Black and fab. 22. Libra. ENFJ.
Bay Area. UC Berkeley Grad: Media Studies.
Writer, artist, illustrator, producer, critic.
Benevolent Media Proprietor in training.
I #E*TonesOrBust.
It's also my business standard.
what things happened in the lok fandom
nothing the fandom did for once - we just found out that nick like most corporations are sexist fuckheads who almost didn’t allow lok to go into production simply because korra is a girl
are you. fucking. kidding me right now
No, unfortunately :(
/throws things everywhere
for everyone still asking about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKhAHeLKsSY
the part we’re talking about is at 17:55
how is this surprising?
I thought we knew this re: action figures of the girls of AtLA
OR LACK THEREOF.
the world of avatarfull size map (3600x1844)
YO THAT IS A HUGE OCEAN I’M NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT TBH
Honestly.
I want more members.
I am covetous.
I want all the members.
Well.
I was supposed to finish at least one of my essays due tomorrow, but instead I drew a pot-bellied pigakeet for AtLA/LoK roleplaying site Hou Tian, based on some picture of a bird I saw on here yesterday.
So, while productive, I am still procrastinating.
{You can check out more made up HT animals: here}
Reblogging because of the excellent analysis.
I fully agree with this, but let us not forget that while FMA is a manga/anime, A:TLA/LOK is an american cartoon, and the narrative and concepts of heroism, epic, and badassness are different in both genre, in my humble opinion
I would say that’s not true, and even if it was, the rest of A:TLA/LOK is supposed be drawing from Asian mythos narratives. The very point of the Avatar is a heroic narrative based on Asian philosophies. As a shonen manga/anime FMA pushes far past the expectations of the prototypical shonen and instead gives us a heroic tale that also includes love, romance, family, and strongly developed female characters. FMA is already not entirely of the shonen genre mold, and A:TLA/LOK is arguably supposed to be taking from the very same ideas and philosophies that much of FMA uses (especially Buddhism).
Plus if “American heroic narratives” involves “less developed female characters who fall in the spectrum between really masculine or really feminine” that uh, is a big problem! And shouldn’t be part of the narrative. And then we should ask ourselves why Japan accepts this, but why the US apparently would not?
I would say the big difference here is that Arakawa is a woman who wrote good characters, and Bryke are men who tried to write female characters who were good because they were just like the boys.
[you don’t have to reply but discussion is there. idk not attacking you just talking]
“Arakawa is a woman who wrote good characters, and Bryke are men who tried to write female characters who were good because they were just like the boys.”
The Complete Worldbending series. Avatar (The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra) as depicted by Windy-Asylum @ DA. (Pugletto @ Tumblr).
Information/Separate Threads:
- Ancient/World Avatars - The one that started it all.
- Air Nomads - The different Air Nations, as influenced by South America, Africa, and East Asia
- Earth Nation - The different states of the Earth Nation, as influenced by the North American Southwest, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- Water Nation - Water peoples! As influenced by Hawaii, Mongolia, and Madagascar.
- Fire Nation - A look at the last and final part of the Worldbending series - the Fire Nation! As influenced by Mesoamerica and different parts of Asia.
Reposting this for the tags.
It’s really simple math, guys.
And if you want a lighting tutorial, I made one here: http://pugletto.tumblr.com/post/44982391105/when-you-guys-ask-i-deliver-i-think-especially:/
highlanderhufflepuffhugmachine:
One thing I really LOVE about Katara is that she’s a woman who really OWNS her anger.
Like, girls are taught to never get angry. Never be rude. Don’t yell. It makes you unlikable. It’s not lady-like.
And Katara just says fuck you to that. She’s sweet, and mothering, and caring, and nurturing almost all the time. But when she’s angry? She’s ANGRY. And she OWNS it.
She yells at people, she threatens people. Sometimes she’s vain and jealous on top of it all too, and she owns up to that. It takes a special kind of courage and strength to look someone in the eye and honest to god YELL at them.
Especially the fight above. Paku is an elder, a man in charge. He’s in a privileged position of power over her. And Katara doesn’t take that shit anyway.
God damn A+ Female empowerment right there.
OMG
yes!
Katara is a nurturing fighter
THIS IS WHY I LOVE HER
And even if at the end of the day, everything does not go as planned, she’s able to move past the anger even if she still feels something is wrong or unjust. Because she can’t right every wrong, and every human can’t always do the right thing. I love that they gave her those flaws, but doesn’t let it consume the character, if that makes sense. Like in ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES EVER, The Southern Raiders, she could never forgive the mother fucker that killed her mother, never, and she knows that. Even when she knew how sad and pathetic he grew to be, she couldn’t make that forgive him. But still, she stepped away from her anger because she didn’t want to be that person.
I’m going to explain why this scene is actually really fucking insulting.
While white people love to be disgusting rude shits to their Elders, many PoC, including me, watching this scene, felt so ridiculously uncomfortable it fucking hurt.
This scene is one of the hugest signs that white people wrote this show.
Katara’s incredibly WHITE, that’s right CRACKERIFFIC, idea of feminism, which is that EVERY person should be allowed to do EVERY JOB in a nation that she’s a fucking EXTREMELY distantly related guest to, regardless of that nation’s traditions, the fear of losing theirselves like the Southern Tribe did where there’s only one freaking waterbender left down there.
Yeah Paku is in a privileged position above her: THAT HE FUCKING EARNED. Obviously there are women who are privileged (YUE!!!!!!) but Katara has no respect for the Northern Water Tribe, their traditions, their ways of life, and in fact acts like a 5 year old white girl told she can’t get HERRRRRRRRR fuckin’ cookie, and ATTACKS THE FUCKING MASTER.
If I were Paku I would go train every other girl in the village just to spite her bitch ass because no fucking 12 year old fetus is going to waltz into MY village that THEY are brand new to and demand I break tradition and then disrespect me and then get fucking TRAINED for the trouble.
Nope.
I’m all good.
Katara’s a cracker.
That’s it.
welp
Finally. Someone had to fucking say it.
Barring the fact that white people basically culturally appropriated cultures from the Asian and Native diasporas, the white privilege behavior dynamics are so prevalent in this show.
Annnnnnnnnnd Katara was the only water bender in the southern Water tribe, the only skilled fighter next to Sokka in an entire population of people and because the rest of the fighters were off who knows where. Probably dead for all she knew. Like how is her wanting to keep a skill that was taken from her home, something her mother died for, a white thing. She already’d went against her morals stealing a scroll from some pirates because she wanted to learned water bender to teach Aang and to get better. So when she finally gets to meet someone who can actually teach her how to waterbend and do her part in saving the world she was just suppose to sit there and be like “Nah, I don’t wanna learn that at all, respect and all. “
This wasn’t some Earth Nation or Fire Nation or whatever girl coming in and telling Paku how sexist and wrong he was and that he should teach Katara. That is white feminist. This was a Watertribe Girl telling a water tribe man that this shit is old and taking that respect. She was taking back her culture from a man in her culture so that future women in that culture can learn waterbending and have a better place in the future. That’s womanism. Western Woman all the time fight for their rights in their own cultures by their own means without the aid of outside feminism. She’s not picketing or calling him barabaic, she’s about to cut that dudes head off in the name of making a difference even if the differences is just for one woman.
If I could find that picture where the woman are hitting the police officers with a stick I would. Just because their said it’s their culture doesn’t mean they aren’t going to fight back. And if culture is more important that Mass Genocide than he needed to get his shit rattled.
