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Adonis, from "The Desert (Diary of Beirut Under Siege)", The Pages of Day and Night, tr. Samuel Hazo [ID'd]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#adonis#the desert#the pages of day and night#syrian lit#of war and violence#m#x
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I think Aang should have been separated from his friends in "The Desert" episode.
He ran off to find Appa, and flew so far away that he couldn't return to his friends. And Katara led the others out of the desert, unable to look for Aang.
Thus, their branches would split into two: Aang would search for Appa, following in his footsteps, and the rest would head to Ba Sing Se, hoping to meet Aang there.
The fact is that Aang doesn't play a role in the plot in Ba Sing Se. The main characters entered the palace thanks to Toph and her knowledges, they got to Lake Laogai thanks to Katara's healing abilities and Jet, and diplomatic negotiations were entirely carried out by Sokka. Aang only created a zoo here in the filler, he didn’t influence anything else, so I would make a separate arc for him so that he wouldn’t be useless.
Since Appa was seeing Guru Pathik, Aang found him earlier, following his friend's footsteps. And he stayed to study the state of the avatar not for half a series, but for several, thereby showing that opening the chakras requires time and effort.
And when Aang reached the last chakra, he could feel Appa at Lake Laogai because they have a special mental connection. And, without wasting a second, he went to save his friend from shackles and torture.
In the finale, Aang would meet with his friends, but without Katara, because she was caught and imprisoned in the catacombs along with Zuko. And now all roads lead to the caves, where Azula, Zuko, Katara and Aang will meet in the final battle.
In this case, I would also expand the imprisonment of Katara and Zuko, making a mini arc out of it. Katara doesn't wait for Aang to save her and tries to find a way out herself. However, she needs to work together with Zuko, and together they would build a relationship not only through dialogue, but also by working together.
They would have to rely on each other to get out, which requires trust. And in the end, when they had overcome several cave obstacles and had even become friends, Zuko would have betrayed their mutual trust, thereby truly hurting his newfound friend.
This teamwork would also explain why Katara and Zuko later work so well together, since they would have already laid the groundwork for this here...
#atla#avatar the last airbender#zuko#atla zuko#prince zuko#katara#atla katara#aang#atla aang#the desert#atla critical
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the fact the writers had to nuke sokka in ‘the desert’ by putting him on cactus juice bc they knew if he was thinking clearly the gaang would be outta the desert in 3 minutes max and they wouldn’t have an episode.
#atla#sokka#the gaang#the desert#this blog is 70% sokka and i’m not planning on changing that#anyways i’m pushing the sokka-is-a-genius agenda no more doofus sokka
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Sokka's delightful self in The Desert (plus a pouty Zuko)
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Location: North Algodones Dunes Wilderness Area, Imperial County, CA
#desert#california#the desert#travel#nature#photography#north algodones dunes wilderness#imperial county#sand dunes
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The Lancaster, California Zone.
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Day 9 — the desert
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I'VE BEEN DOING THIS DAYLY-DRAWING-THINGY FOR OVER A WEEK I'M STRONG I'M POWERFUL
Wanted to give myself some freedom with colours and go insane with layers :D
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Suit yourself. It's very thirst-quenching, though.
AKA Sokka hopped up on cactus juice.
SOKKA in 2.11 THE DESERT | AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
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anyway poor toph in the library and the desert like. her new friends were SINKING in a library plumneting into the sand and while she couldn’t fully stop it, if she hadn’t tried they almost definitely would have died, she bought them valuable time, and appa was being taken right out from underneath her and she tried to save him, too, she did, but there’s only so much one person can do, and all of this was happening while her awareness of her surroundings was much less sturdy than usual. and then she gets blamed for it ://
#i get aang was Going Through It#but like. c’mon. she tried her best#atla rewatch ‘24#the library#the desert#toph beifong#i get they were trying to show how callous and even somewhat irrational people can be when they’re upset but also#aang’s ‘you could have come to get us!’ no she literally could not have. the library was sinking.#if it sank any Faster (which it would’ve if she’d stopped) they’d have died.
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Adonis, from "The Desert", The Pages of Day and Night (tr. Samuel Hazo) [transcript in ALT]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#adonis#the desert#the pages of day and night#of war and violence#reading#syrian lit#m#x
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#moomin#moomins#tanoshii muumin ikka#tanoshii moomin ikka#tove jansson#snufkin#harmonica#music#the desert#anime#mine: gifs
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Been missing the desert lately,
Feeling the warm breeze sweep across my skin as I relax in the shade of an old juniper,
Stepping carefully through the sagebrush, pinching off a leaf every now and then to take in the fresh scent and soft texture,
Waking up in the middle of the night, nose cold from the chill as I listen to the coyotes sing across the valley
A billion stars shining overhead, and absolute silence as a hush falls over the sleeping landscape.
#three months was not nearly enough time on the west coast#god I miss Oregon so much#rambles#personal#not witchcraft related#desert#nature#the desert#great basin#writing
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The Desert
Alternate title: Gimme Appa back.
"But I believe, Aang can save the world." no pressure kid.
I had completely forgotten about these two chuckleheads. For once the 'Previously On' segment is useful rather than spoilery.
Ok Aang is going to get the world's biggest pass this episode, because he's in the suckiest of all situations. But even so, how exactly was Toph supposed to come and get them, when she was both actually blind for once and the only reason the library hadn't drowned them yet?
Aang has something of a history of running away. Does going after Appa count as running away from his friends?
Zuko's theatre kid tendencies are genetic.
The way Iroh said "What Now?" you know he was actually saying "fuck's sake."
Zuko's hair seems to grow very quickly. I thought that I could use his hair growth to measure time passing but this is not tracking. He barely had a buzz cut in The Chase and now he's fluffy.
Two things: a) this guy has eyes greyer than Aang this episode. b) He's cocking his hands like that ridiculous Henry Cavill scene from Mission Impossible where he cocks his biceps.
This guy's spear has piercings. And is coming out of a Dragon's mouth.
I don't know that I'd call these guys legendary. They're zero for two against an Avatar in Drag and two starving refugees with three functioning arms.
Doesn't Katara ever change out her water? Or even use it up and have to refill it?
I said it last episode, and I'll say it again: why did five people, a lemur, and a ten tonne sky bison travel into a desert famous for its desertiness with only a single water pouch between them? Admittedly, if they'd brought extra water and left it on Appa, they'd be having the same problem, but still...
Is a kids' show actually going to go there?
They actually went there!
Honestly if you're dying of dehydration in the desert, eating strange plants is absolutely the way to go. I'd rather trip my way into the afterlife than just shrivel up and die.
I love the way Aang's glider shadow moves over the dunes. Another one of those tiny details that the animators could have left out, but they didn't!
Sand benders must get crazy high speeds if Aang can't spot even a trace of Appa from up high. He wasn't Appa-napped very long ago.
Everyone go watch the scene where Aang blows up the mushroom cloud. Go right now I'll wait. And pay attention to Sokka's mouth. It does the wave.
His mouth does the wave and his arms do the worm. Someone really had fun this episode.
Zuko breaking the world record for highest number of Fire Nation wanted posters. Despite being the only person on that board who's unquestionably loyal to the Fire Nation. What a nice reward he got for his loyalty.
How is that one wrestler dude's hair so shiny?
Why, other than plot convenience, would Zuko and Iroh be at the Ice Spring?
I see now that the left hand shadow is Sokka with a Momo on his head. But for just a second I thought it was Ramona from Scott Pilgrim.
There are some really beautiful colour gradients in this desert.
"We won't survive without Appa." Well yes, but you have to try.
If this is a normal desert they're going to freeze their butts off overnight.
No comment. Just vibes.
Hey this is a Katara episode! Toph is blind, Sokka's zoinked, Aang's given up, so it's Katara time baby!
This episode has no business being this pretty.
"Sokka. I was there." I'd be very surprised if Katara's voice actress doesn't have an idiot older brother. That line was delivered a little too perfectly.
I'm not going to comment on every Sokka is high joke, but rest assured I'm finding them all hilarious.
Those drinks cost a gold piece each. Where did they get five gold pieces from?
Colour me shocked. The chuckleheads actually had a good idea for once.
Colour me shocked again! I vaguely predicted this!
Zuko. Honey. How are you this dim? He's so very good at missing exactly what's in front of him.
"Gold?"
Big muscles. No brains.
Very pretty. The sand texture is good too.
Well that was mean.
Passive aggressive glider deployment. Also how low is that cloud if Aang can reach it to bend it?
Aang is not shining this episode (understandably) but Katara is going from strength to strength. I NEVER would have thought that she was someone who could keep her cool under pressure like this. Happy to be wrong!
I have no idea if Sokka is going to remember or be aware of this epic trip he's on, but this is probably the best time he's had in months. Certainly since Yue died. He deserves this. Bad timing, but he needed a break.
"You must forgive my nephew. He is not an initiate, and is dumb as shit and incapable of reading the room."
Why is there a flower shop in the middle of the desert? What clients do they have? Obviously it's a front for this pai sho secret society thing, but why did they pick such a nonsensical front?
Toph has so much personality that it's easy to forget how tiny she is. Like a little gargoyle.
Sokka talking like a Greaser was the thing I didn't know I needed.
Poor Katara. Now you know how your brother feels every time he has to save your bacon from your weekly prison break.
I am losing my mind over these colours. Especially after The Library.
"I have a natural curiosity." I'm going to start using that.
Oops they found the circle bird nest.
Hey showrunners, you're going to take Momo from me too? You sure you want to do that? After last episode? Don't give me a pretty sunset with a latte swirl. Give me back Appa, put down Momo, or I'll sic Toph on you.
I do like Toph as a piece of artillery.
Turns out a combined Appa and Momo -napping is what it takes to get Aang to break his no killing rule. I now know how to defeat the Fire Lord.
The Audacity. Going to Ba-Sing- however the hell that's spelled. The sheer audacity. But then what? What's the plan after they get there? Just live the rest of their lives?
Rejected Mortal Combat guy.
You ever have one of those days where you do only your top lip?
Whoever made that door, and that lock - good job!
Nothing to see here, just making a delivery of two giant planters in the middle of the desert. The Owl decided to spruce up his entryway.
Y'all are fucked. Y'all deserve it. Aang has completely lost control. He's spent the whole episode losing it more and more and now he's gone completely off the rails. Has he ever zipped into the Avatar state that fast before?
Never underestimate the power of a woman who's fed up with everyone's nonsense. Just so fed up.
Well that was sad.
Badass name of the day: Malachi Throne, voice of a character whose name I don't recognise.
Final Thoughts
This was Katara's episode. I'm not going to forgive not getting Appa back, but Katara actually keeping a level head for once was an unexpected delight.
This episode was pretty unrelentingly heavy in the A-plot, which is why I don't understand why Sokka and Momo tripping worked so well. It did work, and I very much enjoyed it, but it should have stuck out like a sore thumb and it didn't. The beat up Sokka quota fulfillled from within by chemicals was a nice creative touch.
I am very happy to see Iroh take the wheel, although I'm not convinced there's a long term plan here beyond get food and shelter. Which, fair enough, goals tend to be short term and immediate when you're in dire straits.
This episode really stomped all over Aang. And then stomped some more. I was surprised how negative and shouty he was at the beginning, but by the end I was surprised how long it took him to lose it. Apart from his staff and his clothes, Appa really is all he has left from before he got frozen. That sandbender punk was rotten to the core.
So I guess we're going to the earth kingdom capital regardless of the eclipse information. Is the rest of the season going to be getting there? I also can't help but notice that it's where Iroh and Zuko are headed as well. Zuko could actively run in the direction opposite to the Avatar and he'd still end up tripping over him. The earth Kingdom is ginormous. And yet, like every two episodes Zuko runs into the Avatar. Is it fate? Is it plot convenience?
I should dislike this episode. It's 24 minutes of our faves getting beat down and not finding Appa, with a b-plot of Zuko being more oblivious than usual. I should dislike it, but I don't. This is definitely going on the rewatch list. It was a very pretty episode, which helped. Beyond that I can't put into words why I liked it, but I did!
#atla#avatar: the last airbender#avatar the last airbender#The Desert#Dessert?#Desert is one of the words where the longer you stare at it the less it's a word#Like Sausage#Sew-sahhj
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It is perhaps the most cinematic church in California.
This structure located at East Avenue G and 198th Street East in the rural part of Lancaster, California has been seen in Straight Time (1978), True Confessions (1981), Kill Bill (2003) and numerous other film and TV shows.
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