#//except for korra--

[brobertdowneyjr]

I'm sifting thru fics like it’s 1848 and I'm panning for gold in the river

[marvelgolq]

Is it too much to want a perfect Kaylin fanfic where they live together with a cat (black cat of course) and a golden retriever. Where everyone knows about them dating, no angst, just good vibes??? IS THAT TOO MUCH?

LIKE LOOK AT THEMMMM!!!

[redrook]

listen. Raava is a lesbian.

I've been re-reading all the Avatar books, and the common thread is that once the Avatar enters the Avatar state, they start falling in love with a girl.

Kyoshi? Originally in love with a boy, Yun, when she's barely able to bend even her native element. Her first sign of being the Avatar is singing love poetry from her past life about a woman. Once she finally enters the Avatar state, she almost immediately starts thinking about how beautiful her longtime friend Rangi is.

Roku? Fell in love and got married to a woman after mastering all the elements and the Avatar state.

Aang? Wakes up from a 100 year coma brought on by the Avatar State (normally completely encasing someone in ice will just. kill them.) and he gets a heart-rending crush on the very first girl that he sees

Korra? Again like Kyoshi, when she's initially blocked in her bending and unable to control the Avatar State, she's in love with a guy. Once she masters the Avatar State, she starts getting into fights with Mako. The more she connects with Raava, the more they fight, until finally they break-up (the only Avatar breakup we are ever shown). Once Raava fully awakens within Korra in the season 4 finale, IMMEDIATELY after she asks out Asami on their spirit world date.

Kuruk? Constantly entering the Avatar State, and was a notorious lady's man (after his spirit was damaged fighting other spirits, the only thing that could "restore" his spirit was drinking and "the touch of warm bodies". Raava was like man we gotta recharge.)

What about Yangchen, you may ask? She hasn't fallen in love with any woman. Yangchen is the exception that proves the rule. Yangchen, despite her spirituality, is the most earthly attached Avatar. She chose humanity, over and over, and many spirits turned dark as a result of her actions. Even though she is connected to all of her past lives, not once does she bring up Raava or even mention a light spirit. She also mentions that maintaining the Avatar State is incredibly difficult for her, and that she has a low reserve of energy. Yangchen is the most connected to earthly attachments, the least connected to Raava, and is therefore able to resist the impending push of lesbianism.

Raava is a lesbian.

[unpersoniverse]

modern! clicks Korra chilling in a park

[wilcze-kudly]

[project-incubus]

any action cartoon made after 2008 doesn't last... all they know is, be bisexual, get cancelled & fucked over by executives

[failingradish]

finally  😤

[beautifully-imperfections]

Understanding Catra is my media literacy test

[chipified]

I am incapable of imagining yangchen being shorter than kavik. In my head she is so tall and he is like 5'8

[bernard-the-rabbit]

i'm watching tlok and hearing Bumi and Kya saying that aang only focused on Tenzin made me wanna eat cement so i drew loving aang out of spite

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[bi4bination]

Love is love meme with bi4bi ships 💖💜💙

[neurotypical-sonic]

had a dream last night where sonic either got de-aged or time travel shit happened, but the end result was a very young sonic who doesn't know or remember any of his friends suddenly in present time. they were at tails' workshop and amy and knuckles were trying to coax him into the actual house and he was refusing to, or even get close to either of them. he did not like the house!!!! and knuckles got fed up and just went inside, and started cooking chilli dogs?? because he thought it'd calm the situation down a bit?? like if he went out and offered little sonic some food then maybe little sonic would start playing nice. but as he was heating up the sauce little sonic smelled it and veryyyy slowly and carefully crept inside the house to see what it was. and knuckles saw and kept very very still so he didnt accidently startle him. until he had to stop sonic from grabbing the very hot saucepan

[seventeendeer]

after watching ATLA I got curious about whether my constantly negatively comparing its gender politics to the (imo superior) 2003 Teen Titans animated series had any merit or what, so I sat down to watch TT properly for the first time in ~2 decades, prepared for the worst

but you know what literally THE SECOND EPISODE centers one of the female leads and her complex relationship with her sister and features her love interest comforting and supporting her as she works through her insecurities and finally confronts said sister so WHAT THE FUCK WAS ATLA'S EXCUSE FOR ALL OF THAT

[pumpkinrootbeer]

i do think it is legitimately very funny whenever someone tries to make the claim that lavabending is inherently a very slow subbending and therefore not good in a fight. specifically when using that argument against Bolin's skill as a bender.

Sure, I feel like in very specific instances with Ghazan that could be a fair argument to make. It takes him a moment to destabilize the Ba Sing Se wall and for him to kick up enough lava to destroy the airbending temple. (to the point I would argue that if Bolin had been versed in lavabending like he was in s4 he would have swept the ground with Ghazan), but in moments where he's actually in a fight his lava is incredibly quick.

Just the lava frisbee on its own is an incredibly quick move

But making that argument with Bolin in particular is absolutely batshit when outside of lavabending he is an incredibly quick fighter. I would say it is one of, if not the, most defining things about his fighting style. He moves very, very quickly and uncharacteristically agile for a earthbender. This is a known thing. Like

I am not the first person to say this but no other earthbender does backflips like he does. And THEN with lavabending he is just as quick if not more so

Bolin since season 1 has had an uncanny knack for bending incredibly fast, and his lavabending is no exception to that rule. It's honestly something that haunts my brain all the time because how quick he is with it low-key breaks the balancing? a little?? Like earthbending was always shown to be very strong but in turn it was slower than other types of bending, but with Bolin that doesn't really seem to be a hangup he has.

[swan2swan]

The usual "Kuvira is a Fascist" discourse came across my path yesterday, and I had a strange epiphany ten years too late about how symbolic her first scene in Book 4 is.

The establishment of her setting is a train: elevated above the firm terrain of the Earth Kingdom, in a region devoid of people or structures. It's a transition. Symbolic enough in itself, she's in the middle of nowhere, moving from one place to another...

But the thing about trains is that you travel in one direction. They're beautiful and efficient, they run on time, but when you step on the train, you can't go somewhere else. You cannot turn the train to the left. You cannot turn the train to the right. You cannot make the train go to that small house over there, you cannot take the scenic route or a shortcut, and you cannot just go around any obstruction. There is only one path. Even going back is an agonizing task: first you must slow the train, bring it gradually to a stop, and then begin moving it backwards. You cannot turn on a dime.

And so we meet Kuvira: a woman who, when we last saw her, was smiling as she bound Tonraq's wounds. Before that, she was fighting to protect Zaofu and rescue Korra; and when we first met her, she was a ballet dancer.

But now she is here. Racing along a track toward a single destination, unable to change its course, set on a path that she laid out years ago, but now actually has no power to change. As we see, she can slow her journey, stop it, and even step off...but she only does so to fight and keep moving along the path she chose.

Kuvira is locked in.

Whatever her noble intentions were in the beginning, she's now stuck on the path she built years ago. She's going to follow it to the end, unless someone makes her stop.

[wilcze-kudly]

Horrors. Horrors everywhere