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Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas Inspired Art

I created this piece to celebrate Catherine O'Hara; her life and one of her most iconic roles.

Rest In Peace, Catherine O'Hara.

This artwork is an original fan tribute and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Disney.

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Also if you're anti zutara because you think the ship is morally reprehensible then what do you think of white included mixed race couples irl, genuinely

it's a very flimsy argument especially considering that you'd just be outright ignoring Zuko's entire journey, Aang being the first to accept Zuko, plus the fact that they're...not real people like Pocahontas and John who have committed atrocities or been victims of said atrocities but I 100% invite this framing to its logical conclusion if you wanna stand by it. Racial purity for all! Also I guess fuck the Zukka shippers too 😂

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There is a way to make Kataang work,

but the fact that Bryke hasn't found it yet is emblematic of how hard Kataang is to pull off as a relationship framed through a lens that draws heavily on childhood dynamics, which creates tension when it’s later positioned as a mature romance.

Katara being in perpetual babysitting mode to Aang's immature outlook and principled, yet rigid moral frameworks has caused tension between them and tension with the female audience due to lived experience of these emotionally draining and lop-sided power dynamics. It should be noted that while characters can fight for the same cause, they can maintain antithetical moral frameworks based on how they relate and react to the world around them in similar situations and upbringings. These two in particular have shown very little wiggle room to reconcile these differences--if at all--without radical change in who these characters are as people. Which has been stagnated due to their dynamic as a couple.

Katara, always willing to overextend and smooth things over constantly because that's her son--I mean man. Aang, projecting his insecurities, anger, and morally grandstanding against anything that isn't a morally justifiable way of settling a score according to what he feels is culturally acceptable (i.e. the southern raiders episode). Rinse, repeat. Their relationship patterns are notable due to their misalignment in moral code, not a cute friends-to-lovers dynamic, which encourages a reduction of these two as individuals and a pairing to their tropes to make them fit. Their misalignment could be compelling if the script didn't default to their caretaking dynamic from their childhood when these problems do arise. Which begs the question of when Katara actually gets to operate outside of this caretaker role with Aang? Almost never, she just fucks him now. Thanks!

I'm not saying these characters don't love each other, it's just a hard sell to make that love romantic when they're not allowed to grow out of their childhood patterns. I would like to see what a mature relationship between the two looks like, but this hasn't been successfully depicted yet.

And the near constant digs at Zutara they think they're making in the source material against Zutara has only served time and time again to highlight what Aang is not and inadvertently shows how even more compelling Zuko and Katara are to think about together even while apart. I for one accept the concession.

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Bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny

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Watching Katara and Aang kiss BAAAARF

Bryke you two making Zuko and Katara literally asexual around each other makes Katara and Aang fraudulent off principle and that's why the movie got leaked🍅🍅🍅

I cannot wait to read the cheating fanfics!

I hate Kataang so much that if cheating were to be introduced in the actual show not only would I be okay with it but it would be natural to the plot. And the crazy part is Katara wouldn't be the cheater, it'd be Aang. I know no one read the awful comics but Aang has what is little more than an exclusively female harem masqueraded as an 'Avatar Fan Club' where we get glorious panels such as these:

punctuating the fact that their relationship is a mistake at best and an ego cling to a specific version of the script by Bryke at worst. Why are you subjecting the female audience to what is little more than a mother/big sister doting on a man child? Read the cultural room.

Gross!

Also Bryke trying desperately to overhaul Aang's design to be this massive 6'5 beefcake in order to outshine Zuko's innate hotness (lol) looks ridiculous. In fact goes against what should be a principle to Aang's design: short, compact yet strong Asian mountain Monk. He has 0 genetic proclivity to tall height. You can say it's fiction all you want but what I'm asking for is the line to be drawn when one of the head showrunners projects onto the main character to this degree. Aang will never be a heartthrob in the same way Zuko is.

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My V, her full name is Vega.

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Ahem excuse me but I must engage in fandom bloodsport from time to time.