the dangers of not confessing

pt 2 pt 3

I think people will not spot it but... 

-points to the isopod-puppy 'carving' on the wall- 

I don't think they would pop up as well in real life... (in my experience I highly doubt that... )

but hey! this is a drawing

art-blog: chiptrillino-art

[ID: Two Fanart images portraying the southern water tribe family from avatar the last air bender. which include: father Hakoda, mother Kya, older brother Sokka and younger sister Katara. 

the first image shows, a family of four, in bed. In the background on the left side, the snow-withe-floor is covered with a white pelt with cheater spots covering it. a snow step with a blue blanket resting on it leads up to the bed. On the wall is built-in a smaller shelf with small carved toys and a wooden boat toy. a decorated boomerang with a wolf painted on it fell out of it. a doll in a blue parka is resting at the top of the head of the bed. the bed is made out of straw mats two big fur pillows, and soft pelts in shades of dark grey and brown. the walls with visible snow blocks on the right side of the image area are covered in small carvings that look like children's drawings. on the right side close to the wall, bundled up in furs that resemble sheepskin is kya, peacefully sleeping. her head is resting on her husband's left shoulder. she is wearing her iconic necklace. peacefully sleeping in her mother's arms is little katara. who wears a light blue top and has her hair in two braids. she is bundeled up in a embordied blanked. bears and otter penguins hunting small fish are sewn on it. 

in the centre, sleeping upside down with limbs spread out is Sokka. mouth open tooth growing out. arms above his head. he is just wearing pale brown-grey pants held together by a dark blue ribbon. he must have gotten out of his blanked during his sleep. his legs are spread atop his father's torso. one foot getting into Hakoda's half-asleep face, pinky toe stuck in his father's nose pulling. Hakoda is not amused. but resigned himself to his fate till his family decides to wake up. he wears his hair open, a bone necklace around his neck. and dark brown pants. over his legs is draped a fur banked.on the right side of the image is a small text saying "please don't repost" below in the centre is the artist's signature "chiptrillino . 2022" 

the second image shows the family doing her morning routine. 

Kya sitting behind Sokka wearing a blue Kuspuk. her hair styled with beads in it. a ribbon is stuck between her teeth while she smiles and looks at her husband. she is doing her son's hair. Sokka is still half-asleep in front of her yawing. bundled up in an embroidered blanked with otter-penguin and bears on it. on the right of the image is Hakoda yawing just like his son briding his daughter's hair, he is not wearing a shirt, just his pants in which he slept int. on top of his crossed legs sits katara. wearing a light blue kuspuk with a small blue raindrop pattern on. happily dangling her feet and playing with her doll.

on the right side of the image is a small text saying "please don't repost" below in the centre is the artist's signature "chiptrillino . 2022" End ID.]

I had this dream a month or two ago where 20 something Zuko was looking for something, which was apparently 20 something Katara who was just hanging out on the floor. He laid down next to her and they held pinkies like this and there was just such a palpable happiness to it that I just had to do a little something with it. It was just really cute.

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Some days I consider Aang’s life and my heart breaks at the horror of it. We see him at twelve, a cheerful and optimistic, despite the tragedy and the heavy burdens the world had placed on him. But it is easy to be optimistic at twelve. Especially when normal life is just beyond the corner, it is hard to conceive that it is gone forever, especially as the present demands his full attention. But eventually the reality of the tragedy sinks in and never leaves. We can see these jumps in the series. When at first Aang doesn’t believe that a hundred years passed since he got caught in an iceberg and the world he knew is gone, and there are no Air Nomads in it, just endless war, and then he sees the skeletons at the Southern Air Temple. When he comes to a Northern Air Temple and sees the changes. When Appa is stolen. He is resilient, and it seems that he is fine. But that kind of trauma does linger. It doesn't just disappear. And with time it will come to the surface more and more often. I think of Aang in his forties, burdened with regular Avatar duties, and being the only person who remembers the world and people before, and missing his childhood friends, and monks, and the whole way of life terribly, and trying to keep at least some of it alive. And I weep for him.

CHARACTER MOODBOARDS;

The Gaang (Sokka, Toph, Aang, Zuko, Katara) from Avatar: The Last Airbender

I've watched the first episode of the live action Avatar. I like it pretty well so far and I've been thinking about the adaptation and what the anglosphere won't experience with it: the original voice actor cast.

For the One Piece live-action that was possible by switching to the Japanese dub but Avatar was already an American production so there is no overseas original dub voice actors to go to.

I'm thinking about this for 2 reasons:

1) Watching these adaptations with the familiarity of the voices changes your perception of them. For one, I like it more from the get-go, but for two, small discrepancies between original and adaptation mix into each other, making the adaptation feel a tad bit more like the original.

2) Experienced voice actors can enhance and improve the performance of an actor, especially when we're talking about child actors. From what I've heard, the acting of the Hogwarts trio in the first movie e.g. wasn't the best in people's opinions but they were young children so it's understandable. That never was an impression I had when watching the German dub because the voice actors were experienced and basically hid any underperformance of the child actors.

While discussing this first episode of AtlaLA, a fellow German dub watcher told me how they saw that the acting of Katara's actor was less expressive than that of the voice actor, as in the voice carried emotions that the body language and facial features didn't convey in the same way. I wasn't paying attention to that but now I'll have to keep an eye on it for the second episode. 🤔

What if ATLA had 6 seasons, the War trilogy (books 1-3) and the Post-War trilogy (Books 4-6)?

This is a question that I think is harder then the four season question. Usually as a constraint I would want to keep the same tone and maturity level of the show. But I think an additional three seasons will need to be more mature and tackle more political questions that don’t quite fit the original show.

First three seasons are the same. Only major difference is we don’t need to speed run Zuko’s redemption at the end, we can start it and finish it in the fourth season. Then we mirror the last three seasons with the first, where it went water, Earth, Fire now it goes Fire, Earth, Water and we watch the gaang shrink down each season instead of grow.

I would start the season with a search for Ursa that fails. We see Zuko take charge as a leader and Azula’s uncertainty in the world and after her breakdown. Azula manages to give the group the slip at the end and head off on her own. Through out the season Zuko and the gaang face threats to the throne and the questions over the colonies and other conquered territory. Azula joins up with the bad guys and it’s a question of if she is truly with them. Half way through she is betrays them and saves Zuko and the gaang and rejoins the group as fully redeemed and accepted. Later half is her becoming friends with Ty Lee and Mai again. The season ends with them finding Ursa and the Fire Nation people staying behind as the gaang head to the Earth Kingdom, though they still show up for arcs and episodes in upcoming seasons.

Season five is earth and focused on Toph and Earth Kingdom politics. Toph is working towards teaching metal bending and opening up her own academy. They fight rouge Fire Nation units and the like. But also succession of Bumi’s rule of Omashu is explored and the Dai Li continued rule in Ba Sing Se. As inner turmoil still besets Ba Sing Se we see them try and help King Kuei become the leader he needs to be. Perhaps if we are feeling bold we can question the full extent of the White Lotus interest in the city and if it is for the good of the Earth Kingdom or self interest. Jet and the other freedom fighters make a return and can play the hero’s when the gaang needs them. The season ends with Toph going home, being accepted by her parents and opening up her academy where we say goodbye to her.

Season six, the final season, we are left with just Sokka, Katara, and Aang. With a focus split between Aang looking for his people and Sokka and Katara trying to restore theirs. We see Sokka become a strong leader and growing into his own and becoming ready to pick up the mantle of chief when his father is ready to move on, perhaps even taking it for awhile when his father is injured. Katara searches out for SWT bending texts and she takes up Hama as a master where we have a redemption arc for Hama (or better yet this is our first introduction to her character and other survivors of the death camps). Aang continues his search for his people with hints of them being out their but ever elusive. The climax for the season is the village being once again strong and they are able to resist an invasion by either Pirates or former Fire Navy, showing their renewed strength. But we have another episode to close off the show. Probably just an extended Iroh’s tea shop episode where we see everyone that we have been saying by to for the past three seasons one last time (happy Azula with her Mom!). For the very end we see Aang say goodbye to everyone leaving by himself only for the final shot to be of him finding a surviving Air Nomad.

Let me know what y’all think. This was just my first idea and playing with mirroring the first three seasons onto the past three seasons. Though their are probably better ways to tell a story. I’m particularly worried of not enough going on and cutting back the cast as we get closer to the end.

I can only accept Zuko as an awkward turtleduck if said turtleduck is a teenager and mutant and a ninja.

To End a War (Series) 

Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender

Author: ChickadeeChickadoo

Rating: General

Warnings: Brainwashing, Child Abuse

Word Count:  43,803

Characters: Zuko, Iroh, Zuko's Crew, Hakoda, Aang, Katara, Azula, Sokka, Suki, Pakku, Ozai, Toph Beifong, Ursa, Mai, Ty Lee, Long Feng, Kuei

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everyone Needs Hugs, Some people get hugs, War sucks, Ozai Being a Terrible Parent, Azula being halfway decent, Iroh a Good Uncle, Iroh Loves Tea, Merchant Zuko, What's even going on, NO ONE KNOWS, it's fun though, Angst, Do the pirates come back?, probably, Does Azula hunt them?, of course, Does everyone need a hug?, yes, that's a thing, Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, Who's them?, Long Feng is a horrible human, Azula gets some help, Zuko is really not the best at negotiations, Mostly he just wants to yell at people, Toph is amused, Da Li, They try to brainwash people, It would work better if Katara didn't keep healing them

To Protect

Zuko tried to protect the 41st division- he failed. He was banished. They died anyway. Now he has a crew. And he'll protect them if it kills him. Or the pirates chasing them.

To Betray

Zuko wasn't a traitor. Exactly. He was just going behind his father's back to end a war. That wasn't really treason. Probably.

Actually it was treason. Zuko wasn't exactly sure how much he cared about that.

To Compromise

Iroh has sent letter after letter to Ba Sing Se, looking to end the war permanently. They haven't responded... until now.

Zuko is an Ambassador.

Azula is a spy.

And Long Feng wonders... why rule one kingdom when you can have three?

Posted this on Reddit & it got a good reaction so I'm putting it here.

A little while ago I read the atla comic trilogy "North and South" and while I enjoyed it I was struck by a thought that I feel may have taken it to another level. Potential spoilers below.

For those that don't recall, the main villain of the trilogy is a new character called Gilak. Without spoiling too much, he's one of the warriors who followed Hakoda out to fight against the Fire Nation who objects to the Southern Water Tribe relying on foreign nations as it rebuilds in the aftermath of the Hundred Years War.

Thing is, because we'd never met him before the "friends turned enemies" angle they try to run between he & Hakoda falls a bit flat, at least to me. And since I've become something of a writer I decided to test myself by thinking of what could be done to improve the story and here's the big change I came up with.

Replace Gilak as the main antagonist of the trilogy with Bato. Because honestly all of my complaints regarding the trilogy are centered around Gilrak as a character. As I said before his "broken friendship" with Hakoda doesn't click because while we know & care about Hakoda we don't have that same relationship with Gilrak meaning we don't really care about him.

I'm aware that "Bato of the Southern Water Tribe" is widely considered to be among the weakest episodes of atla but I feel like Bato himself is a solid enough character. Most important however is that he's a character people know from the show & even more so, he's a character we SEE interesting with Hakoda. We see their relationship, the mutual esteem they seem to have for each other as opposed to Gilrak for whom we are only told of the bond he shared with his chief.

Another possible change is the role Sokka could play. As it stands he & Katara are split evenly on their fathers plans to develop their tribe with the help of his northern advisors, with Sokka jumping onboard immediately and Katara being the sceptic. In this alternate version, Sokka is a bit more torn. Bato helped him through a right of passage after all, they shared a strong bonding experience and that would make Sokka hesitate. His first instinct would still be to stand on the side of progress but his conviction would waver slightly when he realized that a man he has so much respect for is against it. This would be heightened when -as she does in the actual comic- Katara begins expressing sympathy to the traditionalists.

Full disclosure: when I called myself a writer in the intro, I meant a writer of fanfiction on AO3. I am by no means a professional. But I do genuinely believe the changes I've proposed would elevate an already well-written story. But these are just my thoughts & now I'd like to hear yours. Depending on your response, I may incorporate this idea in my future writings.

sokka ✨🌟💫

avatar circus au but it’s just ty lee living her life before azula came back

Ok so I'm most of the way through the live action ATLA and no it's not perfect, some of the acting is a little oof but overall it's pretty good? The costumes, the sets all the older actors for the most part. Some of the cg needed a little more time and all of these streaming shows could benefit from a few more episodes, but the way they've combined storyline and episodes to try and fit things in in a coherent way, some of the changes they've made I like quite a bit.

Yall trying to act like it's the same level of bad as the movie are actively delusional and need to take of the nostalgia goggles.

My Pet peeves in ATLA fandom

I have collected some of my fandom pet peeves and decided to post them here to exorcise my annoyance, so to say.

1) it goes across all fandoms really. But I am very tired of fan profiling.

- If fans like character A they must be Z

- If fans hate character B they must be Y

- if fans ship characters C and D together they are necessarily eat babies, abuse puppies and eat spinach.

No, it doesn’t work like that. Sure, there are trends and common markers, but any individual likes and dislikes stuff for various personal reasons. Sometimes characters simply remind of someone else in real life. Sometimes we cannot discern a reason at all. It is fun to ponder, but sweeping generalizations are usually harmful.

2) Now, this pet peeve is rather specific. I hate when people call Aang a monk.

He was raised by monks, that’s it. He never refers to himself as a monk, he is never called one in canon, but fandom collectively decided that all Air Nomads were monks and nuns, and had to abide by all the rules Earth religions set out for the monastic orders. I occasionally see people complaining Aang does not behave like a Catholic monk is supposed to. Of course he doesn’t. Why would he?

3) more on Aang. Is he a self-insert for Mike DiMartino?

Well, Mike said several times in the interviews Aang is based on him in some regards.

In the same interview, he and Bryan said Zuko is based on Bryan in some regards.

And well, Dante Basco occasionally melds into Zuko and nobody minds much.

Who is the biggest self-insert of them all?

4) Everything I learned about creative process on Avatar the Last Airbender seems to indicate that the process was cooperative to the degree surprising in the industry. It was Mike and Bryan’s story but they listened and learned from everyone who worked on the story. There were a lot of ideas flying around in the writing room, some writers like one thing, others another. Some of those ideas ended up in the series, some were thrown out. Normal working process. Why do people need to turn it into a giant conspiracy and all-out shipping war, is beyond me.

Not gonna lie. I miss your Jee. I don't suppose you have any incomplete sketches you'd be willing to share with us? 🥹

tbh i miss jee too... okay may i offer... me trying to figure out how he could have looked younger?

[ID: digital illustration of three different busts of Lt. jee from avatar the last aribender. wearing a red cape and black undershirt. frowning, looking to the left side. on the left its Jee in senior age. in the middle jee as teen and on the right jee as baby. text on the right side above the head indicates the age stage. End ID.]