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Omg yes. Far more positive toward kataang than op here I'm sure, but it bothers me every time I watch the Guru episode to see it focused on Katara. The Guru says "the love the monks had for you is still here" but it's just fucking Katara???? Not Toph? Not Sokka who's been there since the beginning? I'm sorry, but a crush on a girl does not equate to an ENTIRE CULTURE WIPED OUT.

"We're your family now." WE. WE ARE. PLURAL. SOKKA DESERVED BETTER THAN THIS. AANG DESERVED BETTER THAN THIS.

It makes me mad EVERY TIME. The show is so so so good at focusing on it's platonic bonds and how important and powerful those are, but then just throws all that out the window for, idk, drama.

If Sokka had been the one in danger would Aang have just been like "meh, that's fine" and continued on??? Thankfully, Sokka and Aang's / Toph and Aang's bond really shines through in the third season, so they didn't completely abandon that, but it's still so frusterating.

a reminder that just because i think zuko and katara are a better match than aang and katara DOES NOT MEAN that i do not like aang. I think hes a amazing character. In fact, i find that his relationship with Katara deminishes his storyline and growth as both a person and the avatar.

One of the problems ive always had with atla, is how hard they push for kataang. Yes, its cute, and yes, i think that its very understandable for aang to have crush on the first pretty, nice, and kind girl he sees after being frozen for 100 years. However, i think the narrative would have worked better for Aang's drive and motivation to not be about Katara solely. In particular, Im referencing the finale of Book 2. Instead of Katara being his teather to the mortal realm, i think it should have been all his friends.

it should have been the family he found and created. Hes lost everyone that has ever loved and cared about him, and now he has a new family. I think this slight shift in motivation would have been extremely beneficial in fleshing out Aang's grief and trauma over the genocide of the air nomads.

So, regardless of how you feel about either ships, i think that aang's would have been better off with a family and friend driven motivation for saving the world, rather than romance.

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My passion: psychology

My assignment: is about psychology and specifically an aspect of psychology I'm very very passionate about

My godamn brain: "Aang found safety and respite from his lowest point at the foot of a volcanic mountain, the same mountain where he met Roku for the first time, you know, his past iteration who was arguably also gay for the firelord and was killed by a volcano thanks to said firelord. I'm just saying, there's something to be said about the fact that Zuko and Aang are actively rewriting the story of Roku and Sozin and Aang is awoken from his lowest point in the hands of the fire his predecessor died in, as both he and Zuko are in the land they avoided, marking where his and Zuko's story is now beginning literally from the ashes of their past lives."

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"You have assignments due at midnight!"

Me, three hours before midnight: "You ever think about how Aang's lowest point is paired up with what Zuko believes should be his highest point, but in the grand scheme of things is also his lowest point, and how the contrast of their lives in The Awakening shows how much they need eachother to balance out."

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You know, Zuko, I'd have an easier time accepting that zukaang wasn't canon if you'd stop looking at him like that. Just saying.

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Thinking about the fight in Ba Sing Se. There's a moment when Zuko first comes in when he looks between Azula and Aang. In that moment, Aang also looked at him, and he doesn't look at him like an enemy, he looks like he's waiting because he is. He's waiting for Zuko to make a choice between him and Azula, and you're literally shown the second he realizes Zuko is choosing Azula, because he panics, almost surprised by this.

It got me thinking about it and I realized this is a call back to the fight they had in the abandoned town during The Chase. There too, Zuko came in in the middle of a confrontation between Aang and Azula, then too there was a period of time in which Zuko looked between Azula and Aang, making a decision on who to attack, and he attacked Azula. He took Aang's side. He and Aang (and co. as they come in) work together against Azula.

Now, was this because he really 'sided' with Aang? No. It was because Zuko needed Aang for himself, and Aang knows this. This has happened before, during the blue spirit, where the two of them work together, not because Zuko is defending Aang, but because he needs him for himself. There's been an established pattern that, while Zuko and Aang are enemies, any third player becomes a common enemy, and they work together against that person. If there is a third threat, Aang and Zuko are on the same team (and there's a twisted kind of companionship in that, relying on someone to have your back because you know they want to be the one to defeat you).

During Ba Sing Se, Zuko once again enters. It's the same scene, and I think part of Aang expected the same thing to happen, but it doesn't. Zuko picks Azula's side, and Aang was surprised (and might I even say betrayed?) by this.

"Back off Azula, he's mine." Aang took those words to heart, and Zuko went back on them.

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17 y/o zukaang i love you

screenshot redraw but gay

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I have come to the realization that a volcano was the ultimate zukaang anti and enemy. Think about it, if the volcano on Roku's island had erupted just three or four years earlier, zukaang would be canon, and you cannot convince me other wise. Roku would die three to four years earlier, Aang would be born three to four years earlier, he'd still get told he was the avatar shortly before the comet, at which point he'd be three or four years older, and maybe actually old enough to be told without it being forced because of mad mojo from the comet.

He'd be frozen and found older, and then zukaang would happen, and I will die on this hill

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A little piece of Zukkang!! Kintsugi AU

(Adapted from Dema Parabaht - Kintsugi AU Creator)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59820172

He smiled small, until the rising sun began to burn behind his eyes. He grunted gruffly as the light forced him to squint before he even cracked his eyes open.

Is this really necessary?

Aang wriggled his way lazily toward the wall trying to get into the windowpane’s shadow, his eyes relaxing in sweet relief once there was darkness again. His body laid still as he released a small sigh. Slowly, his eyes fluttered open and the image of what saved them made him softly grin.

Zuko laid on his side, eyes closed with the sun escaping in bright shards over his body. Not the shadow Aang was trying to fall under, but it was a nice improvement...

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Canon: "They are 12 and 16."

Me: "I recognise that the Council has made a decision. But given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it."

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Back in my Katara Appreciation Brainrot, but she's just so great. Just so great. A queen. Such a badass. Rewatching the show and just, anytime she does anything I'm over here on the verge of squealing because SHES JUST SO AAGGHHHHH

Also, I will never tire of her bullying Sokka. She's so little sister.

Me 🤝 Aang, would die for Katara

I love seeing her take charge but I also love watching her when Sokka or Aang is taking charge. With Sokka she's taking the role of "pointing out how stupid your ideas are" and she's SO SASSY and then with Aang she goes into ride or die mode and is so quick to back him up like "Aang may not punch you BUT I SURE AS HELL WILL"

I will never be over how great of a character she is. Never. Absolutely never.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

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+context [ids in alt]

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"Who do you ship Katara with more? Aang or Zuko?"

Uh,,, ah, I think Zuko and Aang should kiss 👉👈😳....

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aangs

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I forgot I made this back in October but totally forgot to post it here lol

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All I want is what is best for him.

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But what we need is what's best for the world.

Aang & Monk Gyatso for Inktober 2021 Day 9 - Pressure

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I got the pleasure to make this illustration for @stark-phd Fanfic! These two are just so perfect for each other 🥹

Please check her wonderful work: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54675337/chapters/138561292

Thank tou for c0mmiss10ning me! ♥️✨