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ATLA Fighting Tournament, Semifinals
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ATLA Fighting Tournament, Semifinals
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I'm sorry I really don't buy Zuko being friends with the rest of the gaang post war like he's SUCH an odd man out compared to the rest of them and he has the least reason to stick around 4 other people given that he's an absolute monarch and is kind of busy. Post-war zuko is like, a guy they're friendly with and get invited to events for not a guy they hit up for tea every week, they barely even know him
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The fandom tries to get around this by putting the Gaang in the Fire Nation for dubious reasons (“ambassador”) as if they don’t have better things to do than orbit around Zuko, a guy they spent one or two very stressful weeks with as an ally after several months of him being their enemy
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I genuinely miss the late 2000s when ZKs had colonized the shipping discourse of this media-illiterate fandom, because at least we got actually good dark, angst fan content and the romantic scene wasn’t all vanilla “ZuTaRA iSn’T cANoN”
Are you kidding? Since when did zutara have any good dark content? Their "dark" is either romanticising abuse (Zuko raping Katara, which makes her fall for him, mmm, disgusting) or blood bending (which is an assasination of Katara's character) and making Katara a ruthless murderer (which she canonically isn't, watch your favorite TSR). Their angst is just "ah-ah, water and fire can never be together but they will be by the end of the fic anyway without any problems". This is not good. This is bland. Their fanfiction will never have a real racism is the FN towards the WT, they will have the universally beloved fireladykatara – maybe have one small background villain who dislikes her and will be punished for that immediately. They will not have "steambabies" facing said racism. They are afraid of real darkness. They will have zutara as fanfic endgame, married with kids, not, say, departed forever, separated by death or anything like that. They will have nothing good and dark.
You all just continued to saddle Zuko with that abuser Mai, despite the physical and mental turmoil she inflicted on him, instead of letting him feel the love of a decent maternal woman in canon.
Ah, so when Katara is nice to Aang, she's motherly and that's bad, but when Zuko needs Katara to mother him, it's good and sexy. Make it make sense.
And yes, in fanfiction she does mother Zuko much worse than she did with Aang in animated series and cleans Zuko's (and his nation's) mess 24/7. Wow, such empowerment.
people were absolutely brutal to Zuko. They demonized him, character-assassinated him, tossed him to the side for Kataang hetslop.
No one assasinate characters like zks. Gone is Zuko's complexity, he will be soft uwu boi who never did anything wrong. Or gone is his awkwardness, he will be effortlesly charming to swoon Katara right away. Or gone is his moodyness, he will be easygoing, sociable, fun-loving, easy to laugh. Same with Katara – gone is her kindness, now she will love killing and hurting people. Or gone is her anger, now she will be a spineless doormat, who cannot do a thing against opression until fanZuko saves her. Or gone is her love for her people, now she only loves luxury and is ashamed of her native kitchen, customs, etc. Moreover, all other characters are assasinated as well! No one is allowed to be a tiniest bit nice to Fantara, because fanZuko is so awesome he will lose to anyone better than absolute shit! FanToph exists only to tease Katara and Zuko for being into each other, fanSokka either comically fights Zuko for his sister's honor or swoons over everything linked to Zuko way more than he does in zukka fics (no kidding). Don't even make me start on Aang and Mai. Hakoda, Iroh, Ursa, Yue, the spirits – everyone gets twisted and butchered in the fics so that zutara could happen.
Finally we’ll have a leg up and you Kataangs can eat a slice of humble pie in the corner while Zuko enjoys the spoils of (shipping) war: Katara by his side, and an actually narratively cohesive couple with actual chemistry.
How fun that you don't give a damn about what Katara wants... All benefits are for Zuko only. Telling.
Also what chemistry are you talking about? Natla is pretty weird about characterisations, so whatever makes you happy I guess, but the original show has zero romantical chemistry between Katara and Zuko, they only become friends by the very end.
Kataang could not exist at all and yet zutara wouldn't make any damn sense.
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lol funniest thing. I remember zutarians being salty that Katara didn’t get a statue in republic city but it’s like bb Zuko had the statue of Aang made .
The dude yall ship her with didn’t even want to make one for her, but he made one for Aang.
lol. This isn’t meant to be zutara critical I just find it kind of funny.
It’s giving Sakura chasing sasuke and sasuke only caring about Naruto. 😭
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Zuts:
Spend 20 years saying Aang is an abuser, manipulator in southern raiders (also a child being babysat and not responsible but also responsible for himself and actions) Make fanfics about Zuko being empath Femenist despite barely understanding 3 girls from his own country one being his own sister 3 weeks ago. (Gets boner after seeing Bloodbending execution eye gouging in fanfics)
Aang Fan Making Meta:
Actually I think Aang was giving good advice when compared to Zu—
Zuts: OH MY GOD HERE WE GO FOCUSING ON MALE CENTRIC VIEWING OF STORY. erm you know this episode is actually Katara centric and no one was right this episode it’s supposed to be grey and deep…Aang was really out of line forcing his morality and Zuko was being racist about genocided pre schools but erm redemption is slow and he apologized offscreen so erm…stop making it about shipping wars bro see we as Katara fans don’t do this and it’s all just about her and the story. ☝️🤓
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Zuts: Spend 20 years saying Mai is a bossy cruel abuser and manipulator in The Beach. Doesn’t understand the Holy Turtle Duck Heart of Zuko unlike “good girls” like Katara/Jin/Toph/June/Song. Makes fanfics of her becoming evil/getting killed.
Maiko loving Mai Fan:
I think Zuko is the one with a bit more emotional problems and issues… he has some things to work on his life to make the relationship Wo-
Zut: Erm you know it really sounds like you just wanna burden Mai and expect her to be a goddess for a guy like Zuko who has a lot of problems. you see as a totally neutral shipper I don’t get why Maiko fans are so entitled to their ship being real when they’re just as messy as fanon dynamics from both sides of the characters.☝️🤓. Zuko should actually just be Firelord and not have ended with romance to Take his character seriously and Mai really deserves a lot better since she’s like imprisoned in the comics. Free Her. 🖤😢🎭
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Zutaras unironically saying "He's had 13 years to get over it, Aang shouldn't still be this emotional about the genocide" genuinely, genuinely makes me sick to my stomach.
They'll call everyone else a conservative then use the same lines conservatives use against us about getting over stuff that happened within living memory and still ripples throughout communities. Always tone policing grief because the marginalized have to be perfect and unemotional or else we're the ones in the wrong, we're irrational and stupid and mean. That the victims must always remember to center everyone else's comfort and stifle their own emotions or else they deserve all the pain they have.
Even beyond the social aspect, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how grief psychologically works in the first place. But the marginalized aren't allowed those normal human emotions, they have to get over it and turn off their human hearts on command.
Saying such heinous heartless anti-human shit over some mid ass hetslop is wiiiild.
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The idea that people genuinely think Katara would cheat on Aang with anyone lowkey makes me sick iwl this is the girl that was asking a fortune teller about her future husband because she's so obsessed with the idea of true love, she is not going to have an affair on her husband for any reason, let alone Zuko of all people its a borderline assassination of her character
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The idea that people genuinely think Katara would cheat on Aang with anyone lowkey makes me sick iwl this is the girl that was asking a fortune teller about her future husband because she's so obsessed with the idea of true love, she is not going to have an affair on her husband for any reason, let alone Zuko of all people its a borderline assassination of her character
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Why is zuko everybodies dad according to the fandom? Izumi is his only canon child, but theres also ppl thinking he's also the dad of kya, bumi, lin, and suyin. Apparently, he's the only fertile man within the 4 nations. We're 2 moments away from him, somehow being tenzins dad too.
The only ones who think Zuko is the dad of Kya and Bumi are zks who are coping and no one takes them seriously except themselves because they can’t imagine Aang having children and he must stay as a genderless, sexless, passive amorphous child Peter Pan-like blob forever at 12.
Au contraire, the others have some actual fandom discourse with Lin but even then the Zutoph community is so small its not overbearing and can actually be discussed with nuance. Though Suyin being Zuko’s child is straight cope too however only a very small fraction of the Zutoph community (which is already very small) believes that. Most split it between Lin being Zuko’s kid and Suyin being Sokka’s.
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*takes the hand of a period drama writer gently* A queen consort is not a queen regnant. A dowager queen is not a queen regnant either.
There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.
I know this is a bit of a bummer. I'm sorry.
For clarity:
Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.
Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.
Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.
Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.
Queen mother: Woman who is the mother of the monarch. Usually the dowager queen, though there are exceptions if there isn't a straight line of succession.
Craziest thing to me still is that Avatar Legends genuinely calls the asylum they put Azula in a "Fire Nation mental health treatment facility" like theyre running PR for the Fire Nation
if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed
this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.
try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.
there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.
also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!
Another note: YOU CAN'T WASH IT OFF!
Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.
Thank you OP for posting! Usually washing does work on most sicknesses, just not this one.
Wait when did zuko try to kill suki?? scene? or pic
This is the scene the anon was referencing.
One of my suspicions about Iroh is that he finds forming genuine emotional connections with other people every hard (and Zuko/Lu Ten are some of the only times he's ever managed it in his life), but he's very good at hiding this.
People really don't talk about this, but Aang actually marrying Katara is a real big deal for him and a cultural concession even since the Air Nomad culture he's so desperate to somehow preserve doesn't seem to include marriages at all. The same is true for raising his biological kids. In the culture Aang is from, biological parents just don't do that. You raise children, but not your own.
In terms of what their family looks like, it seems to be much closer to Water Tribe traditions than Air Nomad traditions.
