When i told mom he’ll get even bigger she was a little worried (tbh, same!) yesterday i had to move this baby because he was taking over the bathroom and now it takes up 1/4th of my ‘old’ room

Skyward sword on switch..,.,,,,.,

I’m back from the dead, probably like this boy

red sky at morning 🌥️☁️☀️🌅

so I uh… did this again.

some (mis)quotes from @totallycorrectdannyphantomquotes for warmup!

a concept: zuko waiting tables at the jasmine dragon as a well-deserved break from firelord duties, but he does not understand how he keeps getting recognized!!! he’s wearing green and everything!!! it’s inexplicable!!!

zuko: hi what can I get for you today?

extremely bemused customer: um…… aren’t you the firelord???

zuko: you know, I get that a lot. I think it’s the nose

After a while it’s just

Zuko, without skipping a beat: No, his scar’s on the other side.

Important diplomat who has visited the jasmine dragon but has NOT met the firelord before: excuse me aren’t you a waiter.

Zuko, deadpan: Yes. I am Lee, humble tea server, who has kidnapped Firelord Zuko and replaced him. You have seen through my facade. What gave it away? Was it the hair? I knew I didn’t have the crown on right.

Alternately:

Zuko, deadpan: Oh didn’t you know? The Jasmine Dragon was so successful that I was appointed Firelord.

customer: um…… aren’t you the firelord???

zuko: not today

- comfort drawing~ ❄️

happy fathers day to the best dad in the world !!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰

claim: zuko is a theatre kid

evidence:

- “they butchered ‘love amongst the dragons’ every year”

- remember when he was playing with the knife iroh gave him and he pretended to get stabbed and dramatically fell on the ground

- perfect impersonation of azula and iroh. you know he practices when he’s alone

- “im never happy”

- HOW THE FUCK DID I FORGET ABOUT THE BLUE SPIRIT ????

- when he did one good thing and immediately fell ill like some pneumonic victorian child

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On Avatar’s Portrayal of War, Child-Soldiers, and Privilege

Sometimes I think about the fact that there is exactly one time that we hear someone express surprise at the fact that Aang–the Avatar– and his companions are children. And it’s in the second episode, from Zuko: 

From an out-of-universe perspective, this makes sense. And it wasn’t something that surprised me when I was a ten-year-old in 2005 when A:tLA first aired. One of the tenants, I think, of adventure children’s television is that there is a degree of wish fulfillment. Children want to be taken seriously as agents, and so it makes sense from that vantage point, that everyone takes the Gaang seriously as agents except the person portrayed as an antagonist.

But, I think this also makes sense, heart-breakingly and unlike other children’s adventure television, from an in-universe perspective. This is a world ravaged by bloody, bloody war for a hundred years. A world in which child soldiers are commonplace. We see countless examples of this throughout the series:

I could go on. 

So of course, after living in a world of child soldiers like these, no one is going to bat an eyelash to learn that the Avatar–perhaps the ultimate non-Fire Nation soldier–is twelve-years old, and his companions aren’t much older. When Aang starts to bring this up himself to Yue, for instance, Yue doesn’t seem to understand. He’s the Avatar, he has to save them, she insists. Who cares if he’s a child?

But the Fire Nation Army isn’t filled with child soldiers. It doesn’t need them. Fire Nation children are in school. It is adults that make up the Fire Nation Army. 

And, (with the exception of Azula and her gang), when we do see a Fire Nation child attempting to take on the role of an adult member of the military, he isn’t taken seriously. (E.g. Zuko, and the way Zhao brushes him off.)

So of course it is only Zuko, who grew up in the absolute center of the Fire Nation, and, though he is banished, hasn’t really seen much of the reality of the war until he meets Aang, that looks at the Avatar and remarks in surprise that he is a child. (If anyone is interested, I wrote a fic that deals with a lot of these themes. It can be found here.)

This is not only an excellent analysis but I think it also ties in to one of the greater themes of the show as a whole, namely these kids are entitled to a childhood even in a broken world:

“Normally we would have told you of your identity when you turned sixteen, but there are troubling signs. Storm clouds are gathering.” “I fear that war may be upon us, young Avatar.”

In their fear the Air Nomads were going to make Aang the first child soldier against the Fire Nation. In their rush to skip four years they lost a hundred. Aang rejects that role early on and constantly rejects it even as he accepts his responsibility as the Avatar.

He reminds Katara that she’s still a kid. When he connects to Zuko the first time it’s through the language of all the fun he used to have with his friends in the Fire Nation. Team Avatar takes the time they need for vacations and to make new friends. In doing this they start to heal the world person by person.

Aang most succeeds as Avatar when he finds balance between childish things and adult responsibilities. This rubs off on everyone. Sokka goes from desperate to be taken seriously to someone who sets himself up for a laugh, because he knows his own strength. Zuko spends season 1 as an imitation of Ozai, ends the show as someone who can lead a country and smile openly at a goofy drawing. 

They are all still very young with too many responsibilities on their shoulders. But they’ve also carved out an important space where they can be children with each other. All things in balance.

The History of Juneteenth

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Zuko.. Makes more sense when you remember he doesn’t get a lot of sleep. Like canonically he’s just so tired most of the time

When he was instantly nicer to Iroh after getting sick? That’s because he took a fucking nap

I should rewatch atla and take note of how stupid and/or angry he’s acting + how much sleep he got prior I think I’m onto something here I think I can statistically prove that Zuko is like this because he’s tired

This is Zuko

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Lioconcha Hieroglyphica is officially my favorite mollusc

This clam has fuckin runes on it

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