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quillthrillswriting · 1 month

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i think that by far, the most common zutara trope i've seen is zuko freeing katara from her unhappy marriage with the clingy, unappreciative aang.

i've always felt that that aang would genuinely worship the ground katara walked on and be exceedingly kind and respectful, and so i've always thought that this trope would make a lot more sense flipped, with aang in the position of being katara's safe space after zukko reverts back to his angry, sullen, lashing out persona that he was before uncle iroh & the gaang's involvement.

this fic is the result of me having the thought "might f around and write a kataang fic that flips the usual zutara trope of "zuko helps katara escape a failing relationship with aang" 😳"

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Zuko was all alone, heading an entire empire and facilitating the transition of his nation from a war-bringer to a force for peace. At first, she told herself that it was only because he had needed help that she chose to stay with him, but that wasn’t being entirely honest. After that play on Ember Island, all of the scenes where the two of them were in love had opened Katara’s eyes to the possibility, and try as she might, she couldn’t shut them again. And Zuko, after all that he’d sacrificed to help them, after redeeming himself in her eyes, even fighting alongside her, he had seemed like her best chance at home.

So she had stayed with him.

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Zuko proposed, after just six months, but Katara thought little of the brief timeline. When you know, you know, right? He had given her his mother’s ring, and had her dress in Fire Nation colours for the ceremony. She had been under the impression that the wedding would be a welding of cultures, and so she had spent weeks painstakingly carving a traditional water tribe proposal necklace.

When she had presented it to him, Zuko had only said that a Fire Lord couldn’t be seen wearing another nation’s trinkets . She had quietly dabbed away her tears when he wasn’t looking.

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The moon rose and set six more nights before Katara rose with it, slipping outside of the castle during the changing of the guard, draped in traditional water tribe colours for the first night in years. Before anyone had seen her, she had made it, slipping between Fire Nation homes almost silently. She only paused to pull clothes and a cloth head covering from a clothesline, silently apologizing to whatever family she had just stolen from. She tucked a couple of coins and a piece of gold jewellery into one of the pockets of the pants still on the clothesline, an attempt at making amends for her crime, then blended into the night again.

She hadn’t stopped moving until she’d finally found a small forest, then she’d made herself a bed of moss and curled up as if she was a child back on the tundra, pretending to be a sleeping snow fox alongside Sokka.

She missed her brother. She missed her home.

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She knew where she would go once the cargo ship reached the land. The last location Aang had been in was the Western Air temple. So that was where she would go. If she needed to, to find Aang, she’d scour every inch of the mainland. She knew he would do the same for her. Which begged the question- why hadn’t he come to her when he began to feel that something was off?

It was that question that Katara started with, as she settled into a comfortable position on Aang’s woven rug, a cup of hot tea curling steam around her body that she absent-mindedly bent into shapes around her.

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Aang sighed, looking away. “Katara, I hate to give you more reasons to feel distressed, but in case you hadn’t remembered, you told me to stay away. Told me my “juvenile crush” was ridiculous and made you uncomfortable. I felt awful, and so, I backed off. I kept sending letters every couple months, trying to make sure you were okay, but you told me you were too busy, and I respected that.”

Katara’s tone was unsettlingly neutral when she responded. “...What?”

Aang titled his head, confused. “You said, in your letters, that-”

She responded in that same tone. “What letters , Aang?”

♥ the rest of the (completed) fic can be found here!! ->

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breezy-cheezy · 6 months

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No. 25: “You’re not delivering a perfect body to the grave.”

Storm | Buried Alive

This part really struck me, and I wanted to draw it! Luffy is just trying to protect his little family, and while the Lapins nearly got them killed, he still helps pull one out of the snow....because he recognizes they're trying to protect their family too. And I love that ;v;

BASICALLY A PANEL REDRAW here's the panel

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choccy-milky · 19 hours

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modern AU seb and clora's first interaction 📘📗 (and by modern AU i actually mean super trope-filled high school romance set in the 80's/90's LOL)

#i need to do ALL the tropes like seb doing the classic 'sneak into her bedroom window' ....and also drive in movies #instead of magic duelling they duel via competing grades LOL. and instead of being a beater seb is on the football team #theyre much more enemies/rivals to lovers in this au than usual too since bookworm vs popular jock. I PROUDLY LOVE MY CLICHES #hogwarts legacy #sebastian sallow #sebastian sallow x mc #sebastian sallow x oc #hogwarts legacy fanart #sebastian sallow fanart #choccyart #clora clemons #clora when she realizes people can be athletic....AND BE SMART??? no fair. HOW COME HE GETS BOTH #u can tell my boss isnt giving me much work this month bc of all the shit i have time to draw LOOL fine by me!!!!!!!#i already have 2 other modern au pages sketched out of them directly after this scene and then them at a house party #im open to more ideas too👀👀#omg i just realized if this takes place in the 80s then its flipped from being 1890 to 1980......its perfect

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nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius · 2 months

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No actually hi I’m not done talking about episode 3 because have we mentioned yet how fucking monumental it is that the little girl who you’d think would be a prime candidate for a damsel in distress storyline fought her way out *almost entirely single-handed.* Not the man. Her. She never gave up and absolutely blitzed her way out of there without even needing a proper plan. Crosshair is just her backup. The subtle messages in this show mean everything, we have 6’4 of seething super soldier with a vendetta and a gun and it’s his baby sister who’s the one masterminding their way to safety *I can’t tell you how feral I am about this*

Star Wars feminism is so good when it’s good, Leia would be so fucking proud of her

#morgan speaketh #take that damsel in distress trope and throw it right out the window thank you and goodnight #the bad batch flips harmful stereotypes on its head with SPITE and that’s one of the many things i love about it #mega really said into the garbage chute flyboy #bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb omega #tbb crosshair #tbb s3 #tbb season 3 #the bad batch #tbb

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timdrakesbussy · 27 days

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dare i say

(gif credit to the talented @pixelatedfarmhouse )

#i flip the og shipping trope because i can’t find pics of sebastian on the left while sam on the right #both have emotional baggage okay?#and abandonment issues #stardew valley #sdv #sdv sam #sdv sebastian #stardew sam #stardew sebastian #sambastian #samseb #sam x sebastian

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aerequets · 1 year

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loid laughs his real laugh one day for the first time (probably because of something Anya said or did that just made it burst out of him unexpectedly before he could stop it) and yor has a little crush moment when she hears him, and sees he has faint dimples when he smiles that wide

#literally just copy pasted this from a discord channel i sent this in #i may draw it one day. maybe #theres just this trope of guy admiring girl when she doesnt notice #which i support 100% and loid does it no questions asked #but flipped? yor to loid? HOOOO #spy x family #twiyor #loid forger #yor forger #twilight #thorn princess #sxf

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afterphantoms · 5 months

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maybe its just me and my love of all things gothic, but i've been really surprised by the classification of saltburn as a (poorly executed) 'eat the rich' satire. i would've said it was primarily gothic fiction and that the class commentary was more a backdrop to that than the major thesis of the film, so it's interesting that a lot of people seemed to interpret it mostly or entirely through the lens of class satire. i'll be interested to see if the interpretation/reaction to the movie changes at all between the theatrical release and the digital one in a couple weeks; my perception is that a not insignificant number of people went into saltburn expecting something like parasite and were justifiably disappointed. not me though i'm a sucker for a fucked up gothic romance

#saltburn #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #emerald fennell #like the structure of the movie follows gothic romance/horror pretty perfectly up until the twist #at which point my interpretation was that the whole point was taking gothic tropes and then flipping them around #honestly found myself thinking of crimson peak quite a bit while watching!#honestly i would make a list of all the gothic tropes in saltburn but it would be so spoiler-ridden and long #itd have to be under a read more 😭

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tesco-finest-aromantics · 1 year

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hypothetical trope: aromanticism as hope

#pk;m flip #compared to so many tropes about how not desiring a relationship makes you lonely / aromanticism as horror #aromantic #aro #safeforaro

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ladyantiheroine · 10 days

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Thinking about an AU idea where Bruce Wayne’s parents never died but he still becomes a vigilante. They support this endeavor (Thomas even helps train him) until he brings Selina Kyle home.

Thomas: “She’s a criminal! You’re a crime-fighter! What if she’s just trying to use you? Steal from you? What will your mother think? You are not seeing that girl again!”

Bruce: “But daddy I love her 😩”

#shut up elizabeth #i once posted that Batman and Catwoman are a gender-flip “good girl falls for bad boy” trope #And I still stand by it #batcat #batman #catwoman #bruce wayne #selina kyle #dc #dcu #dc comics #dc universe

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captaindeinony · 8 months

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Erm what is your deal

#pokemon #TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!#22ND BABY #gen 9 pokemon #trainer Carmine #trainer Kieran #pokemon carmine #pokemon kieran #they’re gonna mean so much to me I can tell they’re gonna fuck me up in the brain #trainer Juliana #I messed with the blur so much at one point that it looked like Juliana was flipping Carmine off #not the intent but that’s a Juliana thing to do in my book #BUT YEAH #they’re siblings and my favorite trope ever is just. ‘thing happens to family’#AND. AND. THEY ARE FAMILY WAHG #I would love to pick them apart but I gotta wait #Paldea #Diino doodle

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welcometogrouchland · 2 years

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I know it was unexpected for plenty of people but I LOVE the implication that in S3 willow is the one rocking a tough, practical jacket and hunter is the one in the cozy nerd sweater. Especially in the context of how they've always viewed each other?

Willow has always been the "leather jacket-wearing bad-boy with a heart of gold" in hunters eyes when you think about it. She's strong, plays a flashy contact sport that's essentially fantasy-roller derby, stands up to authority and fights for a cause, all the while being sweet and silly and sensitive and secretly insecure but healing from something traumatic that happened to her.

And on the flip side, willow didn't meet Hunter when he was the golden guard, she met him when he was pretending to be a normal kid. He was weird and awkward and overzealous and stand offish. His best friend is a bird and his name is Caleb Jasper Bloodwilliams. BUT as the day goes on he makes friends, acts dorky and encouraging, does something really weird and messed up but (most important to willow) demonstrates that he can mend the mistakes he makes. He's soooo the sheltered "good" girl learning to come out of her shell and willow is the risk taking beefcake who shows him the world. It's disgusting and I love it

#the owl house #hunter toh #willow park #huntlow #hi yeah sorry to shippost on main but i couldn't rest til i articulated this thought #like it's perfectly reasonable that eveyone assumed their aesthetics would lean opposite. but this idea makes so much sense and is-#-so funny #obviously this is slightly hyperbolic analysis and is mostly here for comedic purposes but i stand by the central thesis #which is that huntlow flips one of the most famous het romance tropes in a way that is soooo fuckin cute and charming i love it #this is what i mean when i call them bi4bi t4t #again i also love love edgy hunter and cottagecore willow. but those do feel more tied to their s2A characters than who they probably are-#-by the time Thanks to Them roles around #anyway yeah huntlow makes me stupid insane to think abt abdidbfk #secret fuckin sauce that they put in these two

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quillthrillswriting · 1 month

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this one's for all the kataang shippers that got a little sad every time they saw absolute husband aang slander in a zutara fanfic.

OR: the common zutara trope of "zuko helps katara escape an unhealthy relationship with aang" is flipped entirely and completely on its head.

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The liveliness of this mountaintop temple was nothing like the cold quiet that she had felt in Zuko’s castle these last few years. After she and her friends had saved the world, ending the Fire Lord’s reign, Katara had found herself at a crossroads. Although it made the most sense, she couldn’t bring herself to return back home, to the Southern Water Tribe. The memories were… too much.

Sokka had extended an offer for her to join him at the Northern Water Tribe, where he planned to find a teacher to aid him in mastering the traditional non-bending fighting styles of their people, but Katara just couldn’t bring herself to go back there, either. Toph and Aang were both headed to reconstruct important cultural monuments destroyed during the war, including the Air temples. She had considered coming with them, she really had, but ultimately… she made a different choice.

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So she had stayed with Zuko.

Through his breakup with Mai, she had been the one he came to.

Through his first year as the Fire Lord, she was at his side. Attended every meeting, talked through his ideas, dragged him out to social events when he felt so in over his head that he would sit paralyzed in his room. That closeness had turned into something else the first night that he had kissed her.

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And after what felt like years of quiet complacency and mild agreement, Katara felt her temper awaken, flicker. She calmed herself, reasoned that she didn’t know what he was doing with them. He could be checking for threats on her life, for poison sealed into an envelope. She held fast onto that tiny scrap of belief that he was still the man she had married, trusted, loved and been loved by.

Until that last thread of hope and trust was pulled taunt and then snapped entirely when Katara slipped into his office and found them.

There were entire drawers of letters with her name on them.

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Her attention drifted to the bottom of the bag. To Aang's scrolls. The ones she still hadn’t let herself read.

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Katara,

How’s the fire palace? Started any underground dance clubs yet? I guess they’d be pretty tricky to start right under the nose of the new Fire Lord. Is Zuko adjusting well? I’m a bit worried about the burden of dismantling an entire empire falling squarely on his shoulders. Do you think I should head back, stick around for some peacekeeping? Give me any reason to come to be with you help, and I will.

Yours, Aang.

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(Fire Lady) Katara,

I heard by word of mouth from a few Fire Nation travellers that passed through the Western Air Temple that you and Zuko had gotten married. Congratulations are in order, of course, but… Sokka, Toph, your dad and I never got our invitations. Was it a Fire-Nation-only event, or something? Your dad is pretty broken up about it. Sokka and I tried to console him, but he’s fairly upset, and honestly? I’m worried about you, Katara. This doesn't seem like you. You don’t sound like yourself.

Yours, always, Aang

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She selected a third scroll, dated only a month before.

Katara,

I can’t deny that I’m concerned about how you’re doing. Especially considering that the Katara I know would never shut down every single opportunity to see her friends. We don’t mean to be overbearing, but we love you. So much. If all the new duties that come with being wife to the Fire Lord are too much, please, please, talk to any of us. Talk to me. I care about you, Katara, I always have, and I miss my best friend.

Forever yours, Aang.

Katara slid the scroll closed before her tears could drop onto it, and she quietly packed the papers away. She reached up, rubbing those tears away furiously the way she did as a child whenever Sokka called her a crybaby. The attempt to hold the tsunami of emotion back was fruitless. She doubled over, shoulders shaking with sobs.

She knew where she would go once the cargo ship reached the land.

♥ the rest of the (completed) fic can be found here!! ->

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mppmaraudergirl · 10 months

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are y’all familiar with that trope with the womanizer/dude not interested in real relationships who meets the happy-go-lucky girl set on Finding True Love? the guy starts giving her lessons about men to help her navigate the tumultuous seas of the dating world and then inevitably falls in love with her Forsaking His Player Ways? i’m pretty lukewarm/negative leaning when it comes to this trope which somehow makes me all the more interested in trying to explore it myself??? generally speaking, this isn’t the type of dynamic I’d really associate with Jily (as I see Lily as the more cynical of the two) but like... what if it was flipped and Lily was the sarcastic mentor and James was the hopeless romantic trying to not be discouraged by dating and and and

#THOUGHTS #i have thoughts #this would be...oh man #the trope is a bit cringy on its own but flipping it??

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chicademartinica · 5 months

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phaya's hand around tharn's throat in that dream though. tharn is not beating the "wants to be dommed" allegations

Tharn standing firmly in both the Verse agenda and the twist my arm/choke me unconscious side of things makes him so so dear to my heart fam.

#the sign the series #the sign #phayatharn #billybabe #THE VERSE agenda #trust you me they did not name that man after one of the most famous semes in Thai bl for nothing #they be flipping and reversing the tropes #Imma tag Saint because our boy is pulling the best strings #saint suppapong #heteronormativity I don’t know her #Billy’s characters are always on the verse agenda

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goldensunset · 2 years

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