sinister grift

Don’t give up on me yet

same. i didn’t want to involve myself knee deep into that horrid hellhole of repeated, hateful, illogical discourse. the reason why zutaranti was given such a huge platform to spread her bs takes is that kas - on a general scale - agreed with her! they loved the numbers and the ratio and the constant dogpiling that targeted any notable zk acc - they loved infiltrating zk spaces and harassing users and using real life issues to justify their awful, toxic behavior, all in the name of propagating the Superiority of their Canon Ship. zutaranti did all of that - the minimization of real life issues to fit their narratives, the constant harassment and bullying, the problematic jokes and memes - for a…..cartoon ship…….that aired in 2000s…….like that’s what’s flabbergasting to me. you do not see the same kind of anger or vitriol or dedication in advocacy for actual, real-life issues! they bank on their Moral Superiority Tug of War when atla itself was created by orientalist white men who smushed varying asian cultures into stereotypical portrayals and called it a day! they’re backpedaling now by saying they’ve always called on her bs (but was too afraid to “speak up”, whatever the fuck that means) or that it was two-sided, both zks and kas are at fault - or somehow they go as far to stretch that they look “as bad” as zks now. well, no, they look fucking worse. even now, their apologies are half-meant and barely apologies at all. they’re genuinely weird people who are so convinced of their own superiority and Rightness that it’s just - polluting the fandom. zks take to their own spaces - kas have no idea how to do that. this was a lesson in the making but i’m pretty sure barely any of them will pick it up. lol

the joke that account made crossed a line. but why was any of the behaviour before that point even fostered in the first place?

And no, none of this is funny, it’s disgusting, creepy and honestly something that should be worked out in therapy.

zuko and katara attempt to soft parent the gaang (and fail)

so when someone makes an anti-zutara take, it usually looks like either 1) bashing the fans for being annoying (when no fandom is uniquely awful) or 2) fighting an invisible ghost lmao. "zutara is wrong because it romanticises toxic masculinity and katara would never be fire lady". katara and zuko are feeding turtle ducks and he's helping her rebuild the southern water tribe in my imagination so I have no clue what you're talking about, I'm sorry.

so I find it hard to engage with this critique when it's only ever applied to the Concept of Zutara (something which is fanon, fluid and non-canon i.e. not real) and never the actual show redeeming him anyway. aang is the sole survivor of the air nomad genocide, and he stands up on the steps of the fire nation palace as the unified nations celebrate zuko's coronation.

the show frames zuko as a sympathetic victim of the big bad imperialist, holds him accountable for the stuff that he does, and in the end grants him that same power that was used to subjugate people for a century, with the implication that he is going to implicate major reform. that is the show that everyone is in a fandom for.

i don't know if whitaker can handle all my [ś̷̥̝͈͚̿͐͘̚h̴̨̩͛̑i̴̢̠̓̒t̵͎̦͍̂̓̚]. ††

The reason Zuko looks so awed when he sees her in the second gif is not just because what she's doing is scary/taboo, but because of the control and will she exhibits while doing it.

so when someone makes an anti-zutara take, it usually looks like either 1) bashing the fans for being annoying (when no fandom is uniquely awful) or 2) fighting an invisible ghost lmao. "zutara is wrong because it romanticises toxic masculinity and katara would never be fire lady". katara and zuko are feeding turtle ducks and he's helping her rebuild the southern water tribe in my imagination so I have no clue what you're talking about, I'm sorry.

so I find it hard to engage with this critique when it's only ever applied to the Concept of Zutara (something which is fanon, fluid and non-canon i.e. not real) and never the actual show redeeming him anyway. aang is the sole survivor of the air nomad genocide, and he stands up on the steps of the fire nation palace as the unified nations celebrate zuko's coronation.

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