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obviously it’s hilarious when people call Zuko a “bad boy” because he’s just so not, but what’s even funnier to me is the implication that Zutara is somehow a bad boy-good girl ship because

what do you mean that little eco terrorist is a good girl

what do you mean that rage-filled, violent warrior is a good girl

what do you mean the fourteen year old who pulled no punches flinging ice discs at a sexist old man is a good girl

what do you mean by that

In an au where Katara hears the story of Zuko's scar before she forgives him, Zuko misunderstands her anger at first, like in canon, thinking that she blames him the way he used to blame himself. When he confronts her this time, he says something like "so I guess I'm still the face of the enemy to you," and she tells him that she's angry at him because she thought he had said the scar didn't define him anymore, that he was free to choose his own destiny. She's angry at him for Ba Sing Se, like in canon, but also like in canon, what's really behind it is that she feels hurt that she wanted to help him and couldn't. She's angry at him for choosing to go back to a man who did that to him. She's angry on behalf of the mother he lost who tried to protect him, just like her mother tried to protect her, and how could he throw away her sacrifice like that? Cue the Southern Raiders.

At any other time Katara would’ve been empathetic and full of sorrow for him. After the cavern though, I think a lot of her anger would also come from confusion in how he could even go back to that. What could possibly have him drawn to his family when the mark of his abuse lay etched into his face.

It’s honestly a bit strange that the gang never finds out about the scar. Maybe the end of season3 didn’t need it, as it doesn’t change his actions, but it would still have been a good character beat at practically any time during the series.

Zutara antis are the weirdest ppl on earth to me bc how do you see him lay down his life for her and her subsequently heal him while panicking and go "they would've been toxic!!" How do you watch the southern raiders in it's entirety and believe their relationship remained unbalanced and Bad and Problematic. HOW do you see his respect for her and her concern for him after they became friends and believe they would've been a bad and ugly couple. Whether you ship them or not, they are FRIENDS and their relationship was actually one of the healthiest once she forgave him. People won't even admit they were friends who cared for each other like are you THAT threatened by a non canon ship 20 years after yours became endgame? Are you really, seriously that bothered by their dynamic being nice and friendly? Be fr. Not shipping them is one thing but fully denying that they're friends who care about each other because you're so bothered by the IDEA that other people believe they would've worked romantically is weird as hell.

It's the nice guyism. That's literally what it is. The myth that if a girl chooses the "hot" guy over the guy who has been waiting in the friend zone, then that relationship must be toxic. When in reality, anyone who has this mindset is going to be toxic.

I'm not a zutara anti, but for me, it comes down to logistics and circumstances in making the choice - not who is most compatible in raw personality.

The guy with the abusive family raised in a war cult isn't going to be the safest choice for a 14-year-old girl. And it was fairly obvious she should choose the guy with a strong grounding in Buddhist teachings in compassion, and a loving support system. It's not that Zuko is hot and that automatically makes him toxic, or that he is irredeemable: it's that his arc on the show revolves around unlearning toxicity, but he's also not finished by the end of the series.

Zuko is an abused teenager who was chasing a child around the world for two years. Zuko is still in caterpillar goo stage by the end of the show in terms of recovering from his trauma. Yes, he is close friends with Katara, but Zuko would have to be fully integrated into Katara's family and have a lot of work to do recovering before they can be a sane couple living in a normal family space. He's also the Fire Lord - his job is politicking with equally abnormal war cult people, trying to rehabilitate the Fire Nation and himself. He's busy.

Zutara is fun to write about! It's fun to think about! But personally, after the series, I feel like Katara is already tired, Zuko is busy recovering, and a relationship with Zuko would be a lot more work than she's ready for in canon. There's tons of fanfic though! I read a surprising amount of it!

I can see it happening maybe in their early 20s, but as teenagers? No.

Personally, with children's shows, I am 100% a canon shipper. Everyone else can do what they want and ship who they want. I just don't alternate-ship characters made for children because usually the ship ties into the moral and social themes of the show itself. And changing the ship to me feels like creating an entirely new show. It was set up - but actually making it work would require an entirely different show philosophy, one that shows Zuko gaining agency a lot faster and responding more deeply to love. But this kid has barely had time to feel familial love yet. He needs that first.

Respectfully, this post is not about you. People who don't ship zutara are fine by me, even if i dont really understand their preference. It's people who are militant and weird about it, who won't even admit they were friends because they feel threatened.

The amount of “Katara hates him” comments against zutara is deeply funny when canon itself proves she’d forgiven him. It’s probably the biggest criticism I see directed towards the ship, along with similar ones like “she can’t trust him” or “he’s the enemy”.

Zutara antis are the weirdest ppl on earth to me bc how do you see him lay down his life for her and her subsequently heal him while panicking and go "they would've been toxic!!" How do you watch the southern raiders in it's entirety and believe their relationship remained unbalanced and Bad and Problematic. HOW do you see his respect for her and her concern for him after they became friends and believe they would've been a bad and ugly couple. Whether you ship them or not, they are FRIENDS and their relationship was actually one of the healthiest once she forgave him. People won't even admit they were friends who cared for each other like are you THAT threatened by a non canon ship 20 years after yours became endgame? Are you really, seriously that bothered by their dynamic being nice and friendly? Be fr. Not shipping them is one thing but fully denying that they're friends who care about each other because you're so bothered by the IDEA that other people believe they would've worked romantically is weird as hell.

First Felon has attracted the worst people who proudly act like the worst people, then pretend we are not supposed to recognize or hold them accountable for their horrible life choices.

"Genesis", Oil on canvas by Matthew Cornell

Sometimes I forget how alien the world used to be. How our earth used to be entirely diffrent in so many wonderful ways. How we can never see it, but as humans we can understand and know, we can know, we can know.

OIL ON CANVAS??

#i like how every dropout performer is forced to live like a cartoon character

i am so easily impressed by trees

tumblr is one of the only places i will actually unmute a video when the tags are like "omg unmute it" bc i know most everyone else on this website loves reading and hates noise like i do so it must be pretty good

yurimaxxing 😭

I can't put this into words exactly but I feel like as far as movies-that-fail-the-bechdel-test go there's

its mostly vibes based

Stories that fail the bechdel as far as the women with names having a conversation about something other than a man goes, that falls into 2 categories as well

happy biblically accurate friday again garfie baby to those who celebrate

these are my thotz as someone who has been directly exposed to 2022 and 1966 batman within less than a month: there's a sweet spot between silly/gloomy ways to write bruce wayne, there's unpleasant extremes, and then there's the real extremes that are such weird little freaks that they make perfect sense

Startlingly accurate

Something about Louis being preserved at 33, the age Jesus was when he was crucified, vs Lestat stuck at 34, the porn rule number

#now this is media analysis