#zvtara shippers show zuko and katara the respect they deserve challenge

[haitanirindo]

zvtara shippers want everyone to get on board of their “ultra progressive super feminist ship” lmao hell no. maybe zvtara wouldn’t be so despised by everyone else if their side of the fandom wasn’t batshit crazy and didn’t come up with like. god awful takes of all the characters in atla, including zuko and katara. like why would i want to join a fandom that’s so bitter all the time, that spends 90% of their time hating on other characters and ships. that pretends to be woke and “katara stans first” only to like, hc katara as a cheater and/or interpret her as a girlboss and reduce all of her canonically complex relationships with her friends and family as her being their mother. maybe i want to stay far away from a fandom that’s obsessed with painting a 12 yr old pacifist monk as an abuser and manipulator. or one that loves reducing sokka down from a canonical genius to himbo who can barely tie his own shoelaces and needs suki or katara to help him. or one that comes up with the wildest conspiracies like “the animators made Katara’s eyes take up 1/3rd of her face so that she could be in a relationship with aang.” zvtara shippers are like TWO posts away from unironically using the handmaiden-feudal lord metaphor, in which zukka is the “heteronormative” handmaiden and feudal lord ship while zvtara is the “queer and different heterosexual” relationship 😭

i already didn’t like zvtara as a ship but yeah, seeing the way zvtara shippers treat certain characters kinda made me despise that side of the fandom entirely. they act like katara finally getting some peace, settling down, and starting a family with aang is the absolute worst thing that could have happened to her. in terms of how she’s portrayed in LoK as “just a mother” as well as the world’s greatest healer... i don’t really see the issue. there’s nothing wrong with her being a mother, or a healer. there’s nothing wrong with her choosing to leave the fighting to the younger generation. she’s already been through so much, she deserves some rest. for zvtara shippers to say she was just a trophy wife or “aang’s baby making machine” is disgusting and misogynistic as hell. the popular headcanon among them that she’d cheat on aang with zuko is awful and so out of character. canon katara would never cheat on her husband and canon zuko would absolutely not sleep with his best friend’s wife. they claim to love these characters but it doesn’t seem like they have very much respect for them. they treat aang like a villain and call him a “misogynist” but then shove him into a relationship with toph... make it make sense.  for them to ship aang with toph just to get him out of the way of their ship and then try to call out zukka shippers for “shipping zukka to get katara out of the way” is like. aggressively hypocritical. it also literally makes no sense seeing as zvtara isn’t canon.

TL;DR: yeah, they’re on some next level clown shit.