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(when life gives you lemons)
Aang: *makes lemonade*
Toph: *thinks they are limes*
Suki, a wine mom: *invites the kyoshi warriors and asks them to bring tequila*
Zuko: *sets them on fire and throws the fire-lemon balls at Azula who immediately sets them on blue fire and they disintegrate*
Katara: *waterbends the lemon juice into the eyes of her enemies*
Sokka: *throws them back and yells* ‘BUT I WANTED MEAT’
is it just me or are we not informed of anyone's last name besides toph's in avatar
If dangerous ideas didn't excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.
AKA the Gaang in an Arcane AU
The removal of the sexism pisses me off not because it just affects Sokkas character but because it has ruined almost every woman in the show.
Suki takes off her make up often, as if it isn't a large part of her cultural identity and personality, as if her being a kyoshi warior and her destinctly femenine clothes are something to be ashamed off or that hinders her. Because its only her that gets this treat amongst the warriors, and shes the only main kyoshi warrior for the audience.
Yue's entire character is removed. It is replaced with what I think is meant to be a sympathetic princess to the people, she joins the nans in the kitchens and make deserts for the children. Like a disney princess whose quirky and silly and held back only by her title of a princess. Gone is the battle between her desire to help and her duty to be a water tribe ideal woman. Gone is her realising that the best way to help her people is to not be an ideal woman, but to take action and to do what no one else can, to become one with the moon so that she can forever help not just her tribe but the entire world. It is depressing, it is deep, it isn't fair to her but when has the world ever been fair?
Katara aswell. Her bending is forever unlocked by men (Aang and Jet), her defiance of authority is lessened and her naievety is also changed. A lot of her motherhood role is also completlty gone since they have changed Sokkas sexism into elder brother smothering. Her fight with Paku holds a lot less significance since she has no RAGE behind her. No rage that has built for YEARS as time and time again people have said no to her face for being a woman, for being weak, for not being enough simply because of who she is. that doesn't exist for her anymore because the water tribes are just...nice. We see one bad person in the water tribe and its Hadoka and he's mean to sokka! Kataras rage comes from Paku saying no to her, and whilst thats swell, it changes her entire "I'm a master now" moment into just...lame girlbossery. Thats kinda how the entire last 2 episodes felt like for her character. A common girlboss character without the emotional depth to make it femenism.
I think my main issue is that both shows set themselves up as being femenist by nature. The og show wanted to tackle issues with sexism, using book 1 as its main demonstration with it, but the theme still follows throughout the narative. netflix's show outright said they were removing the sexist elements. When you place youself onto that pedastal, any sexist writing you have becomes emphasised.
The og show undoubtably has sexist moments! Irohs comments to June are the most obvious to me, a long with a couple comments from Zuko later on. You can certainly argue that the extreme lack of GOOD mother figures is an issue (Kat and Sokkas mother is dead, Zukos is 'dead', and Toph is awful and rather quite compared to her father). Theres other examples, although currently my brain cannot think of any since I don't often write indepth critisms.
The live actions main point of sexism is its female main characters. we literally meet Yue in the kitchen! Women can be in kitchens but that is certainly a choice! Theres this strange hatred for make up aswell, yes with Suki but also with Sokka. His war paint is removed. Its like saying make up cannot be worn by strong fighters which is rather sexist. Speaking off: not putting Sokka in the kyoshi outfit is just...dumb? If you want to show him learning the style, having him wear the outfit. Its an aspect of the style and philosophy. A man wearing make up and a skirt doesn't emasculate him yet the show makes it feel that way with the refusal to do it. "Oh but then you'd have Sokka and Suki kiss in the kyoshi outfits" who cares. "it will look like lesbians" it won't. Even if it did, who cares? you can't be 'femenist' and anti-lesbian. Putting Sokka in the Kyoshi outfit, having him respect it, is just as important as having Aang learn the other elements, or Iroh creating lightning redirection. Why? because it shows a respect of culture, and how you can blend that into your own way of thinking. It's cultural extchanged based on respect.
When you name yourself femenist, yet have explicitly sexist writing, your GOING to get dogpiled with critism based on that 'femenist' msg.
An old sketch of sokka and suki 😊 I just had to draw the hug form the boiling rock eps
commission by @rose-bunny-28 !!
This piece was so much fun since this is my first time drawing suki ever (how dare I not draw her before I know) and pokemon!!! I never played pokemon before but as a kid I thought they were so cool!!
fav ty lee ships other than tyzula?
Mailee I've recently been introduced to tysuki and maizulee (yes that's technically Tyzula though 🌝)
Do you like tysuki?
Sure! The kyoshi warriors are all a little fruity with each other 👍🏼
Got a sad one here, Azula reaction to learning Zuko died? e.g it's not even her fault, the gaang have to tell her, he just - - didn't make it through one of their adventures. How hard does that hit her?
Hii! So I FINALLY did this request after awhile because I was struggling so much with it 😭
I think Azula would first see it as a victory but later when she's alone she would break down
I wanted to make a fully rendered piece but I ended up just coloring sketches instead so I’m genuinely so sorry if that’s not what you wanted
Here is my atla oc! His name is Jin he's a water bender from northern water tribe and his main love interest is zuko if anyone wants any more info on him just send an ask
THE GAANG + MORE AS TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS::::
zuko: reputation or ttpd
sokka: 1989 or lover
aang: fearless or debut
katara: red
suki: speak now
toph: fearless era taylor when she throws chairs
yue: evermore
jet: reputation
azula: reputation
mai: folklore
ty lee: 1989
More Suki + 2/16 of Zuko's sisters
Suki's, Zuko, Mai & Sokka's posts
The noble consort
Zuko, Mai & Sokka's post
Fuck you
*alternatives your team avatar*
Close ups w/ & w/O text :3
Alt team ladies!!
"Come ride on me, I mean, camaraderie
Said you're not in my time zone but you wanna be
Where art thou? Why not upon-eth me?
See it in my mind, let's fulfill the prophecy
Ooh (ah)
Who's the cute guy with the wide, blue eyes
And the big bad mm? Like"
Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem
+ w/ text
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