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blackfilmmakers · 9 days ago

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I hate how Aang is just never allowed to feel bitter about having his culture colonized. Like he apparently shouldn't feel so upset about colonizers that destroy his people's temples and replace it with pipes and smog. He apparently shouldn't feel angry when he learns that they build weapons of mass destruction for the Fire Nation

And then they try to make him out to be an "airbender purist" in Korra and like....he literally wouldn't be like that

"Aang is a bad father because he only paid attention to his one kid that was an airbender" his culture literally involves venturing out to other nations, and he befriends so many people and learn their cultures through these exchanges

If Aang is excited to share his culture, he is literally going to share it with his entire family, whether they are an airbender or not. He is literally excited to show Katara and Sokka how to play airbending games.

And he would want to do the same with the Southern Water Tribe because that's his wife and brother-in-law's homeland. He would take his children to travel around the world with him because that's what his people do

#everytime i think about the series i forget how white it was written #i feel like they only allow katara to react to the horrors of war because she needs to be “girl that is overtly emotional”#cuz they dont let sokka be affected through it #literally told zuko the day his mom was killed and just hurried zuko out of the tent to comically call for zuki #idk am i the only one that feels they try to make the men affected by colonization not think much of it #while the women have to be emotional about it like hama and either they cry about it or do evil acts that make them just as bad #as the colonizers #listen this is why i cant take katara x zuko seriously #why do i want to pair a victim of colonization to the guy that literally caused that #yeah he learned to get bettwr at the expense of all those lives #listen I'll consider that ship if jet and hama were still alive and thriving

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