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whenever there are jason slander reels on instagram and basically 99.9% of the comments are defending him and saying 'you aren't cool for hating on him for absolutely nothing' and 'its not 2013 anymore, all of us have matured now, and we realize how overrated jason slander is' angels gain their wings :)

is the lok worth watching?

Aww, thank you so much for the tag :))

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i don't know many people that well yet :))

ty for the tag @auntiejohn !

summer or winter // coffee or tea // straight hair or curly hair //fiction or nonfiction // necklaces or bracelets // marshmallows or whipped cream // night in or night out // sunset or sunrise // pizza or pasta // cold drink or hot drink // vampire or werewolf // crop top or oversized hoodie // be able to fly or run at super speed // speak many languages or able to speak to animals // be invisible or read minds // phone call or text // laundry or dishes // pool or beach // flats or heels // stay home or go out // coke or pepsi // cook dinner or do dishes // books or movies // dogs or cats // chocolate or vanilla // facebook or instagram // over-dressed or under-dressed // morning or late nights // always late or always early // dancer or singer // always eat only dessert or always eat only savoury // shopping or museum // art gallery or zoo //parties or picnics // white lights or multicolored lights

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the lunar chronicles and everything’s the same but they’re allowed to curse

it's definitely pretty good. it's very obviously not perfect, and I don't love how certain characters barely existed (cough, cough, mako, cough) and Katara's arc in the og show was kind of for nothing, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless

is the lok worth watching?

is the lok worth watching?

one of my favorite parts of the lunar chronicles has always been how batshit insane it is. just the the genuine unhingery. the main character kidnaps her love interest from his wedding. said love interest stabs his arranged bride (a murderous dictator) with scissors at the altar. cress and thorne stay at an inn in the middle of the desert, and while he’s fucking around gambling she gets kidnapped into an underground medical experimentation human trafficking ring and bought by her long lost father. there’s evil moon people. scarlet and wolf get it on in a boxcar after like two days of knowing each other. 4/9 of the main cast aren’t human. cinder crashes kai’s wedding (again), murders twenty people, and jumps off a ten story balcony into a lake. kai keeps cinder’s metal foot so he can stare at it and long after her while she’s a wanted fugitive. cress fangirls over and stalks her outlaw crush on the internet for years and then bags him when they meet. not one of them is over twenty or mentally sound btw. no other YA series is doing it like that. applause

I mean... yay!

but also I thought she was #2 earlier am i hallucinating?

also HOW is The Weeknd higher than Queen Bey?

I don't even like Beyonce that much, and she cannot be #7

Billboard names Taylor Swift the biggest artist of the 21st century!

(January 8, 2025)

Billboard names Taylor Swift the biggest artist of the 21st century!

(January 8, 2025)

i respect those people who have sideblogs for all their different interests, if you follow me, you’ll just have to accept you’ll be submitted to whatever nonsense i’m into at the moment

okay but imagine the demigods getting matching t-shirts with their most traumatic experiences dumbed down on them because joking about your trauma is the solution to everything.

for instance,

Nico's would simply have the text "where's my sister?" written on it.

Reyna's would have "*throws chair*"

Leo's is a picture of a garage burning and "*explodes*" written underneath the picture

Jason's has the text "My mum sold me to wolves instead of One Direction"

so on and so forth, you get the idea.

when I tell you i actually cackled

happy autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place season to all those who celebrate

Excuse me while I throw up, we couldn’t just have a scene of them going to a play without Kataang being shoved down our throats.

Katara's Story Is A Tragedy and It's Not An Accident

I was a teenaged girl when Avatar: The Last Airbender aired on Nickelodeon—the group that the show’s creators unintentionally hit while they were aiming for the younger, maler demographic. Nevermind that we’re the reason the show’s popularity caught fire and has endured for two decades; we weren’t the audience Mike and Bryan wanted. And by golly, were they going to make sure we knew it. They’ve been making sure we know it with every snide comment and addendum they’ve made to the story for the last twenty years.

For many of us girls who were raised in the nineties and aughts, Katara was a breath of fresh air—a rare opportunity in a media market saturated with boys having grand adventures to see a young woman having her own adventure and expressing the same fears and frustrations we were often made to feel. 

We were told that we could be anything we wanted to be. That we were strong and smart and brimming with potential. That we were just as capable as the boys. That we were our brothers’ equals. But we were also told to wash dishes and fold laundry and tidy around the house while our brothers played outside. We were ignored when our male classmates picked teams for kickball and told to go play with the girls on the swings—the same girls we were taught to deride if we wanted to be taken seriously. We were lectured for the same immaturity that was expected of boys our age and older, and we were told to do better while also being told, “Boys will be boys.” Despite all the platitudes about equality and power, we saw our mothers straining under the weight of carrying both full-time careers and unequally divided family responsibilities. We sensed that we were being groomed for the same future. 

And we saw ourselves in Katara. 

Katara begins as a parentified teenaged girl: forced to take on responsibility for the daily care of people around her—including male figures who are capable of looking after themselves but are allowed to be immature enough to foist such labor onto her. She does thankless work for people who take her contributions for granted. She’s belittled by people who love her, but don’t understand her. She’s isolated from the world and denied opportunities to improve her talents. She's told what emotions she's allowed to feel and when to feel them. In essence, she was living our real-world fear: being trapped in someone else’s narrow, stultifying definition of femininity and motherhood. 

Then we watched Katara go through an incredible journey of self-determination and empowerment. Katara goes from being a powerless, fearful victim to being a protector, healer, advocate, and liberator to others who can’t do those things for themselves (a much truer and more fulfilling definition of nurturing and motherhood). It’s necessary in Katara’s growth cycle that she does this for others first because that is the realm she knows. She is given increasingly significant opportunities to speak up and fight on behalf of others, and that allows her to build those advocacy muscles gradually. But she still holds back her own emotional pain because everyone that she attempts to express such things to proves they either don't want to deal with it or they only want to manipulate her feelings for their own purposes. 

Katara continues to do much of the work we think of as traditionally maternal on behalf of her friends and family over the course of the story, but we do see that scale gradually shift. Sokka takes on more responsibility for managing the group’s supplies, and everyone helps around camp, but Katara continues to be the manager of everyone else’s emotions while simultaneously punching down her own. The scales finally seem to tip when Zuko joins the group. With Zuko, we see someone working alongside Katara doing the same tasks she is doing around camp for the first time. Zuko is also the only person who never expects anything of her and whose emotions she never has to manage because he’s actually more emotionally stable and mature than she is by that point. And then, Katara’s arc culminates in her finally getting the chance to fully seize her power, rewrite the story of the traumatic event that cast her into the role of parentified child, be her own protector, and freely express everything she’s kept locked away for the sake of letting everyone else feel comfortable around her. Then she fights alongside an equal partner she knows she can trust and depend on through the story's climax. And for the first time since her mother’s death, the girl who gives and gives and gives while getting nothing back watches someone sacrifice everything for her. But this time, she’s able to change the ending because her power is fully realized. The cycle was officially broken.

Katara’s character arc was catharsis at every step. If Katara could break the mold and recreate the ideas of womanhood and motherhood in her own image, so could we. We could be powerful. We could care for ourselves AND others when they need us—instead of caring for everyone all the time at our own expense. We could have balanced partnerships with give and take going both ways (“Tui and La, push and pull”), rather than the, “I give, they take,” model we were conditioned to expect. We could fight for and determine our own destiny—after all, wasn’t destiny a core theme of the story?

Yes. Destiny was the theme. But the lesson was that Katara didn’t get to determine hers. 

After Katara achieves her victory and completes her arc, the narrative steps in and smacks her back down to where she started. For reasons that are never explained or justified, Katara rewards the hero by giving into his romantic advances even though he has invalidated her emotions, violated her boundaries, lashed out at her for slights against him she never committed, idealized a false idol of her then browbeat her when she deviated from his narrative, and forced her to carry his emotions and put herself in danger when he willingly fails to control himself—even though he never apologizes, never learns his lesson, and never shows any inclination to do better. 

And do better he does not.

The more we dared to voice our own opinions on a character that was clearly meant to represent us, the more Mike and Bryan punished Katara for it.

Throughout the comics, Katara makes herself smaller and smaller and forfeits all rights to personal actualization and satisfaction in her relationship. She punches her feelings down when her partner neglects her and cries alone as he shows more affection and concern for literally every other girl’s feelings than hers. She becomes cowed by his outbursts and threats of violence. Instead of rising with the moon or resting in the warmth of the sun, she learns to stay in his shadow. She gives up her silly childish dreams of rebuilding her own dying culture’s traditions and advocating for other oppressed groups so that she can fulfill his wishes to rebuild his culture instead—by being his babymaker. Katara gave up everything she cared about and everything she fought to become for the whims of a man-child who never saw her as a person, only a possession.

Then, in her old age, we get to watch the fallout of his neglect—both toward her and her children who did not meet his expectations. By that point, the girl who would never turn her back on anyone who needed her was too far gone to even advocate for her own children in her own home. And even after he’s gone, Katara never dares to define herself again. She remains, for the next twenty-plus years of her life, nothing more than her husband's grieving widow. She was never recognized for her accomplishments, the battles she won, or the people she liberated. Even her own children and grandchildren have all but forgotten her. She ends her story exactly where it began: trapped in someone else’s narrow, stultifying definition of femininity and motherhood.

The story’s theme was destiny, remember? But this story’s target audience was little boys. Zuko gets to determine his own destiny as long as he works hard and earns it. Aang gets his destiny no matter what he does or doesn’t do to earn it. And Katara cannot change the destiny she was assigned by gender at birth, no matter how hard she fights for it or how many times over she earns it. 

Katara is Winston Smith, and the year is 1984. It doesn’t matter how hard you fight or what you accomplish, little girl. Big Brother is too big, too strong, and too powerful. You will never escape. You will never be free. Your victories are meaningless. So stay in your place, do what you’re told, and cry quietly so your tears don’t bother people who matter.

I will never get over it. Because I am Katara. And so are my friends, sisters, daughters, and nieces. But I am not content to live in Bryke's world.

I will never turn my back on people who need me. Including me.

when i got on twitter and said if katara had killed yon rha, zuko’s opinion of katara’s core character wouldn’t have changed (we even see that the split second shot of him seeing her blood bend) but aang’s would have- THEY NAILED ME TO THE FUCKING STAKE YALL! they hated jesus because he told the truth!

Sometimes I see posts that are like, "remember the much simpler time when Azula and Zuko play acted theater as kids without any competition or being corrupted by Ozai?"

And the play acting being spoken about is Azula playing the Dragon Emperor and making Zuko play the villain of the imperialist regime, a role which later came to represent his fractured sense of self?

There were no simpler times. There is no point where Azula and Zuko's relationship isn't corrupted by imperialism and abuse. There was only a time when they were too young to realize it.

Zuko: Could you not stand so close? You’re making me claustrophobic

Aang: What does claustrophobic mean?

Sokka: It means he's afraid of Santa Clause

Zuko: No, it doesn't

Toph: HO HO HO

Katara: Stop it, you’re scaring him!!!

Should we take this as proof that The Melon Lord ships Zutara?

you didn't...

yes i'm writing a zutara titanic au what are you going to do about it

I considered making Zuko Rose and Katara Jack, but Katara's bethrothal necklace fit too perfectly with the Heart of the Ocean

So it's gonna be a combo, also partially inspired by Stacey Lee's Luck of the Titanic (for Katara and Sokka!)

Tysm for asking!

yes i'm writing a zutara titanic au what are you going to do about it

yes i'm writing a zutara titanic au what are you going to do about it

this is THE zutara book 2 fanart

Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

WHY IS THIS HERE 😭😭😭😭😭😭

why are so many writers experts in murder

wear a different perfume when you commit murder fuckin amateurs 

Damage.

Quote by @desertbcrnnobody

im going to be like 90 years old in a wheelchair talking ab some ‘wait but I need to finish this 300k zk fic’ when the nurse comes to get me for bed 😭😭

Here is chapter two of my Zutara marriage of convenience AU, with unrequited (as of right now) love, fluff, and a little bit of angst. The fic is based on this post I made earlier about how Katara won the Agni Kai for the throne so she was technically legally the Firelord.

Here is an excerpt of chapter 2 (I already have an excerpt posted of chapter 1 here:)

The silence is deafening as Katara and Zuko stride up through the staircase. Katara can’t help glancing at Zuko, whose face is still visibly bright red. It’s almost funny, and it would be funny to Katara in another situation where Zuko is embarrassed and averse to the idea of marrying her.

Katara looks away and decides to continue trudging up the stairs.

“You don’t have to stare, you know. I-I mean, I understand what...never mind,” Zuko stutters awkwardly, and it’s really kind of adorable.

“It’s alright, Zuko. You don’t have to marry me. Unless you want to, of course.” She’s trying to sound teasing and indifferent, but her heart is just breaking a little bit.

Just a little bit.

She is trapped in the ache of loving someone who doesn’t love her as more than a friend. Katara has no doubt Zuko cares about her deeply; but she will never be to him what he is to her.

Arranged Marriage/Marriage of Convenience between Zuko/Katara (Aged Up Characters/Canon Divergent after the finale)

Lloyd is fire but Jay supremacy man

all my homies had a crush on jay

(So nice to meet you btw :D, i'm panromantic demisexual)

Hi!

Here’s some stuff about me!!

I’m non binary!! They/Them!

I chose my name from my fav childhood show: Lego Ninjago bc I liked the name Lloyd lol

Bisexual!!!! 🩷💜💙

and yeah! lol

haha it's absolutely jealousy

Pre-Southern Raiders, Toph starts calling Zuko "Sparky" and Katara starts doing so as well just because it annoys him. Zuko is desperately trying to ignore the Feelings this stirs in him.

Katara is extremely annoyed by how close Toph is to Zuko, always hanging off him, but it would be ridiculous if anyone thought that had anything to do with jealousy...