#ATLA and TLOK text

[psychicandruins]

my dumbass can never be normal about shows. I always have to get stupid amounts of brainrot.

[ophelia-is-not-okay]

~Avatar The Last Airbender (Book II: Earth)

[dark-dragon-8]

Does anyone have any fic recs where Raava mourns losing Wan after Korra loses the connection to her past lives?

Since she said they'll always be together, I'd imagine that the change won't be all that easy on her. I really want to see a fic exploring her reaction, and how she now won't be able to be with the one human she promised to never let go of, the one who she probably loved the most.

Would she be angry at Korra? Would she understand? Would she even be willing to accept it? I don't know, but I do really want to read it.

[yuttikkele]

Ok so what I’m understanding is Roku and Sozin didn’t get together, Aang and Zuko didn’t get together, so with Korra the spirits were just like “third time’s the charm?”

[edsheerankinnie]

Ok so given the steampunk nature of tlok i think it would only be natural for the atla world to progress towards hyper scifi world after Korra

maybe i should write a fic on this lol

[gaybd1]

thinkin bout these gay airbenders

[prxship]

༅　kotoki honola , 14 , they/she , nonbinary

—　look alive, dreamer . . !

　　᯾　have you heard of kotoki honola? they’ve been known to be both eager to please and extremely shy, which isn't surprising since they remind me of cups of tea made just for their teacher, a collection of soft and clean clothes still warm from drying in the sun, and gentle, quiet airbending.

tws? '' grooming, age gap [adult/minor], power imbalance [teacher/student]

BASIC INFO

　full name: kotoki honola.

　nicknames: koko, derivative of first name, given by bolin. toki, derivative of first name, given by korra. koto, derivative of first name, used by tenzin only.

　age: fourteen.

　gender: nonbinary.

　pronouns: they/she.

　orientation: bisexual.

　language[s] spoken: english + spanish.

　voice / accent: american.

　temperament / mb: preserver + istj-t.

　alignment: lawful good.

　birthday / zodiac: august 28 + virgo.

　label[s]: tenzin’s apprentice.

APPEARANCE / PERSONALITY

　height: five feet, one inches.

　body type: slim + small.

　hair: mousy brown + fluffy. single white streak running through the front section. soft + usually messy.

　eyes: blue-grey. lighter towards the pupil, with long lashes. the left eye's lashes have a single section that is white, similar to their hair.

　usual expression: wide eyed + curious. always looking for their teacher, much calmer when with him.

　distinguishing features: white streak through hair and lashes. small air nomad symbol tattooed onto the back of their neck. freckles across their cheeks + shoulders.

　usual outfit: yellow short-sleeved kitadu shirt with orange accents + brown buttons. silky orange harem pants with extra wraps around the ankle area. red silk sash wrapped over the right shoulder + tied at the waist. brown leather sandals with two straps across the foot + one strap across the ankle.

　positive traits: quick learner, eager to help, soft spoken.

　negative traits: blunt, has difficulty understanding others' emotions, codependent relationship with tenzin.

HEADCANONS

　strained relationship with parents. when kotoki became an airbender after the harmonic convergence, their parents shipped them off to tenzin in order for them to learn to harness their abilities. kotoki had already been severely neglected beforehand, but after being sent away, contact between them and their parents ceased entirely.

　obsessed with tenzin. after arriving to train with the other newly awakened airbenders, kotoki and tenzin quickly developed a codependent relationship; kotoki made tenzin feel very important and powerful, and tenzin made kotoki feel cared for and special. the two gradually began to engage in a sexual and almost-romantic relationship. without any other form of support, kotoki began to obsess over tenzin, following him like a duckling and quickly becoming his "apprentice".

　friendly with korra + bolin. even though they aren't particularly close, kotoki is much friendlier and more familiar with them than anyone else, aside from tenzin of course.

plz send me asks abt them it took me ages to finish this...

[bumirang]

“So what’re ya thinkin’ fer supper?” asks Quyt into Akiya’s shoulder. Still in their work clothes, they’re snuggled up safely in their shared cot. Even without the security a door provides, it’s comfortable enough in the ladies’ bunkhouse. Shapes flicker like shadow puppets across the thin privacy curtain as other workers pass by, on their way to and from their own shifts. The evening is young, and there’s still plenty of money to be made, rubes to be had.

“Zaofu.”

“We’re better off savin’ up.”

“The monorail’s free while we’re in town. S’what I heard.”

“Hrmph…”

“C'mon! Zaofu has real food! Not just food; cuisine!” Akiya reaches up toward the ceiling with one hand, as if beseeching the heavens, and clenches her fist. “I swear, if I have one more deep-fried cabbage-on-a-stick, I'll barf myself to death.”

Quyt pushes herself up onto an elbow and smirks. “Fellas’d probably pay t’see that, actually.”

Akiya clenches her jaw to suppress a grimace. She doesn't do sideshows. Girls are always expected to get their tits out for extra cash, and hers have an exclusive engagement. Even shill work beats the sideshows. Before the ticket booth gig, her main job was tending the circus animals between sets. It was messy but straightforward, and none of the hog-monkeys ever asked her to take her shirt off.

“We can afford a night out. Look,” says Akiya, sitting up. She reaches into her jacket and pulls a tightly folded paper envelope from an inner pocket. As soon as it’s free, it pops open, sending loose change tumbling all over the cot. “Dangit!”

“Where’d ya get all that? Knock over a candy stand?”

Akiya snatches up a coin before it can roll off the edge and drops it back into the envelope. “Walk money, mostly. Not bad for a day’s work.”

“Mostly?”

“I found some of it on the ground.”

Quyt sits up and narrows her eyes.

“Hey, it’s not like I’m shortchanging anybody! If townies wanna leave a little cash lying around, it goes in my pocket, is all,” says Akiya. “Like a tip,” she adds with a shrug.

“Not so high ‘n’ mighty now, are ya?”

Akiya rolls her eyes. “I never said fortunetelling was wrong. I’d just feel weird lying to people like that.”

“You think that’s what I do all day?”

“You mean, what you do all day in the tent with the signs all over it proclaiming magical knowledge of the future?”

“That’s just some spooky showmanship. Gettin’ in their heads. Lettin’ their guards down.” Quyt cups her hands in front of her. “You think I’d get any customers if I walked up to ‘em holdin’ a bowl o’ oily water?”

“I dunno. I’d be curious.”

“Tell ya a secret,” says Quyt, leaning closer. Her big, turquoise eyes manage to gleam in the paltry light of their bunk. “The water’s the thing. The trick is gettin’ ‘em lookin’ at the shapes while I lookit them. You c’n tell a whole helluva lot about a fella if he doesn’t know he’s bein’ watched.” With a smirk, she leans back against the bunkhouse wall, and Akiya relishes the way her hair rustles like soft hay. “I tell ‘em what I see. Throw in a few educated guesses so they don’t feel cheated. They like it. They expect it.”

Akiya joins her girlfriend against the wall, shifting her weight carefully to avoid hurling loose coins off of the cot. “I seem to remember you telling that jerk-ass he was gonna have three kids. If that was an educated guess, then I’m a Dai Lee secret agent.”

Quyt giggles. “That was an outlier an’ shouldn’t be counted.”

[astridellejo]

I was trying to draw my Avatar TLA/TLOK OC and I just wound up drawing Korra again.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but not my goal. Sometimes I wonder if this is just my brain trying to tell me something.

[i-am-extremely-mad]

The same goes for m/akorra:

https://www.tumblr.com/i-am-extremely-mad/743336218209730560/queen-asami-korraspirit-i-thought-id-share

It's especially strange how some even in the korrasami fandom claim that Bryke made korrasami canon because they listened to the fans (while the haters claim that they did it for pandering and "brownie points") which is impossible unless they could see (almost 2 years) into the future. In the case of kataang, maiko, and korrasami, they became canon because they were parts of the story that the creators wanted to make.

"Zutara was robbed"

No?

Ship what you want, but atla writers don't owe you shit and they can draw/write whatever they want. Zutara was never meant to happen and they made it clear many times

This series doesn't revolve around you

[yuttikkele]

atla and tlok has to be the most queer thing forced into a heteronormative box I’ve watched in a while ngl

[edsheerankinnie]

why is everyone saying they killed korra what happened

[i-am-extremely-mad]

It's too late for that... 20 years since ATLA premiere and nothing changes...

avatar fandom I'm not so much holding your hand as I am anxiously gripping your shoulders when I say this: you need to start learning how to have a normal non-parasocial-adversarial relationship with the writers artists storyborders and actors of a thing you like STAT like start practicing RIGHT NOW do it NOW

[ecoterrorist-katara]

“Katara deserves a quiet life after the war, so becoming a healer (who made no contributions to the field) is actually a good arc!”

It is already bizarre to me that in ATLA, Katara is this confident & combative & ambitious girl who LOVED to fight and wanted nothing more than to help as many people as possible…then comics!Katara and TLOK!Katara showed neither her previous personality traits nor a career commensurate with those traits…

but it’s even more bizarre to me that ATLA fans would defend her trajectory as if it were some kind of progressive story of recovering from war trauma.

I’ve seen multiple takes like this. “Katara is not a YA heroine, she’s not a bloodthirsty girlboss who loves fighting so it’s actually a good thing that she doesn’t have to fight anymore” “after everything she’s been through she deserves a quiet life and a loving family”

For Katara, fighting in the war was actually empowering. It didn’t burn her out. It didn’t disillusion her. It didn’t take more out of her than she can give. Katara is not Katniss Everdeen, who needed to step back and discover her own agency and a sense of peace after fighting in a war she never chose to start. Katara’s war trauma largely happened before she took an active part in it. After she chose to be a part of the war, she became a waterbending master, made close friends, found her father again, got closure for her mother’s murder, defeated the Fire Lord, and met the love of her life. If Katara were a real person, maybe she’d be traumatized, but nowhere in the text of ATLA does she exhibit the sign that she’s tired of fighting on behalf of the world. If anything, she just got started.

If you take her post-ATLA arc at face value (vs as bad writing), it’s a tragedy of a woman who has learned to minimize her own relevance and her own power. In The Promise, she begins deferring serious decisions to Aang. She doesn’t even express a strong opinion about the fate of the entire colony of Yu Dao, or the fate of her friend Zuko. In North and South, she accepts Northern encroachment of the South in the name of progress. In TLOK we see her not as a politician or a chief, but rather as “the best healer” — albeit one who apparently never established a hospital, or trained acolytes of her own, or done anything to help people at scale, which she has always wanted to do. It’s even more egregious when you remember that in Jang Hui, she was not satisfied to simply heal the sick as the Painted Lady. She wanted to solve the root of the problem, so she cleaned the river and committed full-on ecoterrorism. Just because the war is over doesn’t mean she wants to stop helping people. In fact, the problem she addressed in Jang Hui is exactly the type of problem that would become more prevalent after the war ends, judging by the rapid industrialization between ATLA and LOK.

In the original ATLA, I think Katara is about as close to a power fantasy as you can get for a teenage girl, because she gets to be messy and goofy and powerful, even though she also had to perform a whole lot of emotional and domestic labour. But post-ATLA, she doesn’t get power and she doesn’t get to make a change. She gets love and a family. That’s it. And her grandkids don’t even remember her. Her friends and peers, on the other hand, were shown doing all sorts of super cool things like, you know, running the world they saved.

It’s not feminist to say that a female character deserves “rest” when she’s shown zero inclination that she wants a quiet life. Women who want a quiet life deserve to get it — I think Katniss’ arc is perfect — but women who want power deserve to get it too, especially when they’re motivated by compassion and a keen sense of justice. There’s nothing feminist about defending the early 2010s writing decisions of two men. Like just admit that they fucked up! It’s fine! Maybe they’ll do better in the future!

[theteashopgirl]

Happy birthday Katie Mattila!

Katie is the writer of the ATLA episodes The Tale of Zuko (The Tales of Ba Sing Se) and The Beach. She also worked on many episodes as a production assistant, production coordinator and assistant to writers. She co-wrote the commentary for Avatar Extras (with Joshua Hamilton) and wrote for the Nickelodeon Avatar magazines. Her work on TLOK includes writing the episodes Old Wounds, The Calling and co-writing Remembrances.

Katie Mattila is a comedy writer based in Los Angeles. She has written for numerous animated television series at Nickelodeon, Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and Amazon studios. She got her start on the Peabody Award winning Avatar: The Last Airbender. Her credits also include Emmy-Award winning shows The Loud House, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, The Casagrandes, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, for which she was nominated for an Annie award. Growing up, Katie, like a lot of kids, relied on television for guidance and to feel connected to the world. Today, she writes especially for kids like her.

(biography via IMDb)

When she's not writing, Katie can be found rewatching Dr. Katz, making up songs about her dog Cuma, traveling and connecting with people around the world, hiking in Griffith Park and marching for women's rights and climate justice.

(above text + photo via Roadmap Writers)

[beifong-brainrot]

✨️Quill's meta and other ramblings Masterpost✨️

I've decided to compile all my metas and longer posts into a list I'll pin to my blog, for easy access and for anyone who wants to go back and sift through my pretentious soapbox ramblings.

List of metas under the cut:

The Last Airbender

✨️Aang

The Avatar State as a Panic Attack

Aang as a McGuffin?

Aang's biases and comparison to Szeto

Aang's isolation

Aang's scars through the lense of a scarred person

✨️Katara

Katara's fear of loss and how it impacts her relationship with Aang Part 1

Katara's fear of loss and how it impacts her relationship with Aang Part 2

The Desert is one of Katara's strongest episodes

How Hama impacted Katara

Katara's parentification in the Runaway

Katara's forced maturity in the fandom

Katara's childishness is important

Katara's underrated impact in tlok

✨️Kataang defense squad Activities

Kataang through the female gaze

Kaatang's nonlinear development

The symbolism in Kataang

The Avatar State's place in Kataang

Anti Kaatang/Pro Zutara hypocrisies

Aang, Demeter and the girlbossification of Katara and Persephone

✨️ Defending Jetara as well

✨️Toph

Toph's story is a tragedy, actually

Toph's relationship with her father

Toph's reaction to Ba Sing Se and its rules

An extremely reluctant defence of cop Toph

✨️Zuko

Zuko's connections to the characters around him and why it's not all Katara

Zuko wasn't the good guy in B1 (and that's ok)

Talking about Zuko's scar as a burn victim

Zuko's Love Language- gift giving

✨️The Mai-nifesto

Mai's understated trauma

The evolution of Mai and her political stance

Quick rundown of Mai's growth up to and in "Ashes of the academy"

✨️Miscellaneous ramblings:

The Fire Nation's misogyny p1

The Fire Nation's misogyny p2

Across the Isle- Fire Nationals connecting with the victims of their nation

Ursa and Azula's estrangement

Azula's love language- quality time

The Blue Spirit/Blind Bandit parallels

My take on Azula in "Ashes of the Academy"

The Legend of Korra

✨️Weilin Propaganda:

Weilin Propaganda part 1

Weilin Propaganda part 2

✨️Bolin

Bolin's fawning trauma response

Bolin's lack of agency and his potential role as a weapon

Why Bolin stayed with Kuvira as long as he did

Bolin's relation to Earthbending

✨️Kuvira

Kuvira, the unsustainable empire and Stalin

Kuvira and rejection

Kuvira and her parallels to Putin

Kuvira's motivations

Kuvira and powerplays

Kuvira and seismic sense

✨️Suyin, my pookie

Adding context to Suyin's 'flaws'

Suyin's Coping Mechanism- Zaofu and family

Suyin is NOT a narcissist

The tragism of Suyin

The misogyny of Suyin hate

Suyin's combat skills

✨️Lin Beifong haterisms:

How Fanon Lin affects other characters

Lin's tumultuous relationship with Korra

✨️Opal is Queen

Lin should've left the police force

Lin being a bad Chief of Police

Opal hot takes

Opal's seperation from the Beifongs

Sapphic Opal propaganda

✨️ Thoughts on Huan

✨️Beifong Boogaloo

The Beifongs as superfeelers

Critiscisms of the Old Wounds episode

Strange structure of Suyin and Lin's feud

Baby Beifongs appreciation post

Lin and Opal parallels

Suyin and Kuvira parallels

Suyin and Kuvira's Crucial differences

Suyin and Baatar's reconciliation

Opal being Toph's favourite grandchild makes sense, actually

The "no wonder Tenzin broke up with you" comment

✨️Beifong twin miniseries

Sparring moment

Wei and trust falls

Reactions to Baatar

The Beifong twins are traumatised ♡

✨️Amon

The flaws of Amon's ideology

Amon's character driven story

✨️Prince Wu appreciation

✨️Mako

Mako's low self esteem and its relation to Kai

✨️Miscellaneous

Lin and Suyin paralleling Mako and Bolin

Mako and his relation to his family

Convergence Airbenders adapting to airbender culture

Tlok's Usamericanism in B4

Republic City's divide between Earth citizens and Fire nationals

Biases against Earthbenders in Republic City

Aiwei theory compendium

Tlok and women supporting women

Bolin and Kuvira's relationship

The Korpal agenda

Texts inbetween tlok and atla

Katara and Sokka paralleling Bolin and Mako

Lavabenders paralleling each other

The Gaang being parents did not ruin them

Azula vs Zuko and Kuvira in the matter of redemption

Sokka and Bolin- the tragedy of funny guys

Analysing the Avatar State

Tlok and atla on character motivation