Spinning the hamster wheel

Comrade Data's friendly advice for the betterment of mankind

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

i feel like im constantly taking damage

Now remember kids, unless the character directly turns to the camera and says "Hello audience. I identify as a transgender woman. Please use she/her pronouns from now on when referring to me. Thank you.", then he isn't really trans. No, the glaringly obvious subtext or word of the Creator don't count. He has to say the magic words. That's literally the only way you can tell a character is transgender. Extremely explicit magic words.

#and then when some one IS very very explicit about it #you get viewers going 'um this was a bit cringe and heavyhanded'