Jazz_In_Pluto

I was rewatching the Ember Island Players and I feel like it isn't an accident that Actress-Katara was portrayed as kind of "slutty". Like yes the play itself is a mockery of the character's fanon portrayals at the time to some degree, but the way it coincides with the non-con kataang kiss sits so weird with me. In the play we see that the fake Katara and Zuko have a thing in the Crystal Catacombs, which is played for laughs to make fun of shippers. But beyond that, Katara and Aang's relationship in the play is sibling like, as a way to rub salt in the wound to Katara's rejection of Aang. It's almost like the play is serving as a way to guilt trip Katara into wanting to be with Aang by implying that if she were to end up with Zuko, she would be exactly like Actress-Katara, and would therefore be a "slut", or a "tease" for not returning Aang's affections. Obviously there are other major differences to Actress-Katara and real Katara, but I just feel like it's interesting that the writers are basically saying "this character isn't a slut! ...But she would be if she ended up with that one character you all ship her with tho"

I love zutara with all my BEING. BUT I am a Katara stan first for everything she stands for. There would be no ATLA without her. She is more than a ship. She is such an influential character to me

i don’t care if zutara was ever a possibility in the writing room or not. i don’t care if i’m making the ship up in my head. at the end of the day only one person in the gaang was willing to stand for some good first degree murder just to make katara feel a little better, and it’s not aang. the end

and that's that. . .

I have literally never seen Aang be ride or die for Katara in the entire series, not even in the movie. How am I supposed to ship him with her????

Katara romantically ending up with someone to whom she constantly has to act as sole parental figure (along with two out of three of their eventual children) and Zuko ending up (as far as we know, I can personally only hope that m/aiko is never canonically confirmed as his endgame relationship) with someone who’s cold and apathetic towards him AT BEST, cruel and callous at worst, is so genuinely depressing for both of their characters considering their respective childhoods and accompanying traumas. Bryke wrote two “romances” that would have been perfectly in place in a tragic, grimly realistic story about how childhood trauma, if left unaddressed, can negatively shape and impact all of the relationships in a person’s life going forward, and then tried to call it a happy ending.

no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

DOUBLE BIG OLD BIDDIES?!! 😩

so you can shoot a black child in the back as he's running away and get away with it with zero consequences, but god forbid a black child defend himself, because that'll land him thirty-five fucking years in jail—which is basically a life sentence. half of his life will be over when his sentence is up. all the fake talk of progress in this country has just been a way to silence black people for speaking out against the countless horrific injustices we're forced to experience, from microagressions to outright murder. you literally cannot go a day without hearing about another black person falling victim to systemic racism and then having to listen to people justify why they deserved it. and we're supposed to hold no animosity whatsoever as we grin and bear it.

INSANE 😩

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

I hope chronically ill & people pleasing Black girls have a good day today 🫂

Gorrergeousssss 🫶🏽

OMG??? This is GORGEOUS