[stainedglassjam]

❀⋆. ᯓ★ I feel strange ☆

[moonwatermind]

Scar smooches, now a finished artwork. Based on this sketch.

[kyotoprotocols]

[kalbi-duam]

Turgut Uyar gibi hissediyorum Sevgili Mia;

Toplamaya çalıştıkça dağılıyorum. Bir şey var, halledemiyorum...🥀

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[frogdisco2021]

I like in Ember Island Players when Aang wants to sit next to Katara but gets blocked by Zuko, and then Aang tries to be like "hey....I wanted to sit there....." And Zuko goes "Just sit next to me, what's the big deal?" cause so much is going on there, subtextually speaking.

For one, Zuko and Katara JUST made up and started being friends, best friends even, and Zuko could be trying to be nonchalant about wanting to sit next to her (cute). For two, it seems like Zuko could be oblivious to Aang's crush on Katara because he's still new to the group and legitimately doesn't know what the big deal is.

And on a deeper level, he doesn't just not see that Aang has a one-sided crush, he doesn't see any kind of chemistry or tension between them because it literally doesn't exist. He's oblivious to it because it is not there, textually. He has grown closer to Katara and understands the real her on a deeper level than any other character in the gaang and he has no inclination that she's interested in Aang because she never shows any.

Hell you could even interpret this as Zuko being a girl's boy and intentionally shielding his friend from the obsessed pushy kid she's trying to avoid the advances of, supported by the fact that later on she tries rejecting his pushy entitled bullshit and he assaults her.

Like I can envision the conversation where Katara is like "Ugh I really hope Aang doesn't try anything weird at the play later, like trying to yawn and put his arm around me or something," and Zuko, without being asked, choosing to make himself the bad guy by intentionally being a cockblock so that Katara doesn't have to be in an uncomfortable situation.

[frogdisco2021]

An angry commenter whomst I deleted and blocked because I am the God Emperor of my posts and because they were a blank profile so probably a troll has asked why I consider it cute that Zuko wanted to sit next to Katara but not cute that Aa.ng wanted to.

It's different, to me personally, because Zuko does not assault Katara later on in the episode, respects her boundaries, doesn't throw a temper tantrum when she rejects him, and in case I didn't already mention it, does not sexually assault her later in the episode. Hope that helps.

[kyotoprotocols]

[frogdisco2021]

Toph def heard Zuko yelling "WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOOOOOOOD" into the night. Wonder what her thoughts were on that.

[frogdisco2021]

So Zuko carried Iroh's sweaty sandal around with him since season 1. For continuity's sake, this means;

- he had it on his person when he almost got blown up by pirates

- he was carrying it around the whole time he was breaking into the North Pole and then still had it on the raft that he and Iroh survived on off-screen for weeks (idek how they survived that)

- had it when he and Iroh had to flee into the wilderness and cut their hair with nothing but the clothes on their backs

- still had it during his journey in Zuko Alone

- still had it the whole journey into Ba Sing Se and the entire time they were living there

- brought it home to the Fire Nation with him after betraying Iroh and Katara in Ba Sing Se

- brought it with him when he confronted his father on the DOBS and when he went to join the gaang

- somehow still had it after having to very quickly leave the Western Air Temple without notice and nearly falling to his death (my theory is that he was storing it in Appa's saddle at this point, which would also explain how he had it with them during Sozin's Comet when he needed a smell sample for Iroh)

Like did he just keep forgetting to give it back or????

[frogdisco2021]

Zuko after the gaang tells him that he can't sit at their lunch table:

Zuko after they let him sit at their lunch table because he attempts to stop the assassin he hired off of the dark web to kill them while he was having a manic episode:

[ziezii]

this is how they feel about "u only ship zk bcs he's a bad boy!!" argument

[frogdisco2021]

Like if anything he's a deconstruction of the bad boy archetype.

He practiced this for hours with a frog.

[frogdisco2021]

Season 2 of ATLA is like;

The gaang A-plot: oh no we're stuck in a cave with singing hippies!

Average Zuko B-plot:

[frogdisco2021]

Disclaimer: I'm a rabid Zuko stan, he is my favorite character next to Katara. Okay, now that that's out of the way;

So you're telling me that Mai saved all of them, Zuko saw this happen, definitely knew what the consequences would be, and indeed Azula was going to straight up KILL Mai before Ty Lee paralyzed her, we know this because she got into the pose for summoning lightning, but he seems to not even think about her again until that one part of the final episode where she shows up to the palace for his coronation (how did she get in there?).

"Mai! You're okay! They let you out of prison?" BITCH WHO IS "THEY"???? HE IS THE FUCKING FIRE LORD!!!! HE IS THEY!!!!!!! WHO WROTE THIS??????

I'm supposed to buy that he is in love with her when he didn't seem worried about her a single time after she sacrificed herself for them all and then apparently also didn't think of her when they won the war? Didn't think to say "Hey! My girlfriend Mai, someone needs to find out what happened to her and where she is and report back to me immediately! I need to know if she's okay!" and then immediately have her released? Her uncle had to pull some strings???? Not Zuko, who is the Fire Lord, but her uncle the warden?????? And yeah I know he wasn't crowned yet but that's more of a ceremonial thing, he still had the authority.

And yeah I know Zuko had a lot on his plate but this is the girl he's supposed to be IN LOVE WITH, she should be one of his first concerns if you want people to believe he's in love with her.

I'm supposed to think the girl he literally tried to DIE for is just a friend and he feels nothing for her but the girl he is allegedly IN LOVE WITH he basically just left behind to die. He was willing to die for Katara, but was willing to put his concern for Mai's life and wellbeing aside for the sake of the mission.

Obviously, from a doylist perspective I don't think this is what the writers intended, but from a watsonian one, this is the conclusion we are led to.

He chose Katara's life over the mission, over his own life, but he chose the mission and his own life over Mai's life.

And I'm supposed to think he was in love with Mai and felt nothing for Katara.

Bryke you are MORONS.

[frogdisco2021]

"Zutara is so toxic and problematic don't you know they try to kill each other???"

Y'all would not survive reading the sparknotes summary of Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat if you think that ZUTARA is a "too dark" enemies-to-friends-to-lovers ship.

[frogdisco2021]

Am I the only one who reads Toph going "Oh Sokka, you saved me!" And then giving Suki (who she thought was Sokka) a kiss on the cheek was not her being genuinely sappy but her being snarky about the fact that a few minutes earlier she saved Sokka and Suki from falling rocks and was miffed that he didn't say thank you? They run off without acknowledging her saving them and she says to herself "'Wow Toph thanks for saving me from getting crushed by rocks,' yeah no problem Sokka."

Like maybe she was being genuine cause she does have a little crush on Sokka but I also feel like there's room to read this as her being sarcastic and I find that a bit funnier idk 😭😂

[gardenvarietyhuman]

💥🙌👏

[ineffablebookgirl]

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

[addressmysol]

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

[angstbotfic]

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.  

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand. 

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[stardust948]

Zuko: Okay, so I figured out a foolproof method of determining if someone is evil.

Sokka: And that is?

Zuko: If they dislike Katara, they’re evil.

Sokka: Didn't you use to dislike Katara?

Zuko: When I was evil, yes.

Sokka: Good point.