Kataang Korner

Sideblog. Mainly Kataang, but will have some Maiko, Zukka, Tokka, Sukka, and Pemzin, too. Not a Zutara-friendly space. Mobile header image by @inchells.

[kataang-week]

Trick or Treat, Kataangers!🎃

Katara and Aang sprites from Distant Horizon. Graphic created by Mod Belle @itsmoonpeaches.

🦇What is Kataang Halloween?

Kataang Halloween is a one-time, three-day mini-event hosted and created by @kataang-week on Tumblr for the first time this year. (However, there is potential for it to happen again in the future.) Kataang Halloween celebrates Kataang with a Halloween theme. All prompts were chosen by the mod team.

🦇Cool, when is it?

Kataang Halloween starts on Thursday, October 31, 2024, and ends on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

🦇What are the prompts?

In honor of Halloween, we're using lucky number 13! There are 13 prompts for each adventure.

"Trick" prompt list:

Old Spirits

Family Secrets

Altered State

Moonlight

Teeth

Demon Claws

The Deep

Offerings

Inner Palace

Lost

Grotto

Cliff Edge

Poison

"Treat" prompt list:

Taffy

Candied Haws

Lanterns

Mid-Autumn

Mooncake

Crunchy Leaves

Warm Drinks

Pumpkins

Chrysanthemum

Sharing

Toadstools

Apple Picking

Paint

🦇So how does this work?

Choose your own adventure! You can take inspiration from the Trick prompts, Treat prompts, or both! Feel free to mix and match prompts to create spooky and/or sweet Kataang content.

Anything you can think of counts as content as long as you fill one or multiple prompts at a time. Fanfics, fanart, gifsets, metas, edits, playlists, moodboards, music, etc.—the sky's the limit.

🦇What are the rules?

Please create your own original pieces. We do not accept AI-made fanworks.

We only accept new works created for Kataang Halloween, not works that are retroactively said to be created for Kataang Halloween. However, you may create something that fills a Kataang Halloween prompt for an ongoing work like a chapter fic or an ongoing series. See this ask for more information.

We accept all range of works. However, bear in mind that this is an all-ages event. If your work contains themes or imagery that may be intended for older audiences, tag and warn people thoroughly. Works with adult content must have an all-ages appropriate preview.

Do not repost other people's works. Reblog their original post if one exists.

If a creator/author/artist has requested you to post their work for them, remember to credit the original and link back to their page.

Be respectful in your fanworks and to others participating or enjoying the event.

🦇How should I tag my work?

The easiest way for us to find your work so we can reblog it to this blog is by using the tag “kataang halloween”. Using “kataang” and “kataangtag” also help. You must tag one of the three in your first five tags otherwise it doesn’t appear in the search. It is also helpful to tag us directly with @kataang-week.

Sometimes even properly tagged posts may not appear when we search the tags, so if you do not see your content reblogged, please let us know.

Once we’ve reblogged it to this blog we add our own tags (a prompt tag and a user tag) for easy organization. This means we can find all the work for one prompt or all the work from one user in one easy click (this also means that if you have changed your username since participating last year you need to let us know so we can update your tag!).

🦇Can I post my stuff other places online too?

Of course you can! However, we won’t be able to reblog anything that isn’t a Tumblr post.

For those of you who will be posting your works on AO3, feel free to add your fic to our Kataang Halloween AO3 collection.

🦇What if I have late submissions for Kataang Week 2024?

While we will not reblog any late submissions for Kataang Week 2024 during the Kataang Halloween event, late submissions for Kataang Week 2024 will still be accepted up until Kataang Week 2025, so don’t be shy and don’t worry about giving the world more Kataang content 💖 We always welcome it!

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to submit an ask to the Kataang Week blog. See you on Halloween, Kataangers!

🦇Who are the mods?

@airbender-dacyon AKA Mod Dan: A Kataang fanfic writer who prefers fluff, but also loves some drama and angst. Mod Dan started writing Kataang stories in 2013 and has helped organize Kataang Week since 2016.

@penguinsledder AKA Mod Atarah: A writer, gif maker, and musician–she enjoys fluffy young adult Kataang and all the ways they complement and parallel each other. She first joined Tumblr for Kataang Week 10 years ago, and started helping out with writing posts and making banners as a mod since 2016!

@itsmoonpeaches AKA Mod Belle: An avid Kataanger with a penchant for angst and mild violence who likes writing. Mod Belle has been a mod since 2021 and helps write posts and social media.

@chocomd AKA Mod Celes: Fanfic writer who adores Kataang for their fun and flirty side but also their bond forged through grief and loss. Mod Celes joined in 2023 and helps with a little bit of everything - whatever needs to be done!

[justoceanmyth]

I put together a prompt generator for the event here: https://perchance.org/zhlx8dgj78

If you're looking for ideas, click the link and it'll randomly Trick or Treat you!

[cherotto]

A rizzmaster moment i guess (?)

[lucky-chan34dl]

Do you hear something momo?😳👶🏻🍼✨️

Aang takes Katara to relax her swollen feet in the water~🌊🍃

[lucky-chan34dl]

[flameohotwife]

Taking Time to Thaw

Rated E. Finding time to explore is getting harder and harder for Aang and Katara. Something needs to change.

Part 4 of Explorations, but can be read on its own if you're just here for the smut. Chapter 1 written for @kataang-dungeon's Kataang Smut Weekend 2023 prompt: Wait (first time/teasing). HUGE thanks to @queen-korri for last-minute beta-reading and editing, and to @coyotelemon for encouraging me to continue this series.

In the days and weeks that followed their return to the South Pole, Katara and Aang found a way to a new normal. The dark, sunless hours on the ice stretched out longer as they approached Fire Nation summer, but they had discovered that if they timed their lunch right, some days they could meet up in her family’s hut while everyone else was out, and sneak in some coveted alone time. They never knew how much time they would have before someone returned, so they had been diligent about keeping clothes on and staying in common spaces, but it had been a welcome change. An opportunity to engage in hungry kisses and fleeting touches that they hadn’t before.  It wasn’t enough.  Each encounter left them charged, electric—but it was much, much more than they’d been able to get in the South Pole previously. They had discussed their next move on the flight back to the South Pole from Cranefish Town: Aang wanted to use his mouth on her. She had seen him fully now, and even gotten to use her hands on him, but he hadn’t yet seen her. When he’d told her how much the smell of her arousal turned him on, and how he wanted to taste her the way she had tasted his release, Katara hadn’t known what to think. She didn’t think they would have an opportunity for it before their next trip, anyway, whenever that would be. But she often went to bed dreaming about it.

Read more on ao3 (logged-in users only, sorry)!

[tofuandtattoos]

It’s been a while! 👋

Life has been c r a z y lately but I couldn’t let Kataang Smut Weekend 2023 pass by without contributing.

It doesn’t necessarily fit any of the prompts for this year, but it was a super hot anon request that I was honored to receive and determined to finish in time 😌

The whole, uncensored version is posted on my Twitter. Link below—(minor eyes beware!)

I didn’t bother with an uncensored version because I’m sick of putting in the time and effort just to have it reported and taken down anyway.

Pls enjoy a preview, and my favorite part of the drawing ✨

Thank you again, anon! I hope it’s everything you wanted! 💖

@kataang-dungeon

[toph-bi-fong]

“Since when was Kataang the underdog ship?”

Kataang: a wholesome pairing between the two main characters that’s been bashed upon ever since the rise of its rival pairing in the fandom and continues to be bashed upon 15 years after the series ended.

Gee, I wonder how people came to that conclusion.

[dattuff]

Like ZKs were bashing it and it was constantly losing ship polls for over a decade. In the last couple years it’s finally gotten better and people realized how brain dead and idiotic the KA hater takes are

[jackie-lyns]

The gaang because this show never gets old!

[survivalove]

ATLA fandom and removing Katara’s agency and POV

Recently, I came across the following thread where OP proceeded to uplift the following ships to diminish Kataang, on the supposed basis of Katara’s agency and pov (or lack thereof).

I decided to keep all their points and pictures to show a holistic analysis of the show, which they themselves fail to do.

Firstly, on the topic of loss, Kataang has multiple moments where they connect over their losses.

At first, Katara tries to tell Aang that his people may be lost by opening up about her mother, but he is obviously in denial. It is only when he sees Gyatso’s body (like Katara did when her mom passed) that he accepts the loss of his people and her comfort.

I also want to note that this is a recurring pattern of Aang struggling to accept Katara’s comfort at first, despite these shippers’ claims that he easily accepts her “coddling/mothering”.

Kataang as seen in Katara’s pov:

This is easily the most inaccurate part of the thread and shows how shippers fail to acknowledge Katara as a character unless she is with their preferred love interest.

Kataang’s relationship is framed in Katara’s point of view multiple times, especially in these episodes.

Next, Katara’s boundaries:

Once again, they exclude the frames where Katara exercises her agency — pushing him away and telling him off, removing her pov from the scene all on their own. Furthermore on the issue of being violated, what is her point of view when she’s tied to a tree, or when her grandmother is being roughed up and tossed around?

This is part of a greater issue where shippers genuinely believe the misogyny in the writing room is exclusive to a single ship and would somehow be resolved if the female character ended up with… another man.

On Katara’s grief,

Honestly, this has to be the second most dishonest and laughable part of the thread (don’t worry we’ll strike gold soon), so I’m not even going to validate it with more than these pics:

Lastly, the ship in question:

I just find the lightning pic so funny in this context like what?? Like I said earlier, Kataang is shown from Katara’s pov multiple times, but here’s more pics because when your ship has the material!

Aang has seen Katara at her worst multiple times, either stepping in, comforting her or giving her advice (just like Katara has done for him many times, unprompted I might add) because he knows her and has seen her very hostile reactions towards Jet and Hama when they tried to use her as a tool for their revenge. Mind you, this same advice her literal brother and eventually Zuko himself agree with.

Also I always found it pretty weird how Zuko (ahem the writers) set this up so that she can forgive him right after he failed to understand why she was the last one to do so in the beginning of the episode, but anyway…

Lastly, both Aang and Katara have opened to each other in incredibly significant ways. Aang opens up to Katara about the monks and why he disappeared. She is the only person to know this side of him. Meanwhile, Katara tells him about her mother and opens up her family to him, and even in the most platonic interpretations, how is that not the most significant way to open up to someone?

[northerngoshawk]

Pangu

Late entry for @kataang-week Day 2: Injured

Rating: T

Word Count: 10.3k

Summary:

Katara reached up and took his face in her hands, felt him soften under her touch. She craned her neck up to press her lips to his cheek, right where a teardrop was rolling down. “I couldn’t let you die either,” she murmured, “not when I could do something to save you.” But Aang drew back at her words, his eyes downcast. “But if I had just been paying attention, if I had just noticed what was going on, you wouldn’t have needed to.” He raised his eyes to hers, and in them she could see the shame, the guilt, the self-blame. “If I had just been a better Avatar,” he said in an anguished whisper, “you wouldn’t have gotten hurt.” And in that moment, she didn’t see the Avatar she knew him to be. Instead, she saw a fifteen-year-old—a fifteen-year-old who shouldn’t even know he was the Avatar, a fifteen-year-old forced from an era of peace to fight in a time of war, a fifteen-year-old with shoulders too slim to bear the weight of the sky and hands too young to hold the weight of the world. - Being the Avatar is a burden as heavy as the weight of the world. But as long as Katara is alive, she swears that Aang will never have to carry it alone. Written for Kataang Week 2023 Day 2: Injured.

read on ao3

[kataangiscanon]

Kataang week 2023

[chocomd]

Enough

Rating: T

Genre: Canon Divergent AU, Hurt No Comfort, Hanahaki Disease

Chapter: 2 of 4

Summary: As Katara tries to live with the knowledge that Aang does not return her love, she struggles with a mysterious illness that is slowly choking off her breath.

Ch 2 written for @kataang-week Day 7: Reunion

Read on AO3

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Chapter 2

Six months after the war’s end

Katara flips over another page and rubs her eyes. She has spent most of the morning squinting at line after line of cramped text, and the words are beginning to run together. But this is only the third book she pulled out from the heavy wooden chest that Haru sent her. Several more piles of meticulously inked tomes await her attention.

A sudden urge rises in her chest, and she coughs into a square of dark blue cloth. The handkerchief is another Earth Kingdom item she requested from Haru, dyed in a blue so deep that it’s almost black—the perfect shade for hiding blood.

When her hand comes away from her mouth, the cloth is damp. A metallic smell emanates from a palm-sized area that glistens in the light of the whale oil lamp. The blood is worrisome, but the clumps of pale petals dotting the dark cloth are downright unsettling.

Continue reading on AO3

[kataracy]

Kataang Week DAY 1

A day at the beach with the couple that doesn't know how to sit down

[pottyospanna]

Late entry for Kataang Week 2023: Injured  prompt

Because winning a war doesn't mean there'll be peace all the time and being a healer doesn't mean you won't get hurt.

Again, some older teenage kataang for you. :)

I struggled so much with the sketch somehow, but it turned out almost okay I guess :D

@kataang-week

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Aang, Katara (c)  by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko 

Art (c) Me 

Done in Krita

[kataangiscanon]

Chibi Kataang for kataang week 2023

[tachiha3]

Kataang Playlist

So for the last day of @kataang-week I decided to make a playlist with Indian songs that remind me of them. ❤

• Paaniyon Sa Like the Waters

कि संग तेरे पानियों सा बहता रहूँ

I keep flowing with you like the waters.

तू सुनती रहे मैं कहानियाँ सी कहता रहूँ

I keep telling you tales and you keep listening.

कि संग तेरे बादलों सा बहता रहूँ

I keep flying with you like the clouds.

तेरे एक इशारे पे तेरी ओर मुड़ता रहूँ

You command once and I follow you wherever you go.

• Mercy Mercy

ੳਹ ਤੱਕਦੀ ਮੈਨੂੰ, ਮੈਂ ਤੱਕਦਾ ੳਹਨੂੰ

I look at her, she looks at me.

माहौल में टेंशन बढ़ने लगी

The tension starts to increase.

खुदा की कसम मैंने कभी नहीं पी

I swear to God I've never drunk.

पर फिर भी थोड़ी - थोड़ी चढ़ने लगी

But still I'm starting to get intoxicated.

• Chhod de saari duniya To abandon the world

छोड़ दे सारी दुनिया किसी के लिए

To abandon the whole world for the sake of one person.

ये मुनासिफ़ नहीं आदमी के लिए

Is not feasible for man.

प्यार से भी ज़रूरी कईं काम हैं

There are duties more important impotant than love.

प्यार सब कुछ नहीं ज़िंदगी के लिए

Love alone cannot suffice this life.

[cabbageslost]

Kataang Week - Day 8

Costume Party - AO3 | FF

"Hey guys, there's a costume party! We're invited! Get ready. It starts at 6 o'candle. You get to accompany... Detective Wang Fire." At this declaration, he whipped his fake beard and detective hat out from behind his back. Katara groaned. Toph shrugged. "I'll be the Blind Bandit. I'm sure my belt is here somewhere." Katara and Aang glanced at each other. This would be the first party they'd be attending together as a couple so they didn't want to miss it, but two hours was definitely short notice. "Oh, I've got an idea for me! Be right back!" Katara cried as she hopped up and ran into.. Aang's room.

My entry for Kataang Week: Free Day (Face Paint)