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she/her | 90s baby Zutara | Dramione | BreeSel | Everlark ao3 works at: archiveofourown.org/users/spacelattes

[spacelattesao3]

Playing with Fire

Chapter 14

🔥 New Chapter! 🔥

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: E

Summary: The first time that Firefighter Sozin gets called to her apartment is an accident. Katara's not so sure about every other time after.

[demonqueenbeee]

[samstatlight]

Baby Izumi 🥰🔥💧

[alicent-florent]

Avatar: The Last Airbender S02E07 "Something Broken"

[pigfartsviatardis]

I doubt this was what the actor was going for but the way Katara reacts here reads to me as very much how she might react if she’d been harbouring a lil crush on the blue spirit…

Like others have pointed out, the show makes it clear that Katara kept sneaking out repeatedly to be the painted lady, as did zuko at the same time to be the blue spirit, and this continued after they first encountered each other and zuko realised who she was. So they might well have had more interactions that we didn’t see, especially since zuko seemed to develop a minor fixation on Katara (watching her back at the villa, following her through the market). But possibly most telling… when the two of them are captured, the locals refer to him as her sidekick. Kind of a weird thing to say unless they’ve been repeatedly seen in action together. So, plenty of evidence that they’ve been working together in their vigilante disguises, and possibly even spoken a small amount.

When they get thrown into prison together without their disguises, zuko is tense and reluctant to turn around because he knows she won’t react well… but Katara seems excited to finally see who the mysterious blue spirit is, as though she’s been wondering about him and wanting to know more. And when it’s revealed that he’s none other than zuko, she is obviously angry and upset, but she also seems… embarrassed?? The ‘I’m such an idiot’ line and the turning away as though wanting to hide definitely caught my attention. It comes off like she’s not just shocked and disappointed that she was working with her enemy, but specifically horrified and frustrated with herself. For what? Perhaps for being so fascinated by the dashing blue spirit she felt such kinship with? Perhaps even for having daydreams of his identity reveal going very differently…?

Plus zuko’s reply and how he seems sad about her reaction, but very unsurprised. It would make sense if he KNEW they’d been vibing and maybe even flirting a little in their painted spirit disguises… but he always knew that would all change as soon as she knew who he was.

Yes obviously I’m viewing this with a heavy Zutara bias but that’s the funnest way to watch the show, sue me

[tonydestiel67]

Fanart #2 completed!

"You rise with the Moon, I rise with the sun!"

And they always meet at sunset!

I don't remember where I read that if Zuko knew about the necklace tradition, he’d probably forge one for Katara using a crystal from the Crystal Cave. But I loved that idea so much that I made the necklace the color of one of those crystals 🥹

[ly02170]

Soul Circle

Thank you so much! This scene is literally everything to me. Katara cautiously looking at the Blue Spirit... there’s just SO MUCH unsaid between them. I'm going crazy! I'm actually crying!

[achillesinhighheels]

Havana, Cuba, early 2000s

[whimsycinnamon]

that one tokka screenshot from the leaked movie @twinkle-toph iykyk :)

[country-bumpkin-cutie]

Modern day Avatar crew!

Thanks to all the buzz about the new movie, I’ve become obsessed with Avatar again! I still remember watching new episodes at five years old in my blue night gown because I wanted to be just like Katara! 🥹

[country-bumpkin-cutie]

The Gaang isn’t complete quite yet! Who could forget Toph and Zuko. I’m also working on Suki, too, because she deserves all the love! 💕

[anretoga]

They're enjoying this 2026 World Cup too! ⚽️🎊✨

[janadoesstuffwrong]

[heartfulselkie]

*opens word doc*

Good job, me! Time for a break.

[demaparbat-hp]

Dropping this early to honor NATLA dropping tomorrow 😌

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

[slasher-art]

Zuko, bc I ❤️‍🔥 fire bois 🤤

[modernmusess]

katniss: everyone’s so focused on protecting peeta because they too know how pure hearted he is and believe that he—a boy they’ve never even met before—deserves to survive over them and their friends of literal decades

finnick, to literally everyone else: okay if peeta dies she’s gonna kill all of us and then herself, so hands in, protect bread boy on three-

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[alwaysbewoke]

—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

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[transitoryparentheses]

This NPR Article!!

A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico

As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attentio

[lelouch]

Also, in the Mexican constitution, the first article mentions how slavery is prohibited in México and every enslaved person arriving here would be freed by virtue of being on Mexican soil, and protected by our laws