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They are my sun and moon ☀️🌑

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A colour and lighting study with Katara, no watermark because it’s just a study, I’m learning how light acts underwater and how to paint bubbles and what not.

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Happiest of early birthdays to you! ❤️ can I please request a zutara drawing? In your post, you said that you drew ATLA but didn’t mention any ships, so pls forgive me and no worries if this is one you won’t draw!

Everything you draw is amazing and I’ve been a huge fan for a while! Thank you for taking the time to use your talents here! ✨

manifesting this scene 🙏

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Bending: Part 3 (zutara)

AU where Katara finds unknown man on the shore, not far from the Northern Water tribe village. No one is speaking truth, bending is forbidden and Katara questions many things that seemed certain.

Part 1 Part 2

[someone remembers something]

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At least once a month I remember that Ozai ruled for ~3 years. That's shorter than one presidential term. That's nothing. In comparison Zuko - who suffered so much cruelty and was made to feel worthless under Ozai - ruled for ALMOST 70 YEARS. That's more than 22 times the length of Ozai's rule - and he will go down in history as one of the most influential and well loved Fire Lords of all time

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#commissionwork for @aziantearz

Zutara in their grand outfits❤️

Thank you so much for commissioning me this piece, Mimi! Yaaay, finally a #zutara com!

Mimi you have re-ignite my passion for Zutara again!

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REPOST IS FORBIDDEN except for the commissioner.

Thank you! 🙇‍♀️

Anyway, my September commission slot is still available if anyone interested! Just DM me 🙇‍♀️❤

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You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun.

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Zutara Week 2021, Day 3: Glowing

“Under the City Lights” es el fic correspondiente a esta ilustración escrito por mi alucinante @sarapb . Encontrareis el fic en los siguientes enlaces:

AO3 // Wattpad // Tumblr

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All us ZKs know that Zuko would rightfully dote on Katara as she deserves, but I don’t think we talk about enough how much Katara would adore Zuko. She would spend every moment she can making sure he knows how loved he is & how lovable & worthy of love he is. She’d treasure him🥹

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Anyone want some, Zuko's moving Castle AU? (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠) Young and old Katara from both ATLA seasons as Sophie?

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Might as well make a post of these gifs together (with the edited Katara, plus those close-ups I mentioned but forgot, ahh). One thing I learned about creating gifs: less is more! Cel-shading would have probably been the better way to go with animation (so that they wouldn’t look so pixel-y), but I’m really happy with how they turned out as illustrations, so still glad I made them that way :D

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honestly it's baffling that the creators are even surprised that there are fans who thought zuko and katara would make a great pair when canon zutara has:

narrative and visual parallels

a monumental scene where they connect over losing their mothers because of the fire nation, eventually leading to katara offering ti heal zuko's scar using a sacred water that she has been saving for something important

zuko letting katara touch his scar

zuko respecting katara's autonomy and accompanying her to confront the person who killed her mother and was never judgemental on how katara should deal with her trauma

katara listening to zuko when he expressed his worries about meeting his uncle again after ba sing se

zuko forsaking his life and his claim to the throne by taking a bolt of lighting to protect katara

zuko and katara are depicted to be supportive of each other. they represented harmony and balance which is essentially the essence of the series. but yeah sure it's only "dark and intriguing!!"

there's nothing surprising about these two being shipped when the potential had always been present in the canon narrative.

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He didn't.

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I just finished watching ATLA again.

I'll be honest, I cried.

Not because it was over, but because Katara is my favorite character.

I cried because I know how Katara ends up after the show. I know that she doesn't even get her own statue. I know she is left behind by Aang while he spends time with his one airbender child instead of her and their other children. I know her own grandchildren don't even know who she is. I know that she is simply not important or worth the writers' time anymore.

To me, the way Katara ends up is a horror story. She settled down, leaving behind any dreams she had of rebuilding the four nations. She becomes a healer, despite stating she was not a healer but a fighter throughout ATLA. And despite being someone who cares deeply for her family, she isn't even present for her grandkids.

It's not that she's too old to be doing anything, because literally everyone else in the Gaang- except for Suki, who is also left behind- is still active. Everyone is present but the two married women.

It's not that Katara wanted to settle down. It's that she was made to do so by the narrative, sending a message that married women should give up everything because they're not supposed to want anything beyond family making after that point. It's a harmful message, and it cannot be justified by simply saying "she could've wanted to settle down after everything."

This is not my Katara. This is the writers' idea of what women should do when they marry. They are meant to settle down, drop everything, and be forgotten by history. And that is how Katara's story ends- she isn't there for so much of the narrative after ATLA (in LOK specifically). She's so absent that she doesn't even get her own statue.

That is not who Katara is. She is a fighter, she would not stand to simply be passive and forgotten like this. Everything in ATLA told us, the audience, that she is not the kind of person to settle down.

So when she got left behind alongside Suki, that was not only contradictory to her established character, but also extremely sexist.

I don't even care who Katara ended up with at this point. I just wanted her to actually continue to be herself. But because Bryke wanted to avoid various things from being taken certain ways by the fandom, they chose to write Katara out of the story entirely.

Bryke does not care about Katara. They care about Aang, and they care about making half of the fandom hate them. I do not need to elaborate on this, if you know, you know.

But you should care about the message this sends to women all over the world. You should care about what this tells us is normal and okay. Because this isn't normal or okay. It's a horror story, one that has been accepted as the norm for far too long.

Katara deserved better.

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zutara being zutara

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Katara: Is something burning?

Zuko, leaning seductively on the counter: Just my heart’s desire for you.

Katara: Zuko, the entire kitchen is on fire!

Zuko: Yeah, I was trying to make a sandwich.

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Someone is asking for a kiss!