just a brilliant show guise.
this show’s fucking flawless, okay? i just have so much love for atla
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Character: Aang, Princess Tiana, & Katara
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender & The Princess and The Frog
Ozai’s portrait
Ozai’s hands are shown in a double abhaya mudra.The abhaya mudra is a
“Gesture of Fearlessness” or “Blessing”. Which, I guess, form Ozai’s point of view makes a twisted kind of sense. He is blessing the world with the progress of industrialization, and later with fire …Ozai is standing on a lotus. The lotus flower does symbolize enlightenment in Buddhist teachings. Does that mean Ozai is supposed to be enlightened? Well, if you look closer you can see that his lotus is rooted in black flames and is covered in flames itself. If there is any enlightenment to be had it is through fire. Quite literally, if we take the finale into account.
Each Fire Lord’s portrait depicts their achievements during their reign. Sozin has the comet and his legacy (the history scroll), Ozai the cogs and furnaces of industrialization, as well as more flames than anyone else. Interesting, though, is that he is not depicted with the comet, even though it occurs during his reign and he plans to use it to conquer/destroy the world.
Image source: One
Characters: Suki, Toph, Aang, and Katara
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Cuties!
Sozin’s Official Portrait
Sozin’s portrait, i.e. actually all of the Fire Nation’s royal portraits, resemble, in posture and symbolism, Buddhist statues.
Now here’s the fun part: Pretty much everything about Sozin’s portrait is a corruption of Buddhist teachings:
He is standing on, what looks from afar, like the lotus flower of enlightenment, (compare the other statues) but when you look closer you can see that he has replaced enlightenment with fire and soldiers.
His right hand is in a gesture calledbuddhashramana,“Gesture Beyond Misery” is also called theascetic’s Gesture of Renunciation. How fitting, considering what is going to come, that it is holdinga flame with this gesture.
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