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[desertbcrnnobody]

More Kataang roasting because I'm done holding back but pregnancy cravings for Katara must have been so awkward.

She comes from a very heavy meat and fish based diet.

Having to adjust to Aang's diet to appease him ugh because I just know he wouldn't be the type to compromise.

[miss-sweetea-pie]

I think in canon it’s suggested that air nomads are more spiritually pure than others and that’s why they are all air benders(honestly gross line of thinking). I could definitely imagine Aang passive aggressively forcing Katara to adopt the vegetarian life style out of a moral superiority and thinking he’s going to get air bender that way.

[the-badger-mole]

I genuinely believe he was horrible about Katara's diet after Kya was born. He thinks Tenzin's birth justifies him, but he doesn't know that Katara was sneaking meat the whole time.

[truemetis]

You know, it occurs to me that we know from the Kyoshi novels that doing stuff as an Airbender that's not spiritual enough does weaken your airbending, so it would be really funny (though obviously shitty for Katara) if the kids not being Airbenders was his fault. What with him ignoring the whole "being a monk" thing and getting married. It would also definitely be in character for him to blame others rather than even consider it could be his fault. It would also be really funny because it would mean that getting married goes against Airbender beliefs enough that it effects your spirituality and bending but, as per Tagah and Zaheer, killing does not. Aang just totally fumbling his knowledge of his people's beliefs.

[radiofreederry]

Christ this is so fucking cool

[normal-horoscopes]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. There's so much going on here. I genuinely love the conception of gender as mystic autodeism. Gender as divine microcosm. Gender as Great Work. It's gnostic, it's alchemical, it's got notes of bacchanalian worship of the body and the inherent magic of self-discovery. This but unironically.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So much of these people's worldview comes down to a disgust at the concept of personal autonomy. Making decisions about your body, your circumstances or your future is a demonstration of unbelievable arrogance that must be beaten out of you, either before you take the action via making it as difficult as possible or after you take the action via punishment and scorn, so that you give up this sinful concept of owning your own life. They treat the world like abusive parents who are completely shocked that their "ungrateful" twenty year old children refuse to call them any more.

[eroticcannibal]

The act of simply watching people have sex is itself morally neutral. That's all porn is.

[kiss-of-light]

it isn’t, though. sorry if I’m missing a joke here but… it really, really isn’t.

[eroticcannibal]

It is. There is nothing wrong with watching people have sex. The morality of it depends on the context (buying porn from sex workers to watch is good, revenge porn is bad, for example), but watching people fuck? That's morally neutral. It's just watching some activities.

[kiss-of-light]

Almost all porn is abuse, you know that right? Most women in porn are drugged and then raped.

Even if she were paid, it would still be coercive, similarly to prostitution. You cannot buy women, or their consent. That immediately creates a coercive force that makes the consent invalid.

[eroticcannibal]

Ok so first of all you're lying. That is not how most porn works at all.

Regarding economic coercion, that's called having a job. But also I promise you there is a world of difference between trying to buy a person (for the love of fuck will you people ever aknowledge its not only women in porn and work conditions are a concern for EVERYONE involved) and someone making a career in porn.

Also re read what I said because you have said nothing that argues against what im saying AT ALL.

[queerautism]

The way these people talk about sex workers genuinely makes me sick. Sex workers are not being bought, they are not owned by people paying them. They are compensated for their services or performance, like every other worker. They own themselves no matter what. They deserve dignity and respect and their work not being described in such horrible fucking ways.

And it's genuinely fucked up to tell people what they can and cannot consent to tbh? You don't get to choose that for others and then try to say you genuinely care about consent. You just want to control people.

[eroticcannibal]

Absolutely right. We are people, we own ourselves, we decide what we do and don't want to do. Honestly if I attach the criteria of pay and a camera to my consent, denying me that is no less fucked up than forcing that on me.

Puritanical christians/radfems and rapists/traffickers are two sides of the same coin and all ultimately working towards the goal of ruining people's lives for their own benefit.

[autistichalsin]

Also, it needs to be repeated again that stigmatization of sex work leaves trafficking victims trapped. They are now in an even more socioeconomically disadvantaged position than before because no one will want to help an "icky porn star" who is being exploited.

To help trafficked and coerced sex workers we necessarily must end the demonization of sex work or else you are giving traffickers the literal tools to force unwilling people into it!

One of my family members was sex trafficked. Her case became a part of state legal precedent because her trafficker's conviction resulted in an expanded definition of one of the terms used to define trafficking (kept vague for the sake of my family's anonymity.) You know what one of the biggest barriers was to her getting help?

The fact that everyone she reached out to saw her as a stupid meth head "whore" and not a person who was fucking afraid for her life.

If society had shown sex workers some basic amount of decency, she might have had the social standing to get help sooner.

[dynastyscans-deactivated2024100]

remember: a big part of what "sex work is work" means is "let sex workers have workers' protections"

[vlad-theimplier]

I got to see a change in the criminal law, in real time, that shifted the window on how sex workers are treated in my state. Agencies that tended to treat them as perpetrators, even when they were victims, had their behavior changed the most. But even the more progressive police departments, and of course any number of labor- and benefit-related agencies, also got a few notches more understanding and accepting.

TL;DR: sex workers are people, sex work is work, and the road to utopia is paved with extremely boring legislation and administrative decisions.

[quantecosealmondopuoifare]

this is such a simple point but god it needs to be repeated. i keep seeing even young, progressive people say "porn rots peoples brain" no!! misoginy rots peoples brains!! a video of people having sex consensually is literally fine!!

[towerologia-sideblog]

and not to become wokezilla but it has me sat the way bigotry and all of bad things a person can do continue to be Explained Away by speculating the bigot must have brain damage it be from porn or whatever, its not that bigotry benefits the bigot in society, it couldnt be that, otherwise everybody (including me!) could become a bigot, and im Morally Pure and Leftist, so bigots must have some immutable Sick In The Head quality that actually makes them act this way, it be from birth or from consumption of media that I Personally find immoral

[demaparbat-hp]

The first two of ten new AUs I have to share. Keep your eyes open for the rest!

Bloodbound AU:

The vampire isn't like others of his kind. He's strangely gentle, has the self-esteem of a squashed bug, and took care of her injury without succumbing to the temptation of her blood. But in spite of all his virtues, the Prince is still a vampire, and he still needs to feast.

Luckily for Zuko, Katara knows of a criminal or two whose blood begs to be bent (and consumed).

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Republic AU:

Katara Tinik doesn't give up without a fight. Which is about as admirable as it is annoying, given that her latest endeavor is to ensure Zuko has no dignity left to uphold. As the Fire Nation Ambassador in Republic City, dignity is quite important, thank you very much.

Unfortunately, her team is in need of a firebender, and winning the pro-bending championship is more important to Katara than Zuko's low self-respect.

[sokkastyles]

It is really offensive to compare Iroh calling Azula crazy because she tried to kill him to women being diagnosed with hysteria because that diagnosis originated with men trying to cover up abuse. It has no place being used to defend Azula from actually facing consequences for her violence.

The person in this scenario that is being portrayed as irrational by posts like these because they spoke out against violence is Iroh.

Azula also frequently engages in this type of manipulation, most often with Zuko, who is repeatedly made to feel like he is crazy for speaking out against abuse. But she did very much fake surrender in order to get that shot in at Iroh.

But on a deeper level, both Zuko and Iroh actually have, as a major part of their narratives, being mistreated and gaslit because they spoke up against violence. Zuko's abuse gets the most attention, but Iroh is absolutely treated like he's irrational because he chose to retreat and stopped fighting the fire nation's war, called "kooky" and lazy and treated like a senile old man and a pariah. And this is also why Azula hates him.

Azula also engages in a more literal version of this in the comics when she takes women who actually have been abused by the mental institution and uses their abuse to convince them to follow her and further mistreat them.

So yeah, miss me with that DARVO shit.

[truemetis]

It remind me of Star Wars, when people get mad at Obi-wan and Yoda for telling Luke he needs to be willing to kill Darth Vader. Acting like that's such a terrible thing and forgetting Vader is responsible for *multiple genocide.* It's centring the villain over the victims and it happens a lot in media (and real life) and it bugs the shit out of me.

[jadeblueafterglow]

more leftists should be vegan. veganism and leftism operate on the same beliefs. social justice, no exploitation of labor, autonomy, environmental concern, intersectionality, an equal and just living etc. leftist praxis should include veganism

[moniquill]

Indigenously: no.

Animal welfare and animal rights are different things; it is good and normal for humans to be slightly anthropocentric while acknowledging our role within the greater ecosystem. Factory farming should indeed be dismantled- I want all animals harvested for food/leather/fur/bones/organs to have full and rich lives with as little suffering as possible before they're harvested. But it is not anti-leftist to live as a predator within the ecosystem. It is not more wrong for humans to eat salmon than it is for bears and eagles to do so.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

i used to work in a vegan restaurant and it had basically all the same labor and management problems as the other restaurants i worked at that served meat. obviously. because it was a business in a capitalist system so obviously theres an economic incentive to pay workers the bare minimum and charge customers the maximum you can get away with.

in fact, the restaurant used the vegan identity and environmentalism as fuel for their marketing in quite cynical ways. at the same time they had a deal with Whole Foods (implicated in prison labor allegations btw) to source ingredients, meaning that there were transcontinentally shipped produce lol. for example we used frozen blueberries that were product of Chile. for a restaurant in the pacific northwest region in the united states of america. there are blueberry farms in oregon, washington, etc. But it’s cheaper to exploit south american farms than get local blueberries i guess. (which still by and large exploit the labor of migrant farmworkers from mexico and south and central america, but i digress)

i was vegetarian at the time and i had a lot of deep conversations with my coworkers and manager and the conclusion i came away with is that veganism is merely a cultural practice and is not inherently “leftist” in any way. if you consider human lives equal to animal lives i think that is not compatible with a clear-sighted materialist analysis of the world we live in. its practically a religious belief. which, like, okay, you can be religious, you can have irrational beliefs, but that’s not what “”””leftism”””” is about. that’s not really what any socialist or communist theory is about. it could be syncretized with socialist theory, but it would always merely be an ill-fitting addendum.

[sokkastyles]

I just saw a post talking about that scene in natla of Iroh looking at the wall of names that said something like, "we already know Iroh is a war criminal" and it occurred to me that people think war criminal just means someone fought in a war and wasn't on the "correct" side.

[truemetis]

Everytime I attempt to get someone to explain what makes him a war criminal the most they manage was "he killed people" or "he seiged Be Sing Se" and no, sorry not war crimes. But then I've had people get real mad at me when I point out shooting retreating soldiers isn't a war crime either.

[birdgod456]

Do yall remember during the episode “Sokka’s Master,” Katara cracks 2 jokes (one about Momo shedding like Appa and another about Toph marrying Sokka), and Aang doesn’t respond positively at all to either of them?? He even says to the first joke that “jokes don’t run in the family.”

This is a smaller transgression in the mess that is Kataang, but it’s so baffling to me. Like, wouldn’t you want to find your (future) significant other funny? And his response is quite rude and unnecessary. I made a comment on a post the other day about how Aang doesn’t seem to like Katara, and this is just one of several examples of him not seeing her as a normal human being, one who makes silly jokes so that her friends don’t miss her brother as much. He doesn’t even bother to pretend to be amused.

There’s been an uptick in discussion regarding Aang seeing nothing wrong with how Katara is portrayed in the Ember Island Players, and it goes to show how Aang just…doesn’t seem to enjoy Katara’s essence and personality. He’s so worked up about being played by a girl that he doesn’t give a damn about Katara being shown as an over emotional woman who lusts over the “enemy.” No matter that Katara’s passion, optimism, and hope is what fuels the plot and enables other characters to overcome their obstacles. In fact, he agrees with this slut shaming portrayal of her, and blows up at her during their conversation on the balcony.

Aang is such a terrible partner to Katara. He doesn’t stand up for her, thinks she’ll jump straight to murder when it comes to Yon Rah, doesn’t find her funny, abandons her when things get tough, and overall rarely provides her with the support that she lends him. Apart from thinking she’s pretty and can be his mommy-wife, he rarely thinks of her highly.

Side note: You know who would find Katara’s corny/silly jokes funny though? Probably the guy who makes jokes about tea and forgets the punch line.

[sokkastyles]

Something about Aang hating being played by a girl in Ember Island Players and seeing nothing wrong with the misogynistic stereotype about Katara because men think that the worst thing you can be is a woman.

[archives468833]

Ty Lee's humiliation ritual.

Also known as the beach episode!

This is a continuation of the last post I made where I gave examples of how Azula failed Ty Lee as a friend.

Now we're moving on.

Fuck shit happens and now we're at the beach, surrounding a campfire. Zuko is pissed and starts throwing his family's portrait into the campfire flames.

Ty Lee tries to talk Zuko down and Zuko lashes out at her.

I'm annoyed with Zuko being an asshole but I don't particularly mind compared to Azula and Mai because Zuko was never portrayed as being a friend of Ty Lee. He's an ass, yes but his only connection to her is through his now ex-girlfriend and his golden child sister.

It makes sense that Zuko made this assumption about Ty Lee being ditzy (he doesn't say that but that's the jist of it) because he doesn't know Ty Lee. He knows of her.

Mai chides Zuko and tells him to leave Ty Lee alone. On one hand, I felt happy that someone in this damn episode said something on her behalf. On the other hand, it was a pretty weak attempt.

Zuko calls Ty Lee a circus freak and Ty Lee is obviously upset about this. The guy she tried so desperately to reach out to is now shitting on her. Just like at the party where Ty Lee reached out to Azula to vent, only to be slut shamed and victim blamed.

Azula being the ain't shit friend we all know her to be, is laughing at Ty Lee's humiliation.

But the moment Ty Lee tries to open again about her trauma relating to her childhood, Azula responds with exasperation. It isn't fun when the person you're kicking down is actively getting up huh?

Ty Lee breaks down into a tearful confession about her trauma.

And she tries to reclaim the term circus freak as a compliment. But this effort is pretty meaningless since Mai throws this curve ball.

Mai decides now is the perfect time to bring up Ty Lee dating history and slut shames her as well.

Mai is doing the "sexual behavior and history." This isn't coming from a place of empathy or realization, this is pure insensitivity wrapped as "telling it how it is."

When Zuko opens up about his trauma, everyone pays attention. When Mai opens up, Zuko praises her and smiles warmly. When Ty Lee does, she gets her dating history shoved in her face and her trauma ignored so everyone else to get their time to shine. Ty Lee doesn't get validation. Even Azula gets the focus on her from other characters.

Ty Lee reaches out to support her friends? Gets shat on.

Ty Lee reaches out to get support from her friends? Gets shat on.

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[carrionthird]

"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."

[dovewithscales]

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

[sokkastyles]

I know what this is supposed to be implying, but those words paired with a picture of two people who look exactly alike is hilarious.

"The air nomads were accepting of differences. That's why they lived in gender segregated temples and were monks who shaved their heads and dressed alike and practiced asceticism."

Alternatively, they practiced situational homosexuality, which is often the case in gender segregated institutions. Which is not the same thing as being accepting.

[truemetis]

I do have a really hard time believing that an order of spirituay detached monks would be accepting of any romantic relationships at all, but it would be kind of funny if they were generally accepting of homosexual relationships, but strictly forbid heterosexual ones outside of necessary procreation.

But maybe I'm just immature.

[haystarlight]

See no, because I have a bunch of questions about how air nomad straight relationships work

Because they can't live together because their temples are divided by sex so is every straight relationship a long distance relationship? Unless they move out of the temple I guess but I'm sure that's frowned upon

If they only have relationships for procreation, are there rules about how it's supposed to go? Do they assign you someone to have a kid with?

Can each couple only have one baby? What happens if there's twins? Are they not told that they're twins Parent Trap-style? How do you prevent against incest?

Is Aang going against his culture by having a family with Katara? The guy that wouldn't go against his culture to save the world?

[truemetis]

To answer the easy question first, if he is a monk as he says he is, then yes having a family with Katara would go against his culture. Like that's basically one of the most important parts of what being a monk is.

As for how relationships work, before the idea that all Airbenders are monks or nuns was confirmed the idea was that there were airbenders who weren't monk or nuns, they had relationships and the clergy didn't. After it was made to seem that all Air Nomads were monks or nuns the common head canon was that there were basically fertility festivals (with varying levels of how strict they were about individuals maintaining relationships vs requiring détachement) and that the resulting children would be sent to the temple opposite of their same-sex parent to be raised with the elders keeping birth records to prevent incest. Because again, spiritually detached monks. They shouldn't be having sex or kids at all but if they're the only members of their culture they kind of have to.

[sokkastyles]

Since there are four temples, you could send same sex twins to different temples. But you have to do a lot of headcanoning to make it work, and even then, either Aang is a monk and should not be in a relationship with Katara at all, or he should only be involved with women long enough to procreate and not have a family. Either way, no kataang.

But I'm willing to bet this is also why Bryke couldn't let any of the airbenders survive or bring back air nomad cultural practices. If Aang is the only one, he can do whatever he wants.

[wuekka]

I just add to this that remember reading airbending monks/nuns living in the temples wasn't actually the norm after they became adults apart from teachers/caretakers of the temples but they lived as nomads. So moving out of the temples wasn't frowned upon.

[truemetis]

Oh was that canonized? The temples being mostly children and the elderly was a longstanding Fanon. Which does leave the question of how if most of the adults lived as nomads how the Fire Nation managed to catch them all. But that's always been an issue. The main headcanons for solving it either being "festival that required everyone to return to the temple" or "they didn't actually get everyone" but yeah thinking about it if the adults are the main nomads then the relationships could be then. But still monks and nuns. Unless adults stop being so until they're elderly again. Which afaik renouncing your vows is a thing in Buddhism, but it's not something we see Aang do and I've no reason to believe others did it.

[sokkastyles]

I know what this is supposed to be implying, but those words paired with a picture of two people who look exactly alike is hilarious.

"The air nomads were accepting of differences. That's why they lived in gender segregated temples and were monks who shaved their heads and dressed alike and practiced asceticism."

Alternatively, they practiced situational homosexuality, which is often the case in gender segregated institutions. Which is not the same thing as being accepting.

[truemetis]

I do have a really hard time believing that an order of spirituay detached monks would be accepting of any romantic relationships at all, but it would be kind of funny if they were generally accepting of homosexual relationships, but strictly forbid heterosexual ones outside of necessary procreation.

But maybe I'm just immature.

[haystarlight]

See no, because I have a bunch of questions about how air nomad straight relationships work

Because they can't live together because their temples are divided by sex so is every straight relationship a long distance relationship? Unless they move out of the temple I guess but I'm sure that's frowned upon

If they only have relationships for procreation, are there rules about how it's supposed to go? Do they assign you someone to have a kid with?

Can each couple only have one baby? What happens if there's twins? Are they not told that they're twins Parent Trap-style? How do you prevent against incest?

Is Aang going against his culture by having a family with Katara? The guy that wouldn't go against his culture to save the world?

[truemetis]

To answer the easy question first, if he is a monk as he says he is, then yes having a family with Katara would go against his culture. Like that's basically one of the most important parts of what being a monk is.

As for how relationships work, before the idea that all Airbenders are monks or nuns was confirmed the idea was that there were airbenders who weren't monk or nuns, they had relationships and the clergy didn't. After it was made to seem that all Air Nomads were monks or nuns the common head canon was that there were basically fertility festivals (with varying levels of how strict they were about individuals maintaining relationships vs requiring détachement) and that the resulting children would be sent to the temple opposite of their same-sex parent to be raised with the elders keeping birth records to prevent incest. Because again, spiritually detached monks. They shouldn't be having sex or kids at all but if they're the only members of their culture they kind of have to.

[sokkastyles]

So Aang stans are admitting now that their harassment of zutara shippers has nothing do with pacifism? Just like it has nothing to do with trying to protect indigenous women or caring about genocide victims?

Aang is a pacifist and a soft boi until it's a dick-swinging contest because Aang stans are so threatened by zutara.

[sokkastyles]

I think the reason Aang did not get involved when Katara was hating on Zuko (despite wanting her to forgive her mother's murderer) was the same reason that Bryke said that Katara would never get over Zuko trying to kill Aang (even though she canonically forgave him), and the same reason Sokka and Toph rely on Katara while also painting her as irrational.

Imagine that after The Southern Raiders, Aang notices Katara making teasing comments towards Zuko. He's all "here we go again lol" until something happens. Suddenly Zuko is laughing and making teasing comments back. Katara isn't picking at Zuko any more, she's laughing with him. And suddenly the person he relies on to always defend him to the point of irrationality is laughing and talking with Zuko instead.

[frogpropaganda]

Nothing nothing it's just the unintentional parallel between A.ang telling Katara he understands her pain and anger for her mother's murderer because his pet/car got stolen once and then years later yelling at her that she doesn't understand what it's like being the last of her people (when she definitely does).

The unintentional parallel of young, teenage villain Zuko talking a bunch of shit about how the safety of his crew doesn't matter but doing the right thing when the time comes and putting the safety of the crew above his goals and years later A.ang as a grown ass man and alleged hero of the story selfishly putting his goals above everyone else's lives and getting them all killed for it.

The unintentional parallel of Zuko selflessly giving his life for Katara and Katara healing him and then years later A.ang's selfishness getting everyone killed but it's okay cause he's got the Katara ex Machina magic healing water plot armor to save him and everyone else from the consequences of his selfish choices. How Katara saved herself, him, and everyone else after he put them all in harms way, while over a decade prior she was saved by Zuko who was acting selflessly, facing his sister alone to prevent Katara from being hurt, and then she saved him after he sacrificed himself.

Zuko protects Katara by facing Azula alone -> Zuko nearly DIES for Katara, sacrificing his own life and the success of their mission so that she can live -> Katara protects Zuko, defeats Azula, and repays his sacrifice by saving his life

Push, pull.

A.ang puts Katara and everyone else in danger by trusting a complete stranger -> A.ang gets everyone including Katara killed by putting his own goals over the lives of his friends -> A.ang gets HIMSELF killed -> it's okay bc Katara resurrects herself and everyone else, repays him for putting them all in danger and getting them all killed by bringing him back to life and no one is even a little bit mad about it.

Push, push, push, push. Take and take and take. No reciprocity.

If they wanted to make the canon ship appeal to more people they could've shown A.ang doing anything anywhere near as selfless and sacrificial and romantic as Zuko choosing Katara's life over his own during the Agni Kai but instead they have him get killed not through sacrifice but through selfishness and then have his government-assigned mommy-gf thanklessly clean up his mess for him, again.

[sokkastyles]

Aang is still not an adult at 25 but Zuko has been running the fire nation since he was 17. get it together bryke!

All the more reason for Katara to go looking for a real man.

No, but remember what I said about the show bending backwards to preserve Aang's innocence while zutara antis paint Zuko, who was never allowed to be a child and kicked out of his home at thirteen, as a violent killer and a "bad boy."

[truemetis]

Weird late night thought but I bet in the Avatarverse years later there's going to be a lot of revision about the end of the 100 by scholars with the benefit of hindsight and it's not gonna be all that nice to Aang.

I'm imagining some kind of Columbus/Churchill/Edison thing where the average person does (or did) think of them as great men but the average historian likes them much less.