#(except for kataang 100 bc... kataang 100)

[northerngoshawk]

happy ffwf!!

i don't have a creative question for today so just tell me about your current wip! what inspired it? what do you love about it? what do you hate abou it? a little snippet of it that gives you the ~ i write good~ feelings and that you can't wait to unleash upon the world?

Happy FFWF!

I'm... I'm sorry 😭 I don't have a WIP in the works right now 😭😭 All of my writing time has to be devoted to essays bc school and my future and yeah😭😭😭

SO since I have literally nothing to offer you, why don't I talk about upcoming ideas I have for fics? :)

The prequel to The Dishonored Blade - This is a fic that I'm definitely going to write sometime in the future. If you haven't read "The Dishonored Blade"... well... all I'll say is that this will be a nice... aangsty supplement to TBD >:)

Kataang: The Artists' Collection - Not really an idea, it's just I've been thinking of supplementing (non-NSFW) Kataang artworks with ficlets. I've done a lot for @lanjunlazy and did one for @6doodlaang14, but I'm hoping to expand and diversify this collection with more artists' works. If you have any artists' works to rec, feel free to lmk!

Whumptober 2021 - Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha. Whumptober is ongoing right now, but due to my aforementioned... inability to write right now, I don't think I'll be able to tackle any of the rest on time 😭 BUT. I can write some afterwards, so be on the lookout for them 😉 (or not. depending on what you prefer.)

Anyways, I'm sorry I can't add more, Foxford 😭 I'm disappointed too.

But thanks for the ask!

[nalgasde-hao]

Okay so my headcanon on Taang (and a little bit of Zutara on the side)

- So I would much rather prefer if the ending of the show hadn't made any of the ships (except for Sokka and Suki) Canon, but even with the Kataang final kiss I feel like Taang would have been canon

- Because they were both too young and there relationship would've been completely platonic (I've always felt like Katara saw Aang as a little brother that she needed to protect, but even if it wasn't for that, Katara put Aang in a pedestal for being the avatar and created a lot of expectations over him, which I think it can be proved by how later on their marriage on Korra, besides the way Katara did everything for him like a mother), and Katara's desire to go back to help rebuild the south pole while Aang wanted to recreat the air nomads again would made their relationship be very complicated

- And that's how I feel like they would outgrow each other and realize they would work much better as friends

- Without Katara's imagine in his mind Aang would be able to notice other girls - like Toph, who he hadn't seen in a long time due to his traveling

- I feel like Toph already felt something for him, but couldn't quite understand what it was, but she would take the opportunity to travel with him again

- and then, they would have a slow burn, friends to lovers relationship, with a lot of teasing and mutual pining

- as for Katara, I feel like Zuko would be a better match for her - they always had a great chemistry - but not only that, before Zuko joined the Gaang, Katara was the only one who did the chores and made sure that everyone was okay, which was a lot of responsibility for a 14-year-old, and after Zuko showed up and started to help her out, it gave her time to actually enjoy travelling

- I feel like after a time the other nations would pressure the Fire Nation, for something to make them feel safe - since they replaced the Fire Lord, with his FIRST BORN SON, and Katara would volunteer to be the South Pole ambassador

- There relationship would grow up from that, and I feel like there love language would be acts of service, always making sure the other one has rested and is feeling okay (and I can't stop obsessing about how Zuko choose Katara to help him find his mother)

- I also think that Maiko wouldn't work - although I really like the ship - because Mai hated everything that had to do with the aristocracy, because it bored her, and she didn't want to be what her mother wanted her to be, so becoming the Fire Lady wouldn't be very fulfilling for her - I kinda feel like she would have a thing for Ty Lee, but Idk

- Also, I like to think that Aang would always visit Toph between his travels to the point her parents (who didn't like him for making their baby girl run away) question themselves when was he going to propose for Toph's hand (I feel like her mother would make a comment during dinner or something and they would die out of embarrassment)

- And I'm 100% sure that Suki and Sokka had a bet going on who of the two couple would confess first (I have a feeling it's Zutara) and after that they would just try to hold their laughs at Taang mutual pining

BITCH THIS IS THE EXACTLY WAY I THINK THAT TAANG HAPPENED (if it was canon ngh-) and the way you explain the zutara relationship it makes all the sense to me.

Besides, talking about kataang, I always saw as a problem that katara couldn't show her agry with aang bcs he would cry or something like that, and that is not the way it should be when you are with your partner, on the contrary, it should be a safe place where you can express yourself freely, and I thought that with zuko, she can do it.

Also, bitch, toph and aang are soulmates and nothing can change my mind. THEY WORK SO PERFECT TOGETHER WHEN THEY ARE KID, IMAGINE WHEN THEY GROWN UP. Unstopplebe, on fights and love lmao.

[blutopaz15]

9 & 18 on ths TDP ask?

tdp asks!

18. which is your favourite setting shown thus far?

is it too obvious for me to say Katolis? 😆 but yeah, Katolis, followed I think by the Moon Nexus and the Storm Spire.

9. how has the show affected you personally?

ok I’m about to get really sappy but that’s kinda what this question is for, isn’t it? gonna put it under a cut bc I got carried away.

so TDP was one of those shows that was on my watch-list for a long time before I watched it bc I loved loved loved ATLA as a young teenager and I knew Aaron Ehasz was one of the creators, but I’d just never gotten around to watching it. I finally did last August, I think bc I’d seen something about it getting renewed (and quarantine put quite a dent in my watch-list, lol)

I was immediately hooked, due in no small part to rayllum. Shipping is always what makes me get truly obsessed with shows to the point of digging into fanfic (fandoms I’ve read fic for over the years: code lyoko, teen titans, atla) and so, of course, that’s what happened with tdp���

…but then I ran out of fic I was looking for. D:

(not that I’ve read ALL the tdp fic…I was mostly looking for fluffy/spicy oneshots…which is now mostly what I write, imagine that, ha)

So, for the first time since I was a young teenager writing kataang fanfic (which has now been thoroughly scrubbed from the internet as best I could 😬), I started writing.

And, y’all…for those first couple months I was writing like crazy. I looked back on all my fic writing at some point in December and I was putting out a new fic/chapter twice a week from September to December. I don’t think anything’s ever inspired as much creativity in me as tdp has, and—ooh boy—I have some big feelings about it.

This past year has honestly been the first time since I was literally 12 years old that I’ve had a hobby that was just for me and that my interest in was totally, 100% genuine. I know it’s not unique, but my teens and early twenties were absolutely consumed by school and extra-curriculars that “looked good” and part time jobs so that I could actually afford to go to school. Through high school, college, grad school…I did a good job of doing all of those things too, which, of course, left little time for anything that was just…personally fulfilling, and I don’t think I realized how deeply dissatisfied I was until I found something that was personally fulfilling.

Now, though, I have something that I just…enjoy doing. No pressure, no obligation…(except for what I put on myself…old habits die hard, huh?)…just fun. Just something I want to do.

I have something else now too that I’ve haven’t felt like I’ve had in a long while, if ever: a sense of community.

And that’s the part that honestly makes me emotional.

(I won’t get into the sob story of being bullied and treated like shit by so called “friends” in middle/high school that left me believing that I’m an all around shitty person and unable to be myself and open up to people irl but…yeah 😬 that’s a thing)

It took me a couple of months to get on tumblr after I started writing fic, but I’m so glad I did. I have never EVER encountered a group of people as overwhelmingly welcoming and lovely as the people I’ve spoken to in this fandom. Coming from a person whose had a lot of negative experiences where friendships are concerned, it is absolutely wild to me how encouraging and kind and wonderful everyone is here.

So, I guess this really ended up being more about how the TDP fandom has impacted me personally, rather than being about the show, but (oh god, this is cheesy) I think it’s a testament to the show itself that it’s inspired such a lovely community, full of so many sweet, talented, enthusiastic people, and I’m really, really grateful for it.

[firelxdykatara]

I've read your thoughts on the noncon kiss between K/ataang (and I agree 100%), so I was wondering what your thoughts were on when Damon kept on trying to kiss Elena even after she rejected him?? (Also, I'm genuinely asking! I actually ship Delena, but this has just always bothered me.)

I suppose the simplest answer to this question is ‘I hold vampires with dodgy morals who began the show as villains to a different standard than I hold the heroic protagonist of a kid’s show’--because the fact of the matter is, Damon began the show as a villain. (And, not that it makes much of a difference, but I genuinely do not remember Damon trying to kiss Elena again after finding out that she was wearing vervain in the third episode--with the exception of the first episode of season 2, which was absolutely a horrible moment and I’ve never denied that. So where did he ‘[keep] on trying’? Genuine question, bc it’s been a while since I saw the early seasons of the show so I could be forgetting something.) Damon was unequivocally a villain and a monster in the beginning of the show, and his road to become a good man was long and not at all linear, and he was never going to be the Hero, because that’s just not who he is. (Which is ok, because not all good people have to be.)

The way the EIP kiss is presented, with absolutely nothing bridging the gap between that and Katara making out with Aang in the finale, it makes it seem like she figured out her feelings for him because he crossed her boundaries, rather than coming to that conclusion because she actually had romantic feelings for him and had worked through them on her own time. Aang makes his feelings her problem, without even asking her how she actually feels about him, and reveals that he assumed they would be in a relationship by now (because of the last time he kissed her without her consent, something that he phrases as mutual when it very much was not). This is especially an issue because it’s a children’s show, and this could very well be some of the target demographic’s first concept of consent in a romantic relationship--so the fact that there wasn’t even an attempt to point out that what Aang did was wrong and why, nevermind allow Katara to actually work through her feelings on screen, is a big problem, and when this gets brushed under the rug by Aang/Kataang fans it seriously bothers me.

By contrast, Elena was able to work through her feelings for Damon on her own time. He killed her brother at the beginning of season 2, unquestionably one of his worst actions in the entire show, and he had an arc where he began to realize that he actually cared about what he’d done--he actually cared about her, and was in love with her--and did everything he could to make it up to her. Crucially, though, he never actually made his feelings her problem, once he came to terms with them. He told her that he was in love with her, but then he compelled her to forget it so that she wouldn’t be burdened with that knowledge--and he backed the hell off. He didn’t even ask for her to forgive him until he was literally dying. And he accepted when she said that she still needed time--time he didn’t have--and didn’t actually push the issue until he was so delirious from the werewolf venom and in the middle of vivid hallucinations that he couldn’t control himself.

Elena kissed Damon at the end of season 2, thinking he was going to die--this was 100% initiated by her and unprompted by him, and it was her saying both ‘I forgive you’ and ‘goodbye’, because she thought he was about to die. (And he would have if Katherine hadn’t shown up with Klaus’ blood.) The next time they kissed, you could actually compare it to the Kataang surprise kisses--because when Damon kissed Elena in 3x10 it was unprompted (though she held the kiss and did not react negatively to it, unlike Katara who looked upset at the pre-invasion kiss and got angry at the EIP one)--but the important difference here is that Elena herself phrases it as a mutual kiss later on when she is talking to Stefan and wants to be open with him.

And the real crux of the matter here is, Elena’s feelings are always front and center in her relationship with Damon. She initiates most of their pre-relationship kisses--2x22, 3x19 (where she nearly fucking jumped his bones lmfao), 4x7--and the one where she didn’t is a kiss a kiss she describes as mutual, and as something she needs to confess to her ex-boyfriend to keep all her cards on the table. (Actually, I just went back to refresh my memory, and she doesn’t just say ‘we kissed’, like Damon said to Bonnie the next day. She says ‘There’s something I have to tell you. And it’s not because I feel guilty that it happened, it’s because I feel guilty that you don’t know. I kissed Damon.’ And then Stefan goes on to punch Damon because of it, because that doesn’t have any gross implications at all, but I’m not gonna go into that bc this isn’t an ‘I hate Stefan Salvatore’ rant. Yet.)

Elena chooses who she wants to say goodbye to in the season 3 finale. Elena chooses who she wants to be with in the beginning of season 4 (because, whatever she felt for Damon [and she owns those feelings and admits to them multiple times without prompting], she never had closure with Stefan, and she needed that before she was able to truly move on), and she chooses who she wants to spend the rest of her existence with after that.

Elena’s choice is crucial in her relationship with Damon, in a way that Katara’s never is with Aang. And I’m not trying to pretend that there aren’t a lot of elements to Damon and Elena’s relationship that aren’t questionable (he’s a 172-year-old vampire with a lot of murders in his past and a history of being a monster pre-redemption, and she’s an 18-year-old girl when they start dating), but again the difference there is that I have different standards for a) enemies-to-lovers relationships vs friends-to-lovers where they are on the same side from the start, and b) vampires vs Kid Heroes, so I’m going to have different expectations going in, and am probably going to react with more distaste to actions in one that might be comparatively tame, but still read very differently in different contexts.

It’s 100% understandable to have a line in the sand re: sexual violence/rape, but there are still vast differences in what is considered ‘par for the course’ in a show like TVD vs one like ATLA. In TVD, compelling humans is normal, and almost every vampire has had sex with humans under compulsion, so when this is brought out as some mark against Damon and only Damon, it makes me wonder why some fans hold him to a completely different standard than literally every other vampire on the show (possible exceptions being the ones who get turned during the show--although Caroline compelled Matt to forget she was a vampire and then continued her relationship with him sooooooo). Not liking TVD because it has issues with sexual violence/how consent is addressed when half the cast can take away the other half’s free will? Very valid. Not liking Damon, specifically, for these reasons when stanning characters like Stefan, Katherine, or.... p much any other vampire on the show???? Not so valid. 

Annnnd I’ll get off my soapbox now lmfao. I still have A Lot To Say apparently, and some day I’m gonna get into why the TVD fandom has such a weird relationship w the show’s issues with consent (like why Stefan and Katherine stans will call Damon a rapist while ignoring that their faves are also rapists by the very same metric), but I think that’s a bit beyond the scope of this ask.

[paristexaz]

Zk shippers really look funny like a dummy with their head in the sand arguing the Fire Nation didn’t colonize or wasnt even an neo fascist imperial super power and people should be 100% comfortable with zutara bc kataang is obviously the worst (bc Aang kissed Katara once without her consent ) ((oh but Zuko tried to kill everyone in the gaang without their consent except for Aang bc he needed him alive 🤔🤔🤔🤔))

[salzspektrum]

zutara vs kataang

ok damn I’m surprisingly not salty when it comes to this tbh, atla is like the only show where I’m really not salty bc it’s so close to being perfect??? like for me at least??? it sure as hell has hardly any flaws, at least in comparison to other shows (game of thrones season 5, the 100 3A, arrow season 4).

okay so when it comes to this specific ship war, I’m kinda neutral on it? Like really I’m totally fine with canon kataang, even tho some elements have flaws but all ships have flaws. But I also wouldn’t be against canon zutara? like I’d feel a bit bad for aang if that would have happened but I wouldn’t hate that scenario. I’m actually lowkey shipping both tbh. Hell, I’m lowkey shipping almost everything in atla (except for the weird incest ships pls fucking stop). I’d be very down for an ot3, when they’re all older of course. Usually when there’s a love triangle  I just start shipping them all 3 together (except for when one party reaaaally hates one of the other parties), give me some good poly relationships damn. So yeah I kinda like both ships but I’m not super passionate about either of them. Consider this tho, the best brotp of all the brotp’s and my lowkey ship: Zukka. now THAT’s some good shit right there.

Send me a ship and I’ll give you my (brutally) honest opinion on it.