#the bi Katara agenda

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want to make a place for my thots of anything with no viewers if i remember to come on here. i cant believe i keep having to make these since i end up getting followers and interacting. but i'm an adult with shit to do irl and things to fight and this fandom is almost 20y old so idt i will do that. lol. just finished atla like 20y too late cos my parents hated me and my bro watching tv growing up. journaling/blogging thots!!! ugh. i wish i didnt hve adhd and dyspraxia lmao gonna split them up so i dont get overwhelmed reading my bullshit. if u stumble upon this it doesnt make sense sry

politically a lot of critique that i have to think about. character and plot wise it was pretty good and tight esp for a kids show. amazing female characters. can't wait for the bi agenda from LoK but i may take a while for that. p much i have to say these are great characters and i could talk a lot about them but i'm shocked at what i took away with regards to the romantic rships from the show and the characterization via it.

re love lines:

i wish kataang was written better in the show (MY opinion if any1 stumbles upon this). i don't ~ship~ zutara bc i am an adult and even back then no cos who cares lol but i see the appeal and am attracted to that. i do think we have to retire the trope of the "both sides but falling in love" not because it isn't possible but because post 10/7 (free palestine) i don't think it's worth it to look at it this way anymore. until someone proves themselves not worthy of death because of the resistance fighting back then they NEED TO PROVE THEMSELVES IMMEDIATELY. no more of this i'm in a concentration camp but he's a nazi bullshit. no more i'm a slave but he's the slave master's son (i mean in this case u could have been related but no1 listens to me!) it's repetitive, reductive, and untrue.

that being said: i just never care about the typical bildungsroman love story. you see the One Person bc i guess the kids tasked with saving the world have to be monk-adjacent (in aang's case quite literally) bc understandably theyre so fucked up lol. but it's always sooooo boring to me esp if it's f/m.

katara is such a complex character and mae whitman brings a wisdom to her voice that can be frustrating to connect with for me but her character arc, her strength, her MIND, her heart, and her fists. i think ppl probs like zutara the most when shes' going batshit and no one can understand aang's perspective. but aang is one of a kind and the cutest smartest sweetest loser ever. not my fav char but i love him. he's like if i had a younger brother and not an older one lmao.

of course they're (kataang) together. they were meant to be from the moment they saw e/o and that stupid cave kiss...this is why you don't wait until 32 to watch this lol.

but nothing surprised me and it was meant to be the way it was written. that's also why i find it understandable but shocking people in the universe and apparently outside of it were surprised at aang's turmoil over ozai. like are you joking? he's a 12 year old vegetarian monk. which: i loved his vegetarianism and obviously he was going to be but very casually they put in a line that hints as to why he would be and why many of us are...so i am dedicated to it again.

so wrt that and zutara...the episode where he's with her with the dude that killed her moms and his support of her i can see why people like them. the cave ep obviously but this show is veryyyyy free with affection i noticed and there's some jealousy but they all get over that pretty quickly. i read some of the comics and i could see different rships happening and i definitely think this world lends to queerness (me personally i love monogamy but a certain type lol so not rly interested in much poly but i do like a throuple) but i could see most being bi+ or having identified as that in the past, or labeling themselves but nto limiting. that's just an aside for meee...

so like katara was being katara. i could see suki and zuko being romantic but also a deep friendship that could be deeply affectionate either affect or physically or both bc that's who these ppl are. katara is a very intense person and that's part of why she can be annoying. that's part of why they ALL can be overwhelming. theyre intense, traumatized, repressed kids and teens with mostly good hearts (or just a person so disconnected from herself but also a fascist so u know. her going nuts lol)

hmm what else oh yea. so i came away with maiko......gjpasig the show was paced and plotted well. i am a libertarian communist (anarcho-commie) so MANNNNN i wish they did better on that front but again i must remember i am 32, ancom, and the world is diff. but anyway lmao so team avatar is who i would want to spend time with but i got so interested in mai and ty lee (mailee...). that beach ep conversation was so good, that whole ep, their argument. it was extremely teenage and showed how fucked up they all are. how confused and fucking lost and pathetic. how small their lives are. how boring....so mai...

[rideboldlyride]

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Here, let me give a snippet of something I will probably never write more on, but I love how it turned out.

She sighed at the scene like a painting before her:

There, eyes closed against the daylight streaming in through the autumn leaves, was the woman who was steady as her kingdom, but as fluid as Katara's element. She was the anchored island embraced by the sea. Her face was turned up to the sky, but her arms lay limp at her sides.

And just there, face pressed against the soft bed of fiery leaves, was the passionate and spirited man who had accepted change as readily as any waterbender. He was the roar in the thunderstorm. His chest fell steadily, but blood trickled from his parted lips.

These were the ones who taught her what it meant to love herself, to come to who she was meant to be. These were the ones who had loved her as much as she had them. They held no illusions of her, but pulled her close when she needed to be grounded. They held her high when she was drowning.

In the moment of clarity, she strained against her restraining arm, ignoring the pain. As she felt the roar of the tide in the offending men's veins, she smirked. These men were fools - she would bend the heavens themselves for them, their bodies were child's play.

[firelxdykatara]

Why do you talk about fictional characters' sexualities so much?

Because I’m a queer woman, and I enjoy writing and talking about the fictional bi disasters I adore (which is all of them, every character I touch is bi, no exceptions, no I will not apologize nor will I change), and because I reject the assumption that just because a character has shown interest in a different gender, or in the same gender, the must be straight or gay--because I am bi, and bisexuality is so often erased or not even considered a possibility that I will right the scales myself if I have to.

Like I said, all my faves are bi, and I will never stop talking about them being bi, bc I love my bi disasters. Especially Zuko and Katara. My exact aesthetic is bi disasters in love with each other, and that’s zutara to a T.

[bestfriendsquad]

they’re sapphics ur honor

[smmushii]

Your bisexual zk art makes me so happy please 💕😭 Of course there isn't an exact "bisexual look" but they radiate so much bi energy and I'm so here for it! Keep it up :) your art just gets better and better ♥️

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this made me smile so hard

i'm not bisexual myself, so i’m always unsure if i'm representing them in a satisfactory way, but seeing so many bi people say that they love the energy in my art makes me so! insanely! happy!!!!!

i try my best not to stereotype zuko or katara when i draw them, and i don’t want it to seem like headcanoning them as bisexual is activism or representation, because it’s still just a headcanon. however, i’m very much on board with the bi!zutara agenda, and if my art makes bisexuals happy, i'll definitely keep making it!! thank you for the compliments, i’m glad you can see improvement <3

[foxy-knowledgeseeker]

Give me all ur sexuality headcanons for the gaang rn

Aang - pansexual. You can’t tell me an ancient, reincarnating spirit being that has lived in thousands upon thousands of bodies of all genders, sexes, and orientations is anything but pansexual.

Katara - bisexual with a preference for men. 

Sokka - straight, except he’s bi for Aang. 

Toph - bisexual OR she is the person from the gaang I am mostly likely to hc as aroace, so I will go with that just for the purpose of providing some diversity to this list for now.

Suki - bisexual with a preference for women.

Zuko - straight, except he’s bi for Aang.

Mai - bisexual without a clear preference (also love an agender Mai)

Ty Lee - lesbian (unless making her bi fits my agenda muahaha)

Azula - hot take, but straight? maybe bisexual. maybe on the aroace spectrum as well. My opinions on her are limited. 

TBH: just assume everyone to me is AT LEAST bi in some way or form. 

[firelxdykatara]

pst bestie go to mae whitman's twitter or instagram

UHM???????

im actually sobbing right now lmao WELCOME TO THE MSPEC QUEER FAMILY MAE!!!!!! im so happy for her that she felt comfortable and safe coming out and that TOH and lumity are so powerful for her, also this is my plugging my bi katara agenda bc everyone we touch is mspec so true

anyway yes this is amazing and made my day, ty anon <333