avatar-four nations | four elements

Some previews for the Korra comics popped up yesterday and the lord is testin my patience to wait 8 more months

• katara calling sokka out for being sexist, to his face, loudly, no beating around the bush, in the first five minutes of the first episode
• katara literally fighting the patriarchy, and winning
• suki telling sokka that she’s both a girl and a warrior, and being one doesn’t cancel out the other
• sokka’s character development 
• the sheer diversity and quality of the female characters (of whom there are a lot compared to most cartoons)
• aang didn’t have to compromise his beliefs by killing ozai, and he wasn’t seen as weak for finding a way around it
• toph 
• everything about toph
• zuko’s character development
• azula’s portrayal as someone sad, rather than as someone to mock, especially in light of her obvious mental illness (at least, that’s how i saw it, if others saw differently i won’t argue, i haven’t got the ‘bad’ mental illnesses)
• uncle iroh
• uncle iroh’s relationship with zuko and it’s development through the show
• the clear message that power is nothing if you have no compassion
• the message about it being okay to dislike your family if they’re abusive (zuko, toph to a point), and that found families are just as good, if not better
• the characters respecting aang’s philosophies about nonviolence and compassion
• aang keeping his cheerfulness and sense of joy, even through rough situations
• the message that you can’t do everything alone, and needing help isn’t weakness
• that time sokka got high on cactus juice 
• “that’s rough, buddy”
• “death is an illusion, and so are pants”
• you know what
• the entire show
• the entire show is what i love 
• the
• entire
• goddamn
• show.