#nerdfighter367

Believe me when I say I understand.

seriously, the ship you didn’t know was canon until the last second, but then becomes obvious that it’s been canon for awhile, legend of korra spoilers, tlok spoilers (copied from the reblog)

I’m so happy that people like this post, and that you know how it made me feel. :)

I also feel like this reblog is a good opportunity to explain why I didn’t ship Korrasami, aside from what I’ve written before. 

Funnily enough, if I had been shipping them already, I would have looked at their Book 4 interactions differently and the ending wouldn’t have been as big of a shock to the system.  

The thing is, I was 100% convinced that Korrasami wouldn’t be canon. I mean, why would it be?

Like I said before, it’s a children’s cartoon airing on a children’s network. The show had made a lot of bold moves already, but a bisexual protagonist, especially in these circumstances? There was no way it was going to happen.

Why hold out hope that Korrasami was going to be endgame, when the chance is astronomically low? The fact they really bonded as late as Book 3 didn’t help my willingness to develop the dynamic in my head. And I wasn’t going to ship them just for representation’s sake.  

So I didn’t: I saw the signs, ignored the subtext, and focused on their friendship. And I loved their friendship! They were in such a good place now, and I was happy to leave it at that.

Bryke weren’t, though. All of a sudden, every little thing I’d noticed and then promptly considered friendship development or ship baiting came rushing back to me.

Come to think of it, that might have been the indescribable feeling I had when I first watched the ending. It took me hours to sort through it all, and only now, nearly 12 hours later and in the dead of night, I finally have an inkling of what this moment did to my brain.