#antibryke

[sweetpea67]

If Kataang were really the lifeblood of the show Bryke wouldn’t have to keep digging up Zutara’s freshly murdered corpse to make fun of it.

Why are they so obsessed with us.

[lilyinthevale]

yk, with all this news about projects getting leaked and cancelled and hidden truths coming out about how terrible brykes leadership is under avatar studios, it’s no surprise they are receiving karma after bullying kids and teenagers who shipped Zutara years ago.

“Whoever ships Zutara will forever have doomed relationships”

well they just digged their own grave because the universe UNO reversed card them forever being doomed to fail with anything after the og show🖕🏾

[0bscvr1ty]

The best ATLA comic. Argue with the wall.

[theladykalliope]

The way Bryke perceived Katara, not just as a character but in relation to Aang and in relation to the other characters, has bled into the depiction of every female character in this series. Suki, Korra, Azula, Mai, Toph, Lin Beifong, I could go on. As a kid, I never understood it, but it's so glaringly obvious as time went on. It's honestly heartbreaking the more you think about it.

[johnskleats]

is anyone going to tell the kat@angers that it's not feminist activism to argue Katara's arc in LOK is fine on the grounds that "some women want to be homemakers and that's okay!!"

Like you're not helping real women that way. In fact, most antis for the cannon ship ARE women. Many are homemakers themselves.

Katara is not a real woman. She is a fictional woman written by men.

Can the sensibilities and wishes of a girl change by the time she is a adult? Yes!

But as this is a textual character who, as per the text, rejects the societal structure of her fictional world (which mirrors our own) that women are and can only ever be docile homemakers (i.e. I don't want to heal, I want to fight; I will never turn my back on people who need me; let's start a prison riot; let's engage in vigilante ecoterrorism; let's pitch an absolute fit because the boys are not pulling their fair weight in the homemaking; let's confront my mother's killer at the absolute rejection and condemnation of the male figures whom I am to respect; etc) it is perfectly reasonable to argue that this end was not a natural course for her character.

Fictional characters are not real people. This means that they do not change their mind off screen. That is not an acceptable argument. That is called a "plot hole", which is a nonsensical change made at the convenience and contrivance of the writer(s), who in this case are men exhibited to not care for women or girls all that much. It is within THEIR character to write this way.

Regardless of who, if anyone, Katara ended up with, Katara tolerating disrespect, neglect, abuse of her children, giving up all of her former aspirations to live in the shadow of men, and dying as a mere footnote in history (and being alright with it!!) is not surprising given the absolute vitriol Bryke has shown toward female fans of their "creation". It was supposed to be a "boy" show. It was always supposed to be a "boy" show. The creators of Supernatural and Game of Thrones did the same thing. ATLA just did it first.

Arguing "not all women" is not activism in the face of what is really happening in this discourse. Sending death threats to real, actual women with feelings in defense of a fake pretend woman's fake pretend autonomy is performative activism, and worse, hypocritical.

Not all women agree with you. Not all women feel represented and find the outcome of Katara's story satisfactory. If y'all care about feminism and respecting women's choices so much, lay off the real life women you're so fond of harassing. Our views and opinions, while opposing your own, don't affect you.

[mayimorr]

An intro post on why I’m here and how all of my angst came to be! Angst under the cut.

So when the whole Avatar Renaissance started I got really grumpy and moody. My husband was a bit like “hey are you okay you seem to have a lot of angst over a show that ended over a decade ago that you watched as a kid” and I flat out started to cry about it. I was hugely surprised. Surely I wasn’t crying about my favorite ship not being canon, that’s insane.

I knew that wasn’t it, but I couldn’t place why. Despite the fact that after the birth of my second child I took a complete break from writing and fandoms of any kind, I knew I probably needed to rewatch this damn series to figure out just what about it was upsetting me.

The rewatch revealed SO many things to me that as a child I didn’t have the words to describe. I didn’t realize how much twelve year old me clung to Katara, how much I saw of myself in her. I also grew up somewhere isolated and far flung with an absurd amount of responsibility, to include parenting a brother, doing an inappropriate amount of emotional and physical labor to maintain a home, and still wanted something more for myself and felt very selfish/bad about that. This was apparent to me from the pilot episode and it really hit me hard.

As I watched the series, constantly seeing Katara put in this role where she has an undue amount of responsibility to almost everyone (besides Zuko) around her, watching her constantly be expected to be perfect, to just give more of herself to everyone around her it was honestly pretty devastating. When the series ends and you see her consigned to the fate of being with someone she’s constantly had to mother the entire duration of the series it made me feel legitimately sick.

The problem is this happens SO often in real life. We are expected, as women, to be never ending fonts of mercy, compassion, and comfort to everyone around us, to constantly give, give, give, until there’s nothing left for ourselves, until our feelings are gone and all we are is a comfort object or rehabilitation center for the people in our lives who can’t survive without us. I am beyond thankful that I didn’t end up in a relationship like that, but HONESTLY it’s probably pure chance, because I was set up to think that’s normal.

So yeah anyways that’s why I’m traumatized by a childrens cartoon series and am now finally, after all this time, touching the fandom with fixit fic to heal. 😂 I’m happy to be here and figuring it all out while writing fanfic for the OTP that truly in many ways shaped a huge part of who I am and the way I consume fiction in general.

[writebecauseyoucannotbreathe]

Bryke: Do not ship Aang x Azula.

Me:

[stayflaminn]

this is totally canon :)