#Fire and Ash

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Avatar 3 D23 musings and analysis

Images drop on some BIG screens at D23 seems like!

First off, great new looks and close ups of Varang!

First off it's super dope. Look at her fingers! Looks like she's wearing claws (bone? forbidden metal? body mods). The notches on her belly and legs also look like potential scarifications!

Stuff I want to scream about on a personal level: The tswins... I made my Txepiva (ash Na'vi) fan clan to be warrior like, living in more desertic areas, and cutting queues as part of warfare. I also recently made a sketch to illustrate an idea to a friend that they may wear these queues in a bandolier tied to shoulders and hips as a show-off.

My Txepiva also have bare tail tips, and Varangs fits this too in this art, though I'm sure it's just the light rendering technique. If not, then I should apply for a job on the brainstorming team lmao.

Though I appreciate the idea of warfare and tswin cutting, I want to point out it's also possible that she's not actually wearing the tswin of her enemies, or at least not in the "this is how we kill other Na'vi" way.

The others around her are in obscuring and impractical headdresses, and this looks like a ritual. IMO it's very possible that the tswin she wears are that of ancestors, or old leaders, great warriors, or even enemies, collected and rebraided to create this distinct look. I particularly think it'd make sense for it to be made of the hair of past leaders and worn as a sort of crown, as nobody else is rocking that look in the image.

Next we have her weird not-an-ikran.

Glorious beast with 10 winglets where ikran have 4. It also has mouth frills, jaw frills, and a spike over its head, making it closer to stingbats in that area. Here's a super obvious comparison with an enlarged stingbat picture:

So their mount probaby evolved independantly from ikran. Would be fun if they also have poison.

Another FUN detail : GUNS!! Does it look like guns? Could be recoms then, Lyle, Q , and some new red shirt recoms... or could be Omatikaya wil RDA guns...

But for real, there are only two types of Na'vi with guns: the Omatikaya clan and the recombinants. Given past images in leaks ((remember this?))

It's most likely that the people interacting with Varang are going to be recoms and not Jake's people. BUT who knows where the plot will go. If it's recoms, I'd looove to know if it's 3 moffos because Q+Lyle+Mansk, or if we're getting new recom red shirts or what.

Then we have views of air ships, so we're getting to see the promised Wind Traders, with Neytiri in the forefront, and the Man'o'war inspired floaters being pulled by sky manta ray...

Not much to say about those. I just hope we get some high definition version released online soon.

If this reignites your hype for Avatar, go vote in this poll!

There's 20h left to vote, and I think we could all benefit from an event around december 2024, to pass the time before fire and ash's big dropin 2025.

[recom-week]

RETURN TO PANDORA MONTH!

Our tag is #Return to pandora / #returntopandora

This year, we will be running a casual avatar event during the whole of December! 1st to 31st.

We are giving you 30 prompts (gen, nsfw, and tropes), as well as 7 alternate prompts which are "Fan Clan" focused. Pick and mix as you please, use any of your own as well.

There are no set days for this month, prompts come in any order.

Main prompts:

Combat — Tsaheylu — Sick fic/art Memory — Punishment — Reverse AU Eywa — Shibari/Bondage — Gender Swap Flying — Body Worship — Crossover Revenge — First Time — Modern Earth AU Food — Human/Na'vi Pairing — Fix it Visit — Edging — Whump or H/C Gifts — Voyeurism — Enemies to Lovers Medicine — Sex Pollen — Soulmates AU Awakening — Jealousy — Actors AU

Fan clan prompts:

New Biomes Fan-Clan Lore New Lab Creations Mount Designs Different Na’vi Types New Animal Companions Humans (RDA or Others)

You can start creating now, but please save your work to post in December, when we will start reblogging submissions. The AO3 collection will open on the 1st of December.

You can submit any medium. All characters are welcome, including OCs. You can work exclusively on recombinants, or your own clans, or spend the entire month crafting speculative meta for Avatar 3. You could make a month long comic, or share a progress-journal of your efforts crafting a cosplay. If it spreads the avatar love, we'll have it!

Our goal is to keep the Avatar fandom alive and the A3 hype going!

If you have questions, please check the rules and FAQ, or send us an ask.

Rules | Twitter | AO3 Collection | FAQ

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Okay so since the concept art for avatar 3 has come out everyone has been pointing out Varang’s “kuru necklace”

I personally don’t think she takes the Kurus of certain clan members or her enemies but maybe instead the Kurus of past clan leaders who have passed

But if she does maybe take the Kurus of clan members I think, looking at the image. It could be a cool/really scary horror concept. Maybe since their Kurus are basically their neural systems to connect to Eywa maybe it makes them disabled in a way. Like they kinda start to lose motor function and they become pale and sickly. Maybe she makes them wear masks like in the art up there and she wears their Kurus. It could be like clan members who try to disagree with her ways or who try to stop whatever she’s doing. Or maybe who try to escape. She makes them her like servants or whatever? Maybe she has this kind of need for control and enjoys seeing others suffering.

Look I really don’t think that the case and it’s either not Kurus or just the Kurus of past clan leaders who have passed because not only does cutting off a Kuru disconnect them from Eywa and any form of bond they could have (which is the whole Na’vi way no matter the clan) but it’s also extremely painful and mostly leads to death and they’re very lucky to survive something like that. It could also probably do damage apart from death such as disability (paralysis, becoming a vegetable of sorts, stuff like that) and if she did do that the clan members could easily overtake her and kill her and I highly doubt they would all be okay with her just torturing her people because she can because Na’vi are very compassionate, caring and headstrong creatures. They would definitely not let that happen. Also if other clans hear of this they would most definitely stop her. She’s only one person. The reason one person in power works with humans is because of technology, and money. We can make people do what we want with money, or a threat of a lack of money, we can easily use certain technologies to do other things they can’t

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The third installment in the James Cameron's Avatar film series is titled Avatar Fire and Ash.

The film is slated to hit theaters on December 19, 2025.

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The Ay'Amhul Navi have their own version of what Eywa look like. They also think of her to be an androgynous being who constantly changes into animals or even other Navi. But they deeply believe that she mainly takes the form of a woman. They have shrines around the forest and a temple which have a small statue of her. (I based her on Ix Chel, the Mayan Goddess of fertility, physical love, weaving, and the moon.)

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James Cameron’s introduction to Avatar Fire and Ash at Disney Expo! (Link to video on X, below)

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Just call me Nosta-friggin-damus!

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James Cameron’s ‘Avatar 3’ officially titled ‘Fire and Ash’

The visual spectacle film franchise ‘Avatar’ has got its official title for the third part. Director James Cameron and stars Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington revealed the first official title for the film during the D23 exp: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’.

While Cameron didn’t preview any footage, he did showcase some concept art from the film, including Neytiri (Saldana) dancing over flames and riding banshees, reports Variety.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

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Never mind someone spotted a real baldie with a bazooka that HAS to be Lyle...

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The results are here! + A new Mod!

And adding the twitter poll :

Twitter only fans may be surprised by the outcome, but I safely think this all adds up to a general Avatar event, instead of one restricted to just recoms.

The good news is: recom character are indeed included, so you could enter only your recom OCs if that's what you want to do!

Please also welcome @knarme-stray as co-mod of this blog for this event, and hopefully more!

So we will be working on defining this new event a bit more and thinking about prompts, then we'll get back to you all and start polling for dates.

If you have any suggestions, ideas, preferences, or prompts you'd like to see, please feel free to send them by Ask.

We'll see you all very soon.

[werothegreat]

pump Avatar 3 directly into my veins

[stil-lindigo]

scorched earth.

a comic about a princess who died in a fire.

(this is a sequel to bite of winter, a comic about Snow and what became of her after her death.)

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What if the reason Tsu'tey is in "Fire and Ash" is because we know at the end of "Next Shadow" that his parents go to live with "clans out in the ashes" and so Tsu'tey has to mentally project in to tell them to go get his mom

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Even More Ay'Amhul Clan facts/hc

The reason why they cremate their deceased, is because the humans they used to interact basically grave robbed their deceased family members. They stole a bunch of skulls and bones. They're asked many times if they could get them back, but the humans never did.

They also do a lot of sacrifices during the winter, so that the disease from years ago doesn't come back. Also for good luck and a good harvest in the winter. (They do get snow but due to the volcanic areas they live in, it melts fast.)

They have their version of the 'xoloitzcuintli'. They're similar to the viperwolves, except they're a brown color or black. Also a bit smaller. They're good companions and also partake in healing rituals. Since they believe it has some kind of healing purposes. They also believe that the dogs help guide their owners into the afterlife.

Ones a person dies, their Ahuizotl ends up dying days later. Due to the lack of being with their owner. They believe it's because they wish to go with their owner and keep them company.

They also have xolotl/axolotls, they roam around the rivers, they think that the small amphibians bring good health and potentially healing. At times they're kept as pets and kept in the home.

They used to have books and other records they'd store in their makeshift library but the humans burned all their books and scrolls as a form to piss them off.

During a new year, they jump over a fire as a way to get rid of any sickness or bad luck. So that they can welcome good luck and good health that year. (This one is based on the Persian new year tradition).

When it comes to moon dancers, they tend to wear skirts which have a ring of fire at the bottom of the skirt and it's lit on fire. (Also based on the Persian fire dance known as Sama, I think).

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Red Sun in the Evening.

Last week smoke and ash from fires in western Canada made for some very unusual lighting conditions. Driving around Strasburg, Pennsylvania, Kris and I observed the sun as red globe descending into a greyish evening sky. This seemed unworldly. I wanted to capture this effect, and selected a location off Blackhorse Road, near where I’d photographed trains a couple of days earlier. This provided…