battlingeccentric:

dzamie:

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lesbianbrachiosaurus:

bananonbinary:

eternalgirlscout:

Avatar OC concept: a pedantic earthbender with a degree in geology who can bend ice on a technicality

the implication that bending is completely reliant on whether you think you should be able to instead of like…innate laws of the universe pleases me greatly

me bending someone’s bones: buddy they’re practically just limestone I mean it’s on you for walking around full of rocks

I mean that’s pretty much how Toph did her thing:

“There’s bits of metal in rocks. Probably bits of rocks in metal. I can bend the rock in the metal, and that’s PRETTY MUCH metalbending so yeah imma just invent a whole new discipline of bending.”

Actually, things that you could probably rules-lawyer your way into doing:

• Earth: ice is a crystal; bones are pretty much rocks so at worst I can debone you like a fish; dust
• Fire: drawing heat away makes things colder; it’s not airbending if I’m just making warm and cold places in the air; did you know you have lightning in your nerves; it’s not metalbending if I’m just wrapping lightning around this metal rod
• Water: no need for a puddle when there’s any kind of humidity; it’s not earthbending if the rock is damp; bloodbending is illegal but throwing someone’s bladder around inside them isn’t
• Air: it’s not X-bending if I’m just lifting it with air; sounds and voices are just funky air

and of course

• non-bender: gun

Waterbenders: I cast piss your pants

I mean… Topher and Katara did both mud bend on multiple occasions. And Katara cloud bended with aang. Aang dis use Airbender to lift a rock to make people think Katara was an earthbender.

The swampbenders are right. The separation of nations and elements is just an illusion.