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my bluesky

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im so mad my tweetdeck forced to update to a newer version, the new ver is fcking nerf shit, important functions are all gone I lost it😭

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(73/365) ATLA Prom Date- Taang

I made this as a contribution for Taang Week 2020. Combination of Day 1-2 prompts. Tradition because...that Aang's air trick thingy..and Modern AU because prom...haha

Tag: @taangweek

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well

hello there, maybe some ppl know this blog is my main blog and only for avatar, i used my side blog for a long time if anyone interested my works, you can check: @rainbox17 @fanart-rainbox 

have fun! :)

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It was my doodle in 5 years ago,these years I occasionally receive some messages or reblog and surprisingly them agree this idea, it's really makes me happy...I never know it can alive so long and someone saw it in 2017. I'm also happy to people who know Balsa more than I used to think!😍

Korra(Legend of Korra) and Balsa(Seirei no Moribito).

If they meet,I think they will become good friends.

And Balsa would be a good teacher :)

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a six year old idea that i’m still apparently into: au where it was the water tribe who attacked, katara and sokka still found aang in the iceberg 100 years later, but then, kind of tried to kill him. luckily aang escaped in time to team up with a pair of plucky young fire nation siblings who ought to have inherited the throne, you know, if the water tribe hadn’t laid waste to their country. mostly, i just like drawing katara in military gear, and enjoy thinking about the political intrigue of two ruling branches of the water tribe. 

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For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me, to accept me. I thought it was my honor I wanted, but really, I was just trying to please you. You, my father, who banished me just for talking out of turn. My father, who challenged me, a thirteen-year-old boy, to an Agni Kai. How could you possibly justify a duel with a child?

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Zuko and Azula have the most fascinating relationship in ATLA

Sibling rivalry is often a trite story of one sibling hating the other out of jealousy. On the surface, the Zuko and Azula may look that way. They have no problem blasting fire and lightning at each other and both of their parents had a favorite. But there’s so much more to it. 

First of all, I would argue that in spite of many near-fatal encounters, they don’t necessarily hate each other. It’s far more complicated than that. How they view each other is closely tied to how they view themselves.

For most of Zuko’s life, Azula is the standard he’s held to. She’s ambitious, ruthless, and a prodigy. No matter what he does, he can’t earn their father’s approval like she can. And she rubs it in his face constantly. When Azula is cruel to Zuko, Ozai affirms that she’s not wrong to do so. Zuko rarely argues with her because he’s been conditioned to believe she’s right. Zuko has internalized the blame for how his father treats him rather than project it onto Azula, and accepts how she treats him as normal. He has plenty of bitter feeling toward her, but none quite as clear as hate. 

Azula’s view of Zuko is even more convoluted. The first time we see Azula, she’s smiling because their father is about to burn him. The next time they meet, she berates him for being a failure of a son. It looks like she enjoys watching him suffer. 

But when Zuko helps “kill” the Avatar in Ba Sing Se, we get to see them in a new context. In the rare moments that they aren’t pitted against each other by the ever looming presence of their father… they actually get along fine.

Every time Azula appeared happy to see Zuko suffering, it was at the hands of their father. It wasn’t just that Ozai hurt Zuko, it what that Ozai hurt Zuko and not her. Every time Ozai insulted or injured her brother, it cemented Azula’s position as the favorite child. And she had to stay the favorite child because she’s seen what would happen to her if she wasn’t. Deep down, she knows just how conditional her father’s positive regard is. When Ozai leaves her in the Fire Nation while invading the Earth Kingdom, the first words out of her mouth are “You can’t treat me like Zuko”. Being better than Zuko is part of her identity.

When Zuko defects from the Fire Nation and begins to succeed without meeting, or even trying to meet, the standards set by their father, it throws her priorities into doubt. In her mind, Zuko is supposed to fail. But she isn’t truly unnerved until she’s betrayed by Mai and Ty Li. 

She is incapable of understanding why Mai would chose Zuko, and this drags to the surface her inability to understand why her mother preferred Zuko. She believed her mother loved Zuko and not her. Now Mai, her closest friend, loves Zuko and not her.

This conflicts with her entire view of the world. She sees the worth of a person as equal to their quantifiable skills and accomplishments. She has been admired, respected, and feared, but as far as Azula believes, no one has ever loved her. She was a prodigy who did everything right, while Zuko was the family screw up. Yet people loved him and not her.

For years, being better than Zuko was how Azula measured herself. Ozai said Zuko was lucky to be born. That he was worthless, weak, disrespectful, and both his children believed him. When Zuko left, he finally saw that Ozai was wrong about him. When Zuko returns during Sozin’s comet, Azula too is forced to see that her perception is wrong. 

Zuko has become the embodiment of everything she lacks.  She thought he was weak, but he’s not afraid enough to fight her fairly as an equal. She thought he was dishonorable, but really he was independent enough to break away from their father’s control. She thought he was worthless, but he’s found people who care about him in spite of his flaws. 

Azula isn’t just trying to kill him, but everything he represents. And when she can’t, she breaks. Zuko is still standing. She has nothing left.

Word of God (Bryke) confirmed that at the end of the Agni Kai, Zuko felt pity rather than hate for his sister. This continues into the comics as he genuinely tries to help her. He knows that while she may not have been overtly abused like he was, she was raised in the same web of lies, agendas, and violence.  

Their past left them both unable to trust people. Azula controlled everyone around her with fear. Zuko shut other people out and tried to do everything on his own. It isn’t until Zuko has left his old life behind that he slowly begins to let people in. 

While Azula hangs onto the beliefs of Ozai and the Fire Nation, Zuko can see their situation from the outside. He sees two screwed up teenagers who spent their lives fighting their father’s war, manipulated into a conflict that isn’t their fault, forced to kill each other over choices made a century before they were born. It took Zuko years to figure out the hell that was his home life wasn’t his fault, but only a few minutes to see that it wasn’t Azula’s either.

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Legend of Korra - FCBD 2016 - “Friends for Life”

I figured I’d upload a relatively high quality (read: non-camera) version of these since they’re a) free, b) intended to be available on the internet, and c) should at least include the credits page if passed around.

Enjoy the cuteness!

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Everybody remember this art ?

Somebody STOLEN it to make T-shirt design.

DAMN,I’M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW.

It’s very rude and disrespect.

DON’T BUY IT PLEASE.

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Why Crediting is Important

What’s supposed to happen

What’s happening when you don’t credit

What you’re making them do

Every artist grow by displaying their work and getting critique. But when their work is spread around without any credit to the artist, AND EVEN MAKES THE OWN ARTIST DELETE IT FROM HIS/HER SITE it lost the purpose and meaning.

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National costume of Fire is amazing 

but...I need more practice .... haha

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[THIS IS IMPORTANT]

Sometimes I receive messages about someone else re-upload or trace over my art work.

To be honest, if people credit my artwork, I won't mind others reblogging it.

BUT PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T PUBLISH/ RE-UPLOAD MY ARTWORK BY USING YOUR OWN NAME.

Thank you for going through this post.

(All the contexts are translated by my friend. My English is not good enough to explain the whole situation.)

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Book2 Experience - This story is never the world of Avatar

I'm sorry I can't express in English,but I still want to publish this article.

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如果最後的氣宗是具有東方思維的中西合璧，korra系列就是表皮東方的西方腦。

book2給我一種"場景變大，格局卻變小"的感覺。或許是氣宗太完美，經典無法超越，所以就大破大立的開創新時代，以世界觀來���是合理，不過精神已經完全不一樣了。

降世神通系列最讓人所稱讚的特色大概是東方元素的處理、劇情與人物刻畫的完整、還有流暢真實的武打動作，這些都是我很喜歡的地方，不過我想說的是更無形一點的東西。

先得說說氣宗。

降世神通這個特殊的位置之所以讓人感動，並不是因為他強大，也不是因為神靈好強好厲害，降世神通們都是人類，而神通只是站在一個比任何人更遠、更看得清楚世界的位子。 也因為有神通這個視點，我們看見與神通接觸時那些捉摸不定的神靈，隨著神通的腳步對神靈世界的驚鴻一瞥，可以說整個世界是凌駕於神通之上的浩瀚， 神通確實不是神也不是王，而只是一個平衡者。

儘管神通是這麼特殊的人物也敵不過生老病死，而神通的轉世輪迴會讓人覺得世間變化無常，但又如此生生不息的感受吧。

 應該也可以說，降世神通的世界並不是「以人為本位/中心點」的世界，它有自己的規律但同時也讓人捉摸不定，神靈、人、生物共生共存，以這裡來說，這樣的世界觀就真的比較像是東方的思維。

回到正題說korra book2。

在book2原本是一直都很期待的神靈之章，在這一季裡，非黑即白的正邪二元論，反正有壞人的地方就是會被染黑會變壞就對了，對於黑暗沒有更多的著墨，反正黑暗就是邪惡就是會攻擊人就是了，對人類還真是情有獨鍾，神靈全都變成電玩遊戲的小怪，變成了單調又平面的"東西"。 整部下來的感覺是反正就只是些邪惡的東西，打敗他們就對了。

看到結局之後對於本季共和城部分的劇情感到完全不解，因為跟book2的劇情主軸真的一點關係也沒有，為何不把那些集數用來描寫南北極、神靈以及角色塑造上？ 如果有對反派多一點的描寫，讓我們知道為什麼他這麼執著於神靈，是怎麼接觸到精神世界並且讓神靈們接納他，並把他視為同一陣線，為什麼他覺得黑暗必須存在？沒有，甚至連他為什麼陷害哥哥的��素與情感都沒有一點著墨，反正，就是個壞蛋想破壞世界和平就對了。

如果有對反派跟黑暗有多一點的描寫，或許會給我們完全不一樣的感受。 老梗不是不行玩，只是看在有沒有做出深度，不然跟其他美式英雄動漫有什麼兩樣 

看起來超有個性的雙胞胎也沒有什麼表現機會，好像跟劇情也沾不上邊，除了Eska因為有bolin所以有多了一點台詞，戴斯納實在影薄到不行，甚至讓我覺得沒有兩隻也沒關係吧，結果雙胞胎也只是隨著劇情跑的小囉囉，對於父親的尊敬與疏離沒有什麼描寫，感覺不到角色立場，也因此結尾劇情的那些對話就顯得空洞，跟book1的反派相比起來，這次的反派群角色真的相當扁平，無法讓人有共鳴。

儘管動畫品質優秀，僵化的bending還是讓我有點痛苦就是了，沒有以往那種出神入化的驚艷，只是像普通的砲彈(?)一樣只會往前丟，雖然這是第一季就有的特徵了...。難道沒有人吐槽那些綁架總統的刺客被逼到職業御術賽場地就乖乖只能用水打，忘記自己可以用冰了嗎XDDD 整齣比較像是bending並善用地利的就只有叔叔了，這一家三口御水的樣子很不錯。我比較喜歡兄弟的那場御水戰，真的是個性不同使用bending的樣子也完全不同啊XD

然後結尾的戰鬥就不用說了  

該不會是為了要製造攻擊城市的場景才布局的吧？ 如果是要看爽片，去看超人力霸王還是環太平洋還是英雄聯盟不是更好.... 反正我對正☆邪★巨人大戰就是一路無感到最後...... 

最後，神通的設定也徹底改變了，可以說其實從一開始korra系列出來的時候，核心就已經準備要改變了，製作人應該也是確定要這樣做，所以korra系列沒有"降世神通"這個標題了吧。 我以後再也不會說降世神通系列也可以從korra入手看，降世神通就是最後的氣宗，The Legend of Korra是同一個世界觀所延續的獨立作品，應該是要這麼看待才對。

所以，不同的東西本來就不應該比較，我在這邊比較根本也是白談，是自作多情吧。  

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Hey! I used your Jinora fanart (if it's yours) as a sidebar image. If you're against it, I can remove it, thanks!

That's OK. I'm glad you like it :)

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“I always wondered what kind of person could do such a thing. But now that I see you, I think I understand. There’s just nothing inside you. Nothing at all. You’re pathetic and sad and empty. But as much as I hate you… I just can’t do it.”

 - Katara’s anger, mercy, and pity for her mother’s killer (Book 3 EP 16)