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My name is Smokey (she/they), and this is going to be my liveblogging experiment. My main account is @smokestarrules and I’ve been wanting to make a blog for this for a while now, and am only getting to it now!

I plan to try and post at least one episode every other day, if my schedule allows it (which it should until at least May.)

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I’ve just recently read through both Kyoshi novels, and I now plan on going through and liveblogging Avatar: The Last Airbender to start. If that goes well, I’ll start Legends of Korra next. 

Episodes will be tagged as ATLA 1x01, ATLA 1x02, and etcetera. In the case of the Kyoshi novels, they’re just tagged as their title. 

I’ve technically seen a bit of ATLA and LOK before, but it was like ten years ago, at some homeschooling convention and I was not paying attention at all, so I think this still counts as my first time watching. I also know most characters’ names, because I don’t live under a rock, but tbh that’s about it for my knowledge.  

Hi! First of all, I never like to abandon things, so I can definitely say that yes, I will continue TLOK at some point, no matter what.

If I'm completely honest, I don't know how on earth I managed to watch A:TLA like I did, what with the speed of episodes and how many posts I made about each one. When I do return, it'll likely be structured a little differently, but that's not really important right now anyway.

Again, yes. Currently my plans right now are to get through this semester and then start watching again next semester, which will be my final in college and therefore be less demanding.

I've also used that site before, and it works fairly well for me, but it's got no subtitles.... I'm gonna cry.

Hey there!

Something that I find interesting is that while Aang and Korra are clearly different, they both share a sense of wonder at the world in this first episode. Aang because he's literally been gone for one-hundred years, and Korra because she's seemingly not often been let out of the fortress that she's trained in, let alone away from the Water Tribe's territory. I like that there's similarities.

The post-war world is gorgeous, but unsettling?? Kind of?? I feel like, what with the homeless comment, that Empire City in particular is going to be a nice front with lots of unsettling truths on the inside. There’s always going to be evil around, but this time, it’s not going to be so easy to find.

So. The subtitles are only available for episode one, so I’m back at square one with no subtitles. This gives me two options.

1. I keep looking around for somewhere that gives me a) subtitles for the entire series and b) allows me to take screenshots (a combination that is, apparently, unfathomably rare). 

2. I watch without subtitles and write the necessary context quotes in along with my liveblog. This would probably result in less posts overall, and a slower liveblog altogether. 

I think it's very realistic of, like, a five year-old or however young she was when she had that realization. Especially after Aang.

p.s. ur bio may need a small update :))

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you're just as excited as I am! This is going to be so fun.

omfg I'm gonna lose my mind because look at this.

Okay, well, there we go!

That was a good first episode, I think. It introduced the major characters, the major setting, the villain, and the potential conflicts all really well, and I really can’t wait to see Korra in action as she learns to deal with these things. 

What’s super interesting already is that it seems like this villain is going to lean very heavily on the political side of things, which, nothing against Korra, but I feel like Aang would be better eqquiped to deal with that sort of thing, and, ironically, Korra might’ve been better suited for the Hundred-Year war. I’m already loving how different she is - because that’s important - and in a way, she’s starting this story in the opposite place Aang started his. That’s awesome. 

......Uh-oh. Bad guy time.