J-Man here hear me Roar!

I watched the show as a child but felt neutral about the canon ships at the time. Came to rewatch the show a couple of months ago after being inspired by natla clips. Absolutely loved it, it was great. However, I was definitely not a fan of aang kissing katara multiple times without consent, and went online to see if anyone else had talked about it. And thats when I came across the whole zutara concept. Ngl I had not even considered them as a potential ship but after reading some of the arguments for the ship, it totally made sense. I'm not going to go too much into it since it has been covered extensively by other fans but narrative-wise, themes and simply being on the same level of maturity. Not to mention the banger fan arts and fics.

No, because the issue with grooming is the power discrepancy. Katara and Aang do not have a big enough age difference to create that power discrepancy. I would argue that Katara is vastly more mature than Aang emotionally, but the dynamic that results is not one where Katara has more power than Aang. It's a dynamic that many women fall into because of misogyny (because when you talk about abuse, you also have to look at power discrepancies created by institutional oppression.) Katara is expected to do emotional labor for Aang, a role that she falls into in part because of how society has forced her to take on the emotional labor for her family members after her mother's death. Rather than this giving her power over Aang, it gives him power over her. The fact that Aang is the Avatar (something which he canonically has used to threaten Katara with repercussions if she does not reciprocate his feelings for her) also gives him power over her.

The thing about zutara is that BECAUSE it's not canon, it is free from a lot of the toxicity in the way that the romances in atla are written. It's written like a friendship, one where the male character has to prove himself worthy of the female character's attention.

You could theoretically say that if it were written as a romance by the male writers, that would be different, but since that is not the reality we live in, what we actually have is a friendship that is written as many female fans' ideal romance.

Also the misogynistic creators have a nice guy complex about it and get soooo mad that their fans like zutara better than canon, and made jokes about women being abused because of it, so shipping zutara is actually inherently anti their misogyny.

I guess there should be a distinction between enemies to lovers ships and hero / villain ships, but there is nothing wrong with the latter, and I don't think it's at all common for the woman to be the defensive partner. I mean, Batman/Catwoman and Geralt/Yennifer come to mind.

Although, honestly, Katara enjoyed the hell out of beating Zuko's ass.

Forever

As yesterday was “Twiyor Day”, and also @twiyorbase is celebrating Twiyor week, I wanted to do a piece that conveyed my biggest wish for them. It’s not thought as a real wedding, but them playing with Anya, who asks them to make a happy ending for Bondman and princess honey, a “sappy romens scene like those Becky likes”. She didn’t count on her parents actually committing to it so deeply, with Loid completely smitten when he sees Yor as a “bride”.

I’m a sap as Becky, Anya… I had to make this the sweetest thing.

Zuko in the boiling rock episode:

"The Boiling Rock...the most secure prison for the toughest prisoners"

So, I propose It's long overdue When you go to hell, I'll go there with you too And when we're punished For being so cruel The silver lining's I'll be there with you