#avatar the last airbender

[reconstructwriter]

#but just...yeah it is crazy how pretty much *every* Disney bad guy of my childhood#got killed - sometimes in pretty gruesome ways#Scar? Devoured by his own hyenas#Clayton? Strangled / Hung#Ursula? Impaled#Gaston? Fell screaming to his death#Come to think of it Ja'far escaped death in the first Aladin movie - he was defeated by being tricked#into wishing himself into a lamp - which is exactly how a clever street rat like Aladdin would defeat someone#that Steven Universe - a show that was from Day 1 always about either containing ''monsters'' that couldn't help themselves#from hurting others...or befriending gems that tried to kill you#is it any surprise Steven did the same thing with the Diamonds?#is it childish? a bit unrealistic? sure#it's a kid's show what do you expect?#but you know what else it is? Like Aladdin tricking Ja'far - it's 100% a Steven way to defeating your enemies:#make them not your enemies anymore

YES to all of this! It's sad (and scary) we're so inundated with punitive justice that restorative justice gets such a backlash. Especially when restorative justice or even the villain just not dying is more realistic to the characters, narration, story-tone and even the karmatic defeat of the villains themselves!

To me Steven Universe's defeat of the Diamond Authority is far more satisfying than if he'd killed them because it fits his character and the narration and the tone. If the Diamonds had fallen tragically to gravity like in Disney? Eh, it would've felt cliche and weird for the story.

This describes far better than I could why the Avatar ending is the

perfect one! And heck Jafar's defeat is so much better than if he'd fallen off a cliff or whatever to his death. It's in-character for both, its karmatic, its satisfying.

Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

[sillybillylulu]

Dec 20 death trope @tyzula-week

I cooked so hard it started burning (lame pun intended)

Jokes aside I think the saddest part of drawing this was not adding a highlight into ty lees eyes

[psychicandruins]

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

[whatifitookalilnap]

Korra deserves all the love:

[elf-callum-human-rayla]

I actually screamed

[bluespiritshonour]

modern AU maiko

design credit goes to @femcelazula ; looks like they've deactivated. i was excited to show this to them.

[kknath2011]

My cabbage!

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

[fanonical]

avatars have weird phantom limb type memories from their past selves

korra keeps forgetting to brush her hair because she thinks she's bald

[paxcallow]

aangs

[ghxxuls]

Happy holidays everyone!

Going to try and be more active on here, I feel like I’ve abandoned this site for too long😖

Little doodles on the drawing done by the avatars👇👇

Also can someone tell me why the pictures I upload always turn out blurry when I upload I literally don’t get it😪

[pechuyu]

Azula gets some company during the long nights in prison

[samtamdan]

you were gay?!

[dustsilog]

Best collab 🥺

[presidentmort]

The bottom photo on the left lol. I literally live for this. I found this 20 seconds ago.

Doodles de Avatar q hice a las 2 de la madrugada ekis de

[whatifitookalilnap]

Korrasami you will always be famous: