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vintage image of james marriott.

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i wanna see reyna and annabeth go on a solo quest together sometime or at least like a mini side story

two baddies with mutual respect for each other would radiate so much bde

opinions i have that i will not change

percy is a poc

piper has brown eyes

hazel has brown eyes

annabeth’s not a snob or constantly eye rolling she probably finds percy rly funny and laughs a lot

i have not read past boo so jason didn’t die

hazel and frank would’ve been cute if it was either a) a one sided crush or b) she was 14 going on 15 and he was 15 going on 16 (not this 13-14 and 16-17 crap)

reyna is bisexual and so is annabeth

jason and reyna would’ve been a good pairing if it had ever happened but jason and piper makes no sense

annabeth is like genuinely seriously very pretty and not just in percy’s eyes and when she gets older she may well reclaim her femininity and she doesn’t just wear camp shirts all the time smh

i find nico’s character progression weird how do u have a traumatic outing and then ur totally fine dating a guy openly a little while later? idk but anyone he’s not an uwu gay baby he’s just a teenager

athena is a BITCH

percy and leo not being friends makes total sense to me, sometimes people just don’t vibe

thalia is a lesbian

frank/annabeth, leo/piper, hazel/leo, hazel/annabeth, piper/hazel, jason/frank are all GOD TIER friendships that if explored would be amazing

piper didn’t find percy unimpressive she just had a crush on annabeth and therefore was naturally a little against him at first

jason is handsome but percy is hot

calypso’s curse shouldn’t have been broken, calypso should have fallen for leo (THATS LEGIT HER CURSE), they shouldn’t be together and she’s a wee bitch for cursing annabeth when she knows damn well what her curse is and can’t blame anyone- get back on ur island u little cow

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i ALWAYS roll my eyes at zodiac posts for virgo going on about tidiness like i like stuff neat but i do not care

Things that each sign is done being associated with

We hereby the people of the zodiac demand to remove the stigma and stereotype of each sign as follows:

1. Virgo: Overly neat, Perfectionist, Knows everything, A big genius that doesn’t mess up

2. Libra: Being slutshamed, doesn’t know anything, passive and subordinate, Weak

3. Scorpio: Scary, “Mysterious”, Dark and sad, SEX sex sEX

4. Sagittarius: Adventurous, Blunt, Extroverted, Optimistic

5. Capricorn: Boring, Only cares about work, dead on the inside, A loner

6. Aquarius: Doesn’t care about anything, Monotuned, AcTIviST, Doesn’t have a heart

7. Pisces: Cute little baby, Always stoned, Innocent, Doesn’t know what’s going on

8. Aries: Always mad and angry, Crazy bitch, Loud, Active

9. Taurus: Fat bitch, Always eat, Lazy, Closed minded

10. Gemini: Two faced, Snake, Hates commitment, Liar

11. Cancer: Crys alot, Can’t take anything, EmOTIonAl, Procrastinator

12. Leo: Wants attention, me ME Me mE mmmeeeeee, A preformer, Drama

Thank you

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bruh athys has her priorities straight from the start

athy being obsessed with gold

no but like honestly m o o d

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can someone recommend me a ship like them to get invested in... pleaseee

percy and annabeth are one of the only couples that didnt stop teasing each other and having gr8 banter after they got together. so many fictional couples have great bantz until they get together and then they get all Soft™️ and adorable and i love that alot but you can have both??? we were truly blessed

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Katara's Grief

(This is my first attempt at a meta post and I know that this has probably been already done but I just needed to get it off my chest and go on a little rant and it kinda got long so bear with me.)

A lot of the hate on Katara stems from the fact that she keeps on mentioning her mother's death at every chance she gets and invalidates other people's pain to assert that her suffering is the worst of the lot.

And even though everybody is entitled to their own opinions, I'm gonna point out why I think the aforesaid claims are not exactly correct.

First we'll take a look at; Katara's Backstory:

We know that Kya is killed in a fire nation raid and that Katara had been the last person to see her alive before she leaves the tent on her mother's insistence. Only to come back a few moments later and find her dead body. This, in itself is a traumatising event.

So yes, her mother died. Other people in the story go through far worse. You're not wrong when you say that.

But what is more important in Katara's story is the aftermath of her mother's death.

As Sokka says while talking to Toph in "The Runaway" in B3 Ep7:

Sokka: When our mom died, that was the hardest time in my life. Our family was a mess, but Katara? She had so much strength. She stepped up and took on so much responsibility. She helped fill the void that was left by our mom.

As an eight year old, she had to force herself to grow up to step into her mother's shoes and raise herself and her elder brother and simultaneously look after the entire village after her father left to fight in the war. She had to do all of it by herself.

In face of all her responsibilities, she never really had the chance to simply be a grieving child lamenting the loss of her mother. She habituated herself to caring more about others than herself (We see this trait in the entire series as she acts as the stand-in mom friend for the entire Gaang with an exception of Suki and Zuko). She ended up bottling her feelings of grief, resentment, guilt and rage deep within herself.

She had to give up an extensive part of her childhood where most children focus on figuring themselves out, to become a mature and responsible person who was working as the immovable pillar holding up the family and even the whole village not much later.

She put up a strong front to help others and pretended to be fine even though she was hurting inside the whole time.

She could never find any closure from the situation. She never got over it.

Moving on to the criticisms:

1. Katara keeps on mentioning her mother like a broken record:

Here are the number of times Katara mentions her mother's death (not sure if that's all of it, lmk if there are any others):

1. In her first scene with Sokka

Katara: Ever since mom died, I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!

2. A short while after she meets Aang

Katara: Well, I just want you to be prepared for what you might see. The Fire Nation is ruthless. They killed my mother, and they could have done the same to your people.

3. A short while after she meets Haru

Katara: I lost my mother in a Fire Nation raid. This necklace is all I have left of her.

4. A short while after she meets Jet

Katara: Sokka and I lost our mother to the Fire Nation.

5. In the swamp after she sees a vision of her mother

Katara: I thought I saw Mom.

6. In the Crystal Catacombs with Zuko

Katara: I don't? How dare you! You have no idea what this war has put me through! Me personally! The Fire Nation took my mother away from me.

7. A short while after she meets Hama

Katara: We completely understand. We lost our mother in a raid.

8. Repeated mentions in The Southern Raiders episode

(Most of the episode basically)

The first mention with Sokka is in the middle of a siblings' spat where she tells off Sokka for trying to act as if he were superior when it was obvious that in the face of the gaping hole that was left by Kya's sudden death, Katara had shouldered much more responsibility.

When she tells it to Aang, she uses it as a proof that the Fire Nation is capable of immense cruelty and destruction.

The Gaang travel all around the world and meet different people affected by the war in different ways. So when Haru, Jet and Hama narrate their own stories, Katara sympathises with them and talks about Kya's death in lieu of "I understand, the Fire Nation hurt me too."

After they got separated, Aang, Sokka and Katara each had their visions and after they get back together, they all mention their visions and so does Katara.

When left alone in catacombs with Zuko, whom she considered as the face of the Fire Nation— the same Fire Nation that had her mother killed and forced her father to leave to fight in the war, she has a meltdown where she rightfully accuses him of all the bad things he's done and then breaks down while talking about how the war has cost her i.e., by causing her mother's death.

The Southern Raiders is the episode where Katara hunts down the man responsible for her mother's death. If you think mentioning Kya repeatedly in this episode is uncalled for, then I don't know what to tell you.

In all the incidents mentioned above, Katara mentioning her mother's death is a very natural occurrence is the respective conversations. She mostly talks about Kya's death to either extend her sympathy or to use it as an example of the ruthlessness of the Fire Nation.

Another fact to be noted is that 70% of the Gaang's storyline is followed via Katara from a narrative point of view. Plus, being the mom-friend, she acts as the spokesperson. Considering that Kya's death is a major event that played a huge role in shaping Katara's life and is also the source of her severe, unresolved trauma, which acts as the driving force of her story, it is only natural that she brings up this topic whenever she is engaging in a deeper conversation.

It is us as the viewers who have seen her from the start and already know about her mother's death and we see her talking to multiple people about it. Which is why it might come across as repetitive to some people.

While, Kya's death is not necessary information that everyone needs to know, Katara talking about it never comes across as a forced or unnatural.

2. Katara invalidates others' pain because she thinks she has suffered the most:

First of all, if anything, Katara is the most empathetic person of them all. As the mom-friend of the group, not only is she their constant moral support, she also helps them untangle and sort out their own feelings. She is also able to tap into issues that aren't said out loud.

Instances of Katara helping and supporting Aang, emotionally are uncountable.

She is the first one to notice Sokka's sour mood in B3 Ep4 "Sokka's Master". And even though his insecurities seem baseless, she validates him (by saying "I'm sorry you're feeling so down" instead of something like "That's a dumb thing to say") and knows exactly what to do to cheer him up.

In B3 Ep7 "The Runaway" she has the insight to understand that Toph's unruly behaviour is caused by the mixed feelings she has about her parents even though Toph's herself never talked about it.

She even reaches out to Zuko in B2 Ep19 "Crossroads of Destiny" even though she used to think of him as the face of the enemy.

But then there's The Southern Raiders.

Ah yes, that episode where Katara is extremely OOC and a total b*tch.

Agreed that she said some things that she definitely shouldn't have said. But like, she's just 14?? And has been hurting on the inside since she was 8?? And pretended to be fine just for the sake of other people?? Like, there's a limit to how much she can have her shit under control?? And she did a real good job of Sokka's upbringing and taking care of the village and taking care of Gaang on her own?? Some people out there are really willing to forget everything she has ever done just because she was mean for 5 minutes?? A traumatised 14 yo shouldn't be villianised and called toxic because she got mad and lashed out at people that one time??

But here's my take on the scene anyway:

When Aang gets to know that she's going to go face her mother's killer:

Aang: Um ... and what exactly do you think this will accomplish?

Katara: I knew you wouldn't understand. 

Aang is a non-confrontational person who prefers running away from difficult situations as opposed to Katara who firmly stands her ground and is never afraid of confrontations. Katara had approached Aang only hoping that he would understand. But going by his dismissal, he obviously doesn't understand the burning need that she has to confront the man who had single-handedly destroyed her childhood. (Most people infer that what Katara means is that she thinks that Aang doesn't understand the pain of losing people. And so does Aang, I guess)

But things start getting even more tricky when:

Aang: Katara, you sound like Jet.

In all honesty, this is probably the most insensitive thing that she could've heard from anyone right then, let alone one of her closest friends. Hearing herself being compared to a homicidal maniac just because she wants to avenge her mother's killer. (No, I'm not justifying murder but there's a clear difference between homicide and avenging someone's death. And Aang may not be my favourite character but I do love him but this wasn't really a good thing to say either. And he wasn't even mentally distressed in the very least to be completely lacking tact or a filter.)

And then the situation escalates:

Sokka: Katara, she was my mother, too, but I think Aang might be right.

Katara: Then you didn't love her the way I did!

After 6 long years of Katara bottling in her dark feelings and letting them fester inside herself, she is finally letting them out and the first things she faces in a span of few minutes are outright rejection, invalidation of her feelings, comparison to a homicidal maniac and nothing akin to the unconditional support that she has provided to everybody. Her own brother tells her that he is siding with the boy who just compared her to a homicidal maniac.

Yes, accusing your own brother of not loving your mother enough is a very cruel thing to do. But both Sokka and Katara know that she doesn't entirely mean it.

But also, there is one very important factor in here:

In B3 Ep7 "The Runaway", Sokka says to Toph:

Sokka: I'm gonna tell you something crazy. I never told anyone this before, but honestly? I'm not sure I can remember what my mother looked like. It really seems like my whole life, Katara's been the one looking out for me. She's always been the one that's there. And now, when I try to remember my mom, Katara's is the only face I can picture. 

Katara overhears this conversation just as Sokka had meant her to.

This dialogue lets us know that Sokka's coping mechanism has made him suppress all memories of Kya and replace them with memories of Katara in order to attain a semblance of normalcy.

Both Katara and Sokka had very different ways of coping with Kya's death. Katara pressed down her feelings and tried her best to pretend to ignore them while Sokka partially succeeded in forgetting her.

When Katara first hears these words she is shown to be crying. But if she were to remember these very words while she was justifying herself infront of her own brother and a close friend for wanting to avenge her mother, it would've had a negative impact on her.

In her rage, she would've thought: "Of course he doesn't want to avenge mom. Because he doesn't think it's worth it and that's because he doesn't even remember enough of her to be mad about her death."

And for someone who has spent each day of the last 6 years trying to fill in the shoes of her mother and experiencing her absence everyday, the idea of forgetting her mother is a ridiculous concept to her.

Her thoughts would have quickly derailed to: "He didn't love her enough to remember her."

In light of these thoughts, saying "Then you didn't love her the way I did" doesn't feel out of the blue.

No, I am definitely not justifying what she said, I'm just laying out a possible explanation to why she said what she said.

Yes, she should've apologized to Sokka for this and I think that they definitely should've had a long conversation about their mother's death and how it affected them. Between Katara supressing her feelings and Sokka supressing his memories, i don't think they ever had this conversation.

But sadly we are given neither of these scenes.

Tl;dr: Everytime Katara mentions her mother, it's with good reason and I don't think it's fair to call a character toxic when they lack a mind to mouth filter for 5 minutes and say some mean things. And considering all that Katara has done for everybody, it isn't fair at all.

Peace out!

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i..i translated stair to dutch and i feel like such an idiot

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Kinda sad to think about how I’m older than all the characters I grew up reading about... idk... it just hits differently now

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You can get the bonus song “the lakes” on the 8 deluxe CD editions, 8 deluxe vinyl editions, and the cassette edition of folklore that are available here. 🌊 

📷: Beth Garrabrant

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Annabeth would play lacrosse cause she gets to be lowkey violent and competitive but also use strategy to figure out how to outsmart the other team to win

oh vibes i fw this

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guppy

🥺🥺🐙🐟

Percabeth as parents headcanon

Idk if this is a part 1 of many. I don’t really have that many hc’s of them as parents but this was a scene that popped in my head. I just thought it was adorable 🥺

So one morning Annabeth is lying in bed and hears the door to the bedroom open and in walks her adorable little monster of a 4 year old

Her name is Sophia. But they call her Soph or Sophie

Yes, it’s an overused name in this fandom but there’s a reason we like it LOL

So she walks in with her cute little footie pajamas and Flounder plushie in tow and goes straight to her mom (because she knows her dad sleeps like the fucking dead)

She stage whispers, “Moooommmyyyy”

Annabeth slowly opens her eyes and hopes she’s daydreaming this cause she really wanted to sleep in this weekend

“Mooooommmmmyyyyy”

Annabeth sighs because yeah, this is real. She looks at the time on her phone on her nightstand. It’s 6:57 am. Good gods.

Little Sophie doesn’t seem to be in distress though, so she stays exactly where she is in bed only turning enough so Sophie knows she’s paying attention

“What’s wrong, baby?”

“Can I please have blue chocolate chip pancakes?”

Annabeth is glad that her daughter at least has enough manners to politely ask so early in the morning

She grabs a pillow and throws it behind her where Percy’s annoyingly still and peaceful body lies

“Wha - “

“Your daughter wants some pancakes”

Percy’s hair is all over the place and his eyes still look glossed over like he’s barely registering what’s happening

“Oh so she’s my daughter now?”

“Before 9 am, she’s your daughter”

Look here, idk where y’all get the impression that Annabeth is a morning person because she absolutely isn’t. She is a Night Owl (insert mental high five for the pun). She works on her designs past midnight. You think she’d be willing to wake herself up before 7am??? No

Sophie climbs onto the bed and over her mom and sits right in between her parents

“Daddy”

“What’s up, Guppy?”

Yes. Percy calls his daughter Guppy. You cannot change my mind.

“Can I have some blue chocolate chip pancakes?”

Percy feigns a look of contemplation and looks to Annabeth and pretends that he’s deliberating the idea

“I dunno Guppy...you okay with that, Mom?”

They both know they were going to bow to their daughter’s wishes, but it’s best not to let this little one know that she has them wrapped around her fingers

“You’re making them. It’s up to you.”

Sophie throws herself onto her dad and wraps her arms around his chest

“Pleeeeaaassseeeee???” she asks

Annabeth snorts at the scene in front of her. Not that Percy needed any more convincing, but those bright, pleading green eyes that reflect his own definitely seals the deal

She brushes her daughter’s dark, sleep mussed curls back with her fingers

Percy squints at his little Guppy and says “Hmmm...I guess that’s alright then”

Sophie is absolutely ecstatic. A bunch of “yays” and “thank you’s” are thrown around. Percy gets a big old kiss from her too.

And in that moment, Annabeth knew that everything she and Percy fought and worked for was worth it

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yknow out of every show/movie/whatever thats tried to do the whole ‘girl power’ subplot, ATLA is the the only one I’ve seen stick the landing. cause like, they didn’t try and condense it down to a one episode problem then never speak of it again, but they also didn’t subject us to constant misogyny during the entire series. and they were also realistic about it! the point they wanted to make was that gender has nothing to do with a persons capabilities, and that is the point they wound up making every time!

probably the best example is the katara vs pakku fight, cause like. any other show would probably have katara kick his ass, and that would convince him to teach her and also drive home the girl power theme. the conflict of the story is katara not being allowed to fight bcause girls are considered too weak; if she loses a fight to a man, then it just proves him right, she has to win. but that’s why the message always falls flat in other stories, because it wouldn’t make any sense for katara to beat pakku in that fight. she’s a teenager with literally no training, and has spent all season struggling to teach herself the basics, while pakku has decades of experience and is one of the most skilled waterbending masters in the world. if katara won the fight, it would be contrived bullshit, and make the intended feminist themes painfully heavy handed, and a blatant token effort. but instead, we get a hardcore two minute smackdown of katara trying to murder the everloving shit out of pakku, and making him work to kick her ass. like yeah she loses, but it’s a vicious fight, she manages to hold her own despite all the odds stacked against her, and it’s the first real display of intense combat waterbending in the show. and despite losing the fight, she still wins the overall argument, because she successfully gets through to pakku about the patriarchal system being damaging to everyone - up to and including him.

my point is katara going absolutely fucking feral against pakku is the best fight scene ever, and atla is a really good show

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More on this akira au……………kei as katara opens loads of opportunities i love her

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