Diversity win! The AI who has been reprogrammed to set off a deadly weapon using you and your friends as power conduits at the cost of your lives and perhaps your entire planet, is a lesbian
Idgaf how old you are; there've been good, accepting people throughout all of time
Idgaf what your parents taught you; you have to actively work to unlearn that shit
Idgaf if you're a minority targeted by 1 or more of the above; being 1 minority does not give you the right to be bigoted to another (or your own.. I know a poc who is a gay man, and he's racist, homophobic, transphobic, AND sexist)
would anybody be interested if i made a discord channel for pokemon mystery dungeon stuff? i want to set one up really bad because this game series has been my favorite thing for pretty much my entire life *w*
apparently this is a controversial opinion in atla fandom rn but...i love pakku’s character/ arc/ presence/ storyline, and i love that he’s reunited with kanna. i love that, in katara, he sees not only the defiant spirit of the woman he loved and lost to his own ignorance, but also a chance to undo his past wrong. i love that kanna fled the NWT but that katara was compelled to return - and that her return offered a chance to heal a transgenerational divide. i loved how pakku openly praised and admired katara’s prodigious skill and called her his best pupil. love that he was inspired by katara’s courage to make the same journey his former lover once did - across the world, in the middle of a war - to fulfill something he believed was right.
and i love that kanna, after all these years and being alone at the SWT, gets to see her former lover return at the helm of a fleet carrying vital supplies and resources. i love that kanna’s original rebellion - leaving home to keep her freedom - came full circle in the NWT returning to aid the South, in katara learning waterbending from pakku, and in the avatar mastering water. i love that pakku and kanna get to have romance in their later years, to find each other again after so many decades apart, to see the end of a war they never thought would end - together.
i love how pakku and kanna’s story demonstrates a central theme of the show: that our choices and actions have further reaching consequences than we realize, and that every time we take a risk to do what’s right, every time we stand up for ourselves and for others, every time we are brave and humble enough to admit we need to change, we transform the world in ways we can’t even begin to imagine.