Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered On This Day Sixteen years Ago!

Before you watch “The Legend of Korra”

Before you guys watch Korra you should know a few things, or maybe you've already started.  Don't worry, this is spoiler free.  

Avatar and legend of Korra are made by different people.  Yes, the "creators" worked on both shows, but surprisingly few others did.  If you look at the head crews of both shows, you'll notice they are very different.  

Why this matters is because Korra is a very different show from Avatar, by virtue of being made by different people.  A number of things from the original show get retconned, and some characters even get different personalities.  This is because there are different people that are making the show, and this is their interpretation.  

This issue isn't unique to Korra,  many shows/movies/series change when they get a new director, producer, or if they're bought by a different company.  (Like how StarWars was bought by Disney.)  Some of these changes you might like; others you might not.  Just don't feel you have to blindly accept whatever happens. 

Marry Me meme by Poodle Doodle

Eat your heart out Zutara and Kataang fans

Decide to update my deviantart logo.   The symbol in the middle is the Bionicle symbol for Faith from MNOG II.  

Even though Aunt Wu was talking to Sokka, I think this can also apply to Zuko.  

Aang VS Korra - Avatar: The Last CATbender - Fan Animation

Fairies and Conspiracy Theories

For a high school art project I made architecturally sound fairy house.  It was big, it was beautiful, and I was very proud of it.  Eventually, my mom convinced me to make a Fairy House Kit because so many people liked it, and I sold them for a while at fairs and stuff.  

However, I would occasionally have Adults customers come up and ask me, "Do you believe in Fairies."   Now, whether Fairies exist or don't exist is something I really don't care about.  I made the fairy house because I thought is was cool and beautiful, not because I believed in fairies.  Hence, whenever someone asked, "do you believe in Fairies,"  It would get really....  Awkward.   I have a similar reaction to conspiracy theories.  I couldn't care less about them, so talking to people who are really invested is really.....  Awkward.   Now there are plenty of things wrong with conspiracy theories.  They have little to no evidence.  Most of them revolve around speculative reasoning.  And they generally involve some power trying to suppress the "Truth".   But in reality, people really just don't care.  

Flat Earther:  "The Governments don't want you to know the world is flat." Me:  "And why would anyone care about that?"

My pamphlet for earth bending.   Air still to come.  

Feel free to ask questions.  

Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.  

Avatar:  Dragon Eggs and the Solstice

In Episode 313 (The Firebending Masters) Aang and Zuko enter a secret chamber and discover a ‘gem’ that “feels almost alive”.  This has led many fans to believe that the ‘gem’ is actually a dragon egg.  

Let’s assume this theory is correct.    

But if it’s a dragon egg, why would the Sun Warriors hid it here?

The obviously reason is for protection.  Dragons had been hunted almost to extinction, and a dragon egg would be rare and very precious thing.   

But I have another theory.  

The Sun Warriors hid the egg in a chamber that could only be opened during the solstice (most likely the summer solstice).  In the avatar world, the solstice is when the spirit world and the physical world are closest together and spiritual energy is at its peak.  The solstice is also when the Sun is at its strongest/ weakest (relative to the perspective on earth).  The Sun is the source of firebending.  And since Dragons are the original firebenders, it would make sense for dragons to have some connection to the Sun and the solstices.  

My theory is that secret chamber is specifically designed to hatch dragon eggs.  

On the solstice the chamber would open.  Then Sun Warriors would bath the egg in sunlight concentrated from the sunstone outside.  The concentrated sunlight during the solstice would fill the egg with spiritual energy and cause it to hatch.  (Just like how Roku used the solstice to talk to and empower Aang.)  

To me at least, it makes sense that the original firebenders would be born on the solstice.