You mentioned in your tags how certain songs made you think of Jet, then acted like you're too obsessed.

I pondered my orb too much/j

despite their respective orientations and genders generally being acknowledged, they're often treated as what is most convenient or acceptable. that is, treated the same as alloromantic and allosexual or binary gendered characters.

aro characters are being shipped as though they are alloromantic. ace characters are portrayed in sexual relationships as if they are allosexual. how often do you see people portraying these characters' orientations beyond the surface level?

nonbinary characters are referred to with gendered terms based on whoever they're being shipped with. with a woman? they're called "yuri", "sapphic", etc. with a man? it's "yaoi", "mlm", etc. how often do you see people using nonbinary-focused terminology for these pairings? why is the binary-gendered partner a priority in most cases?

when the problem is brought up, the "rebuttals" are the same: "aros/aces can still date/have sex!", "some nonbinary people identify with [lesbian, wlw, sapphic, yuri]/[gay, mlm, achellian, yaoi]!". neither of of these address the issue that this is what fandoms with these characters default to.

Does anyone remember this floating around back in the day? I do. Yeah, Giancarlo Volpe did that - you know, one of the directors of the og Atla series? Yeah, that guy.

Anyways I found these leaks the other day, and I have no idea if these are trustworthy at all. They're actually quite old! From April 17th. But I thought they were very interesting nonetheless. So just in case:

(link to the post ↓)

https://www.tumblr.com/darklinaforever/814128410529071104/wtf-is-that-like-what-the-hell?source=share

(personally taking it with a huge grain of salt bc they have zero reference for the info, and the randomly added zk tags alongside anti bryke made me double take bc fandom is fandom. Plus, it's an older post)

Nonetheless, I have two major observations to add here:

- 1) if they really do a reversal of the conflicts of the bender vs non bender stuff without having EVER truly given much look into the non bender side of things—the constant portrayal of pro non bender groups being that of violent and manipulative people, for example—only to make the benders the minority. Is sketchy world building. And an extremely lame move. Which only keeps on adding to the bender perspective and giving no fair introspection into someone's reasons for being anti benders within canon.

- And 2), do I need to say how much the white lotus sucks? And how concerning Nisha's (if that is her name in the show) storyline? It's a little off topic, sure, but there is an extremely concerning pattern to note. Since the white lotus—a supposedly secret organization that works in favor of the Avatar while not being involved in political events until it's convenient for the Avatar (which is already dubiously moral across many areas)—is seemingly excellent at emotionally and literally isolating young benders, to mold them to what they view as right, only to set them out to the world with absolutely zero social skills, and an inherently skewered sense of self and a dependency on authority figures...

All the people who were involved in the group's oldest iteration (that we know of) are extremely powerful bender elders. (Makes me wonder if Iroh, is the one that suggested Aang to perpetuate this system when Korra came around, bc if I remember correctly, the White Lotus' orders to train Korra in isolation were born from Aang's concerns/old orders?)

(anyways yes my hater ass immediately thought of the possibility of Iroh perpetuating the idea of developing extremely toxic environments for the youth that'll shape the world to be raised "towards the right path", via spoonfed morals, sketchy teachings, overall isolation, and everything I mentioned previously)

Either way, thanks for reading and pardon for the long ask"^^

- @themillionththrowawayblog (actually hope I tagged my own blog right and not someone else's on accident bc tumblr won't let me send in asks via side blogs)

All good.

The post no longer exists as of me checking the link. Which either means OP removed it or OP got a severe copyright strike. If it's the latter (which we can't prove), then it was likely a real leak.

I assume this is about Seven Havens. And that "Nisha" refers to Avatar Pavi's seperated twin. And, I'm going to assume you meant Nisha was under the White Lotus's guardianship.

I'm sure there's some information floating around about that, but I can't trust any of it; so my own speculation is that the WL either mistook her for the Avatar, or, if they are doing the "twin Avatars" bs, they didn't care which one they took. They just wanted a tool to fix their grievances.

Sounds familiar. A child isolated from the world, trained to fit a mold set by a group of cowardly elders.

And yes, the nonbenders being further depicted as a suppressed group is a running theme in this franchise. The ATLA movie had an extremist nonbender group as the secondary antagonists.

I don't mind this as a story aspect, but they never properly address or explore it.

Op didn't say anything other than "what the hell!?" Or something along those lines. The tags didn't say anything else as I've checked.