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The last chapter is up!

On their way to the North Pole, Aang, Katara and Sokka meet a new acquaintance, who provides Katara with the perfect opportunity to find out once and for all why Prince Zuko wants to capture the Avatar so badly. Her dangerous plan: to join his crew under a false identity - because where else could she learn more about the Fire Prince’s true intentions than aboard his own ship? But instead of discovering sinister plots and dark secrets, Katara finds herself surrounded by a surprisingly friendly crew, before she is whisked away to a daring adventure with Prince Zuko himself, involving pirates, a theater troupe and a big heist.

#zutara #zutara fanfiction #atla fanfiction #zuko #katara #zuko's crew #my fanfic

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i'm having a lot of fun sketching away lol

#atla zuko #gorgeous

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My love you have found peace You were searching For relief

You gave it all Into the call You took a chance and You took a fall for us You came thoughtfully Loved me faithfully You taught me honor You did it for me

(My love by Sia)

artist credits: artbydado (twitter/instagram) 

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Kisses. 

rewatched atla and my Zutara feels wont stop. 

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Avatar School Time Shipping, but with Zuko and his far superior season 3 hair. I already shared it over on the Zutara discord, but wanted to share it here as well!

♥ Please do not repost. If you like it and want to show people, share a link to this page instead. Thank you! | Manip base art: AtLA

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New chapter:  The Water Garden ---------------------------------

Summary:

On their way to the North Pole, Aang, Katara and Sokka meet a new acquaintance, who provides Katara with the perfect opportunity to find out once and for all why Prince Zuko wants to capture the Avatar so badly. Her dangerous plan: to join his crew under a false identity - because where else could she learn more about the Fire Prince’s true intentions than aboard his own ship? But instead of discovering sinister plots and dark secrets, Katara finds herself surrounded by a surprisingly friendly crew, before she is whisked away to a daring adventure with Prince Zuko himself, involving pirates, a theater troupe and a big heist.

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Mute with embarrassment, Katara followed him along the trail that led them through the waterfall rock. It was so narrow that they had to walk one behind the other, and once again she was glad that Zuko couldn’t see her face.

He also didn’t show any inclination to let go of her hand.

She didn’t resist.

Yet in a corner of her mind - the sensible, realistic corner - the humming of protest she had tried to ignore became louder and louder. She knew this had to stop. She knew, this - these thoughts she had - this was going too far. This was dangerous ground. Zuko, whoever else he could have been in a different world, in a different time - he was still the Fire Prince. She was holding hands with the Fire Prince. Again.

But it’s only for tonight, she told the warning voices. This wouldn’t hurt her friends. They were safe. And just now, she wasn’t even Katara. She was Turuya, the spy, who was reckless and free, and off on a wild adventure with an equally reckless boy. A stupidly reckless, brave and, yes, handsome boy with beautiful fire eyes, who was fond of swords and loved the theatre.

So what if she enjoyed being reckless?

So what if she enjoyed holding hands with this boy?

His grip was firm and warm. It was a nice hand to hold on to.

#zutara #zutara fanfiction #katara #Zuko #zuko's crew #theater kid zuko #my fanfic #atla fanfiction

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Fire Lord and Water Tribe Ambassador reminiscing over tea

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a little zutara dance for @/darkwaters-diana! thank you so much for commissioning me<3

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A Book 1 Katara & Zuko adventure – featuring Zuko’s crew, pirates and a big heist. 

Chapter 13 and 14 are out!

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“It’s not like that!” Katara protested. “Just let me explain. Alright, yes, Zuko and I are the thieves, but only because we found out about Zhao’s plan by accident and took the real thieves’ place. Zuko and I heard about…”

“Oh, Zuko and I, is it! Are we on a first-name basis with the enemy now?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Sokka, what else should I call him? Anyway, the Fire Prince and I found out about Zhao’s plan, and naturally he also wanted to go after the thing that can catch Aang, and I didn���t want to leave him unsupervised…”

“Wait, wait wait…what’s that thing about Aang?”

“If you would just let me finish!” Katara growled. “Then I might be able to tell you everything, including what Zhao wants to steal and why!”

This finally shut them up. After another furtive look around - the crowd was still rapturously watching whatever was going on with Master Wu- Katara hastily told her story, only leaving out her and Zuko’s brief time as prisoners in the pirates’ basement. They didn’t have time for unnecessary details. She didn’t forget to stress though that she had only stumbled across the pirates in the first place because she had been looking for them, her friends, after she had found Sokka’s message in the flower.

“And the jerkbender came to your help why again? Why would he care?”

“Well, since I belong to his crew now, I guess the pirates insulted his honour or something, because they attacked me.” She tried to sound indifferent. Maybe she should have toned down the part about Zuko’s valiant fight against the pirates. Of course her brother wouldn’t believe that story. A couple of days ago, she wouldn’t have believed it herself.

Sokka still looked at her warily. He appeared less surprised than she had expected, but something else seemed to bother him. He was studying her with a calculating gaze, twirling one long braid of his ridiculous moustache around his finger. She knew that look. This was never a good sign. And sure enough, a moment later, he nodded sagely to himself and patted her head with a sad sigh.

“I was afraid of that. Katara - you have the Gao Ling syndrome.”

“What’s the Gao Ling syndrome? Is she sick?”

“No, Turuya”, Sokka stage-whispered with the concerned frown of the world’s most questionable doctor. “Gao Ling syndrome is when a victim falls in love with her kidnapper and starts excusing their evil behaviour…”

“I don’t have the Gao Ling syndrome, you idiot!” Katara snapped. “Zuko hasn’t kidnapped me, he doesn’t even know who I am!”

“Are you in love with the Fire Prince?” Turuya looked horror-struck.

“I. am. NOT. in love with Zuko!” Katara grinded out between gritted teeth. Why was she even bothering to explain things! Of course her brother wouldn’t understand, he never understood anything, because he was completely insane!

“Can we please focus on our real problems here?” She tried to be the sensible one. Somebody had to. “Aang is still missing, Zuko is somewhere in the building and I bet your resistance friends are getting impatient!”

#zutara #zutara fanfiction #zuko #katara #my fanfic #atla fanfiction

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The Ember Island Players: performing toxic masculinity and narrative complicity in propagating misogyny

Initially I wasn’t going to respond to concerns about Katara’s racist/misogynistic portrayal in the Ember Island Players with anything more than snarky tags, but apparently I can’t keep my mouth shut, so I’m posting my response as a standalone meta about how the writers’ insistence on creating drama for drama’s sake leads them to–in lieu of actual character development–fall back on lazy narrative shortcuts whereby a performance of toxic masculinity against a gendered heternormative background is used to create tension in a romantic relationship, presumably with the goal of keeping the audience invested.

The Ember Island Players is problematic for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the pervasive tone-deaf misogyny, including racialized misogyny, directed at Katara. There’s a lot of meta on this, so I’d like to focus on something different: Aang’s relationship with gender and romantic attachments.

Aang seems so uncharacteristically chagrined the whole episode: “I’m not a woman!” Based on his previous characterization up to this point:

The Fortuneteller. This is the same Aang who makes a necklace for Katara when she loses her mother’s. Observe how he responds to Sokka’s jibe about jewelry-making, which can be seen as a feminine pursuit: Sokka: Great, Aang. Maybe instead of saving the world, you can go into the jewelry-making business. Aang: I don’t see why I can’t do both. Femininity isn’t presented as being mutually exclusive with narrative pursuits like saving the world which have traditionally centered male protagonists (especially if we take the entire canon of anything every written in any genre that’s not specifically, say, something like shoujo or jounen which are directed and young girls and women, the narrative focus on male personalities is overwhelming).

The Warriors of Kyoshi. Oh, and this is the same Aang that dressed up in full Kyoshi gear, kabuki makeup and all, without complaint. Why would he? After all, she was him in a past life. (There’s a whole meta here about gender-critical analysis of kabuki productions where male actors typically assumed female roles and how Avatar both takes inspiration from this real-life kernel and subverts it in Rise of Kyoshi where Kyoshi’s signature look is not only an homage to her parental heritage but also a reimagining of who can inhabit what roles. Her legacy, though imperfect, is also notably feminist, taking face paint worn typically by men IRL and expanding it into war paint for women warriors.) (There’s also great headcanon-adjacent meta here about gender non-conformity and non-binary identities in Avatar. Avatar was not overtly explicit about its feminist or gender-progressive mindset outside of episodes like The Warriors of Kyoshi or The Waterbending Master, but it was still way ahead of its time. If anyone was to be presented or headcanoned in such a way, it would be the Avatar who’s lived a thousand lives, inhabiting a thousand skins and a thousand identities, including gender identities. There’s also cool crossover meta here about the Legend of Korra depicting a female Avatar in Korra with masculine tendencies and visible muscle vs Aang as a male Avatar with a gentler pacifistic spirit and gender nonconforming tendencies.)

The Cave of Two Lovers. Aang wears a freaking flower crown and is generally wholesome and adorable, even leading up to the “let’s kiss lest we die” scene with Katara. He’s not pushy or overly concerned with appearing masculine and it is in fact Katara who suggests the kiss and Aang makes a fool of himself. From the transcript: Katara [Shyly, blushing.] Well, what if we … kissed? Aang [Very surprised.] Us … kissing‌? Katara See? It was a crazy idea. Aang [Dreamily.] Us … kissing … Katara [Fake-jokingly.] Us kissing. What was I thinking? Can you imagine that‌? Aang [Fake-jokingly.] Yeah. [Awkwardly laughs.] I definitely wouldn’t want to kiss you! [Beat.] Katara [Insulted.] Oh, well! I didn’t realize it was such a horrible option. [Angrily.] Sorry I suggested it! Aang [Realizing his mistake.] No, no, I mean … if there was a choice between kissing you and dying … Katara [Disgusted.] Ugh! Aang [Desperately.] What? I’m saying is I would rather kiss you than die - that’s a compliment. Katara [Enraged.] Well, I’m not sure which I’d rather do! [Slams the torch into his hand and storms away.] Aang [Miserably.] What is wrong with me … Aang, sweetie, this is not what you say to a girl you want to kiss, but generally, this is Wholesome™ and narratively, this is Good™. Eventually, they do kiss and that’s perfectly acceptable because there’s a whole conversation beforehand with humorous romantic framing. There’s consent and communication and initiative by the female protagonist. So solid A on the sensitive writing.

General Air Nomad culture. We don’t get a lot of Air Nomad culture in the show (and what little we do get what presented in such a misguided way, especially the whole commitment to forgiveness/pacifism which was handled in such an amateur black-and-white way from a writing perspective in season 3). But I digress. I really, really don’t think that Air Nomads who were so concerned with the spiritual side of bending and general existence had stringent notions of gender and romantic relationships–at the very least, they had very different notions of these issues compared to, say, the Northern Water Tribe. Canonically, even though AN philosophy emphasized detachment, Air Nomads practiced free love. Same-gender romance was freely accepted unlike in the homophobic Earth Kingdom (which even Kyoshi, a bisexual woman, wasn’t able to change) and the militant Fire Nation (Sozin outlawed homosexuality after declaring world war, essentially). And though the temples were gender-segregated, it seems that the burden of raising children fell to the entire community instead of just the women. Both male and female Air Nomads are revered. In the case of the former, Guru Laghima who unlocked the power of flight through achieving complete detachment from the material world. And in the case of the latter, Avatar Yangchen, who has statues everywhere because she came to be revered as a deity not just among Air Nomads but in the physical world in general. Nowhere in Air Nomad philosophy is the concept of gender, romance, love, sexuality, relationships etc. etc. tainted with jealousy and possessiveness (especially towards women) or rigid binary heternormativity.

So this was Aang for the better part of the first half of the series. Not overly concerned with gender roles. Pretty much fumbling his way through his first crush like a lovesick puppy and it’s all very wholesome. Supposedly a classic product of Air Nomad upbringing.

Meanwhile, Aang in EIP:

Checks out Katara’s butt as she’s sitting down.

Gets mad at being portrayed by a woman.

Accuses Katara of being the racialized misogynistic version of herself depicted on stage ([sarcastically]“Yeah, that’s not you at all.”).

Nods in agreement when the misogynistic stage production of Katara presents her as the “Avatar’s girl.”

Unable to differentiate between fiction and reality and puts the onus on Katara to do the emotional labor to justify something she never said (”Katara, did you really mean what you said in there? On stage, when you said I was just like a … brother to you, and you didn’t have feelings for me.”)

Assumes they would just… fall into a relationship… just because he forcibly kissed her at the invasion and again pressures Katara to do the emotional labor to justify why their relationship is not how he wants it (“But it’s true, isn’t it? We kissed at the Invasion, and I thought we were gonna be together. But we’re not.” / “Aang, I don’t know.” / “Why don’t you know?”)

Forces a non-consensual kiss on her even though “I just said I was confused!”

So, there’s so many things wrong with this, most of which are a laundry list of behaviors typical of toxic masculinity:

Ogling

Outdated misogynistic humor (what’s wrong with being a woman?)

Verbal abuse

Offloading emotional labor

Gaslighting

Pressuring a potential romantic partner

Lack of direct communication about romantic desires

Lack of sensitivity

Lack of active listening

Lack of emotional intelligence and empathy

Lack of consent and sexual assault

I could go on and on.

My question is Where and when did he learn these toxic behaviors? What happened to the wholesome boy making necklaces, wearing flower crowns, and generally being adorable in a kid with a first crush kind of way when it comes to romance?

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“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees” - Pablo Nerdua

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Ok, so since I am nearing the finale of my fic, I thought I’d do some self-promo here after all. Usually, my favourite ATLA fics are mostly from Book 3 or post-canon.

 BUT somehow I ended up writing a Book 1 Katara & Zuko adventure – also featuring Zuko’s crew, pirates and a big heist.

Hope you enjoy!

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Chapters: 12/15 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Katara & Zuko (Avatar), Katara/Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & Zuko's Crew (Avatar), Iroh & Zuko (Avatar), Katara & Iroh (Avatar), Pre-Katara/Zuko (Avatar) - Relationship, Katara & Zuko's Crew Characters: Katara (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Zuko's Crew (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Original Characters Additional Tags: Book 1: Water (Avatar), Avatar Book 1 Added Storyline, Book 1 Water (Avatar) AU, Zuko is an Angry Turtleduck, no beta we die like men, Cultural Misunderstandings, Katara the Brave, not a captured Katara-fic

Summary:

While Aang, Katara and Sokka are travelling through the Earth Kingdom on their way to the North Pole, Prince Zuko is never far behind. But only when they meet a runaway girl with a lot of uncomfortable questions do they realize that Zuko is not just a danger to them personally - he could even ruin all they hope to find at the Northern Water Tribe. When their new friend provides her with a perfect opportunity, Katara decides to act before it is too late. Her plan is reckless and dangerous, but it might be worth all the risk. Because where else could she learn more about the true intentions of the Fire Prince than aboard his own ship?

#zutara #zutara fanfiction #Zuko #katara #zuko's crew #atla fanfiction #my fanfic

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Another Zutara Doodle~

Hehehe I miss draw them...

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I wanted to do a sketch of them kissing. End up with a full artwork.

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I am so late for Zutara Month. Here it is.

Day 18 - Comfort

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Healing. Post Agni Kai.

Uploaded this a little earlier but fixed some minor mistakes.