delicate fucking flower

Art, film, writing, whatever I want

[poodpoopsie]

Day 5 : Burning Jealousy | Devotion Please... Just let these feelings I've killed a thousand times lay to rest...

[wolfholz]

stolen moments

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[crabby-samantha]

Bending Swap Zutara is such an underrated trope mostly because LORD knows Katara would be a TERRIBLE firebender. It clearly requires SO MUCH emotional control and focus that girl just doesn't have. She's flying off the handle and burning something to the ground IMMEDIATELY, and then throwing a fit about how difficult firebending is, and there's so much potential comedy in that.

[crabby-samantha]

Zutara Week 2026 - (day)dreams

It's late and probably the only one I'll get to do, but here she is!

[astrocitosart-deactivated202304]

a very messy zutara sketch

[snowygracetheriver]

Katara as Queen Consort of the Fire Nation definitely sets trends in the nation.

Firebenders out there are inventing curling irons to have wavy hair like her, and non-benders use their silk sash belts for heatless curls.

More ocean kumquat plantations are created (as well as new jobs for retired soldiers) because people can't get enough of it (though some of them like to add in fire flakes).

They use lava rock or ceramic to bead their hair. Some of them definitely overdo it with the beads but most of them, wanting to resemble their Queen, only bead two of them.

[bellwethers]

She’s grown up

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[twinsarekeepers]

The context of Katara using bloodbending in TSR is so important, but people just boil it down to “Katara was consumed by her rage”. The only episode in the entire franchise that treats bloodbending with the nuances it deserves btw. She willingly used a technique that she was once forced into learning but was developed by one of the last bender’s of her tribe to escape a Fire Nation prison on a Fire Nation soldier who she thinks killed her mother because he believed she was the last bender of the SWT. She did not bloodbend other soldiers on that ship and she stopped as soon as she realized this man was not the soldier who killed her mother because it wasn’t about wanting to scare him or hold power over him, it was about reclaiming a part of herself and her history that she had lost both when Hama forced her to learn bloodbending against her will by putting her friends in danger and when her mother was killed. Did she hold power over him in that moment and did she scare him? Yes, but that wasn’t the reason she chose to use bloodbending in that moment. If she had chosen any other form of waterbending to restrain him and threaten him, she would still be holding power over him and scaring him too. In fact that would show more intent to hold power over him and scare him than bloodbending him did because those other bending techniques don’t have the added weight of how and whom they were developed by.

[actualized-animal]

one of the most annoying ripple effects of fandom culture is the way so many people can’t seem to keep it in perspective that at the end of the day they’re just talking about art. it feels like i am trapped between people who are like “if you dare criticize the thing i like you are basically personally coming into my house and stealing my dog and shooting my jewelry” and people who are like “global communism is being stopped from succeeding because steven universe is on the air.” and call me a centrist but i don’t think either of those things are true

[aslutsdiiiary]

Me this weekend

[lost-in-love-maze]

south indian wedding zutara

commissioned the lovely NiahtiArt to recreate rashmika and vijay's adorable wedding pics and could not be happier with how they came out.

EDIT: i appreciate all the love on this!! just reiterating that i didn't draw this. i requested this commission from NiahtiArt and received their permission to post here and on twitter. if you want something similar, they take requests on vgen!

[seitsukino]

i do think the whole “katara would’ve never actually forgiven zuko, didn’t even like him” is an insane misreading of her character. if zuko let katara heal iroh after azula shot his ass, their arcs would’ve been a lot shorter. keep in mind she was already READY to heal the man who was her enemy like five seconds ago, not once (iroh) but TWICE (zuko in catacombs).

but yeah sure katara always hated zuko or whatever.

[crabby-samantha]

And like, y'all, what she's forgiving him for in TSR ISN'T him chasing them around the world, or even the crimes of his family and nation. She forgave him for that in the catacombs, that's why she was so ready to give him the spirit water.

What she's forgiving him for in TSR is taking their connection over their moms and throwing it in her face, that's why she throws the "bring my mother back" demand at him.

[seitsukino]

exactly. that’s why it’s so much easier for a.ang and sokka to forgive zuko, because this is their first time forgiving him, and it’s for all of that. and they don’t seem to get that with katara, WHY she is holding such a grudge when both of them have already forgiven him.

hell, even zuko doesn’t fully get it at first.

because before that, i think she understands it’s not meant to be personal. he’s another cog in the machine, a kid abused by his father to be part of the genocide, who loses his sense of humanity, but brings it back. but when zuko betrays her, THEN it becomes insanely personal, and he becomes pretty irredeemable to her.

and this is where fundamentally i will never get antis critique of zutara no matter what. like i don’t think you can critique it at all, and if you don’t like it, it’s purely a preference thing. because apparently a.ang can go on and on about forgiving and forgetting but not when it comes to zuko.

[crabby-samantha]

Yeah tbh the way I see Zuko and Katara's conflict post him joining the gaang is that neither of them thinks the moment in the catacombs was as meaningful to the other as it was to them. Like Zuko is so obviously happy to see Katara again, that moment when she goes into his room and he smiles? He thinks they're gonna be friends - of course he does, she extended her kindness to him months ago when they forged a real connection! But then she basically tells him to go to hell - so of course he's gonna think that must have meant nothing to her, actually.

And Katara herself spells it out for us when she reveals the actual source of her anger: that he "betrayed" her, which should sound ridiculous to the audience (because it is, she and Zuko were not actually allies at that point, him siding with his sister should not have been shocking), but it also feels very real to Katara because this is the first person she's ever REALLY connected with over her mom. Like REALLY connected. Others have listened, even sympathized, but this is the first time it's felt like someone was really listening to her about it. So when he sides with Azula, he's rejecting that connection in her eyes.

And tbh I think you can extend this out to sort of understand why Katara ends the episode the way she does: because this whole conflict wasn't ever about revenge for her. It was about reaffirming that somebody saw her - really saw her, all her pain, and didnt want to look away.

[seitsukino]

i do think the whole “katara would’ve never actually forgiven zuko, didn’t even like him” is an insane misreading of her character. if zuko let katara heal iroh after azula shot his ass, their arcs would’ve been a lot shorter. keep in mind she was already READY to heal the man who was her enemy like five seconds ago, not once (iroh) but TWICE (zuko in catacombs).

but yeah sure katara always hated zuko or whatever.

[crabby-samantha]

And like, y'all, what she's forgiving him for in TSR ISN'T him chasing them around the world, or even the crimes of his family and nation. She forgave him for that in the catacombs, that's why she was so ready to give him the spirit water.

What she's forgiving him for in TSR is taking their connection over their moms and throwing it in her face, that's why she throws the "bring my mother back" demand at him.

[jessmalia]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2.15) // PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005)

[xxmilkandsugarxx]

A fun continuation of the White Lotus Cafe AU! I imagine they were arguing about something stupid and ended up like this lol. One of these days I will actually draw them kissing...