#zuko just trolling people with this is golden

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Just so you know, some of your anons are coming from a blog called @mal3vol3nt

I do not know if you’re aware, but she’s chronically obsessed with you and has also been sharing your ao3 on Twitter and inciting harassment there too, saying you’re “racist” and a “degenerate” and accusing you of writing underage. Her blog lately is mainly posts about you and it sounds very similar to some of your anons

I had to check this out for myself and...wow. All I can say is just...wow 🤣

No, I actually had no idea who this person was but from the looks of it she's been obsessed with me for months? I guess that explains the anons, I knew these people were mad, but apparently they've been over here steaming over my takes and are legitimately terrified of me. And I didn't even know them! Didn't realize I've been doing numbers on Twitter (or X whatever it is now) despite never having an account.

(The rest is below; please don't click if you do not wish to see insensitive discussions of rape or if you are not in the mood to read opinions so malformed they will melt your brain)

I guess I have another angry little troll who doesn't know what a captial letter is obsessed with me. Wish I could say it was the first time, but alas. A lot of particularly funny things here though.

> Advertising your terrible ragebait Twitter like anyone finds you important

Lmao.

> "write fanfiction of katara being raped so zuko can save her"

What a terrible misread of the point of that story, but then again, I don't expect much else from a terminally online crybaby who exclusively consumes media for children. If you can't handle adult discussions about adult topics, maybe don't read stories that are clearly marked 18+ and with far more extensive trigger warnings than any mainstream media will give you.

> "measuring the size of her breasts and hips"

Lmao. I said she is drawn differently in different scenes. That's it. You guys are another level of unhinged.

> "obviously fetishes and racism"

It's kind of creepy how they sexualize Zutara, while simultaneously accusing us of doing that. Why do you assume a fetish is the only reason behind someone liking a ship? Why would you say this about a group of people including many black, brown, and indigenous women? And minors? And if you want to get into the whole fetish thing, don't even get me started on the shit I've seen from the kataang fandom. Hint: when I say some of you have a "mommy fetish" I mean it in a very literal sense. Not to mention the whole kataang rape discord debacle.

> "sick fantasies about these minor characters"

I have never depicted a minor in a sexual situation. I make a point to explicitly avoid doing that, and all characters are depicted as adults. Your lack of media literacy isn't an argument. If you're going to criticize my writing, at least read it, which you clearly didn't. And if the content is too upsetting for you, you clearly lack the maturity to engage in these kinds of discussions.

Imagine treating ship discourse this seriously, actually unhinged. Who said that Ember Island Players is the real Katara? What? She talks a big number about coke-fueled rants, must have given it a try herself. How do you expect to be taken seriously when you never say anything of substance and screech "racism" or "colonizer" every other word but can't even articulate the significance of those terms? Honestly, at this point you sound like a right-winger who thinks saying "but I'm [identity] and I agree with [opinion]" is a golden ticket to winning every argument.

And look at this: apparently I deserved all the things she and her friends sent me? Actually I respect this take, at least she's honest about it unlike the people who cry and backpeddle when they get caught red-handed.

I'm actually cackling at this one. Genuinely laughing; my neighbors are probably concerned. It's like you took every single Bad Person Allegation and threw it into a blender. And to top it all off, apparently 24 is "pushing 30" now LMAO. And apparently I, a lesbian, could only possibly like Zutara because I think Zuko is hot. Not to mention the way they entirely miss the point of Zutara, but ATLA itself, by insisting that Zuko is a "violent imperialist" who is apparently unworthy of love by anyone who does not share his skin tone. Kind of ironic coming from the people crying that I'm a racist who doesn't understand the show. Next level clownery.

This is so funny. These people are absolutely terrified of me, no amount of unhinged anons will hide that. It's fine for men to tell me I deserve rape and death, that I'm a dirty pervert for daring to speak out about sexual trauma, and that women's sexual trauma is nothing but a fetish, but if I respond to that man telling him he should die for being so disrespectful and misogynistic to rape victims, I'm the monster? I stand by it. If you think what he said about rape and rape victims is acceptable, especially if you're a man, die! Hang from ropes, as I said.🥰

I guess I should be really scared though. This is clearly a very influential figure in the fandom who is renowned for her enlightened wisdom on the plight of fictional cartoon characters against evil imperialists like me (adult with job).

...oh wait. I was excited for a minute, I thought I was dealing with a celebrity. But even the "callouts" struggle to hit 20 notes :/

And to everyone sending me positivity during this time, thank you very much! But I wanted to show you this to assure you I'm doing just fine. People can act as weird as they want behind a gray face, but after seeing the kinds of whiny little brats they are in reality, it's pretty hard to take it seriously. "I got my plane ticket" my ass, that would require you to leave your decaying, trash-filled apartment.

[sokkastyles]

Welcome to my workshop on Tumblr Look at this shit lmao. People unironically say this. You're right about these Azula stans, fucking hell.

These people would sound like trolls, if I didn't already know that they really are that stupid and vicious.

You can see my response to OP. Lol at "we can go back and forth all day about who is to blame..." No, we can't. It really isn't that much of a mystery. I pointed out that it's stated in the show three times that Azula lied about Aang's death because she believed he was still alive, but someone else corrected that it's actually four times, because I forgot about one. Aang being still alive was also Zuko's motive for hiring the assassin, because Azula had threatened him very obviously with it an episode before.

Also lol at "Well she only lied because Zuko lied." First of all, Zuko didn't lie. He has no obligation to tell Azula about the spirit water, especially since he never wanted Ozai to believe that he killed Aang and had no part in the lie Azula told. He openly told Azula that he was worried because he didn't capture the Avatar, and this was before anyone thought he had killed Aang. He had no idea that Azula was going to give him the credit for it, nor did he ask or want her to, and he wasn't worried because he thought Aang might still be alive, he was worried because he didn't capture Aang, which he told Azula in the book two finale as well as in the premiere of book three. Zuko had no part in pretending Aang was dead. Azula was the one who told that lie, and then forced Zuko into a position where he had to maintain it.

Azula also is much less likely to take the fall if Aang turns out to be alive than Zuko is, and she knows that. That's why she's not worried about following Ozai's orders the way Zuko is. She was not trying to protect herself out of necessity by lying, she was trying to build insurance for herself, because she knew Ozai would be more likely to believe her and blame Zuko if anything went wrong. She only gets away with this lie because she is Ozai's golden child and Zuko is the scapegoat. And she knows this. She wasn't forced to lie, she did it because she saw another way to cement her advantage and assert her control.

It's also especially nasty to act like Zuko has an obligation to tell Azula or Ozai about the spirit water, since it was something Katara offered to him in a moment of compassion for his pain. Pain which Ozai caused and Azula constantly mocked him for. The fact that someone who is supposed to be Zuko's enemy offered to heal the scar his family gave him tells you everything you need to know about who Zuko owes his loyalty to. And it ain't Azula.

Like, of course Zuko isn't going to tell her about it. What do you think Ozai would do if he knew that someone had offered to heal Zuko's scar? That, rather than his son learning his lesson about "respect," Zuko came close to realizing that he didn't deserve to be abused? It's more than just Aang being alive, Zuko keeping the spirit water, and what it means to him personally, secret means that Zuko knows that what his family did to him wasn't inevitable or deserved, and that there are people who care about him and want him to heal. Zuko having to keep this secret from his family and being made to feel shame and blame over it is a metaphor for what it's like having to live with abuse.

[muffinlance]

What's iroh deal in tts? Like is he good, a bit less good than the original iroh or quite worse, I dont know how to say it but like he's different right? So why or on what is he different?

So as a general rule, my Iroh (and Zuko, and all the rest of the canon cast and my reoccurring OCs) are exactly the same people from fic to fic. The indulgent tea-troll Uncle from Dark Night in Ba Sing Se who is ready to Burn This City Down when he sees the state of his nephew is the same Uncle that dethroned Zuko in Towards the Sun. The difference between them is their circumstances and experiences.

I also don't go in for good/bad dichotomies--real people do not work like that inside their own heads, so I don't write them like that.

So let us examine the circumstances that created Iroh in Towards the Sun:

He spent the entire time from Ba Sing Se until chapter two of the story thinking that Zuko had willingly rejoined Ozai and was still on his side

There were less than two months between Ozai's defeat and the Gaang dropping in on Zuko, which is not much time to assess troop movements/intentions--Zuko was sending letters saying he wanted peace, but it sure looked like his troops were rallying to stronger positions (which they absolutely were)

The White Lotus has been pressing for Iroh to take the throne since Zuko first defected, possibly longer, and Iroh had to come to terms and internally accept the idea that he might have to

Net result: Iroh stepped off that bison mentally prepared to fight his nephew for the throne, should it prove necessary.

He still loved Zuko. He did not want to hurt him any more than necessary. He would even prefer to have Zuko as his heir, pending a few more years to break his father's hold on him (because clearly three years was not enough).

What he found was a Zuko who was already reformed, repentant, and sincerely trying to end the war. Uncle was ecstatic, and so full of pride for this son of his.

Who didn't trust anyone around him, and was so painfully and obviously alone.

Who was allowing his insane sister not just to stay in the palace terrifying the servants with potentially lethal threats of violence, but physically hurt him on a regular basis in a way that would be fatal with the slightest mistake. (Who had already done so much damage to his heart that only a waterbender could fully heal him.)

Who was literally working himself to death.

And we must remember: Iroh is a product of Azulon's court, and he did well there. He was the golden child. There are rules and traditions that must be observed, or the monarchy is meaningless; he knows this, was raised to this.

So now we have an Iroh who has spent months mentally preparing to take the throne via the court-approved method, eg Agni Kai. An Iroh who loves Zuko and is so proud of him and will not let another son die. An Iroh who, let's be honest, is canonically used to lying to Zuko/withholding extremely pertinent information and making weighty decisions that affect his nephew without first consulting him.

An Iroh panicking hard because Zuko was literally dying in front of him. Holding this foolish wonderful boy down for a healing would only fix things for a few days, because Zuko was not taking care of himself mentally or physically and was allowing regular assassination attempts on his person. This boy needed a Goddamn Adult to step up and take charge.

What Iroh did, in retrospect, was terrible. He knows this.

But he was panicking, and already mentally primed to a certain course of action, and it was an acceptable trade off in that moment for his nephew to hate him forever so long as he was alive to do so.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Avatar: The Last Airbender episode 3x13 ｡･:*:･ﾟ

Zuko is supposed to teach Aang firebending, but for some reason he has trouble with it too.

“Sorry Sifu Hotman” “And stop calling me that!” XD

Aang suggests that the reason might be that he used to rely on anger for firebending, and Zuko says he doesn’t want to do that anymore.

Toph suggests he re-learns from the original source of firebending, just like she learnt from the original source of earthbending i.e. the badger moles. Oh, the original airbenders were the sky bisons! Makes sense...

The original source of firebending were dragons, but apparently there aren’t any anymore. Well, generally in stories when they say there are no more living dragons, there are more living dragons, so I’m not exactly drinking it :p

Zuko has the idea to visit the ruins of the first civilization to learn firebending from dragons, the sun warriors, hoping that they’ll find some artifact that can help.

“The past can be a great teacher! ... Zuko, I think the past is trying to kill me!”

Zuko reveals that the dragons were hunted down for sport by firebenders starting from Sozin, and the last dragon was killed by Iroh. “He had a complicated past. Family tradition I guess...”

Awww Zuko’s face when Aang tells him he’s smart, we stan a soft boi ^-^

They enter the temple, unlock a golden egg, pick it up, and unsurprisingly get into a trap.

Their bickering is so fucking funny asdfghjkl I am loving this so much.

“Well what do you think we should do?” “Think about our place in the universe?”

But sun warriors do still live there, and now they think they’re thieves. 

“I don’t normally play this card, but I’m the Avatar” hghjhjkj when have you not used that card??

Zuko explains why they’re there, to learn firebending the true way instead of the distorted way based on hate of the Fire Nation, and the leader decides to have them examined by the masters Ran and Shao. I love how Zuko talks like a diplomat and Aang just says things.

They need to perform a ritual where they carry some fire from the original fire made by dragons. Aang starts to realize fire is not so bad, but he’s still shy about it, and Zuko encourages him. But they manage to get their flames out before the masters come out...

Ooh they’re the same dragons Zuko saw in a nightmare once, right?

They perform the dragon dance for them, and the dragons produce a beautiful, colorful fire... they understand the real meaning of firebending. Fire doesn’t have to be associated to hate and aggression.

Ooooooh Iroh lied about killing the last dragon, he faced the masters and got their wisdom too! Now that makes more sense XD

Aang says that now he gets that fire isn’t just destruction, but energy and life too. Zuko realizes that after he changed purposes his original drive didn’t work for him anymore, and he’s needed to embrace a different drive.

They can both perform firebending now, but Zuko needs to go through some trolling before he can say he’s really part of the group XD

Gaaah I’m such an emotion Aang and Zuko became friends so easily and they’re so cute ^-^ It’s also nice that rather than a traditional teacher-student relationship they are basically both learning something together - firebending i.e. trusting himself to do something that he didn’t trust himself with before for Aang, and basically a new approach to himself for Zuko - and they both need the other to do it, like the dance is performed by two people.

[redtearstonering]

who the cast of avatar mains in overwatch

aang: tracer, with deadly efficiency, but only on koth maps. plays dva when he wants to have fun, but mccree when he wants to win. still plays mccree through season 3, and can stomp 76 mains if he catches them by surprise. likes symmetra, but doesnt play her unless the team comp is right.

katara: mained mercy in season 1, has been desperately clinging to her since ana was released

sokka: reinhardt. he whiffs his ult 66% of the time. if reinhardt is already taken he goes junkrat until the other person switches off, at which point he promptly jumps off a cliff to respawn.

toph: played winston once, and got destroyed by reaper. played reaper the next game, and got destroyed by roadhog. played roadhog the next game, and never switched off. she got a golden roadhog gun halfway through season 1. she plays hanzo in quickplay.

zuko: a diverse hero roster of reaper, genji, zarya, and ana. he wants to be a good zenyatta, but sucks with him. despite constant shot calling and team encouragement, he always gets stuck with trolls, derankers, and leavers. he has never left gold.

azula: in quickplay she plays mei and does nothing but freeze people, she doesnt even headshot them, just freezes them to freak them out. in comp she mains ana, and cant play anyone else competitively.

mai: reluctantly plays zenyatta to technically fill a support role, even though she just wants to frag. roadhog hooks are magnetically attracted to her and every time she dies to one she just sighs.

ty lee: genji (but not obnoxious Pro Genji, proper backline diver genji). she cried for an hour when ledge-boosting was patched out.

iroh: he likes torbjorn for his personality, and has at least 85% armor uptime in every game. yes, every game starts with his teammates accusing him of trolling.

suki: pharah. came over from quake. placed in masters.

jet: viciously abuses the heroes that he expects to be nerfed, regardless of whether or not he thinks they need to be nerfed. mained genji in season 1, mccree in season 2, and roadhog in season 3.

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ok, here’s my play-by-play

spoilers:

gotta love those parallels to the first episode

modern disney shows LOVE them some goats

she got monster catfished

Luz and King are me and my puppy. she likes to run off w/ things she SHOULDN’T be playing with (like my socks)

new opening is MAJESTIC

boop

I like that they animated the video footage to be all pixel-y

DAWWW, KING (maybe he can be her “pet" when she gets back home)

“She’s doing her best now” mood

I love the Thirty and Flirty mug I turn 30 in Sept so...relevant 

I feel like Lilith could hear Luz, because she starts to smile when Luz says that they could become friends

poor Hooty

to be fair to Lilith I would also slam a window on someone who popped up out of nowhere and scared me

show of hands-who thinks the Stab-Catcher is gonna come back at some point and be/be used for something important

KING, NO!

Eda STILL hit the bullseye, so King was probably safe

I don’t know why but “this week we’re bounty hunters” made me laugh. maybe because it sounds like the start to some reality show about some shmuck doing random jobs every episode

Luz showing off her GUNS to her mama

 GOD LUZ IS TOO CUTE

I also love that Luz speaks in Spanish when she talks to her mom

"I love you, Mom. I promise, I'll be back home soon." T_T

CURSE YOU POOR INTERDIMENTIONAL CONECTION!

“Do you own anything that isn’t COVERED IN FEATHERS?!” funny joke about Eda being a bit of a slob or foreshadowing?

also I want that shirt

“I’m trying to stay civil” *FUCKING KICKS A DUDE OVER* Eda, my love, never change

Eda had a bit of a Karen moment there

DAT GROWL! *swoons*

I really like the egg couple, they cute

Gun Show Round 2-Lilith

“heh heh, you’re a TRADER!” King likes to kick ‘em when they’re down

The Golden Guard is a stupid name. it REEKS of trying to be cool but failing, this kid’s a nerd. like, I wouldn’t be impressed by someone with that name I’d think they were a knock-off superhero

the “genius teen prodigy” hmm? I know people are comparing him to Eda, and rightfully so, but that could also apply to Gus. I mean, he’s technically a pre-teen when we first meet him, but STILL. 

I love that Lilith just says vomit. she really isn’t so above it all lol

Greg’s List, lol

I NEED TO SEE LUZ TAKING WITCH CHACKLING LESSONS

WANTED-YOU, A FRIEND! aw, hope that person finds a friend

ok, the Cutie Pie kind of disturbs me. THOSE DEAD EYES

I’d like to pretend Lilith and Eda are having two different conversations

MAMA EDA!!

“That’s rough, buddy” THAT’S ZUKO’S PHRASE

and King just takes his lollipop and pushes him lol

then Luz steps on him

“I can’t change the past, but I can still change the future.” a good mindset. and maybe foreshadowing some time travel in the future?

I really relate to Luz in this episode. I feel like a burden on my family, especially my parents because I’ve had health problems since I was a kid and am still living at home. they reassure me that I’m not but still

this episode gave me a lot of Treasure Planet vibes and I mean that in the BEST way

I’m mad that the captain is in league w/ the emperor, he seems like a cool dude

SHAKE IT EDA!

this is a realistic portrayal of siblings. one of my sisters will bring up the time I threw a remote at her

why did Lilith pull the spell out of the book?

HOOTY YOU NEED TO STOP SNEAKING UP ON PEOPLE

Bestie, Lulu. oh Hooty, I love you. who else kinda wants a Hooty nickname?

“We can find out their secret crushes! We can give them cute couple names.” HOOTY TOTALLY USES LUMITY TO REFER TO LUZ AND AMITY. HE IS ONE OF US

“A good friend would respect her wishes but a BETTER friend would help her no matter WHAT.” well his heart’s in the right place

I LOVE THE SHOT OF THE SHIP SAILING! TOTAL TREASURE PLANET VIBES

the stained glass windows on the back of the ship remind me of the windows at the Mystery Shack

pirate Luz is adorable

“I HAVE MANY DEBTS!” I love this dude

Luz has come SO FAR! MY SWEET CHILD!

King just hanging w/ the other “parrots”

YOU ARRRRRRH! PIRATE JOKE!

“BOO!” oh hush King, it wasn’t that bad

I love the little noises King makes

SO MANY TRIANGLES! King must feel at home lol

poor King

when we gonna get fire bee Pokémon?

didn’t think I’d feel bad for Lilith this early on

has Hooty gone out fire bee hunting before?

NOOOOO, DON’T MAKE HOOTY SAD

I DID NOT NEED TO SEE SOMEOME TIE THEIR EYELIDS TOGETHER THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I knew the moment we saw the selkidamus that it was a mama

at first I thought the ghost pirate was part of the Emperor’s plan to capture Luz and the captain was in on it

I love that Luz ends up with just cubes under her feet

PIRATE EDA IS SEXY AF

GG IS THEATRE NERD (I’m calling him GG because the Golden Guard is long and I don’t want to type it)

“Because none of you can use real magic.” I think GG is projecting a bit here. I think his magic is artificial/tech based

I bet that plant doesn’t eat flesh and GG was trolling them

I love this little shit lord

I feel like the selkidamus is just a red herring. GG doesn’t even take it in the end

I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t look like DANGLING. THEY’RE LIKE 2 INCHES ABOVE IT. YOU WEAK, GG

WHY WAS THAT SWORD MADE OF MUSCLE AND SHIT?!

aw, the whimper Luz makes

does GG really think King’s a bird?

King and Soos both conk out when it gets dark. wish I could do that

“I AM A WITCH...UNHINGED!” 

Lilith, you’re relatively smart, why did you use a FLAMMABLE OBJECT against FIRE BEES?

HOOTY COMES IN FOR THE SAVE!

“No witch is an island.” such wise words

Lilith clapping at the VIOLENCE!

this WHOLE SCENE made me WEEP! I could relate to Luz SO MUCH and Eda lets her know that she has made her live BETTER! SO MANY TEARS!

BABY!!!!! I find the selkidamus baby WAAAAAAY cuter than the Cutie Pie thing at the beginning

LUZ IS JUST SO SWEET AND EARNEST

GG finds King endearing? I smell a future plotline with these two

“Gross.” “YOU’RE GROSS!” these are children, someone help Luz come up w/ better insults

I bet King doesn’t smell and GG is just trying to act cool

“BY-EEEEEEEE” this child is in NO WAY straight

XP

I think GG might be looking out for Luz. he wasn’t gonna take her in, just Eda. and all he does is tell her to stay out of trouble because the Emperor is a bad dude. I think he might relate to Luz on some level, maybe even admires her (in a nonromantic way) for going toe-to-toe w/ Belos and being able to hold her own

aw, Eda looks so proud of herself, and she should be

I WOULD DIE FOR BABY SELKIDOMUS

selkigris. I remembered from and episode of Futurama that the whale version of this (I don’t remember what it’s actually called) was worth good money

that pose Eda strikes after she jumps in the selkigris, beautiful

and King found a skull

I HAD NO IDEA I NEEDED LILITH/HOOTY FRIENDSHIP BUT I AM HERE FOR IT!

Hootisfer! I love it! I want a nickname from Lilith!

“I’ll protect you, Hootisfer.” TOO CUTE!!

I feel like the KNEW they were being watched and the Emperor WANTED Luz to see him w/ the door. I bet he was PISSED when he found out no one saw him/heard his cool quip

I really enjoyed this episode. I think it was smart to limit the cast to just the Owl House crew and see where they are before we see everyone else.

I think GG might be like a magic clone/son of Belos mixed with some of Eda’s magic to make him more powerful/unbeatable. And that Belos might be planning to transfer his soul into GG’s younger body. And there is not a DOUBT IN MY MIND that Belos is actually a human. WE DON’T SEE HIS EARS!