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Can we not add Christianity to atla?

⚡️🍃Visiting the prison👻🫨😹 a little fan art that I drew I hope you like it

www.instagram.com/zelfantazy

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🧡💙🌊✨🥰💨

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There are Zutarians on Twitter trying to argue that they didn't steal oma and shu, tui and la, ying/yang and the painted lady/blue spirit parallel because there's evidence online that Zutara fans used it before

I find it funny because they even start saying that kataangs want to steal EVERYTHING from them because they have NOTHING, when the simple fact that your fandom has been using that "parallel" before doesn't prove anything

Do I need to remind them that Oma and Shu were actually created for Kataang, that they are in turn parallels to Tui and La? That the fact that Zuko and Katara were on opposite sides in the war doesn't make them "opposites", especially when their personalities are similar? That Tui/La Oma/Shu weren't created for Zutara and the fans just for some reason decided to believe they were?

Do I need to remind them what Zutara fans were like between 2006-2010? Incredibly toxic and aggressive towards Kataangs? It's only after 2018 that there was an increase in Kataang fans and Kataangs are finally starting to reclaim things that originally belong to them but the Zutarians convinced themselves that they shouldn't

Zutarians are still toxic and aggressive, and yeah, they take people pointing out "This kataang thing is, in fact, about about kataang" as some kind of personal attack.

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Debunking the argument about Katara see Aang as son:

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[Big disclaimer because I haven't actually watched the new Lilo and Stitch and tbh would rather choke on sewage than do so]

But honestly from what I heard of the new Lilo and Stitch movie, it has kinda reignited my memory of how the that side of the atla fandom talks about how Katara 'deserved better'. Acting like Sokka, Toph and Aang were burdens, and that she should focus on herself and "girlboss it up", so to speak.

If I had a nickel for everytime a native woman's "better ending" entailed her isolating herself from her family (found or blood) and likely losing her cultural identity I'd have at least two nickels which isn't a lot but it's mildly conderning that it happened twice

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aang 🤝 steven universe

adults completely missing the point of their characters and why they are pacifist

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I'm so glad I live in the world where Avatar Aang's beliefs were respected by the narrative instead of the world where the show forced him to do a murder at the end and youtubers who watched it 20 years ago are doing 4 hour think-pieces about how it ruined the show

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Kataang but im playing with blend modes 🌊☁️

(First week of school is done🌟)

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Special thanks to @Child_ofOlive on Twitter for making this year’s banner and @dailykataang for sharing it with us!

What is Kataang Week?

Kataang Week is when we, as a corner of the fandom, celebrate the ship Kataang on Tumblr! The prompts for Kataang Week 2025 were selected through voting this past weekend and all prompts were submitted by Kataangers.

Cool, when is it?

Summer Kataang Week 2025 starts on Monday, July 28th - six weeks from today - and ends on Monday, August 4th.  

Who is the founder of Tumblr’s Kataang Week?

@secretsecrettunnel revived Kataang Week in the summer of 2013 a few years after Avatar: The Last Airbender ended and when the fandom was itching for more Kataang during The Legend of Korra’s run.

Who are the mods?

I would like to take this time to extend a huge thanks to Mods Atarah, Belle, and Celes (@penguinsledder , @itsmoonpeaches , @chocomd ) for all their years of work. They were great mods and are still amazing people and wonderful friends. For several years, Kataang Week wouldn't have happened without them. They are always welcome back if they have the time or desire to be Mods again. Love you guys!

@airbender-dacyon AKA Mod Dan: A Kataang fanfic writer who prefers fluff, but also loves some drama and angst. Mod Dan started writing Kataang stories in 2013 and has helped organize Kataang Week since 2016.

We have at least one new mod joining the Tumblr team this year. This post will be updated along with a separate announcement post when they officially join.

Kataang Week is also being hosted by @dailykataang on Twitter again this year!

How do I participate?

The most common ways to participate are by creating art or writing a fic and posting it online. Some people try and create something for every day while others only fill one or two prompts.  

As always, we want to reassure you that it’s perfectly okay not to do every prompt! We just hope to have lovely pieces to share on each day.

But I can’t draw or write!

That’s totally fine - there are more ways to participate! You can sing a song, create a graphic, write a poem - just about anything really. You can also show your support by reblogging and liking other people’s contributions.

What are the prompts?

The following will be the running order for Kataang Week 2025:

Date Night* - Monday, July 28th

Tui & La/Oma & Shu - Tuesday, July 29th

Bridgerton AU - Wednesday, July 30th

Aging/Growing Old* - Thursday, July 31st

Forbidden/Scandal* - Friday, August 1st

Dancing - Saturday, August 2nd

Roaring Twenties/1920s AU - Sunday, August 3rd

Free Day** - Monday, August 4th

* These prompts have been shortened in name but were originally First Date/Republic City Date Night, Adult Kataang & Old Kataang/Growing Old Together, and "We shouldn't be doing this" (Forbidden Kiss/Love) & Scandal, respectively during voting. You can interpret them as singular or separate prompts and incorporate one or both for each day.

** And as always, there is a Free Day at the end of the week. You can use this day to post anything you’d like! It can be a prompt that didn’t receive enough votes or something you’ve been wanting to work on, anything goes!

How should I tag my work?

The easiest way for us to find your work so we can reblog it to this blog is by using the tag “kataang week”. Using “kataang” and “kataangtag” also help. You must tag one of the three in your first five tags otherwise it doesn’t appear in the search. It is also helpful to tag us directly with @kataang-week.

Sometimes even properly tagged posts may not appear when we search the tags, so if you do not see your content reblogged, please let us know.

Once we’ve reblogged it to this blog we add our own tags (a prompt tag and a user tag) for easy organization. This means we can find all the work for one prompt or all the work from one user in one easy click (this also means that if you have changed your username since participating last year you need to let us know so we can update your tag!).

Can I post my stuff other places online too?

Of course you can!

For those of you who will be posting your works on AO3, feel free to add your fic to our AO3 collection.

Why six weeks? Is that enough time?

Traditionally, we like to provide our content creators seven to eight weeks to create quality content. Kataang Week is also traditionally held in the last week of July. There were delays this year, apologies again. We intend to be on track next year to give everyone ample time to create content.

If you are unable to complete a prompt in time, please do not fret. You can alert this blog by mentioning it in your post (ex. @kataang-week​) or messaging one of the mods and your content will still be shared even if it is a week (or a month - or sometimes more!) late.

We also like to post WIP for Kataang Week and encourage everyone else to do so as well - we reblog it here for motivation!

As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, don’t hesitate to send an ask. Don’t forget to reblog this as well to help spread the word!

Good luck, Kataangers, and happy content creating! 😊

- The Mods

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Fire nation Kataang 🥰🖤❤️

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i have never seen a more annoying fans than zutara shippers

literally just witnessed a commenter talk abt how the video should've been abt zutara and how it was a missed opportunity for an au ON A KATAANG VIDEO

and some ppl replied and the person js kept talking abt how they were " meant to be " and a " missed opportunity "

i rarely see this behaviour with other shippers, zutara fans are just so goddamn consistently obnoxious

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In fact when comparing Aang's parenting to Ozai's and calling him a terrible father they also insist that Katara was absolutely ok with how "terribly" aang was treating her kids. And she must be absolutely supporting of this if she had 3 kids with him and age difference between 1st and 3rd child is almost 10 years. We know Katara well enough to understand she is not someone who gonna tolerate something she doesn't agree with. If Aang was a bad father and treating their kids awfully Katara would break up with him on the day one. She wouldn't be having kids with him again and again if it was the case.

So they have a choice: either they destroy Katara's character making her a terrible mother who gonna tolerate bad treatment towards her kids, or they have to admit that Aang was a good loving dad and that is what Katara liked in him besides everything else. Either one or another.

So in attempts to criticise Aang they just once again humiliate and ruin Katara. Not that was something new on their part tho.

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Aang: Can I have a kiss😘

Katara: 🥺🥰yes

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For all the artists and Kataang shippers following us, Kataang Week 2025 is approaching. It will be hosted by @kataang-week on tumblr, and dailykataang on Twitter. Please see the prompts for this year. Credit to dailykataang on Twitter for the banner.

The artwork was done by Child_ofOlive on twitter.

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5 min sketch yuri kataang

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…Cause I don't wanna lose you now. I'm lookin' right at the other half of me. The vacancy that sat in my heart is a space that now you hold. 💚 Show me how to fight for now and I'll tell you, baby, it was easy comin' back here to you once I figured it out. You were right here all along. It's like you're my mirror, my mirror staring back at me. 🪞 I couldn't get any bigger with anyone else beside of me…

Tfw you have the power to illustrate your own fanfics (cause no one else will *lol*). (Thanks for pointing it out in one of your old tags, @kataracy! I never thought about it as a strength before from this POV and, whenever I'm feeling down, I come back to that reblog of yours just to read it again.)

Jokes aside, there's a bit of a story behind this post. Namely, I went to the first ever Justin Timberlake concert in Tallinn this Monday. I'd come down with a sore throat at the weekend and was pondering whether to go or not since we knew it'd be raining the whole day. 🌧️ I was prepared to dress up warmly, pull my rain poncho on and so, ultimately, as I felt better in the evening I decided to go. I'm so glad I did because now I know I would've regretted missing it.

And of course the show started with "Mirrors", which was one of the biggest hits back in 2013. I've been feeling so nostalgic ever since because I listened to this song AT LEAST once every day while I was working on this old "masterpiece" of mine (it was one of my best works back then). I associate that time - that particular summer break - in my life with this song.

A day or two later back home, I decided to reread my old fanfic titled "Rainy day" (which the drawing was based on). I remembered it being really awkward and I thought I'd feel embarrassed going back to it, but like.. *clutches chest*.. I didn't remember it being so sweet.. and intimate, and well-written. So I wanted to pour my feels out into new illustrations of this story, including a redraw of the original piece from a slightly different angle. 🥰

It's been a dozen years and I can't get over how proud I am of myself - zero references used, huge progress made (especially with the anatomy). Finished after drawing for 24 hours straight. *lmao* It looks like it turned out to be drawing practice with Aang (I just love seeing him in those ceremonial air nomad robes). And Momo? Well… Momo's always important.

I'll also post them below one by one, so you could see them up close (along with the corresponding excerpts from my fic):

…"I had better land before I get hit with lightning," he pondered to himself before changing his course down to the street. In a couple of seconds he was safely on land again. Luckily he wasn't too far from his house so it was no trouble walking the rest of the way. While walking in the Upper Ring, the Avatar noticed how some blue jays flew past him and the ones sitting on tree branches took off the same way. Pretty soon he could feel raindrops on his bald head. Seconds later, a heavy downpour fell upon him and the city. Using his cleverness and remembering what another master waterbender had once done, Aang waterbended a round shield of water above his head to keep himself from getting wet. He cheerfully continued his walk back home, the angry looks of fellow passers-by, who didn't have umbrellas, almost making him want to laugh…

…Aang opened the front door, stepped into a very dark living room and closed the door behind him. He put his glider next to the front door, took off his shoes and put on a pair of warm yellow woollen socks that Katara had knit for him last winter. He immediately spotted Momo sleeping on one of the lime green pillows around the table which was located in the center of the room…

…"Katara, is that you?" he asked worriedly. "Yeah." "Well, where are you?" "I'm right here, on the couch." Aang started walking towards the lounge, the part of the living room higher from the main floor. To his relief, he could see Katara's brown locks resting on the dark green pillows of the couch. She had pulled a blanket of the same colour almost all over her face. "Katara, are you okay?" Aang carefully asked when kneeling beside the couch in front of her. He lifted the blanket from her face only to have a slight shock. "Oh no! You look terrible!" "I know." "When did you get sick?" "Right after you left home this morning. I started feeling really weak, hot and cold at the same time. Soon my nose became stuffy and my eyes began watering." Aang put his right hand on her forehead. "You're burning up! Hold on, I'll fetch the thermometer. I'll make some tea and get some water for you to drink."…

…"Since when are you afraid of lightning?" Katara lifted her head to look up at Aang. "Since the time you got shot with it." There was a long pause in between. Aang didn't know what to say, so Katara opened her mouth first. "I believe it's time I admit something. I've been having nightmares. Nightmares about that time when we were fighting Zuko and Azula in the Crystal Catacombs of Old Ba Sing Se. I keep seeing the moment when she shot you with lightning, you falling. I always catch you and bring you out of there, but each time we escape on Appa, everything doesn't end the way it actually did. I have never been able to revive you." At this point her eyes began to tear up. "I would use the water from the Spirit Oasis to heal you, but it never has any effect. Before I manage to try anything else, I always wake up. I feel so useless!.." her voice was cracking, she was starting to cry out loud. "Shh-shh!" Aang stroked her head, hushing her sobs with his robes. "But you did revive me. I wouldn't be sitting on this couch if it weren't for you. You saved me."…

…Katara enjoyed this. His constant stroking made her feel like nobody could sneak up from behind nor attack her. She adored the idea that he was listening to her heart beating because she considered it to be a way of telling how much she loves him. The waterbender liked that the airbender would let her lean on him as a sign of trust. Not to mention that she was still a bit turned on by his touch near her breasts. She was beginning to sweat and Aang noticed that. It was definite proof that her fever had fallen…

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Princess Mononoke AU

by sumiretsu