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Imma just list because I’m kinda in a rush
I personally cannot choose a favorite between these but my most played of these is did I tell you that I miss you
You guys can just vote your fav
When you get this ask answer with five of your favorite songs and send this ask to ten of your followers
Diet mountain dew - lana del rey
Every girl gets her wish - saint avangeline
The giver - Chappell Roan
Juno - Sabrina Carpenter
Strawberry blonde - Mitski
Christmas kids - Roar
Good girls (don't get used) - beach bunny
The milk carton - Madilyn Mei
1985 - Bo Burnham
Moment in the sun - Sunflower Bean
Imma just tag ten people
@doompicklez @bonsai-just-wants-to-forget @faerieofthenight @unnamed-enby @ladyloss-blog @itsabbyaa @shroombloom95 @eatin-bread-n-cryin @zithergiltscorner @midnight-soulless-system
Notes game! I’ve seen a bunch on my feed and my life’s falling apart so why not
10 notes- I’ll get caught up on all my math homework
25 notes- I’ll eat 3 full meals a day for 3 days
27 notes- my special number!! If your the 27th note you win this trophy 🏆
50 notes- I’ll talk to my mom about switching therapists
75 notes- I’ll be finally draw portraits of all my ocs
100 notes- ill eat lunch every day for a entire week
125 notes- …I’ll plan an overnight trip with all my friends (we haven’t hung out in a long time)
150 notes- I’ll make a fully drawn comic of my ocs
200 notes- I’ll journal every day for a month
250 notes- I’ll tidy my room
300 notes- I’ll wash my laundry and fold my laundry
350 notes- I’ll check in with my friend who’s kinda struggling (I’m very anxious about this..)
500 notes- at the crazy chance that I get here, I’ll uhh ask my crush to dance?
550 notes- I’ll clean and organize my closet
600- wowie I don’t think I’ll get here but if I do I’ll go clothes shopping ( i barely own any stuff)
650 notes- ill text my crush 🤭 (social anxiety 😦)
No rules, as many notes per person as they please
okay change of plans. The notes limit is 50 for comments (sorry)
150 notes! Thanks guys oh wowie thank you KitKat for your battalion. Now for the notes we reached:
10: I finished and turned them in! It feels much better to be free
25: I’ll be doing it for the next 3 days, update on another post at the end of the challenge
27: trophy delivered to my beloved KitKat
50: I’ll do it tomorrow morning, wish me luck
75: I’ve clear my weekend schedule, expect an art post soon
100: whelp time to eat next week, I’ll let you guys know how it goes
(and I can’t eat breakfast today cause I’m getting blood drawn)
125: time to get to planning, I’ll also let you know when it happens
150: well time to clear my schedule, this one may take a few weekends cause I want to do the anatomy by myself
200: whelp I’ll update on that
250: I’ll do that now
300: did that this morning
350: I’ll do that
500: there’s a dance this Saturday Soo we’ll see how that goes
550: 🥲 time to clean
600: next weekend
650: ahhh nooo 🫢 im terrified. I will do it though, it has been comanded
✨Me if I was an airbender✨
So I did take a bit of inspiration from a couple stuff but I’m not sure if I did anything correct, so if I drew something wrong please do let me know
the drawing on the skirt is supposed to be an embroidery, I feel like I would be the kind of airbender to do tons of weaving and embroidery since I’m pretty crafty
I did do this pretty quick and I’ll do a better more detailed one later, maybe remake it when I can actually do anatomy?
also if you couldn’t tell I really rushed on the hair and I cannot keep an art style nor do I even have one whatsoever 😗
thanks for reading my yap sesh byee
Listen, idk what would be funnier, Kavik meeting the other Avatars' gfs in the Spirit World and being the only guy invited to the girls night out. Or him meeting Mako and Yun and trying really hard not to be smug, bc he at least didn't fumble his Avatar
Fuzzy worm based on the sharpie highlighter that was (and still is) stuck on the roof rafters of my church building for years that I thought was a fuzzy worm at first.
happy worm creation my friends
tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)
ugh that ssktyles screenshot they're so miserable. anyways bumi, kya and tenzin are all kataang's children and those bitter zk shippers can die mad about it 🤪
i agree that aang wasn't the terrible father certain fandom corners makes him out to be, he was flawed but ultimately he loved his children and they loved him back. writing-wise though i think the concept of airbending being so synonymous with air nomad culture warrants criticism. i hate the way the narrative painted bumi and kya as less than for not being airbenders even though they had just as much air nomad heritage as tenzin. i can't recall which episode it was but there's a scene where bumi says he finally feels like he's part of the air nation after becoming an airbender and tenzin agrees like ugh no! he was always part of the air nation regardless of bending!
ironically enough bumi and kya embodied their air nomad side more effortlessly than tenzin given how free-spirited they were and picked upon on spiritual matters quicker than he did. i'm also thinking about the ways tenzin embodied his water tribe side but that's a ramble for another day. i just think tlok's writers really dropped the ball in depicting the nuances of the kataang kids' mixed race heritage but yeah i'd love to hear your thoughts on this
Frankly, I don't want to talk about them if I can help it. I've learnt my lesson on interacting with that side of the fandom or thinking one can reason with them. Never again. Block them. For your own good.
I'm just really tired of the 'Aang was an awful dad' thing. He's no worse a father than Hakoda, who also couldn't spend as much time with his children as he wished due to external responsibilities. But Aang didn't get the change to speak to his children about this, because, unlike Hakoda, he was deader than a doornail by the time complaints began to arise.
I'm 50/50 on the airbending question. In a vaccum it's a solid concept. To ye ole air nomads, airbending was a matter of spirituality, to the point that if an airbender list their spirituality, their airbending could weaken, or dissapear. This is a very cool concept, and ties in nicely to the Air Nomad's ties with buddhist monks.
However, when set in a world where, to the other nations, bending is more up to the genetic lottery, it sets some very obvious hurdles for mixed families. Which isn't an entirely bad thing, it would be interesting to be fleshed out. It is a shame, but it's also not the only potentially amazing storyline to not be explored in the show.
I think the fact that Tenzin is our main window into tlok's Air Nomads is also what sorta drags their characterisation down. As nicely as I can put this, Tenzin can be a bit of a stiff prick, especially to his siblings. Granted, he's under A LOT of stress and pressure (plenty of it self inflicted), but still...
Shifting more into perspectives of a less baggage-ridden character like Jinora, or newer airbenders like Opal and Kai (here is Quill's very sneaky attempt at begging for more Opal content) might have given us a newer, less local-man-convinced-he's-the-single-person-upholding-the-legacy-of-a-genocided-nation flavoured viewpoints.
Tenzin feeling the pressure more than his siblings was, frankly, unavoidable. Even if Aang and Katara didn't encourage him taking on the air nomads legacy at all, he would still be expected to participate in it by outsiders, being what he is. It's certainly a case of someone's identity becoming political, and being burdened with great responsibility for something you can't change about yourself, a phenomenon many minorities irl are intimately aware of.
I do like how Aang handled this aspect of raising Tenzin, wven if it seemingly did not stick lol
Tenzin internalising the importance of his airbender heritage is also not improbable. The issue, to me, is that he is never challenged on this.
Don't get me wrong, I adore the moment in the Fog of Lost souls when he speaks to Aang's spirit and realises he doesn't have to try to be Aang to carry on the air nomads legacy. It's great start, but it could go further, with him mending rhe bridge between him and his siblings, and realising that they are also part of the Air Nomads.
B3 would be a good place for that arc, but it doesn't happen. I hate the "well you're part of the nation now 😌" scene between Bumi and Tenzin, because it feels so artificial. Wouldn't surprise me if it existed because people felt bad for Bumi in B2, and it were an attempt at quickly patching that up. But that's purely speculation, as B3 just feels like it's full of useless fanservice in general.
I can actually get behind Tenzin's mildly condescending attitude towards his siblings. If I had to get into his head, Kya and Bumi both shirked whatever responsibility they had to the Air Temples, even if it was smaller than the one Tenzin was saddled with. Bumi joined the military, which is not very pacifist-monk of him and Kya left the fold to wander the world. Leaving Tenzin alone to carry the weight of the Air Nomads. Of course, from their perspective, they were already excluded, but Tenzin didn't seem aware of their feelings.
I think multiple people have pointed out the hypocrisy of Tenzin, leader of the Air Nomads, criticising his sister's nomadic lifestyle, but I'll do it again. It is very funny, how Kya and Bumi seem to more effortlessly embody select Air Nomad values, and certain of Aang's personality traits, than Tenzin ever could.
Kya, of course, spent a lot of her time as a nomad and seems to genuinely take to meditating and spirituality. Similarly, Bumi seems to naturally gravitate to spirits, even befriending one.
I'd actually argue that Tenzin is the most similar to Katara personalitywise. People have joked about how he got her temper, but I think it's more than that. They have other similarities in personality, as well as their deep and fierce love of family and need for a community. I also like that they're both not natural bending prodigies. Katara was shown struggling with waterbending, but became a master through perseverance and passion. Similarly, Tenzin didn't get his arrows until he was over 16, a far cry of Aang and Jinora who were both around 12 for it.
Honestly, Tenzin trying to be so much like his father, when he's obviously a mama's boy is one of my favourite parts of his character.
I honestly wish we had more between these two, and perhaps an arc of Tenzin reconnecting with his Water Tribe roots. He clearly does have some care for them, visiting for festivals, and with a lot of the furniture around Air Temple island having some callbacks to water tribe furnishings weve seen before. But it's obvious he's cut himself off from that aspect of himself to focus on the duty of rebuilding the Air Nomads.
So, I think my ultimate opinion on the cloudbabies and their relation to their Air Nomad heritage is, like with many aspects of tlok: excellent potential, great setup, fascinating characters- not enough time and fumbled execution.
Hi, call me chi-chi, im a multifandom digital artist, would you like to be friends?
Yeah I’d love to!
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