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Marjane Satrapi, 22/11/1969-4/6/2026.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Requiescat in pace.
Amen.
And this concludes Book 4 Ash!
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Zutara discourse is so funny to me because. ATLA has other hundreds of problems and outdated ideas that are brushed off in canon. From the neolib politics to the shangri-la steryotype with the air nomades and the casual misogyny in katara's arc, but somehow the not canon not real very much a concept ship is what gets people so heated up. Idk man is too mean to say that those people should get a life??
Confronting the actual problems the show has would conflict with the extremely rose-tinted view many fans have of the original show. So, focusing their energy on a non-canon ship (that, by nature, tends to be linked to criticism of the show,) is more comforting and lets them enjoy the nostalgia guilt-free.
These days, people are very defensive of stories that connect them to a happier, more uncritical time, and when you factor in the way that people intertwine their identities with these types of nostalgic media, you get a recipe for vitriol. The politics of ATLA are worthy of critique, and to avoid this uncomfortable truth, people become overly generous in their interpretations of the show’s politics and themes, and treating the white writers as if they were the second coming of Edward Said. I don’t want to stifle textual analysis, but at a certain point, fans need to accept that ATLA has not aged perfectly and that people are allowed to point that out.
There’s also the precedent of misogyny set by Bryke, and the inclination of fans towards uncritically accepting everything the creators say to maintain their idealized vision of their beloved childhood cartoon.
Atla issues think piece.
As a fan of Kataang, these critics are true.
You're right. And you people Who think these things, are more than we think.
But sadly, some fans are too exagerated, for some reasons.
Maybe because "fan" means "fanatical".
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Well, the most useless character invented doesn't exist. A radical choice? Maybe. Legitimate? A bit.
And man, Kiyi continues to exist, but not like the "Perfect Little Sister for Zuzu, as a substitution of the other one".
I accept all these choices.
And for a Perfect Reason...
Urzai was Canon!
Before Konietzko and Di Martino choosed differently because they wanted to appear COMPLEX.
And It's come back.
People will (rightfully) clown on Azula stans who act like she never did anything wrong and every one of her bad actions is secretly someone else's fault... But like does no one care that that is exactly what they're doing with Mai in the comics? Acting like all of her bad actions are Azula's/Ukano's fault. Acting like Mai didn't follow Azula willingly or ever cared about her brother. And while Mai's father is demonised her mother is a saint for some reason?! You know, they could have written complex relationships between Mai and Azula, Mai and her parents, show us how Mai warmed up to her brother, how Mai unlearned Fire Nation imperialism... But that would require effort and why have that when everyone can be a generic good guy or a bad guy?
There is no Return to Omashu in Ba Sing Se.
X
I start to think they do that purposefully. Confuse her with certain other.
I hate to speak about political subjects, or politicals.
Perché la politica è schifosa, e fa male alla pelle!
Giorgio Gaber
But if we try to see what happened out screen, well, everything is possible.
And we can understand by the context and other details.
And as a supporter of antimperialism, I think that considering a teenager guilty of the same crimes of a brigade of soldiers Who killed many civilians, whatever if It's part of a regular army of some terrorist groups considering themselves "defence" or "resistence", It's a bad thing, mate.
Very, very bad.
And you know, a thing is making fanfictions, another is creating hypothesises, considering these true.
Writers knew theyd have too much swag if they linked up thats why they had to slime Jet before making them meet
Wah wdym, Jet survived ok? He faked his death and decided to be fugitives with Azula and travel across Earth Kingdom silk road
Posted these on my twitter
Nobody gaf there😭
Some people in twitter have the fantasy adlnd the imagination of a table.
I love it! And man, you're wonderful. I only use pencil.
Me when i make Avatar ships
Listen tho...Jet x Azula
When i say enemies to lovers
And reluctant forced proximity travel partners
With constant traitoring
I think of them
Girl i been in the trenches
Yknow how hard i got to find a Tigress x Tai Lung saga fanfic with the same plot?
I appreciate emotionally repressed martial arts drama.
Its like Princess Bride
Except the chick is equally competent and the guy doesnt have to go "as you wish"
They more like "yeah yeah run off, be like that, as if youd survive out there alone"
Abd later on after a tiff both go back to each other anyway and are like "I... miscalculated"
And maybe Jet throwing a skewer and Azula catching it cuz she cane back with no luck hunting for any animal that night
Even if she refused to help him put up a fire hours ago he gave her some food anyway
Idk a revolutionary boy and a military weapon for a princess would go hard
Think of the political tension of these two with their internal views
propaganda
child soldiers
emotional repression
loyalty versus survival
people weaponized by ideology
Come to think of it
Post Canon Azula was put in an asylum in the worst conditions after Zuko became Fire Lord right?
The comics had Zuko set her free
Only for the purpose to find their lost mothe
And reconnect with her
He was still watchinh after her
But man Zuko was so unnecessarily putting up airs again
He showed in a throne , he brought the throne to the asylum courtyard
With Azula in the worst state atm
Straitjacketed, qi blocked for so many times to not make her use her powers
Zuko even talkrd about their mother by referring her as "My mother" not "Our mother"
He didnt consider Azula as his family anymore
If I was Azula and my remaining family just left me in an asylum with no visits then show up like that i would definitely think Zuko disowned me already
At this point Azula really dod make sense for being hyper independent
Nobody was protecting her in this family
There's part about the comics the demons in an enchanted dungeon wete making her recognize how she hurt people and thats the reason she's alone. The last demon being Zuko telling her that. She still caree what he thinks
And when the dungeon master demon asked her if she was willing to change and redeem
She refused it
And became a fugitive
Never went back, traveled far away from the Fire Nation where they cant find her
Also i think i remember she made an illegal faction of her own that consist of girls in the orphan academy. Because they felt oppressed in the academy with how limited they are in the system.
She gathered them up to kidnap fire nation children in some villages and create a ransom coup
Bro that's within Jet's skillset
He also works within militant groups
And the way Azula is now very disillusioned with fire nation royal authority makes her dangerous without guidance and with terrifying conviction
And gets things done herself
This is the girl that successfully conquered Ba Sing Se from within at 14. While generations of her family couldnt
Jet finds those traits admirable. But the source of her drive is what sets him off. Shes not completely free and is still operating on her Fire Nation conditioning. Shes not doing this for her freedom but oppress the system back that failed her
Revolutionary extremist boy meets former imperial weapon girl.
unlike a lot of “enemies to lovers” ships where one person is clearly morally softer, this one feels like two dangerous teenagers who recognize themselves in each other before they even trust each other.
Jet would absolutely clock that Azula is:
hypervigilant,
constantly performing control,
incapable of relaxing,
and emotionally starving beneath all the precision.
But he’d hate that he notices.
Because to him she still represents:
occupation,
imperial violence,
propaganda,
children dying because of Fire Nation campaigns.
Meanwhile Azula would initially see Jet as exactly the kind of filthy rebel the palace warned her about:
emotionally impulsive,
self-righteous,
manipulative,
theatrically angry,
operating through guerilla tactics instead of “proper” authority.
But the problem is… she’d also respect him almost immediately.
Jet is one of the few non-benders in ATLA who:
creates networks,
leads people naturally,
weaponizes charisma,
survives through adaptability,
and commits fully to ideology.
Azula respects competency before morality.
And Jet respects conviction before morality.
That’s why the chemistry works.
The “forced travel partners” angle especially fits them because neither would become emotionally vulnerable through softness first. They’d do it through competence and repeated survival.
Like:
taking turns keeping watch,
silently noticing injuries,
arguing over strategy maps,
one saving the other in combat then pretending it meant nothing,
sharing stolen food without acknowledgment,
threatening each other during emotional moments because sincerity feels too exposing.
The skewer scene you described is EXACTLY their vibe.
Not: “I care about you.”
But: “You’re inefficient hungry.”
And that’s basically intimacy for them.
Also my observation about post-canon Azula is important because a lot of people flatten her into “crazy evil girl,” when the comics actually frame her as someone whose entire identity collapsed after losing the one structure she understood.
What makes Azula tragic is that she was never taught personhood outside functionality.
She was:
a weapon,
an heir,
a prodigy,
a political asset.
Not a child.
So when she loses status, she doesn’t suddenly become free. She becomes untethered.
That’s terrifying.
Jet, meanwhile, is someone who built identity entirely through resistance. He survives by opposing structures.
So imagine the tension:
Jet thinks Azula still carries imperial poison in her worldview.
Azula thinks Jet is directionless chaos pretending to be righteous.
And both are partially correct.
That’s the kind of ideological romance that actually has weight.
Also: the “traitoring each other constantly” thing is crucial because neither of them would trust stability.
Their affection would probably manifest through:
strategic honesty,
returning after leaving,
choosing not to betray each other when it would be advantageous,
staying during vulnerability instead of fleeing.
Not through clean romance language.
The fact that Azula later forms militant girl factions and kidnaps noble children absolutely pushes her closer to Jet territory than people realize.
Not morally identical — but operationally similar.
Cells. Fear tactics. Symbolic violence. Recruitment through disenfranchisement. Targeting systems through psychological pressure.
Jet would look at her methods and go: “You think like an insurgent.”
And she’d probably smirk because that’s the first thing anyone’s said to her that wasn’t:
monster,
princess,
prodigy,
failure,
insane.
The funniest part is they’d probably spend half the story threatening to leave each other and then quietly circling back because nobody else can intellectually keep up with them.
Emotionally repressed martial arts drama really is the perfect description for this ship
Both driven by a solidly competent and equally scary teenage male and female lead
Might i interest you with Azula demanding Jet to get his shirt off to test her blue fire to seal a torso wound
Azula: i never done this but ive seen enough recruits do it as immediate aide
Jet: Im bleeding out im sure that tactician brain of yours is a visual learner
Azula:
"Take your shirt off."
Jet: 😃🤨
Jet grinning in the middle of pain:
"You say that to all fugitives?"
Azula gnashing her teeth annoyed then says:
"If you flirt while I cauterize you, I’ll let the infection kill you."
Yes blue fire will hurt even if its meant to heal it
So we get a sweaty pained Jet for fanservice
Azula once shes done: hows that soldier?
Jet sweating temple breathless from straining himself keeping still throughout looking up hair stickinb to his temples: Im good
Azula unfazed gets up from her kneeling position and pats his arm walking off
Jet slowly getting up thinkin "that was kinda hot"
Azula looks like she casually walking off
But really she just needs a moment, huffing and keeping her bearings. She looks like shes contemplating and strategizing or just her perpetually irascible self. But the cheeks are pink shes just standing, hands on hips. Blowing her bangs off her face
Blinking rapidly
Still a princess whos only male interaction is Zuko, their military and their father. Possibly never even touched on the prospect of dating despite how much suitors she has and never ever read any bridal or courting manuals
For once Azula internally think "how does Mai who dates my brother or Ty Lee who likes every guy that walks in front of her handle that? How do they enjoy these frivolous parts of girlhood?"
This is the girl who hated the doll she was gifted anf burnt it
This is the girl who had a present but emotionally distant mother
She didnt just reject femininity
She rejected tenderness
She never liked a nurturing role for herself
Because her mother was never nurturing to her
Jet is not courtly.
He’s rough-edged. Direct. Emotionally reactive. Physically expressive. Improvisational.
He’s probably the opposite of every carefully controlled Fire Nation noble boy she’s ever been exposed to.
And importantly: Jet is observant in a predatory-survivor way.
He notices people’s weak points because he had to survive occupation and manipulation himself.
So he’d absolutely pick up on things nobody in the palace ever acknowledged:
Azula doesn’t know how to rest.
She expects betrayal before kindness.
She interprets vulnerability as loss of leverage.
She becomes angrier the more emotionally cornered she feels.
And the funny thing is he probably wouldn’t realize he’s treating her more gently than anyone else has.
Not softly. Just… honestly.
Like instead of walking on eggshells around the Fire Princess, he’d snap back at her.
Tbh both can psychologically and emotionally hold their own against other
Also I think Jet would mention how he had a run in with Zuko at Ba Sing Se teahouse to Azula
And how Jet figured Zuko out so easily
Azula: Hah typical Zuzu, did give him a hard time?
Jet: really though how is he your brother at all? He just went in with my script easily hook line and sinker. I didnt even need to have backup lines. He takes too long to answer and does something dramatic but falls for my words anyway.
Azula: I lie to him alot back at the palace, he falls for them all the time
Jet: good double sword wielder tho. Guy got me good
Azula: you lost to Zuzu in sword combat??
If these two dated
Zuko will pay the price "there's two tormentors in the family now"
Azula to Zuko: "I date Jet because he pisses you off too."
Zuko: he threatened me with hook swords!!
Azula: i dont see the problem
Zuko: i thought you hated class difference in a relationship
Azula: I know hes poor as a street rat but hes very compelling . Remember brother Im a runaway princess, i got demoted years ago. I'm done with Fire Nation aristocracy life. I can make a sovereign on my own watch me.
Jet coughing in anarchist
Azula: I meant haha i would if i want to. Except i dont
Iroh: how's life with him niece?
Azula: oh nothing big old man, just living with his freedom fighters, helping out and trusting me with some projects and facilitation.
And riding horses in the planes of the Earth kingdom
Camping in yurts
Iroh: separate horses and yurts???
Azula: ...yyyes🙂
Iroh: “Ah. I see.”
sips tea
Azula: “There is nothing to see.”
Iroh: “Of course.”
Azula: “…We simply travel together because the Earth Kingdom terrain is dangerous.”
Iroh: “Naturally.”
Azula:
“And because he knows insurgent routes and local villages.”
Iroh: “Mm.”
Azula:
“And because our skillsets are strategically complementary.”
Iroh:
“Niece.”
Azula:
“…What.”
Iroh:
“You are explaining this as though you are filing military paperwork.”
Iroh definitely glares at Jet after Azula head out
"Dont worry sir, im in good hands. And yeah she looks amazing riding the horse with her hair down"
That awakens warlord Iroh for a sec and he pistols a tiny flame and Jet deflects it with his hook sword and it ricocheted to a poor tree
Jet: you do this to every guy she talks to?
Iroh: hmph only the alarming ones
Youre lucky the flame wasnt hot enough to melt that sword of yours.
If Zuko was here he wouldve doubled the size of that shot
Honestly? Iroh probably respects him a little for deflecting it.
Because Jet:
didn’t flinch,
didn’t grovel,
protected himself without escalating,
and clearly cares about Azula enough to stay despite knowing exactly how dangerous she is
Iroh: doesnt mean hes immediately son in law. He wishes
Once they got out
Azula: hows uncle?did he scare you off?
Jet: Not at all
Azulas eyes narrowed from the disrespect on her uncles behalf despite how much she disrespect the old man
Like " this mutt thinks he could casually say that about Iroh"
Because Jet doesn't see Iroh as a legend, a general with accolades and reputation. He sees him as a nother dangerous old guy
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*Trigger warning *mild nsfw *minors dni
The lowest floor of Ba Sing Se University Library feels more like a crypt in the late afternoon. Shelves stretch up like silent monoliths, their spines exhaling the faint scent of aging paper and dust. Every now and then a lone chair sighs under its own weight, a protest that no one has ever bothered to silence. Most students have already slipped out to the bustling campus cafés or retreated to their dorm rooms for a break, leaving only the truly desperate, or perhaps the masochistic—still hunched over their textbooks
Jet hunches over a study desk in the back corner, hoodie up, scribbling angry marginalia in a battered copy of *The Earth Kingdom Economic Myth*. He despises this place. Despises the marble floors paid for by corporate donors, despises the way the endowment was bigger than some small towns' GDPs, and despises that he’s here on a need‑based scholarship, not out of ambition but to prove that the system can be gamed from the inside.
He especially despises Azula.
She slides into the room like she always does—without warning, like smoke slipping under a door. A designer coat drapes over one arm, hair pulled into that impossibly sleek topknot, her lips in the exact shade of arterial red that makes Jet's jaw clench on reflex. With deliberate force, she hurls her leather satchel onto the table across from him.
"You're in my spot," she says, voice sharp enough to cut.
"This isn't assigned seating, princess." Jet replies in disdain as he looks up at her. "Go buy another floor if you want privacy."
Azula slides into the chair anyway, crossing her legs like she owned the entire wing. "I don't buy things I can easily take."
He snorts. "Classic nepo logic." 👇🏽
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Slight spoilers for chap 2 of the fic ahead (↓)
Not my work!! Just fanart. One of my most favorite fanfics that I actually had the balls to finally draw! If you haven’t read this yet you absolutely should! I will say my interpretation of Azula and Aang is a bit more heated than it comes off in the fic lol.
Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aang/Azula (Avatar) Characters: Azula, Aang (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Suki, Sokka Additional Tags: aang/azula if you squint, meandering nonsense, Complicated Female Friendships, Show Canon Compliant
Well.
Good Lord, what a comic!
Yes, some elements needs corrections, like anatomy, poses and other things, but for your first work...
INCREDIBLE!
Hey Silmarillion fandom, anyone still active around here? :)
Well, I Will go to sleep, cause here is 23:13.
Good night to everyone.
@atlararepairmonth week 4: Royal Pains
Those are sharp, Jet. Careful.
Yk there are a lot of fandoms with serious issues regarding ships and different opinions but atla is the absolute worst ive ever seen and im 100% positive its because of bryke. I have never seen any other showrunners have so little class when it comes to fanon content. They are the problem
Sadly, they consider themselves like two authors Who could do whatever they want with their work, and fans and audience have only to accept it. Or going away.
A understandable philosofy, very old school and supported by the majority of authors of these years, but It isn't the best in the world. Especially in these times.
And with a franchise that had a lot of other people Who worked in it, since the beginning.
And we can see it, cause AtlA was slowly changed from a Epic Fantasy Saga to a Superheroistic Series, and It's becoming a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk show, as It's happening with the sequel "Seven Havens".
Because they wanted a Sci-Fi show, a Space Opera with many references to Star Wars, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and others. But Nickelodeon and other storytellers told them It wasn't a Good idea at that time, so It was changed in a Epic Fantasy.
That's why they changed a lot of things, destroying the old lore and making a lot of retcons. And they will continue, until they will have the show they wanted.
And even if I don't like these choices, I'm understanding, at the beginning of my 30's, that I can't hate them for these stupid choices.
And they will never understand this, and so their sycophants inside this fandom.
So, ok being critical, I'm the first to be it, but a bit of mercy for them.
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"He gave up the avatar state for her!!!" And i unironically cannot name a better way to piss katara off. Imagine your buddy gives up his ability to end a war thats lasted 100 years and ravaged your homeland, all because he wants to kiss you, and you aren't even sure if you return the sentiment. All of your and the whole world's hopes are riding on him and he just doesnt give a shit. Id kick his ass so hard
Well, as a fan of Kataang...
You're right.
Sadly, the same Konietzko and Di Martino think It's a bad things that somebody should leave what they crave and care for the great good.
Yes, It's a selfish philosofy.