my moon, the moon & my man

she/her. mid 20s. free palestine. on this blog, you can expect to find nuanced takes of katara that do not align with the most popular fanon. my sideblog is kataangfanartarchive. ask box is temporarily off to catch up to messages! pfp: heyhanibee, header: pepedraws

[kataraslove]

there’s a reason why the entire story of avatar the last airbender begins and ends with katara. there’s a reason why we are introduced to katara first before we are introduced to any other character. there’s a reason why katara is the narrator. there’s a reason why the creators have emphasized over and over again that katara is just as titular to the story as aang - she’s the other main character.

when you water down katara - remove her compassion, her ability to connect with others, her nurturing role, her ANGER and RAGE and DRIVE - you water down the very fundamentals of the story. you drastically and severely alter the core dynamics of the gaang, because katara was so important to the development of every single one of them. she was the rock and glue that held team avatar together.

katara was unlike any other character to ever appear on television; she was a young brown girl who took no shit from anyone, yet at the same time remained kind and compassionate and nurturing. katara was a force of nature; proud of her heritage and culture, burdened by the responsibility of being the last southern water bender of the water tribe, angered over the death of her mother and everything that the fire nation took from her, determined to help every single person in need, determined to change the world, angry and resentful because old men and rules and laws kept telling her what she could or could not do, thus, she was determined to restructure thousands of years of patriarchy that stood against her from accomplishing her goals and dreams.

watering down katara into at most 2-3 tangible characteristics, stripping her away of all her motivation and agency and nuance, telling the audience that she wants to help and change the world only to have her stand in the background with an air of grief, demonstrates that the writers of the live action fundamentally misunderstand the spirit of avatar. and that’s something so unforgivable. no matter how many changes they decide to make, or how much they decide to stay true to the original story in other areas, no matter how many flashy VFX fight scenes we get - if you fail to properly understand katara, you fail to understand the heart and soul of avatar the last airbender, everything that makes avatar such a timeless classic.

[ladiemars]

12 year old me didn’t play about them

[stardust-daydreamss]

pov youre talking to a gay person and you say "do you like ANY straight ships?" and they say "smh yes i do!" and its one of these mfs

[moon131110]

Katara and Aang

[incoherent-orca]

lover when i sing my song, all the rivers are gonna sing along

kataang but make it hadestown

listen. Why would I choose cosmic energy over Katara is Aang's equivalent of Orpheus turning around AND I'M ILL ABOUT IT

i don't plan to draw them but just know that in this AU, Persephone & Hades are Roku & Sozin. so the gods aren't really gods but roku's generation (Hermes is Gyatso!).

the instrument is a tibetan dramyin. i was gonna put them in the hadestown outfits but,,, i love their color palette too much + using the canon designs or cultures they're based on 😔 also just. Aang With Jewelry

to add: Bending... I'd say doesn't exist in this au; the avatar state is when orpheus goes la la la la la

[welegatolvr]

Angels

[survivalove]

lowkey a whole other point i’ve been itching to get off my chest before that person did what they did….

in general as kataang gets more popular with the leak and again in october, i implore others to be more mindful of who or what you give engagement to. discourse is fun or whatever but the priority should always be appreciating and showing love to fanon works and artists! even when it comes to addressing discourse, you can do it in a way that doesn’t involve going on other people’s accounts and screenshotting or reblogging them if they are not in the ka tag. like you’re just giving them free promo?

and also… if people are engaging too much in discourse and you have a problem with that, then you do have the right to ignore/block/not like. i wasn’t familiar with that person but it seems like they were getting a lot of support just for their mutuals to be like “yeah they were getting annoying” after the fact. every like or rb is not only a sign of support but also a reward. and you don’t have to reward someone just for liking your ship if you don’t like most of what they’re doing (even me lol)

even on other platforms anti ka tumblr takes started hitting my feed when i deliberately took a break from this app because i didn’t wanna be reminded these ppl exist lol

like do not cannibalize yourselves to the point you’re talking about who or what you hate more than what you love. if it’s not fun for you, you don’t have to engage 😭

[stardust-daydreamss]

pov youre talking to a gay person and you say "do you like ANY straight ships?" and they say "smh yes i do!" and its one of these mfs

[rubixx]

Modern day Kataang bc I found a cool reference :3

[seallieart]

Am I too late for Avatar obsession?

I haven't watched the movie, I wait for premiere, but I love reels 💅

[kweru-too]

A garden for two lovers - Master Katara and her Avatar, Aang

[heeheehoohoo69]

Adult kataang is just two hot people together it pisses me off so bad. I keep looking at them. Endlessly. My eyes are drawn to them.

[enkinsd]

kataang wip

[paulinsversion]

Begging for it (that's my another watermark the art is mine, that's my another twt perfil)

[cedakotes]

⟡ By Your Side ⟡

[gaangsta]

[willofdpeople]

I came across a screenshot of a certian anti kataang post, and even though it's been done before, I wanted to give my two cents.

‼️ DO NOT HARASS OP IF YOU FIND THE POST. DON'T GO AFTER THEM, DON'T INSULT OR BERATE THEM, DON'T ACT CONDESCENDING, NONE OF THAT SHIT.

The fact that Aang didn't call Katara Sifu is a bit concerning on the surface, but the reason to why is quite wholesome when you think about it. When Katara started teaching Aang, it was after a whole season of them bonding as friends. He didn't see her as just his sifu, he saw her as his friend. Not because he doesn't acknowledge her abilities, (he clearly does: "I'm lucky enough to have a great teacher". "Go Katara"!), but because she's so much more than a Sifu.

Meanwhile, he hasn't spent nearly as much time with Toph. She originally joined the Gaang on episode 06×02. Episode 7 is solely about Zuko and episode 8 focuses more on Katara and Toph's dynamic, with Aang only coming in to defend Appa. He calls her Sifu in episode 9. Obviously he was bonded to her, he helped her, they had a connection, but one episode ago, he referred to her as his earthbending teacher after insulting her.

In the direct aftermath, he was hardly concerned about hurting her feelings. Back then, he simply didn't view her the same way he views Katara. Therefore, the label "Sifu" came naturally with one but not the other.

In the screenshot of the original post, this is the only direct evidence presented to support op's idea. However, there's another flaw in their argument despite the lack of examples I have access to. I urge you to read one sentence again:

Meanwhile, in canon, the focus of Aang's crush is how pretty Katara is and how she takes care of him.

The only times Aang and Katara's connection is framed in a romantic light are mostly when he thinks she's pretty or when the feeling appears to be mutual (The Headbend & The Cave of Two Lovers). We can safely assume that how Katara looks out for him is a factor, but it's never directly shown romantically.

They're friends first and foremost, so most of their interactions are presented that way. Yes, one can easily infer that Aang loves Katara because of how she cares for him as well. However, if you do take those interactions into account, then you mustn't ignore the many other qualities he is shown to appreciate.

He doesn't appreciate her fierceness,

or even how good at waterbending she is.

So there you have it. Aang loves Katara for who she is inside. While he does appreciate her appearance, he also appreciates her skills and her strong sense of justice.

[captlok]

“doesn’t appreciate … how good at waterbending she is”

Did this person watch the same show? The one where Aang tried to downplay his own waterbending skills in Season 1 to spare her feelings, the one where he refused to learn from Pakku if he wouldn’t teach Katara? He’s VERY focused on appreciating her as a person and also making space for her as a FELLOW waterbender.

(remembering again that Aang is basically the same level as she is, reached Master status very shortly after, so he would have no reason to ‘worship’ her equal skills in the first place????)

Man the Aang-hate goggles’ strap is so tight it cuts off oxygen to the brain.

NGL the interpretation that Aang didn’t care about Toph’s feelings is bizzare as well.

Just because he refers to her as his teacher doesn’t mean that the episode they spent establishing her sorrow didn’t connect with him (let’s leave aside the fact that his ENTIRE UPBRINGING is about loving everyone, including enemies)

Extremely uncharitable takes on Aang (the most sensitive and conscientious character in the entire show) are such a WEIRD endemic and long-standing problem for this fandom to have.