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[purelovemechanism]

if you didn’t love kataang when they were two young traumatized genocide survivors learning how to navigate their grief by creating childhood together in the midst of a war that relentlessly tried to steal it from them you don’t deserve them now that they’re hot

[finelythreadedsky]

it was my absolute privilege to witness the apex of freudian slips when a speaker meant to say “freudian slip” but what actually came out of their mouth was “freudian sex”

[perennimal]

read all of witch hat in a week. Holy shit

[flipchild]

[flipchild]

[powerburial]

picking the torture option and the next day the first thing he does right off the bat is make me eat a really big live spider

[firenaition]

do you ever think about the fact that when zuko was pressuring aang about killing ozai, he himself was coming to terms with probably having to kill azula too

[zuko-always-lies]

Four observations:

Aang, because he is entirely comfortable with his masculinity and comes from a culture where defending it isn't so important, loves to dance.

Zuko, because he is insecure about his masculinity and also perhaps because FN culture doesn't favor dancing, tries to disassociate himself from dancing as much as possible.

Sokka, because his own insecurity, feels a need to put down and mock other men/boys as "unmasculine."

Katara really likes a boy who can dance.

[theoneandonlylobster]

So we all like to joke about Zuko’s propensity for jumping off of tall things to land on things or people that are clearly too far away and how he obviously has no sense of self-preservation but has anyone considered the far more likely explanation that our boy just has little to no depth perception?

[crabby-samantha]

“What if Zuko joined the gang at Ba Sing Se” is such a great thought experiment to me because I do not buy there’s any way he actually would. If Katara had managed to heal his scar, it most likely would have pushed Zuko into such a moral dilemma, I see him spiraling into another fever, unable to choose a side, and ultimately running away rather than siding with either Azula or Katara and Aang.

If she had tried to heal his scar but couldn’t, I can only see him doubling down on his need to go home. In fact, this is probably the worst case scenario because Aang would have died and everything would have gone into chaos.

So yeah, what happens in Ba Sing Se with Zuko is what’s meant to happen: he needs to go back home to see for himself that he no longer belongs there and that everything he’s been told is a lie.

But. There’s one moment before all that where I think his trajectory could have been changed, where he could have been set on the path of good earlier if just one thing happened a little differently. And that’s the moment earlier in season two when Azula injures Iroh, and Katara immediately offers to heal him. Zuko rejects her help, of course, but if she had pushed back - if she had insisted and healed Iroh anyway, there’s no doubt in my mind that this act of kindness would have created in Zuko such an intense attachment to her, it would have led to him joining the Gaang much sooner.

[isthei]

my fav dynamics in atla are. not ships?? the platonic interactions are so so compelling, just as if not more compelling than the ships. i love u fire siblings tragically destroying each other. i love u water siblings torn apart by gender and brought together by love. i love u ursa being a complicated person. i love u uncle iroh possibly projecting lu ten on zuko. i love u toph’s horrible relationship with her parents. i love u aang’s conflict with the past avatars

[blinkeasy]

Good Bones, by Maggie Smith / Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

[spacecasehobbit]

Azula felt unloved by her mother not because Ursa didn't love her, but because Ozai fed her a deeply unhealthy version of 'love' as a highly competetive, zero-sum game in which literally any degree of criticism or scolding must indicate general negative/unloving feelings towards the person being scolded.

Azula's feelings, particularly the ones she expresses in the beach episode, aren't an indication that Ursa didn't love Azula. They are an indication that Azula struggles to identify healthy expressions of parental love.

[tentercrooks]

Some Witch hat doodles! Richeh and Riliphin mean so much to me

[halfdeadwaffles]

loved to the point of invention

[sweetpea67]

I think there’s something to be said for the fact that even at the height of his villainy, the Gaang never makes fun of Zuko’s scar or even really…mentions it? Like Toph asks who Zuko is and Sokka describes him as “this freak with a ponytail”, not even using the scar as an identifying feature. Azula does a mocking impression of the scar and Aang doesn’t laugh. Then in the catacombs, Katara makes an insensitive comment regarding Zuko’s face being “the face of the enemy”, and the moment he connects that to his scar she IMMEDIATELY apologizes.

Outside of the Gaang, you see a similar effect. Song and Jet both zero in on the scar as a symbol of what the Fire Nation has done to Zuko, rather than as any kind of negative physical trait.

The only people who ever draw attention to Zuko’s scar in a negative way are Zhao and Azula (i.e., the villains.) Zhao makes a thinly veiled reference to the way Zuko got the scar, while Azula mocks it on two occasions (once in “The Chase” and again in “The Avatar and the Firelord”.)

I think one of the villains (?) in “Zuko Alone” might also make reference to it, but I feel like the character who says it is also intended to be unsympathetic.

Just thought it was a cool detail.

[perennimal]

Least I’ll still have company, in my insides, tiny poison tree

[theoneandonlylobster]

Happened to be going through finale screencaps and something struck me about this one:

It's very subtle, and maybe it's been pointed out before, but the "camera" is positioned exactly where the hallucination of Ursa would be if she were really there, making the audience stand-in for the last gasps of Azula’s mind pleading for her to stop her self-destructive actions. (In fact, if you look at the screencap carefully, she's staring directly at the fake camera.)

"But what choice do I have?" she tells us.

None, of course, because it's fiction, a television show. But the Ursa hallucination is sounding heartbroken and much of the audience is too.

Very clever.

[butchcaseyjones]

thinking about richeh quietly waiting for the ones she loves. thinking of euini and letting her thoughts of him shine through in her magic. dreaming of riliphin, who she forgave instantly, who she always missed. he tortured himself, afraid that she would resent him, but the second they reunited after YEARS, it was like no time had passed. she never sought him out. she gave him space. she didn't speak about him. agott didn't even know she HAD a brother but she spent all that time missing him, clutching onto her love for him like a ribbon. her rings of promise, to ensure that loved ones can find each other even when they're far apart. fuck