[ID copied from alt: Full-body digital drawing of monk gyatso and aang from avatar the last air bender. on a pale background with fading high mountain and a bridge fenced in by read with icons decorated fence. Stands gyatso bending air around him. he boosts aang up higher, who is flying above his head on his glider. End ID]

it’s fucked up that they never let sokka decapitate anyone onscreen just because avatar: the last airbender happens to be a Y-7 children cartoon that aired on nickelodeon . i think he deserved to

He only got to do it onscreen to the Melon Lord, but from that scene you can tell it's like second nature to him.

true. i shouldn’t discount the Y-7 nickelodeon restrictions so dismissively; they really did communicate that as best as they possibly could with the standards & practices they had available to them. thank you for pointing that out

Just made myself so so sad thinking about Aang's marble trick because from a physics perspective, keeping dense spherical objects afloat on an airstream is not trivial, and he's doing it in a tiny little space without moving his hands. Bending is usually very gestural. So. Everyone in the era of the show is, at best, impressed THAT it is airbending. But Aang's an incredibly young master airbender. He wouldn't be acting like this was the bestest trick ever if it didn't take at least some skill; he's a goofy kid but he's also a prodigy. I bet other airbenders were absolutely blown away (pun fully intended) at the level of precision and force and minimalism of movement on display and now there's no one who understands at all why he expects accolades.