Just So We’re Clear

i love azula but if her stans love her too then at least actually like her canon character yk 🤦‍♀️

I wonder when the inept Azula stans will realize that this innocent, sweet, caring young Azula “before she was corrupted” doesn’t exist and was never canon. She was not once shown to be some perfect child that got turned bad by Ozai (or Ursa? because people still think she did it? Somehow?). There was never a moment where she was purely friends with Ty Lee or Mai without an ulterior motive.

And no this isn’t saying she was “born evil” or that she has no chance of not being that ever, but more that those tendencies to be manipulative/selfish/cruel have always been there and that she was constantly exposed to an environment that brought out and encouraged those tendencies rather than teaching her to know better.

Ashes of the Academy does not change that. If anything, Ursa’s fear towards the academy being Azula’s downfall shows that she does NOT think her daughter was just “born evil” or anything like that. Again, nothing in the show, the books, or any of the comics infers that Azula was ever not like how she currently is because her environment and influences were consistent from the day she was born.

Too many people want to just say one singular person or thing is at fault for Azula being the way she is, and all of them are wrong. It’s a combination of her extremely manipulative and evil father, living in a country that was upholding the ideals of her father, her mother being largely unable to connect with her, and her status allowing her to get away with her worst tendencies unchecked. Stop reducing the characters you like into a checklist of one-dimensional traits and backstories and you may find them more interesting.

“she’s not evil she’s traumatized” actually she’s both. women contain multitudes

Official Art of Katara and Aang for ATLA’s 20th anniversary Avatar in Concert tour. The artist is @velinxi.

I love how wan is physically incapable of minding his own damn business

I know the atla movie edits are going to EATTTT. Am paitiently waiting to see those political disagreements with Hamilton songs. AND DEAR THEODOSIA WITH ZUKO AND IZUMI AND AANG AND BUMI. And the fact we re going to have to wait.

The fact that here on tumblr there's an anti aang tag where grown ass people are calling him rapist, racist and abuser is fucking insane

This site is literally a breeding ground for some of the most deranged fandom behavior ever

Can you Anti-Aang fake fans please stay away from A:TLA. I am so tired of y’all.

You people have no media literacy and chose to act like it’s the show creator’s fault you’re so dumb.

I shouldn’t even have to say this, but Aang never used Katara as a fan against his grief. What does the Guru say:

“You have indeed felt a great loss. But love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us. The Air Nomads' love for you has not left this world. It is still inside of your heart, and is reborn in the form of new love”.

He’s basically saying even though Aang lost his whole nation, his love for them not only remains but he can also feel love again, for more loved ones, Katara. 

Katara herself even tells Aang that despite losing almost everyone he knew and loved, her and Sokka care about him and are his loved ones now: 

“Aang! I know you're upset and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love. I went through the same thing when I lost my mom. Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders may be gone, but you still have a family. Sokka and I! We're your family now!”

We got ourselves two beautiful moments where Katara comforts her grieving friend due to suffering a similar loss, assuring him he’s not alone, and said friend realizing that love is infinite and even if you loved ones you care about, love can be found in more loved ones. And these bitter Anti-Aang freaks try to twist this into something “selfish”, “unhealthy” and “toxic”. Because you’re still coping and seething over Katara not making out with Zuko in the finale like you wanted back in the seventh grade. 

ATLA fandom: Aang tried to force his ideals on Katara and stop her from confronting her mother’s killer.

ATLA episode transcript:  Katara: Don’t try to stop us. Aang: I wasn’t planning to. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man. But when you do, please don’t choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him.

Jet from atla is so funny bc like, he's fighting zuko and taunting him being like "bet you wanna use some fire instead of those swords, dont u fireboy" which is a funny thing to say to a guy who is clearly very eager to fight using swords

i fucking hate him loll

Zuko has far more restraint than I do.

Because if I was Fire Lord, and this son of a bitch was rubbing it in my face that he was with my ex ... that's an instant Agni-Kai ... or a public execution.