Atla nation, come get y'all's juice

Winter, spring, summer and fall Four seasons, four loves

for zukka week day 3 // song lyrics

Can I just say

The physical distance between them, getting closer and closer through Spring, Summer, Fall

Then taking a big step back in Winter, not for lack of love, but

Alternate ending to the siege of the North Pole

AU where Sokka’s high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)

based on this beautiful tumblr post

bonus:

I hear y'all like shipping videos

With the Netflix ATLA out, I've seen a few shipping videos going up by youtubers I follow.

:pushes glasses up nose: I released mine three years ago.

It's the first video essay I made, and I'm still pretty proud of it tbh.

The final match is now!

Giant Plushies // Molapila on Etsy

I think. I'm onto something

Disabled Representation Has Come Farther Than You Think

You’ve Just Been Conditioned Not to See It.

I recently got into a huge fight with an abled friend about disabled representation, in which he was completely convinced that the stance he held was that of an ally. He’s a long time friend of mine and I know he really did think he was fighting for us and coming from a place of trying to help us.

And it really got me thinking about the way abled people perceive disabled people. And how that message is internalised and reinforced in so many ways.

My friend was trying to say that characters like Cyborg, Misty knight, Daredevil, Toph, Edward Elric, Bucky, Nebula, etc were not good representation. And he at first refused to listen to me (an actual disabled person) when I was like; no, we like that. we love that. we LOVE seeing badass and competent and sexy disabled people. It’s validating and empowering.

His argument was that it didn’t really count because nobody saw them as disabled and that it would be the same thing as saying Gamora is black representation.

While I understand where he was coming from, both of us also being black, it was hard to get him to understand how it wasn’t the same thing.

Gamora is a black actress painted green to portray a green-skinned alien. She has black features, yes, but within the narrative she very much is not a black woman. She’s an alien.

But a disabled character is always still a disabled character. Regardless of how high tech or SciFi or magical or fantastical the world or universe is; an amputee with a prosthesis is still an amputee. They are still disabled. Yes, even if their prosthesis shoots lasers.

And other characters, like Toph and Daredevil, who are both blind, have superpowers/superhuman abilities that allow them to overcome their disability. That does not make them less disabled.

Their blindness still impacts their everyday lives. They can’t read. They can’t draw. They don’t know what things or people look like, or what color things are. They can’t read someone’s facial expressions during a conversation. They can’t follow a map without assistance.

When I asked my friend for examples of what he considered good disabled representation he said Professor X, Oracle, and the Thinker. And that made me pause and I won’t lie, it upset me. It felt degrading. I got kind of angry at him and it got a little heated.

Because what he was saying is: the smart one in the wheelchair that never actually joins the battle because their body is too frail? Those are the only good disabled characters? The ones who still need to be protected and treated tenderly and are physically weaker?

Do we only exist when you can view us as some subhuman lesser other that you can take pity on?

But it’s not only my friend who thinks this way.

I’ve seen quite a few arguments online about people who don’t think Edward Elric is disabled, despite being an amputee.

Who don’t think Cyborg is disabled, despite the fact that his entire power set is due to a life support and mobility aid device.

And my friend was shocked that I, and many other disabled people, find these depictions of strong and confident and capable disabled people empowering. He fully expected that I would find those depictions offensive.

And that’s when it really hit me.

The issue is not that characters like Bucky or Toph or Daredevil are bad representations of disabled characters.

The issue is that people don’t perceive them as disabled. They’ve internalized this belief that disabled people have to be weak and delicate and fragile and in some way physically inferior.

They’re only considered disabled if they’re tragic and/or weak. Or ugly. People love to project a tragic subhuman otherness onto disabled people who are ugly.

If they’re cool and badass that confuses them. That doesn’t fit with the narrative that’s been built in their heads.

The idea of a competent, confidant, and strong disabled character, especially a cool disabled character is just so completely foreign to them that they don’t even consider it.

Now I’m not saying that depictions of disabled characters like Oracle or professor X are bad or harmful. We need representation of disabled people who aren’t strong and don’t have superpowers and maybe don’t feel particularly empowered. That’s a genuine representation of many disabled people.

It just isn’t the only one.

I think the issue with disabled representation is not that it doesn’t exist (as I’ve seen many abled people online claim in our defense) but that we need to shift the way we think of disabled people so we stop overlooking a lot of the really cool and badass and awesome disabled characters we do already have.

So if you read this far through this essay, please stop for a moment and consider the preconceptions you have about disabled people.

Have you ever overlooked a disabled character because they were strong, powerful, charismatic, or, (God forbid!) SEXY?

And if so, I’d ask you to take some time to examine in yourself why you don’t think of disabled people as being able to be those things.

Mod Izzy

This is a really good, really important read. 

I rewatched both shows at the same time, of course this was gonna happen

 (i know Ed’s leg is in the opposite side shh)

[Images are four coloured drawings of characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Fullmetal Alchemist interacting.

The first image features Aang and (human) Alphonse. Aang is wearing air nomad robes with one shoulder exposed, and Alphonse is wearing a plain white shirt, brown waistcoat, and brown pants. Aang smiles as he holds his hand out toward Alphonse, a bright flame dancing above his hand. Alphonse stares at the flame with stars in his eyes, and cups his cheek with one hand and points at the flame with the other. He excitedly asks, “W-What kind of alchemy is that? (Brother are you seeing this??)”

The second image features Toph and Edward. Toph is wearing her usual Earth Kingdom outfit, and Edward is wearing a black jacket, black pants, and heavy black boots. Toph stands triumphantly with her fist in the air as she metalbends Edward’s right leg high into the air. Ed, thrown off-balance, screams in indignation.

The third image features Zuko and Roy Mustang. Zuko is wearing simple his season 3 Fire Nation outfit, and Mustang is wearing his usual coat; he is also putting on his gloves. Zuko, with a focused expression, asks: “So you just… do the thing with your fingers, and fire comes out?” Mustang, smirking, responds: “Basically, yeah.” Zuko tries to snap his fingers, though nothing happens, and he asks: “Just like that?” Mustang affirms: “Yup.” Mustang has stars sparkling around his head.

The fourth image features Iroh and Riza Hawkeye. Iroh is wearing a green Earth Kingdom robe, and Hawkeye is wearing a black shirt with her jacket at her waist. Both are sitting on the ground, Iroh cross-legged and Riza with one knee up. Iroh holds a tea kettle in his lap, and he hands Hawkeye a steaming brown teacup, which she accepts with a soft smile. They seem to be chatting pleasantly.

/end description]

@princess-of-purple-prose

have an atla centaur sketch dump! try and guess who my favorite character is lmao, i didn’t make it incredibly obvious or anything

my apologies to anyone who knows anything about horses bc im sure most of this is not actually how horses work, and even more apologies bc the ID describes them as “brown” and “dark brown” etc on account of I didn’t feel like googling horse coloration

[ID: four images with 2 to 3 sets of sketches on each, of various characters from Avatar the Last Airbender as centaurs, all wearing their canon outfits slightly modified to fit. The sketches are colored but not shaded and the sketch lines are very messy. End ID.]

Longer ID below the cut

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Team “Oops I Accidentally Got Frozen for a Really Long Time and Woke up in the Future”

Atenahena made an ATLA anime opening and i aM IN LOVE

ONE PERSON DID THIS????? the fUck????

I'd watch it.

LOL This is so crappy. Apologies if this has been done before.