#kataangcaps

[eskalations]

sorry, I'm on a kataangcaps spree

[cloudbending]

Life Goal

Have the admins of

avatarjenny

avatarious

avatarparallels

avataraang

fanandboomerang

kataangcaps

meelo

makos-lightningrod

penguinsledding

probending

thetalesofbasingse

bryankonietzko

michaeldantedimartino

greydelisle

and pjbyrne

follow this blog.

[spootywabbit]

Every time Kataangcaps reblogs something from me, my heart flutters. 

[derrierebender]

Okay wow

Avatar fandom shit storm brewing Wankery abound - Kataangcaps, calm your shit. Nyansurf, ???!? I am so done with all y'all, I can't - K bye P.S. [for everyone] please stop using the term 'Avatard' kthnx

[blurbery]

#the worst would be if the next panel was katara putting pandalilies on aang's grave

follow up for this. i'll tell you all when i start feeling guilty.

[zutaracaps]

I love how bias KataANGERs are. They put all the blame on Zutarians for starting ship wars when their pwecious Bryan is the biggest drama queen of the Kataang fandom. 

He is almost 40 years old and he's reviving petty ship wars. SO FUCKING SAD. If you're not going to account Bryan's childish shit stirring, then quit bitching. jfc

[jhenne-bean]

OHHHHH YOU'RE COMING FROM KATAANGCAPS.

Well that explains a lot, lol.

Unfortunately she has me le blocked, so she''ll never see my response here :C

Only this post and this one and the fact that I sometimes snark/expound on my own ship feels on kataang gifsets I think?

(ok I see the problem there, you work hard on a thing and someone is like THIS IS PRETTY BUT I DISAGREE sorry if I hurt the feelings of the creators, that is shitty~)

But those first two posts

l o l THE HORROR.

[There's no feud tho? To the best of my knowledge? We just kind of mutually annoy each other with our commentary on things, lmao]

[jhenne-bean]

but typically when you give a character a huge exaggerated feature like that, it’s to peg them into a more goofy sidekick/sexless category and that’s what it felt like they were doing. 

So, OP initiated shipping-strawman bullshit aside, I find this statement realllllly problematic. 

It's just gross on a number of levels.

If I give them the benefit of the doubt in terms of, say, a really 101 character design book, I can possibly see what KataangCaps is getting at here...but said aligning of "big nose = WACKY COMEDY" is a little outdated in terms of visual cues, and hints at a weak understanding of both character design and the importance of varied body types/facial features. (And even without calling it outdated, it's still problematic and not at all what Luck was implementing. She even explained her intentions right here on the original post.)

Also? Did she give him "huge, exaggerated" features?

They looked pretty commonplace and plausible to me.  

Here's some Zuko noses (since OP loooves bringing up some Zuko) for comparison:

Hm.

It's almost like the noses aren't meant to be inherent indicators of HAWTNESS or GOOFINESS or SEXOSITY at all. 

Especially considering the fact that big noses (and in Aang's case, rounder features), and hotness/attractiveness are not mutually exclusive, and that it's really gross and closed minded to imply that they are!

And, expanding things a bit, I'd mention that in Western media, it's Asian males that are presented as the "goofy sidekick" or placed in the "sexless category ". 

That considered, I find it funny that Older!Aang is so openly embraced as OMG TEH HAWTNESS when his features are (in my opinion, and the opinion of quite a few other peeps) more visually White. 

And that when defending the sudden angular aspect of Aang's face, fans were quick to rain down pictures of White guys as a testament of puberty -> hotness. Of course, it gets even grosser once you tie that in with OP's overarching sentiment about hotness and shipping "worth."