#i want to be able to rb other people's fics/art/headcanons too

[zukkaoru]

so then talk about them instead of whining that other people are having fun with what they like. if those other ones are so interesting than make that content in place of behaving like a child because someone else is actually enjoying themselves.

omg guys look my first bsd fandom anon hate ask 🥰🥰🥰

[sapphicnaturalrights]

Who's behind the event?

@roublardise created the blog, and had help from @knifelesbianjo to set up the first week in december 2021

for august 2024 @mrcowboydeanwinchester is bringing the idea back with @roublardise

How do I get rb on the blog?

You can tag your posts with #sapphicnaturalrights and/or @ us in the post.

What type of content can I make?

We encourage to celebrate all the diversity of the sapphic experience! From lesbian specific experience, to a-spec experiences, being a sapphic of color, nb sapphic, trans sapphic, ... Every topic is welcome as long as it fits the prompts, and doesn't go against our guidelines (see below).

As such, all kind of content is welcome, may it be art, gif, vid, fic, playlists, meta, headcanon, ... anything you think about!

Do I have to make content for each day?

No, to participate you don't have to make content for everyday, just the ones you want, even if it's only one. You can also use one or both prompts for each day, mix them up, and make more than one post for each day.

Can I submit older posts to one of the prompts?

Yes, older works are allowed if they fit the prompts, just @ us in the post! We'd love to bring back to attention older content.

I'm running late, can I still post?

Yes, works posted late are allowed too and would be reblogged. Especially as "late" is relative, because we're all working on different timezones. There will be overlap between the prompts being rbed.

Is the event safe for minors?

If a work is nsfw we ask you to tag it #minors dni, we'll do the same when we reblog it. Minors are asked to blacklist the tag, or to not interact with that content.

Why haven't I been reblogged?

We might have not seen it yet (we're only two running the event, so it may take us some time), but if you're worry we've missed the post in the tags, you can @ us or send us the link to make sure we see it.

Other reason can be that we think your post goes against our guidelines, which we remind you are:

No headcanon of Claire or Charlie assuming they're attracted to men

No content of canon men characters being portrayed as sapphic

No minor/adult romantic or sexual relationships

No incest

If a content is deemed homophobic, transphobic and/or racist, we reserve the right to not rb it

Why don't you accept bi/pan Claire? Does she explicitly states she doesn't like men?

In short: After a long discussion, we decided that as the mods of this blog, we personally don’t feel comfortable with reblogging any bi/pan Claire content, as we feel it contributes to lesbian erasure. However, it is ultimately up to individual discretion and everyone is free to make their own decisions around the topic! If anyone wants to create and post bi/pan Claire works in the sapphicnaturalrights tag, then they’re of course able to; we just won’t be reblogging it here. 

In long: Our key concern with bi/pan Claire is lesbian erasure. While Claire’s sexuality is never explicitly labelled in canon, there are several non-textual elements of the show’s writing which are unique to the portrayal of Claire as a lesbian. Often, people can only recognise lesbianism if a character explicitly states they are a lesbian and leaves no ambiguity around it. However, this can lead to lesbian erasure as characters don’t have the opportunity to come out explicitly, or the writers don't have the green light to make a character’s lesbianism as undeniably explicit as they'd want. 

Claire appears across seven Supernatural episodes, which is an extended period of screen time for a woman character on the show. The show had plenty of time to establish Claire’s attraction to men, and so we feel that if she was intended to be interested in men, the show would have shown us so. Supernatural consistently makes women’s attraction to men explicit – among the other Wayward Sisters, there’s Alex’s boyfriend Henry in 11x12, filler dialogue from Patience about a crush on a boy called Amed in the first half of her first episode 13x03, Jody’s husband and date with Crowley, and Donna’s Dougs. But this is never addressed with Claire, even with the high school drama banter between her and Alex. 

Supernatural obviously also forgets about bisexuality, but the show’s emphasis that Claire doesn’t like men is established before she meets Kaia in season 13. We definitely do not want to mandate her sexual orientation based on the gender of her partner, but we do feel that ignoring the unique choices of Claire’s writing arguably plays into how women’s attraction to men is taken for granted. Therefore, writing Claire as attracted to men can be seen as lesbian erasure. However, there is so much nuance to this conversation. A lot of lesbians identify as bisexual before they identify as lesbian, and bisexuals as lesbians before they identify as bisexual – this sapphic journey through labels and Claire coming to terms with being a lesbian could be explored in a fascinating way without contributing to lesbian erasure. Women can have sex with men without being attracted to them, equally we're all aware of the multiple ways in which compulsory heterosexuality can influence someone's actions, thoughts and feelings, and we would also welcome depictions of both of these as part of a larger sapphic narrative. Our identities are fluid and intertwined, and there are so many shared sapphic experiences – even if we say that we cannot ignore that Claire is canonically a lesbian, it doesn’t mean we can’t create around the beautiful experiences sapphics have in common!

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If you have any other questions, you can check out the asks we already replied to & send us an ask!

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

I just want to say, before I say anything, I'm not accusing you of saying this and I understand that you feel how you feel. I'm just asking this in a very general way and was wondering your thoughts. Why is it so verboten to think Zuko might have had a slight crush on Katara? There seems to be a rush to not just deny it but to treat it like it's some sort of horrible thing to even suggest it and I'm not sure why that is?

Katara is presented as a beautiful, lively girl who is a powerful bender. Why wouldn’t Zuko be a little starry eyed over that? It doesn’t mean she likes him back. Idk, I’m not exactly sure where my point is, except that being shouted down for just advancing the idea that maybe Zuko had the hots for Katara is a little frustrating? I’m not saying he was wacking off in his bunk thinking about her or expected to get some while they were hunting Yon Rha.

Also, unrequited crushes happen in ATLA-verse? Toph/Sokka anyone? Why does that never get screeched on but saying “Hey, Zuko loved Mai but he was probably looking at Katara and thinking ‘noice!’ a couple of times” the worst thing in the world? Is it the Water Tribe/Fire Nation thing? I mean, if it’s that, I wish people would just say that and stop screaming at people for their headcanons and whatnot. [theend]

Lol do not worry anon I know this isn’t an accusation!! Not only have I myself never perpetuated this rhetoric, but I don’t think I’ve really heard it before! Maybe once or twice?? I might just keep to chill parts of fandom, lmao, and that’s why I’m not very familiar with it. But I’ll do my best to theorize what may spark conflict based on the info you provided me!

(I’ve talked very briefly here about Zuko having/not having a crush on Katara before, if you were wondering.)

My main guess is that it’s not the headcanon itself that makes people frustrated, but how some shippers probably treat the HEADcanon as canon-canon (not an issue exclusive to Zvtara, btw; all big fanon ships have this problem - Zvkka, anyone? lmao). I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with headcanoning that Zuko had a crush on Katara! But in that same vein, there’s nothing inherently wrong with others acknowledging that the headcanon has no basis in canon either, if that makes sense. And headcanons don’t need canon basis! Headcanons are fanon! That’s why they’re so much fun! I ship Kuzaang like there’s no tomorrow, but I can also acknowledge that there wasn’t anything in canon that demonstrated Aang having a crush on Kuzon. Kuzaang is strictly fanon, and I love that about the pairing! It means I have incredible free reign, hehe.

But yeah. I don’t think it has anything to do with their different nations! Like I said - it’s probably solely an issue of some shippers (and undoubtedly just a loud minority) treating the headcanon as canon.

I don’t think saying “Hey, Zuko loved Mai but he was probably looking at Katara and thinking ‘noice!’ a couple of times” is the worst thing in the world, lmao. I do want to make a distinction here, though; this example you provide is actually an example of aesthetic attraction, which is not the same as a crush (crushes are indicative of romantic attraction)! So saying/headcanoning that Zuko thought Katara was pretty (as anyone with a brain would say, let’s be real) does not actually equate to him having a crush on her.

But back to the crush headcanon. I mentioned that I (personally!) don’t think it has canon basis. I will admit that I am not alloromantic, so crushes in themselves are a little confusing to me (I mean,, people just randomly like someone?? based on their appearance?? without even knowing them?? hell nah), but even disregarding that, I don’t think it would make much sense within canon for Zuko to have had a crush on Katara.

Again, disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with the headcanon! Fanon is meant to contradict canon! To expand canon! To rewrite canon! Fanon is transformative. That’s the entire purpose of fanon. Go wild with that headcanon!! Make art!! Produce fics!! Support content creators!! Hell yeah!!

So what do I mean when I say that I personally feel there’s no canon basis for Zuko having a crush on Katara? Well, for one, he joined the Gaang in episode 12 of Book 3. That’s episode 52 of 61 overall. So in everything prior to that, Zuko not only has no idea who Katara is but he is also neck-deep in imperialistic rhetoric (you know, racism, superiority complexes, all that jazz. not fun for anyone non-FN). No possible crush there. In “The Western Air Temple” episode itself, Katara (understandably) threatens Zuko. She means what she says, and I think Zuko recognizes that. A crush there wouldn’t make sense - they’ve only properly met this second time and Katara (understandably) hates Zuko’s guts for what he’s done to the Gaang and to her personally.

Episode 53 is “The Firebending Masters” - Zuko’s too hung up on his firebending not working to think about anything else (Katara obviously still does not trust him yet, either, meaning Zuko is pretty much on edge around her. again, she threatened him, and Zuko no doubt took her threat seriously).

54 and 55 are “The Boiling Rock” episodes; not only are these Maiko-heavy but also in general… I mean, Katara’s not really in them. At least not from Zuko’s POV. So nothing implies a crush there. And then after those episodes, it’s worth considering that Zuko probably thinks Mai is dead. That he left her, the girl he loves, to die at Azula’s hands. We know Zuko tends to hold guilt to his chest, so concluding he blamed himself for Mai’s “death” is not illogical. Why would he all of sudden switch his sights to Katara, even if it was just a simple crush? While he’s grieving? That doesn’t track to me.

And then, of course, “The Southern Raiders.” This episode has been talked about to death, so I’ll keep it brief, lmao. I will draw attention to only one line, spoken by Zuko:

This isn’t fair! Everyone else seems to trust me now! What is it with you?

As we all know, TSR was not a flattering episode for Zuko. He was a racist asshole to Aang and - as aforementioned - acted as if he was entitled to Katara’s trust. Obviously, Zuko grows through the episode, and we see by the end that he respects Aang’s wisdom and respects Katara’s decision to walk away from Yon Rha (which is awesome!! I adore this brief but incredibly crucial arc of his!!). But my point is that nothing demonstrates romantic interest from Zuko to Katara. If anything, his initial motives are pretty damn selfish (i.e. demanding her to trust him because he feels like he “deserves” it already).

Emphasis on “initial” motives, of course. Obviously he grows more sincere!! (Tis the point of the episode for Zuko.)

So they end TSR on new, peaceful terms. Personally, I don’t think their relationship would be magically sunshine and roses after that (Zuko did some fucked up shit to the Gaang, lmao), but I do think things are getting better between them! Still, there is nothing indicative of a canon crush.

Next episode, in EIP, they scoot away from each other at the possibility of being together, yk? That doesn’t mean they hate each other’s guts, lmfao, but EIP is meant to depict imperialist Fire Nation propaganda - who wouldn’t be uncomfortable with that? Like, the entire Gaang is demeaned in that play. There’s nothing romantic about it. It’s a similar situation later with June - this is a lady that doesn’t know anything remotely personal about Zuko or Katara. Of course they’d react in a horrified and flustered manner when this - for all intents and purposes - total stranger suggests that they’re together! That’s creepy as hell! Definitely not indicative of a crush, lmao. And considering that the Gaang never teases Zuko about having a crush on Katara (compared to how I think Toph teases Katara about Haru?), i.e. the people who know them the best, there’s no reason for the audience to think anything is going on between them.

For other references, here are a few addressing EIP, June, etc.

And after all that… Well, now we’re in the finale. What time is there for romance? There’s a reason the canon couples don’t reunite until after the war is won! (Minus Sukka, I guess, but they’re not professing their love on the battlefield, per se, lmao.) Zuko chooses Katara to go with him because she’s a powerful waterbender and the only person who’s been able to handle Azula in the past (besides Aang, arguably, who’s obviously occupied with Ozai), not because he “likes” her in a romantic sense.

All of this is to say that to me, Zuko having a crush on Katara is strictly fanon. Which is awesome! Fanon is fantastic, and I actually really like these types of headcanons (like, Teo having a crush on Aang? GOOD SHIT). Some people are just jerks about it. That said, I can still understand why people might get frustrated by those who preach this headcanon as if it’s pulled straight from the text itself. I absolutely think it’s ridiculous to harass others over a headcanon (which unfortunately you see on both sides of the ship war), but in that same vein - of course it’s frustrating when those loud few act like their fanon is canon and proceed to shove it down others’ throats, lmao. It’s an imperfect situation, basically.

TL;DR - The headcanon in itself is great, and no one should be getting freaking harassed over it. But it is strictly fanon, so when some shippers treat it like canon, that’s understandably going to frustrate the rest of the fandom. Headcanons are a double-edged sword, lmao.

So that’s my personal theory as to why people get pressed over this headcanon. If anyone else has a different idea, please feel free to rb/comment with it!