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Do takes of katara is aang andthe gaangs mother grind your gears? are you sick of Katara Adultification?
This is the blog for you. A blog just for Katara and her childlike wonder/ ambtions/drive/ passion.. Katara fans can rejoice in having a blog just for katara that focues on her childish side.. cause . .she's a child..
i find it so interesting how people who ship zutara claim to love katara but are quick to call her every misogynistic name in the book under the pretense of criticism and undermine her achievements as is. they were doom-posting about the legend of aang movie before leaks, spreading lies that she was nothing but a "book-tok" girlfriend, only to be proven wrong yet again as katara plays a significant role throughout the movie. you barely see them acknowledging her feats, still spreading the rhetoric that aang saw her as nothing but a "baby-making" machine post-atla. in that same sentence, they want to turn around and talk about sex, sex, sex, and entertaining zutara affair allegations.
another thing that will never make sense is their hate and criticism of aang. he's the protagonist of the show; yet they simply refuse to dive deeper into his character than what's on the surface. their interpretation of his character is shallow and, more often than not, terrible, which is funny because you can ship zutara without disrespecting aang, love.
with this atla renaissance, i've been seeing the rhetoric that aang is nothing but bryke's self-insert as a gotcha! which is strange in itself bc what? so, the genocide survivor is nothing but a white man's self-insert? let's think this over carefully. it's sad how there's so much love put into the world of avatar; however, y'all will reduce it to something like that over fictional ships.
i can go on and on about how it's all deeply unserious, but please make it make sense to me bc 1+1=4.
But seriously, with the cute edits comes a return of the condensation. People didn't dislike Aang with Katara because he looked like the 12-year-old he was. I found it uncomfortable because they were in different places maturity-wise, and instead of him being a manic-pixie dream boy for Katara, he becomes someone else she has to parent.
as a somewhat zutara shipper /a multishipper of kataang/zukaang/zutara and whatever floats my boat i can't agree Katara babys aang she comforts him, she conforted zuko when he was scared to face Iroh, she comforts people, she wants people to have hope and is full of love . its just her empathic nature . aang is grieving and she hugs him that's not babying him thats being a good friend. while i can never experience a genoicide as a white person i have given a hug to people in grief . katara is just a kind soul but also she takes no BS either. she has fully disagree with aang and stood her ground on it , she isn't a mom she's a child. a 14 year old is a child. i dont get the whole its a baby thing to feel to want to care for a friend. she is a very empathic person and wanted aang to remain his fun carefree self and not get torn down by the war which i think is valid. He brought fun to her tribe and its what she valued about him heck s1 felt like sokka being the Parent as katara/aang went up to cause mischief and he was trying to rein the em and failing everyway. as an older sibling katara radiates younger sibling energy
katara never views aang as a son she even gets offended/ upset when referred to as a mom figure by Toph. i think toph projecting her mom issues onto katara latched onto aang/katara but it was A toph problem not katara and aang
the z//tara stans are so salty over the new movie i’m crying
no katara wasn’t turned into an airbender baby machine for having a single airbending child y’all need to let that shit go i beg
katara split the sea like moses and saved the gaang’s ass like three times and instead of focusing on that they’re… writing think-pieces about her being a baby maker? holy misogyny.
The Legend of Korra didn't ruin Katara's character.
This is one of the many things I've heard others claim for years; that The Legend of Korra "ruined" Katara's character by making her a "housewife" and "the Avatar's wife".
Katara isn't remembered or referred to as either of these things in the sequel series. She may not have her own statue like Aang, Toph, and Zuko, or isn't a fighter like she was in the original series during her youth, but that doesn't mean that she's insignificant.
She's remembered as being one of (if not) the most skilled and powerful Waterbenders in the world and even outlawed Bloodbending sometime after the Hundred Year War, something that Katara is against because of her own experiences with its horror, along seeing that the bending technique is extremely dangerous as it controls others against their own will and wants to prevent Bloodbending from being used for evil purposes.
Not to mention that Katara taught Korra waterbending and healing, encouraged Korra to follow her destiny when the latter tried to leave the Southern Water Tribe compound to go to Republic City.
She tried to restore the rest of Korra's bending (which was permanently blocked by Amon during Korra's final encounter with him), and played a critical role in Korra recovery from the latter's following the events of the season 3 finale by not only using her healing abilities and guiding Korra through physical therapy to regain Korra's strength in her limbs (mostly her legs), but also emphasized with what Korra was going through and was very patient with her, even when Korra snapped at her.
During that time, Katara provided a calm, supportive environment in the Southern Water Tribe for Korra for months, allowing Korra to process her trauma, fears, anger, and emotional turmoil, which culminated in Korra finally being able to walk again.
And what's wrong with being a housewife?
Women can choose whoever they want be, and there's nothing wrong if they choose to be a housewife or a stay-at-home mom.
Also, Katara isn't just "the Avatar's wife" and "Aang's arm candy" despite marrying Aang sometime after the events of the original series, and has never been considered like that.
Even in the original series during her youth, Katara isn't just "the Avatar's girl" and "the beautiful girl/love interest that Aang fell in love with".
Katara is her own character who isn't an object or a prize to be won; both in the original series and its sequel series.
More Katara sketches
Close ups
The last one was to just practice with hands, I lowkey like the sketch better
Which I will show here
Okay everyone is in love with me now
The GOAT
She’s fun to draw, too
ATLA faaaannssss 🗣🗣 Is anyone alive in this fandom??🗣🗣 Please accept me!!!🗣🗣
why is it that when I search up katara all that comes up is zutara or rarely kataang and kazula…💔
Quick Katara sketch before The Craving returns ⛓️
ngl I’ll never understand this view that Katara should be proud to bloodbend or something or that it’s some cool power she possesses and that she’s such a girl boss for it. the entire concept of bloodbending is presented as borderline horror both in ATLA and in TLoK.
Katara was forced to use the ability to save her friend and brother’s lives. she was lied to, lured into the woods and violated with it. just because Hama was from the same tribe doesn’t mean she isn’t Katara’s abuser and it doesn’t absolve her of what she did. Katara literally said “To reach inside someone and control them? I don’t know if I want that sort of power.”
and why tf would she? bloodbending literally allows you to control someone else’s body however you want. it’s a terrifying concept and completely understandable as to why in TLoK we hear that Katara had the ability outlawed. her using bloodbending willingly during The Southern Raiders was NOT some cool level up for her. it showed how she was not herself, how her grief was driving her to do something she is explicitly disgusted and horrified by.
katara wip!!
need to post so I'll finish but it's literally the toughest roughest unfinished sketch rn
almost forgot to post her on here oops🌊🌊🌊
“And I’ll be with you when you dream”
I’m bored, I want to hear everyone’s unpopular Avatar The Last Airbender opinions. And I don’t mean the ones like “Aang should have killed Ozai” or “Zutara should’ve been canon” because those have proven to be quite popular opinions. I mean the ones that almost no one talks about and you’d be afraid to bring up to a fan.
The fandom overrated the fuck out of bloodbending. We have been given no indication it has any healing potential that actual healing can't acheieve.
Concurrently, we've underrated healing as an art so massively. Like, the arc of Katara wanting to fight too is wonderful, but I think it served to make a lot of people consider healing as "lesser" when it is one of the most impressive bending skills we see.
