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Here's kataang art dump. Reprise.

P.S. don't ask me why I handed Katara what looks suspiciously like an electric trimmer.

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Mal's Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch: The Drill 2.13

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them: aang’s trophy wife

the series:

master katara and her husband

two legendary heroes and world leaders

Yuuuup :)

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“Someone will remember us, I say,”

“Even in another time.”

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Quick breezy boy doodles

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The Southern Raiders

Been meaning to make my own post about this episode for a while now, so hear it is. The main thing I hear about this episode is that Aang didn't understand Katara's pain at all but Zuko did. The notion that a genocide survivor doesn't understand another genocide survivor is certainly one hell of a take, and it's very stupid. Are we really going to forget the air nomad genocide?

Aang lost EVERYTHING because of the war. And to make it worse? He feels guilty because he wasn't there to stop it from happening (even though he wouldn't be able to do much since he hadn't mastered the four elements yet) because he ran away from his duties as the avatar. When Aang finds Monk Gyatso's body in the Southern Air Temple episode, he's overcome with so much grief and anger that he triggers the avatar state:

Katara herself even compares what she's been through to what Aang was feeling in this moment by saying "I know how hard it is to lose the people you love! I went through the same thing when I lost my mom." Certainly sounds like two people who understand each other perfectly if you ask me. Also, in the Lost Adventures comics, we're shown that the Fire Nation used a dirty tactic to smoke out any other airbenders that might have escaped from the genocide.

We see how happy Aang was to learn that some airbenders may have survived, only to find out that it was all a lie to capture any remaining survivors. At the end of the comic he looks disappointed and crushed knowing that the possibility that air nomads fell for this trick and were killed as a result.

A lot of people take Katara saying "I knew you wouldn't understand" to Aang as her saying that he doesn't understand her pain, but if you actually look at the context? That's not what she's saying at all. What she means is that she knew that Aang wouldn't understand her need for VENGEANCE. For her desire to kill her mother's killer. Because Aang was taught that revenge isn't the answer. Even though Aang absolutely understands how she felt, something that he says himself:

In both of those moments he felt extreme anger and hatred, both strong negative feelings that would have caused him to lash out and do something that he would regret later on. Who stops him in both cases? Katara. She calms him down (and can I just say that I think it's really poetic that in this specific episode, Aang's words are what calms Katara down in the end, and is why she decided to spare Yohn Rha?) in his moments of rage, something that he's grateful for.

Another argument that I've seen is that Zuko understands her pain more than Aang because he also lost his mother. While I can see why people make this comparison, those are two entirely different situations. Ursa was banished because she protected Zuko from being killed when he was a child. Which means that she's still alive (as we later find out from those horrible comics). Kya, on the other hand, was KILLED because she protected Katara by saying that she was the waterbender that they were looking for. This happened in a genocidal raid by the Fire Nation. Safe to say that Zuko can never understand what that feels.

Also, it's pretty crazy to me how people can say that Aang was wrong in this episode, when Zuko HIMSELF says that Aang was actually right, and that what Katara needed in the end was revenge. Aang knows Katara a lot better than Zuko does, and he knows that killing the man who killed her mom would have absolutely destroyed Katara because of the kind of person she is. Just like Aang remembering how he killed all of those Fire Nation soldiers in the North Pole while he was in the avatar state and being controlled by his past lives and the ocean spirit caused him to have nightmares and be terrified of what the avatar state can do. Both of them are alike in that regard. The closest thing I can say that Zuko understands about Katara is her anger. Boy spent 3 seasons being angry so he definitely understands that. But other than that? He doesn't understand her, which is to be expected since he just joined them a few episodes ago, and spent a whole year chasing them and trying to capture Aang. So he's just started getting to really know everyone on a personal level. In conclusion, Aang did indeed understand Katara, and his words were exactly what she needed to hear.

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"Encounter" is finally up on Tapas Read uncut version: HERE

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Atla reddit being better than atla tumblr wasn't my bingo card, but oh well

#avatar the last airbender #aang #atla #zuko #anti atla fandom

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PEARL (2022) dir. ti west

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table for one

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"Katara is Aang's trophy wife"

"Katara is Aang's incubator"

"Katara and Aang are never equals!"

"Only Zuko cared for Katara"

"Katara is forced to deal with everyone's, ESPECIALLY aangs, emotinal turmoils"

"Katara is the gaang mother"

"Aang is abusive/misogynist"

"Kataang is forced"

"Katara had to deal with Aang’s problems but Zuko came along who could deal with his own and saved her"

Zutaras are basically the same dumb bitches telling each other "EXACTLYYYY"

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like ok if legion wanted to be like "what if farouk wasn't evil and professor x was the asshole in their whole conflict?" that's FINE. i am fully willing to believe that charles xavier is a dick. but you literally already established that farouk has been in david's brain tormenting him for 30 years as revenge on professor x, which is not justified even if he has legitimate reasons for wanting revenge. so trying to wiggle around that by being like "what if... david's evil? and he's gonna destroy the world so we have to team up with farouk and kill him?" does NOT work!!! at ALL!!! because none of this shit is his fault or has literally anything to do with him!!! he never tries to destroy the world or has any motivation to want to destroy the world and he's constantly getting jerked around by people who, as far as he can tell, have teamed up with his mortal enemy to try and kill him for no damn reason. literally everything would have been fine if they just left him the fuck alone.

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every time a zk speaks on aang a fairy dies and the hole in the ozone layer gets larger 😟

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Friendly reminder that when Appa was kidnapped, Toph understood Aang and thought his feelings were valid and she wasn't mad with him

Toph in the same book: "His friend was taken, i would be mad too"

These kids are more mature and empathetic than many people in the fandom

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #toph #also aang wasn’t truly mad with toph anyway #those kids are human and they have flaws #crazy

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it’s so dumb when ppl say Aang is selfish in his choice to not kill Ozai. If such a thing makes him selfish, then so fucking be it. Aang sacrificed everything there is to sacrifice the whole damn story. So to see him put his foot down and refuse to bend to other ppls wants was liberating. There was no other way this story could possibly conclude. Aang is the last airbender. If he fails to preserve his culture that was taken from him, balance will never be achieved. Killing Ozai would simply be another sacrifice in a long list that Aang made throughout.

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Before

After

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT

This relationship is so important to me, there are so many things to say about Aang and Sokka