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also I may be talking nonsense rn but I feel like. I see katara as younger than how a lot of other fans seem to see her. Like shes canonically 14 but to me shes like a young 14. Maybe that seems crazy pedantic to even say but I feel like theres a "mid teens" brand of 14 and a "early teens" brand of 14 and to me she's the latter but to a lot of people she's the former. Does this make any sense

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THIS IS AMAZING

aang singing to katara

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Kataang and Zutara communities accusing each other of being sexist towards Katara, colorized

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Fandom Problem #4901:

Normalized having your own fanon verse, without having to shit on canon or anyone politely disagreeing with fanon.

I don't hate canon, but I'm one of those people that needs some personal space cause the fanbase either can't agree on anything or INSIST that something about canon is nefarious because of personal feelings. It makes enjoying parts of canon exhausting. Take the thing you love maybe make up your own stuff, mash em together, however, you want.

No need to be angry when it's not canon, nor do you need to put up with people saying to you "It'll never be canon" it really should not have to be a battle. I get it when a favorite character feels personal but you know, sometimes I think it's healthy to just play around with different ideas regardless if people like those ideas or not. idk if I'm making any sense but that's my overall thought process due to recent observations that I've had.

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Katara's face when Aang said she looks beautiful 😭

She's so 😭

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Yeah he's just a baby lot of kid actors meet shitty people it happens but I expect Gordon will get crap for this anyway

Oh god.

I'm gonna give gordon the benefit of the doubt bc he is 14 still (turning 15 this year) and is a fan of all things Avatar. I don't think he has a way of knowing what transpired w eric nam especially bc eric is involved with avatar studios now, not netflix like gordon. He probably isn't up to date on the fan's reactions to a zionist being cast as aang (probably doesn't know eric is a zionist in the first place)

But yeah,, yikes

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Please tell me the misrepresentations you see in the ATLA/LOK fandoms (and how many are people being purposely obtuse about female characters)…

so it turns out i'm a liar bc i kept thinking I'd get to this eventually and then didn't but I'm doing it now!! I kept it to the main points that get me heated rn. all under the read more.

Violence!!!

mainly fandom thinks violence=murder? That because characters like Toph are down to fight that it means they're 100% chill with murder? or that Kysohi being okay with killing as a form of justice means she's simply violent and will always murder? And it pisses me off. Toph likes fighting - but she's never been shown to be okay with killing. she's more thoughtful than people give her credit for because all they see is that she likes fighting. Kyoshi tells Aang "justice will bring peace", which is NOT "you gotta kill your enemies", but just a simple statement - essentially she is telling Aang to bring justice, whatever that means to him and the world. It's important to note that while Kyoshi says she killed Chin and would have done anything to fight him, she doesn't actually kill him, he just refused to move. (She also didn't stop his conquest before that but that's a different issue.) Just because Kysohi is known as a fierce warrior and owns up to doing whatever it takes to bring justice, that apparently means she's overly violent and is down with murder. But even on her wiki page, while she's noted as being more willing to kill enemies than other avatars, notable accomplishments she achieved in her life didn't have anything to do with killing or violence, but rather trying to better the world and the Earth Kingdom systematically.

Other posts have summarized this issue better than I can and I can't find the one that really speaks to me but. basically the fandom is overly obsessed with violence. They get annoyed that Aang didn't kill Ozai. They get annoyed that Aang said "revenge isn't the answer" when Katara wanted to kill the man who killed her mother. They deliberately misinterpret characters into being more violent than they actually are and then misinterpret that too.

Lin/Tenzin/Pema

I think this is the issue that prompted my original post ngl because I was trying to go through the Pema tag and kept seeing hate. Which I hate.

I think this is really where the fan misinterpretation comes into play. Because it's generally accepted that Tenzin and Lin broke up because Lin couldn't have/didn't want children. This led fans to assume that Pema was a homewrecker and Tenzin simply decided to hook up with someone who did want to have kids. But this is such an uncharitable view on all of the characters involved and more importantly, none of it is canon!

While Pema's advice to Korra about confessing despite her love interest being in a relationship is admittedly not flattering to her, it's important to remember the context Pema had for her situation. As well as what Tenzin himself said about the situation, he says explicitly that Pema did not "steal" him. Tenzin says regarding himself and Lin that they were "growing apart" and "wanted different things". While this is vague and probably what prompted fans to assume it was a kid thing, honestly I doubt it. Tenzin and Lin, as we see in their adult selves, are very different people. I don't think they would have been able to make it work. Tenzin adores his family and values this connection deeply, even if he struggles with it. Lin, on the other hand, in both flashbacks and present day, overall values work over family. Which is not a bad thing, but is a definite clash between them. Especially since they're growing up and those issues would just fester if they stayed together.

While Pema confessing to Tenzin while he's in a relationship is a little questionable, honestly, Tenzin is not the kind of person to just break up with someone and date someone else simply because they confessed to him while things were rocky. And tbh there are worse things than confessing you like someone when you think they're not happy with the person they're dating. Like... destroying your ex's home and trying to throw their new s/o in jail, like Lin did. People forget about that part. Like that's just not cool and idk why people think it's okay.

So idk why people lean so hard into the "Pema is a homewrecker and Tenzin dumped Lin just so he could have kids and that's why Lin is miserable years later" headcanon. It just is so uncharitable to every character involved and doesn't have any text to support it.

Katara (and Katara & Zuko)

People misinterpret Katara every fucking day in one way or another and it drives me nuts. 1) She is not a crybaby or talks too much about her mom. The times she's cried has been in response to upsetting things and therefore definitely justified, and same thing for bringing up her mom - always in situations where it's relevant. 2) she is also not unnecessarily violent. she fights when she perceives a threat or needs to deal with assholes (ie those 2 guys from Toph's intro episode and Jet when they meet again), not whenever she wants to flex. 3) she's motherly, but she's not a mom. she's a teenager. she's not above mischief. 4) she's not an asshole! people who write hurt/comfort fics about Zuko after he joins the gang usually have Katara being unnecessarily mean to him just to amp up Zuko's pathetic-ness and it bothers me. She was warming up to him a little bit by the boiling rock episode! she swung back to anger in the next episode but like. it's not undeserved, and she's dealing with her mom issues and trauma. She's not an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.

related to this - Zuko and Katara are friends!!!! I keep seeing stuff about them being frenemies or Katara being friendly but still mean to him all the time and I'm sick of it!!! They made up by the end of the southern raiders episode. they were chill in the ember island players. they had clearly become friends by the final episodes like all of their interactions were clearly friendly. I legit think that the attitude towards zutara has gotten so negative that people swung too far in the opposite direction and can't interpret them as genuine friends because of it. even though they are!!!

Zuko's levels of pathetic-ness

Zuko's not as pathetic as people say he is. He's a disaster, yeah. He's awkward, sure. But he's not a pathetic mess like people tend to portray him. Like he is powering through every absolutely ridiculous situation that gets thrown his way like a boss - handling it badly? sure. not always saying the right thing? Absolutely. But he is powering through it surprisingly competently considering every situation he ends up in. He's not a mess on the floor about any of it, except for like, 3 times and that was the result of emotional turmoil and physical sickness. idk I saw this post where Zuko gets distracted by how hot the water tribe guys are and I was like No Shut Up You Don't Understand Him.

Like. is he the perfect whumpee? absolutely. but he is not a "crying on the floor" kinda whumpee. He is a "defiant to the end, still fighting back no matter what" kinda whumpee.

#good takes #lok #atla #katara #zuko #kyoshi

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Guys I literally cannot draw goodbye I cannot get the face correct

#this is gorgeous

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It inspired this blog tbh.. as katara is the heart of kataang ..

Avatar Fandom!

Tell me your thoughts surrounding Katara and her parentification, how the fandom treats her as a character much older than she actually is.

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im starting to feel some people in the kataang fandom focus way to much on why the zut fandom sucks and not enough on the actual ship. you go out of your way to find toxic takes by looking at toxic blogs you'll find em.. posting about emm all the time wont do any good.. and the kaatang fans who say all zut are crazy. . . . that its draining. this fandom in genera is draining and its not just the zut fandom being draining its both sides this fandom is draining

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Paralelismos cinematográficos 🚬

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, 2002.

Avatar the last airbender, 2008.

Pongan Across the stars a todo volumen

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I just hope they won't bully Gordon too badly but they will I can feel it in my bones

When Kataang will be canon in natla (yes it will) i can't wait to see how many people of THAT fanbase will turn against this series and Gordon. Aka people who are pretending to like natla aang and this badly written live action because aang hasn't blushed at katara yet

Y'all are so fake

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#atla #katara #aang #kataang

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i don't ship zutara at all i actually dislike it so much but I hate it when people try to bring down zuko's character because their anti-zutara because i wholeheartedly agree that the ship isn't that good and why people don't like it but they try to make him seem like a bad person or they try to make her seem like a bad person because they're an anti, they all say "katara deserves better" or "zuko deserves better" like no they're both great and they're just better as friends i don't think they would make a good relationship because of their personalities, but that doesn't mean that they would be abusive they might be a tiny bit toxic but they wouldn't be abusive to the point that people try to make them seem like they would be some horrible abusive relationship when they just wouldn't be good for each other dragging good characters down because you don't like a ship is just dumb 

#yEP #seriously kathaaang fandom your idea of zuko /katara abusing eachother is as annoying as zuts saying kathaang is abusive #zuko would not abuse katara andi dont think they'd argue all the time either why do both shipping fandoms get zuko/katara wrong gahh #atla #zuko #katara

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THE FINAL MATCH

Korrasami previously defeated: Azuki, Senraq, Mai Lee, Wuko, Sukka

Kataang previously defeated: Bosami, Azutara, Kainora, Dangerous Ladies, Tyzula

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fortuneteller in a nutshell..

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