For those of you who don't know, Doug Walker is the AMAZINGLY EXCELLENT Internet celebrity from Channel Awesome, most famous for his character the Nostalgia Critic ("I remember it so you don't have to!"). For the past few months, he 's been posting vlog reviews of each episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. His July 31, 2013 review of "The Boiling ( Read more... )

Artists!  Authors!  The latest round for the Avatar: The Last Airbender Big Bang community needs you!

What's a 'big bang' you say?  It's where fans comes together to create new, completed works of art and fiction. Often the works of fiction would be in excess of 10,000 words but for this round we're looking for shorter works from authors, ( Read more... )

Sooo instead of fic... I was working the entire day to bring you..... banked-flame


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So I am newly intiated into avatar, and have been actively looking for Maiko fics for some days now. And because Maiko is cannon, and has been with Zuko since childhood, I've noticed that a lot of the fics could be arranged linearly to create one huge timeline for Maiko ficness. And because a lot of Maiko fics are one shots, the little details of ( Read more... )

1) Sign-ups for kindoflikeyou, the Mai/Zuko Fic Exchange, close tomorrow Monday, July 28th at midnight Pacific Standard Time! So, last chance to get in on this round. And remember, this is just sign-ups no actual fic will be required of you for well over a month ( Read more... )

Maiko art is getting scarcer and scarcer!

If you have any Maiko art that isnt posted on deviantart, but want featured on Under the Apple Tree 
please post a link!

http://under-the-apple-tree.deviantart.com/

Its getting harder and harder to find Maiko art. Aside for jill's wonderful modivational posters (which are banned on deviantart) virtually every ( Read more... )

 The NY anime festcame and went, and thankfully made an impression on the future community.

http://under-the-apple-tree.deviantart.com/art/Future-71777018

I spasm at the tiny one~

 The only Maiko club (correst me if I'm wrong) in Deviantart~

I run it, love it, and want more of it~

~and you know you do too~~

http://under-the-apple-tree.deviantart.com/

 I really hope this is allowed here? If not, mods... be modly with it.

Anyway, since zuko_fans died out ages ago--like, apparently with the Air Nomads--it was decided that we needed another comm for the full use of talking about Zuko, and posting Zuko things, and... I'm horrible at describing things, but you get my point.

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Giancarlo Volpe, who directed 3.1 "The Awakening" (as well as many other episodes), has posted storyboards of the Maiko sequence.


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