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there’s some lava bending going on there….
so she separated the ground down to the mantle layer (magma chamber)?
then floated that chunk on lava then air bended it over?This is often cited as the single most powerful feat in bending in the entire franchise, and I’m inclined to agree. Kyoshi Island also manages to wind up quite a distance from the mainland–let’s assume it’s still on the continental shelf, otherwise MY GOD–and is large enough to sustain a reasonably-sized village with agriculture. Unless there’s an earthbending equivalent of the great comet going on, this is nuts.
Avatar Kyoshi also lived to 230 years old.
All of this begs the question to me–what the hell was up with her? Did she get a spirit-world power boost or something? These things are all very much outside the norm, even in a world of such extraordinary people.
What’s everybody’s theory on this?She was just that strong
My thought has always been that Kyoshi was one of the few Avatars that was completely at peace with who and what she was. Every other Avatar we’ve seen – even the best of them like Aang and Korra – are conflicted over what they have to do and how they do it. Guilt and self-loathing over their responsibilities and actions, regret over what they could have done better.
Kyoshi, however, never doubted herself. Even without being arrogant, she always saw that what she did had to be done. She took what were the only options. You see this even in the advice she gives to subsequent Avatars: Be decisive. Be final. Commit.
Because of that, she was one of the few (Maybe only) Avatars who was able to completely encompass the powers available to them. No part of her subconsciously didn’t want to use them. There was no hesitancy buried so deep that she even didn’t realize it, Unlike Aang, or Roku, or Koruk, or Korra, or Yangchen, or even Wan, she was able to give herself over totally to whatever she was doing and hold nothing back.
That’s why she was able to accomplish feats of bending and skill that no other Avatar could equal: Because she, alone of all the Avatars, had she SHEER CHUTZPHA to do it.
In a way it reminds me of the first lesson Toph told Aang. Face your problems and issues. Ther is no escape. Just do. Earthbending is straightforward and it keeps you from overthinking.
Avatar Kyoshi was a great earthbender who lived by its lessons and she became a great Avatar.
more evidence that this is just the sheer power of will of kyoshi is that her eyes arent glowing in the flashback. She wasnt in avatar state. She was using her own raw power to do this.
to anyone who says “doing that will make you the stupid one”: the idea here is to make them explain the joke till they realize how racist they sound, how unfunny they are and how offensive their joke is, making them uncomfortable to retell the joke again
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God really did not want the Saxophone invented.
god works hard but Adolphe Sax works harder
This is just the tip of his very interesting life!!!! His mom once said that he spent more time not breathing than breathing. Also, no one actually knew how he fell into the river, his neighbors saw him unconscious face down floating down a river!!!
But full into his life, he had many foes that tried to kill him multiple times due to not only the popularity of his instrument, but the way he was making his instrument. At that point in time, many instrument companies would buy the parts to their instruments, stamp their branding and sell their products as their own. Adolphe Sax, a man of morals, created all parts from the materials in his own factory- other instrument makers were worried that his method would cause the places they bought parts from to revolt….so they tried to burn down his factory multiple times, and in fact once sent an assassin in his house to kill him in his sleep.
And that’s not even the end of his troubles. Originally created as an orchestral instrument, the saxophone didn’t find a foothold in the orchestra because the instrument companies would sponsor artists and would tell their artists to stop playing and sit out of rehearsals if a saxophonist was in the piece. As a result, less was written for the saxophone on an orchestral setting. As the saxophone got a larger foothold in the jazz world due to its ability to project as a woodwind, American composers (like Gerswhin) would begin to use the saxophone in pieces. However the American Orchestral League, a group that sought to keep classical music among the elite, viewed the saxophone as a lower class instrument- because they associated the saxophone with jazz and jazz with sex and other races you get the idea. So they BANNED pieces that had saxophone to be played for a decent part of the 20th century!!!
Now, there still are a handful of classical piece that use saxophone but by and large the classical saxophone has quite an underrated stance throughout its entire history. Adolphe Sax became the first Professor of Saxophone at Paris Conservatory, Marcel Mule created the saxophone quartet with a flourishing career that has inspired thousands of quartets, Sigurd Rascher helped premiere hundreds of concerti, and contemporary classical music has a large place for the saxophone, but politically and culturally the saxophone will always stand for sex, common people, and jazz. But to me the classical saxophonist is also a welcome sign of resiliency and moving on, even when no one believes in you.
Tldr: If Adolphe Sax isn’t your favorite Adolphe than fuck you
fred: hey do you know anyone who can teach me how to play the trumpet
ron: why
fred: i wanna wander around the dungeons and annoy the slytherins
harry: technically you don’t actually need to know how to play it for that
fred: you have opened my eyes, harry
This is completely in character omg
You know, if metroid was new in the current videogame climate, Gamers™ would throw a massive bitch fit at the reveal that samus is a girl.
