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that scene that scene is set up for zuko to finally make it up to katara for real for letting him down in ba sin sae. My biggest peeve with it being used as romance only always makes me ponder are people saying that romantic love is the end to be all love and if zuko didnt love chracter romantically he let her die? is our concept of friendship in the fandom that bleak?

and katara heals both aang/zuko who are shot by lighting. something to think about.. Zutaraang will always win .

I love Zutara as much as the next girlie, but I think people romanticizing Zuko catching Azula's lightning in the Final Agni Kai are doing Zuko's character a massive disservice. He would have done that for anyone. Not just anyone in the Gaang, anyone.

He did it for the division he ended up getting burned over. He did it for his subordinate that was going to fall to his death after the ship was struck by lightning. He did it for Lee, when he was kidnapped by Gao. He did it for Iroh, when he confronted his dad and tried to break him out of prison. He did it for the whole Gaang at the Western Air Temple. He did it for Sokka, Suki, and Hakoda at the Boiling Rock.

His whole character revolves around saving everyone else first. Hell, he tried to save Zhao of all people! There's no way that would have gone well for Zuko if Zhao had actually taken his hand. He always does what he thinks is right first before considering his own safety.

Zuko always saves other people. Even if, especially if, he can't save himself.

#zuko #katara #atla

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Zutara - Strength by jesterry

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Zutara Week 2012 - Whimsical by jesterry

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Water and Fire

Here's the colored version of my piece for @zutaracoloringbook !! I had a lot of fun participating in this and I'm gonna have more fun coloring in other artists' beautiful work uehehe

Check out everyone's amazing work here and have fun coloring!!

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Zutara Week 2016 - Coffee by jesterry

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Zutara Week 2015 - Voyage by jesterry

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ship wars are always insane but ship wars in the atla fandom are worse. people be taking ss of accs that ship zutara to make fun of them when they talk ab jin. z/ks saying shit ab aang being a bad person in posts ab kataang like. UNPROVOKED.

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You’re the pink in my cheeks and I’m scared that it means I’m a little bit soft

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💚 from the ask game

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

I'll start with my fav from my 2021 rewatch sokka/ and that is simply that he is gay./gay for zuko . I don't get it I'll never really get it sokka was the staightest boy in the show to me as he.. gets suki/yue/even seems interested in ty lee for 3 seconds/tries to get into good graces with a girls poetry club. He was def not coded gay esp for a 2000s nicktoon. and when i came to tumblr i had hoped to find convos involving how smart /developed he was and it was nothing but zukka everywhere no mention of sokka development it was very discourging . and maybe people think im homphobic but i lean towards jetko/zukaang. zukka i barealy understand.

now lets go with Zuko and I warn people this is gonna be snarky cause i've see so many bad takes since 2020 to well the nows.

this is the BIG ONE people get wrong. because fandom is.. Afraid to acutally Like the real Zuko because the real zuko fits all the problematic scales. from Kidnapping katara/sokka/ /Extortion/Stalking the gaang to capture aang/kidnapping aang/ /sending a man to murder Aang who almost blows up Katara/Toph/ theres a reason zuko is angry at himself eh sent a man to murder Aang.. and he knows it wrong he's not stupid. he's in denial through half of s3 and living in terrible guilt from how he treated iroh/sending combustion man after aang. also Mai never abused zuko....

theres a reason people think im not a zutara shipper its bec i disagree with 99 percent of their takes. including that he was in love wiht katara the whole time Katara was never on his mind Zuko mind was: I must capture the Avatar so I can get back home and have dads love for 90 percent of the show up until the eclipse where his new goal was: Stop Ozai from killing the earth kingdom people /help Avatar he has a very one track mind when it comes to his goals.

fandom gets everything wrong with him.

Awkard turtletuck/maturedad/ maturer than Aang/ the one to save CinderKatara from abusive aang/an uncaring friend group/really loved his time in uncles tea shop/ never did anything wrong / never colonized anything/

I mean the earth kingdom didnt fall just because of azula Zuko made his choice to help her. . They colonized the both of em Ba Sin Sa. Azula gets woofied too she is def responsible for conquering the city but Zuko did help hes not innocent here but fans will def say everything he did is excused cause and azula fans have done this too. and its so .. tiresom

the idea zuko never meant to harm anyone to achieve his endgame/ He almost burnt suki and sokka had to save her. h was not above kidnapping katara to get what he wants. or knocking her out twice. The idea zuko never had any attention to harm anyone to get to Aang to get home is ludrucious. /this boy wanted to go home for 90 percent of the show.

Zuko is an impulsive teenager with a bit of an ego who looked down on the common folk for a good while thats why he robbed from earth kingdom people he felt they owed him stuff. because he was the prince of the FN. having to live among em is what helped him gain sympathy for their plight to leave the firenation so they wouldn't die.

Zuko arc is learning the fire nation is a cruel ruthless nation and his way of thinking that he's better than people is wrong. I dont think some people can reconsile low self esteem doesnt mean you can't look down on others.. Cause he did from calling katara a pesant in s1 and saying how the people in the earth kingdom should respect them to iroh in s2/ He has to learn sympathy/empathy for people outside the fire nation. . Zuko journey is to learn to be a better man. its like .. a man in his teens/early 20s learning their biggoted beliefs are nothing but bs and having to grown and improve.

. he is not without flaws in the end when he joins avatar he's still grumpy. he's awkward because he trying to befriend the people he us to hunt down so its gonna be awkward. Zuko isn't team dad. He's been adopted into the gaang.

I also disgree with haters saying Zuko should have changed 100percent into mr. calm/collected otherwise his arc is a bust. Zuko is a lot like Iago to me in turns of character changing sides with villian to the good guys. I'd rather they stay themselfs in terms of snark than became a perfect /happy sunshine attitudie character.

i just think fandom is afraid to enjoy Assholes. there i said it. I love jerks so i dont understand it. Think of Spongebob going from a square to a perfect smooth circle and that's how fandom treats Zuko in teh shipping side of things. there's a reason i never felt happy in teh zutara fandom. most people dont talk about him how i see him . but as a teenager i related to zukos anger a lot and i had to work on that anger. how zuko is treated to me feels very.... ableist to me when you try to ignore his flaws. it reads off as he's unlovable if he has any uncomfortable personality traits.

#atla #zuko

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I'm not dead. I just had a long work trip and my batteries are drained, physically and emotionally. And I've signed up to too many events/zines with deadlines all at the same time so yeah, I'll be back at some point.

pls accept this zutara as an apology. spicy full here (pswrd: kisamestits)

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My approach to shipping

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anons are back on now (:

Ask game: unpopular opinion edition <3

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

💙: Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think?

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

📖: If you had to remove one book from the series, which would you choose?

🏳️‍🌈: Which character who is commonly headcanoned as queer doesn't seem queer to you?

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

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💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

Not sure how unpopular this actually is but I know it annoys both Kataang and Zutara shippers when I say it but Aang, Katara, and Zuko are a triumvirate that cannot be separated from each other or removed from the narrative without if falling apart.

Suki? Toph? Sokka? Azula? Iroh?

Any of these characters can be replaced or removed at any point in the story, and the narrative will still hold its weight. You removed Katara, Aang, or Zuko, the whole show collapses in on itself as they are the three pillars that hold the show up

Avatar: The Last Airbender is not just Aang's story. Aang is the Last Airbender, but both Katara and Zuko's narratives circle the Avatar, and their journeys can not be completed without him, but at the same time, his journey can't be completed without them either. The three of them and the three of them alone drive the plot and the story. Fun side quests aside, Sokka, Toph, Suki, Iroh and Azula do not have the narrative pull to carry more than a one-off or a b-plot by themselves.

That isn't to say the other characters aren't enjoyable because they are. Every story needs side characters to enrich the world and build up motives and relationships, and these characters are often some of the most charming ones because they aren't needed but rather wanted. It just means everyone, other than Zuko, Katara, and Aang, isn't needed for the story to move. They are there to be moved, not to move others. They're just wanted for the fanfare, the action, the humor, or the drama. They don't make the story happen, even if they help make the story compelling.

Basically, I think fans who argue over who the main character of the show is, are the fans who understand the show the least because it's not Aang and it's not Zuko and it's not Katara, but rather all three equally. They can not stand by themselves. They would get absolutely nowhere without the other two.

#zutaraang wins #i rem you you were one of the sane people in the fandom

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I think it's very weird how Zuko was labeled as the Gaang's "dad" for like. Trying to keep their plan of stopping a genocide on track and being mildly stressed about it. Like this man doesn't have a parental bone in his body.

He got himself and Aang stuck in glue because he wanted to pick up the obviously booby traped glowy egg thing. He throws a hissy fit/borderline tantrum whenever things don't go his way. He's arrested development incarnate.

Like he does something vaguely responsible on occasion and suddenly he's the Gaang's parental figure??? Sokka's been there since day 1, bitches.

#for real i dont understand dadko and i know its major popular in this part of the fandom #zuko is the most mature dad figure? ZUKO i think you made ooc fanfiction zuko #not hotheaded impuslive doesn't thinkl things through figures its a good idea to challegne azula to throw lighting at him and fight katara #in a blizzard area with no sun at all boy does not think things through #zuko

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I can totally see Zuko yelling this to his servants on Katara’s birthday.

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YEP. as ole hank hill will say that boy ain't right.. I still rem them bragging about hating Aang.. that its fun to hate aang.. it was very weird .. i have fictional characters i hate but i don't find it fun to do so. blogs like there/aang haters are why my blog exists its rather sad.

Fuck this weirdo and all the people who are following her

#atla fandom problems

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First meeting

Had to do that scene of the Kiyoshi island