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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.

“LOK just reduced Katara to a healer” is such a tired take because it simply doesn’t, the fans do.

Katara is 80+ years old, she’s not going to be the frontlines of every battle anymore, and the fact she still uses her healing abilities to help those in need is nothing to scoff at because “well that’s what girl waterbenders are expected to do!”

Which yes, Master Pakku does make sexist comments about how the ‘healing huts are where women belong’, but that doesn’t mean no women is allowed to pursue healing in the name of feminism, it’s about choice. Katara didn’t chose to learn healing back then, but chose to in LOK.

And furthermore, I feel like this plays into how people buy too much into “show don’t tell” where if it happens off scene it ‘doesnt count’ which takes away from all her accomplishments that aren’t explicitly “i just took down 50 bad guys single-handedly”.

Like it’s stated, in the show, that Katara made bloodbending illegal, which at the very least implies some that she held some political power.

I just think it’s silly how people take one episode of Katara, as a teenager who’s actively fighting a war, saying she doesn’t want to be a healer, because of said war, when she’s being pushed into that role by a man and think it applies to 80 year old Katara who’s doing that role of her own volition

I am very clearly deranged I simply couldn't not post this

me and the fuckass work that's looking at me funny

so tired of people rushing their relationship. they’re getting back together either way and it’s best for mai and zuko to take their time.

Ashes of the Academy is on point about Mai and Zuko not being back together yet mostly because the comic takes place around a year after Smoke and Shadow. And the writer of Smoke and Shadow did say they will get together again after three years after Smoke and Shadow right? that means 2 years after Ashes of the Academy. I personally loved seeing Mai's development and her chosen career for the future. It sounds cute being Izumi's teacher at the academy and teasing her.

I do want a comic about them getting back together though. Maybe if there is a Zuko movie? or comic it doesn't matter. they do need to conclude the Fire Nation and Azula's arc.

Just so we’re clear

Someone on x said Dallas 's pose looked so much like a firebender

I HAD TO DRAW IT

the way avatar fandom would let zutaras live in their delusion if they weren’t freaks about the ship, aang, katara and mai

oh well

whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am