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asiriyep · 2 years
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Atla Gen Week 2022.
Day 4:  Forgiveness.
Lightweight AU where Zuko and Azula get along, but things happened and they got hurt/confused (but not so much) while Zuko was banished. When they arrive at the NF there is a conspiracy against Ozai because he only hinders their plans.
The servants: Is this dangerous?... Well yes, but give it a go!
[ID: Mini comic with two vignettes in monochrome magenta.
In the first vignette, teenage Zuko and Azula, dressed in formal robes, are sitting in a seiza position under the shade of a tree in one of the royal palace gardens. Zuko with his eyes closed and a calm expression has short and loose hair, in his lap there are two baby turtleducks. Azula has the same expression and on her lap is a baby turtleduck trying to eat a piece of bread from her hand. Zuko says "I forgive you, Lala", Azula replies "I forgive you too, Zuzu". Zuko continues "Now that we're on the same page..." and Azula ends by saying "Yes, we must treat father". In the background there is an open manor that separates and in one of them, on the upper right side, there are two servants, a man and a woman.
In the second vignette, the male servant located on the right side exclaims in surprise "Did you hear the same as me!?" and the feminine servant on the left side with raised shoulders and raised fists at her chest level, while she smiles conspiratorially and excitedly answers "Yes, finally a blow to the tyrant!". End ID]
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blluespirit · 3 months
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i wish that there was more time between the day of black sun and sozin's comet bc zuko's official desertion from the fire nation would have the most insane ripple effects (and it would be nice to see the gaang interacting a bit more than we got but hey i'll take what i can get)
zuko's desertion would have been essentially impossible for the fire nation to bury since it was such a big deal that he returned at all. so i imagine the smear campaign against zuko would have been craaazy. i think it would have been interesting for the gaang to try and deal with that when navigating the FN. zuko would be very recognisable i think at this point, and it would have made staying hidden much harder. would they still have chosen ember island? maybe the kids didn't recognise zuko and azula during The Beach , but with the prince of the fire nation committing treason would there be more wanted posters? would there be more talk around the island? would zuko have to remain hidden while the rest go out and get food?
i wonder if zuko deserting and very meaningly committing his loyalty to the avatar influenced other soldiers in the FN to also desert? or would it have had the opposite effect and made people feel more patriotic since zuko was banished, returned under the guise of having killed the avatar, and then left when aang announced his survival to world during the failed invasion?
SPEAKING OF THAT!! the rumours around this would be INSANE. we know what really happened, but the public don't. did zuko and the avatar plan this so that there would be an inside man during the invasion and then zuko used that chaos to escape? what really happened in ba sing se if zuko didn't kill aang, but azula thought that he did? (again: we, the audience know the truth, but the general public don't). if zuko and the avatar where working together... for how long? was iroh involved somehow since he also disappeared the same time that zuko did? did iroh get captured on purpose to be close to zuko to possibly help him if needed? did zuko break iroh out of jail or did one of the guards or was iroh alone? you could spiral on this as just an average person in the avatar world for years like. if youtube existed in atla imagine the video essays breaking down all the conspiracies
its a kids show so obviously Nothing Bad Happened BUT in the Boiling Rock, zuko getting found out as not only an imposter (already, a very bad situation), a traitor (extremely bad), AND the traitorous (ex) prince of the fire nation (devastatingly terrible) would have been... incredibly dangerous for zuko. in zuko and iroh's original wanted poster, the official translation says “Permission is granted to kill them on sight” and this was before zuko has gone right ahead and committed Treason On Purpose. the warden is not going to be nice. when the warden visits zuko in his cell he literally tells him "If these criminals found out who you are, the traitor prince who let his nation down, why they'd tear you to shreds." the boiling rock would be hell trying to survive. it also puts a lot more weight on zuko refusing to leave sokka in their first escape attempt. also ozai obviously knew that he has his son was in prison bc he... broke in to the prison bc azula was there but then zuko manages to escape with sokka (another imposter) and suki and hakoda (POWs) and chit sang (a prisoner) and two of azula's trusted friends end up in prison for treason as well i just. that is literally insane for the average person to hear about. again, THE CONSPIRACIES!!
when zuko eventually does take the throne there's a lot of conjecture around what zuko did while he was banished and moreso, what he did the second time he left, this time voluntarily. i think zuko's loyalty would be questioned a lot; by other world leaders who are understandably wary about the fire nation and its motivations, but also by its own people - some who believe that zuko is a traitor to his country and is trying to sabotage it since he helped end the war.
idk these are all just me rambling but it would been so interesting to explore the implications of zuko leaving the fire nation and how that would have impacted the gaang and how they interacted with others in their travels. there are so many fic where zuko joins the gaang early, but neither myself with the aus that I have written, nor many that ive read have explored this very much or at all.
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woahjo · 2 months
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i think all the time about the line "in what year did fire lord sozin defeat the air nation army" and then aang responding "is this a trick question? the air nomads didn't have a formal army" and the implications of the history that the fire nation had been rewriting for a century. the implication that the air nomads (a peaceful nation) weren't brutally ambushed, but rather that they were ready to fight and may have even been eager to do so. absolving the fire nation of some of the guilt in a total genocide and painting the narrative that the air nomads were ready to defend themselves and/or that the attack on the air nomads was anything but a one sided ambush. i think about it a lot.
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peony-pearl · 1 year
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June was the only woman older than Katara and Suki to show up and help the Gaang in the finale and I think that’s ridiculous. We could have seen Yagoda and the Herbalist in the White Lotus (and Miyuki!! She has a cute miniature lotus collar). Perhaps even Haru’s mom showing up somewhere??  IDK the lack of older ladies as respected guides and teachers is irksome and until further notice I’m headcanoning out of spite that they were there we just didn’t see their scenes but they were there dammit
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rootbeerwarriors · 23 days
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rewatching atla and i am a hama apologist at my core
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awakefor48hours · 1 month
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The fact that I always go back to the original ATLA every time a live action reboot comes out shows just great this show’s writing was
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ask-ozai · 1 year
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Mind telling us more about that little anecdote of when Zhao shot you with a poisonned arrow by accident? Was it very epic and suspenseful? What did you do with the poor wretch after?
It was a wonderful day at sea, and we were on our way to the Colonies to bring the progress and prosperity of the Fire Nation to those peasants who needed it so desperately. Zhao and I were fifteen, and Michi fourteen. There was no enemy nearby and no town to conquer, so the crew was pretty bored.
As a result, we decided to fortify our temper, character, and mental and physical abilities in the traditional way among youngsters recently graduated from The Royal Academy: by playing Truth or Dare.
Is there a greater exercise to demonstrate your skills than Truth or Dare? If so, as young warriors of the Fire Nation we did not know it. There is no other game whose main goal is to impart the greatest amounts of humiliation to your enemies and avoid it at all costs.
So we sat in the bow and our skills test began. I could not let anyone beat me at that game, the rest of my life depended on that moment. So an hour later, I had made the captain jump overboard, Admiral Jee eat a bra, and Michi admit that she still slept with a stuffed toy. I was ruthlessly tearing my adversaries apart, subjecting them to endless shame like a good Prince would. But then it was Zhao's turn, and he chose me. Thinking carefully about his strategy, I chose truth, as Zhao's challenges were almost as efficient as mine (he once challenged Michi to jump off a cliff). And so he did it. He attacked in the worst way. He almost won at that moment, humiliating me in front of my entire crew in a direct attack on my honor.
He made me admit that Iroh used to change my diapers.
I nearly incinerated Zhao at that moment, before forcing myself to calm down. I had to beat him within the rules of the game or I would lose my honor for the rest of my life, and Agni would not receive me in his holy halls when I died. (I was young and inexperienced, and I didn't think of cheating at the time. Ursa would have poisoned Agni). In the next round, I chose Zhao and he chose dare. That was my chance. So I challenged him to dodge one of Michi's poisoned arrows.
It was impossible and everyone knew it. Nobody is faster than Michi's arrows. However, I would like to make it clear that my intentions were not to kill Zhao, as he was still my teammate and perhaps the closest I've ever had to a friend. I just wanted to humiliate him for life, break his spirit and his honor, and reduce him to a pathetic puppet with no will of his own, nothing he couldn't survive to.
So Zhao stood up and, knowing full well that he would not be able to dodge the arrow, he took a bowl of cereal and began to eat, perhaps believing that he would soon be having breakfast with Agni. Michi took her bow and shot, and evidently, Zhao didn't dodge the arrow. It bounced off the bowl of cereal and headed my way, sinking into my royal right buttock.
I was delirious from the arrow poison for almost a week. Everyone had the good sense to never speak of the incident again, except for one of the new soldiers who I soon silenced forever in an Agni Kai. How is Zuko going to defend his honor if someone makes fun of him for getting shot in the butt? I bet he didn't think of that when he banned Agni Kais.
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devilofdots · 2 months
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Well I have finally watched the first three episodes of Netflix’s ATLA…
Ugh.
#I have so many criticisms of the first three episodes I’m scared for the other five#they botched nearly every character holy shit#especially suki aang and sokka#the only character I felt they got mostly right was zuko surprisingly (except the scar)#but at this stage his personality is mostly angry sometimes cringe teenager who wants to go home#so his character isn’t at the complexity of seasons two or three yet#they definitely ramped up his firebending which I’ll accept IF azula is 10x that#which I doubt but still#I do like that he’s concerned about honor even when faced with the opportunity to get gossip about zhao#honoring one’s enemy and all#every time he fights the gaang he gives them the chance to surrender first which is nice#many villains just attack right away#but besides that and the effects I disliked the show pretty strongly#smashing together omashu jet AND the northern air temple while taking the most important bits away from each of them? atrocious#jet needed to successfully manipulate both katara and aang to unblocking the dam#so that sokka could warn both the earth kingdom villagers AND the fire nation soldier#it was important that the soldiers chose to lead everyone out - both fire nation and earth kingdom citizens#and for the northern air temple it was significant for aang to see how the mechanist was destroying/adapting the temple#but they just cut those both out in favor of saving time#this show has no idea what patience is#somehow they cut out a shit ton of stuff while expanding what was left into super long episodes that feel rushed in every scene#my biggest pet peeve with this is that iroh talks WAY too fast#iroh’s slow and calm speech patterns helped force zuko - impatient and angry zuko - to shut up and listen to his uncle#he’s also way too blatant about his treasonous thoughts WAY too soon#I think enough people have written about suki and sokka that I don’t need to expand on the botching of their characters#kyoshi and kyoshi island in general were botched too#also#KANNA WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NEVER GIVE THAT SCROLL TO KATARA#the excuse of ‘the fire nation will find out’ ONLY works if she and sokka thinks there’s a spy in the village#and a spy would potentially make sense canon wise (I haven’t gotten to katara’s full flashback yet)
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zincbot · 8 months
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man i think the amon plotline is just kind of weak in terms of world building
#lok#i've seen posts discussing this with more nuance#but it's still so soon after the hundred year war#republic city is new too. only a generation old. majority of its population are either 1st or 2nd generation immigrants#or earth kingdom citizens or fire nation colonists who built what became the city during the war#and the way that bending is distributed among the population of every nation is entire random. it's an odd choice to mark it as a dividing#a dividing line. because every bender has family that are nonbenders and vice versa#and! add to that that unless you are trained just being born a bender isn't an intrinsic leverage over a nonbender. untrained benders#and benders without a lot of power exist. able to do party tricks and not much more#it likens to. people who's bodies are more naturally built to handle manual labour. it's just genetics and random luck#of course there could be interesting ways to tackle bender and nonbender dynamics especially with the religious significance of bending#and in mixed cultures how bending being passed on can be a surrfire way you are truly seen as carrying on that side of your culture#and it could be interesting seeing the culture shift as republic city is the first place to have such a wide mix of different cultures#in things like food and festivals#but a nonbender revolution (especially led by a bender like amon) is odd. like what is the goal of the revolution#bending and nonbending people can't be seperated in any meaningful way. and there are already laws and rules#prohibiting destructive bending use just as there are regular destruction#it's just. the revolution seeks to remove bending from the world. that's obviously a wild thing to say with cultures built around and with#bending as a part of them. add that to the fact that benders can be born from non-bending families and it just falls apart.
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asiriyep · 2 years
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Atla Gen Week 2022.
Day 1: Family.
PD: Well, we have an au about this, it's called "Breakfast Royal Family" (”Familia Real del desayunito”), and it's too random to explain it, because that's it, just random.
[ID: Mini comic with four vignette in color monochrome magenta. In vignette one, Azula as a little girl is slightly disheveled, Zuko also a child tells her "Do you know your’e messing up you hair while your’e triying to fix it?". She replies "I want it to be like father’s". Zuko replies "Father doesn’t even know potatoes, Lala", while Azula claims "If you know how to do it, help me!". Ozai stands in the background waving his right arm shooing away a falcon as he replies "As if combing hair was so simple! And get your falcon out of here, Zuko!".
In the second vignette, several journalists are surprised and confused by the scene. Two of them, a man and a woman, are holding notepads.
In the third vignette, Lu Ten is shown in the foreground saying "Not again" with a slightly doubtful and resigned expression, with a straight mouth, one eye narrowed, and a small frown.
In the fourth vignette, Lu Ten slides in from the right side saying "The fishing industry this year regarding..." side trying to hide Zuko who grabs the detached bun from Azula's head as she flails, and Ozai grapples with the falcon that is attacking him on the head. At the lower left corner of the vignette you can see part of the journalists' heads with question marks above them. End ID]
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supernovaa-remnant · 9 months
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was watching the Legend of Korra w/ my sister (it's both our first times watching it) and the the villains of the season started talking abt anarchy and my sister and I were both like "he's actually right tho"
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bendingmuses · 11 months
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I don't know if it's just my obsession with Fire Nation characters, or the fact that I just recently added four characters from the Beifong family, but I really want to add more Fire Nation muses. I just love everything Fir Nation related.
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ofswordsandpens · 2 months
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it is a little funny, a little ironic, because as much as the Ember Island Players episode wants to be like "see?? you're silly for thinking zuko and katara's dynamic is romantic" it doesn't quite think through the in-world implications of the play because, conceivably, this play is built largely upon rumor, right? biased or purposefully distorted first, second, or third-hand accounts of the gaang and their journey? (and then of course, whatever artistic liberties the play writers want to take)
Because that all begs the question - why do the play writers think zuko and katara are together?? Like literally lmao was it just for the Drama of it all? Or do enough people in the avatar universe perceive Zuko and Katara to be a couple for it to be a far spread rumor?? Is June gossiping in taverns like "oh the fire nation prince? yeah he hired me to find his girlfriend. he had her betrothal necklace and everything"??
And how did the play writers (or anyone for that matter) even know that Zuko and Katara had shared a Moment with one another in the crystal caverns? Were there like, Dai Li Agents spying on them from afar? Watching katara huff and stalk around and yell at zuko then like five seconds later they see her cradling Zuko's face and they're just like "bro" "bro" "no way" "there's no war in ba sing se but we've got to tell people about that."
Then isn't it also implied this play is fairly popular in the fire nation? Like how many years after the war is the average fire nation citizen convinced that Zuko and Katara are an item?
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emistakeart · 4 months
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The Painted Lady.
One of my favourite scenes in ATLA. A lot of people apparently don't like this episode that much, but I really like Katara focused episodes. I also thought it was very interesting that they also showed the negative effects of the war and industrialization of the Fire Nation also negatively affected their citizens and I like that the Gaang helped them.
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jewish-sideblog · 6 months
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Clearly, y'all don't care about Jews, and the fact that Hamas is violently antisemitic doesn't seem matter to any of you. So let me go with a new approach, of equal truth and value. Hamas is violently anti-Palestinian.
This past week, Hamas attacked evacuation routes and prevented Gazan citizens from fleeing an active warzone. [1]
They did that because they routinely use Gazan civilians as human shields. Hamas intentionally builds military targets close to schools, hospitals, and mosques, putting soft targets in the way of both incoming and outgoing fire. Hamas encourages Gazan civilians and children to stand on the roofs of buildings they know the IDF is targeting. [2]
Hamas has refused to allow elections in Gaza since 2006. Not just Palestinian National Authority elections, mind you. No open elections for any office have been held in seventeen years. Palestinian rights to free elections and self-determination have been denied by Hamas. [3] (And good luck to anyone who tries to blame that on Israel, because elections were held by the PNA in the West Bank in 2012, 2017, 2021 and 2022. It's Hamas's intention alone to purge democracy.)
Hamas's track record on human rights is appalling. Palestinian prisoners in Gaza face unfair trials and death sentences after being tortured by police. Palestinian women are prevented from accessing the legal systems to escape domestic abuse situations. Political dissidents in Hamas, even ones who merely support the other half of the Palestinian government, have been summarily executed. [4] [5]
Peaceful organizers in Palestine protested Hamas's massive tax hikes in 2019. Hamas security forces responded by assaulting demonstrators, tracking them down, raiding their homes, and detaining them. And, as previously mentioned, prisoners in Gaza are not treated well by Hamas. [6]
Edit Nov.5, 10:30 PM: I forgot to add arguably the most important thing-- Hamas manipulates the humanitarian aid they receive away from helping Gazans and toward killing Jews. 5% of Hamas's budget actually gets used for humanitarian aid, while 55% goes to military use. Construction equipment intended to rebuild Gaza's crumbling infrastructure is used to build a complex series of underground tunnels. Those tunnels in turn are used to smuggle Iranian military equipment into the country. They were also used for human trafficking in the October 7th attacks. [7]
If you actually want Palestinians to be free, you can't just replace Israel with Hamas. But it's not like they're the only option for supporting Palestinian liberation. While Fatah doesn't have an immaculate historical track record, it now operates as a leftist, democratic socialist, secular Palestinian government that fights for a two-state solution. Similarly, Arab-Israeli political parties like the Hadash-Ta'al coalition support leftist, anti-Zionist, and two-state solutions from within the Israeli parliament.
You can and should support Palestinian liberation movements that abuse neither Jewish nor Arab human rights and dignities. Plenty of them exist out there. But if y'all continue to throw your weight behind an antisemitic and anti-democratic terrorist regime, Palestinians and Jews will both take note of exactly where you stand.
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jayflrt · 10 months
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a stoner’s guide to starbucks
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PAIRING ▸ lee heeseung x fem!reader (ft. enha, winter from aespa, beomgyu from txt, and dino from svt)
GENRES ▸ social media au (smau), crack, fluff, stoner au, strangers to lovers
WARNINGS ▸ profanity, sexual jokes, zero braincells, limited knowledge of the starbucks corporation, weed consumption, dumb shenanigans, ignore timestamps!
SUMMARY ▸ in which you work at the starbucks where heeseung is a regular at (and considered a public enemy). also he only goes when he’s stoned off his ass.
AUTHOR’S NOTE ▸ hello !! i am alive (real) also i was so committed to the bit that i got high to make this <3 shoutout @hoonbear for the Extensive Starbucks Knowledge 🫡 i would also like to note that i am NOT doing a tag list for this smau. also please note that this is a fictional setting and to boycott starbucks in real life for firing their workers over their pro palestine speech
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INCOMING MESSAGES !
TEASER
PROFILES ONE | TWO
01. weed guy beomgyu
02. red bitch with the freckles rizz
03. starbucks public enemy #1
04. 50% cut ???
05. lee heeseung: upstanding citizen, NOT murderer
06. clearing up misunderstandings with an aqi under 50
07. chat is this real
08. daddy’s home 2
09. biodegrade ur chance at romance
10. triple filtered reverse osmosis water filtration system
11. losing the idgaf war
12. crazy gets u bitches
13. banned in the name of love
14. riki s worded irl??
15. 8ball brings nations together
16. killing myself postponed tonight repostponed
17. scheming sponsored by crazy bitch 62 and unimportant goon
18. the do-over date to end all first dates
19. seek BetterHelp.com
20. quarterly store meeting (remote)
21. WHAT ARE WE
22. heejake support group for heejake victims
23. bro fumbled the unfumbleable
24. sunghoon is the new Papa John
25. according to penal code 837 🤓☝️
26. jungwon pulls bitches (the duolingo owl) too
27. someone PLEASE take jungwon to see the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie
28. 14th date’s the charm
29. doc mcuggo
30. nothing to write home about
31. LONDON I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL I LOST MY QUEEN TOO
32. starbucks double chocolate brownies
33. having a kid together before dating is next level
34. tweaking out on 5 hour energy
35. 7.83 inches
36. The Milk Makes The Man, And The Man Makes The Milk
37. sunghoon from papa john's from starbucks
38. then who's flying the plane???
39. league of legends quarantine ex girlfriend
40. WELCOME HOME CHEATER 😐
41. unknown evil forces (chaewon)
42. friends to rivaling coffee shop employees au
43. do NOT get the weed frap
44. now on channel 9 news
45. choose your fighter heeseung tit variation
46. kitten i'll be honest, daddy's about to kill himself
47. a fire can be put out but missing a bereal is forever
48. baby's first customer connection score
49. #STARBUCKS_FIRST_WIN
50. epilogue
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UNCUTS !
weekly weed check 🗣️
SUNGHOONXJLAW
happy weedsgiving
minjake texts
the Sunghoon Special
goons vs baby shark movie
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COMPLETED 12/1/23
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