thevespertineproject:

swan2swan:

xcgirl08:

sassy-asami:

protagonistes:

… I think at this point it is safe to say the warm-up doodle has gone too far.  »;;  

SOBS

KATAANG.

IT WAS A CONSPIRACY.

I LIKE THIS THEORY. 

And thus the thing that bugged me the ABSOLUTE MOST at the end has been solved.

ACTUALLY PLAUSIBLE.

Headcanon accepted.

megarasami:

solluxandercoopter:

kataangforever:

I magically made my way to the Korra dimension. 

And stole Mako’s diary. 

He’s a deep one, that kid. 

jgkjzsfhg

kool omg

ilu omg

“i punched him in the face with lightning lol” sahkgjdasnf

(Source: theavatarblogwithnoname)

korrashorts:

battybravery:

The more I look at it, the more I think that this look:

is almost exactly like this one:

-

Now, I’m just as disappointed as anybody at the fact that Bolin’s attraction to Korra was just completely skipped over in the later episodes, but judging by that look he gave her after they hugged, I’m guessing that those feelings didn’t just ‘vanish’.

Hear me out here.

While Bolin has been shown to look up to his brother, it was also stated in his bio that he feels inferior to Mako as well. This makes sense because while Mako has raised Bolin, comforted and cared for him for his entire life, he isn’t really that supportive of his brother. Mako is used to taking charge and having Bolin follow him, he’s so determined to make sure Bolin doesn’t get hurt that he doesn’t let Bolin go out on his own and make his own decisions.

So Bolin’s never had the chance to believe in his own judgement. He’s always depended on Mako to help him.This led to a certain amount of insecurities, which he seems to have originally dealt with by being outgoing and charming, soaking in the praise of ‘fangirls’ to supplement his own low self worth. It worked for a while.

But then Korra came.

Korra, who Bolin fell head over earthbending piggies for, who he loved and admired for her drive and confidence. Which are both things he lacks. It makes sense that he’d fall for her because of this. He wants what he doesn’t have, can’t have. Yet, for one dizzying moment, he had her.

That isn’t the look of someone who had just a fleeting crush. He was falling for her harder than he ever had before. Even more than any of those fangirls, because it appears that they seemed to be after Mako more than anything else. Remember when Bolin snapped at Mako to ‘leave some girls for the rest of us’?

It seems like all those fangirls whose praise and cheer that Bolin depended on to soothe his own insecurities were more interested in Mako than they were in him.

So it crushes him two-fold when Korra—the girl he fell for because she was so different from anybody he’d ever met, the girl who was ‘one of a kind’—still fell for his brother instead.

Now all those little hidden insecurities, those little doubts and fears about who he was and whether he would ever be good enough, they all came to a head when he saw Mako kissing Korra. He wasn’t good enough again. He’d messed up somehow, it had to be his fault, he must have done something wrong because everything was so wrong now when it had been perfect just moments ago.

Any other person would have been furious at Mako for kissing a girl who he knew his brother liked, and would have taken quite some time to forgive Mako for betraying him like that.

Not Bolin. He had a small moment of anger—‘You’re a bad idea’—but then it was gone. Because Mako is not only his brother, he is Bolin’s caretaker, guardian, mother, father, and best friend all rolled into one. That’s a lot of dependency.

Bolin wouldn’t have confronted Mako in any serious way. And he didn’t.

Bolin just covered everything up with smiles and optimism, the same way he had dealt with everything else in his life. He never had any closure with his crush on Korra and it never got resolved. So it sat there and it festered. 

He watched Mako and Korra grow closer and closer, and didn’t say a damned word because he was trying as hard as he possibly could to make himself believe he didn’t care.

But in this scene, his strange affection comes to light yet again, but it’s changed now. That look isn’t the same content, loving look he gave to Korra during their date. It was sadder, worn down and weary from the struggle to keep everything down, to keep his feelings manageable and in check.

It didn’t work. I think he finally realized it in that one cap. It. Didn’t. Work.

Borrowing a little (a lot) from my liveblogging experience, you can just see it all from the hug he gave her.

It’s in the way he holds out his arms and waits for her to come into them, like he wanted her to to be the one who came to him this time, or like he didn’t trust himself to let go if he did it. He doesn’t even wait for her to come the entire way, he pulls her closer and just slumps down so quickly, like the strain of waiting for her was too much to bear.

And that look is not a platonic look. It’s not. He didn’t even look like that when he was hugging his own brother.

That is the look of a man that is embracing someone he cares for very, very much, but knows that this could be the last time he ever does so. Because even if she came back alive from fighting Amon, he would probably never get this close to her again. Not the way he wanted to.

And look at the way he’s hugging her. She’s giving him a simple, friendly hug, but him? He has his arm wrapped around her waist, something that was not necessary in the least. It’s almost like he was intent on pressing her as close to him as humanly possible.

And Bolin just looks sosad. Almost like he finally realized exactly how deep he was in, how impossible this situation was.

He couldn’t forget her, not like this, not by ignoring every reason why he had to. He’d messed up again, but this time it was worse because he didn’t know how to get himself out of this one. All his previous ways of dealing with his issues weren’t working anymore. He couldn’t force a smile and pretend nothing was wrong.

Because loving Korra was something he didn’t know how to stop doing.

Batty, what are you doing to my feelings.

this makes me want to cry

acedia-neon:

korra-the-leaf:

equalistsfuckshitup:

pinkypirate:

hypophysis:

1. “I told you I would destroy you. Finally, you are powerless.”
2. “Amon!”
3. “Everything the Avatar said is true, isn’t it? I just saw you bloodbend her!”
4. “…”
5. - 10. “You traitor. I dedicated my life to you!”

A lot of screaming with a fist in my mouth. 

Yeah, I can’t go further than this.

Augh, that last one.

I still cannot get over Amon’s eyes in the second image.

I mean that level of reaction… you know he had to have cared about Lieu.

;__________;

WHY DO THESE TWO KEEP POPPING UP ON MY DASH I HATE YOU ALL AAAAAAAAH.

adult male tyzula

i wasn’t going to reblog this but ADULT MALE TY ZULA

REMINDER IN LIGHT OF THE FINALE

That if you’re reblogging a post about the scene where Tarrlok and Noatak died

Or if you’re reblogging something about how Korra was thinking about killing herself when she went out to that cliff

You need

To add

A trigger warning

To that shit.

korra: aang what are you trying to show me i don’t understand / kyoshi: *intruding* they’re all related you stupid fuck omg go sit in a corner and think about your life

“and go take a lap around the island korra you’re pissing me off”

i like her perpetual fury. it’s endearing in a way that it puts your ass in gear. pretty sure if korra had gotten an earful from both aang and kyoshi then this shit involving yakone/amon/tarrlok would have ended much earlier

god yeah probably. Kyoshi don’t fuck around.

ALL THESE TIME HE WAS TRYING TO WARN YOU ABOUT AMON, YAKONE, AND TARRLOK BEING RELATED IN SOME WAY I.E., THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME BLOOD. avatar kyoshi would have called her stupid and everything tbh

avatar kyoshi has literally been perpetually furious for the last 500 years.

in retrospect, when Korra said “All this time you were trying to warn me about Tarrlok”, i’m pretty sure Aang just buried his face in his hands and yelled “FUCK IT I GIVE UP”

ave-aria:

*why does the picture shriiiink make it stopppp*

~

gaysten:

shiphassailed:

kryptoswag:

inkstone:

mugenmcfugen:

This isn’t about animation.

It’s about justice.

 #there was totally a scene where kyoshi just beat the shit out of korra after she managed to reach the avatar state #like ‘WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU’ #’DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR SELF-WORTH RELIES ON BENDING’#’ARE YOU THAT FUCKING DENSE’ #’I’M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS WITH MY FANS OUT OF PURE SPITE’ #’I DON’T NEED BENDING TO MAKE YOU SOB LIKE A CHILD’#’I DID NOT CREATE A SOCIETY OF NONBENDING WARRIOR WOMEN ONLY TO BE REINCARNATED INTO SOMEONE WHO GIVES UP BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR BENDING’ #’FUCKS SAKE THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE SHIT KORRA’ #’THIS IS WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

I love Kyoshi.

god i am so fucking sorry but this entire fandom impulse makes me want to fucking beat all of you with fans, you are all ridiculous you truly are

SHE IS THE AVATAR and YES, the ability to bend all four elements IS THE DEFINITION OF BEING THE AVATAR

does that mean bending defines korra’s entire self worth as a person? no, it doesn’t, but to have this kind of reaction to a teenage girl who has been raised with enormous expectations on her shoulders - expectations that are entirely seated in her ability to bend - having a moment of despair and self pity LITERALLY WITHIN HOURS OF LOSING HER BENDING

GOD the entire “people are born nonbenders all the time so it is ableist to act like losing your bending is some kind of awful thing” idea just makes tear out my hair - of course bending is not a fundmentally necessary part of being a person in this universe, but losing something that has defined you as a person since you were a tiny child COULD ONLY EVER BE A DEVASTATING AND HEARTBREAKING EXPERIENCE

i mean really korra can’t have one day to mourn, really, she deserves to be smacked upside the head for one moment of grief

do you people make any attempt to interface with emotional reality whatsoever

^^^^^^^^^^^ YES THIS EXACTLY THIS ALL OF THIS A MILLION TIMES YES

1. Korra is allowed to be upset over losing her bending, naturally. I’m sure it would be a really upsetting thing to just have that taken away. The bit I pulled the self-worth thing from was her nightmare earlier in the season where she sees Amon approaching her saying, “After I take your bending away, you will be nothing.” Does it or does it not sound as though she is basing her self-worth on her ability to bend??

What’s more, she does not seem to have grown out of that mindset.

2. The ability to bend all four elements makes you the Avatar? On a fundamental level, yes, in that only the Avatar can do so, but Korra didn’t stop being the Avatar when she loses her Water, Earth, and Firebending. She’s the Avatar. She still has the soul of the Avatar, the one that has lived a thousand lifetimes, and she still has a duty to protect the world and keep balance, bending or no bending.

She can bend all four elements because she is the Avatar, but I’d argue that she’s not the Avatar because she can bend all four elements. She’s the Avatar because she was born the Avatar and because she bears the duties that the Avatar bears. Bending doesn’t change that.

(Source: what-is-this-i-dont-even)

masterarrowhead:

korrashorts:

dailydoseofkorra:

Attractive as hell

He should be illegal with how dapper in he looks in that uniform. And fit. And just plain amazing.

I have to keep reminding myself that he is older than Tenzin.

I would have a threesome with him and Lin in a heartbeat.

I’m not joking at all.

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