"It's just you and me right now."

art commissioned by @drinasketches 🩵

Thank you all for voting in our Google Form! We truly appreciate everyone who participated! Here are the prompts & guidelines for Katara Week 2026:

The following will be the running order for Katara Week 2026:

Southern Water Tribe & Statue / Acclaim - Monday, August 17th Crossover & Favourite Look - Tuesday, August 18th Mytholog & Culture - Wednesday, August 19th Family & Katara's Childhood  - Thursday, August 20th Chief / Politician / Healer & Post-Canon - Friday, August 21st Pirate AU & Motherhood - Saturday, August 22nd Fantasy & Katara & the People Who Love Her - Sunday, August 23rd Modern AU & Free Day - Monday, August 24th

Kataang has big Tom and Zendaya energy

Hello, Avatar Pavi!

Kataang sketch I did a while back while rewatching ATLA with my bestie 💙

Welcome to Katara Week 2026! This event was originally created for Twitter, but after receiving so many requests to bring it to Tumblr as well, we've decided to host it here too.

You may vote up to seven favorite prompts HERE. Voting is open for two weeks, from 1 July to 14 July, and the prompts with the most votes will be included in the official Katara Week prompt list. 

The first is that, in EIP, Katara yelling at Aang is her quite literally holding him accountable. Sokka yelling at Aang for burning Katara is him holding Aang accountable. Aang refusing to learn firebending as a result of that is him holding himself accountable. His calling himself an idiot and being willing to move on from Katara in the finale is him holding himself accountable. When Aang messes up, there is direct action and sometimes verbal reprimanding that holds him accountable. To say that he isn't is just blatantly wrong.

The second is that, I genuinely want you to take every instance of the characters stepping over the line and saying and doing something they shouldn't have, and then actually apologizing for it and count them. Because we never see Katara apologize to Sokka for what she said in TSR. We never see Zuko say "I'm sorry for what happened in Ba Sing Se" to Katara. We never see Aang and Katara apologize to Toph in the Chase. We never see Sokka apologize to Katara for all of his sexism. We never see Zuko apologize to Mai for yelling at her. The show rarely had the chatacters actually say the words "I'm sorry." What it does do is show them getting reprimanded and/or taking action.

One of the strangest Zutara arguments I've seen is the idea that Katara choosing Aang somehow undermines her autonomy, while choosing Zuko would somehow be a stronger expression of it.

The problem is that this argument completely falls apart the moment you remember that Katara is the one making the decision.

Nobody forces Katara to be with Aang. Not Sokka. Not the Aang. Not destiny. Not the Avatar Spirit. Nobody. The ending literally ends with Katara walking over to Aang and kissing him. That's her choice.

What's weird is that some people spend so much time talking about Katara's agency that they end up taking it away from her. If Katara says she wants Aang, and your response is "No, she'd be happier with Zuko," that's not respecting her autonomy. That's overriding it. You're essentially arguing that Katara doesn't understand her own feelings as well as the audience does. And that's where the logic starts getting really shaky.

Katara is one of the most strong willed characters in the entire franchise. This is the girl who stood up to Master Pakku. The girl who challenged centuries of Water Tribe tradition. The girl who regularly argued with authority figures when she thought they were wrong. The girl who told people exactly what she thought for three straight seasons.

But somehow we're supposed to believe she got confused about who she wanted to be with? Really? If Katara had romantic feelings for Zuko, the show had every opportunity to establish them. Instead, after "The Southern Raiders," Katara's trust in Zuko grows, but her romantic trajectory remains pointed at Aang. That's what actually happens in the story. The irony is that Katara's autonomy isn't evidence for Zutara. It's evidence against a lot of Zutara arguments.

Because once you acknowledge Katara as an independent character with agency, you also have to acknowledge that she independently chose Aang. You don't have to like that choice. You don't have to prefer that choice.

"I love Zuko more than I fear you"