#anti bryke because damn right i blame them for this!

[heavensenthearty]

Like am I the one crazy person in the world or is Zutara, Jinko, Zukka, etc. NOTHING like the spirit of Pocahontas?? Since when did we collectively decide to reduce Zuko’s character to “colonizer” or “John Smith”? And now if we use logical arguments to point out the different nuances in these dynamics we’re just racists that hate natives, regardless of our own backgrounds? Because someone decided this like two days ago and we all have to bow down no questions asked??

TW: Racism, xenophobia, slut-shaming, sexism.

I don't think it is my place to talk about the treatment towards Native Americans because I'm not from the ethnicity, and I'm not even North American.

Nevertheless, @zutarawasrobbed do is Native and she recently shared a very extense Twitter thread with very solid arguments from her part about the ignorance that is calling Zutara a colonized/colonized ship.

Now, about the part of reducing Zuko's character to generic antagonist or white savior is kind of troublesome because primarily... he's not white 🤨.

And I thought we had established that the whole antagonist part was sort of fixed with the redemption arc part 🤷…

But hey, go figure. Most of the time, I don't know what this fandom is thinking.

Neither am I all that interested in knowing, because I'm starting to seriously believe pretty much everyone outside the Zutara fanbase is racist — or at least xenophobes. I always try to not generalize, but there's little to help their case when most of their interactions with Zutarians — or just anyone that dares criticize Bryke 😒 — is stuff like this:

Which is really disturbing considering most Zutara fans are people from minorities.

Or then to come say to POC fans that we probably date our oppressors too for shipping Zutara. (No, there won't be a day when I'm not angry at the people who said this to me. I've had enough abuse in my life to tolerate some more.)

Or refusing to read our comments because we are dark skinned and ship Zutara — or girls. They also refuse to read our comments because we are girls.

Or arguing with East Asian people when the latter's say adult!GAang in TLOK doesn't have East Asian features.

Or saying for us to keep it to ourselves when we are brown-skinned and ship Zutara because they simply don't care.

Or telling us to find some white d*ck to suck. (I'm fairly less angry about this one, considering I got the troll account that said this to me deleted 😏)

Anyways, I better stop before I give y'all nausea.

But sincerely, I like my ATLA canon to be just my fanfictions, art and the wonderful Zutara fancontent. I don't want to feel myself attached to a product people like that enjoy.