[cattoonxd]

Never give up without a fight

[annieclays]

We remember tonight for the rest of our lives

[janadoesstuffwrong]

The contrast between these two images is very bad for my mental health

[soyeahso]

There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

[mominmudville]

Listen to your parents, kids.

[handypolymath]

This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.

[violent-darts]

Hell man sometimes it means “these two are TERRIBLE and I want to watch them burn like a catastrophic forest fire as a proxy for all the shit I don’t actually want in real life (like to light my own apartment on fire and scream) and then laugh at the destruction at the end.” 

[mikkeneko]

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

[mad-madam-m]

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

[justshipsandstuff]

Zuko’s lesson: “If you think chasing after the Avatar and friends is hard, try travelling with them”

[heavensenthearty]

TW: Disfigurement.

I'M OFFICIALLY FED UP WITH THE "ZUTARA SHIPPERS ARE MEAN TO AANG BECAUSE HE'S NOT CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE" TROPE!!

FOR GOD'S SAKE, PEOPLE, ZUKO IS NOT CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE!! DON'T YOU THINK THAT IF SCARS MADE PEOPLE MORE DESIRABLE, THEY — AND ZUKO CANONICALLY — WOULDN'T FEEL SO INSECURE ABOUT THEM?!!

HIS WHOLE LEFT PROFILE CONSISTS IN ABRADED SKIN TISSUE!! HE HAS VISIBLE SKIN FOLDS!! IT'S A MIRACLE WHENEVER HE GETS TO FULLY OPEN HIS LEFT EYE!!

WHAT PART OF ALL OF THAT LOOKS REMOTELY "CONVENTIONAL" TO YOU?!

[sabertoothwalrus]

The way Sokka and Aang look in legend of korra has always bothered me and I just realized it’s because they weren’t drawn with their wide noses :(

[sabertoothwalrus]

It’s been 5 months and I was thinkin about this again

like,, it’s not perfect but they look a little bit more like themselves when they don’t have white-people noses

[sabertoothwalrus]

bringing this back since atla is getting popular again and I’m already seeing lots of people drawing the characters with skinny little white people noses 😔

[sabertoothwalrus]

🙊🙊🙊🙊

also I went back and re-edited Aang’s stupid beard off and fixed his jawline among other things

(and the original again for comparison)

[lastvalyrian]

THANK YOU for this post. I always hated their adult character designs but couldn’t point to why, and didn’t want to be the “you just don’t like change” / “you just don’t like them as adults” guy

Knowing that Aang’s design is basically DiMartino’s self insert is really fucking embarrassing

[entropyally]

Just gonna leave this here

[swordblade]

No, you guys don't get it! Zuko never took a lightning bolt to the chest for Katara, never put aside his own issues to listen to hers, and took the time to understand her; they never went from enemies to friends! They have nothing in common; he never trusted her to try to heal his scar when he allowed no one to touch it! They never grew close! That was just Zutara delusional fanfiction!!

[lady-iskra]

“There is no Zutara friendship and no chest scar on Zuko in Ba Sing Se.”

[bambicest]

it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

[thewokewordsmith]

[thewokewordsmith]

[janadoesstuffwrong]

"Zutara is completely based on aesthetics, shippers wouldn't be interested if Zuko was still bald like in season 1!"

You say that as if S1 Zuko wasn't completely adorable on the three occasions he wasn't screaming at anyone, like...

Stop being mean to him.

[entropyally]

Don't forget how awkward he could be in S1.

[thewokewordsmith]

[dragonfoxandfound]

Pausing hibernation for this little PSA

Per the leaks Zuko and Katara do not interact for the entire film. Zuko's Azula scar from the finale has been erased yet Aang kept his. The 'not a couple' bit is bait. Stills of all of Zuko and Katara's scenes together have been posted.

The leak has given everything you were going to get. When it releases don't bother, and don't give your money to a pair of insecure creators who hate you.

[entropyally]

Additional PSA:

They do this. You know they do this. They tease you with your favorite pairing, just to jam their self-insert ship down your throat.

What this fandom produces in fanfiction, art, and edits has way more heart and love for Katara and Zuko than Bryke ever has. Let's use are time on that, and not this mediocre movie.

[manikas-whims]

Zutara Nation how are we doing 🥵

[demaparbat-hp]

Vigilante AU Zutara kisses! Zuko as Blue Spirit and Katara as Painted Lady. Katara pushing Zuko’s mask up for a kiss, Zuko tilting Katara’s hat back for a kiss, Spider-Man kiss 😚

Another night in Ba Sing Se

[elefaint]

Oh would you look at that, I fixed everything. 

[stargirl-judooz]

Oh, I loved that episode!

[carnivorous-flowerr]

🌸

[catsith21]

Of course, Katara would check on the injuries of the guy who jumped in front of lightning for her.

Of course, Zuko would be forever grateful that Katara was not only able to save his life, but stop his sister without killing her.

Of course, they would cherish the relationship that they forged together through adversity, mutual respect and trust.

Of course, they would come to realize that the reason they both ran with reckless abandon to save the other during the final Agni Kai was because maybe their friendship had become something more.

I mean, it only makes the most sense narratively.