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reblogging everything I like 😊 - my posts are at @shroom-kitty

[mayskalih]

[amirazat]

I want to talk about why the idea of Katara being known (primarily) as a healer bothers me.

First off I’ll say that we don’t know exactly how much combat waterbending Katara does as an adult. I haven’t seen the new movie but I’m assuming she’s still a full combatant in that. And we also know that Katara is Korra’s waterbending master. But outside that we mostly see Katara revered as a healer.

Here’s why that bothers me.

Katara is a genocide survivor. She’s the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, and she is incredibly invested in reclaiming her Tribe’s waterbending culture. We can see this very clearly in how excited Katara is to meet and learn from Hama in The Puppetmaster.

The biggest difference we are aware of between the Northern and Southern styles within the show is that bending in the North is gender segregated. Women are only allowed to heal.

This is clearly not true in the South. Beyond what we’re told about the difference in betrothal customs, we also explicitly see a young Hama doing combat waterbending before she’s captured.

Katara fights not only for the right to learn combat waterbending for her own sake - although she clearly enjoys being able to fight - but also as a means of carrying on the Southern tradition. She doesn’t want her tribe’s waterbending culture to be subsumed by the North’s.

That’s why it stings when Katara is known primarily as a healer. She was the genocide survivor who brought back the culture of Southern Waterbending just as much as Aang brought back Airbending. She should be recognised for that, and that necessarily involves being a great combat waterbending master - which Katara clearly is in the original series.

Instead the list of achievements we get for Katara, aside from specifically training Aang and Korra, could just have easily have been the accomplishments of a traditional Northern female waterbender.

(I suppose the other notable achievement is banning bloodbending - the only style we know is exclusive to the Southern tribe, if only through Hama).

[polarity-disturbed]

I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.

I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.

[victusinveritas]

Please go learn how time works.

[ocies-sideblog]

Muse of Nightmares has me feeling emotions I haven't felt for a book since I was a teenager

[sioltach]

I hate how everyone makes a big deal about how long ago 2016 was and how we're half way through the year......THE RIVER OF TIME SIMPLY FLOWS, STOP POINTING & SHOUTING AT HER

[opheliaaesque]

you guys cannot talk or bully me out of shipping zutara. i was literally a jelsa warrior at age 7

[mereblogs]

Warren x Layla warrior at age 6 ✨

[insanity-all-the-time]

look i love IC and will forever but i am holding Christopher Paolini like a primed bomb i am so ready to drop him and run away with the fandom in my arms

i fear i do not trust that man with my blorbos

[mereblogs]

Do I have to read Murtagh on my shelf or not?

Be honest

I live him and what happened in Eldest killed me already

[bliegmeister]

[tooth317]

Happy pride to Zutara

The og bi4bi couple

[mereblogs]

I, as a bi person myself, support this headcanon 100%, let's be clear ✨

At the same time, don't get me wrong this is not against you, I want to cheer one of the healthiest and best straight ships out there, cause they are very rare, too, from that point of view it is a rare gem ✨

[cresentnaia]

In the tags you said you meant straight ship as in both straight characters and also the relationship itself. But Katara and Zuko are not confirmed to be straight, infact there is good evidence that they are not. Katara has some romantic coding with Jiang from one the comics. And zuko mentions in the movie (spoilers) finding a guys face objectively attractive.

[mereblogs]

I'm just talking canon confirmed ships tbh, again I also kinda headcanon them as bi based on the hinting and the coding, but I can appreciate them also as a healthy straight ship because I don't see it a lot and I still enjoy it as any other ship

[atlaculture]

Happy June Everyone!

I’m over the moon because it’s June June!

[kanerallels]

At any given moment, I am torn between "I want a job that's interesting and I enjoy!" and "I want the most monotonous job in the world so I can spend the entire time thinking about fictional characters while I do the exact same thing over and over again"

[tooth317]

Happy pride to Zutara

The og bi4bi couple

[mereblogs]

I, as a bi person myself, support this headcanon 100%, let's be clear ✨

At the same time, don't get me wrong this is not against you, I want to cheer one of the healthiest and best straight ships out there, cause they are very rare, too, from that point of view it is a rare gem ✨

[themoononna]

Double Standard of Righteous Revenge

If you watch The Princess Bride and cheer for Inigo Montoya ("Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."), but don't support Katara in ATLA wanting to avenge her mother's murder in the same manner, then you have a gender-biased double standard that I need you to sit with, examine, and correct. I accept that it was on Nickelodeon and they weren't gonna have a child main character directly off someone, but I totally love fics where we get to see her just brutally take out that MFer. And kudos to all the versions of Zuko people wrote that support her mission and see her through all the various fallouts people craft as the aftermath.

[indigoreed1]

New book I’m obsessed with? Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor.

The hopefulness? The compassion for humanity after generations of hurt at their hands? The whimsical return to childlike wonder brought on by fairytales and reading? I haven’t felt this way since watching 11’s Doctor Who. Give me 14 of them right now.

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[mereblogs]

Stefan Salvatore, sorry

[spookyspaghetty]

Needed this today