#atla ship wars

[atla-confessions]

I'm a katoph shipper, so I don't really care about the ship wars, but I do like watching them, and the more I watch them, the more Zutara Kataang and Zukaang feel like siblings. Zutara and Kataang feel like the twins that are constantly fighting and starting drama and refusing to acknowledge how similar they are to eachother, and sometimes I watch them and think "why can't you be more like your brother, zukaang, look at him, he just chillin." But zukaang also has older sibling vibes in that, they usually won't say they're better, at least not as often, but you can definitely tell they think they're better than everyone else. It feels like they think they're being subtle, but they're really not.

Zukka feels like a cousin

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[captlok]

Lost it at “all those long cold windy nights” XD XD

still can’t believe people are mad about this satire after a literally a decade and a half ...... like get over it, some people genuinely have no life.

An oldie, but goodie… We made this silly little video for the Avatar panel at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con. It occurred to me that the only versions out there on YouTube were videotaped from the crowd, so I thought I’d post a clean version here (if one can refer to this as “clean”).

Now, I don’t want to cast aspersions or hurt any feelings, but for some of you I feel the need to explain that this is all a joke.

joke |jōk| noun

a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, esp. a story with a funny punchline: she was in a mood to tell jokes. • a trick played on someone for fun.

Who’s going to San Diego Comic Con this year? It is coming up fast. We’re cooking up a really cool panel that, while not a unique format, is different from anything we’ve offered in the past. Looking forward to seeing you there!

[gascreates]

this is the only relationship that matters actually.

[captainkirkk]

I don't have any strong opinions about ATLA ships, however I desperately want Zuko/Sokka/Suki to be a thing so that centuries later historians will be pulling their hair out trying to figure out what the fuck was up with these three

[demaparbat-hp]

In your Spitfire AU, since Zuko is looking after Lu Ten II, what happened to Ursa?

Zuko is slightly older in the Spitfire AU. He was banished at fifteen, his head a little clearer and denial a little weaker than in canon. After his first look through the Air Temples, Zuko decides that if he can't find a myth, he might as well search for the next best thing.

Finding Ursa isn't easy, but in time he makes it to a secluded house in a near-forgotten part of the world. His mom is there, older and stronger and alive.

But she isn't alone.

And Zuko, as it turns out, didn't keep the best company during his search.

When Ursa is discovered and her secrets are laid bare for assassins (for Ozai) to find, she begs Zuko to take his little brother and run. She'll do anything it takes to protect her children, even if that means leaving them behind to keep a target off their back. Ursa diverts attention from them and allows Lu Ten's ancestry to be kept a secret. She orders Zuko not to follow her again, and disappears.

Zuko is left with a little three-year-old brother to raise and a mother he cannot hold onto.

[yikes-kachowski]

Drew this years ago. Based on very funny red, white, and royal blue fanart I think? I'm sorry I didn't save when I first drew it 😔

It's also a real quick drawing, sorry to kataras hair and fit. I love u queen I swear.

Sokkas not a zk hater he's just in shock lol

[livslunar]

jin n lee

[xwonderlandresidentx]

I feel like I've been seeing a lot more posts about how both the Kat//ng and Zutara fandoms should stop fighting and tolerate each other more, and while I understand, and to an extent, agree with the sentiment, it bothers me a little because these posts tend to make it out like both fandoms are equally as toxic, when in my experience, that simply isn't true.

I am a multishipper, and even though I mostly just participate in the fandoms for my absolute favorites, I still enjoy lots of different ships, including ships that "contradict" each other.

In AtLA, even though Zutara is my favorite now, I also used to ship Kat//ng. Kat//ng used to be my favorite, and only ship for the series that I actively engaged with. I saw the appeal of Zutara (and others), but for a long time my opinion on it was "it's not canon, so why bother?" and I mostly just ignored it.

But one of the biggest reason I stopped enjoying interacting with the KA side of the fandom was because I saw a vastly disproportionate amount of other KA shippers going out of their way to harass Zutara shippers. And I don't mean simply talking badly about the ship itself, or the characters involved, but personal attacks against the real life people who ship Zutara.

Have I seen Zutara shippers harass Kat//ngers? Yes, of course. But not nearly as much as the other way around. Literally not even half as much. And not just here on Tumblr, but Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Deviantart. All across the internet, I saw KA shippers constantly badmouthing Zutara and Zutara shippers, even in the comments of Kat//ng art and fics, completely unprompted.

It bummed me out, and while it isn't the reason I stopped liking the ship itself, it did make me feel uncomfortable interacting with it's fandom. Kat//ng shippers are, ironically, a big part of the reason I started actively shipping Zutara. Because after seeing the way they went on about it and it's fandom, I thought "Surely, Zutara and the people who like it can't be that bad." So I took a deeper look at the ship and it's fandom, and.... I was right. They weren't as bad as other Kat//ngers had told me they were. Not even close.

[torturedpoetskywalker]

pls send me some for any fandom !! :)

(made by @versegm)

[broadwaybalogna]

zutara is BOOOORING azutara is better 🤑🤑🤑🤑

For the past few days I’ve been searching far and wide, going on journeys over the tallest mountains and longest rivers, hiking through the most dangerous forests. Everywhere I look, however, I just cannot seem to find a fuck to give. So sorry :(

[poisonousquinzel]

little me, we made it.

it took like 15 years, but we made it

[atla-confessions]

Hi chat I wanted to check out the Zutara shippers always mistag claim to do so I looked at 30 days of Kataang tagged posts starting from Aug 1st and here's what I found:

58 posts properly tagged anti Zutara - 8 from this blog

107 posts properly tagged anti Kataang, anti Kataang shipper, anti Kataang stans OR Kataang critical - 30 from this blog

2 improperly tagged anti Kataang posts

2 improperly tagged Zutara posts - 1 fanart which was previously discussed and kicked off this claim, 1 fanfic

17 anti ka & anti zk posts - 13 from this blog

8 multishipper posts - 2 from this blog

6 porn posts

If you want to avoid Zutara posts block Zutara, anti anti zutara and pro Zutara.

If you want to avoid posts that are critical of Kataang block anti Kataang, antikataang and kataang critical.

If you want to avoid posts critical of Aang, block anti aang, antiaang and aang critical.

If you want to avoid posts critical of Kataang shippers block anti Kataang shippers and anti Kataang stans

Of the anti Kataang tags, anti Kataang shippers/stans appeared to be the most used.

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[linootte]

Experimenting. Toph and Sokka are hanging out & chilling somewhere else

[mfshipbracket]

[jumumo]

There's something so sinister about the fact that Katara is shunted away from the story when she should be way more involved in Korra's arc. Korra's seemingly main conflict is her sheltered life with her fiery passion for enacting justice and learning to temper it with diplomacy. Who's an old person in the series that has dealt with injustice, who always took direct action to correct them in any way she can and had moved to a more diplomatic role once there wasn't an active war?

Katara fits so well in Korra's story it's not even funny. Imagine Korra having a mentor from the devastated but resilient Southern Water Tribes that was the THE last water bender at a point and can absolutely do girl talk with? Imagine Korra having a tangible connection to the history of her Tribe. Imagine writing Korra to have connections to the place that was the next most affected by the war. Imagine writing a Korra where that mattered to her character.

The way she was canonically written, she don't really give a damn. And that's heartbreaking. And most likely a blind spot with the writers. Especially when passing down cultural traditions and respecting elders is one the most important things to happen to communities where there were attempts to erase them.

[idolomantises]

Have/do you watch atla? If so, who's your favorite character?

I love ATLA. Katara remains a strong favorite but after rewatching it in March, i think Aang is almost tied with her.