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Rewatching ATLA, and I love how relatively calmly Aang accepts the fact that he’s been frozen for 100 years.

Like, he goes through the 5 stages of grief in roughly 2 seconds. His initial reaction is to literally say “whaaat? no way” and then after a bit of convincing, he’s all “:0 100 years! Damn, I can’t believe it:(((“

And then IMMEDIATELY he jumps right into “Well at least I got to meet you Katara!” Like the pretty girl he just met can put a bandaid over the fact that everyone he knew and loved is dead 😭

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Look at love for Kataang

I try this to do something new in my art !

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New pin to add to the collection!

It's too big to wear but it's still nice to look at!

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I believe in punk bi trans autistic girl Katara supremacy

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Heck, we don't even know that Aang wasn't a great dad. All we really have are his three children all suffer inadequacy issues from being the Avatar's children. That should hardly be a surprise to anyone, should it? (Of note, there's no suggestion we should take any of them as unbiased views into their past, and in the end they all agree they had a loving family...so, good but not some idealized perfect, I guess.)

Even Toph seems to have mostly struggled with trying to be a single mom, and not been able to provide everything her daughters needed. We see them grow from it. I actually really liked this entire storyline as it felt so authentic to real life.....so many families with estrangements over things in the past that aren't due to anyone being horrible, but just being normal, flawed human beings.

The entire complaint about the old group not taking up the fighting is just weird, so I'll leave it at that.

It's funny. LoK feels a need to pull in the original Team Avatar with little cameos to connect the two series. If they didn't do that, you'd hear howling from the fandom. They do that and keep the same general take of making them good, but imperfect characters, which is what made them so wonderful in ATLA, and the fandom whines about that too.

I'll say the worst thing LoK did was even bother having them around. They should have let Aang live to be very old, and all of them be long gone by the time Korra is active. We could have had the same story lines and connections, just making it a generation (or two) further down.

Can we talk about the absolute character assassination of team avatar in Legend of Korra

They make Aang a shitty dad? They make Toph a shitty mom as well Sokka is no where to be found Katara is passable Zuko is also passable but then to get his ass kicked during the one time we get to see him in action in lok is disrespectful

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two little kids

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That does really sound like what I see in the avatar fandom. It seems like lots of things people put in their fanon ships are lifted straight out of canon kataang. The weirdest part is how many of them go on to suggest it's why they prefer their ship, and it's weird as it's right there in the central canon relationship the show builds over 61 episodes.

idk if other people can relate to this but the weirdest thing about shipping a canon ship, especially a canon ship that gets a fair bit of content, is the phenomenon i've found in fandom where people will take their fanon or less developed canon ships and... staple things your canon ship has onto them as a wish or headcanon. i'm not talking about things as generic as "what if my ship got married too" as much as like. specific tropes, scenes, or plot relevant development that people then want to get grafted onto the ship of their choice, regardless of how canonically prominent those things are in the (bigger) canon ships. yeah

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Maiko in Warring States robes, costume details have been adjusted.

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From San Jose, California

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@kataang-week day 6 - napping 💕💕

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No one can convince me that Tenzin is ugly when this is what he looked like when he was younger!

Keep in mind, he also canonically had two love interests and has 3 going on 4 children by the start of LoK.

And that bod though....

All I can say is, I can see why Lin and Pema fell for him.

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katara: lemme just uhhhh *leans*

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a welcome interruption from meditating 🧘👨‍👧🌊

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Yep.

If you're going to use 'you just hate interracial relathionships!!!' in ship wars,you should also be obliged to listen to actual mixed people's opinions on them

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Do you ever think about how aang was only 12 years old when his people were killed? Like. He wasn't an adult. He didn't have years of memories. He didn't know all of the traditions. He just lived in a land and then he left and got stuck in the iceberg and when he woke up it was all gone. Do you ever think about how he was 12 years old and had to grasp at childhood memories that were both fleeting and felt like yesterday with no adults to turn to and had to rebuild his culture with the knowledge that he had? Do you think about how aang must think about those cultural dishes or customs or traditions that he never quite figured out how to replicate (or the ones he never knew about at all)?

Because I do, and it makes me wanna cry.

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Appa and Aang ❤️