ATLA Renaissance

[soc_puppet]

In honor of the little ATLA rebirth that's going on with Covid and everything, I've got some old links to share!

Once upon a time, when Nickelodeon was actually giving some passing thought to milking ATLA for what it was worth, they came out with these little side-books to accompany the main series. These books were roughly half first person episode-retelling, and half background worldbuilding. How official it is and how well these hold up, I have no notion! TBH, I only really remembered they even existed when I was uploading the stingray patterns and saw the files still active(!) in MediaFire. Anyway, for those who are interested, here you are!

Tasty Cultural Tidbits!

Some notes:
- When I originally scanned these, I did so two pages at a time; "Joined page" just means I didn't bother to separate the pages in editing, whereas "Split page" has the pages, well, split into individuals. Split pages are also larger in size.
- The "Culture only" versions include only the Tasty Cultural Tidbits of worldbuilding, while the "Story only" versions have only the novelized episodes. Each of these is made from split pages.
- The Water story bits retell episodes 1x01, 1x02, 1x15 and 1x18-1x20; Earth retell 1x06, 1x05 and 1x11 in that order; Fire retell 1x15, 1x06-1x07, and 1x13+1x19-1x20, in that order; and Air retell 1x03, 1x12 and 1x17
- The order, Water - Earth - Fire - Air, is as they were listed on the books themselves, but you should be able to read the cultural stuff especially in any order.
- I don't remember everything that was in these, nor can I say how well they hold up with canon after both ATLA and Korra ended, but there is some interesting stuff in there for those who care to take a look!

Oh, they should also be relatively spoiler-safe, at least up through early Season Two of ATLA. I have no actual plans to check these at the moment to find out.

Anyway, enjoy?

Edit: Files have now been successfully reuploaded to MediaFire!

Comments

[lightbird]

I am really loving the ATLA rebirth, and it's great to see people who never saw this amazing show discovering it now. I've still been regularly dipping into the fanfic and it's available on Netflix, so I should probably do another marathon soon. :)

Thank you for those links. I actually never read the side-books but might check them out just to see what they're like since I have time now, heh.

[soc_puppet]

It's pretty great, yeah 😀 I wonder if I could drag my parents into it...

Sure thing! The stuff that isn't episode retellings is pretty good, IMO. I'm pretty sure there were a few more books like this put out after these, but I only caught a glimpse of them once and never picked any of them up, so what other content they may have had is lost to me.

[soc_puppet]

Looks like Air may have gotten deleted; I'll have to dig around in my old files and see if I still have it.

[yeloson]

Of split pages on Mediafire, I was only able to get the Water tribe - the rest said the key was missing?

Thank you for sharing these!

[soc_puppet]

Thanks for the heads up! I'll definitely do some digging around for files later tonight then, and see if I can't get those reuploaded.

My pleasure!

[soc_puppet]

Okay, I found the files; I'll get them uploaded in a little bit and then give you a heads up 🙂👍

[yeloson]

Thank you so much!

[soc_puppet]

Hey, perfect timing! I just got everything uploaded; here's a share link to the MediaFire folder they're all in. I'll need to do some tweaking to this post so I can just link to that instead of the ones where I've got the more in-depth explanations, but I don't think you need to wait for that 😉

Let me know if anything doesn't work, and I hope you enjoy!