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☆ 5K FOLLOWER CELEBRATION ☆

Zuko or Azula  → requested by @incepstla 

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Just another Zutara artwork 💙❤️💜

I was having trouble with this sketch since last year because of the bike and the flowers, but I've been feeling pretty good about my skills recently so I decided to resurrect it. I think it turned out well!

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modern au, tattooed katara 🌙🌊

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Zuko: “So what’s next after this?” Katara: “Babaguhin natin ang mundo.” (“We will change the world.”)

Lovely commission of Lasallian!Zuko and Iska!Tara on their graduation day by @ecaworks . It’s exactly how @aclashofqueens​ and I envisioned it would be 🌻

Katara is wearing the traditional attire for a UP graduate: white dress (she got a modern Filipiniana “terno” with a crop top because she’s a FASHION ICON) with the UP Sablay. Meanwhile, Zuko is wearing the standard DLSU toga for graduates from the College of Liberal Arts.

Fresh from his own DLSU graduation rites and still wearing his toga, went straight to UP to see his valedictorian girlfriend! He only marched, posed with University heads on stage, and took a few photos with Ursa, Iroh, and Azula. (Later on, he and Katara would meet up with them again for a celebratory dinner in Shang).

When it was time for Katara to go up on stage and deliver her valedictory speech, Sokka was about to shout “That’s my sister!” but Zuko, being the proud boyfriend that he was, beat him to it.

Zutara PH University / Big 4 AU Student Profiles:

Katara 2011-XXXXX Cum Laude BS Public Health College of Public Health University of the Philippines - Manila

Zuko 110XXXXX Cum Laude AB Psychology College of Liberal Arts (transferred from the College of Business) De La Salle University - Manila

Individual grad shoot photos by the lovely @avenuecab here. Yes, they kept each other’s grad photos in their phone cases for good luck! 💚🤍 x ❤️💚

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taking a moment here to be that angry bi fan:

I am sick of people calling f/m couples “boring,” “hetero,” “hets,” “flavorless,” etc., especially interracial couples, or couples where one is disabled, or, my personal favorite, couples where one or both characters is canonically bisexual. 

I am sick of constantly being assumed to be “boring and hetero” myself when I ship one of those couples. 

I am sick of the idea of “proving” that a character is queer by exclusively having them in relationships with someone of the same gender, and erasing their canon love interests of another gender (this goes double if the canon love interest is female and/or a poc).

I am sick of canonically bisexual female characters being referred to as lesbians, and of canonically bisexual male characters being referred to as gay.

I am sick of when a creator reveals a character to be bisexual and it’s treated by the fandom as a cop-out, a lesser form of being queer, as “not queer enough.”

I am sick of people not even being able to entertain the idea of a character, even a character with canon love interests of another gender, as bisexual. Of their constant mocking of bisexual fans who create and support those headcanons, who ship those couples, whose identities are minimized and erased with their blanket statements, who either can’t just fathom us existing, or who just don’t care. 

I am utterly sick and tired of the biphobia in fandom, and I’m not going to be quiet about it anymore. 

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What were you and that anon trying to say? Writing fic doesn't mean that you're better or more important than people on Twitter. Everyone is in this fandom and canbe appreciated equally

Yeah, I agree with you! Content creators in fandom are not more valuable than anyone else—everyone is equally important. The anon and I were addressing a separate issue where a specific zk shipper was diminishing other zk shippers for “sucking up” to zvkkas by humouring their arguments—when in reality zk shippers are the ones receiving anon hate and being harassed. She was basically telling people to quit arguing with zvkkas and go create content instead. The anon was simply pointing out that some of the zk shippers she was salting about are literally content creators, which kinda invalidates her argument.

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if Tyzula was a het ship it would get crushed. U don't deal with that because it's uwu gay

okay what the actual fuck? 

wlw ships are held to insanely high standards in comparison to most other kinds of ships anyway and trust me nobody is going tyzula is wlw and therefore the ship isn’t toxic. i’ve seen that in zvkka fandom where people are “well zutara is a colonizer ship but zvkka isn’t” as though zvkka being gay absolves it of those same criticisms and i hate this website because that is not how it works

tyzula isn’t a het ship. like that’s literally it. and the rep wlw get is limited as fuck as it is in source material (one fucking thing atla did right) and it’s super fucking limited in fandom as well

tyzula being wlw doesn’t change the validity of the ship, its level of toxicity, or how ‘valid’ it is to ship. wlw ships are dynamic as well you know? mlm and mlw ships aren’t the only kind that get to have nuance

and i hate this because women are held to incredibly fucking high standards because of fandom’s internalized misogyny. if tyzula was two men all of the people screaming abuse apologism in my inbox would get crushed. if it was het it would probably be similar because 

fandom fucking hates women and wlw

and i’m sick of it!

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Katara: Of all the stupid, noble- you could have died!

Zuko: Or you could have died. I couldn’t let that happen.

Katara: The world needs you, you have to be the next Fire Lord -

Zuko: The world needs you too.

Katara: But-

Zuko: No, no buts.

Just one hug in the finale. That’s all I wanted.

♥ Please do not repost. If you like it and want to show people, share a link to this page instead. Thank you! | ♥ Image manip, bases from: AtLA.

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grey & olivia <33

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Modern Katara with blue hair 🌊💙🌻

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"maybe go open ao3 and you'll calm down".... you mean to write?? Bc you and atxrcticas do actually write zutara fics 💀 that person seems like they're very disconnected from what goes on on Tumblr

contrary to their belief, most zks actually do spend most of their time in fandom making content for their ship rather than railing against zvkkas lmao. they definitely seemed disconnected from zk tumblr’s climate—probably because they’re only really invested in zk twt.

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can i offer u a smooch in these trying times

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zutara commission 💧🔥

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I'm...kind of disgusted by this lmao. what exactly are we trying to "prove"? the blatant misogyny and stereotyping some zvkkas apply to katara? the fetishization some of them can't seem to let go of? some things NEED to be addressed rather than simply swept under the rug. I'm not asking you to stand up for the dozens of zk shippers who've received hate in their inboxes for nothing more than liking a ship that has basis in canon, but maybe you should consider standing in solidarity with us—or at the very least, consider blocking anti tags—rather than playing the holier than thou fandom mediator.

yall spend WAY too much time trying to prove yourselves to zukka shippers...maybe go open ao3 and you’ll calm down

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Been seeing zutara antis say lately that Katara "doesn't have the patience" to be firelady or team mom (even though she textually is, and she often takes care of the gaang thanklessly) and y'all know that's racist, right? Right? Like that's literally a racist stereotype about brown women?

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Zuko and Katara eating pizza while on a beach date~ Inspired by the Golden series on Twitter 💕

I am so, so proud of this one aaaa it took so long to make but it looks so good to me