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I may not be a Zutara fan myself but I will always have love for the Zutarians who make a point to not vilify Mai and Azula and give them their own happy endings/story lines in fics and fanworks. Y’all have all my love and appreciation 🫶🫶

It really is baffling from a writing perspective. The friction between Katara and Aang during the Southern Raiders episode (friction that is not resolved, because she and Aang never actually talk out their differing opinions or come to an agreement after she walks off following her telling Aang he is wrong and choosing to have an emotional resolution with Zuko instead) also ensures that this will probably be a source of contention in their relationship even if they tried to talk about it, because she shares the story with Zuko because Aang wouldn't listen, because she confronts the man despite Aang's disagreement. There's a large chunk of Katara's emotional life that she just can't include Aang in, and that seems to be the accepted conclusion of the episode. Crazy choice if the writers didn't want me to ship zutara instead.

It really is baffling from a writing perspective. The friction between Katara and Aang during the Southern Raiders episode (friction that is not resolved, because she and Aang never actually talk out their differing opinions or come to an agreement after she walks off following her telling Aang he is wrong and choosing to have an emotional resolution with Zuko instead) also ensures that this will probably be a source of contention in their relationship even if they tried to talk about it, because she shares the story with Zuko because Aang wouldn't listen, because she confronts the man despite Aang's disagreement. There's a large chunk of Katara's emotional life that she just can't include Aang in, and that seems to be the accepted conclusion of the episode. Crazy choice if the writers didn't want me to ship zutara instead.

I may not be a Zutara fan myself but I will always have love for the Zutarians who make a point to not vilify Mai and Azula and give them their own happy endings/story lines in fics and fanworks. Y’all have all my love and appreciation 🫶🫶

Zuko seeing Katara bloodbend, having a moment of absolute shock and terror where he completely drops his fighting stance because WHAT THE FUCK he has no idea what's even happening like SHE CAN DO THAT??? but he just shakes it off and rolls with it cause this ain't about him, absolute king.

Hey so if you go into a fan space and announce that you hate the people there, you're going to have to use the anti zutara tag. If you love zutara, maybe don't antagonize the community. Caring about real people is more important than caring about cartoon characters.

I'm wondering if that line replaced "what about our baby" from the version where she was supposed to be pregnant.

This is such a minor nitpick but it's a petpeeve of mine when people characterize Zuko as hating tea. He doesn't hate tea! He's just a casual enjoyer of tea! It's just like when people say he's a bad firebender, he's not! He's an excellent firebender! He's a very powerful firebender! He's just constantly comparing himself to the #1s, Azula and Ozai and Iroh, but he's up there with them even if he's not as good as they are. Same with his enjoyment of tea! When he's put up against the #1 tea fan of all time, Iroh, sure it looks like he hates tea, but he doesn't! Zuko never gives any indication that he hates tea! He says he's tired of tea because they've been working in a tea shop all day, that doesn't mean he hates tea, he's just not as passionate about it as Iroh! He likes tea enough to make it for everyone and attempt to tell them his uncle's favorite tea joke! And he's right when he says that all tea is hot leaf juice! It is!! Just like how a vanilla soy latte is a three bean soup! Zuko does not hate tea, stop making him hate tea in your fics!!!! This is an egregious mischaracterization that I will not stand for!!!!!!!

This tweet is actually representative of the kinds of hot takes that women have to endure every time they talk about misogyny. None of the traits that Aang has that are mentioned mean he can't be misogynistic, nor the fact that it's been 20 years, and he's a fictional character anyway, so the misogyny is that of those who created him. Like, wow, I can't believe there's misogyny in a cartoon from the early 2000s that was primarily aimed at boys, how incredible and unbelievable. It must be women's fault for pointing it out.

seeing ka shippers eat up tagah and katara both saying that "aang needs to be protected" in the new Aang movie just reminds me how different perspectives can be. whereas some kas seem to view this is as "protective gf mode" i see it as yet another example of their caregiving dynamic. it feel less like a romantic dynamic and more of a responsibility and a continuation of pedestaling him. sure, romantic partners are able to defend and protect each other, but the framing feels way different to me.

They have Katara say that Aang needs to be protected because as the Avatar, he is important to world peace, but it would have been nice to see Aang doing anything like that in the movie. It's Katara who gives a speech at Republic City while Aang is off looking for Airbender stuff. I guess Aang saved the city, but he also was the reason it was almost destroyed. Which is not a great track record considering how people already saw him as abandoning the world once.

Actually, I think it would have been funny if Aang did try to encourage Katara to forgive Zuko, wrongly assuming that she was angry at Zuko for his sake, until Katara makes it clear that it's not about him.