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Once I saw someone hating on Azula calling her a horrible person and whatnot and genuinely just saying terrible shit about her and it made me cry because the atla fandom will love and adore an old fart who committed war crimes because he’s funny but treat an unloved mentally ill 14 year old who just lost her only friends/stability in life like she bombed every city in the world

like no ones saying Azula is the most moral character in the show but she’s definitely not the least

it just makes me sad because Azula’s treatment is very much coated in sexism and how women’s mental health is viewed, especially in younger girls in media, like zuko gets to be “complex” “deep” character while Azula is “pure evil”, when Azula is equally complex if not more complex than her brother.

0bscvr1ty

The fact that Iroh learned lightning redirection from water benders has some rather dark implications if one thinks about it. Because I doubt he's learned it from Pakku...

Agreed. He was fully supporting the Siege of the Northern Watertribe during the Book 1 finale. But apperantly drew the line at koi hunting. It's not a good look.

0bscvr1ty

ⓘThe one question I have about the Last Agni Kai.

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⚠︎TW: Eyestrain, bright blue and white.

0bscvr1ty

I feel sorry for him

vasyandii

I feel bad for him too though I personally like throwing him around like a tennis ball and shaking his enclosure to scare him

0bscvr1ty

He was probably born 75AG. Four years later, crowned at age four, in 79AG. I read through his entire fandom wiki page trying to see where they pulled the estimated information from but I was so damn tired.

zuko-always-lies

Historically Accurate Polyamory and ATLA?

One thing that's inexplicably on my mind right now is that East Asian royal families were generally historically polygamous, so if you wanted to have Azula or Zuko or King Kuei or some other Fire Nation or Earth Kingdom royal or noble take multiple partners, that would actually be reasonably historically accurate. It seems like the Fire Nation royalty has avoided polygamy in recent decades (or you would expect the royal family to be much, much bigger), but isn't the point at the end of the series that they are supposed to return to old ways?

Interestingly, some of this applies to the Water Tribes as well. Although I don't know nearly as much about this subject as I know about East Asian royalty and I don't want to say anything too confidentially, I know some Inuit groups sometimes practiced polygamy. I also know that some groups sometimes practiced "spouse exchanges" where two couples would temporarily exchange spouses in order to create fictive kinship between them. Although the SWT is not identical to historical Inuit groups and the NWT in particular seems very, very different with it's city and state, I think you could definitely justify polyamory being in the tradition of both Water Tribes.

While the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Water Tribes might have traditions of polygyny (where one man marries multiple women), the Air Nomads might have a very different traditions. They are inspired at least in part by Tibetan Buddhism, and Tibet has it's own traditions of plural marriage. Historically, the most common type was fraternal polyandry, in which two or more brothers would take the same wife. However, apparently polygyny, conjoint marriages, and of course monogamous marriages were also historically acceptable in Tibetan society. Of course, there were specific economic reasons why fraternal polyandry made sense in Tibet, which might not apply to the Air Nomads and we really don't get a sense of how their marriages and family life might look like, but it's another reminder not to force their culture into "Western marriage norms, circa 2007."

With all the various forms of plural marriage that would theoretically be culturally appropriate, I think you can culturally justify just about any form of polyamory you are interested in writing.

0bscvr1ty

Am I the only one bothered by a lack of information on who Lu Ten's mother was?

You mean to tell me that if Lu Ten is crown prince and general Iroh's firstborn and only biological son, that the mother of this monarch is... a mystery?

Wouldn't the fire nation demand proof his blood is noble?

This is the only information we have on Lu Ten.

Was she even Fire Nation? Was it even love?

Just bringing it up since, reminder, Iroh was an oppressor. A damn happy one about it.

In your opinion/imagination, Lu Ten's mother was...

Iroh's legal wife

A concubine (meaning she had some degree of official status)

Iroh's mistress

A prostitute

A married woman Iroh was having an affair with

An upper class Earth Kingdom woman Iroh met/"met" on campaign

A lower class Earth Kingdom woman Iroh encountered on campaign

A water tribe woman Iroh met

Someone Iroh had a one-night stand with

Something else (please explain in the tags)

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I ask this question because in all the official, "canon" material Lu Ten's mother is suspiciously absent.

#Iroh #Lu Ten #ATLA #atla poll #atla polls #yes i'm ignoring natla here #it's just weird how absent she is #whoever she is

0bscvr1ty

@timur-pannonicus

Follow his eyes.

0bscvr1ty

@zuko-always-lies we gotta assemble the army

0bscvr1ty

Jeong Jeong showed more regret than Iroh by the way.

It's okay, my pathetic hermit, I forgive you.

sial-nawfed

"i dont like intersectional feminist terminology because it implies that i have the capacity and means to enact violence and thats unfair because im literally so niceys" - one of the most dangerous and unsafe people youll ever meet

sial-nawfed

these people will say "hey dont group me in with all the other white/male/cis/TME people, im one of the good ones" without a shred of self-awareness

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