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#zuko

Yer wrong, Zuko.

lo-cotidiano:

I’m rewatching Avatar: the Last Airbender from the beginning

And one of the links I’m using is from Nick.com, where they put in fun facts about the characters and the voice actors and stuff into the episode

I’m watching “The Warriors of Kyoshi,” and there’s this scene where Zuko goes, “nice try, Avatar, but these little girls can’t save you!” 

And this is the fun fact the writers put in:

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jhameia:

rosesmusings:

anangelstears:

bellagerantalii:

airbendersandelves:

fireladyswag:

OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!

AS IF MY HEART HASN’T BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH ALREADY

OH MY GOD MY BABIES WHAT WHAT IS THIS WHY HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD AAAAAANG ZUUUUUUKOOOOOOOOO ;______;

………..buh

……………………………………… AAAANG ZUKOOOO

OH MY ZUKO

ALL MY LOVE

ALL MY LOVE ZUKO

Holy shit are there a lot of A:TLA comic scans going around now. In this page, Zuko makes Aang promise he’ll kill him if he ever goes evil.

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meatandsarcasm:

squiddishly:

sifu-hotman:

Firelord and Lady and stuff - arelia-dawn (and if you don’t think this is sexy enough, there’s this).

Okay, Avatar fandom, so one of my pet peeves is white washing in fan art.  Like drawing Katara as a white girl, or modelling Zuko on RPattz.  (I wish I’d kept the link to that one.  It needed to be seen to be believed.  Alas, it’s lost in the mists of Tumblr and Twitter archives.)

Mostly I keep my mouth shut, because heaven knows it’s a rare occasion when the image in my head matches in the image on the page, and I try not to judge people for a slip of the pen.  

But in the case of a carefully and beautifully rendered picture, where the artist herself states that the faces are modelled on European-Americans, I don’t feel so restrained.  In the comments, she states:

“To be fair, though, the Avatar world—though mostly based on Asian culture—is fictional. And because it’s fictional, I don’t see race as an issue. I suppose some imagine the characters to be more “Asian”, but since I live around mostly white people, I just picture them as white. Can’t help it xD”

Well, to be fair, I think that changing Asian characters and making them white is pretty racist.  Can’t help it.  In fact, I think it’s gross and offensive, and it’s more common than I like in Avatar fandom.  

Upthread said it better, so I’ll just add: why does Mei look like Michelle Forbes on Battlestar Galactica?