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Ppl only hate on Korra bc shes woman. If u had put Aang in her place, and had made him do everything she had done, yall wouldn't hate the u do when she's a woman.
Yall only see her gender and immediately blame her for fucking everything. Aang is cool and all, but he wouldn't survive what Korra did, specially with a fuck ass team like Korrra's
Just finished season 1 of Legend of Korra for the first time and holy shit. I had assumed all the hate was bullshit but it was still better than I thought it would be.
The vibe is so fucking miserable, appropriately so for a season about the absence of the element that brought hope and fun back to the world. Of course Korra can't figure out airbending and only knows how to solve problems with violence. She hasn't known freedom yet and doesn't have a well-formed sense of identity.
I love that Korra's progress over the season is slow and painful, and that she doesn't even fully learn her lesson by the end. I had been expecting her airbending to come with a big triumphant epiphany, but instead it came from her acting out of love while she was at her most powerless, and it just barely squeaked out a win. Very brave way to end the season.
I love that her being saved by a literal miracle is what finally enabled her to connect with her spirituality, even if she doesn't fully understand why.
I couldn't believe Korrasami was THAT blatant even as early as season 1. I had been really not enjoying any of the straight "romance" (to the point where Korra's love for Mako being genuine in the final episode felt like a plot twist) so the episode they have together hit me like a truck. They did such a good job of implying that Korra allowing herself to love Asami would resolve her biggest emotional block, and I understand why people say Korrasami walked so Catradora could run.
Sure there was stuff I wasn't a fan of, but my god the stuff they do well is as good, if not better, than Legend of Aang. Korra herself might be my new favourite character from either show
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Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets) vs. Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
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Taissa Turner:
taissa is not necessarily hated but more ignored. as the only Black main character, she tends to get way less attention than the others. if she does get attention, it's mostly about her relationship with her (white) girlfriend van without any serious exploration of her character. though there are some works including her on ao3, it's mostly her and her gf being a background couple without any further thought to it. if you look through the top posts on the yellowjackets fanart tag, it takes forever until sth about her pops up (mostly her and her gf again). i actually really like her relationship, but it feels like people only care about taissa in that setting. and again, she is a main character with tons of interesting scenes and a lot of complexity that rarely gets discussed. she also has a lot of very interesting dynamics with the other characters and even though the yellowjackets fandom is big on multishipping (and shipping in general) taissa is rarely included in that. she and her canon gf also get way less attention than many of the other pairings (even though they are THE canon lesbians of the show). later on taissa has a wife who is Black btw and pretty much completely ignored by the fandom.. the show is definitely partly to blame for that, since her wife kinda falls into the disposable Black gf trope and the writers generally fumbled tai's story in parts. however, she's still a very intriguing character and other characters with potentially worse writing still get a lot of love.
(there are also some instances of her being described as bitchy, too mean or egocentrical when that's literally not true at all. but i can't speak to much on that bc i prefer not to engage with this and i also think it's not a major part of the fandom that sees her that way.)
tai is the heart of the show!! she takes initiative, she moves the plot forward and she gets the job done (the giver was literally written about her… like she is doing the shit the other characters don't want to do, she's a literal self described handy lesbian!! also imo a character that truely understands the relevance of community, always sticking up for others when necessary regardless of sympathy etc)
she cares so deeply about the people around her and goes to great lengths to support them
some examples:
1. offered to give another character an abortion, so she doesn't have to do it on her own (mind you, they weren't even close or anything atp)
2. lead a mission to get rescue to get her help (they're stranded in the wilderness) for which she literally risked her own life
3. supported said character through the entirety of an incredibly traumatic birth
4. paid for another characters rehab several times without telling anyone or expecting anything in return
5. killed a wolf for her gf
6. joined a cult for her gf
yellowjackets is also a show that heavily plays with the question of "is the supernatural real or is there are psychological explanation for all that?" and tai is one of two characters who are really at the center of this question due to her having some form of alternate personality which is super interesting imo
like this other personality stems from her being deeply repressed and never allowing herself to be truely seen. she constantly puts on a mask and she kinda doesn't deal with her problems at all. like she's carrying complex religious trauma from her childhood into her adulthood plus all the surival horror trauma she never deals with… idk i love her so much, i think she's deeply interesting and i wish people would talk about her more
she is an incredibly interesting character. she's one of the biggest deniers of any supernatural influences on their situation but at the same time the most overtly connected to the mystical power of the wilderness. she refuses to acknowledge her trauma to the point of destroying her family and all her dreams. she is obssessed with control while actively losing control over her own body due to sleepwalking/her other personality just taking over basically at random. this leads her to commiting cannibalism against her will, beheading her dog, writing threats on her own front door etc. however, her reaction to finding out about this is basically just to drink 20 cups of coffee and deny herself any sleep, which i think is hilarious and obviously doesn't work.
she is a very unhealthy, complex and at the same time deeply intelligent and empathetic character that depsite all her layers is often just ignored by the fandom - even though she's also a canon lesbian that literally ate her gf's heart in a fandom that supposedly loves "toxic yuri". people actually claimed that the show was queerbaiting because their favorite white queership wasn't confirmed, meanwhile taissa has been a canon lesbian in two incredibly interesting relationships since day one!
Korra:
Fandom picked her apart, called her a b*tch, blamed her for every bad thing that happened TO HER in the plot, disliked that she's loud, disliked that she's strong, disliked that she's confident in her strength, disliked that she's not like their beloved boy Aang. It's been years and you still can't sneeze in this fandom without something starting to yell that Korra is the worst Avatar ever.
She is so so strong. She did her best. She faced down enemies and cataclysms like most Avatars before never did and she fought tooth and nail for both humans and spirits, almost dying in the process, multiple times. Her personal growth and the character arc of such is impressive and well done. She's ride or die for her friends and for strangers too. And the fact that she takes no crap and can punch someone's face in for it is a bonus, not a flaw.
She gets an insane amount of hate for not dealing with everything that happens to her "better", mainly for showing traits considered cool in male characters like being a hothead and choosing violence
My bisexual queen went through the horrors while saving her world four times and she does not deserve the hate she gets, give her a break
She made mistakes and experiences "negative" emotions. People acted like she was the devil incarnate. Meanwhile; those same people fawned over Zuko, who is not only notoriously hot-headed but also literally raided and burned whole villages. People also do not seem to hold the same contempt for Azula as they do for Korra, which I believe is in part due to racism/colorism.
She was trying her best and she had the whole world on her shoulders with very little help to hold it. also, put "korra back muscles" into the search engine of your choice and behold.
She is the next iteration of the Avatar after the original series' beloved Aang. She also is a woman so as you can imagine fans were Very Normal about that. (especially the "it's forced diversity!!" crowd)
It's so frustrating because Korra is a character that the writers tried to make the exact opposite of Aang, presumably to avoid treading the same ground again. And it makes her interesting! and imo a better fleshed out character than Aang. but fandom doesn't seem to like that opinion a lot!
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