avatar anthology series where each season follows a different avatar/historical event/period/anything
season 1: yangchen
i feel like this would be a good start because she’s familiar but has a completely open history to explore
season 2: wan
we never actually saw him as the full avatar except for a 30 second montage, so that would be the focus here
his first years as the actual avatar, with people keeping bending permanently and leaving the lion turtles
also leftover spirits causing havoc and whatnot
season 3: the golden age of republic city
the gaang’s kids growing up in republic city
mainly following bumi, kya, tenzin, lin, su, and sokka and suki’s kids, as well as their non-gaang-kid friends
sokka is a councilman, toph is police chief, etc. and we’d find out exactly what aang, katara, and suki were doing! i think we’d also check in with zuko and his family in the fire nation but that wouldn’t be the focus
this would be a few years after yakone
season 4: the water tribe schism
how the southern water tribe split off from the north
i could see it being like a very emotional story following one of the groups as they make their way south across the earth, covering the months/years of the journey
basically starting in the north with the conflict that leads them to split, the body of the season is them journeying south, the finale is them getting to their new home and founding the southern water tribe
i feel like the avatar in this time period would only make a cameo
season 5: kyoshi
i just feel like this season would exist just because people would be begging for it from the moment the show was announced lol
anything but chin the conqueror please. show us her girlfriend
season 6: the history of the fire nation
an anthology within an anthology. each episode covers a period/dynasty, from the founding of the fire nation up to the present
there could be a framing device with izumi’s alleged daughter who totally exists learning all this in school or whatever
more??? what would you guys wanna see? the possibilities are endless
more ideas
a tropical water avatar from islands in the ocean on the other side of the earth, inspired by polynesia
a sandbender earth avatar, drawing from western asia and how the silk road connected it and china
a fire avatar whose main villain is a combustion firebender and we find out wtf they are omg
an air avatar born to less religious parents who are actually bison-herding nomads and didn’t give their child up to the temples. inspired by non-monastic tibet
I thought this was very sweet. Young Nassir asked his mother, Fatima, to his senior prom. It looks like they had a swell time and their outfits sparkled in all their matching glory.
One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-
Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! 😉 Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”
But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.
And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for
Earnestness is so much cooler than all the hip cynicism in the world. You go LOTR
Starters from the starter call will be done on Friday just fyi
also another fyi next week i work 6/7 days so i will kinda be AFK from Tumblr but I will get one at some point during the week before my one day off and do at least one to two replies on either account. But I also do have to retake a placement test on nxt Thursday to see if i can test out of this math class so that will also take up free time I don’t have on here.
– i’m socially exhausted
– i don’t have the time right now
– i don’t know how to reply
– i have a bad memory and got distracted
– i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise
not reasons i haven’t replied back:
– i’m ignoring you just because
– i hate you
– i’m fed up with you
– i don’t want to be your friend anymore
His words left her with butterflies in her belly as he sauntered off to buy the next round. Good gods, she was reacting like a silly little girl. It wasn’t as if she had never kissed a boy before. Oh, there had been plenty of boys. But Bronn was no boy, she reminded herself for the second time that night. He was all man, that one, and likely twice her age. Who knew how many women he had kissed … and gods only knew what else.
And he must be very skilled at kissing …
The thought didn’t exactly put her at ease. She could match him throw for throw at darts, but at this, he most certainly had the upper hand.
Meryll watched as Bronn returned to their table, a mug of frothy ale in each hand and a speculative smile on his face. He moved like a cat, silent and lithesome, and she knew he could be deadly when he wanted to be. He didn’t take his eyes off of her even once as he set the two mugs down on the table, and she did not fail to notice how he kept the ale close lest she try and take a sip without paying up.
Her heart was in her throat but she mustered up as much charm and bravado as she could nonetheless. “You drive a hard bargain, ser,” she said, tilting her head to the side. “Not just a kiss, but a proper kiss. And from a silly girl like me, who knows about as much about kissing as she does of throwing darts.”
The tall bar stool didn’t quite put her face level with his, but she only had to tilt her head a little bit upwards and place her hand behind his neck to pull his head down.
Heart pounding, she leaned in closer, brushing her lips against his– not really a kiss at all, nevermind a proper one – but a taste for what might be. She buried her face in his neck, suddenly overcome with shyness. She was in way over her head here. And why was she kissing him, anyway? He should be kissing her!
She raised her head to meet his dark eyes, and she had to bite her bottom lip to keep from grinning.
“Perhaps you could be so kind as to show me your idea of a proper kiss? I would not want to come up short for what i owe.”
When she echoed his words, he gave a nod and than snorted at the Frey girl, with a family like hers how could she not know about kissing, Bronn wondered to himself as he watched her tilt her head, pulling him closer into him. He felt his heart pounding harder and harder, nerves filled his belly and it quaked in anticipation as her lips met his only briefly.
A smile rested on his lips as she spoke, wanting to be shown a proper kiss, he realized that she had already pulled away, her head in his neck ever so briefly before he could move to her lips she had pulled even further back and he wanted to go fast and hard, kissing her like there wasn’t going to be a tomorrow for either of them but he also knew chances like this with a girl like Meryll wouldn’t come every day so he had to make it last.
Bronn leaned forward, a hand came to land on the small of her back, trailing up to her neck teasing as her as he did so until it went under her chin, cupping it to pull her closer to him as he leaned his head down, slowly advancing towards the wide eyed lady. “It would be my pleasure to show you My Lady. “ He purred in a breathy whisper before his lips covered Meryll’s in a soft and light kiss not breaking away and after a few seconds he deepened the kiss slowly getting less soft and light but not pushing the boundaries of rough, hot and heavy just yet but he let his tongue slip by for a second, brushing over her lips testing her boundaries. He needed air, he needed it now and he broke the kiss almost unwillingly so and his eyes now heavy with lust looked at Meryll, not sure quite what to say until he gathered his composure. “That-that’s ah, how it’s done.”
Goldnwulf 