#at least for books 1 and 2

[prozach27]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

cant stop thinkin bout charles and erik readin together on the couch but instead of reading with him charles is listening to eriks thoughts while he reads. Live mind commentary ……..

[miyakuli]

I'M SCREAMING GUYS

[sapphic-agent]

So, a Kataang fan made a post about a week ago "asking" (rhetorically, of course) why it's a bad thing Katara acts like Aang's mom. And I just-

First of all, isn't that something that Kataang shippers have been trying to actively dispute for almost two decades at this point? That Katara doesn't treat Aang as a younger brother/son? There's literally an entire post about it from The Headband that's made its rounds on almost every single social media platform.

So which is it, besties? Does Katara act motherly towards Aang or not?

(The answer is yes of course, as The Runaway outright confirms it multiple times. The whole premise of that episode is that Katata acts as a mother to Toph, Sokka, and Aang)

Now, why is it a problem? The fact that I have to explain this is telling for how little a lot of Kataang shippers understand Katara.

Katara was parentified. She took care of Sokka (by his own admission) as well as her entire village after Hakoda left. Even before then really, as she says in the very first episode that she's been doing all the chores around the village since their mother died which was years before that. She was delivering literal babies while basically being a baby herself.

Traveling- and being- with Aang is supposed to represent her freedom and childhood, right? That's what the first episode shows us and what Kataang is built on. But if anything, it has the opposite effect.

Book 1 wasn't terrible. Katara was very free-spirited and joyful in addition to being caring and empathetic. Her and Aang could still goof off together, even if she was doing her best to support him emotionally. You could easily see that as her being a good friend.

But somewhere between Books 2 and 3, that changed. Katara went from being his supportive friend to being his emotional crutch. During The Desert, she bears the brunt of him lashing out (he does yell at Toph once, but he's the most volatile with Katara). He also gets frustrated with her during Sozin's Comet, even though Zuko and Sokka were the ones pushing him. It's always Katara who has to bring him back when he loses control of the Avatar State, risking her own safety.

(This isn't emotional, but it was Katara who healed Aang after Azula's attack. She was the one who stayed by his side, staying awake for hours to make sure he would be okay. I like to look at it as a physical representation of their relationship. Aang's wellbeing is always put on her shoulders. If she isn't there to lift him up, he'll fall. And if he falls, the world falls. No 14 year old should be responsible for that. But it's so easy for the show- and y'all- to shove it onto her because this part of her character is never addressed. It's just used as a testament to her caring nature)

Even without Katara's parentification, this causes a major imbalance in their relationship. It puts Katara in charge of managing Aang's pain and being emotionally unsupported in return. The Southern Raiders is proof that Katara can't depend on Aang emotionally the way he does her. She's been his shoulder to cry on through everything and the one time the tables turned, she couldn't even get that from him.

And the saddest thing about this? Katara says to him, "I knew you wouldn't understand." She never expected Aang to support her. She's become so accustomed to being there for others that she's never once expected anyone to do the same for her, least of all Aang.

(But Zuko does. He's the only one who recognized Katara's pain- admittedly, mostly because it was directed at him- and tried to help her. Without being prompted. I gotta give this one to the Zutara folks)

In what world is this dynamic healthy for a romantic relationship?

[skrunksthatwunk]

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even if no one interacts w this i was giggling kicking my feet etc deciding who i'd put on here. but also lmk who you can check off as (minimum) a silly guy of yours. @accurzed @nyarlathesleeper @seventhstone and idk whoever wants to join yk. i am personally and directly enabling you to make a favorite character bingo

[coeluvr]

if Helios cut his hair I think the MC (more like me but shhh) would be more traumatized then the night when they’re whole family died

HELIOS NEVER CUT YOUR HAIR THIS IS A THREAT >:(

I would never allow it!! 😒 My sunshine wintry prince will always have long hair...

[tea-cat-arts]

"Madam Yu would be a Karen/ treat minimum wage employees like shit-" literally the only servant she's shown abusing is Wei Wuxian (and that's because he's the victim of a proxy war between her and Jiang Fengmian around the idea of him being adopted into the family, not because of his class). Madam Yu's two handmaid's love and respect her, and Madam Yu actually defends them when Wang Lingjiao tries being a Karen to them. She also tells Wang Lingjiao to fuck off when she demands the Jiang servants bring her tea.

Also, Karens are unpleasant women, but not all unpleasant women are Karens. That term is about entitlement and being unreasonable (and often times, racist). Madam Yu is mean and unpleasant to talk to, but she keeps most of her interactions brief and probably doesn't have the time or mental energy to be a Karen or hold a grudge that long. If you want an actual example of a Karen in mdzs, Wang Lingjiao is right there

[the-kr8tor]

Re-reading my notes on bdas 2 and I go "man I might've bit more than I can chew on this one" but my god i will have so much fun chewing this! I'd be gnawing with gusto.

You guys are not prepared for what I have in store for book 2

[zazikels]

ok ok its my fault for being on reddit but r/houseofthedragon rn full of people arguing that demon and his 99% neck lizard have a stronger bond than aegon and sunfyre and it's so fucking frustrating that its entirely condolt's fucking fault that this is even a fucking argument because he thinks the greatest bond between a dragon and his rider to ever go that fucking hard in this universe is pRopaganda and gives dae mon and car ax es more screentime. i'm just so fucking done man. never showed us sunfyre TRULY until it was time for demon jr the anime edgelord to attack him and aegon, never get the fact that sunfyre is literally on aegon's arms, never got the coronation flying, DIDN'T GET ANYTHING UNTIL IT WAS TIME TO FUCK HIM UP FOR THE PLOT.

i wish this mf would get fucking fired before he has a chance to touch these two anymore because I don't think i can handle how he will underplay and butcher the fact that this dragon literally fought tooth and claw with a broken wing to find his way back to his rider.

[fruitybuck]

knowing the intentions nora had at one point, it’s so hard not to reread aftg and think the main ship is gonna be kandreil…

[godidontevenknowwhat]

Rewatching Stranger Things again and I don't think enough people talk about how shitty it was of Susan to not speak up when Neil hit Billy and was demeaning him in front of her, like it really would have been as easy as her saying 'it's not Billy's fault Max snuck out'

And before anyone tries to pick a hole in this because they don't like Billy:

It was never indicated in the show that Max or Susan were scared of Neil hitting them or being aggressive with them so even though in that moment Neil was behaving aggressively, Susan had no reason to believe he would turn that aggression on her. And yes I know Neil canonically hit and abused his first wife but again there is absolutely no hinting at all that Neil has behaved aggressively towards Max or Susan.

[fnafawoundleftbleedingau]

Hmm, no guarantees I'd write these, but they've been on my mind the last couple days. But, if I added a couple more chapters to AWLB: Remnant's, namely, one wherein Jen talks a bit about her relationship with the Afton's, and another that talks more in depth about the incident mentioned briefly in part 1 with Roxy, would those be of interest?

I'd also like to say in regards to the Roxy one, I'd do my best to tie it to what's already been stated in the fic, but my ideas with her have changed a decent bit since then, so there may be some inconsistencies. ^^; I really do need to go back and re-do part 1 eventually. The overall story would stay the same sure, I'd just like to try and tell it a bit better and rework a few details.

[starlene]

My top 3 most insane interactions with the Finnish professional theatre community:

1) When a representative of [redacted] told me to take down my post with a cookie I had decorated to resemble a character in their musical, for I had edited a photo of said character next to the cookie, and that was unauthorized use of their promotional photography

2) The whole blackface debacle of 2016

3) When [redacted] from [redacted] accused me of making a two-part podcast episode (about a very wide-spread issue) just to accuse/insult them

Fun times!! Never forget, forgiveness handled on a case-by-case basis.

[finalgirlmegumi]

one thing that drives me crazy too about theon is that no one ever mentions how first of all he did actually mean to have the iron islands join robb in tje war like thats a very significant and clear thing that we know for sure ffom being in hjs head. That makes him a moron but thats another issue. and second of all after his idiot cringe dad is like no lol lets invade the north and declare ourselves independent while we’re at it that went so well 10 years ago, what did i even lose? they took my last boy kid but he was kind of a fag anyway what was his name again? Thog? if at that point theon had gone back to robb robb WOULD have had to behead him. bc tjat was kind of the whole point of theon being “warded” at winterfell. that he was there as a hostage to ensure his fathers good behavior. and it didn’t even matter that robb liked him bc robb was someone who did difficult unpleasant and even unpopular things in order to uphold the rule of law, as he learned from eddard, as WE learn when he beheads that one annoying karstark for killing the baby lannister hostages even though robb knows this will make him unpopular because the alternative is to be a ruler whose law means nothing and whose word can be contravened willy nilly, in a scene that very neatly mirrors eddard doing the same with the night’s watch deserter in chapter fucking 1 and then explaining this all to bran in a very neat and convenient thesis statement

[dracolunae]

Oh wow I think I suddenly got my book-reading groove back! I just read 100 pages of a book in one sitting, I haven’t been able to do that in ages! :D