katara never forgetting what her mother looks like because she sees her in sokka, and sokka never forgetting what his mother was like because he sees her kindness and warmth in katara.

Honestly learning about food and culture keeps leading to a lot of interesting revelations like of COURSE Sokka won’t shut up about meat, as someone based on the Inuit people his diet would be 99% meat and his body would be a lot worse at getting proper nutrients from vegetables and grains and the like. Like it’s also the “haha sokka likes meat joke” but he and katara are likely not getting anywhere near as much nutrients from not meat meals, especially because when they do get meat, it’s a lot leaner then they would be used to. Katara is just likely better at bottling it up then Sokka. Sure, they would be used to eating some plants, like foraged berries, but their bodies are much more adapted to heavy fatty meat based diets.

That infamous prison escape.

ID: Katara and sokka in swimgear. in the first image, sokka is searching for something in the water. his hair getting wet. katara leans over to him saying "don't you think, its time for a haircut?" in the second image sokka rose form the water, a dog-shark creature in hand, swinging his hair in Katara face splashing her. smugly he says "no <3". End ID

i know its winter! i know it likley snowed by now on the northern hemilsphere! but... on the southern side is summer time right??? so... its fine.... this is fine!!!

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!!! please do not use or repost this artwork without permission!!!

Aang: 👋😄 ----> Aang: 🙃

i mean he is tiny you don't get him in higher resolution anyway but... you guys seem to adore aang beeing yeeted so ... a blurry close up.

also obligatory second favorite

That nobody of you is worried that that little creature is likley food...

My take on the older water siblings, the prides and joys of the Southern Water Tribe.

Commission info

OH. MY. 

Zuko was wrong, actually. (I think.maybe.) Because juice, like, comes from the moisture in thing thing and then you remove the non-liquid bits, whereas in (most?) tea, you infuse the leaves with water instead of relying on the inherent water. True hot leaf juice would be if you extracted liquid from a couple leaves and heated it up, which would be expensive and probably bitter but a fun way to do it

Thank you, Professor Sokka

Boiling things in water in order to transfer flavor and other qualities into the water is, however, the standard way of making broth. Therefore, tea is just a very specific kind of vegetable soup.

Zuko: Welcome to Pao's Leaf Broths home of the world's weakest vegetable soup may I take your order

Uncle: *despair for his family intensifies*

i think it's time to rewatch the original Avatar animation series

I get to some parts of saying that Sokka shouldn't be much of an s*xist in the live action because yes there are more characteristics of him that do matter but that is one of the biggest most obvious of his character first introduced rewatching it Katara says so herself so removing any aspects of the topic just because it's "offensive" or "iffy" it's just bad sense on how to introduce a good character cause they all had their own ways of growing but next to Zuko Sokka really was the major one and I'm with that every step

ALSO it messes with Katara's arc, I think, because part of the reason she is a) so mad about the Northern Tribe and b) so prepared to throw down is because she's already dealt with Sokka's (very quickly resolved) attitude.

And also... Sokka is sexist for like... three episodes? And it always struck me as that very normal little boy sexism -- boys are awesome, girls suck. Kind of the same way little girls are all like girls rule, boys drool.

He grew up. He got over it. HE WASN'T AWFUL, NETFLIX.

Exactly! Yes in a way it will interfere with Katara's view of sticking up for the women in the Northern tribe and people seem to miss this cause these siblings are close and what one does affects the other. Yep by the third-fourth episode thanks to Suki he realizes what a jerk he was. So really it's only short live with this side of his and people think it's a season it's not!

Yeah! And I mean... what's wrong with an arrogant character? Because that really was the root cause of his sexism, and the actual arrogance, combined with insecurity, took him much longer to get past. But that was a good arc! It was important! And like... if Sokka hadn't been obnoxious and a bit arrogant, I think the Gaang would have literally Died. Like seven or eight times. They NEEDED him.

I get to some parts of saying that Sokka shouldn't be much of an s*xist in the live action because yes there are more characteristics of him that do matter but that is one of the biggest most obvious of his character first introduced rewatching it Katara says so herself so removing any aspects of the topic just because it's "offensive" or "iffy" it's just bad sense on how to introduce a good character cause they all had their own ways of growing but next to Zuko Sokka really was the major one and I'm with that every step

ALSO it messes with Katara's arc, I think, because part of the reason she is a) so mad about the Northern Tribe and b) so prepared to throw down is because she's already dealt with Sokka's (very quickly resolved) attitude.

And also... Sokka is sexist for like... three episodes? And it always struck me as that very normal little boy sexism -- boys are awesome, girls suck. Kind of the same way little girls are all like girls rule, boys drool.

He grew up. He got over it. HE WASN'T AWFUL, NETFLIX.

AU idea.

Aang eventually quietly passed away in the iceberg and the avatar cycle continued. Sokka is the new avatar. He is, in every other respect, exactly the same as canon Sokka. He didn’t even know he could bend until he found the iceberg and accidentally opened it and he’s still highly suspicious of the whole thing.

Aang is still a character but only Sokka can see and hear him. It’s an avatar thing.

Katara, yelling: please… just Learn the Waterbending Move

Sokka: I cast boomerang.

Also I like to imagine that Zuko shows up and takes Katara prisoner (not without a fight, but still) because clearly, she’s the only bender present and therefore must be the Avatar.

Cue Sokka going avatar state for the first time.

Wait, who will Sokka’s airbending teacher be?

Aang. Wait, no. Appa.

I fucking APPROVE.

Also Sokka learns the elements in the reverse order because who’s gonna tell him no? The other Avatar?? He’s got this flying bison, original master of airbending, right here to teach him. And Katara can cover most waterbending related issues for a little while so it’s not like he needs to learn that right away. And also it turns out that with a little practice airbending can change the trajectory of a boomerang in midair so why not???

They still meet Toph, right? Sokka learns earthbending from Toph?

But of course!

Man I just realized how much Sokka and Zuko are actually perfect foils for one another in so many ways. To wit:

Zuko is literally the tragic anti-villain/hero version of Sokka.

Also this idea is really starting to grow on me and I kind of hate it because that probably means I’ll actually have to write a fic about it at some point.

ok, but with aang dead, who does katara marry?

#see but iroh is seeking it whereas sokka is pulled into spirit stuff kicking and screaming (x)

A professor in the world’s most prestigious university: It’s impossible to find the spirit’s lost library without dying during the search! I have spent my entire career and life looking for it with absolutely no results to show.

Sokka, who is about to be the one to spot the library after about an hour’s worth of casual searching, be the only member of the Gaang that the owl spirit directly addresses when asking why they are all in the library, and, after about ten minutes of light book perusal, find the incredibly rare and useful information that the Fire Nation actively attempted to obliterate: VAY-CAY!

via bonesbuckleup

#he’s piloting zuko like in ratatouille (via @azulapropaganda)

"please just order, I don't need to hear the backstory of your cactus allergy"

Aang Makes a Betrothal Necklace. (ln response to this post)

Happy 10th anniversary to this, the most reblogged comic I ever created.

You can always count on Sokka :)

oh no now i want to cry :(((

SOKKA ROCKED YA what a good guy. what a wonderful guy. i love sokka’s quiet character arc throughout the series how he goes from being this frustrated teen struggling to meet this extremely limited definition of manhood to being happy and comfortable with the man he is: someone who respects women. who fights but likes to shop too and whose biggest role is holding people together and supporting them who plans and builds and likes to draw and still has self doubts and accepts too much guilt and too many responsibilities and claims t be a realist and a cynic but at the end of the day he puts a rainbow in where one wasn’t before

imagine having to travel the world with your little sister and two twelve year olds who are all extremely powerful, traumatized, and stubborn, and you have very tangible goals with real stakes but to get them to do anything you have to know how to apply a very delicate touch. and you have to do that for months with absolutely no one to vent to. the fact that sokka didn’t lose every single shred of sanity he had is a testament to his fortitude and strength of character. im just saying.

and then the second you’re about to spend a nice, romantic evening with your awesome girlfriend who is your peer, zuko fucking barges in and demands you describe to him in vivid detail how your mother was murdered. like that won’t kill the mood. smh

everyone always goes on about how katara had to grow up too fast and was so motherly for being a very young teenager and that kind of thing has real psychological consequences but like also: goddamn, sokka was a fifteen year old boy who had the care and feeding of three deeply wounded kids who each had the capacity to kill him on accident, plus zuko. water tribe culture might have some rigid, sexist bullshit to get past, but holy shit does it apparently raise good boys. 

this is a cold take imo. i don’t mean to piss anyone off, but i think that you are attributing many of katara’s struggles to sokka. any person would probably have issues like this in his situation, but sokka is a fictional character and a lot of this stuff is never explicitly shown to be something that he has to deal with, but it IS explicitly shown that katara has to deal with all of this.

sokka didn’t have to do anything to care/provide for the gaang besides try (and usually fail) to hunt or fish. it’s a consistent joke that he rarely succeeds at that. in jet he even claims to be the leader and katara shoots him down. he kept them on task while travelling, sure, because he was the map guy, but it was katara who did all the cooking, grocery shopping, caretaking, mending, laundry, chore delegation/emotional labor, etc. sokka straight up says that katara has been caring for him like a mother since kya’s death, to the point that he barely remembers her face. 

and sokka is usually having a blast going shopping for belts and bags and joking around and goofing off with aang and toph, whereas katara has a whole episode exploring how she never gets to do that and what a huge emotional toll it takes on her. she’s consistently the one keeping everyone together, to the point that the show has her outright say so in the desert. even her tale of ba sing se revolves around her putting in an effort to connect with toph and soothe her insecurities instead of simply having a fun adventure like sokka and aang. sokka does goofy stuff like drinking cactus juice and climbing in appa’s mouth and scamming people because he doesn’t have to be the mature one all (or even most) of the time. his development from mostly comic relief to a mature leader is striking because he spends so much time not having to be the adult in seasons 1 and 2. sokka has a rough time of it, because they all do, but he’s not a caretaker for the gaang like katara is. he’s smart, he’s strong, and they all admire and look up to him, but he’s not their replacement dad like katara is everyone’s replacement mom.

you know who actually puts herself in great physical danger whenever aang has a meltdown just to calm him down? katara. who’s the one who actually got hurt by aang while he was training because he was too powerful? katara again. sokka never does that because he doesn’t have to. he’s protective of his sister when she’s in physical danger and he’s supportive after this shit happens and we love him for it, but he is not the one consistently putting himself in harm’s way to meet the emotional needs of traumatized children. katara is.

again, i love sokka, but i’ve noticed a recent trend where people attribute katara’s very specific issues and struggles to him and it makes me uncomfortable. a lot of katara’s traits ring so true to people because there are so many teenage girls who get pushed into that motherly role of caring for people, especially their brothers and fathers and love interests. i’m not saying sokka had an easy time of it or that his contributions matter less, but they’re different contributions than katara’s.

i can see from my notes that this post has been circulating with these additions, and while i usually just let shit like this go on this blog because i have too many followers on here to get into arguments with people, i actually read this whole response and i’m just kind of..... shocked by it?

first of all, it makes a bunch of points i never actually said. “he kept them on task while traveling, sure, because he’s the map guy.” well....... that was basically the whole point of my post. the fact that he had to keep them on task. they all care more about whatever is happening in the moment than the big picture, and sokka is the one who reminds them of their timeframe and goals.

[id: screencaps from "the library" of sokka interrupting aang to say "even if you do master all of the elements, then what? we need some intelligence if we're gonna win this war."]

[id: screencap from "the painted lady" of sokka's extremely detailed and thorough schedule.]

sokka basically acted as the de facto chief of his tribe since he was 13, and was not only tasked by hakoda with looking after the tribe but specifically with protecting katara.

[id: screencaps of hakoda talking to sokka in a flashback in "bato of the water tribe," who tells him that "being a man is knowing where you're needed most, and for you right now, that's here protecting your sister."]

[id: screencaps of hakoda talking to sokka in "the guru," who puts his hand on sokka's shoulder and smiles as he asks him "why do you think i trusted you to look after our tribe when i left?"]

once aang and toph are brought into the picture, he also becomes responsible for them and their safety. and they are all more significantly powerful than he is, so this is a very difficult job.

i am not undermining katara’s role in the group, the emotional support she provides for aang, her heroism, the way she steps up in the desert, her pain, toph’s maturity, toph’s pain, aang’s maturity, aang’s pain, or the fact that all of them provide unique and essential resources to the group in their own significant ways.

this is a post about how sokka cannot catch a fucking break, which is explicitly a recurring joke in the show. im really not stating anything but what’s obvious in the text here. which is why I am so absolutely confused by this response (the second, longer one, I mean. I’m not even gonna bother unpacking the first response).

like..... a lot of the points made in defense of this (needless) argument are just.... very reductive, at some points even straight up incorrect? and again, there was really no point in making them, since the original post said nothing to contradict the fact that katara is integral to the fabric of the group. of course she is. but as you acknowledge, it is sokka’s job to keep them on track. and they are very opinionated, powerful children who enjoy resisting his meticulously crafted schedules and cannot bother to learn how to read a map.

[id: screencaps from "the painted lady" of sokka pointing to his finagled master schedule – adjusted for the extra time katara has spent in jang hui – telling them that "if we want to make up the time and stay on schedule, we have to wake up early," to which toph replies "well i'm not waking up early," as aang and katara nod.]

[id: screencaps from "sokka's master" of katara saying "sokka's in charge of the schedule. i'm not sure what we should be doing," as well as toph saying to aang and katara upon their failure to read a map, "you noodle-brains don't know what you're doing. i miss sokka."]

i’m gonna go through each point made in order now, but i'm putting it under the cut, because it's fucking long. that said, if you read the above response and agreed with it, i implore you to read the rest of my post and take my analysis into account (especially because it took me a while to compile both moments from the show and additional analyses i've made in the past to further back up the points i make here. sidenote: there were actually a lot more images i wanted to use as examples, but tumblr only allows 30 images per post, so i had to be economical. please assume i have more sources i could cite, because i do).

First of all I apologize for the super long scroll u guys had to go through haha, and if u guys did read it thank you! I noticed I haven’t made any fanart with the Gaang all together so I decided to change that..It’s been a while since I did layout so this was a lot of fun to do.  I wrote this as a character study for my faves, but I’m really just projecting because I miss spending time with my friends irl. I’ve been reminiscing all the shenanigans  we got into before quarantine.

This is my first time writing a fic and I’m kinda proud with how it turned out. Big thank you for @lilith-the-first​ for being my beta reader and salvaging this fic omg. She fixed the grammar and made it  coherent  so now looks less like it was written at 3 am haha.