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sweetiepie08:

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thequantumqueer:

e-e-e-s-the-avatar:

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The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

katara: *kicks zuko’s ass without even blinking*
zuko:

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I literally just watched this episode, and I’m sorry, but there’s one thing funnier:

Zuko couldn’t speak during this whole fight/escape in case someone recognized his voice. Can you imagine the frustration he must have felt having to go through an entire fight without yelling? Zuko???

Especially while dealing with Aang’s shenanigans?!?!?!

One of my favorite parts of rewatching the episode is imagining everything that must have been going through Zuko’s head during that escape.

Aang: Wait! My friends need to suck on those frogs!

Zuko, trying not yell out of anger and confusion:

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clubolive:

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[ID: a digital drawing of Sokka and Katara standing on a frozen lake. They’re both smiling facing the viewer and holding hockey sticks. Sokka is wearing a navy blue Water Tribe hockey jersey with a gray hoodie underneath and black hockey skates. Sokka has his hair pulled back in his signature wolf tail. Katara is wearing a black jacket and a light blue quarter zip sweater underneath it. The jacket has her name written in tiny white letters on the right and the arm has a white Water Tribe symbol on it. She is wearing her hair down and she also has black hockey skates on. The second image is a closer crop of Sokka and Katara from the first image. End ID.]

Gift for @2us2kstuukkarask for the @atlanewyearexchange! Happy new year!!

avatarsymbolism:

laurarosborn:

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Sorry Aang, Zuko’s was cooler. Granted, that’s mostly because Zuko does things ten times more dramatically than everyone else. 

Katara should really be more careful though.

This is so interesting to me. Zuko grabs Katara (rather than shoving her) as he runs past, goes into a roll (he lands first, absorbing the shock,) and finishes the roll shielding her from the debris without landing on top of her. The whole action is designed specifically to protect her (and to a lesser degree, himself) from as much damage as possible – from any source, including his own body.

Aang on the other hand, just frickin’ tackles her.

The difference between a battle-hardened veteran with years of combat training… and a regular (if agile) dude who really just wants to save her from death by boulder by any means necessary.

It’s some really brilliant, subtle acting. We already know that the animators on this show are amazing, but this is a really good example of why. Not just the flawless rendering of what the characters are doing, but the careful consideration of how they do it.

Without a doubt, though, the best part of this post was this masterpiece of a tag: #katara vs. rocks

#atla#I wonder how much this has to do with aang being an airbender too#like he literally just kind of throws himself at things a lot because like#he can fly#and generally use airbending to cushion impacts#whereas firebending by necessity probably involves a lot of ‘stop drop and roll’ technique#especially when involving a kid like zuko

Oh, that makes sense as well (And stopping, dropping, and roolling is what what we;re supposed to do if we’re caught on fire, so it makes sense that a firebender would know know this. 

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AU where Maul doesn’t get sent to a trash planet and recovers his sanity much faster so by the time Anakin is twelve he and Obi-Wan have Maul periodically popping up while they’re on missions and trying to kill them.

at one point he actually manages to sneak into the temple, but because it’s a centuries old structure that’s been continuously added to for almost as long as it’s been around, it’s completely impossible to navigate without a map, so he ends up lost inside the temple for weeks. by the time he finds Obi-Wan some poor master has mistaken him for a lost shadow who just got home after years and years and has fed him and bathed him and clothed him in jedi tunics

It turns out that Obi-Wan isn’t even IN the temple, so Maul decides to continue his cover as a jedi until he gets back. By the time Obi-Wan does return, Maul has actually started enjoying his new life and doesn’t want to leave it, so when he runs into Obi-Wan in the hallway, he ignores him. Obi-Wan, who can’t believe that the man walking around in beige and bowing respectfully whenever someone greets him is Maul, decides that it must be a weird coincidence and decides to be perfectly polite and normal about it and then go cry in his room alone.

#“master windu i haven’t moved on from qui-gon’s death - I keep seeing maul everywhere” #*cuts to maul glowering in a corner mulling over the ways he can kill kenobi but keep the clothes food and sweet accommodations* (via @smhalltheurlsaretaken)

@avoid-avoidance said:

Maul acts normal and and innocent and waits until he’s SURE he’s in a camera blindspot and no one else is looking, and then he gives Palpatine the BIGGEST shit-eating grin. So now Maul is inadvertently protecting Anakin because Palpatine has to switch priorities from grooming Anakin to killing Maul before he can spill any secrets, and Maul is more or less inflicting long-distance psychological torment on his former master just by existing

and imagine Palpatine weaseling his way into the temple as an excuse to try and work his claws a little deeper into Anakin, and HE bumps into Maul in beige robes with all the respectful bowing and teeth that are showing signs of recovery from working for SithCo which Doesn’t Even Have Dental

qirarey123:

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Katara has always been my favourite character and she doesnt deserve the hate just for mourning her mother.

ahsoka-in-a-hood:

Star Wars politics are funny because they’re fundamentally grim in a way, despite being built on hope. I find that, well, utopians? I suppose, have trouble with it. There’s no peace promised, no ending, no resolution. only an individual duty of care. One that will exist as long as sentience exists. The fight will never actually end. In the prequels you have your democrats and your separatists and your imperials, but there’s no fourth option in the narrative, there’s no perfect system just lurking out of reach. There’s just them. There’s just us. Like, Padme isn’t politically naive, she spends the whole first movie getting intimately acquainted with the failings of the republic, but she’s still fighting for it. Her politics are lucas’s politics, democracy is the only hope simply because it’s the only option offered that’s supposed to offer individual agency to participate in it, and only people can save people, by caring enough to do so, but you can’t control how or whether people participate. They might exploit it, they might destroy it, they might passively watch as it slips away because they assumed someone else would defend it. They will all lose in the end, like Dooku did, like the separatists did, like the imperials did, because even if they won for a while, they don’t care about other people so they eat their own, because even if you are a predator, there’s always a bigger fish. ““but you said that the biggest problem in the galaxy is that people don’t help each other”“ when your thesis is the individual responsibility of every person to the interconnected universe they live in, then the dereliction of that duty is the cause of societal collapse and darkness. But there’s hope if you have faith in people, I guess.