"All Perfectly Known Futures Are Past.  They Have Happened Virtually.  It Is Only The True Future That

Yaşamı güzel kılan, insanların birbirilerinin yüreklerini ısıtmak için bulabilecekleri iyilik dolu sözcüklerdir. Kimilerini ölene dek unutamazsınız, geriye dönüp baktığınızda anımsayacağınız tek şey size neler hissettirdikleri olacaktır. 

-Maksim Gorki - Benim Üniversitelerim

The fall of the damned. Sometimes we are the damned, unfortunately, we are human. And so damned...

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

אם יום אחד תצטרכי לבחור בין העולם לאהבה, תזכרי את זה. אם תבחרי את העולם, תאבדי את אהבה. אבל אם תבחרי את האהבה, איתה תכבשי את כל העולם.

❝ Mantık ne kadar sarsılmaz olsa da, yaşamak isteyen bir insanın önünde duramazdı. ❞

•Franz Kafka - Dava

If my life is like a dust, that hides the glow of a rose, then what good am I, heaven only knows...

We are never really who we think we are, and thats OK...

CHANGING THE WORLD IS BEING HERE.

the avatar, and the last airbender :: an aang meta

I’ve been wanting to write this meta for about six years, and now seems like as good a time as any, so without further ado: Why Aang Sparing Ozai is the Most Important Scene in ATLA, from both a Character and a Thematic Standpoint.

And with that thesis out of the way, let’s go all the way back to the beginning.

Aang is the titular character of the series, two fold. He is both the Avatar, and the last airbender, and it’s these two facets of identity that inform his arc as much as the duality of Zuko’s scar informs his. So why then, is one arc written about and praised endlessly and the former is rather left in the dust, so to speak? 

There’s a few reasons for that, I think. The first is that Zuko is a more traditionally masculine and therefore Western protagonist. He has a more understandable loss, too. People can relate to losing a parent, or to an abusive household. These are traumas and ghosts, the brooding nature, that we are regularly shown in Western media, over and over again. The angry man who lost his wife/daughter/sister. Who does bad things like burning down villages and kidnapping people, but can’t you see that he’s just sad inside? And I’m not saying that’s all Zuko is. There are plenty of subversive things about him, his arc, and his poignant story of overcoming emotional and physical abuse. He is an incredibly important character and deserves all the praise he gets.

I just think Aang is just as noteworthy, and doesn’t get nearly the amount of credit he deserves. Aang is not a traditional Western protagonist at all. He makes jewelry, is vegetarian, loves animals, cries easily, tries to avoid violence, and has a fun loving nature. Many people deride Aang’s behaviour as childish - and sometimes it is - but the best parts of him, his forgiving nature, his fun loving nature and compassion, isn’t because he’s young. They come from him being an Air Nomad. And without those same traits being displayed towards him, Zuko never would have become the character we know and love (but more on that, later).

So yes, as above, Aang’s arc is about the reconciliation of him being the Avatar, and him being the last Airbender. Each part is equally as important as the other. If you can’t understand that, then you don’t understand the show, full stop. 

Okay? Okay.

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Day and night. Painter: Frederick Judd Waugh (1841-1940).

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