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korranews:

Aang’s Map of the World: early Avatar world map concept art revealed for the first time!

Today Bryan Konietzko revealed these early world of Avatar concepts on his Instagram (1, 2), showing Aang’s personal map featuring his favorite animals around the world! There’s a rough draft and then the version included in the famous “series bible” pitched to Nickelodeon. It’s extremely cute.

There’s actually a lot of cool series development stuff hidden away here too, notably:

  • the “Earth Nation” in the early draft became the “Earth Kingdom” as we know it in the later one
  • the Air Temples were referred to as “Air Temple South”, “Air Temple East”, etc. rather than “Southern Air Temple” etc.
  • Aang still had his futuristic staff at this stage, indicating that at this point in development he was probably still from one thousand years ago rather than one hundred, from an ancient technologically-advanced civilization
  • as early as this, “something” was hiding in the central Earth Kingdom’s West Lake, a plotline that would come to fruition in Book Two: Earth, Chapter Twelve: The Serpent’s Pass. Dat continuity.

One of the things that didn’t make it into the show can be seen just to the left of the Si Wong Desert: Aang’s “favorite inchworm lives in a log here.” Bryan actually singled this one out, saying “I wish that inchworm had made it into the show…🐛”, and considering he found this map while packing to move to Netflix’s offices for the new live action ATLA series… we may just be getting that inchworm yet…

Anyway, this was just really cool to see because it was always one big thing absent from the ATLA artbook, so yay! If you’re into this, we also got some early Republic City concept art a few months ago. 🗺️

Source: korranews

louwodaklironkru:

wildnoutinwildemount:

All y’all bitching about the ATLA live action Netflix series saying “Oh no not again!” like… this has never happened before? Idk what y’all are talking about… we’ve never had any kind of ATLA live action content and I’m excited but nervous to see what Bryan and Mike do because they’re our bros!

There is no M.Night Shyamalan in Ba Sing Se.

i feel like there’s a genie in charge of avatar. the thing we wanted most was probably a show about Kyoshi, our beloved 8 foot tall bisexual trans woman, free from all self doubt, kills fascists, separates an island from a fucking continent to be gay in peace and start a feminist militia. “the tallest feet of any avatar” and The Most Down For Murder.

and they announce we’re getting two ya novels about her!

and then they announce a second live action reboot of the original show. as if anyone asked for that again. as if anyone thinks “hey this was a great cartoon, you know what else would be good? if it was a live action show that needs to be at least 50% cgi anyway”. 

and that means that it’s not that they just didn’t have the time or funding for a whole new show at the moment, they just thought it was safer to make a show that doesn’t tread any new ground.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

lesbwian:

Superheroes that are like “if we kill them we’re just as bad as they are uwu” ? Micro dick energy

The only exception is Aang, whose whole “I’m not gonna kill him if i can find another way” thing is less false moral equivalency and more “I’m twelve and I have been through way too much bullshit this year to add ‘commit my first murder’ to the list.”

i don’t think i see it addressed often enough that aang not willing to kill is cultural. that’s what he believed in because it’s what the air nomads believed in, that all life is inherently sacred. Not even that life is valuable, but sacred, as in it’s of central importance to air nomad spirituality. we don’t hear of the air nomads having another commandment that’s nearly as important. we hear that they don’t encourage attachment, but aang falls in love without any mention that monks aren’t meant to do that. (love and starting a family have been prohibited. which would mean aang feels okay breaking some rules, except for one he can’t allow himself to break)

aang sees killing the firelord as permanently severing the last link between himself and his culture, that taking a life will mean no longer being an air nomad. it’s tied up in both the deepest level of his identity, and his survivor’s guilt. that’s the only reason he puts it above his responsibility to save the world, and why not even the previous avatars could understand. i think aang really would have died before taking a life, because either way he saw his own death and taking a life as very nearly the same thing, as his whole culture ending forever with him. he can save the world but have to live with the guilt, and without his identity.

and that’s part of why ‘killing the bad guy makes you the bad guy’ falls flat. because aang isn’t just trying to be the Good Guy, he’s trying to be the last survivor of his culture. it’s even said as much by the gang and by every previous avatar that he’s not doing it to be good or morally superior, he’s ultimately being selfish.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

lesbwian:

Superheroes that are like “if we kill them we’re just as bad as they are uwu” ? Micro dick energy

The only exception is Aang, whose whole “I’m not gonna kill him if i can find another way” thing is less false moral equivalency and more “I’m twelve and I have been through way too much bullshit this year to add ‘commit my first murder’ to the list.”