hello zukka nation!

*azula's lightning going off in the background*

redrew this boiling rock scene taken by @sokkalore and @ultfreakme and then got distracted trying out new brushes

screencap under cut, ids in alt

So in the first like episode and a half I didn’t hear Zuko say the word “honor” and I was really upset because like that’s his thing but then I heard him yell “YOU STOLE MY NOTEBOOK!” from the other room and my sister joked “they replaced his honor with his notebook,” and now I’m THRILLED because that means I get to say things like this:

“I must capture the avatar to restore my notebook!”

“For so long, I thought that I’d lost my notebook, and that somehow, you could give it back to me.”

“I need my notebook back.”

“What’s that? I think it’s your notebook!”

Of course Sokka says iffy and sexist things, he’s acting like an entitled teenage boy. Many entitled teenage boys exist. I’m sure many of them watched Avatar growing up. The point is that these boys see Sokka doing what they do, and that they see Sokka is wrong to do so.

The purpose of an arc like Sokka’s isn’t to create a character who is sexist and who the audience shouldn’t like, who says iffy things and needs to be censored now that we’re in a more “civilized” age, it’s to be a teaching tool to the young target audience of the show. To show little boys that acting like this is wrong, and that girls can be just as strong as boys (this is where the Kyoshi warriors come in). Sokka is a great character because he goes through a genuinely hopeful sort of growth; his arc is something we hope teenage boys with his attitude go through in their own lives.

Taking away this arc deprives the story of one of its core ideals: teaching children what’s good and what’s bad. If they never see Sokka behaving badly, if they never see him being proven wrong, if they never see their hero who acts like them growing and changing for the better, you deprive them of a phenomenal role model who they might genuinely be inclined to base their behavior off of.

Shows like Avatar were so great because they showed growth. Sokka learns to overcome his biases, Zuko learns to overcome his pride and comes to understand what honor truly is, Katara learns to channel her temper into drive and not let anger overtake her, and Aang learns to uphold his principles even in the face of more convenient—if morally questionable—methods.

ahhhh Yes!! love me some divorced zukka inspo and this is perfect?

You keep me up all night

I see the future, but we're not in it together

we'd end up alone in the end.

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As you see...I have no mental stability.

I love this boy a normal amount