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People need to understand that Zutara isn't about Zuko being the hot and sexy dream guy that makes Katara swoon. It's about their complimentary Tired Parent™️ energy and the fact that Zuko is—at all times—slightly terrified of Katara in the most smitten way possible.
Who's a good dragon? (Fire Noodle #17, Zutara)
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if he’s your man then why is he jumping in front of lightning for me after he dumped your ass in prison and forgot about you
All we wanted to do was giggle about a scarf and suddenly here come all the freaking Anti-ZKs to yell and scream at us about how we're evil for shipping them for any number of extremely silly reasons.
and it's not just here on Tumblr. Twitter's always been a dodgy place for a ZK post to go somewhat viral because inevitably someone who still can't get over the ship existing will sweatily comment some "funny" remark about how Zutara shippers are "freaks" or something. But now it's far worse.
I just don't get why they have such a bug up their asses about our shipping preferences. Like, go fucking take a walk or something and leave us alone instead of getting so mad that we exist as a fandom.
Not Kataang shippers telling us they feel sad for us when their ship is the worst written, creepy and most rushed no girlie I feel sad for you.
More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:
HES SEVENTEEN
He hasn’t been civilised in 4 years, his entire teenage experience consists of living on a boat and sleeping rough. The most stable bed he has was probably in Ba Sing Se he probably will just nap anywhere.
He has customer service experience which means he probably uses his customer service voice on his minsters.
Additionally he probably just wanders into to kitchen to get his own snacks and tea because he forgets what servants do.
He probably has no idea why he can’t just chase after an assassin he used to hunt the avatar for Agnis sake why is the captain of the guard demanding he stay in his room he’ll find the guy first (he’s probably right)
Katara probably has a free pass on Eco terrorism because what’s he going to do challenge her, she’ll beat his ass.
If he saw a minster doing something shady he will either invite lady Beifong to detect their BS or commit B&E and look for evidence himself.
He somehow found a baby dragon and raises it.
He will be far to willing to give Kyoshi island anything they want cause he feels bad and Suki scares him.
He randomly insisted on giving some earth kingdom village 100 ostrich horses.
The Avatar will just show up call him Hotman and demand the go on adventures and the Firelord will just dip because he’s been confined to long and has the Zoomies.
He takes far to much advice from Sokka and will genuinely believe if someone doesn’t get Sokkas plans they must be an idiot because Sokka is 16.
Sokka and Zuko also get into a lot of teenage rebellion phases by accident.
Toph just walks in breaks a wall of his palace and demands a field trip that always involves the Firelord having to explain himself to the cops.
He somehow knows every dangerous teen in the world and they all come for tea uninvited.
He has broken into both the NWT and Ba Sing Se.
He has a really well documented facial scar and official portraits but still disappears to be Lee the tea guy like no one knows.
HES SEVENTEEN.
the way that their mothers are some of the biggest part of katara and zuko's characters when no one else has this same emphasis will forever have me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure
people died.
No bc based the way people complain about zutara fans I thought they must've straight out murdered one of the creators or something, but the only thing you see in the tag is breathtaking fanart and incredible pieces of writing of people defending their ship. And it's so confusing to me how people can hate the ship so passionately?? If you don't like it maybe just. scroll? News flash but when you're in a fandom you're going to see people with ships you don't agree with and you can just, choose not to interact with them. Specially when zutara fans stay in their own tag and they're just enjoying their ship in peace without bothering anyone. Every time I make a post saying something is rotted in misogyny I have people insulting me in my comments, so I will just say that it's weird how zutara antis keep complaining about how annoying the girls that ship them are and how they only do it because they have a crush on zuko, as if girls lack the comprehension skills to ship something because they really understand both characters and think they genuinely work well together
everyone: what's your goal in life?
me: to write a story so soul snatching, so gut wrenching and so devastatingly beautiful that it leaves you crying at 3am when you have a 8am lecture/shift and it inspires people to write entire essays, to write entire fanfics, mood boards and playlists based on it.
After twenty years, the thing I still don’t get is that everything cruel that can be said and has been said against Zutara romance can also be said against their friendship–and Zuko’s friendships with the other characters!–and yet somehow friendship is always good and pure but romance would immediately make their healthy friendship dynamic bad and abusive???
But that’s not how relationships work. If they can have a healthy friendship, then they could have a healthy romance. If any romance is inherently unhealthy, then the friendship must be inherently unhealthy too.
You’ve got the original writers saying women who think that Katara and Zuko should be together will forever have “failed relationships”… and then, at the same time, those same writers are like yay let’s write them bonding and building a friendship.
People calling a brutally abused child who went on a redemption arc and turned against his father’s ways a “colo/nizer” when it’s a romance, but when it’s friendship it’s all good somehow. If lips never touch, it’s not possible for a relationship to be toxic??? But if lips DO touch, then a healthy friendship based on mutual respect immediately becomes a Lifetime movie about toxic boyfriends…
The only way this logic works is if you think romantic love immediately “corrupts” or “taints” in a way friend love doesn’t. And that’s an incredibly ugly, sad idea to push.
always the poet never the muse.
seeing the same people who complained that zutara fandom adultified katara & insisted that she was just as much of a child in the show as the rest of the gaang now having a meltdown over some vague ass interviews that might imply katara is no longer taking as much of a motherly role in the live action because “it ruins her character”… funny, i thought yall said zutara shippers were just making that up?
I know I’ve been ranting a lot about antis, but it’s just because the way they’ve taken to voicing their dislike of Zutara bothers me. So, bear with me.
There was this woman on TikTok that I used to follow and who made a lot of ATLA analysis. And she was a Zutara shipper who would speak on some of the themes that led her to be a Zutara shipper. All was going fine until someone made a video attacking her for liking Zutara. They called her morally corrupt, a terrible person, and claimed she was racist for liking a fictional ship. I watched as this woman I followed then become convinced that she was those things and she swiftly took all her ATLA videos down and never talked about the show again.
Antis are bullies. I’m not sugarcoating it. They go out of their way to make people feel guilty for liking Zuko and Katara as a romantic couple. They sit on a high horse and scream at us about how we don’t understand oppression. How we must hate women of color. How we’re delusional. They accused Dante Basco, a man of color, of being a pedophile. Before I turned off my anon, I would be harassed for a long time if I had posted something talking about Zutara. I never answered them because I was too scared it would encourage more. Something that I’m not going to stand by and accept are people who don’t know me making assumptions on my morals based on fiction I enjoy. Get over yourselves, antis.
Too young to experience the Zutara baiting of the OG show, old enough to experience the live action baiting
zuko and katara’s narrative symmetry drives me insane every time i think about it, actually. you rise with the moon, i rise with the sun; her power waning as his grows, and vice versa. zuko becoming disillusioned with the fire nation as katara learns the truth about the evil that exists within the other nations. how they both orbit around the avatar, the emblem of all their hopes; katara pulling aang forward to his destiny while zuko pursues on the other end, driving him onwards. the way their parallel lines intersect at the end of every season before diverging once more, each one only able to rise when the other falls. circling one another, so close yet so far, until they finally come together in the agni kai, two halves becoming whole at the crux of their individual arcs and their journey together — balance forged in sacrifice, an eternal push and pull finally brought to stillness. and all of this beautifully personifying the show’s most fundamental themes in the process. how the fuck were they not canon.
Katara and Zuko by Paulina Klime
