Another Jewish Joke.
Jewish Humor is 100% superior to any other forms of humor.
After thorough scientific analysis, here are my findings.
Monthly reminder that Azula only lost to Katara because of plot armor
This Katara libel on my dash?
the entire gaang jumped azula and she was fine and she damn near killed aang while he was in the avatar state AND even iroh didn’t wanna go against her….do you legitimately think azula couldn’t take on katara 1v1 and most likely kill her if it wasn’t for her lil plot forwarding breakdown….
Azula was always unstable and didnt like loss. We see that through her entire character arc where anything less than perfection isn’t good enough, to the point where perfection didn’t even satisfy her. The bitch was strong but she was crazy, and let her guard down.
It’s hubris sis, they’ve been doing this since ancient Greece dont act high and mighty because you dont understand Hamartia.
Also let’s not forget that Katara is an insanely powerful waterbender. Like her skill is unique at her age. She stops rain out to like 20 feet away from her and mastered blood ending after only working with internal water for about a day. We see Zuko even be scared of her power and impressed by her restraint.
There is only one bitch who matched Azula’s raw bending power and her name is Katara so gtfo.
Also in that scene where Azula got a (lucky) shot at Aang in his avatar state, someone was kind enough to bring up that Katara was going to to toe with Azula and nearly ran her into the ground until Zuko came to help her ass. So no, if anyone could beat Azula it was Katara
In this house we stan Katara
Let’s not forget that sus katara learned blood bending in seconds. Meanwhile it took that old thot yrs to perfect.
Katara was by and large more talented, more powerful, and more prodigious than Azula. There, I said it.
Azula had a unique fighting style, but she wasn’t better than Katara, Aang, or Toph.
Not to mention that Zuko was the one throwing out the offense, using techniques that Iroh and Aang had taught him (like breathing, spinning, etc.).
He’s the one who physically weakened Azula, not enough to completely take her down, but enough to notice that she was weakened:
I don’t think Katara got a single offensive shot in. It’s not like she sent wave after wave down on this poor mentally unstable girl. Katara’s part in the fight was amazing but entirely defensive. So while Azula had been going through a mental breakdown for episodes, it wasn’t her mental instability or even Katara’s power that brought her down. It was the fact that Katara did what waterbenders do best: she turned her defense to offense.
See, to me, that was Azula’s main problem One that paralleled Zuko because everything usually does. Azula never thought things through. Probably because she was the equivalent of a mentally unstable ninth grader who got charged with the task of hunting down a god. Iroh gives Zuko this whole passionate speech about how it’s important to step back and think things through but Azula never got an Iroh (sadly) so she never got a speech and therefore never got that lesson. This is admittedly worsened by her breakdown but let’s face it, whether she was stable or not, she would have still been so focused on killing Katara that she wouldn’t have ever noticed that water.
Avatar was never a show about power. Avatar was a show about strategy and how good strategy (and admittedly good deus ex machinas) can take down even the most powerful beings. (On that note, I still think Sokka should have been the one to take down Azula but that’s just me.)
Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War.
Look at her.
I know open water swimming isn’t really glamorous, but Lynne Cox is arguably one of the greatest overlooked athletes of the 20th century.
And quite possibly a mutant.
She can withstand water temperatures that you or I would die from because of her training and her body’s unique reaction to cold (you know how the blood will leave your fingers and toes when it’s cold, to preserve heat? her whole body does that, pooling her blood in her core and insuring her body temperature stays toasty where it counts).
She funded the Bering Strait swim herself, clearing out her bank account when she couldn’t get corporate sponsors. After she succeeded (to almost everyone’s surprise: if you get in the Bering Sea without serious gear you generally just die) Gorbachev mentioned her during treaty talks with Nixon: “Last summer it took one brave American by the name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and friendly the meeting was between our people and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.“
She wasn’t just the first woman to swim the Strait of Magellan. She was the first person to make it across.
On top of setting multiple world records, she swam a mile+ to the coast of Antarctica, in just a bathing suit, and did not die.
She’s swum over 50,000 miles.
And look at her. This is a photo from when she was young, at the peak of her career and setting records all over the world. She is a great athlete. She is a human who can do things most humans would die trying. I’m sitting here at 1 AM getting all teary eyed because this is the first time I’ve looked up a photo of her and I am so surprised, so gratified, so overwhelmed to find out that this world record setter, this literal superhuman, has nearly the same body type as me.
Since they wouldn’t let her be a fantasy creature in a video game, she just did it in real life, I guess.
Anyone who thinks there is just one athletic body type isn’t paying attention during the Olympics opening ceremonies.
Her body type is optimized for her sport. The shape of her body and the presence of fat both provide insulation to keep her core warm while she swims.
A lot of open water swimmers aren’t this chunky, but that’s because most of them are actually triathletes, and their body type is a compromise between the ideals for the different sports.
There really is no one way to be fit and athletic. For some reason, we tend to get ourselves hung up on the body type of track and field athletes, especially that of marathon runners (who tend to carry almost no extra fat) as the ideal.
Dude HOLY FUCK she’s a badass.
When Lynn Cox was training to swim the English Channel at 14, her practice regimen had her swimming off Long Beach pier from 3am-6am each morning and then going to high school. Her coach asked that she be excused from morning gym so that she could have extra time to shower and do homework. Her gym teacher refused to allow it because she believed that Lynn Cox was too chubby and too clumsy to be missing 9th grade gym.
And here’s a joyful, more recent photo of this tremendous athlete.
WHY DOES THIS MAKE ME SO HAPPY EVERYTIME I SEE IT
this is like, the opposite of loss
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it really is though, dang.
I mean you can find patterns in anything if you really look but…
loss but played in a major key
the funniest character headcanons are feral, homophobic and tax evader i dont accept constructive criticism and you cant change my mind
hates the irish, fucks to survive, war criminal
alignment chart
she does not FUCK
the second panel was originally going to have words but I decided it was better without them
See, JK? Sometimes less is more.
hi this is so FUCKING funny
This. Peel away at my layers. Everything that makes me ME…and at the core, Looney Tunes is all you’ll find.