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Hey everyone, my mental health has been terrible, and it is really hurting me. I will try to post fics and add links to my ao3 but other than that I will not be active for a couple weeks.

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #katara #zuko

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What’s your favorites off of TTPD so far?

Okay, I won't rank them because that's too hard

So Long, London

Down Bad

Florida!!!

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

Cassandra

Fortnite

Theses are my stand-outs for now, there's like 31 tracks, so this list will be longer. I will update you!

#taylor swift #ttpd era #the tortured poets department

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I feel divorced and alone.

(Everyone I'm fine, I'm vibing, don't worry)

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #ttpd era

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TTPD has joined my mental breakdown albums club which consists of Folklore, evermore, and Midnights.

#taylor swift #ttpd era #the tortured poets department

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Taylor Swift killed me with the main 16 tracks and then ruined my life with the next 15.

#taylor swift #ttpd era #the tortured poets department

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Zuko and his protectiveness over Katara backfired on the show

I think we're all quite aware of the fact that Zuko is canonically very protective over Katara

Exhibit A

When he saves Katara from falling rubble in the Western air temple.

Exhibit B

When he protects Katara from flames in that same episode when she is about to blood bend that fire nation soldier.

Exhibit C

The famous Agni Kai where he take lightning for Katara

Now why are these so significant? I think these are big gestures are to show Zuko's efforts to make amends after what he did to Katara. It could be argued these are very extreme ways of making it up to her because these came at the cost of his life. But this also goes to show his character development, as he is willing to protect Katara from danger. For me, one of the reasons why I ship them is because of his protectiveness. It's refreshing to see a character that has always been there to help and to be a support system to others be protected by someone else. I think it can be very fulfilling as a viewer. This effort that was made to write their relationship was so genuine, and it felt so heartfelt as the viewer, that it just made their dynamic one of the strongest in the show. Whether that be romantically or just platonically, their dynamic is probably one of the best in my opinion.

Now, with all that his protectiveness towards Katara immediately evaporate after the last Agni Kai which was pretty shocking, as they didn't get time to be able to talk about what happened. I feel like it removes a piece of genuineness from the show that the characters care for each other. And of course I know a reason why this could have happened is because, well, Kataang and Maiko exist. I think what made their dynamics so strong is because of their protectiveness for one another. Especially, Zuko's protectiveness over Katara. When it was removed in the comics, it felt like a bond had been destroyed because a big part of their dynamic was protecting each other and being there for each other, and having that level of communication. They were protecting each other through their communication and through their support for one another.

How I feel like it backfired on the show is that it created a bit of an emptiness in both of the characters. Especially when they interacted, it felt more distant in the comics, and it felt as if they were strangers. Zuko's writing, which leads to him being protective over her, is so poignant in their relationship that once it is removed it creates a hole in a way it makes his character feel more hollow in his relationship with Katara. It feels like an effort to create a divide and an erasure of their past and how significant his taking lightning for her was. A show that is built of meaningful character relationships took a piece of its own heart out and of its own show and stabbed it in front of all of us when it came to the erasure of Zutara. So they could push the canon ships. They were willing to remove that important element of character relationships for 2 poorly written couples.

I think it creates a level of ingenuity in this show. That is not shocking as many of Katara's other love interests met the same fate of ingenuity, whether that be Jet or Haru. Where she's never able to show her feelings about these people. Which I find quite strange seeing how the show aims to create depth and talk about feelings that actually provoke feelings in you. They don't actually go in-depth with what the leading lady's thoughts are about other people. For all the sake of keeping the focus on Kataang it costs the good writing for Katara to be able to feel complex emotions about the other male interests in her life. And it leads to a rough ending for a strong dynamic like Zuko and Katara that shows their desperation for Kataang at the cost of good writing especially for Katara.

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #katara #zuko #zuko deserved better #katara defense squad #anti kataang #anti aang #anti maiko #anti mai #anti bryke #bryke critical

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What kind of wedding do you think Zuko and Katara would have?

Modern day or in universe.

Personally, I have not thought about them getting married. Because when I write, they are around my age, so it is not something I would consider. But I prefer to think of an in-universe wedding. So I have head canon where both of them fall in love with each other cultures. Leading to them having 2 weddings where they get married in both of their respective culture's wedding ceremonies.

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #katara #zuko

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Sending positive vibes to combat the negative ones! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Aw, thank you kind anon. I really needed this. I'm sorry I answered too late, but I appreciate seeing this in my inbox! Likewise, I hope you have a beautiful day and continue to have positive vibes!!!

#nice anon

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where do u post all ur fic cause I can never find them

Okay, so I post my fics only on ao3 under the name intoFOLKLORE09. Here's a link to all 3:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55261450

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55109383

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54913273

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #katara #zuko

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Zuko wants to give Katara a present she will never forget, and he does everything he can to give her the world on her birthday.

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #zutara fanfiction #zuko #katara

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Ya know what?

It's Sunday, the day of our lord Godzilla, and I'm in the mood to spill some things about trivial stuff.

Send me some asks or opinions on anything AtLA. I'm also down to giving writing advice if anyone needs it.

Because I really want to help budding writers improve.

#avatar: the last airbender #zutara #atla #zuko x katara

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Girl, what is this?

Hidden messages???

The Department has us searching all over Apple Music! Can you find today’s word? 🤡 apple.co/taylorswift

#Taylor Swift #TS TTPD #the tortured poets department #ttpd era

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Wait…. Am I Katara?

@billsbae @alicinema @yourhighness6 @euryvices @militaryshelf62

rules: go to pinterest and type [your name] + “core” to show your aesthetic, then post the first 6 images.

💀 at the Lego head but also pretty impressed at this spread

tag: @portaltothevoid @anamelessfool @copias-juicebox @writingjourney @gravehags @canarycolemine @the-lisechen @discountdemonwarehouse

reblog instead of repost so we can see all the cool pics 🖤

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I know it is okay to dislike characters. Their not real so it won't hurt them. However in terms of Aang and Mai when people say "I like Mai and Aang but hate their writing" I think what they are trying to say is that they like the on-paper potential of these characters. Heck Im a culprit for saying this common phrase. Because I do like the on-paper potential for these two. Many people like the idea of these characters and what they could be. They could have been good characters if their writing was not terrible. I rewrote Mai's arc to be about her and her growth. Aang can be fixed if we remove Nice Guy TM and a whole lot of other things (won't get into that now). However, this could be just my perspective.

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #katara #zuko x katara #zuko #anti kataang #anti aang #anti mai #anti maiko #but like not really #but just in case

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

#we have been through hundreds of years of oppression and then you turn around and do it to others #how disgraceful #have we learned nothing #india

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Okay, you all are so damn amazing. Like a thousand hits is crazy and already 308 people read my second one and it's been only two days. I'm so thankful for the fact you all took the time out of your day to read my work! I appreciate it so much! 🥰🥰

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #katara #zuko x katara #zuko

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Such beautiful writing by my bestie!!

❝ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲; 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰, 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞. ❞

━ 𝐌𝐞 (𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚)

(Pls give credit & reblog if you save/use the gif)

#house of the dragon #alicent hightower #team it’s not that deep #I don't watch this show so don't come at me #Im here for the writing and vibes