What would you like to see in the new Avatar movies featuring adult gaang? Personally I'm a little worried about any post atla content.

I share your worry. Given the comics and LoK, there already isn't a good track record for post-series content, and the fact that it's been fifteen years also isn't a good sign. I will reblog cool adult gaang artwork but I'm not optimistic about it.

I saw a post recently talking about how the adult gaang should have some great bending, and I agree that it would be awesome to see that, since the bending was one of the things I loved in the original series, but also one of the examples of how the already available post-ATLA content falls short. ATLA had martial arts experts and amazing animation teams working extensively to create bending that was based in real world fighting styles and thematically complex. You can tell that the comics and Korra didn't have the same level of detail put into it. So while we SHOULD see the adult gaang demonstrate some impressive bending, I doubt they will be able to match the original.

I also am not all the interested in whatever stories they might come up with. For the most part, those stories are done with, which is one reason why the comics are bad and mostly just rehash old stories and renege on previous character development. There just aren't any more stories to tell for these characters. And for many of them, we also already know where they ended up in LoK, and it was anticlimactic, so the suspense of the in between has already been sucked dry. I'm not at all interested in the story of how Aang eventually wore down Katara until he finally got an airbending child out of her. The implications are bad enough.

The one thing I would like to see is a Zuko movie focusing on how he got Druk, with a possible political conflict brimming in the Fire Nation over Zuko's attempts to reform the FN and firebending. Give me Zuko and the gaang secretly raising a baby dragon while certain people are invested in making sure the dragons stay extinct. This story practically writes itself. Where is it?

Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending

Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here

There are no airbenders in the crowd

All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.

No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.

Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.

Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.

This is so heartbreaking.

You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.

have you heard of that new hot spot in ba sing se 🍵

why wear a huge ass overcoat when you can just hold your crush's hand? [ids in alt]

kinda wanna make the last panel a standee lol

Don’t forget we invade the Fire Nation today

girl who does NOT play when it comes to her bald bf

also posting these two on their own :-) based on This post by @outpastthemoat

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

Sometimes I think about exactly how powerful Zuko’s story as an abuse victim is and I just have to stop and tear up for a minute.

Just let it sink in that at 13 years old, Zuko’s father mutilated him in front of an audience and told him he was worthless and unwelcome until he completed an impossible mission. Nobody stepped in to help him. Most onlookers thought he deserved it, and even Iroh was too afraid of Ozai to challenge him in Zuko’s defense.

Zuko went on for years believing Ozai was right, and didn’t recognize what happened to him as abuse. He thought his banishment and suffering were his own fault because something was wrong with him, and that it was his duty to change to become worthy again.

Then this scene? Absolutely incredible.

Zuko’s whole journey leads up to this confrontation, where he not only recognizes that he holds no responsibility for the abuse inflicted on him; he confronts his abuser and tells him he was wrong to treat him that way, that he doesn’t owe his abuser anything.

And not only that, Zuko also tells Ozai that he sees how he’s hurting the rest of the world the same way he hurt him, and vows to stop him. That’s literally so powerful, especially watching this as someone who once felt as broken and alone as Zuko once did. His story is everything to me.

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A while ago I was invited to contribute to the Form the Ashes ATLA fan Zine for @recovery-zine!

I got to illustrate this double spread! (which was terrifying, thank you) Pretty sure this is where the thought "Jee survived the north" began to form for me! The theme was about the war ending, peace settling and people getting to come home and reunite with loved ones.

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

unfathomably based thank you uncle iroh

the zutaras are back at it again !!

expanding on my au idc x