Mostly Harry Potter Stuff

I’d say it’s self-explanatory. May post fan fiction sometimes. :) The art in my profile picture is not mine.

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the eras tour, but make it purple

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Hades is The Tortured Poets Department

“Old habits die screaming”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Ares is Midnights

“My knuckles were bruised like violets Sucker punching walls, cursed you as I sleep talked Spineless in my tomb of silence Tore your banners down, took the battle underground”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Artemis is evermore

“Crescent moon, coast is clear”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Poseidon is folklore

“Salt air and the rust on your door, I never needed anything more”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Aphrodite is Lover

“I wanna be defined by the things that I love”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Dionysus is reputation

“I’m spilling wine in the bathtub you kiss my face and we’re both drunk”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Zeus is 1989

“I never miss a beat I'm lightnin' on my feet And that's what they don't see”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Hermes is Red

“And they tell you that you're lucky, but you're so confused 'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Hera is Speak Now

“Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses

Athena is Fearless

“Tonight we'll stand, get off our knees Fight for what we've worked for all these years And the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives But we'll stand up champions tonight”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddess’s

Apollo is Taylor Swift

“And no one knows that you cry, but you don't tell anyone that you might not be the golden one”

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Taylor Swift albums as Greek gods and goddesses master post

Apollo is Taylor Swift

Athena is Fearless

Hera is Speak Now

Hermes is Red

Zeus is 1989

Dionysus is Reputation

Aphrodite is Lover

Poseidon is folklore

Artemis is evermore

Ares is Midnights

Hades is The Tortured Poets Department

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Love this so much!!

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Zuko Saving Katara Development

He went from this...

To this...

And then to this...

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Sometimes I think about the interaction Katara and Aang had during the Southern Raiders episode, where Katara asks Aang for Appa, which delves into an uncomfortable conversation between Aang and Katara. If you notice Aang starts to question Katara's choices. And I saw someone make a post mentioning that he was the first one to bring up revenge. And that post had me thinking quite deeply about that point. Because it made me realize how quickly he assumes the worst of Katara. While keeping in mind that she was Aang's pillar of support and friend. The fact that he immediately assumes the worst actions out of her shows a lack of confidence he has in her. It also makes it interesting when we know that he's in love with her. You could argue that he has taken her off a pedestal, but I would disagree. It reads to me that as long as she follows a specific direction that makes him comfortable, she will be on that pedestal. But the minute she deters away from her comforting and compassionate attitude. He clearly thinks of the worst possible scenarios. He automatically assumes that the friend who is shown time and time again to be one of the best people he has ever known will do something horrible.

On the other hand, he makes it worse by comparing her to Jet. Someone in their eyes is someone who actively harmed innocent people. And that made me feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he is very easily able to compare her to someone who has done wrong things in his perspective. He gives her the classic lecture that if you harm your enemy, you're just as bad as your enemy. Which only furthers the fact that he genuinely does not believe in her moral judgment. It almost feels like he doesn't know Katara at all. In a way, you could argue that because he's always put her on a pedestal to the point where she was just a love interest and not a human being with complex emotions. 

On the other hand, Zuko seems not to be involved in this argument, and in fact, he lets her make the choices that she needs to make. He only speaks up when it is meant to make room for Katara to make her own choices. Zuko also disagrees with the Airbender teachings. Which is not offensive at all, since the Alta version of Buddhism is very whitewashed. But I think this goes into my argument of why Katara and Zuko feel so human and Aang doesn't. Because even though Aang experiences negative emotions through his Avatar outbursts, even with the well-justified grief of losing his people and Appa. Aang, to me, in a way, does not feel aware that he has negative emotions (or does not want to admit too). Which can make it frustrating when he lectures Katara on a topic she is well justified in feeling upset about. Because in some way he comes off of as being above the emotions she's feeling. When we see an episode later that he VERY MUCH experiences negative emotions. 

Katara and Zuko feel negative emotions, and they own them; they get upset over things such as the loss of a parent or feeling frustrated about not being able to accomplish something. They get angry, they feel bitter. They are willing to bite someone verbally to get how they feel out into the world. Aang is a goody two-shoes, but his ideologies feel puritanical and binary. They often feel black and white, which is why he slots Katara into those positions of good and bad. Zuko and Katara find nuance in humanity. They know the rules of right and wrong, but they also know the nuances between right and wrong. I think this is what makes Katara and Zuko feel so much more real: they know that not everything is black and white. Katara goes on an arc that teaches her about nuance, and Zuko goes through a redemption, but if you notice, he's not a goody two-shoes but rather someone who still indulges in “darker” emotions while preserving goodness.

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kat.aang fails as a friends to lovers dynamic for multiple reasons, but one of the most egregious is that katara’s friendship alone is never once valued by either the narrative or aang.

a good friends to lovers romance bases the will-they-won’t-they on the potential consequences of rejection. what if confessing ruins your friendship? what if by trying to be something different you lose what you already have? not only is this a relatable and interesting conflict that maintains romantic tension without making it seem contrived, it also does something more important: it denotes the importance and meaning of the characters’ existing bond, thus making it a worthwhile, believable framework upon which to build a romance.

but this is never the case in kat.aang. not once does aang worry about what confessing his feelings might do to his friendship with katara, or even entertain the possibility that their relationship could be strained or ruined as a result. rather, the romantic tension in kat.aang is driven by the fear of rejection itself: the worst outcome of this situation is not the loss of aang’s supposedly close friendship with katara, but the dreaded confirmation that friendship is all that will ever exist between them.

katara and aang don’t work as a friends to lovers ship because their platonic/familial relationship is framed as an obstacle to their romance, not a stepping stone. this is made most evident in the ember island players, when actress katara’s re-affirmation of her sisterly feelings for aang (coupled with her interest in zuko) is the catalyst for aang’s confrontation and subsequent violation of katara. katara’s platonic love here is a source of frustration to aang, not comfort; a reminder of what he does not yet have instead of what he stands to lose.

aang wanting “more” than friendship is not inherently bad, and his desire for a romance with katara does not, on its own, invalidate their relationship. but you cannot predicate a romance on friendship all while disparaging the continuation of said friendship in its current state as the worst thing that could happen to the dynamic of these two characters! doing so not only cheapens kat.aang’s platonic bond, it also reinforces the idea that the only type of relationship worth having with women is a romantic one; that friendship is nothing more than a poor consolation prize for the romance women rightfully owe their male friends. it’s a leaf taken right out of the good old Nice Guy misogyny and amatonormativity playbook.

and if even the narrative can’t be bothered to respect or buy into kat.aang’s friendship as the foundation of their romance, why exactly should i or anyone else be expected to do so?