#zutara discord

[eponastory]

Just in case I haven't told anyone...

Some mutuals and I have created a server on Discord for Zutara Shippers (multishippers are welcome, too!) To share art, fanfiction, and just their over all love for the ships we love (yes, even Taang, Zukka, and Azutara) in a generally safe space. (I say generally safe because there be dragons, and Godzilla is lurking around, too... figuratively speaking.)

Anyway, if you want to share your art, we have channels for that. Daily Fanfic prompts (although sometimes I forget to post them) are available. Weekly art challenges, crazy shenanigans, and much more!

The bigger we get, the more we can do!

Also... we have lots of potatoes... in different forms.

[daily-zutara-prompts]

prompt: gardens ✨

side note: i love how zutarians have evolved from zk week to having both zk week and month, to zk year ❗❗and all community driven projects 👈

You should see the Discord Server... we do live fanfic writing. 😁

August 1st:

🪷⚘️Gardens🌸🦋

[broadwaybalogna]

Hey guys!! I’ve been working with some mutuals to create a Zutara discord server!!! The server has art, fanfiction, and all things Zutara! You should totally join💃🕺💃🕺

[tiny-katara]

is there a zutara discord server and if so can you drop the link

i run one actually with my beautiful stunning amazing most beautifulest goddess in a mortal body wifey @burst-of-iridescent. it's the Crusty Ass Zutara Server so it's more than a little cursed but everyone there is very sweet and kind. mostly. sometimes they're just deranged but isn't it more fun that way?

oh also @drakonic and @muddied-waters run it too but they are each other platonic wives not mine <3

you just have to dm one of us for a link :)

[salliroleplay]

Avatar The Last Airbender Roleplay

It's time. It's been a long time coming. I finally want to do an ATLA roleplay.

I want to play as Zuko and since it's my first real atla writing experience I'm down for any pairing (platonic or romantic) for now.

Hit me up with any ideas and pairings! 18+ only and I only roleplay on Discord:)

[tiny-katara]

KGZ you never disappoint 🙏

Even more no-context graphics I've made for the CAZ (Crusty Ass Zutara Server)

Special appearances by mods @solborealis @tiny-katara @burst-of-iridescent (contact them for access!) as well as other members @kaligraphy @sxnkisses @homeagainrose @ilovegirlsgeneration @termaitz

[sokkastyles]

I just have to laugh when people insist that zutara shippers are responsible for perpetuating the ship war when KA shippers send messages like this.

Like, you really think I want to debate this with you on discord? Be serious.

[atla-confessions]

Hello, are you looking for a new atla ship? Sick of the ship wars? Consider with me, if you will, joining the zukaang fandom.

Do you like grump/sunshine trope? "I don't know why but I thought this thing would be a lot faster." "Appa's right Zuko, in our group, typically we start out our missions with a more upbeat attitude." "I can't believe this." - literally them.

Do you like the yin/yang trope? Zuko's flaw is literally his aggressive approach to his problems which is foiled by Aang's flaw of passive approach to his problems. They are the definition of yin and yang.

Do you like forbidden love? Even beyond the whole "Avatar and Firelord" thing, they both have to have bio children. They are tragic as hell if you want them to be.

Do you like excessive parallels and reading way too much into symbolism? The writers spent way too much effort in building the parallels between these two and there's always more to say about them.

Do you like shared trauma and similar backstories? They literally had an entire episode dedicated to showing how their backstories mirror eachother.

Do you like (lovingly) making jokes at Zuko's expense? What's better to tease him about than his absolute obsession with the avatar.

Do you like parallels to past lives? Zukaang has simularities with Sozin-Roku and Oma-Shu and there's even Kuzon.

Do you like m/m but never felt much connection for zukka? Zukaang is full of connection.

Do you like being canon but kataang just didn't do it for you? Zuko is literally quoted as being the person closest to Aang in his life and there's an official picture of them holding hands as adults and the culmination of the zukaang hug is iconic just like the kataang kiss. They're like an inch away from being canon.

Do you like enemies to lovers but zutara never caught your eye? Their inevitable friendship was built since book one when Aang asked if they could be friends.

Are you sick of antis? Zukaang has two (2) whole anti arguments: the age gap which is nothing between adults, and the idea that Aang is related to Zuko bc Roku was his great grandfather which doesn't make sense unless you consider Korra and Katara to be married. Beyond that people don't care.

Do you prefer small but active ship fandoms to the big name ship fandoms? Zukaang is right on the border, big enough to be plenty active but small enough to be free of drama and full of likeminded people.

Like talking about your ships but rather do it through group chats instead of tumblr? We have an active discord server.

If any of this appeals to you, feel free to join us, we'd love to have you! :D

X

[zkbigbang]

Event Schedule: ZKBB 2024

Saturday, March 16: Signups begin

Saturday, April 6: Signups end

Sunday, April 7: Discord invitations sent

Sunday, April 14: Writers' project summaries due

Saturday, April 20: Project bidding begins (additional bidding rounds will be scheduled as needed)

Sunday, April 28: Zutara Big Bang begins

Saturday, May 18: Check-in #1

Saturday, June 8: Check-in #2

Saturday, June 29: Check-in #3

Saturday, July 6: Writers' Draft Deadline

Friday, July 19: Sneak Peek submissions begin

Saturday, July 20: Check-in #4

Friday, August 2: Sneak Peek submissions end (sneak peek posting schedule TBD based on the number of submissions we receive)

Saturday, August 10: Check-in #5

Saturday, August 24: Final check-in

Thursday, August 29: Posting Begins!

Sunday, September 15: Writer reveal date

Mark your calendars if you're planning to join us! More information about the Big Bang's rules, roles, and requirements will be coming soon!

[daily-zutara-prompts]

Daily Prompts!

Why have just a week or month of Zutara Prompts when you can have them every day!

Suggestions are welcome!!!!

There are some rules, though.

All prompts must be rated G. No exceptions. The more general, the better.

Prompts will be posted in the order they are received! If a couple of weeks go by and you haven't seen your prompt, it's because there were 14 prompts ahead of you. Don't worry, we will get to your prompt.

Prompts can be as detailed or as vague as you want for creativity.

Anonymous prompts are welcome! We get that not everyone wants to be known, and that's fine.

Prompts are for both art and fanfiction. If you are submitting a prompt just for fanfiction, please indicate this in your prompt.

Now, for the other parts!

Prompts will be posted at 8AM EDT every day!

Keep in mind that there are no deadlines, and you can use these prompts anywhere. We do appreciate it if you reblog the prompts with your art/fanfic. We would absolutely love to read them!

Please remember to tag your blogs properly if you do not intend to reblog prompts!

You may also link your stories from Ao3, Wattpad, and FF.N in the comments of the prompt.

We also have a Discord!

Yes! You can share your love of Zutara in The Jasmine Dragon Discord server! We also do daily prompts and weekly art challenges! The art will be used as the Avatar for the server and for this blog!

We have a great group in here that talks about anything and everything. Mostly Zutara. So check it out!

[broadwaybalogna]

ZUTARA MY LOVES

Join the discord for other sketches, wips, and drawings from me!

[animentality]

I just wanna say that while I don't ship either of them myself, I respect that the ships that don't become canon, like Drarry and Zutara, will always have much more powerful and diverse communities than the ships that become canon.

You can't tell me that more people ship Harry and Ginny RIGHT NOW than Drarry, or that Zutara's fanbase is less active than Kataang's. I was in the tag an hour ago while on a megalomaniacal rant in discord, and literally most of it is Zutara things, and it's been like what. A decade? Still going strong off of scraps, huh? I admire it.

When a ship becomes canon, people celebrate in the moment and then move on. You get smatterings of people who re watch the series, and do some doodles here and there. But the ship dies with the fandom itself, because a canon ship is not even a ship, it's just part of the story. And it's not the most interesting part of the story most of the time, especially in a series as richly packed as atla. the romance isn't done that well, it's barely focused on. and that's fine, but it's not the thing atla fans really talk about to this day...

you don't see atla fans talking about how epic the kataang romance is. not really. that whole genocide is bad plot is far more interesting.

But when a ship is entirely nonsensical or only lightly hinted at, or maybe just entirely theoretical but intriguing narratively...

that ship can go on for years.

The lack of content is paradoxically what makes the fandom content even better.

Fans can do anything they want with an empty sandbox, and thus fans become creatives in their own right, constructing a canon that fits their own interests.

And that's far more intriguing to consider because of it.

A Kataanger can write about katara and aang getting married, but canon already did that. How interesting could that really be? the creators did that and it was whatever.

a Zutaran, meanwhile, is writing a whole new story and mythos based on the meager scraps they were fed a decade ago. They're totally re writing canon and reconstructing a narrative about opposing sides coming together in the form of their narrative representatives.

they're red blue shipping, fire and ice/water, sun and moon, enemies to lovers, the sunshine and the grump, bad boy x good girl, learning to forgive, redemption arc, theyre basically dispensing with canon and writing a psychopathic descent into their own psyche.

they're making entirely different stories because they were dissatisfied with an aspect of the one they got.

and frustration/need breeds creativity. it stirs the imagination.

if you were satisfied with your ship becoming canon, you celebrate and then you move on.

if your ship never got its chance...

well. you could spend a life time wondering what if.

and you're thinking well of course a durgetash crack shipper would feel this way... and you're right.

but I'll be here. I'll be here still thinking about durgetash long after the last Astarion x Tav shipper has gone.

it's the small things. it's the blank slate, the holes with potential. it's the little gaps in the concrete of canon, where the most twisted but entertaining weeds grow and can never be destroyed, not fully, not permanently.

[dukeofdelirium]

fun fact: did you know kataangers have a whole RAPE discord server dedicated to writing their ship in a non-consentual manner.

this is eho y'all are. rapist males. have some shame.

pics or it didn’t happen. where’s the proof???

fyi, I’ve been in the kataang fandom since the day ATLA premiered. and I have been active in said fandom. I know allllllll about the zutara fandom writing rape fantasies, sexualizing the idea of Katara being held captive and sexualizing the idea of slavery. The zutara ship fandom has a very well known, well documented track record of such.

and unlike you, I can actually provide proof, probably because what I’m saying is true.

[burst-of-iridescent]

Hey, Apparently you run a zutara discord server, i was hoping to please get an invite? :)

hi, i've dropped you a message! <3

for anyone looking to join the CAZ server, please know that you have to privately DM one of the mods @muddied-waters @drakonic @tiny-katara or myself for an invite link!

[longing-for-rain]

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.

[zukosdualdao]

katara saying she doesn’t know about her feelings for aang because they’re in the middle of a war makes a lot of sense to me as a reason for keeping the conflict between why they can’t yet be together in the narrative. i mean, you know, feels a little contrived but whatever, i know why the creators are doing it, they want them to get together at the end so katara can be treated as a prize for his heroism in winning the war.

like, it makes sense, she wants them to stay focused, and i think the idea of getting into a romantic relationship with aang before the war is over would be really scary because of her abandonment issues and trauma. regardless of whether she feels that way about aang or not, she does care about him, and being together in that way would just another layer to her fear, because what if they don’t win, what if aang dies? part of it is certainly her trying to preemptively protect herself from that pain. being in a relationship with him would only further complicate things at this point.

but then they go a step further and have aang ask when she will know and katara not able to give an answer, instead saying she’s confused. katara doesn’t know what she feels about aang in the penultimate episode of the series (if we’re treating the multi-ep finale as one entity, which i tend to). that’s a really weird place to leave your main couple. to have katara admit she doesn’t know what she feels or wants to happen (and like, they could have had her say that she wanted to wait to talk about it until after the war, that she might feel more ready then, but instead, she doesn’t know how she feels and seems uncomfortable talking about it at all, so it really comes across like she doesn’t want to and is leaning toward no to the idea of being in a relationship with him.) him kissing her without her consent and them never talking about it again or talking about what her own feelings are is genuinely awful, but it’s the rotten cherry on top of some already very weird writing.

i don’t tend to subscribe to the idea that zutara was meant to be canon before a last-minute change (though i do think there were conversations and discord/dissent in the ranks of the writers’ room) or that bryke ever seriously considered NOT making KA endgame. but that just makes this weirder? i don’t understand why you would write a scene like this if you aren’t trying to tank the relationship?

it’s not helped by the fact that this comes directly after tsr, in which they had a major conflict over their different values and perspectives (and aang, imo, exhibited some pretty insensitive behavior toward her), and it never really got resolved. she still seems pretty angry at him at the end of the ep, side-eyeing him when he says he’s proud of her forgiving yon rha, voice and expression hardening as she tells him that she never will. considering that it was never really resolved… it doesn’t seem unlikely to me that this could be on her mind as well, as one potential reason she’s unsure about a romantic relationship with him.