#Historical Atlas

[ausetkmt]

Atlas of African-American History

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Building on the authoritative text of the first edition, ''Atlas of African-American History, Revised Edition'' chronicles the important cultural, historical, political, and social experiences of African Americans through the years.

Completely updated and revised, this fascinating book features numerous full-color maps - 18 of which are new - that engage readers with easy-to-grasp facts, figures, and images of everyday life. Ten new black-and-white photographs, eight new full-color photographs, and four line illustrations enliven the text.

Coverage includes: The dramatic 1839 journey of the Amistad, including its successful slave rebellion; The labor activism of Albert and Lucy Parsons, an interracial couple who led the eight-hour-day movement and the national railroad strike; The accomplishments of Matthew Henson, who, with Robert Peary, discovered the North Pole in 1909; The post - World War II influences that drove the economic rise of a new black middle class; analysis of how the cultural contributions of writers, actors, athletes, musicians, and other artists helped define American culture during the 1960s and 1970s; The rise of hip-hop and rap from a local South Bronx phenomenon into a powerful industry capable of launching other businesses.

The coverage also includes: Demographic profiles of the health, education, employment, income, spending habits, homeownership, and other benchmarks of African Americans, as well as how these compare with those of other Americans; The powerful role of theater, comedy, TV, and film in presenting and shaping the image of African Americans from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s; and The persistent social, racial, and economic issues that still confront America, as highlighted by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

[artist-ellen]

Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe

Finally in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of Book 1! We meet the wonderful Princess Yue and shenanigans ensue. I wanted the Northern and Southern Water Tribes to have related yet distinct tastes in fashion. Yue is still wearing a fantasy combination of Inuit/Yakut/Mongolian clothing but with a little bit of Great Plains Indigenous Regalia. Oh and her very important hair reference to Chinese "fairy maidens" (It's a Tang* Dynasty hairstyle associated with minor deities).

(Reoccurring disclaimer for this art series: This is for fun, they are inspired by the show's costume designs and then extrapolated out with historical fashion or things I think will be fun to draw. These are not meant to be accurate, only inspired. I hope you like them!)

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[noffri-slays]

The Monarch & the Ambassador; Zukka

This is a design of adult Zuko and Sokka as Fire Lord and a representative of the Watertribe. I took inspiration from different historic/indigenous cultures that fit the respective designs of the Water Tribe and Fire Nation.

Here’s a close-up of their upper bodies:

[animentality]

[taakitz]

ATLA (zukka….) au where everything is mostly the same except that the phrase “friend of the Avatar” is a euphemism for being gay, a la the phrase friend of Dorothy

(the phrase started towards the start of the 100 year war because in this universe Avatar Roku was some flavor of gay, then Sozin canonically banned gay marriage after their situationship went downhill. so people had to be more subtle about communicating their identities, something something something, the phrase became semi-commonplace throughout the fire nation and later the earth kingdom. maybe it started even earlier because of bi queen kyoshi. who knows!)

miscommunication and self-discovery ensues throughout the events of ATLA:

early on into his banishment and search for the avatar, Zuko runs into someone who casually mentions that they’re a “friend of the Avatar” and he’s immediately like “THE AVATAR IS ALIVE? WHERE ARE THEY. TELL ME”

…he learns a new phrase that day! perhaps he didn’t even know gay people existed until that awkward encounter (bc sheltered fire nation royal.) maybe he does some self reflection at this point, or perhaps he puts off his sexuality crisis in favor of his avatar hunting mission. who’s to say?

(the next time he hears someone say they’re “a friend of the avatar” he asks if they’re gay or if they actually know the avatar. you know, just in case they actually do.

….and the next time after that, too.

but after that he catches on pretty quickly that, no, it’s REALLY just a turn of phrase, and he does not repeat the mistake again.)

+ early into the series events sokka runs into some confusion when he mentions to a stranger that he’s a friend of the avatar while aang isn’t around—

sokka: hey so uhh i’m actually a friend of the avatar… think i can get a discount for that??

kindly ally shopkeeper: oh! i love that for you!! you know, i have a cousin who’s gay, real swell guy. anyways about the discount—

book one sokka, canonically sexist and with perhaps a fragile masculinity: what wait a sec, IM NOT GAY??????

shopkeeper: oh that’s okay, you don’t have to explain yourself or put a label on it to me (:

(sokka does in fact get a discount.)

he walks back to katara who was waiting for him and overheard the whole conversation, and she says “you know, sokka, it’s fine if you like boys.” sokka responds as you’d expect he would at this time.

(some amount of time later, sokka comes up to katara and aang very nervously and says “hey guys. i think i might. um. be a friend of the Avatar.”

and aang, confused but enthusiastic, goes “aww buddy, we’re already friends!!!!”)

at some point they’re fighting Zuko and during a back-and-forth exchange, Sokka proclaims “i won’t let you hurt him, the Avatar is my friend!” or something to that effect

Zuko, who has learned from his past mistakes in misconstruing this phrase, says “love is love. but your sexuality will not stop me from capturing the Avatar”

[likesdoodling]

Had the time to sit down and draw today and ended up doodling Zuko and Sokka (modern au style cause I wanted to >:D) ~ yeye

[slyandthefamilybook]

[escapismsworld]

Atlas and the burden of having to support the weight of the celestial globe on his shoulders.

[i-love-turtle-ducklings]

While everyone else is talking about the characters, their development etc., I can't stop thinking about these panels.

How does a country remember its own past crimes? Here we see the official line of the government and a Fire Nation citizen. While we don't know how common that teacher's opinion is I would assume that she represents the average Fire Nation citizen that hadn't actively participated in the war. And correct me, if I'm wrong, but I think it's the only time we see an average citizen from the Fire Nation state their opinion about how to remember the war and how to deal with the question of individual vs. collective guilt.

Idk, maybe I think about it so much because it reminds me of the history of my own family and country and how we deal with it. Or maybe because we see how certain countries try to rewrite their own history right now and most countries in general are quite happy to forget the negative parts of their history as quickly as possible.

When I'm looking at these panels, at that teacher being bothered that the history book claims that the war was started by the Fire Nation as a whole and seeing the guilt solely by Sozin… how she doesn't see herself responsible at all because she herself never invaded anyone… it's just like listening to someone from our right wing.

And of course you can argue about personal guilt. I understand people who think that you can't blame people in a repressive system for trying to stay safe and not standing up against the injustice. I can also understand people who think that the people who don't stand up against it, automatically support it and should be blamed for it. Both points of view have a point, but whatever conclusion you come to, it change nothing about the fact that all of the Fire Nation or whichever country in question bears a responsibility. And that starts with not teaching the children their history that only Sozin and nobody else did awful things.

I don't really know where I'm getting at. I never wanted to talk about politics on this blog, it was supposed to be my corner of escapism. So I'm not even going to start thinking about how children's view of the past is influenced by their parents as well as by school. But maybe this helps me to stop thinking about this nonstop.

[hiding-under-the-willow]

obsessed with ancient/stone age human culture (would have gone on to study it if life hadnt gotten in the way) and so your ghosts au bdubs has me chomping at the bit. what a brilliant and wonderful choice. i dont have a lot of coherent thoughts rn but i love love love the tags in the og post of your recent fanart of him and i hope to see more of him and i love to turn him around in my brain. & wanted to tell you that.

i also think sometimes about how long he spent alone in death before any of the other ghosts joined him and oh, my goodness. how, uh,, how do you think he's doing?

Ghosts AU Bdubs is so interesting to me bc I came in at the beginning mostly just basing him on the portrayal of Robin from the show, which I knew wasn't entirely historically accurate in the first place so I would probably want to go more in depth with him at some point, but I just hadn't taken the time to do the research necessary to actually go through with that development, and then this semester half of my classes these last few weeks have been discussing Paleolithic and Neolithic people and art and something just snapped in my brain and I was like. Ah. Okay. The potential there is crazy actually. So there'll definitely be more of him!! I'm like half using him as an excuse to explore the stuff I learned in my classes more in depth and half using the fact that I learned about this stuff in my classes as an excuse to finally go through and develop him the way I wanted. Symbiotic relationship or whatever.

Also yeah, that long ass gap of time where he was the only ghost around certainly has been bouncing around in my head a bit. I don't have. completely coherent thoughts about it at the moment. I certainly think he might've coped in similar ways to the way Robin does in the show, getting attached to the people living on the property, spending a lot of his time learning from them and talking to them even if they don't realize he's there. I think he probably would've been a much more serious figure in life, and also in the early days of his afterlife (I mean not completely, it's still Bdubs we're talking about lol, but still), that spending all that time alone might've unraveled him a bit. I feel like it's hard to get a definitive grip on like. Who he is. Some days he's kind of obsessive and neurotic, in everyone's business, easily worked up, other days he seems perfectly content to ignore the happenings of the house, just do his own thing out on the property. I feel like most of the other ghosts wouldn't know much about his life, or even his early afterlife, he doesn't talk about it much and when he does it's always some crazy one-off anecdote that doesn't let you in on much of what was actually happening at the time. I think, like Robin in the show, he probably has his moments of like complex emotional or social intelligence that seem kind of out of nowhere from an outside perspective until you think about how long he's been around to have observed and learned about the world, about people.

[autumngracy]

Literature recommendations for the coming days (Pt 98)

[artist-ellen]

Tylee

Thai fashion was a big inspiration for Tylee, but with a fictional/canon long braid. I was thinking about having a Thai fashion spotlight for Ember Island, but Tylee's first design was too strong too resist.

(Reoccurring disclaimer for this art series: This is for fun, they are inspired by the show's costume designs and then extrapolated out with historical fashion or things I think will be fun to draw. These are not meant to be accurate, only inspired. I hope you like them!)

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram, tiktok or check out my coloring book available now \ („• ֊ •„) /

https://linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

[krotiation]

i have like 3 different versions of how an arranged marriage rhysagawa au would go but i gotta at least throw the concept out there because it's gold 😤

[postcard-from-the-past]

Berber woman from the Atlas mountain range of Morocco

French vintage postcard

[plxnetatlaz]

A Kind of Magic inbetween acoustics🎤

After a few months of work, I’m pleased to reveal this piece I worked for @go-minisode-minibang, which is my version of them attending the 1985 Live Aid concert! Along this is a fic created by the wonderful Alex (@/rollinggaywriter on Ao3), we hope you enjoy some ineffable husbands fluff and longing, smitten stares🥺

Bonus: a bit of sketches I did for this era! Thought I’d do a bit more of a modern take for aziraphale’s 80s styling (just for the sake of the concert hehe)

[atlas-affogato]

Finn laced their fingers together, pushed his hand deeper into the bedding, and whispered against his skin, "I don't want a life out there if I cannot have you." Snapshots of Finn and Chow's time together in 1880s San Francisco.

Historical fic baby! The thing I've been rambling about for a year and a half is finally done! Topped out just around 20k, its a one-shot (second chapter is sources and possible meta) but it is finally done and posted!

Thank you @dlishpencils for giving me the motivation and the push I needed to finish it. You are a saint 😚💕

@quitealotofsodapop thank you so so much with your help with the Irish translation! 💕

And to everyone who ever expressed excitement for this fic or liked any of my rambles or excepts from this, I appreciate you, you mean the world to me 💕