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atla-annotated:

Fire Nation Clothes: The Thai Influence

Fire Nation fashion/clothes are hugely influenced by traditional Thai clothing. The closer you look the more obvious it becomes. From Thai fisherman’s pants, to Thai wedding dresses, temple dancers etc.

More about the Thai Influences in ATLA: CLICK ME

Image source: One, two, three, four, five

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cuddlypoops:

Toph, I’m fourty years old…You think you can stop with the nicknames? requested by espl0sion

danielsherv:

My friend Rhoda requested some avatar posters, which worked out perfectly because I just finished a set of posters! They are based on the last 4 avatars; Aang, Kyoshi, Korra, and Roku! If anyone wants I could probably get some high quality prints! p.s. reblog and follow if you like, it means alot to me!

*update* I am humbled by the amazing response to this! Thank you everyone!

*update #2* REJOICE! PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE AT MY SOCIETY6 SHOP! http://society6.com/sherv

9,836 notes | 8 months ago

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slipstreamborne:

The Meeting of Two Warriors
Korra doesn’t remember much about Elder Sokka. She’d been very young when they met, and he’d been so very, very old. Older even than Master Katara, though only by a few years, his body bent and worn hard by a lifetime of travel and scheming.
She remembers his long-house, though; the layers of worn rugs, the jumble of strange, foreign furniture, scrolls piled on every available surface, tiger-seal walls draped in fiery silks. Old-fashioned in many ways, but seemingly crammed full of new ideas, the air thick with thought and the heady smoke of his fire.
If he had lived longer he might have taught her more than a few of his more groan-inducing jokes, taught her politics, the art of diplomacy, all the finer subtleties of strategy in wartime and in peace. Taught her to understand the way people think as easily as she understands the way earth grinds and fire roars.
But he didn’t, and she doesn’t. Not until much, much later, in a city of his own design, in the troubled shadow of a peace-time helped brought into being by his large, battle-scarred hands.
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(might color this eventually, once I’ve recovered from doing a picture with an actual background for once, but this’ll have to do for now)

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atla-annotated:

How To Choose A Chinese Teapot - By Daniel Lui

Download this guide by Daniel Lui as a PDF file here. Making tea is essentially the process of breaking down the cell structure of tea leaves to release their flavour. Using the traditional method of Chinese tea-making, called Gong-Fu Cha (Tea With Great Skill), the teapot is perhaps the most important element in this process. The tea-maker must match the right size and shape of teapot, the type of clay and firing temperature with the right type of tea and the number of people being served. And since a teapot is something that may be used every day, it should should be something that is comfortable to handle, long lasting and pleasing to the eye.ABOUT CHINESE TEAPOTS Serious Gong-Fu Cha enthusiasts spend many hours debating the virtues of their teapots, but there is universal agreement on these four points:

Any tea is best made in clay teapots and the best teapots are made from “Purple Clay” (Zisha) from the Yixing (Yee-zhing) area of China
Zisha clay has excellent porosity and heat handling properties that significantly improves the taste of tea when compared to tea made in glass, porcelain or glazed teapots
A Yixing teapot should only be used for one type of tea
High-fired teapots with a finer, thinner clay are excellent for use with any tea and a must for Green, White and Oolong teas. Low-fired teapots that use a thicker and more porous clay work best for Black Tea (called Red Tea in China) and Pu-Erh Tea.
Read more
Handy little informative guide and interesting read on how to buy tea, teapots etc. Uncle approves.
As for Chinese tea, I personally prefer Tie Guan Yin and Dian Hong. And sorry Uncle, I do not share your love of jasmine tea. I’ve always felt that adding extra strong flavor too often is meant to hide the fact that the tea itself is bad quality.

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A:TLA Annotations: Repost: Republic City, Yu Dao, Imperialism, the Boxer Rebellion and Hong Kong

atla-annotated:

Republic City, Yu Dao, Imperialism, the Boxer Rebellion and Hong Kong

This post does contain spoilers for The Promise.

In ‘The Promise’ we see Kuei, Aang and Zuko agree on a treaty called ‘Harmony Restoration Movement’ which contains plans to dismantle all Fire Nation colonies and remove…

This sparkling commentary. Do read it!

117 notes | 10 months ago

atla-annotated:

Ba Sing Se - Beijing - Shanghai

Photo comparison.

Image source: One, two: blog, three: blog , four, five, six, seven

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Chi and Healing - Waterbending
The healing technique we see Katara learn at the Northern Watertribe is based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine idea of chi and chi meridians.

In traditional Chinese culture, qì (also chi or ch’i) is an active principle forming part of any living thing.Chi is frequently translated as life energy or life-force. It is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the body has natural patterns of chi that circulate in channels called meridians.

These meridians are what the waterbenders use for healing and which Ty Lee blocks with her chi-blocking moves.
Image source: One

millionfish:

The Krew older???

2,756 notes | 11 months ago

metalling-the-next-avatar:

Fight Like A Woman [ATLA+LOK]

9,577 notes | 11 months ago

slag-core:

The greatest moment in the history of everything.

(via setsurenka)

8,683 notes | 11 months ago

xombiedirge:

Baby Appa Felties by Stephanie Laberis / Blog

Fucking love needle-felting!

(Source: xombiedirge)

10,250 notes | 11 months ago

A:TLA Annotations: How does bending work?

atla-annotated:

Regarding a previous anonymous question, how can you you be sure that genetics is not at all involved in bending? It seems kinda unrealistic to say that it’s completely based in spirituality. I know that there is a blogger who creates a very interesting genetics theory for bending that would…

139 notes | 1 year ago

Feminist Bolin / Perfect Man Bolin [x]

(Source: norenly)

30,992 notes | 1 year ago