ilse-chan-san:

Legend of Korra + Greek Goddesses | Inspired by [x] and [x]

“And from 1825 to 1855 we have NICHOLAS "NICK THE STICK” ROMANOV!!! It’s 1825 and it looks like he’s really cracking down on those Decembrists, Marx is introducing communism in 1848 BUT NICK IS HAVING NONE OF THAT! Will he survive the Crimean War?? THE ANSWER IS NO!!!“

"Who’s taking over but none other than ALEXANDER "SERF LIBERATOR” ROMANOV!! Comparably so liberal!! I hope he doesn’t get assassinated by the People’s Will in 1881!!!“

"Oh damn, looks like we’re going CONSERVATIVE AS FUCK with Tsar Alexander III!! Land captains and the Manifesto of Unshakable Autocracy? OF COURSE YOU’RE GOING TO DIE EARLY MOTHERFUCKER! 1894!!”

“Let’s see, who do we have here…. little Nicholas II. Clearly you don’t know what the hell you’re doing since you got your industrially backwards country into the Russo Japanese War in 1905 and halfheartedly created a Duma in response to your BRUTAL CRACKDOWN on protesters! Bloody Sunday was a shit show, thanks a lot for World War One, YOUR WEAKNESSES WILL GET YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED by 1918!”

Source: lil-shiva

lindseypayton:

lauren-elizabeth-vernon:

zimothy:

this is the kind of positivity i need. sometimes fitblrs fill my dash with unrealistically skinny/muscular/perfect women with body types i could never achieve and it can make me so depressed I can’t stand to look in the mirror

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

I get that last one on a spiritual level

Source: trackgirlno1

Source: feeling-passion

cynsyeung:

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Source: cynsyeung

element-of-change:

amuseoffyre:

The cultures which inspired Avatar: The Last Airbender

Air Nomads – The Monasteries of Tibet

Water Tribe – The Inuit

Earth Kingdom – Imperial China

Fire Nation – Pre-Meiji Japan

This is stunning…ugh think how STELLAR A CULTURALLY ACCURATE AND IMPRESSIVE LIVE ACTION MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN!

Also, I’d like to say, that there are many other cultural elements that influence these fictional nations. The Fire Nation has many recognizably Southeast Asian elements, in the dress, architecture, cuisine, etc.

Also, different parts of the Earth Kingdom are evidently influenced by different East Asian cultures. Some parts are obviously Korean, in dress, architecture, cuisine, etc. The Foggy Swamp is influenced by bayou culture. There are manifold cultural references in the Earth Kingdom, appealing to its diversity.

The Northern Water Tribe city has architecture like this world’s most famous waterborne city, Venice! Overall though, the dress, architecture (elsewhere), cuisine, etc. tend to be N. Native American (not just Inuit).