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people seem to like those Carlos sketches from the first novel, so I present to you more sketchy nonsense. I may not understand how to draw kisses but I sure as hell know my primary colours
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You Are Not Shipping the Way I’m Shipping and That’s Okay
TL;DR
Shipping can be a way to imagine things we’d actually want to happen (in canon or to ourselves). Shipping can also be an enjoyable way to explore other possibilities, no matter how unrealistic they might be. Both approaches are fine and everyone can ship however and whatever they want.
There are two distinct ways of shipping. (I’m not saying there are ONLY two ways, but my focus is on these two here.) I’ll refer to them as ”What If?” -shipping and ”Letter to Santa” -shipping.
”Letter to Santa” -shipping is about what you want. It’s wish-fulfilment and hope. Shipping lets you experience things you want to happen, either for the characters in canon or for yourself in real life. It’s escapism and longing. It’s indulgent daydreaming of sweet things with low stakes. It’s creating the things you don’t have, but wish you someday will. You hope your ship will become canon, because ”why would you ship it if you didn’t want them to end up together?” Shipping is just imagining it happening in several different ways, before it happens canonically. You are rooting for your ship.
”What If?” -shipping is about curiosity and imagination, and there are no limits. It’s like getting a chemistry kit and starting to do experiments, to see how different things react when put together. There are several different combinations you can try, and you can have different flavours, play with different tropes, go wild. The characters and the canonical material are there to be transformed into something new. Canon gives you a big bucket of play-dough in all the colours of the rainbow and you can do whatever you want with it. Scary, fluffy, cute, sexy, immoral, funny, disgusting, angsty, violent, romantic… You are just playing, creating different things because something inspired you and doing it in an environment where it hurts nobody. It’s titillating because it is NOT real. It is safe. Like a horror movie or a haunted house in an amusement park.
People who use one of these approaches don’t always remember/understand that not everyone ships the same way. This can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts.
If a ”Letter to Santa” -shipper thinks that everyone’s shipping tendencies are motivated by ”realistic” wants and hopes, and a scenario from a ”What If?” -shipper is something they wouldn’t personally want, they might ask ”why would you ship that?!” Why would anyone want an abusive relationship? Why would anyone want these two characters to have it bad in the next season? Why would anyone crave pain, hurt, angst, abuse? To a ”Letter to Santa” -shipper, having a ship like this translates to ”you want this to happen to yourself or to these characters in canon.”
If a ”What If?” -shipper thinks everyone’s shipping tendencies are motivated by trying to come up with new and exciting cocktails using the ingredients you’re given, and they witness how ”Letter to Santa” -shippers keep creating domestic fluff and romantic scenarios of the characters finally getting together and kissing for the first time, they might ask ”why are you so boring and unimaginative, do you hate having fun?!” Why would anyone stick with just one ship and put them in cutesy vanilla scenarios over and over again, with no actual stakes or conflict?
One Correct Way to Ship does not exist. Ship and let ship.
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There's a common protest to Zutara especially that typically goes like this:
"If Zuko and Katara ever got together they would spiral into endless fights, since both are hot-headed. Because of these traits, they need someone who is calm. Like Aang and Mai. They balance them out".
I already adressed how Zuko and Katara seem to balace themselves out just fine, and that Katara isn't actually hot-headed. There's a lot to be said about Maiko, and I will in another time. But for now, I'd like to focus on Kataang. This argument doesn't quite work for me because Aang is repeatedly proven to be unable to effect Katara's rage.
THE WATERBENDING MASTER
When Katara challenged Pakku to a duel, Aang tied to put up the fire. Telling Pakku she didn't mean that, and telling her she doesn't have to do this for him. Due to his peace seeking nature, he wants to pprevent the duel and is communicating this to Katara.
(1th) Aang: I'm sure she didn't mean that.
(2th) Aang: You don't have to do this for me, I can find another teacher.
Did it work? Well,
THE CHASE
The entire Gaang is sleep deprived. Katara and Toph get into a heated argument about unpacking camp. Aang tried to stop the argument, and once again it didn't work.
THE SOUTHERN RAIDERS
This is an extremely controversial. I'm not gonna get into who's right and who's wrong. I'm just here to make an observation.
Katara decided to seek justice/revenge on the man who killed her mother. Aang, being a pacifit, encourages her to forgive him. He tells her a story about the monks, that revenge wouldn't help her. As you know, Katara still goes on the quest.
Later when she spares Yon Rha, she highlights to Aang that she did not, and will not, forgive him.
IN CONCLUSION: Aang tries to calm Katara down, but that doesn't seem to work. To suggest that Katara should be with Aang because he can balance her out would be a mischaracterization of their dynamic. He can't do that.
You, a fool, when characters state different or contradictory things about backstory events or how the world works: This is a plot hole!
Me, wise, enlightened: Not so, neophyte. Have you considered all the exhaustive possibilities in which one of these characters simply has no idea what they are talking about, or better yet, is a fucking liar?
I knew it wasn't, this entire charade, my outburst, my still harbored feelings...
Steven felt just like her.
I began to cry.
Stars, I missed her so much.
And here she was. Her son, with the form she left him. He was saying the exact thing she would have.
His small form, clinging to me as if he were a new gem.
He practically was. And he held me like she would have.
I wanted to wail. I was trying so hard to hold it in.
Steven didn't need that.
He needed his Pearl. To teach him. To show him how to be a gem.
Even after!...I could see his face again and the horror and anguish threatened to suffocate me. He reached out for me, even when I made that face at him.
I should have been the one to pull him up, to catch him.
I could feel a warmth begin to settle in my heart.
But he caught it. Human tenacity was strong, but I couldn't imagine one catching themselves like he had.
This... boy. This mirror image of his mother.
He still thought I was great.
As the tears settled and the warmth bloomed, I knew.
He had to be protected, guided, loved, like I loved everything Rose created.
Because...
He was my everything now.
I wanted to describe how Pearl must have felt here, because this artist illuminates it perfectly.
Pearl was still here, while her leader and love lost was gone. The Pearl that started a rebellion against the very nature of what her purpose was meant to be since she had been created.
I could just imagine that in Pearl's mind, she saw the reflection of how Rose saw her as a fighting spirit, a warrior made out of her own foot forward and she strived everyday to show Steven that very same gem.
But after losing that most important person, did that warrior matter?
The moment Steven hugs her and tells her how he feels about her, one of the gems that raised him, did she not have the clearest answer?
Yes, for this wonderful little boy that Rose birthed and sacrificed herself for, with all of who Rose Quartz/ Pink Diamond was, his Pearl was great.
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