That’s one of the darker implications of ATLA. 😭
The Fire Nation wasn’t just winning because of military strength, it had invested heavily in education, engineering, industry, and science for generations.
Meanwhile:
The Earth Kingdom was massive but politically fragmented and often corrupt.
The Water Tribes were smaller and more focused on survival than industrial growth.
The Air Nomads prioritized spirituality and philosophy over technology.
So it’s not that the other nations were doing nothing. They simply had different priorities.
The irony is that the Fire Nation’s progress wasn’t evil, its imperialism was. The same nation that produced advanced schools, engineering, and medicine also produced a century-long war.
The problem wasn’t that the Fire Nation modernized. The problem was that it tried to modernize the world at the end of an army.
This is genuinely one of the greatest pieces of fan art to exist. It's honestly so good I can't even fully articulate how much I love it. For the longest time I thought it was an official piece, even
It's very unfortunate that years of inbreeding has caused the muzzles of this species to shrink, which can pose breathing and overall health problems to the animal as time goes on.
The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
"I liked Attack on Titan better when it was just about killing titans and not about political themes."
?????
From the moment they show you that people are divided into social classes and the most vulnerable can die more easily, they're talking about a political issues.
made this trailer, but i wish they used this version lowkirkenuinely.
yeah i know the text is hard to read but like i feel like im 8 yrs old again and that's like epic