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[onemanonegoalonemission]

Recently finished ATLA for the 2nd time (i've seen some parts as a kid but never the whole series, because it was shown on TV and therefore it was easy to miss certain episodes) AND I NEED TO TALK. TO SOMEONE.

ABOUT ZUTARA.

So plslsl anyone who ships it or in general is a fan of ATLA, please, message me! I need to talk abt this amazing series hahah

[sokkastyles]

Regardless of what you ship, it really is hard to avoid the contrast between Katara and Mai and their respective relationships with Zuko.

The fact that Katara shocks Zuko out of what he believes about himself and the world and lambasts him for not caring about the world - she criticizes him for hunting Aang, the world’s last hope for peace, calls him a terrible person, and then says “but what do you care?” which gets to him, and he immediately deflects (”you don’t know what you’re talking about”) but then when he sees a bit of her own pain, he apologizes and her opening up to him causes him to do the same with her, admitting that he does care and that he knows that what she is saying is true and that he can choose to make his own decisions, he can choose to not continue the cycle of hatred and violence, he can choose to care about the world.

Of course, he makes the wrong choice, and his relationship with Mai gives him something to cling to after choosing to go back to the Fire Nation, but it’s also a reminder to us, the audience, that he made the wrong choice. The advantage of being with Mai is that he doesn’t have to question his choices. He doesn’t have to care about the world, and in fact her bleak perspective validates Zuko’s selfishness in choosing to go back and assuages his own guilt at what he knows to be true. It’s a comfortable lie, that Mai and Zuko get to hate the world while having all of its advantages, and I also believe that when Zuko realizes this about himself, that’s also part of his frustrations with Mai. He tells her that he’s upset with her for not having any passion at the same time that he’s angry at himself for not caring.

It’s also why he’s drawn to Katara later, despite or especially because she feels so betrayed by him, and why he wants so badly to get her forgiveness, because she did shock him out of his own self-centered worldview and he wants to be the kind of person that could live up to her standards.

[alphacrone]

[onemanonegoalonemission]

There was this lovely yuzuvier fanfic, unfinished, the author updated it in dec 2021 i think. Anyways it could be found under the Sharing a bed and Love letters tags.

Basically, javier found yuzu's diary or rather love letters, devoted to an unkown person (surpise: it was javi all along but ofc javi had no idea it was him) AND IT ENDED ON A CLIFFHANGER jsjsjs and i rlly wanted to reread the 4 available chapters but the fic is nowhere to be found.

I am not an AO3 member yet, so idk whether the fic is deleted or is it available for members only.

Could someone; please; help me out? I think that the author had a violet flower as a pfp. I can't remember the username unfortunately.

Please, if you can, help a girl out🙏🏻 Again, the fic could be found under the following additional tags:

Sharing a bed

Love Letters

I would be really grateful for any kind of help. This fic was like my comfort piece. I don't normally reread fics but this one was just so perfect. Also author replayed to some comments in feb 2022 or march idk, so they were definetly intending to continue updating the fic.

[beautifulstorms]

Best programs of 2018-2022, #14 (tie)

Yuzuru Hanyu, Origin

[kitsunelostinfantasy]

I’m liking and reblogging every single video of Yuzu finding out his 4A was certified because I like to suffer but in a good way you know *proceeds ugly crying and smiling till my cheeks hurt*

LOOK AT HIS EYES

The surprise

The joy

And most probably the relief realizing that it wasn’t all in vain like he first believed

You legendary Ice Prince, be proud

[coffeekoe]

i love roman sadovsky, that’s it. that’s the tumblr post.

[mandolinearts]

both yuzuru hanyu and nathan chen have withdrawn from worlds due to injuries. i hope they heal well and wish them the best! rest up, kings, you've more than earned it 👑

[russianfigureskatinghell]

There's a lot of bullshit in figure skating fandom, but can we at least appreciate the respect that Nathan and Yuzuru have for each other? (It's not the type of love that Yuzu and Javi have, but respect is the most important part of a good rivalry!!)

Just like Nathan, I know Yuzuru will show his full potential in the free!!

がんばれ ゆずるさん!

[skating-ostrich]

Nathan got his hard earned OGM, Yuzuru used his well earned right to YOLO and still ended up in the top 4 somehow with the closest 4A to date, Shoma and Yuma gave us beautiful performances. Satan redemption. Jun’s Ina Bauer. I will go to bed happy tonight.

[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

Yuzu and friends @ Olympics 2022 - gala practice

[shomaunos]

backstage at the olympics gala ✨ || (x)

[tokiwa05311]

soul mate

Yuzuru & Pooh

[politijohn]

The world stands with Ukraine

Tbilisi, Georgia

St. Petersburg, Russia

London, England

Paris, France

Thessaloniki, Greece

Rome, Italy

Berlin, Germany

Tokyo, Japan

Montenegro

Mumbai, India

[politijohn]

Warsaw, Poland

Lebanon

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Istanbul, Turkey

New York City, United States

[politijohn]

Toronto, Canada

Vienna, Austria

Binnish, Syria

Dublin, Ireland

Barcelona, Spain

Melbourne, Australia

Riga, Latvia

Tel Aviv, Israel

Copenhagen, Denmark

Bern, Switzerland

[politijohn]

Sarajevo, Bosnia

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tallinn, Estonia

Stockholm, Sweden

Helsinki, Finland

Reykjavík, Iceland

[fthgurdy]

Even symbolic support is not meaningless; with every such gesture you are preventing the claim that no one cares, no one opposes, no one disagrees, no one minds.

[robohintz]

I really didn’t want to bring up any negativity, but it must be said:

The way it’s been years for Nathan and y’all are still very much bitter about him has me giggling. I’m sorry to say but he did deserve his score, if you’re bitter because your biased (because yes that’s exactly where this bitterness be coming from)- just say that and move on.

Anyways I’m happy for Nathan for beating those damn demons from last time. Glad to see how happy he was after he was finished!

[watchinglikeafangirl]

What happened to figure skating?

The male figure skating Olympic competition has come to an end many hours ago, but I only had the opportunity to watch the finale late today.

Yes, Yuzuru Hanyu didn't win any medal but I do think the other athletes still deserve their ranks. I would've loved for Yuzuru to win his third medal on the Olympics and 4th place is not as if he lost his role as the ice prince or is in some way past his best performence. Maybe, he'll attend the next again and it goes better. Maybe he wins the world cup, who knows. I still love his performances. It's just really satisfying to watch him do the pirouettes and stuff because they are so well balanced. It just looks beautiful, whatever he does.

But I do think figure skating changed. The athletes are forced to jump seven times in the free programm and it lets their programm lack a bit of grace. Not that they aren't elegant, that's not what I mean, but they are forced to concentrate so much on these difficult jumps that it's hard for them to really let it look like some kind of art.

Maybe I'm just seeing it like this because the german word for figure skating is "Eiskunstlauf" which contains the word "art". It litterally means "artsy ice skating" but I don't see a lot of art in hopping from one element to another just to get the score up. It's about the art for me, not the jumps.

Yes, the jumps they pull off look astonishing but for me, there would have to be more elegance to really be worth so many points in music interpretation.

Nathan Chen won gold this time and his free programm was extremely good on the technical level. But I missed the artsy part of it all because the first three minutes contained so many jumps, he didn't have time for anything else. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve his medal, God no, but I think the jury shouldn't've given him 9.8 points for music interpretation. He still would've won, by the way.

What happened to figure skating is what happens to every sport. Things become more technical, more focused on performance and more about strength to jump. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it loses the artsy part of it a bit for me.

In my eyes, Deniss Vasiljevs, Adam Siao Him Fa and Nikolaj Majorov were better in performing art than Nathan Chen and Yuma Kagiyama. Sorry, to say that.

Again, I'm not saying they don't deserve their medals, because they do. The ones, I'm talking about were performing a lower level of difficulty. But still, it's more about sport now than about anything else but that's what happens to every sport eventually.

[super-oddity]

no one talk to me, my four favorite skaters just placed 1-4