#sky bison

[draconicdeityarts]

Mother’s love

[ruhigrose]

Sleepy Sky Bison babies :)

[avatar-firelordzuko]

What a fantastic brilliant cute artwork ❤️✌️🥰

🦬🐉🎏🦡

🌬️🔥🌊⛰️

[llanosning]

How it started vs how it ended: Yangchen edition

[emkini]

Every day I think about sky bison 

[circlique]

how bout an appa drawing? :D

Or aang rainbow fire bending?

You pick! 😌

I don't think I've ever drawn Appa before!

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[dinoknitting]

Appa pillow pet I freehanded for a college final!

[geekstudio]

Avatar Sweaters from Stitch Spring

[tagedeszorns]

I drew my birthday-Appa.

Because he's precious.

[thena0315]

Aang & Appa = BFFs

[wilcze-kudly]

Of course, Appa will never be replaced but I do adore the bisons in tlok for what they are.

Oogi

Oogi is a wonderful big ole family vehicle and he carries the family and Tenzin around and even made his tail into a ramp for the kids to skate down. And he's very brave, even when latched onto by evil spirits which looked incredibly painful he still kept going, until he was eventually made to crash.

He also gets along great with Naga and he seemed to love the airship. Which makes sense since its probably his first time in the air where he doesn't have to be the one flying which has to be an experience.

Also I love the theory that Oogi's name was inspired by Sokka saying that Katara and Aang's affection for each other gave him "the oogies"

Lefty

Lefty is Kai's bison and he is a fucking trooper.

After Kai and the airbenders save Lefty from the poachers, Lefty returns the favour by saving not only Kai, but also Tenzin, Asami, Mako and Bolin. He also helped Kai track the Red Lotus' airship which helped the group find Korra and the kidnapped airbenders!

He carried 5 whole people on his back as a fucken baby put some respect on his name!

Tragically he was stolen by the evil Bumi and Meelo at least once. But they took him for an adventure so ig its ok

Also he loafs

Pepper

Freckles. That is all but I think it's important nonetheless

Juicy

Ill be honest I fucking love Juicy. I know he's meant to be gross and all but I think he's probably thw most distinctive air bison we've seen ever and I can't help but find him endearing.

Like look at him! I know he's a snotty boi but he's so cute

And he loves Opal so much! He's constantly nuzzling her and is particularly affectionate. Ans I like that while Opal good naturedly jokes about having checked if she can swap, she's still petting him and cuddling him and seems very loving of him too!

Ans this is really realted to him but I am not over the fact that Opal had an Air Bison picture in her room when she was a kid

Ita very important to me

[vibee2001]

Look at all them sky bision 🥹🥹

[butters-the-simp]

My friend wanted Appa (i’ve never seen ATLA so don’t crucify me too hard)

[jethroholy]

Was the fire nation essentially trying to “speed run” to the fire nation avatar during the 100 year war?

Stick with me here, please. I have not heard this theory before. So my thoughts are as follows. If you look at the timeline of avatar you notice that the fire nation started its raids on the southern water tribe roughly 10-20 years after the air nomad genocide. We can use grangran and Hama as indicators for this as they were present during that time. The raids had the fire nation kidnap, not kill, only waterbenders. Then moved them into cells. Then suddenly they stopped when katara was roughly 5 or so. Now some say it’s because Hama escaped. That could be a factor but Hama escaped when she was roughly 30. Years prior to the raids end. My theory is that they were going after the next avatar in the cycle, a southern water tribe member.

After the fire nation thought they got the water avatar they would have moved to the next element in the cycle, Earth. They started rounding up earthbenders and putting them in metal prisons. Something at the time they couldn’t bend. They were, like with the waterbenders, keeping them alive. Now to me the one prison we saw looked old. So they were probably doing this roughly halfway through the war. And we can guess that the one we saw wasn’t the only prison there was.

Now onto the final bit. Once they got to the fire nation avatar, then what? Who’s going to teach them the other 3 elements? Remember how they kept all these people alive? The fire nation also had sky bison hidden away, whether that was known to the fire lord or not we don’t know… Regardless, once they got back to fire in the cycle they had an ample supply of water, earth, and airbenders.

[aangarchy]

You seem to know a lot about atla and what has been confirmed and fan theories and stuff! We know that flying bison shed quite a bit, but do you know if there's anything out there (canon, fanon, anything) about air nomad textiles from flying bison fur?

I'm pretty sure it's canon that airnomads use sky bison fur for their clothing, especially since it can get quite cold up on the mountains and the smallest benders can't quite control their own body temperature yet. They probably also sold garb made from bison fur on their travels. In Sozin and Roku's time a lot of fire nation nobles got very involved in the airnomad lifestyle and culture (which fuelled Sozin's hatred for the airnomads and ultimately resulted in his decision to commit genocide), i imagine they bought a bunch of fabrics and garments to really immerse themselves. I'm sure citizens from other nations that lived near the temples would often trade for bison fur fabric. I don't know if maybe there were specific breeds of bison, one with a more streamlined coat and one with a more woolly coat? Maybe they could have created wool out of it who knows!

One thing i do think is that bison fur is always harvested without harming the sky bison, probably an influx in bison clothing after spring, when they shed their winter coats. I don't see the airbenders slaughtering the bison for their materials, especially since they don't eat meat.

[leespinoodle]

Inktober Day 10: Nomadic