Hi there. I'm Rachel, known as Chaobunny on the internetz. College student, CS and math major, e.g. huge nerd. I'm probably the biggest Avatar fan you will ever meet. I'm also into fantasy and anime. I have socially progressive and fiscally moderate political views, and I am a proud Zionist.. I'm also a devoted vegetarian and animal lover, so I'll be reblogging tons of cute animal pictures (especially bunnies, I love bunnies!). ^_^

dongbufeng:

From IGN:

The wait for new episodes of The Legend of Korra has been more difficult for fans, since that show aired its 12 episodes with nearly no breaks last year, but has been gone for quite some time. Fans have the comfort of knowing there are still three more “Books” to go in the series, but so far, we haven’t been given a debut date for Book 2. That didn’t change today, as Nick could only say Korra would be back “later this year.” However, we were shown a cool new scene from the upcoming episodes.

We’ve known since last summer that Book 2 is subtitled “Spirits,” and Nickelodeon’s Rich Magallanes noted that in Book 2, the divide between the human world and the spirit world was collapsing and Korra finds, “the dark spirits are seeping into her world.”

The sequence we saw found Korra battling one of these spirits, initially just seen as dark tentacles, surrounded by a purple energy, coming out of the ground on a hillside. Korra asks, “Spirit, why are you so angry? What have we done to offend you?” only for the tentacles to violently knock her aside, as they do to anyone else who attempts to help her, including Tenzin and an adult, male Water Tribe member I didn’t recognize at a glance.

Then, the full octopus-like creature rises out of the ground, and begins moving down the hill, utlimately crashing through a fence into a carnival being held, as Korra pursues it. On the offense, Korra shoots the creature with fireballs and begins to get the upper hand, but she is suddenly grabbed by one of its tentacles, and smashed down into the ground. And… we cut to black, for now.

And sorry, my fellow Korra fans, Nickelodeon is not releasing this scene to the public for the time being. As the scene was introduced, they noted that there is still a lot of work to be completed on the animation side for Korra: Book 2 - though the scene in question still looked terrific, even if it wasn’t in its final form. Suffice to say, it hinted at some very exciting things to come.

chongthenomad:

korra premiered one year ago

korra premiered one year ago

korra premiered one year ago

kORRa PReMIERED onE YEAr aGO?!?@#$5

Avatar premiered 8 years ago.

Just saying.

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wherehaveallthekiwisgone:

pulpofiction:

long as hell korra meta post

It’s the line that tripped up the entire fandom and is basically emblematic of the problems with Bryke’s oppression narrative, which  was badly written, sent mixed messages, and led most of fandom to believe that systematic oppression against nonbenders is widespread enough and pervasive enough to the degree that a violent revolution in the form of Equalism would be necessary to fix it - a concept I disagree with, and an opinion shared by many if you care to scroll through the korra tags of people like ilookincredibeetus, crystalzelda, and ikkinthekitsune who’ve been doing the meta thing for LoK way longer than I have. Plus, this, which elaborates on the parallels between Equalism and the Cultural Revolution very nicely.

But let’s break it down:

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THANK YOU

bryankonietzko:

Korra, upset with someone off-screen, yet pleased with her new Book 2 shirt.

Okay, theory time.

Could this be the NWT palace?

The lighting matches, and it has columns, which isn’t really present in SWT architecture. I mean there are a lot of differences as well but a lot can change in 70 years.

Does this mean Korra is mad at her uncle? He’s the chief of the NWT now right?

sherbeeee:

(referenced from this gif)

i had to release my korrasami feelings somehow and oh wow this sucks

so now im just gonna go crawl somewhere and let this become a normal korra blog again bye

I swear this fandom…

korrathebamf:

I’m guessing Nickelodeon execs are waiting for some big moment to release Korra Book 2 information, I can’t imagine any other reason why they’d keep it this huge secret. 

As for Janet Varney, I feel SO bad that she has to be caught in the middle of Nick’s PMSing episode…

Honestly, though. Is it natural for a company to be so secretive about their product? It seems to me that by keeping information from us they’re only giving fuel to the fire that is the LOK fandom.

I think what the fandom really wants is to be able to interact with the creators of the show. And yeah, Bryke is pretty good about being present on the internet, but when we’re always kept in the dark, it becomes a source of frustration to the fans.

I’ll admit, at times the fandom can be an obnoxious mess of fangirl hormones, but this is getting ridiculous, Nick. Throw us a bone, huh? 

Updates and interaction can be really good for a fandom, and create a more stable, more loyal fanbase. Just look at YJ and GLTAS: Greg and Giancarlo did a great job of getting information to the fans, even with the cancellation.

People want to be involved with the things that make them happy. Is a hinted release date on twitter really worth getting all pissy about?

Come on, Nick.

But seriously everyone is so surprised every time we get a false rumor about a release date and I’m just sitting here like

thearcanetheory:

chaobunny replied to your post: It’s also hard to sympathize with Korra because she just takes so much for granted. She slacks off and doesn’t even work for contact with the spirit world or airbending but gets it anyway. She never thinks about what it’s like to be a nonbender and be opressed. She doesn’t try but always comes out on top. She even takes other people for granted (look at how she treated Bolin). I want to like her, i want her to be an empowered lady, but her attitude just rings to me of a spoiled brat.

Korra’s not perfect but to be fair she’s a flawed character and that’s okay? I mean characters have to have flaws otherwise they’re not realistic and considering where she comes from her way of looking at the world makes sense.

I read a really good meta that actually posits that due to how Korra was raised by the White Lotus, she is actually a really realistic portrayal of what would result! So the issue is not so much that KORRA is flawed, the issue is how the writers handled it, such as by presenting no real challenges that were not easily overcome, and creating the love triangle bullshittery, shitting all over Bolin and Asami, and not giving time to the incredibly interesting secondary charachters, like Lin and Tenzin and Penma. 

And how the notion of bender privilege was handled? It started out GREAT but urgh it died a painful death…

The issue isn’t KORRA, it’s the writing.

I also think the writing could have used some work. I just really think Korra is a fascinating character. I think the real shame is that they wasted a lot of time on non-essential plot points (the love triangle especially) and so we didn’t get enough backstory on Amon and The Lieutenant who were the most interesting characters in season one. Actually my biggest regret about season one is that we learned nothing about how Noatok got from being a rebellious son to leading the revolution in the first place or what his motivations were. He dies before we really find out. I know the writers are capable of creating sympathetic antagonists, because this was done a lot in A:TLA (i.e. Mai’s family, Zuko, I’m sure there are more but I can’t think all that clearly right now). Honestly the conflict wasn’t really explored enough. One of my favorite episodes was When Extremes Meet because we got to see that the Equalists had a point about the power structure—and I think to some degree Korra sees this too, at least via Tarrlok, and that’s the first time we see her publicly stand up against him. But we don’t see anything like that again, unfortunately. So it was addressed, but not resolved.

Tl;dr I don’t necessarily dislike what was included in regards to the equalist arc, I’m mostly upset about what wasn’t included, and I just wish the plot was delved into more and that loose ends were tied up. Amon’s death is not closure to the arc. And I’m actually hoping that this will be addressed in future seasons. I think the writers can still help fix things a bit.

I could also write a whole essay on how I’m not happy that Korra magically got her bending back at the end of the season but I won’t go there now.

In the end I guess it’s that Korra herself I love as a character so I tend to get defensive about her, partially because I think a lot of the intense criticism that she gets has to do with the fact that she’s a female protagonist, which is a whole other discussion in itself.

chaobunny:

I’m just trying to make a point here.

I’m just trying to make a point here.

renkateishu:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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OOH YAY

It says 2013-2014 season though so that likely means the fall

Still YAYY

avatar-cosplay:

Korra and Naga.2 by *Roxy12333

docloudscomeinpurple:

chaobunny:

masterarrowhead:

irohthesecond:

masterarrowhead:

bestfangirl:

I’m sick and tired of seeing posts like these.

What did you guys expect going into LOK? That everything was going to be the same?

Just like real life, times change. Many years ago, we didn’t even have technology and now it’s used on a day to day basis for most people.

The Avatar Universe advanced, just like we did with technology, and I’m sorry if A:TLA fans are so stuck in their ways that they can’t handle change.

But it’s realistic and something that happens. 

No everything wasn’t expected to be the same.

Do you realize how many defenses and justifications for it that were going on about how lightning bending has become commonplace when episode 3 came out?

There was a lot of debate on it and it was generally accepted that things had advanced. This isn’t a conclusion that’s new.

That post was a joke because of how excessively it was used in this first season. Which personally, I feel it was but that’s really because the deadly factor of being shot with lightning was left out of Legend of Korra in comparison to the original series. There was no weight to the action really and no conflicts with it. You’ve got Equalists electrocuting everybody and Mako to on occasions and it’s just not treated as something to be concerned about.

Before the series aired peopled were panicking because Mako and Bolin were shown to be electrocuted by the Lieutenant in clips from trailers, but in the end it wasn’t anything to be concerned about really just a temporary inconvenience and temporary pain.

that’s more my personal issue with the lightningbending, not that the universe has advanced, just that there wasn’t really any emotional weight to it to be played with and more just for flashiness and action

Not only that, but bending isn’t technology; it doesn’t increase in any remotely predictable fashion.  Lightning requires a certain inner peace and absolute concentration; that isn’t something that changes.  If there’s one thing I think the modern world shows us, it’s that advanced technology doesn’t translate into similarly advanced spirituality; generally, it’s quite the opposite.  Bending is a fundamentally spiritual attribute; if lightning generation is really that easy, that the spiritual aspects of bending are really that easily attainable, its quite likely that there would be so many benders as to render the Equalist cause rather moot.

hmmm yeah that’s true too, or at least you’d expect lightningbending to be treated a bit more exclusively like how metalbending is well-known in the LoK universe and is something you might be able to accomplish when put through rigorous training and such

it seems a bit of a stretch that so many firebenders including a firebender from the streets without likely training is able to do so, and just that any firebender can do it without using the proper forms

although I do remember that benders are actually outnumbered by nonbenders, I think it said so on the republic city interactive game on nick.com *shrugs*

Well I’m going to offer two arguments here.

Possibility one is that maybe the very fact that it wasn’t as deadly as used by characters in Korra wasn’t intended to make the skill a less precious thing, but instead the increased use of lightning-bending actually shows that even thought lots more people know how to do it now, maybe they aren’t masters of it or as powerful the way Azula and Iroh were. Just because a lot more benders have learned metalbending (the cops, for instance) doesn’t put them on Toph’s level. It’s clear that in this time-period lightning-bending is very well known, which would cause more people to try and learn it, but just not as well. So maybe that’s why they need so many firebenders to produce lightning for the plant. If everyone could do it like Azula, then they wouldn’t need that many people producing energy.

But let’s assume just for fun that it doesn’t work that way and lightning bending is still very exclusive. I think we could still make a case for that based on what we saw in LoK. I know the fandom hates on Mako a lot, but he WAS a pretty damn good bender, considering how he was powerful enough to resist Amon and how well he did in pro-bending. And there are only a few people we saw use lightning in LoK. Lightning-Bolt-Zolt, who wouldn’t have gotten that nickname if he wasn’t something really out-of-the-ordinary and very skilled at what he did, and Mako, who we have established to be powerful, plus a few unnamed firebenders who we can’t make assumptions about because we don’t know who they are. And we don’t know for sure Mako had no formal training—he used to work with the Triads, after all, and I’m guessing it may have been more than just “running numbers” like he told Korra. Maybe it IS still a rare skill, and that’s how Mako was able to get a job. I feel like there is more than enough evidence to make it work in canon.

Think about this: there was a time when not many people could read. This changed as society advanced. The same could apply to lightning bending. My theory is that Iroh or someone went on a campaign to teach lightning bending to more people so they could pass down the skill. 

This too.

I really don’t understand why people are so accepting of metalbending and bloodbending in LoK but so skeptical about lightning-bending. Because when all is said and done aren’t they essentially the same thing—“alternate” bending skills that took a slightly different path from the original but are still canonically approved concepts? I feel like the fact that these skills were “discovered” during Aang’s era (well we know that for metalbending, possibly for bloodbending, which would be true only if Hama was the first to discover it, which we don’t know for sure) would be more than enough to make them widespread 70 years later, plus the fact that we don’t know for sure if lightning-bending was older than Aang’s era, because we have no evidence otherwise.

masterarrowhead:

irohthesecond:

masterarrowhead:

bestfangirl:

I’m sick and tired of seeing posts like these.

What did you guys expect going into LOK? That everything was going to be the same?

Just like real life, times change. Many years ago, we didn’t even have technology and now it’s used on a day to day basis for most people.

The Avatar Universe advanced, just like we did with technology, and I’m sorry if A:TLA fans are so stuck in their ways that they can’t handle change.

But it’s realistic and something that happens. 

No everything wasn’t expected to be the same.

Do you realize how many defenses and justifications for it that were going on about how lightning bending has become commonplace when episode 3 came out?

There was a lot of debate on it and it was generally accepted that things had advanced. This isn’t a conclusion that’s new.

That post was a joke because of how excessively it was used in this first season. Which personally, I feel it was but that’s really because the deadly factor of being shot with lightning was left out of Legend of Korra in comparison to the original series. There was no weight to the action really and no conflicts with it. You’ve got Equalists electrocuting everybody and Mako to on occasions and it’s just not treated as something to be concerned about.

Before the series aired peopled were panicking because Mako and Bolin were shown to be electrocuted by the Lieutenant in clips from trailers, but in the end it wasn’t anything to be concerned about really just a temporary inconvenience and temporary pain.

that’s more my personal issue with the lightningbending, not that the universe has advanced, just that there wasn’t really any emotional weight to it to be played with and more just for flashiness and action

Not only that, but bending isn’t technology; it doesn’t increase in any remotely predictable fashion.  Lightning requires a certain inner peace and absolute concentration; that isn’t something that changes.  If there’s one thing I think the modern world shows us, it’s that advanced technology doesn’t translate into similarly advanced spirituality; generally, it’s quite the opposite.  Bending is a fundamentally spiritual attribute; if lightning generation is really that easy, that the spiritual aspects of bending are really that easily attainable, its quite likely that there would be so many benders as to render the Equalist cause rather moot.

hmmm yeah that’s true too, or at least you’d expect lightningbending to be treated a bit more exclusively like how metalbending is well-known in the LoK universe and is something you might be able to accomplish when put through rigorous training and such

it seems a bit of a stretch that so many firebenders including a firebender from the streets without likely training is able to do so, and just that any firebender can do it without using the proper forms

although I do remember that benders are actually outnumbered by nonbenders, I think it said so on the republic city interactive game on nick.com *shrugs*

Well I’m going to offer two arguments here.

Possibility one is that maybe the very fact that it wasn’t as deadly as used by characters in Korra wasn’t intended to make the skill a less precious thing, but instead the increased use of lightning-bending actually shows that even thought lots more people know how to do it now, maybe they aren’t masters of it or as powerful the way Azula and Iroh were. Just because a lot more benders have learned metalbending (the cops, for instance) doesn’t put them on Toph’s level. It’s clear that in this time-period lightning-bending is very well known, which would cause more people to try and learn it, but just not as well. So maybe that’s why they need so many firebenders to produce lightning for the plant. If everyone could do it like Azula, then they wouldn’t need that many people producing energy.

But let’s assume just for fun that it doesn’t work that way and lightning bending is still very exclusive. I think we could still make a case for that based on what we saw in LoK. I know the fandom hates on Mako a lot, but he WAS a pretty damn good bender, considering how he was powerful enough to resist Amon and how well he did in pro-bending. And there are only a few people we saw use lightning in LoK. Lightning-Bolt-Zolt, who wouldn’t have gotten that nickname if he wasn’t something really out-of-the-ordinary and very skilled at what he did, and Mako, who we have established to be powerful, plus a few unnamed firebenders who we can’t make assumptions about because we don’t know who they are. And we don’t know for sure Mako had no formal training—he used to work with the Triads, after all, and I’m guessing it may have been more than just “running numbers” like he told Korra. Maybe it IS still a rare skill, and that’s how Mako was able to get a job. I feel like there is more than enough evidence to make it work in canon.