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Avatar: The Last Airbender 1.05 | The King of Omashu
Wow those moves look like someone who’s childhood best friend was an airbender
…Shit, you’re right.
That spin he does. That is an airbendery move.
Literally the exact same move Aang pulls when he gets off his glider (cant find a gif but like… I promise)
This shows attention to detail was unreal.
Even the fall backwards! That looks like the exact kind of thing a fun loving Airbender kid would do while showing off gliders and airbending proficiency.
the best benders in this show tend to be the ones who adapt elements of other bending techniques. Bumi has some airbender-y movements, Zuko and Iroh use some Air and Water movements, even Katara tends to use some earthbender looking moves when bending ice
Meanwhile Toph just took earthbending and cranked it all the way up to 11.
Everyone else: The spice of variety! The four elements make mine stronger! Ballerina time!
Toph:….meTal….bendy bendy
id argue that metal bending is somewhat influenced by nonbenders. remember how many times she fought tai lee or how many times she fought alongside sokka? the nonbenders fight by pinpointing and utilizing their strengths in a given circumstance moreso than a bender. toph figured out metal bending by finding the bits of earth inside metal. pinpointing her strength in a difficult situation.
It’s evil to give people an education, time with their children, and healthcare? 🤔🤔🤔
^^^^ American brainwashing and conditioning is insidious.
This is America 🇺🇸
yanks be like maternity leave? not ending up 30K in debt for an ambulance ride? fair wages? decent living standards? sounds communist to me
Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
i saw a really good post about how a lot of peoples hatred of rose stems from us seeing her progression backwards. like its very possible that by the end of her life she felt about her past the same way steven seems to in the movie.
yeah!! idk if there was any One Post that brought the idea forward first, or more like, put it into words, but it’s definitely a useful way of describing rose’s character in the show and helping people understand their mixed feelings about her.
i think it’s really cool, what rose’s character has done. we got to know her exclusively through second-hand accounts (excluding her tape, where she talks directly to steven). everything else is skewed by someone else’s personal opinions/views of her (through i think we can assume since greg’s stories about her are in flashback-form, they are more or less trustworthy as factual)
i was thinking about it earlier today, about why a lot of people seem to have grown to vehemently hate rose and/or pink, and i think it’s for that very reason… like, the closest i can think of it is how we can get attached to a Public Figure, or a Content Creator - you think very well of them, they seem super nice, they did a lot of good stuff, you admire them! but then you find out they did shitty things in the past and it puts you in a weird position because the things they did were! bad! and you feel a bit betrayed, even if you never personally knew them and you never saw the ‘real’ them. were they ever genuine? are they only as real as all the bad stuff they’ve done?
i think liking rose and then growing unsure of who she was and being unsettled by or outright angry about the things she did when she was still Pink Diamond kind of captures a similar feeling. it also works well with how you idealize a parent when you’re wrong, then at some point you recognize them as flawed and just a person, like you, and it can be super difficult to reconcile that.
she’s very interesting!! but i think it’s really important to both 1) appreciate how far she did come, in actuality - she DOES grow a lot, at least philosophically, but also 2) her position as both a gem and as a Diamond made changing herself in any sort of meaningful, constructive, positive way REALLY DIFFICULT
lately people have been talking more about how the way pink was brought up (by the Diamonds) contributes a lot to why she acts the way she does (towards Spinel, towards Greg, etc.) which is great! but i also think that people generally undervalue the fact that gems are… ALIENS… literally BUILT to be a particular way, to fulfill a specific purpose… just, in general, they don’t even have a lot of CONCEPTS that we do. of course we’ve learned enough about them to understand gems are susceptible to the same follies as humanity - anger, fear, resentment, mental and emotional instability, etc. etc. But it’s not a really ~natural~ way for them to be, they have to TRY to adapt to that sort of thing, which leads to really extreme cases like Spinel or even Lapis
oof but i’m getting into a whole other topic entirely!! i’ll just rap up by saying yeah, it’s super cool that rose’s character arc is sort of given to us in reverse, it makes for a very interesting relationship between her and the audience, but such an approach obviously has it’s pros and cons. i think it’s cool and i’m glad a lot of people are understanding better why rose/pink is a conflicting character for them.
This fool posts the following under the ad about school shootings. Children getting killed. His bio reads he believes in God and Trump. Please Vote these ppl out.
This commercial brought me to tears…you should watch it. VOTE
I can’t imagine this ad played on TV. Imagine the outrage from parents and people who would rather ignore the problem behind school shootings. Damn shame
yeah im sorry but id rather live in a country where i can go to school feeling safe than a country that cares more about gun rights than human rights
Very funny how I knew exactly what they were doing, even with the thing muted! Also, I knew all of this already.
Where I live, they make kids use clear backpacks. kids hide knives in wrapped up sweatshirts to prove that it doesn’t mean anything.
We live in fear.
We literally live in fear.
That girl at the end, texting her mom she loves her? That’s real. That really happened to a girl, who hid in a bathroom for two hours.
“If I don’t make it I love you, and I appreciate everything you did for me.”
I don’t post “political” stuff but this is some scary shit. I just need y’all to be aware.
I hope America wakes the fuck up at some point.
This shouldnt have ever been political. My life. My little siblings lives. Those are not supposed to be up for debate because some rich asshole wants to line his pockets with NRA money, and some gun toting monster cares more about his assault rifle then his own kids lives.
I live in fear everday that i will be the one who sends that last text. Or that im going to recieve that last text from my brother or sister.
If you think guns are worth this, theres a special place deep in hell for you.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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