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What would you say regarding the flower necklace disappearing in the fortune teller episode? Love to hear your thoughts! 😊

No thoughts, really. It was a cute thing that Katara liked, but she was just never going to wear it the same way she wore her mom's necklace, AND her not understanding that Aang has feelings for her is the running joke of the episode, and thus it simply did not even cross her mind that he could be hurt if she didn't wear it or get his hopes up if she did, in her eyes it was just "Cool, my friend gave me a pretty gift, gonna keep it and wear it some other time"

Now compare that to her playfully kissing Aang's cheek when he gives her her mom's necklace back AND she's already catching feelings for him... and then later on discovering that said necklace is basically a wedding ring... and the show ends with them kissing each other in a way that the writers themselves said was meant to look like a wedding...

The flower necklace was cute, but the show was very smart to connect Kataang with the necklace that would always mean the most to Katara AND that she would have on for the overwhelming majority of episodes - and it actually makes for a good parallel with what the Guru told Aang.

Much like his love for the air-nomads, his family, is reborn in the form of new love, Katara's love for her mom (and tribe) is reborn in her love for Aang, because they already see each other as family AND will eventually have kids with each other, keeping their families and cultures alive after war nearly destroyed it all.

Kya's necklace is just a much better Kataang (and especially Katara) symbol than the flower one, and I'm glad the writers recognized that instead of going "Well, Aang made this one, let's make it more important than her last connection with her LATE MOTHER even though Katara is only going to start DEVELOPING feelings for Aang at the END of this episode."

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Realized the other day we got kinda Neville Longbottomed by Ferb. Couldn't let this thought go without including the entire, wholesome Flynn-Fletcher sibling unit!

THEY LOVE THEIR SISTER

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🪨💕🔥would you approve of zutoph? 💘

www.instagram.com/zelfantazy

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coffee and sunlight

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Weird how you blocked me before I could even get a response in and how you’re scrolling through these tags as Zutara shipper you fucking loser. My original point was that you shouldn’t expect people to take you seriously if you’re bringing up his appearance or “her type” as some sort of point against the relationship because it’s very stupid. I then brought up how I think it’s weird you guys consistently make fun of and bring up him being bald in general, when it’s something that he clearly practices and takes seriously because it was something that Air Nomads participated in. I was talking about the disrespect in general as well, It constantly gets made fun of by people like Zuko and outside of the show people constantly berate him or talk down on him for participating in it. Don’t give a fuck whether or not you think she would be “attracted to him”. Literally you genuinely might be one of the biggest losers on this app along with those two other freaks who will not be named because they might appear and spook me

Like how did you even find the post? I genuinely do not want to deal with you people

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By @lanjunlazy: Tui and La.

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Art by Priya Kakati

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θα σε ερωτευόοομουνααααααα όπως την πρώτη φορά

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shit finally I made it uploaded

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it’s actually so funny to me that we had an entire episode devoted to paralleling kataang to a war torn couple in legend and that they were legit trapped in a secret love labyrinth and the only way to get out was to “let love lead the way” and that it was resolved with them kissing and that kiss magically lighting up crystals in said love cave and yet still the zvtarians convince themselves The Cave of Two Lovers episode isn’t about kataang, but zvtara 🗿🍷

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My girl will kill them all.

you can do this with your comfort character

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Its the best description of antimaiko i have ever seen

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🙏

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I think almost all of the anti Mai discourse from namely Zutara shippers boils down to this.

You can try and deliberately misconstrue the writing to say Zuko forgot Mai, was never happy around her, never loved her, etc etc

But not once can you say Zuko ever looked at Katara, Jin, or any other female character you ship him with the same way he looks at Mai in these four panels.

What I love about the art of animation is it conveys so much when words can’t.

The eyes, Chico. They never lie.

This single scene conveys so much love, adoration, and the happiness of finally reuniting with your soulmate. And no amount of dissertations on how a fanon ship would’ve made a children’s tv show more enjoyable to you will never change that.

The curse of canon weighs on Maiko and Kataang shippers, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Like mother, like daughter.

Mai and Izumi, determined on correcting the course of the fire nation.

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(DONT READ IF YOU HAVENT READ ASHES OF THE ACADEMY YET !!SPOILERS!!)

What do you think if Mai shutting down the idea of being Zukos girlfriend again? I don't think that it solidifies that they would never get back together since they go out of there way to show that their communication skills are better but UGH it feels like they could be taking the friendship route.

It's nothing I haven't read or written in Maiko Get Back Together fics. Mai is a character who expresses herself with extremes, as I think this comic captured very nicely in many aspects, so she's going to be adamant that she and Zuko are never getting back together until the moment they get back together, at which point she'll probably consider them engaged.

I honestly consider this comic to have ended things at First And Goal. It touches on Maiko's issues, has Zuko acknowledge what he has to even though he hasn't quite corrected the behavior yet, has Mai acknowledge Zuko's acknowledgement, and leaves them working well together when the going gets tough. I'm glad the comic didn't get them back together given how little focus their relationship got, but it feels like a sequel or follow-up could do the job with this foundation.

Unfortunately, that's part of a frustrating trend where these comics set things up without giving us any full payoff or consequences. The Azula comic, while also good and solid with its character work, did the same thing. I'm suspicious that these comics aren't allowed to make any significant advancements.

But maybe it's all being saved for a multi-part prequel to the supposedly upcoming Adult GAang movie, an epic that sees the whole cast coming together again to resolve everyone's subplots and set up whatever the movie is doing.

That would be fun.

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Oh, this is such a cute copy of my pro-maiko post!

But anyway maiko ended up together, since Zuko's only daughter and heir to the throne is his and Mai's child (even named after a fountain), too bad! I hope you're living well and comfortably in your delulu world.

But now I know that my anti-zutara posts somehow get into your feed (unless you intentionally look for them), and they upset you so much that you go out of your way to make anti-maiko clones of them, not even being able to find the original picture with the SpongeBob. Can't lie, it's very cute🥹