Happy Halloween, an oldie.

Yeah.

You know I never shipped Zutara back in the day. But I've been thinking lately about how it would have looked for the disgraced prince that's been banished for three years; who briefly returned only to become a traitor again; helped the avatar topple the current regime; and then ended the 100 year war to also start courting a girl from the water tribe. I mean yeah Zuko is likely cleaning house of all the Ozai loyalists and many people were likely exhausted by the war and glad to see it end. But still that's a populace who's been fed propaganda for over 100 years on the righteousness of the war and the superiority of the fire nation and who now has a fire lord speaking against all of it. A fire lord who seems more comfortable with earth nation and water tribe dignitaries than his own people, including his choice of a bride . In a way Mai seems like the more politically sound choice. A way to reassure the fire nation that they're still a priority and that not too much will change. Fire Lady Katara could possibly only stoke the flames of civil war. But then as Iroh said water is the element of change with a deep sense of community that holds them together through anything, and I think it'd actually be really interesting to see Katara step into all of that political upheaval and change because she might actually be the perfect person to lead them through it. And now I'm really fascinated by that concept.

There are likely to be conflicts either way. On the flip side, Zuko marrying Mai, companion of Azula, loyalist of the old regime, and whose father was governor of colonized Omashu, is likely to make a lot of people unhappy in the Earth Kingdom and Water tribes. Especially if they had reason to expect him to choose Katara. It would certainly make for an interesting story.

Oh, I like this a lot! Adds even more fun political tension. And yeah Mai would possibly not be a great choice for improving external relations, especially for Ba Sing Se as well. It's not easy no matter how it works out.

Scarlett Ibis fly by Will Kim

Rao Fu (Chinese, 1978) - Evening Bell (2023)

Rao Fu (Chinese, 1978) - Fischermaid II (2024)

Fred Ingrams

I think they would've been friends

Voltron x Atla au where lance is the avatar (1/3)

time travel regulation organization where it’s not official policy, but it’s common practice for field agents to keep a binder at their desk with the names of their family and friends, their address, their anniversaries, their schedules, their passwords. everything you would need to steal an identity—virtually anyone who’s been a field agent for more than a year has had to steal their own identity at least once. the timeline they all work to protect is concerned with wars and presidents and major motion picture releases. some margin of error is allowed, and it’s not uncommon to find agents walking around dazed, coming back from a mission to find their best friend unexisted, and a wedding ring on their hand that matches the ring of a stranger. some give up on all relationships, not even letting themselves love their siblings. some wear lockets on their missions, so that if the photo on their desk has shifted in its frame on their return, at least they have something left of the timeline that now never was. agent zhang, who works hebei-shandong-jiangsu AD 1850-2000, has eighteen different family portraits. in some some agent zhang has a wife, in some a husband, in some have neither. three portraits have one child, one has four, one has seven, most have none. some are in courtyard houses. some are by white picket fences. many have parents, but the newest one has none. you ask agent zhang if it wouldn’t be easier just to let the alternate timelines go. agent zhang points at a child four portraits back, a little girl with a missing front tooth and a goldfish bowl clutched in her arms. “i never learned what that goldfish was called. i took her out for ice cream as soon as i knew she existed, and i didn’t even get to see her come home from school the next day.”

Inspired by @seasideoranges & @sulkybender !

I am like a butch inversion of Samson - the longer my hair goes without cutting the more my energy is drained out of me only to be restored by the next short hair cut

Drive - Jeremy Miranda , 2024,

American , b. 1980 -

Acrylic on board, 10 x 10.45 in.

Sean Randall aka Sean William Randall (Canadian, b. 1965, Burnaby, BC, Canada, based Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) - Last Flight, 2023, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

Beetles, 2022.

Link to the online workshop to make these guys: https://pardalote.teachable.com/