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[unbeifonged]

lin has 100% fucked all three kataang siblings. both kya and bumi are aware of this, because they’re not totally oblivious, but poor tenzin still believes he’s the only one.

then, one day, tenzin suddenly has the epiphany during dinner (with his entire family around, including lin and both siblings), and has to try to stay calm while he realises what all the quips made by kya and bumi around him really meant.

[aangsdefensesquad]

whenever the cloud family went on vacations. Bumi and kya would be with aang who shoots them up in the air or take them to see some cool place. Tenzin would stick to katara, crying after his siblings scared him with a fake spider

[mal3vol3nt]

aang haters will hear that the impact of the air nomad genocide affected aang’s family in the form of him having to spend more time with tenzin to literally pass on an entire bending art form as well as all the parts of their culture that bumi and kya weren’t interested in, and somehow interpret that into meaning aang was a deadbeat dad who projected his air nomad fantasies onto his kids

but SOMEHOW they also miss the part where all 3 of his kids stare lovingly and longingly at a full family photo and say “that is one good looking/happy family”

[stalpra-and-100-fandoms]

Random TLOK Rant

warning: yes, this looks horrible. no, i do know grammar. yes, i can't bother to fix this mess. and yes, i'm probably not making sense. and no, i've never experienced this issue myself and i'm not claiming to an expert. these are just my two cents on the matter.

i think the creators of tlok really missed an opportunity to depict people with mixed races. like, it's weird how tenzin is the only one among aang and katara's kids who wears orange and kya is the only one who wears blue. honestly, i was sorta disappointed when i saw that their clothes matched their bending-colours and stereotypical ethnic colours. kya wears blue cuz she's a waterbender and she looks like her mom. tenzin wears orange cuz he's an airbender and he's not brown?? (don't know how else to put it). then there's bumi. why does he wear red for most of the time until harmonic convergence? why didn't he wear either of his parents' colours. speaking of which, why does he wear orange only after becoming an airbender. is identifying with your parent's culture without being a bender of their element forbidden in this universe? it stings worse after realising that the harmony-restoration-movement thing in the comics was against this sort of segregation. that people born into interracial families don't have just one race that they can identify with. all of this reminds of encanto, honestly. i once read this post (prolly on tumblr, lol) discussing the fact that pepa looks lighter-skinned and 'whiter' then either of her siblings. don't remember the middle but the concluding statement was that pepa is just as indigenous as her siblings, despite her genes making her look otherwise. back to tlok, tenzin is just as much southern water tribe as kya, kya is just as much air nomad and bumi is equally both. if there is gonna be any continuation of the avatar universe, i wanna see mixed characters struggling to balance both their parents' cultures despite inheriting one or neither of their bending.

[mysticmermaid108]

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JK SIMONS

[mfelewzi]

I don't like LoK, but... Mista Tenzee, this crap is basical crossover bendering yoo!

KORRA! This form of bender doesn't exist!

I'm the fucking Avatar, I know what is bender, BITCH!

Find it in Pinterest, whoever is the author, Sorry but there isn't your name, so please Say your name and I will write your name. Please, you don't say "Heisenberg".

[stonecoldaries]

they should make a show just about aang and katara's kids bc it would be awesome

[pridebicons]

the legend of korra headcanon pride icons

korra: agender bi - they/he/she

asami: trans bi - she/her

mako: bi - he/him

bolin: genderfluid bi - he/she/it

opal: pan demigirl - they/she

wu: gay - he/it

jinora: nonbinary bi - they/she

tenzin: agender bi - they/them

bumi: gay - they/he

requested by anon for my pride event

like/rb if using + credit

[vixfern]

Was anyone going to tell me Tenzin was voiced by JK Simmons??

[kataangoogie]

my hc design of the cloud babies in their younger years! ☁️ kya's face is the carbon copy of aang and tenzin has the same face as katara's, bumi is a mix of them both having aang's eyes and katara's nose

[queen-morgana91]

them: aang’s trophy wife

the series:

master katara and her husband

two legendary heroes and world leaders

Yuuuup :)

[unbeifonged]

as much as i’d love to believe that all of tenzin’s need to rebuild the air nation is self inflicted, i don’t see a universe where aang wouldn’t have, possibly subconsciously, created or fed into that need.

rebuilding the air nation was the most important thing to aang, that was clear to everyone who knew him, especially his son, the only person who could actually help aang realise that dream. while it might never have been said explicitly, tenzin knew from a young age the only way he could have anyone like him other than his father in this world was to have children.

i do not think, in any way, aang (or katara) would have ever told tenzin he had to have children. but, i do think it was in some ways expected from him since he was young.

after tenzin and lin had been together for a while, assuming lin’s aversion to motherhood was known already, i do think aang would have changed his expectations and come to peace with tenzin being potentially the last ever airbender, but that process would have come with a lot of grief. tenzin would have already been two decades deep in the loneliness of being an airbender, and aware his father won’t live forever, and so would likely have always wanted children of his own throughout his relationship with lin.

on a related note, demonising pema for her relationship with tenzin is completely and utterly ridiculous. tenzin was probably telling the truth when he said he and lin’s relationship was spiralling downhill. of course he would find companionship and friendship with an acolyte engrossed in his culture (that he is now the last member of), and find himself drifting from someone he cares deeply for but is not after the same things in life as him. when pema talks to korra about her relationship with tenzin starting, of course she’s not going to bring up lin’s obsession with career, or aangs passing and the grief associated, or tenzin’s unending loneliness in the world, just that she saw tenzin’s relationship was going to end horribly no matter what and she cared about him. (EVERYONE WHO SPENT ANY TIME AROUND LIN AND TENZIN PROBABLY KNEW THEIR TIME WAS UP. THEY ARE BOTH EMOTIONAL PEOPLE. A STRAGGLING RELATIONSHIP AND MUTUAL UNHAPPINESS IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SPOT).

anyways. it does not make aang a bad parent for hoping tenzin will bring more airbenders into the world. it does not make pema a homewrecker for dating a man after a messy (& very public) breakup.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

ps. read inheriting the wind by acommondator on ao3 it is beautiful!!!!

[rafidesousa]

Good friends indeed.

[wilcze-kudly]

I sorta ran out of characters in the end but i had fun lol

[lying-on-floors]

More TLOK as text posts

Hey guys, I'm glad you're enjoying these! It's totally okay if you repost these btw, but I would greatly appreciate it if you guys credit me for them. Just an fyi <3 :)

[bernard-the-rabbit]

everytime they refer katara as "the best healer" in tlok i have the urge to punch my wall

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