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myimaginationplain · 27 days

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do you ever think about how Katara's portrayal in the Ember Island Players' stage play is an in-universe, textual example of an oppressor state adultifying & sexualizing a racialized girl as a form of pro-colonization propaganda

and then do you ever think about how a third of the fandom also participates in that completely unironically

#this is in response to someone on twt saying that the EIP's portrayal of the DOBS cave scene was a 'win' for them as a zk shipper #& I know that tweet was a silly jokey joke.....but man #thankfully a lot of people are eloquently calling them out in the quotes of the tweet so I don't really feel the need to take it over here #but still. I try so hard to be neutral about zk & zk shippers because I really don't dislike the ship at its core.#but so many of you just can't help but make that impossible by consistently showing that you don't care about atla's themes at all ugggh #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #the ember island players

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