#Jetara had to be sunk by a boulder to the chest but all Harutara needed was a few pixels above his lip

[ecoterrorist-katara]

you don’t have to be a Zutara shipper to dislike Ka/taang

Most of my irl friends are not shippers and the word “Zutara” does not exist in their vocabulary, but they think Ka/taang is weird. Because a prepubescent boy with a teenage girl is weird. He’s a child. She’s a teenager. Anyone who stops and thinks about what they were like at twelve vs fourteen knows those were some long years.

I started getting the ick for Ka/taang in The Headband and it reached its apex in Nightmares and Daydreams. I didn’t even start liking Zutara until The Southern Raiders. I liked Katara with Haru but the creators sank that ship with a strategically placed moustache

I am a ZK shipper so things like parallels and symbolism and Katara’s development as an adult matter to me. But even without all that, I didn’t like Ka/taang. Because before my analytical brain jumped in, my lizard brain said “ick.”

#honestly Haru’s moustache was the most effective ship sink I’ve ever seen #Jetara had to be sunk by a boulder to the chest but all Harutara needed was a few pixels above his lip #RIP Harutara you would’ve been a malewife x girlboss icon #anti kataang #Zutara #harutara #I think we need to bring back the word “icky” because it conveys a sentiment that doesn’t have moral baggage but is extremely descriptive