I am the man from the asbestos town

Polish ATLA fan, kataang shipper, kinda new to this whole blogging thing. I post when I get something on my mind, so don't expect any consistency.

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[azbestmann]

The person who made that obsession post seemly only had their blog existed since 5 days ago. It’s like they only created their blog just make takes like that.

It's possible, but that sentiment is shared by a good chunk of the zutara fandom. The fact that we can see it as something a zutara shipper would unironically say tells a lot about them and how they act.

[dukeofdelirium]

@azbestmann

WHO THE FUCK IS COMPARING KATARA AND AANG TO BEAR AND NIKKI FROM OBSESSION?!?!

What the actual hell and fuck tbh 😭🙏

Bear deadass rapes Nikki and doesn’t even care about her wellbeing. He doesn’t love her, he loves an idea of her he created in his head! And he doesn’t ever try to fix it after learning what he did either! He literally leaves her to suffer after she begs him to kill her!!!! Oh my god do not piss me off rn

All this bullshit for a crack ship

[azbestmann]

well, since you asked nicely

hopefully the reddit post was mocking this take but still 😭

also the quote

@dukeofdelirium

[dukeofdelirium]

This just pissed me clean off bro RIGHT THE HELL OFF what the actual fuck are they smoking 😭🙏

First of all, 500 Days of Summer is nothing like Obsession in plot or narrative. Second of all, Bear is literally evil for the shit he does to Nikki, and third of all, absolutely neither of these films have any relation to Katara and Aang from ATLA ?!

Aang isn’t a “nice guy” trope that expects Katara to be with him because he did stuff for her. They’re literally best friends and know each other very well who developed mutual feelings for each other over the course of 61 episodes.

Katara also doesn’t “play hard to get” wtf? Lmao, she was the one that initiated their relationship??? Aang didn’t ask her to go out there and make out with him at the end of the show, she chose to do that after already affirming she wanted to be with him episodes prior but that the war was preventing it. These people are fucking delusional. If Katara didn’t want to be with Aang she wouldn’t have been with Aang, point blank period!

[azbestmann]

Shocking: man discovers that the zutara shippers are delusional. Fork found in the kitchen ahh 😭

[dukeofdelirium]

No because I remember when one of them posted some think piece comparing kataang to the handmaids tale LMFKSNFJRJF THEY’RE CRAZY

Omfg their ship fandom is literally like a plague upon this fanbase, why won’t they just leave us all alone? They hate ATLA and they hate the creators so why tf are they even here? If zutara ceased to exist as a ship we would finally know peace

[azbestmann]

I couldn't give less shit about zutara as a ship itself to be honest. There's a dozen of ships I percieve as moronic but feel nothing towards them because their fans have the ability to simultaneously enjoy their little thought experiment AND accept canon without whining like "wahh why wasn't Azula x Suki a thing, Bryke were clearly homophobic for robbing us of their love1!!!1!". For example, I don't think that Zukka works, but I have never argued with a Zukka fan because I never saw one arguing that Zukka should have been canon and that Bryke are homophobic or whatever.

Zutara fans on the other hand are the ones who started a ship war 20 years ago and are STILL using the same stupid arguments that have been disproven a million times.

Also 100% agree with the last paragraph lol, they hate majority of the fandom, the creators, canon, ATLA, TLOK... this has to be psyop at this point, I don't believe that something like this can happen without help of the CIA /s

[all-inmoderation]

To anyone who thinks Aang choosing Katara over the avatar state was bad writing: in a world where spirits are real and the universe can show people the past & future, I think Aang seeing the vision of Katara being locked in the Crystal Catacombs was the universe telling him it wanted him to save her and choose love over power. And when he ultimately chose to let go of Katara because he thought it was the only way, he was immediately punished. Aang was always destined to go on this journey.

[azbestmann]

I just wanted to say that this post literally solved my perception of that whole trope, I used to act like it didn't exist because I hated seeing how close Aang and Katara were to never sharing a life with each other but you are sooo right, it was meant to be. Thank you.

[dukeofdelirium]

@azbestmann

WHO THE FUCK IS COMPARING KATARA AND AANG TO BEAR AND NIKKI FROM OBSESSION?!?!

What the actual hell and fuck tbh 😭🙏

Bear deadass rapes Nikki and doesn’t even care about her wellbeing. He doesn’t love her, he loves an idea of her he created in his head! And he doesn’t ever try to fix it after learning what he did either! He literally leaves her to suffer after she begs him to kill her!!!! Oh my god do not piss me off rn

All this bullshit for a crack ship

[azbestmann]

well, since you asked nicely

hopefully the reddit post was mocking this take but still 😭

also the quote

@dukeofdelirium

[dukeofdelirium]

This just pissed me clean off bro RIGHT THE HELL OFF what the actual fuck are they smoking 😭🙏

First of all, 500 Days of Summer is nothing like Obsession in plot or narrative. Second of all, Bear is literally evil for the shit he does to Nikki, and third of all, absolutely neither of these films have any relation to Katara and Aang from ATLA ?!

Aang isn’t a “nice guy” trope that expects Katara to be with him because he did stuff for her. They’re literally best friends and know each other very well who developed mutual feelings for each other over the course of 61 episodes.

Katara also doesn’t “play hard to get” wtf? Lmao, she was the one that initiated their relationship??? Aang didn’t ask her to go out there and make out with him at the end of the show, she chose to do that after already affirming she wanted to be with him episodes prior but that the war was preventing it. These people are fucking delusional. If Katara didn’t want to be with Aang she wouldn’t have been with Aang, point blank period!

[azbestmann]

Shocking: man discovers that the zutara shippers are delusional. Fork found in the kitchen ahh 😭

[dukeofdelirium]

@azbestmann

WHO THE FUCK IS COMPARING KATARA AND AANG TO BEAR AND NIKKI FROM OBSESSION?!?!

What the actual hell and fuck tbh 😭🙏

Bear deadass rapes Nikki and doesn’t even care about her wellbeing. He doesn’t love her, he loves an idea of her he created in his head! And he doesn’t ever try to fix it after learning what he did either! He literally leaves her to suffer after she begs him to kill her!!!! Oh my god do not piss me off rn

All this bullshit for a crack ship

[azbestmann]

well, since you asked nicely

hopefully the reddit post was mocking this take but still 😭

also the quote

@dukeofdelirium

[azbestmann]

The ATLA fandom misinterprets Aang’s attachment to Katara and the avatar state.

It is an amazingly common misconception that most people probably consider canon, that being that Aang had let go of his attachment to Katara and mastered the avatar state thanks to it which is just… so wrong. First things first, let’s establish two facts. First, because I keep seeing this pop up in the discourse, letting go of his attachment was NOT supposed to let Aang access the avatar state, it was supposed to let him master it. Aang has entered the avatar state many times before the Guru episode while being attached to Katara. Letting go was supposed to allow him to enter it at will. Next, Aang has never mastered the avatar state. In the battle with Ozai he enters it because his body feels the danger after hitting a rock so it activates his defense mechanism. That wasn’t Aang „unlocking chakra”, it was his body doing the thing it did since the third episode.

Today I saw a post that summed it up perfectly, Aang seeing his vision of Katara in danger when he was trying to let her go was the universe telling him that he shouldn’t do that. When he tries to do it again under Ba Sing Se (btw Aang in that scene was willing to sacrifice his love for Katara for her safety) he gets instantly punished by the universe. Aang wasn’t supposed to let her go.

The thing that infuriates me the most about this discussion however is the „love is good, attachment is bad” bullshit. Love is at it’s core a form of attachment. Not every form of attachment is love, but every form of love is an attachment. To be attached to someone means to make them part of yourself, to want them to stay, to care about them. When you attach yourself to somebody your bond grows deeper but the fear for each other’s safety increases too. A relationship without attachment is shallower and less concrete, it burns on passion and ends when one of the sides doesn’t feel it anymore. I see a big part of the ATLA fandom pretending that attachment = being obsessive and controlling and that Aang letting go of Katara made their relationship more mature. NO. Attachment can be both healthy and unhealthy, the one Aang felt for Katara was healthy and non controlling. Even the show paints letting go of the attachment to Katara as something bad. Aang is against it, Iroh is against it, hell, the show straight up says that letting go of his attachment equals letting go of his love and that it’s a bad thing.

Aang has never let go of Katara. He has never mastered the avatar state. He did the right thing. Amen.

[azbestmann]

The Painted Lady is a parallel to Kuzon, not to the Blue Spirit

I know it's a basic fact to most people, but I'm still going to write a post about it. Lately a new misconception in the fandom arose, that being the supposed parallel between the Painted Lady and the Blue Spirit. To understand why it's not the case, we must take a look at these alter egos and what they represent.

The Blue Spirit represents Zuko's worst traits. It's his persona he uses to achieve his selfish goals. While prince Zuko is still limited by the expectations of his uncle and the fire nation's law, both of these things don't apply to him when he dresses up as the Blue Spirit. It's a physical manifestiation of his selfishness, selfishness that leads him to ignore his uncle's feelings, the law of his country and most moral norms. The big part of Zuko's arc was letting go of his persona and accepting the responsibility for his actions instead of hiding behind it. The Blue Spirit is a symbol of Zuko's pre redemption arc mistakes, something he let's go of in the process of becoming a better human being.

Now, let's look at the Painted Lady.

Unlike Zuko's alter ego, the Painted Lady is a representation of Katara's desire to help others. She dresses as the Painted Lady to aid the opressed. Her alter ego serves a good purpose. It's a complete opposite of the Blue Spirit, it's selfishness vs selflessnes. Finally, Kuzon. It's interesting that people don't notice the parallels between "The Headband" and "The Painted Lady". In "The Headband" Aang creates the persona of Kuzon to show the Fire Nation's school students that they don't need to obey the facist apparatus and that self expression is something fundamental. While not helping them physically, Aang aids these students in resisting their oppressive country. And who is there with him to help? Katara. She is onboard with the idea and she helps Aang to complete his objective successfully. In the very next episode, Katara goes on her campaign of re-distributing goods and helping the villagers. Aang catches her, but instead of scolding her for delaying the invasion like she expects him to do, Aang decides to help her with his full enthusiasm. Why? Because Aang did the same thing the episode earlier. He understands her urge to help random strangers who need their help and he is onboard with the idea.

TL;DR both Kuzon and the Painted Lady are alter egos created to help ordinary people in resisting the Fire Nation. The Blue Spirit is an alter ego created to help Zuko achieve his selfish goals.

Oh my god I have to stop writing posts at 2 am, I might have wrote some bullshit. Apologies in advance if I did.

[azbestmann]

I hate "The Promise"

I woke up. This was supposed to be a post about Sokka's mischaracterization in "The Promise" but half way through writing it I realized that this abysmal dogshit of a comic deserves to be fully slandered.

Let's start with my biggest issue with "The Promise". Zuko. I can not stress enough how much I dislike Zuko in this comic. The ENTIRE arc of Zuko in ATLA was about realizing his father is a monster who has never loved him. By the end of ATLA he understands what kind of a monster Ozai is. He accepts Iroh as his father and moves on. And in "the promise" they just scrap that. Zuko goes for advice to Ozai, the madman who burned half of his face.

...

Ozai throws his usual tantrums about strenght supremacy and Zuko falls for it, which just completely undermines all of his development in ATLA. Get used to this because this comic just loves to do that. Zuko gets assaulted and nearly killed by an assasin who I'm going to slander in just a moment. Instead of imprisoning her, he hears her out like she didn't just try to kill him. He then gets manipulated by her and Ozai into not abandoning Yu Dao. We can argue about that being a good decision, but why the hell doesn't he try to resolve it peacefully? The comic justifies that by saying that Ozai poisoned his mind, which is my main issue. Zuko's arc in ATLA was about getting rid of Ozai's influence from his head, why the hell is he listening to him again 😭? Okay to sum it all up Zuko gets manipulated by a hormonal teenager and his abusive father into nearly starting a war without even talking it through with his friends, physically assaults Katara, attacks Aang, after talking to his friends he STILL nearly starts a war... please tell me I hallucinated this comic. It starts with Zuko asking Aang to kill him if he ever turns into his father and then going to his father to ask for advices in governing, are you shitting me??

My second biggest issue is Kori, the assasin girl. God I hate her. She nearly kills the ruler of her country who reformed the Fire Nation because he wanted them to move back to the homeland. Then, when Aang and Katara are trying to warn the Yu Dao residents that they are in danger and should evacuate she tries to kill them. I have no sympathy for her, I found myself rooting for Ozai more than for her. I wish Zuko made her share her cell with him, since the residents of Yu Dao loved Ozai so much.

My next issue is the mischaracterization of Aang and Katara. They are acting like Katara's actress in the ember island play. Hope! I'm so full of hope! They don't get angry or petty, even at the people who try to kill them. They are constantly curious and open minded which I just don't buy. I like these traits in them, but they are acting irrationally and OOC. When I saw the scene of Katara telling Aang that they may need to live apart for the first time, I didn't realize that she is talking about breaking up. Why? BECAUSE THAT MADE NO SENSE! Only a month later, after reading some Tumblr posts I realized she is talking about going their separate ways. This had no buildup and was just a random mean for the creators to rise the stakes, even if it meant mischaracterizing Katara. Nah but it's totally fine, the girl who saved Aang's life multiple times and was willing to die for him would leave him because of him supporting a different political option 🙃. I am NOT even going to mention the fact that Aang actually promised to kill Zuko, it's such a low hanging fruit that I'm not even touching it. Just no.

Note that my issue with Katara and Aang is that they are being too good and kind towards these people.

Last but not least, we have Sokka. I'll try to be quick with this one. Sokka's character was reseted back to his s1 self, including his hair cut. Sokka in the last episode of ATLA is mature, selfless and brave, yet in the comic he is back to being his immature self. The difference is collosal and it's weird for me that nobody is talking about how dirty this comic did Sokka.

That's all I think. I hate this comic and I will never accept it as canon.

[azbestmann]

The comics and TLOK did so much injustice to the gaang (not hating on TLOK though, just hate what they did to most of the gaang) that I had to grow an enormous coping mechanism to make the story make sense post canon. At some point, I just stopped trying to justify every decision made post ATLA by Bryke and started coping out the pieces of lore I dislike.

I hate „the promise” with all my burning rage. It contains Zuko threatening Aang and Katara and nearly starting a war without even talking to them or earth king Kuei. It contains Katara telling Aang that they may need to live apart. And, the absolute PEAK of mischaracterization: it contains AANG PROMISING TO KILL ZUKO!!! It undermines all of their arcs, it undermines all of their personality traits, it just reinvents their characters! Lets start with Zuko. Zuko would NEVER treat his friends like he did in „the promise”. We may argue about his withdrawal of the support for the harmony restoration movement, but we can all agree that he would have done it peacefully. Making Zuko act aggressive is just a way for the writers to push the narrative forward, completely undermining Zuko’s character in the process.

Then we have Katara. Once again, comic completely butchers her character to increase the tension. The only case where Katara would leave Aang (or Aang leave Katara) would be either one of them cheating, which simply wouldn’t happen.

Finally Aang. Do I really have to say anything? Aang, who’s 3 season long arc was about staying loyal to his airbender principles of not killing simply >accepts< the plea of Zuko to kill him if he sees him turning into his father. Absolutely horrendously executed idea that undermines all of Aang’s development.

I don’t have much to say about TLOK. It’s not an actual criticism, but I wish they have gave the gaang a happy ending, instead we get Katara that had to spend more than 17 years without Aang before reuniting with him for eternity in the afterlife, Sokka and Aang dying young, Sokka never having his relationship with Suki confirmed, Toph turning into a Florida woman… TLOK did a good job at inventing their own characters but did a poor job at honoring the ones from ATLA.

My solution to that? Cope! I simply act like the pieces of lore I dislike don’t exist. My coping apparatus is so amazing in fact I can just get over anything.

I WILL make a post about Sokka’s mischaracterization in comics later today (it’s 00:26 AM) and maybe about my personal headcanons some other day? We’ll see. Goodnight.

[azbestmann]

Call me crazy but I have a theory that NATLA provides the audience with crumbs of fanon ships content so the fans of these ships will view it more kindly. You know, Zutara shippers for example are praising the new adaptation because Aang is acting completely opposite to his ATLA self, he insults Katara, laughs at her, argues with her every five minutes… it feels like Netflix decided they are going to tease us with hints of fanon ships so they will have the attention of fans of these ships, particularly zutara since it’s one of the bigger ones. I also saw a post about sukitara crumbs in the show? Yeah, to hell with NATLA.

Especially since these ships will NOT become canon. Netflix intentionally teases fans with fanon ship hints but in the end they will just stick to the canon relationships.

[azbestmann]

I don’t quite get the zutara shippers. When Aang was 12 and obviously not at his prime of looks they mocked him and kept repeating like mantra that Katara would never EVER settle for him because they don’t find him attractive but the moment they made him attractive they cry that it’s just to appeal to dudebros and incels. Just decide, is Aang supposed to be attractive or not?

[azbestmann]

It's like my second time ever using Tumblr and first time posting anything here but I saw a post (on pinterest I think?) making fun of how immediately after joining the Gaang Zuko wouldn't stop talking about Iroh because he is his favorite person ever and I saw a funny parallel in s2ep5 of ATLA where Aang goes to jail and the first thing he talks about with those prisoners is Katara (we get a short scene where they are cheering him that she obviously likes him lol). Both Zuko and Aang had first casual conversations in MONTHS with somebody not too close to them and the first thing they chose to talk about were their favorite people ever, it's adorable.