Avatar: The Last Airbender → live action and as it should have been
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished…
Toph’s blindness was one of the most excellently handled aspects of AtLA because it wasn’t treated like a disability. So often in shows (and especially children’s animation) disabled characters are limited to apperances in “very special episodes” where the main characters have to learn a lesson that these people are capable “in spite of” their handicaps, like that episode of Kim Possible wherein Kim constantly stumbles over herself around Felix. This approach is often just as insulting as making them the butt of jokes, because it’s patronizing and it limits the amount of roles disabled characters are allowed to have.
Avatar challenged that stereotype with Teo, and then sent a giant middle finger its way by introducing Toph. She’s turned what would otherwise be a disability into an advantage, and she’s not afraid to crack jokes about it. She functions well enough that the other characters often forget that she is blind, but at the same time it’s an integral part of her bending and allows her to be the greatest earthbender ever. It sends a powerful message that having a physical disability does not make you less of a person, and often affords you a unique perspective that the so-called “normal” people never get to experience.
One of the many reasons I love this show.
PDW inspiration
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Toph Bei Fong
QHV: soooooooooo cuuuuute
HELP MY OVARIES! OUCH!
WHY CAN’T I HUG YOU SMALL CHILD?
wolfie-da-bitch-is-korrasexual:
shit.While Lin’s personality and beliefs are puzzling, let’s not forget that Toph is the one who started the metalbending police force. The real question is how the hell did Toph go from rebel to cop? I have yet to come up with a plausible theory for this one.
Because she likes telling people what to do.
^
Because justice is….
blindholy shit the blind joke
Oh look we STILL do not know who Lins father is. Cool.Incomplete Family Tree!
So now we see Kataang’s kids and Korra’s parents name!
let me cry in a corner now.
Someone tell me this is real. Kya looks so pretty DKLSDHG:SGLNSLGN
Wanna know what the Gaang offspring looked like as kids so baaaaaad
TOPH’S BLIND JOKES Part 2
I just realized that every single one of these were directed towards Sokka.
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 1
