Here is the last remaining artist of your culture's ancient, completely unique martial art. Miraculously, she survived a genocide of which your mother was a victim, broke out of imprisonment with a deadly technique she invented, and has lived for decades in secret just to be able to meet you.

You were brought together by fate, destiny itself, a concept you take very seriously. Once she is gone, a major practice of your culture dies forever, unless you take the torch.

Uhhhh sorry she kicks babies. Yeah because shes evil. Don't worry you have Grandpappy Sexism from the other side of the fucking world, it's close enough culturally. She's getting locked up foreverrrrr

'Atla critical' fans piss me off big time because they never critique the actual bad things in the show and instead are just weird racists.They really think they're popping off by calling an asian 12 year old genocide survivor a liberal because he wanted preserve his almost lost culture and that the guy four years older than him who's a direct descendant of the imperliast nation that colonized the rest of the world and tried to kill him for literally half the show because he thought getting his dad to love him was the most important thing ever is the saving grace of the series and 'deserved' the fem mc who he also actively hurt a bunch of times while never speaking a word about how the writers demonized not one but TWO brown characters who were objectively less bad than and more justified in their actions than him and his bitchass war criminal uncle.As an irl victim of colonization by virtue of being afrolatino,keep Aang's name out of your mouth and switching between that and kissing Zuko's ass and instead put your money where it is

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a character you'd die defending for ATLA?

Hama. I don't agree with what she did, but I get why she did it. To me, she (and also Jet) is kind of like Nat Turner. I wish she had unleased her completely justified rage on people who more directly had to do with the war, but I am not mad at her at all. She deserved a better ending than she got (as well as Jet)

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Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy that a show that I loved with my hearts content when I was 7 but then moved on from has come back in full force and now the whole world is telling me Look, look! That thing you loved from the before times has risen from the grave and it demands you love it more and obsess over it more from now until the day you breath your last!!!

I guess, what I'm really trying to say is Hama was right.

Hamas isn't Palestine.

Israel needs to realize this.

And so do the people basically shouting he genocidal rhetoric of hamas, pretending to support Palestine but really supporting terrorists.

Terrorism never solved anything.

Hamas knew how Israel would react, but did it anyway.

You can't create something good through evil means.

he's my emotional support war criminal too don't get me wrong

but if Iroh had a daughter that had died too?

he would have considered Azula worth saving

u ever see a mildly iffy post and look at the comments and just think “wow, everyone here is so fucking unpleasant in their own special way”

Crazy how there are western leftwingers who will outright reject allyship from Israelis who want to help Palestinians and establish a state but will defend Hamas to their last breath

Israel funded Hamas look it up

I'm aware of Hamas' beginnings. But my mother raised & funded me, but when I commit a crime as an independent adult, she isn't responsible, I am. Those are grown men who joined AFTER Hamas and Israel "parted ways", and who were neither ordered nor funded to slaughter 1200 civilians by Israel. Today, Hamas is a proxy for and funded by Iran, Qatar and others who have too much to lose as to attack Israel directly, so they arm & pay a bunch of expendable, brainwashed fools instead, while their cowardly leaders are safe and comfortable abroad and don't move a muscle to actually help their people. Bit like the US, actually, now that I think about it. Send deluded fools to bomb Iraq, tell them it's for flag and country, and let said country go to shit while partying with Epstein. That said, Netanyahu isn't much better either, when I remember that ice cream scandal

I'm not sure you can call Israel's unreliable humanitarian aid funding to include it, but either Israel sends whatever aid it will, or it withholds said aid, it's "damned if you do" with Hamas. They didn't start out as fanatic jihadists when they were still Israel's proxy, that happened over time. Not sure why this paragraph suddenly turned light grey.

Re my last post:'Aang and Katara shouldn't have had to kill Ozai and Yon Rha' wasn't 'Everyone deserves to live uwu',it was 'Aang and Katara are fucking children who are under no obligation to kill for vengeance'.It was never about Ozai and Yon Rha you buncha numbnuts,it was always,ALWAYS about how Aang and Katara's feelings and mental health should come first and finishing O and YR off should've relied on the shoulders of adults,not a 14 year old girl and an entire 12 year old.Personally i gladly would've killed them in their name if i was an Atla character but then y'all niggas would call me a terrorist like you do Jet and Hama,don't even lie-I've read how you(Zutara shippers)write them

Southern Raiders AU - Hama, not Jet

I have been reading a few Hama metas here on Tumblr and it made me think:

What if Aang compared Katara to Hama, instead of Jet??

I mean Jet had a change of heart while Hama's story ended with her as a deranged psycho. So it makes more sense for the Hama comparison, especially based on Hama's tragedy and the horror of the Hama encounter still being fresh. It could have been a slip of the tongue by Aang in the moment as he truly fears for the path Katara is taking.

I see Hama as a tragic figure who was so consumed by her trauma and the injustice she suffered that she began hurting others. Hama is Katara's 'cautionary tale'. She could have easily ended up in Hama's place. Broken and hateful.

Aang comparing Katara to Hama would be way more hurtful to Katara. But I think if done right, Sokka and Aang could use that comparison to better express their concern about Katara's revenge quest. Just food for thought. It's just becoming more and more weird that Aang used Jet given how his story ended. And I really hope Hama got help after the war.

is there an episode of atla that, to you, is flawless or close to it? like you wouldn't change a single thing about it? conversely, if you could rewrite a single episode from the ground up which would it be? either for narrative purposes to make the story better or just for fun cuz you have a cool idea for it?

The Southern Raiders is as close to a perfect episode as ATLA got (and that's actually saying a lot). It was a side plot, but it drove the overall story forward and had great character development. It also gave us The Hug😩👌🏾. Aang (and Sokka's support of Aang) was the worst part of the episode, but he plays a small enough role that I can mostly ignore it, or interpret it in a way that makes more sense.

I've already stated that I hated both the Headband and The Beach, but I don't think either is worth the effort of rewriting. Just scrap them altogether. I guess if I was going to rewrite an episode it would be The Puppetmaster. Hama wasn't treated fairly at all, and frankly, neither was bloodbending or any of the other lessons she taught Katara (that flower trick would have been incredibly useful to Katara for the rest of the war. Don't give me her being sad about some plants dying a bit earlier than expected). I don't know exactly how I would have done it instead, but for sure Hama would have been more upfront about what she wanted to teach Katara to do. I don't know if I would have gone the route of making her more morally grey by only taking Fire Nation citizens that were directly involved in perpetuating the war, or if I would have had Katara be more understanding (though not supportive) of Hama's anger towards the Fire Nation in general. Either way, it wouldn't have ended with Hama being taken back to prison to be tortured some more.

So. Lotr daily came to Rohan and to my favourite Lotr family. The House of Eorl! They are here, my blondies are HERE!

How i love Hama in this scene, making Theoden drink his respect women juice and Theoden being absolutely in for it!

If you can’t tell, Theoden is like my second favourite character in the whole books, the first being Elrond.

Another reason to love the guy. He’s clever and knows both his strategy AND his history. REMEMBER, people of Gondolin, if a guy is attacking you, and he’s powerful and has scouted the area for years, the OLD SECRET WAYS MIGHT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. No, no, what are you doing, use IDRIL’s wa- EEEH, NOP. They ended up toasted. Rest in peace.  At least Theoden learnt from this lesson.

Happened naturally on my dash, almost a perfect example. Of course its absolutely nuts that the top one is making that claim when the videos of the violence and interviews of people who's loved ones died are pretty much the emotional cornerstone of the conversation, like at least so far we haven't seen the sexual violence take place on camera yet so it is at least possible to deny it, but the bodies?

10th monthsary with beel uuueeewwhhh.....