#korra seemed lazy for everybody

[terriblygrimm]

just some ramblings but man what a letdown korra was in terms of aang’s family.

i dont even have anything actively AGAINST what they did (i’m not anti enough to care one way or another. it’s always been a net zero in my head - just there), but the more i re-think on aang’s family i just cringe. like why did they go that route. WHY does tenzin exist and his weird little kids. like why didnt they think of something more creative for growing the air bending culture than aang and katara having a bunch of generic kids lol???? like i literally don’t even have anything against kataang (i have my opinions on it, and i don’t ship it, but like it’s fine), but i swear they took the lazy way out. & it’s also implied in my perception if canon that aang and katara weren’t even that close later in life, and that aang was a somewhat absent father (avatar duties!) so like they tried to add some interest? but it just ended up being weird. it’s all very nuclear western family. could’ve done way more.

i just personally ignore that side of canon and make my own headcanons (like that they fell out of puppy love, but out of deep mutual respect for one another had an agreement to have kids to further the air nation). but anyway i wish they did better. hopefully the 2025 film will elaborate on their situation and make it have more depth.

[zukkaoru]

i was tagged by @zukosaturtle-duck and @oldpotatoe to answer 30 questions (and also technically tag 20 people but i will not be doing that) so here we go!!

1. name/nickname: grace! and i don’t really have a nickname

2. gender: female

3. star sign: leo

4. height: 5′2″ (ish)

5. time: 1:58 pm

6. birthday: august 9

7. favorite bands/groups: the crane wives

8. favorite solo artist: taylor swift, chloe moriondo, mxmtoon

9. song stuck in my head: ivy by taylor swift

10. last movie: i don’t remember. i don’t watch a lot of movies so it might’ve been when i watched the polar express with my family on christmas eve 

11. last show: the legend of korra!! i just finished it saturday actually

12. when did i create this blog: technically like back in 2017(?) because i was really into The Librarians and tumblr was really the only platform with a fanbase. i’ve come and gone since then but i rebranded into a mostly atla blog back in september after a good year of telling myself i wasn’t ever going back to tumblr

13. what do i post: mostly atla. probably more tlok too now that i’ve finished the show but it is zukka brainrot hours 24/7 here. i reblog some things from my other fandoms but i won’t list them all here

14. last thing i googled: the song everybody wants you by billy squier bc my dad was guessing what year it came out

15. other blogs: okay technically i have at least one other tumblr from like middle school/early high school that i never deactivated but i will not be linking it for obvious reasons

16. do i get asks: i do when i reblog like ask games and stuff & i’ve gotten a few about my fics but i wouldn’t say i regularly get them. my ask box is always open though so if you feel inclined to ask me something, go right ahead!

17. why did i choose this url: gonna be honest. it was a spur of the moment decision. my old one was arcadiaannex (for tales of arcadia/the librarians) and i wanted this to become an atla blog so i basically just made it the first thing that came to mind, which was zukka (obviously) and then the clawthorne is for eda clawthorne from the owl house because i love her

18. following: idk and i’m too lazy to go check

19. followers: 198

20. average hours of sleep: 7? 8? idk

21. lucky number: 23

22. instruments: i played clarinet in middle school

23. what am i wearing: black adidas pants and a blue and white tie dye print hoodie

24. dream job: author or a writer for a tv show

25. dream trip: probably like iceland or the netherlands

26. favorite food: ice cream

27. nationality: american

28. favorite song: i don’t have a favorite so i will just list some that i like a lot: drive from the lightning thief musical, secret for the mad by dodie, long live by taylor swift, i wanna be with you by chloe moriondo, miss americana & the heartbreak prince by taylor swift, curses by the crane wives

29. last book read: honestly i do not remember. i think it was george by alex gino

30. 3 fictional universes you’d like to live in: hmmmm okay well by rule i have to say the percy jackson and the olympians universe bc come on. i would die in two days but it would be fun. it would also be pretty cool to live in the atla verse bc bending just seems like so much fun. and lastly i will go with the she-ra universe bc that also seems like it would be super cool

tagging: @that-was-anticlimactic @shipaycon @tysukis @aemnias @iamsaltymcclellan @innagetawaycar and whoever else wants to do it (as always - don’t feel obligated to do it. also i didn’t check to see if any of you have already done it/already been tagged so if you have just ignore this)

[bekahdoesnerdshit]

Playlist: Rainivere

Alternate Title: I Lost My Ability To “Feel” Twelve Levels Ago (No I Didn’t)

Are Things Still Burning by Em Harris

I can't imagine life on earth now. And I just want to know is my bedroom still there, is it still standing. Is the tree that I planted still there in the backyard. I want to know are things still burning, still burning.

This song isn’t so much about the lyrics as setting the general tone for the playlist. The dark indie sorta vibe, the heaviness, the rhythmic trombone and drum, the almost lazy way the singer drifts between notes, the slow start that ramps up into the rest of the song, it’s all good shit! Could I tell you what this song is actually about? No! But the vibes. The Vibes!! Pitch perfect for the start of Raini’s playlist.

A Little Wicked by Valerie Broussard

No one calls you honey, when you're sitting on a throne Beware the patient woman, 'cause this much I know No one calls you honey, when you're sitting on a throne

This is the “I’m a bastard! Did you forget?” song! It builds off the heaviness of the last song while adding a twist of “I act like hot shit because I am hot shit” that I just felt like really fucking nailed Raini’s general contempt for anyone who isn’t one of the like ten people she knows and tolerates. Also! It represents (especially hypothetical early level raini’s) drive to and unshakable belief that she would succeed at becoming powerful enough to become a god. No one calls you honey when you’re sitting on a throne, and no one says shit to you when that throne is in the upper planes, bitch! 

Deep Green by Marika Hackman

Just because I love your skin Doesn't mean I'll jump in The water's clean and warm and green I'm not allowed to swim I'm scared of getting in

First of all, again, vibes. Is Raini’s playlist 75% vibes? Maybe so. But they’re structural vibes so they have to stay or the whole playlist won’t be up to code, so. Once again, I couldn’t for the life of you tell me what this song is about. But I’m sorta starting to think that may be a problem between me and indie stuff instead of the songs in particular. I love again the laziness in the singer’s voice, as well as the eeriness of the backing vocals and the instruments, and like not to beat a dead horse about it but vibes!! Hello.

Come What May by The Last Bison

Come what may we will always be the same. You and I Shall remain in every way, so will I

You know the first of all at this point (it’s “vibes”) so let’s just skip to the second of all. Is it uhhh. Friendship time? In literally THE most haughty, roundabout way? Maybe so! “Hey I do have an aesthetic to maintain but. I do care about you. Technically.” Like the chorus is literally such an intense declaration of devotion, but it takes a hot minute to get to it and the second verse picks up immediately after it, moving the song quickly along. And I think between that and how intense the claim/music is, it’s the only possible way Raini could tell someone she’s in it for the long haul with them. You know who you are. Keep scrolling.

Don’t Fall in Love by Wake Child

Though I know I can't stay There's a price i may pay Baby don't fall in love while I'm away

Finally!! It’s a fucking BANGER in here boys!! And you know what it’s about. Sometimes you’re a hot and sexy and sexual pirate, and you travel a lot. Sometimes you’re a hot and sexy and sexual wizard/adventurer, and you travel a lot. Sometimes you and said pirate/wizard are dancing around each other in the longest, dumbest, horniest type of courtship imaginable, and sometimes you get deep enough into it where you’re like. Invested. In the other person. But you’re still not far enough into it where you can admit that you’re invested. So you. So you uh. So you? Silently pray that they don’t find somebody they like more than you in between your -admittedly more and more frequent- “accidental” run-ins? Because, boy, you’ll feel foolish if it turns out you’re the only one catching feelings. Best to just keep your mouth shut and hope for the best!

Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde

We will find you Acting on your best behavior Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world

I would like to personally thank that one Legend of Korra amv that was super popular on tumblr like four years ago for putting this song on my radar. Thank you, Korra. As always: point one, vibes. Point two, VIBES for a character’s who ultimate goal at the beginning of her arc was to become powerful enough to become a god. Point three, VIBES again for a party of level 20 demigods who wield unimaginable power and can stand up to and defeat archdevils and fake gods and universe devouring planar systems and win. Listen to like the last minute of this song and tell me you can’t see a montage of the party shredding the not-mystra and the Abeast and the giant radiant eel and like, listen. It’s sexy. I’m not ashamed to admit it: this song Fucks.

I’m Tired, You’re Lonely by Liza Anne

And if I was a softer person I could give you the kindness you are deserving But I'm not And maybe that's just it

Raini doesn’t know how to process or express her emotions again we GET it do we really have to keep doubling down on this 😪 Obviously the answer is yes, we do. This is the “hey we just got back from hell without any memories, and I don’t know how to process the fact that this is obviously upsetting to the tiefling who flew halfway around the world overnight on little more than a vague sending, made out with me in our front hall, then painted our relationship as ‘glorified booty call’ but also seems to know everything about me” song. You know, that one song every playlist has. Because like! Obviously there was some tension and hurt between every party and their significant other when we came back sans memories, but I feel like there was still efforts made by both parties to reach for the other despite this sudden distance, you know? And Raini just, did not do that. And neither did Ecstasy really, and who can blame her? Morgan and I talked about it (I think ahah) and there was like a non-zero chance that they split up over this memory loss thing! They didn’t of course, but this song captures the mid-campaign tension of “...well, shit. I don’t know what our relationship actually is”.

Lover, Don’t Leave by Citizen Shade

I've said that love is just a word The idea seems absurd That one can give more than they take Away from me  Woah, and then came you

Okay YES technically this playlist only has two themes and it’s 1) “Raini is a badass level 20 wizard” and 2) “Raini has never processed an emotion in her life”. What do you want from me. Now I know we don’t say the L word on this blog (l*ve, obviously. Not Lesbians) BUT we have to make an exception for this song because a) it’s heartbreaking and b) I mean. Come on. Sometimes you go into your adult life convinced you’re more than enough for yourself and that you don’t need any kind of romantic attachment to slow you down, and then sometimes you meet someone who can not only keep up with you, but makes you maybe want to linger? And then, of course, you do your best to blow it and push them away because you’re you and that’s what you do. And you’re not great at apologizing and, well, we already talked about how close they maybe came to splitting up in game. There’s definitely a universe where that happened. 

Boy Who Has Everything by Annika Bennett

I just wish there was something he needs Some beautiful thing I could be To keep him from seeing the worst in me

Hey guys what if we took that “he” and maybe we... made it a “they”?? what might happen then.... Uh oh.......uh oh.....uh oh!!! Although the singer probably intended this song to be about a romantic relationship, in this playlist this song is about Raini looking at her party and going “.....well, fuck. Why am I here?” She’s an asshole! She’s not a pleasant person, and she knows it. And she’s looking at a group of people who really, really seem to have it together re: being a person. And aside from just the fact that they’re all, at the very least, personable, she knows that she owes them more than she knows how to put into words for what she did to them, without their permission. But it’s fine it’s cool she’s definitely just actually this much of an asshole 24/7 it’s not a defense mechanism or anything ahahahah :))

In the End by Marcus Warner

We’re DONE being emo it’s time to circle back to “Raini is a badass do NOT forget it”. This is our instrumental for this playlist! It starts out lowkey, and builds in power and confidence as it goes, and while the main melody never changes the addition of the timpani and the low brass REALLY brings another layer to the song that makes it driving and intense and I Love it. It’s pretty, yes, but there’s also an underlying power and focus that I feel like reflects Raini very very well. And! It’s an incredible song to picture her casting to! Raini standing, feet planted, arms outstretched, hair and robes whipping around her as she casts spell after spells at enemies that are just out of view, the camera starting low and slowly spinning around and coming up until it’s at eye level and she’s staring straight into it-- YES I’m still obsessed with the imagery of this campaign. Keep scrolling. Thank you for reading. I love you.