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Since I’ve been really inactive on this particular blog, I’m going to go ahead and stop posting here. I’ll keep it up (for now at least) as a sort of archive, but I’m going to keep posting about Avatar and other animation over on my main blog @madetofly, so you can follow me there if you’re interested.
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DAILYFLICKS 30K EVENT: FAVORITE 90s FILM PER MEMBER ↳ THE LION KING (1994) — River (@empressvader)
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
I’m watching the new episodes of the Rugrats reboot, and Chas saying, “Turns out everyday life makes me so nervous, when there’s a real emergency, I’m surprisingly chill,” is the most relatable thing I’ve heard in a while.
At my last job, my manager often came to get me when something went wrong because I could handle it well, but I will stress over inconsequential things all day long.
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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/F Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Relationship: Lin Beifong/Kya II Characters: Lin Beifong, Kya II (Avatar), Tenzin (Avatar) Additional Tags: Getting Together, Past Lin Beifong/Tenzin, One-Sided Lin Beifong/Tenzin, Implied/Referenced Sex, Pre-Avatar: Legend of Korra Summary:Â After her breakup with Tenzin, Lin has avoided spending time with his family, including Kya. With space between them, it's easier for her to ignore the way that Kya has always made her feel. One day, Kya invites Lin to her concert, and she's no longer able to run away from her feelings.
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Even while off duty, Lin couldn’t walk down the street without keeping her eyes peeled for potential misbehavior. She knew the laws of Republic City like the back of her hand. Her power was limited when she wasn’t on duty. It would have been easier if she just didn’t notice any lawbreaking while off the clock, but it was a hard mindset to snap out of.
It was also boring to always be on alert, as she was far more likely to notice mundane, everyday interactions than anything worrisome. From time to time, she spotted people she knew without them ever realizing she was there. She’d become adept at maneuvering into an alleyway or stepping into a shop to avoid conversation. It always worked well for her.
Until it was Kya she spotted on the street.
Kya, who Lin had thought was spending the entire summer at the South Pole with the rest of her family but who was instead on the streets of Republic City. Her surprise was so great that she didn’t hide before Kya’s gaze found her through the crowd. Lin stood still, hoping Kya would look away as quickly as she’d glanced over. Instead, her eyes lit up, and she was across the street and in front of Lin before Lin had regained the ability to move.
“Lin!” she exclaimed. She clapped her hard on the shoulder, which was at least better than the hugs Katara gave every time she saw her. “It’s nice to see you again.”
“You too,” Lin choked out, doing her best to remember proper manners for a situation like this. “I thought you weren’t going to be back for another month.”
Kya smiled, but there was something behind it, a sympathy that made Lin feel self-conscious.
“Dad had to come back for some Avatar business,” she explained. “We may still go back before the seasons change.”
Lin nodded, trying not to ask the question that she most wanted to know the answer to.
She failed.
“All of you came back?”
Kya nodded like she didn’t understand the implication of the question. “Yeah, it was easier that way. Bumi already had to be back for some United Forces training exercise, and Tenzin said something about meditating being easier on Air Temple Island. I decided I might as well tag along with everyone else. It beats making the trip alone.”
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He was practicing asking somebody out (probably one of those two girls further back) but realized he sounded stupid and lost faith in himself.
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Ok minor detail but ...
So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.
But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations.Â
None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.
It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.
The detail in these shows is amazing.Â
You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.
And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.
it’s also a detail from the second ever episode
aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations
this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:
[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]
why do i bring this up?
because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph
one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.
Look at Korra metal bending here
It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is
But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending
Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.
The fight between Tenzin and the Red Lotus reinforces this. Zaheer is pretty skilled for someone who’s only been Airbending for a few months, and he has the advantage against a lot of people because there still aren’t really enough airbenders for people to know how to fight them. But against an Airbending MASTER like Tenzin? He only wins because he has backup
I just wanna say that this mirrors something I got to watch in real life. I fenced as a teenager, with my wife, who continued fencing in college.
But her college had fencing equipment but no team, so she started coaching them. But she fenced lefthanded. She ended up with a team of fencers who almost ALL learned to fence lefthanded.
A small % of fencers are lefthanded, so even very good fencers are often NOT USED TO fencing lefties.
So her dinky little team of mostly newbies came in and fucked severely with teams of much more experienced fencers who couldn’t cope with fencing leftie after leftie. Her one protégé who was also very tall just laid waste to nationally rated fencers.
Whereas I, a very shitty fencer, can hold my own against my wife no problem, because I’ve fenced her from the start.
This isn’t JUST a fun plot point and a lovely way of showing social influences and planning and creativity, it’s completely based in real life. Even a shitty fighter can be a problem for a good fighter whose never encountered their style before.
I love when there’s a really bending heavy episode because you just KNOW Sokka is about to get the dumbest C plot
They stuck that boy in a hole for 22 minutes
If you think firebenders wouldn’t fight using fireswordsÂ
then I request you reconsider this dope idea
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FROZEN (2013) dir. Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
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Shrek 2 dir. Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury
Are we, as a fandom, ready to admit that Mai’s entire backstory, personality, coping mechanisms, character traits, strengths, weaknesses, self image, belief system, and arc, are literally almost exactly the same as Toph but like, slightly to the left
Sheltered and coddled rich kid, “better seen and not heard,” “don’t speak unless you’re spoken to,” “stay in your room and stay out of trouble,” both painfully bored and stifled to the point of being incredibly depressed and borderline self destructive, Toph turned to earthbending matches, Mai taught herself how to throw knives, neither ever learned how to interact with people their age or how to have friends and struggles with social interaction, neither expect anyone to respect their opinion or even listen so they always either just keep their opinion to themself or when they boil over, they boil over completely and turn to shouting or violence because they don’t believe anyone will listen to them otherwise, both slowly had to learn to love and to trust that someone would be there, while also learning that they deserved better and should defend their boundaries because being treated like a human instead of a prop isn’t an unrealistic expectation
People talk about Toph’s ability to dress up all fancy and fit in perfectly as a sophisticated, model daughter, while also being like “hehe violence, lets go commit crimes” but no one talks about how Mai is literally exactly the same way, from a political perspective she’s like the perfect, calm, cultured, girlfriend for Zuko, she can absolutely play the role she needs to, but she also carries knives on her at all times and committed arson with her friends at a beach party for fun
That similarity is also 100% part of the reason that Zuko and Toph get along so well, because once she warms up to him Zuko immediately recognizes her as a kindred spirit. Out of the entire gaang, Toph is the one that Zuko understands and empathizes with the most/vice versa.Â
Everyone else took a really long time to understand Toph because Toph is so different from the main group but Zuko had half a conversation with her and went “oh she’s Mai but baby”
