#lok is trash

[jade-of-mourning]

thinking about how korra is the last avatar of wan's era and the first avatar of her era

and thinking about how the southern air temple sanctuary avatar statue spiral always would've been completed with korra in the center of it, the 183rd avatar

and thinking about how the temple signals as though it was always destined to be this way, that korra was always meant to be the inflection point of eras, and how she heralded the world down this path forged all by herself through her sheer power and spirit, bridging the worlds and forever changing its landscape. she did that! she both opened the old portals and created a new portal in the first 21 years of her life, in opposite of her predecessor 10,000 years ago, and she brought back the air nation despite her tumultuous heart, and she sacrificed so much of herself to ensure their survival. she is so full of love and compassion and care and she has given so much of herself to the world. and she is the starting point for the the new avatars after her and there is so much that she alone can give them

[marching-weirdo]

"zukos character arc is best-

"no aangs flirting skills are-"

"You forgot sokkas hair-"

YALL FORGOT KORRA

SHE WENT FROM THIS

TO THIS

AND STILL GIRLBOSSED HER WYA THROUGH EVERYTHING WHILE ALSO FINDING LOVE AND GAINING BACK THAT MUSCLE!

she also showed a lot of people, like me, that mental health recovery isn't linear. like, girl, that show has problems BUT DAMN IT IF IT ISNT BETTER THAN MoST THINGS YOU SEE

[officialrailscales]

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[giisip]

Team blue getting crunk at Korra and Vi’s house party.

[innsjovide]

huge pet peeve of mine is if you kill off a beloved character in fanworks (or like. actual works if its the canon story) or even suggest it, no matter what narrative significance this might have on the story being told, you'll suddenly be flooded by a billion people being like 'NO U CANT KILL THEM THEYRE IMMORTAL THEYLL LIVE FOREVER THIS IS WRONG'

[pathogenrot]

many apologies to @theinvisiblekunst for giving you your birthday gift an year after your birthday but here you go 💞💞💞

may this bumsuko pool noodle never sink 🔥 and everyone go check out near you and leave nice comments

[vicontheinternet]

Tbfh I feel that so much of the ship wars could've been avoided by the fandom if they acknowledge that polyamory was a thing and made korra/mako/asami a trio in their fan works inside of trashing one only to uplift the other

[xhatake]

hey hey hey. like this & i'll shoot some memes your way while i get ready for the day!

[purpleparrot]

you know a ship is good when one character caresses the other character's face and that somehow feels more intimate than them having sex

[fanfic-lover-girl]

This is very insightful. I never saw Aang as a leader - that role was always Sokka's (and Zuko's). But as an Avatar, he does play a diplomatic leadership role. The issue is that Aang is a preteen who grew up pretty sheltered so he was not forced to become a leader like Sokka or Katara. I wish LOK showed how Aang developed as a leader. But that show was trash anyway...so we will never know.

I feel like I don't harp on Aang's lack of leadership skills enough. I can already hear people cracking their knuckles to type out some long diatribe about how it's unfair to judge Aang's leadership because he's a kid. Let me stop you right there. As with his lack of respect for consent and his lack of preparation to deal with Ozai, his age is irrelevant because the framing of Aang would have us believe that he's right. The show wants us, the audience, to see Aang as clever and wise beyond his years. To say I can't be too hard on Aang because he's a child flies directly in the face of what the writers intended. So, step away from the keyboard and let me finish, alright?

Bet.

When I think of Aang as a leader, the episode that comes to mind is The Great Divide. Someone recently brought this up to me as an example of Aang being a Trickster type. I disagree. I think Aang is more of an Innocent than a Trickster, but I get how someone might see him as either *. It doesn't make him a great leader, in any case. In fact, it supports my theory that he's a bad leader. His actions in TGD show that he is far more interested in taking the easy way out than in any real sort of conflict resolution, which in a world looking for guidance post war is...not a great attitude to have. This is the most egregious example of his lack of conflict resolution skills, but it's not the only example of this. He also looks for the easy fix when Katara and Toph are fighting (although, this is interestingly actually framed as a misstep for him. A box of Mars bars to Bryke for that, I guess). It would be fine if this was acknowledged as a short-coming in him, but the way TGD ends, it's supposed to make Aang look clever. (P.S. there's NO way those groups didn't go right back to fighting, because that's not how conflict works).

Bryke could have left that alone and just have more examples of Aang being a good leader in the rest of the series or in the comics, but seeing as they don't seem to understand why Aang isn't the wonderful person they frame him to be, I get why there's not a whole lot of growth in him. Speaking of the comics, remember that time that Aang jumped on board with anti-miscegenation without considering the consequences? Remember how the only reason he changed his mind is because he would be personally affected by it? Yeah...

So, in the comics, Aang meets a group of wanna be Acolytes who studied Air Nomad customs and wanted to actually live them out. They shaved their heads and painted on some tattoos, and Aang was all about it...until he realized that it wasn't paint, they had actually gotten the tattoos, and at that point, he feels insulted. Mind you, he wasn't insulted about his culture being used as cosplay. He was mad that they misunderstood the significance of the tattoos and in their misguided attempts they did something they weren't supposed to. I'm not saying he was wrong to be upset, per se, I'm just saying that cultural appropriation is probably something that the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender are out of their depths on. Well, this incident sours him on the idea of mixing cultures and in his anger, he jumps right to anti-miscegenation.

Let me repeat that. Avatar Aang, who is supposed to represent all peoples, got angry at some well-intentioned, but severely misguided girls, and decided that the solution would be to support policies that would literally tear apart families. Then he only walked that back because he wouldn't be able to keep Katara. It wasn't him realizing how much damage he would do to other people. It wasn't him understanding that the issue he's trying to solve requires more delicate handling than simply saying "everyone go back to where you came from". It was his selfishness that saved the day (sort of? I think annexing a part of the Earth Kingdom to make pseudo-New York was...questionable at best).

These are the two biggest, if not only examples of the type of leader Aang is. In both cases, his solution had more to do with him, his personal convenience, his feelings, than any thought of how best serve the people looking to him to lead. They are not presented as issues with his leadership, highlighting the ways he needs to grow into his role. The solutions he comes up with are presented as examples of his cleverness and wisdom, but actually, they just show how he leads based on what's best for him. The people of Planet Avatar ** are subject to Aang's whims and how much work he feels like putting in on a given day. But the people he's leading are supposed to think he's a Big Dang Hero. In a better written story, this would be the beginning of a villain arc.

*(btw, it is still The Year of Content ™️©️®️, so probably expect another post in the future about why I think Aang is more in line with the Innocent than the Trickster. Maybe. We'll see...)

** (is there a name for that world in the fandom? Can we come up with one? Planet Avatar is incredibly lame.)

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Make Rohan a Bender but NOT an AIRBENDER

I know Pema wants Rohan to be a non-bender like her. But what would be cool is if he turned out to be a WATERBENDER.

Imagine how happy Katara would be! Kya it seems will never settle down and give Katara a grandkid. And Bumi became an airbender due to that dumb harmonic convergence crap (screw Korra btw). Rohan being a waterbender would force Tenzin to acknowledge the water tribe part of his heritage for once! Also maybe Katara could teach Rohan too :). Katara deserves to have a waterbending grandkid damnit and to be more involved in her own freaking family! Give LOK Katara some love please!

[jade-of-mourning]

yue bay district's night market [x]

flat colors & shading! (because i liked the colors haha)

i'm gonna go die now bye

[whatifitookalilnap]

Another rant post because I do not have self control but let me tell you about my thoughts on the LOK love triangle because there’s SO many!

So I will be super honest rewatching season one and two of LOK can get painful when I have to deal with the love triangle given how unnecessary it is. I thought to myself “I am so sick of this middle school drama” and then I realized.

Korra, Mako, and probably even Asami, are all basically middle schoolers in teen bodies. STAY WITH ME NOW!!!!

Now we all know my girl Korra was locked up like a sad little prisoner her entire life until the events of LOK. Obviously, she doesn’t know shit about relationships so social etiquette are so out the window.

We don’t know as much about Asami’s upbringing to my knowledge but she isn’t seen to have any friends outside of the Krew. I imagine being the only child of a big time engineer gets pretty rough. It’s very possible Asami grew up with very few friends, if any at all, so she’s also not entirely sure how to navigate we feelings or relationships.

Now Mako. My stupid, grouchy, edgy little guy. This boy has one hundred percent eaten trash out of a dumpster before. My mans was quite literally fighting for his and his brother’s life since he was a kid. He may have physically been around people, but it’s not enough to gain actual knowledge about actual social situations.

Granted, I fear Mako was in the wrong like 95% of the time bro was not about that committed life, but both Korra and Asami had their faults too. I think they’re all just a little silly!!!

And Korrasami being canon is the best possible ending-

[taonpest]

No but fr Kain wasn't meant to be sexy at all imo. You see all these gorgeous vampires in media, with long long gorgeous hair and sexy outfits and then there's Kain who looks like an aye aye covered in dirt and I live for that.

I really like Kain's concept art from blood omen. He's like 3 wet possums in a black armor.

[shadelorde]

legend of korra fandom: I like legend of korra :) it has its flaws but the characters are nice

avatar the last airbender fandom: atla is way better tho. lok is so trash i can’t believe you even like it. I like atla so much i feel the need to point out how much better it is than lok all the time. wow why doesn’t the lok fandom like me i only said korra is a bitchy woman i mean a spoiled brat i mean unrelatable.

[stormbound58]

10/10 FINISHED WATCHING JURASSIC WORLD CHAOS THEORY (SEASON 1) AND IS HYPE!!!!!

TIME TO STAMP OUT THE BINGO CARDS EVERY ONE!!! Though, I notice my Card had an extra "JW: Dominion Reference". But changed it to Season 2, which is we deffinetly gonna have.

So We already stamped the "Big Ben Jokes" last week on the preview. And WE ALL KNOW THERE WILL BE SEASON 2!!! Spoilers below.

SO Firstly, 10/10, The suspence the Plot, the foreshadows, the twist, and the FEELS!!! God we know it'll be darker, BUT KENJI GOES THE LOK ASAMI SATO ROUTE

Secondly, MOMA BUMPY!!! AAAHHHHH AND GRANPA BEN AND GRAMAMA SAMMY!!! It HAD me worried when Bumpy was like Dying. BUT THE BADFIES GOT HER EGG!!! I SMELL FUTURE BEN REVENGE ARC!!!

[S1, Ep 8:The Drop]

Darius: *Inhale* *exhale* "I was inlove with Brooklynn.

[Roughly falls down to the floor]

Me: *inhumane screeeeches and trashing rolling around* B*SH WHAT!!!!

*Demonic screech* WE FUCKING WON!! Yet at what cost..

"She tried to be nice about it, but it was clear she didn't feel the same."

...

Kenji, Yasmina, Sammy Ben: ....

Mateo: .....

Me: ....

Me: Ao3 Writers/Authors *snaps fingers* Y'all know what to do."