Season 2, Episode 8, 2:32-3:39

i love this style of clouds

Avatar Wan kinda bad.

Hands of Avatars with little headcanons to keep my sanity today

thinking about how korra is the last avatar of wan's era and the first avatar of her era

and thinking about how the southern air temple sanctuary avatar statue spiral always would've been completed with korra in the center of it, the 183rd avatar

and thinking about how the temple signals as though it was always destined to be this way, that korra was always meant to be the inflection point of eras, and how she heralded the world down this path forged all by herself through her sheer power and spirit, bridging the worlds and forever changing its landscape. she did that! she both opened the old portals and created a new portal in the first 21 years of her life, in opposite of her predecessor 10,000 years ago, and she brought back the air nation despite her tumultuous heart, and she sacrificed so much of herself to ensure their survival. she is so full of love and compassion and care and she has given so much of herself to the world. and she is the starting point for the the new avatars after her and there is so much that she alone can give them

After rewatching tlok i'm still holding on to my theory that Omashu either was a lion turtle city in the past or still is a lion turtle city and the turtle is just dormant (or dead, which is more morbid but still possible)

If you compare the design of Omashu to the design of multiple lion turtle cities, they both appear to be very stacked cities, with buildings across all different heights. They're both circular cities as well.

The origin tale of Omashu dates from around the conception of earthbending, which we now know to be about 10.000 years prior to Korra's time (aka Wan's time). Oma, the woman from the story, is said to be the first earthbender. Lion turtles granted people the ability to bend, which both Oma and Shu used to make the secret tunnel leading to and away from the city. The difference is, Oma and Shu learned the technique from badgermoles, which is why they were considered so powerful. (Just like Wan, who learned from the dragon during his time away from the city).

There's a very real possibility that there was a war within the turtle city (we saw all the class problems in Wan's city, and humans are gonna human) and in order to escape the war, Oma and Shu asked the turtle for earthbending so they could escape and be together safely.

On the avatar wiki, it also explains that after the era of the spirits, during the era of the Avatar, the lion turtles got hunted into near extinction. Some turtles chose to hide, like the turtle Aang came across in the show who chose to pose as an island. Earth lion turtles are able to bury themselves into the ground. Omashu could very well be an earth turtle that's buried underground to hide from society, and because so much time has passed history turned into myth.

I know it's a loose theory but i just can't get over the fact that the history of earthbending near Omashu and then the history of lion turtles seems to contradict but also align so well. It makes sense that the two lovers were granted the ability of earthbending from their own turtle and then learned how to use it from the badgermoles.

No one else has said it so I’m going to

The fact that they made the Air Nation women hijabis in LOK means so much to me.

I mean they made the women of air,,,the element of freedom,,,, hijabis,,,, they’re the only true allies. I wish we had gotten a scene in AtLA where Aang had a bit of a flashback/emo moment upon seeing a woman wear a headscarf.

::Beginnings::

It's been 10 years! I wanted to do a screen redraw of when Raava and Wan met with human Raava forever and finally got around to it!

How is AI affecting the Wan Shi Tong library

waava month (2023) // day 14 · protect

no matter what happens - I'll protect you.

The Past Lives + Korra ^-^ !!

+ some bad spellings because I did most of them in hell school !!

Excluded Szeto out because,, idk,,

(I genuinely don't know what to do with him,,)

Season 2, Episode 7, 0:59-8:15

some good clouds from Wan's story

sokka invents the radio / telephone out of a need to communicate with people, because his handwriting is truly so fucking sloppy that most people cannot even decipher it. yes he could just train himself to write slower, but that’s such a waste of time when he could simply revolutionize technology instead

So this was announced and my reaction just like almost everyone else’s was ‘what about Kuruk?’ Cuz like, my man has what 4 minutes of screen time in the shows while Roku had an entire episode about him. But then I thought about it a bit more and like… I wanna something about the avatar directly after Wan.

Hear me out cuz like when we talk about the avatars we know it’s always like when the avatar after Wan would have been born then no one would even know the cycle was a thing and the new avatar would probably have no idea what’s going on and I would have to balance the world with the wisdom of only one avatar (one that they probably won’t know they can even talk to) and think that could be really cool.

Idk just a thought

giving past avatars a face part 21/23

fun fact: the atla wiki describes 3/5 of these animals as edible- the yak is not one of them

I swear I'm a functional person. I have so many of these ready to go, I just keep... forgetting.

Anyway, welcome to the Way of the Inner Planes monk. You guys remember the 4-elements monk? Remember how it sucked? Well, we're trying to do something about that.

This monk subclass draws inspiration from the Astral Self, Ascendant Dragon and Sun Soul monk subclasses, but tries to do what 4-elements ultimately failed to do.

Which, let's be real, was let you play the Avatar. This subclass is definitely about the Journey, and I highly recommend running pure monk at least up to 17th level -- if that's even possible in your game.

Anyway, once again, I always welcome feedback from anyone who's play-tested this or spots something, so long as you're not a dick about it.

The art of Avatar Wan is by missminority on deviantArt.

ALT text has been applied to the images to help as much as possible.

Homebrewery link is here for those that need screen readers or want to see if fully.

Stay fresh, cheesebags.

Korra in the Avatar Generations mobile game intro. Note: Jianzhu was removed in a newer trailer.