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I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.

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Thought I'd share this meme that has been developing on the r/lordoftherings subreddit over the last couple days. Enjoy!

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Jawbone O’Shaughnessey subplot but it’s just an extended sequence of him trying to corner Riz Gukgak after junior year when he realized he’s never had an extended heart to heart conversation with him like he has with the other Bad Kids. Riz is just keeping a bunch of feelings all balled up in his tiny chest where he intends to die having never revealed them.

Like, Jawbone absolutely does not catch Riz (he’s fast as fuck boi) but Riz seems really genuinely touched by the effort and eventually near end of senior year, he just voluntarily sits down in Mordred Manor living room one day like … “Um, even tho I have a watch that allows my dad to call me, I still get sad about him dying.”

And Jawbone has to restrain himself from flipping the coffee table in excitement.

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do y’all think Gyatso traveled around after Aang disappeared looking for him? did he try to visit Kuzon or Bumi in hopes he was with one of them? and do you think that when the temples were finally invaded, that he was relieved for the first time that Aang was gone without a trace? 😭

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I think about Azula shooters often and their common refrain of "if Azula hadn't had a mental breakdown, she would've won" and I'm here to tell you that no, she wouldn't have.

There is no universe in which Azula was winning that fight with Zuko (or Katara, for that matter).

Azula spent so much of Book 2 being built up as this deadly terrifying force against whom the heroes are badly outmatched that it can be difficult to catch exactly how quickly Zuko is advancing.

Back up a bit to Book One. For the fearsome exiled crown prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko's not that impressive a firebender. He's not bad by any stretch, and he's able to lay the untrained Sokka and Katara flat pretty easily. Then he gets in the ring with Aang, who is an airbending master, and the difference between a regular bender and a master becomes apparent when Aang literally puts his ass to bed:

People have attributed this to the fact that no one's fought an airbender in 100 years, but I think it's also worth noting that Aang (a 12 year old from a pacifist nation) has probably never fought anyone before. Like, ever. And yet the second Aang thinks "okay, I'll attack back", the fight's over.

Zuko's got the same genetic predisposition for firebending talent that Azula does, yet it never seems to manifest because of his mental blocks. At the beginning of the series, he's already so beat down that all he really has is conviction, pride, and anger, so even with training from Iroh (the firebending master, thank you very much), he struggles. Yet throughout Book 2, when he has no time to train because he's on the run, he actually seems to advance faster. The fact that his bending is literally tied to his character arc (as his morals become tangled and he has to fight off aforementioned mental blocks) is pretty brilliant. Like, by the time of the Crossroads of Destiny, Zuko getting his ass handed to him by Aang is a pretty consistent feature of the show--he just can't match wits with him.

Hell, at the beginning of the series, he and Iroh (again: the actual firebending master) launch a combined power surface-to-air attack...which Aang casually swats away into a nearby ice wall. Come the Crossroads of Destiny, however, and Zuko by himself launches this bigass fireball that blows through Aang's defenses.

Zuko advances so quickly that it's scary. That prodigious talent is in him even if it doesn't come through as cleanly as with Azula. Who, by the way, was busy about to get flattened by Katara some few dozen feet away, until Zuko took over and then effectively stalemated her himself.

All of this in retrospect makes it abundantly clear why Zuko's firebending seemed to skyrocket so much when he learned true firebending from the Sun Warriors: it was really the only thing left. He's hard a hard road learning how to fight waterbenders, earthbenders, and airbenders, and even if unconsciously, he's applying the philosophy Iroh taught him about augmenting his bending style with aspects of other styles (see also, the waterbending-like fire whips he uses in the above gif). Once he actually understands fire and how it works, he's got it mastered. Hence why any gap between him and Azula effectively disappears as soon as their next fight--before her friends have betrayed her and her stability goes out the window. There's no real sense of urgency to their fight at the Boiling Rock prison. True, Sokka's presence with the sword helps, but Zuko doesn't look remotely worried and he counters Azula's every attack perfectly.

All her life, Azula only ever learned fire. She was taught by the best people the fire nation can employ, so she knows all the cool tricks, but she's still poisoned by the corrupted firebending practiced in the modern ATLA timeline. Unlike Zuko, who managed to get the basics if nothing else from Iroh (fire comes from the breath, and can be used to survive as much as to kill), Azula has always used fire as a weapon and a means to hurt others. She has no true knowledge of the craft, meaning she's got the same weaknesses as Zhao, she's just better disciplined to the point she can make up for it.

Zuko's victory was a given considering Azula's complete loss of control by the time of Sozin's comet, but even had she been in a perfect mental state, she'd have lost, because in many ways Zuko is simply the better firebender.

And that's the truth of it.

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More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

HES SEVENTEEN

He hasn’t been civilised in 4 years, his entire teenage experience consists of living on a boat and sleeping rough. The most stable bed he has was probably in Ba Sing Se he probably will just nap anywhere.

He has customer service experience which means he probably uses his customer service voice on his minsters.

Additionally he probably just wanders into to kitchen to get his own snacks and tea because he forgets what servants do.

He probably has no idea why he can’t just chase after an assassin he used to hunt the avatar for Agnis sake why is the captain of the guard demanding he stay in his room he’ll find the guy first (he’s probably right)

Katara probably has a free pass on Eco terrorism because what’s he going to do challenge her, she’ll beat his ass.

If he saw a minster doing something shady he will either invite lady Beifong to detect their BS or commit B&E and look for evidence himself.

He somehow found a baby dragon and raises it.

He will be far to willing to give Kyoshi island anything they want cause he feels bad and Suki scares him.

He randomly insisted on giving some earth kingdom village 100 ostrich horses.

The Avatar will just show up call him Hotman and demand the go on adventures and the Firelord will just dip because he’s been confined to long and has the Zoomies.

He takes far to much advice from Sokka and will genuinely believe if someone doesn’t get Sokkas plans they must be an idiot because Sokka is 16.

Sokka and Zuko also get into a lot of teenage rebellion phases by accident.

Toph just walks in breaks a wall of his palace and demands a field trip that always involves the Firelord having to explain himself to the cops.

He somehow knows every dangerous teen in the world and they all come for tea uninvited.

He has broken into both the NWT and Ba Sing Se.

He has a really well documented facial scar and official portraits but still disappears to be Lee the tea guy like no one knows.

HES SEVENTEEN.

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Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

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Do you ever think Aang wakes and forgets he isn't a hundred years in the past...

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thank you SOOOOO much for your aang meta because the way this fandom doesn’t understand its own main character is insane to me. whenever people are like “oh the end of the show was ruined bc aang should’ve had to kill ozai” i’m like no!!!! you don’t understand aang and you don’t understand the core message of this show!!!

No literally, the hatred and vitriol thrown at Aang as a character by this fandom is not just baffling but honestly kind of disturbing to me given the context of the show and the real history and cultures that inspired it.

Everyone knows the Air Nomads were inspired by Tibetan Buddhist monks, and by extension the Air Nomad Genocide takes from the real cultural genocide of Tibetans at the hands of China of which over 1.2 million have been killed. This is still an ongoing thing and has been happening since at least the 1950’s. Given this context, and even real life history aside, given the subject matter of the story and plot you would think the people who engage with this show would… idk… show more self awareness? But clearly not.

Allow me to go into a little meta for a moment because Aang is truly one of my favorite characters in media ever, so hopefully I don’t bore you lol because I would talk about him for hours.

A lot of people really overlook Aang as a character or like… forget he exists, almost. It’s very bizarre to me considering as you mentioned, he is the main character but the title of the show is also named after him and his people’s genocide. So, we can infer that this event is what everything and every other character will revolve around, and it does. I’ve even seen people argue that Aang has either 1) no character arc or development and/or 2) that the show doesn’t take the time to depict the genocide enough for audiences to care. Both statements are false, so allow me to show why:

We start the show off with following Aang from when he wakes up from his hundred year slumber. I could already state obvious subtext of the iceberg and what this means for his character in the context of the story, and I will, but let’s move along first. The first couple of episodes are spent establishing our Sokka, Katara and Aang dynamic and building relationships between them, because the third episode delves into the genocide the show is titled after. We along with Katara and Sokka follow Aang to his home, which we see visually as being in ruins what with the overgrown foliage and lack of care to the grounds, not to mention its seeming vacancy. There is a building tension the entire episode, and it allows itself to simmer in it, (unlike Netflix’s terrible adaptation), which makes Aang discovering Gyatso’s skeleton all the more impactful when it finally comes.

We see Gyatso is wearing the same threngwa (Buddhist prayer beads) he had in flashbacks letting us know it is his body. Aang too recognized this. These necklaces, in real life, are used to repeat prayers/mantras. Real threngwas largest bead is known as the guru bead, which speaks to the relationship between the student and spiritual teacher, represented in the air symbol Gyatso wears. We see this come back around in Aang’s final shot alone at the very end of the show so it is no coincidence. It is also a deliberate parallel that Katara and Aang share (her mother’s necklace), as they have many in the show and constantly circle one another as characters.

Aang has learned at this moment that he isn’t just a victim of genocide, he is the sole survivor. Not even in real life is there documented genocide on the scale Aang would be experiencing in show. It’s simply an unimaginable level of loss, and for people to assert it is anything but that is not only completely tone deaf given the subject matter of the story, but it’s also just genuinely fucked up. Excuse my language. Because Aang might be a fictional character, and the Air Nomads might be fictional as well, but the culture inspiring them and what happens to them is not. And many people that love ATLA are from cultures that have experienced genocide. For this reason, I truly believe Aang is one of the most important characters in western media, especially in children’s television.

We see the genocide of Aang’s people echo throughout the narrative going forward. Aang comes across people in one of the temples that are refugees, in the midst of destroying sacred sites that only he can understand and remember the cultural importance of because he is the only one left. At the same time, he shows empathy toward these people, who have no where to go and are like him and his new friends, victims of an evil regime. Aang realizes that no, they aren’t part of his culture, and they might not know everything he does, but they do embody what his people valued: freedom. And in that way, the spirit of them lives just as the refugees. It might not be the same, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value. I also greatly appreciate ATLA depicting the nuances of war in this way. It is very unusual for a form of media that focuses on this topic to actually devote time to aspects of war that are not black and white.

We also see Aang find a bison whistle, and I think this must have been such a precious token for him to uncover. And while Sokka doesn’t believe it will work, that it’s a waste of money, the show disproves him in the end. He must’ve thought it was so nice that someone cared enough about his culture to make such a thing.

We then learn in The Storm that Aang ran away from his home. This is where the show starts to more deeply delve into his survivor’s guilt, which was mostly alluded to beforehand but never outright stated in this way. Aang divulges to Katara that the council members at his temple were going to forcibly separate him and Gyatso, his father, and in Aang’s words: “How could they do that to me? They wanted to take away everyone I knew and everyone I loved!”

We as the audience know that Gyatso was going to fight the other council members to keep Aang, but Aang will never know this. This episode, and this event that leads to Aang running away, is the core of his character arc for the entire series.

It is not that Aang runs away or has a problem with running away, as so many fail to understand, but rather that expecting Aang to sever all attachments for the sake of the world leads to his own people’s doom and will only cause destruction in the end. Aang’s elders wanted to take him from his father’s care and ship him away to be isolated and rigorously trained, for their benefit. Gyatso of course argued against this, because this was cruel and not something any other airbender was expected to do—to give up all attachments to other people and to what is familiar to them, to sacrifice everything for the world.

This sacrificial theme pops up repeatedly for Aang, and as I’ve said plenty of times, he is never narratively rewarded for such a thing.

When Appa is stolen, and his last remnant of his obliterated culture is taken away, it is Katara who is able to reach through his grief and rage. Katara, like Aang, largely understands how he must feel given her own people’s genocide. She also takes a stand against Aang trying to force the Avatar State upon himself, something deeply traumatic for him, for the sake of ending a war.

“For the people who love you, watching you be in that much rage and pain is really scary.”

Aang has a really beautifully done aspect of his arc concerning the Avatar State and Katara, as the two are inherently tied together. In Book 2, we see this sacrificial theme grow stronger when Aang is asked to choose unlimited power over attachment and love. This is the exact same thing that caused him to flee his home. It makes sense it is echoed now in Katara, given we are told that his love for his people is reborn in his love for her. (Also not part of this meta but I really like the parallel in the comics with how Aang calls her sweetie and we specifically hear Kya call her this in flashbacks. It’s yet another parallel about the loss of what Katara and Aang loved being found again in and through one another.)

We are told in The Guru that Aang’s heart chakra deals with love and is blocked by his grief. We then visually see the airbenders being tied to Katara. We also get a green color scheme, the color of the heart chakra, otherwise known as the Air chakra.

Aang can’t let Katara go. His love for her is too great. It is only in the catacombs that he is not given a choice. He is forced to give her up for the sake of the battle at hand. If he doesn’t give her up, if he doesn’t enter the Avatar State, this guarantees she will die.

And then the narrative subverts what we would expect by punishing him for this.

Typically, especially in western media, we would be told to view a character gaining unlimited power as a good thing. This is not the case in ATLA. This plot point is framed as a complete tragedy. It’s truly one of the saddest, most hopeless moments of the entire show. This visual of Katara holding Aang’s corpse in her arms is so charged. Holding the world’s Avatar, the world’s Last Airbender as he dies. As her physical embodiment of hope dies. As a part of her spirit goes with him. It’s so incredibly sad.

This sacrifice is not met with reward. It’s met with anguish. Katara returns Aang’s feelings through her actions. We don’t need words to be spoken to understand what is being conveyed: she can’t give him up, either. She nearly drowns everyone in the catacombs just to catch him before he can hit the ground. She heals him, resurrects him from the dead, summons his Avatar spirit, instills in him and raises him up with new life just as she did from the iceberg.

This is why kataang is absolutely fucking peak, but that’s another convo for another meta. But I can’t help mentioning it seeing as they are so integral to one another, and their romance is so deeply woven into the narrative, and to the themes at hand.

We continue to see Aang try to give her up again in The Awakening. Katara doesn’t allow him to do this successfully, for good reason of course, as we are being told visually and thematically that Aang shouldn’t have to sacrifice for the world. He burns what is left of his glider, his old clothes torn and ruined, and Katara again parallels him by removing her mother’s necklace. Both characters assimilate into the nation that tried to eradicate them. They continue to mirror one another in Book 3 very heavily.

We also have this visual symbol of Aang’s sacrifice. It is literally a blistering, open wound on his air chakra that Katara tries for over a month canonically to heal. (Also her water is making a heart. Cute) This wound is cutting off his chi path, where his tattoos follow along his body, breaking the order of his tattoos and spine. Katara does heal him. She does bring him back to life, back to the world, but even she cannot erase the damage done to Aang’s body and soul, not entirely and this is both physically and figuratively.

She says she can feel “a lot of energy twisted up in there”, and that’s really speaking to the fact that Aang… hasn’t dealt with the loss of his people. He hasn’t finished his arc. Which leads me to my next point:

During the first installment of the 4 part finale, we see this argument of taking a life brought up again. We already have known that Aang is a pacifist throughout the show. We also were visually shown Gyatso surrounded by dead firebenders in episode 3. We can infer something very crucial about that imagery: Gyatso killed them all and himself, seeing as he had no charring on his clothes etc. He likely suffocated them all, and himself, to stop their assault. Regardless of how he killed them, we know that he had to of done so. Which means that Gyatso, and likely the other airbenders (at least some of them) probably resorted to lethal methods during Sozin’s ambush.

This is not framed in a good light. We know pacifism is sacred to Aang and was to his people. Giving it up is another sacrifice in a narrative rich and full to the brim with them as far as Aang and his people are concerned. The airbenders, and Gyatso, gave up their spirituality to try and save themselves. What did it get them in the end? Nothing. They all still died. Their sacrifice was in vain, as all of them are…

This is crucial to the finale.

Aang is shown to be meditating and specifically to be praying, what with the offerings he makes and are visually being represented here. So what is he praying to? To the universe. He wants another option. That’s what the Lion Turtle is. It is the universe’s answering to his unwavering faith.

The Lion Turtle comes and beckons him. It, seeing his pure spirit, his relentless determination to rectify what was set to wrongs 100 years ago with his people sacrificing their culture in the face of their deaths, sees that Aang is able to perform an ability no other Avatar ever has: energybending.

“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.”

The chant in this scene is based on a real Buddhist chant. The chant is in Mandarin and translates to “Bow before the Buddha of Immeasurable Light’s Disciple.”

Aang is the Disciple here as opposed to the Buddha (the original real life chant does not say disciple), but by altering it here, and by calling him a disciple it is acknowledging Aang’s humanity and his flaws which led to the imbalance he is experiencing culturally, emotionally, spiritually… In the same breath, it acknowledges his innate goodness as the Avatar and deems him worthy of a power no other Avatar was.

“In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy within ourselves. To bend another’s energy, your own spirit must be unbendable, or you will be corrupted, and destroyed.”

When Aang fights Ozai, we hear and see Ozai brutalize him both physically and psychologically.

“You’re weak, just like the rest of your people. They did not deserve to exist in this world, in MY world!”

Aang was mistaken when he said his 7th chakra was locked during the Day of Black Sun. It was his Air chakra all along… his grief, his love, his loss.

We see an act of karma play out in this finale. Just as his prayer was answered, his heart is literally penetrated and forced open. A rock is driven through his heart chakra, and he enters the Avatar State for the first time completely conscious and aware of what he is doing. On the 100th anniversary of his people’s genocide, he faces the offspring of the responsible party, and he is so angry.

It is no shock nor coincidence that the first and last element Aang uses in this battle is air.

Aang slapping Ozai’s hand away, a hand about to burn his face like he burned his own son, a hand about to complete the genocide 100 years in the making. And what does he do? He slaps it away, rejecting the imperialism for the final time. He asserts his people’s power through his bending, literally pushing fascism away from himself.

This is truly one of if not my favorite move any character does in the entire show. It is so simple and so, so heavy with subtext. And Aang, about to kill him, finds it within himself to pull back. This isn’t who he is. This isn’t who his people were. They were peaceful and forced to violence. They deserved to exist in this world. And then he energybends. Because his spirit and his love are unbreakable. Because only the last airbender can return what the world lost in war: freedom. Because only the last airbender could ever be the avatar. Because only Aang and his level of unconditional love could ever conquer in the face of evil.

We end the show with this being the final moment we see Aang alone, if only for a short second. I can’t even articulate the emotions this conveys: perseverance, peace, sadness all in one. As he wears the same threngwa of his father, no doubt remembering his love for him, and for the rest of the airbenders. Has he done right by them in the end? Has he finally righted this wrong? Can he rest now, for the first time? Is he free to love again?

Aang is truly such an emotionally charged character to me. Every time I see him right here in this shot I start crying.

There is something so powerful and emotionally resonant in a character honoring their culture in the wake of such devastation, even against the entire world. I’m sure for many fans who have experienced something like this, he is a very impactful character. More so, I think for any fan of ATLA that has ever been oppressed, has ever suffered and forced to slice away parts of themselves for the benefit of other’s comfort, Aang is beloved. A hiding boy, and an iceberg his fortress of protection, and the themes of self determination and survival against all odds.

What a beautiful character and arc. What a wonderful message to send. What a wonderful hero to have been raised by as a child.

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Anyone else with chronic pain ever get really absorbed in a project and dissociate from your body while you're working but then you finish and you come back to your body and you're just like AAAAAAAHHH! WHAT'S WRONG?? oh yeah. The horrors. Never mind

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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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I just watched Avatar for the first time all the way through, and yeah, it’s great, but the one thing that surprised me was how different Katara was compared to the fandom interpretation I’d seen and internalized before watching.

Like, before you watch Avatar, you’ve seen all these memes about Katara and her mom, and based on those memes, you assume it’s one of those lines you have to get used to hearing at least once every episode. But then you watch the show and realize that she only talks about her mom maybe five or six times per season and you also realize she only brings her up when she’s trying to comfort someone or empathize with them because that’s how she processes her grief and that’s one way she connects with people.

Or you hear the infamous line, “then you didn’t love [our mother] the way I did” and you prepare yourself for one of the worst character assassinations ever only to see the scene after nearly three seasons worth of context and realize she was kinda right. She’s been the mother, the nurturer, the comforter. She’s been patient, gentle, and accommodating where everyone else has gotten to be insensible and reckless and childish, and the one moment where she allows herself to feel her grief, suddenly she’s this evil bitch and not, y’know, a 14 year old girl whose been thrusted into adulthood in a way no other character has. A 14 year old girl who should be allowed immaturity and raw emotion and anger instead of the patience and grace she’s been forced to extend to every character without even the smallest amount of gratitude or even consideration in return.

Or you see all of the clips where Katara puts Aang in the “friendzone” and you expect to have this wishy washy back and forth where Aang is putting his feelings out there only to have Katara neither commit nor express any clear reciprocation or rejection. Then you watch and realize that, as cute as the ship is initially, that there’s never a point where Aang returns any comfort or grace to Katara despite her always doing this for him to the point of coddling. That for as much as Aang says he loves her, he never seems to outgrow his perception of her so he can recognize her as someone who feels grief, anger, and pain as much as she expresses love, kindness, and maturity. And instead of having moments where he learns to see her beyond her strength or compassion, you’re instead given moments where Aang forces his feelings onto her, both romantic and non-romantic, and Katara is expected to just…shoulder those feelings the way she shoulders everyone else’s.

Katara is the most misunderstood character in the show. As much as people recognize the complexities of Zuko, Sokka, and Azula, they struggle to do the same for Katara because they see her struggles as somehow lesser, and therefore, less deserving of sympathy. They can handle her so long as she’s being endlessly patient and loving and kind, but the moment her endless love, patience, and kindness runs out, she’s suddenly this annoying bitch who can’t shut up about her mother or reciprocate Aang’s feelings. But Katara’s trauma does matter as much as anyone else’s. No, she wasn’t banished from her kingdom. No, she didn’t lose her entire community, and no, she isn’t the only one who lost her mother. But the difference between her and everyone else whose experienced loss because of the Fire Nation is that she’s never given time to process her trauma. Aang gets to lean on Katara constantly. Toph gets to express her feelings to Katara, and yeah, Sokka also lost their mother, but unlike Katara, he isn’t put in the position of being a substitute for everyone’s parent. He even admits that he sees his sister as a mother. The only characters who ever comfort Katara or allow her to vent is Zuko and her father and that’s, like, three scenes in a show where the other characters are consistently given opportunities to seek out Katara for unconditional support.

The fandom interpretation of Katara has been so bastardized that even those who haven’t watched the show know her for this fanon version and not for who she is. She’s such an interesting character beyond her fandom limitations, though. She’s brave, hot-headed, and hopeful as well as gentle and caring. She wishes to learn waterbending, not only because she wants to fight in the war, but because she wants to continue her culture’s practices because, and people often forget this, she also lost an entire subculture within her already fractured tribe. And she wants to defeat the Fire Nation both because of her deep love and empathy for other people, but also because she wants to avenge her mother. But because some of the fans have reduced Katara to a bitch who constantly whines about her mother and friendzones Aang, you wouldn’t know any of this, and it sucks because she’s the only character whose been dumbed down to such an extent.

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Ok my brothers math teacher has pissed me off so bad that I’m writing an email. Do you know how seethingly mad I have to be to write an email.

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I'm so sick of defending shit I don't even like. I hate porn. I think gender and sexuality are boring. I've never taken an illegal drug and have no interest in doing so. But people won't back the fuck off and let people live their lives so here we still are, still on the front lines with this shit. "You guys make everything about" I'D REALLY LOVE NOT TO, MATE, BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONES CREATING PROBLEMS HERE. Stop trying to control people's lives and we'll all get a chance to shut up about it, but unfortunately the Moral Police are out here endangering lives and livelihoods so here we still are. Forever.

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It's a little surprising that the "Monday's child is fair of face" nursery rhyme never caught on as an arbitrary personality-assigner in the same way astrology did. It makes the same amount of sense.