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I hate how true this is because I recently seen a TikTok about people saying the Zutara had no chance of being Canon and how Zuka had more chemistry. Like??? Just besides the fact, they were watching the show with their eyes closed the writer themselves have made Zuko and Katara a parallel to each other, and how their actions reflect each other, and their characters in a sense.

Meanwhile, Zuko and Sokka relationship don’t have that level of depth that Zuko and Katara have. Let’s not to forget the writers were about to make it canon, but later revise their decision. Meaning, even the word of God almost had to say in this.

Also, I noticed  the shippers have this undying hatred for Katara, without understanding her character, and reduce her to just crying over her mother, meanwhile, taking all of her beloved character traits, and putting them on Sokka, making him into something that he is not like the OP mentioned.  It’s really annoying how much genius writing went into Zuko and Katara’s characters, and their parallels to each other, only for it to be tossed aside by the fandom in favor of a mlm ship that quite literally has zero chance of being Canon.

I can say whole heartedly that had Katara been a guy all the Zukka shippers would have went to Zutara really boils down to LGBT fetishization.

Why'd you stop shipping Zukka? Why did you initially ship it?

I used to ship Zukka because I thought that they could be cute as a fun, lighthearted ship. I acknowledged that both Maiko and Sukka were canon, but I enjoyed the idea of Zuko and Sokka together. They had the red/blue aesthetic and enemies-to-lovers trope going for them (like Zutara), and their personalities seemed like a fun match up. They both have their swordsmanship thing going on, and they both lost their mothers to some capacity. They had a lot of room for comedic shenanigans (along with the whole idiots stumbling into love trope). I didn't take the ship too seriously, and it was a lot less popular back before the ATLA Renaissance because it had no real canonical backing. Once the Renaissance happened, though, and everyone was watching or rewatching ATLA, all these shippers who were hardcore Klancers suddenly switched over to the Zukka ship. It was really weird.

I don't like how a lot of Zukka shippers blatantly ruin Zuko/Sokka's characters (examples being the infantilization of Zuko, the dismissal of Zuko's attraction to women, the portrayal of Sokka as an overly smooth charismatic top, etc). I don't like the way that integral parts of Zuko's personality are shoved to the side in order to make him out to be a blushing soft boy; despite his softness, there's still an edge to him that gets erased throughout a lot of Zukka fandom. I don't like the way that integral parts of Sokka's personality are disregarded in order to make him out to be a hunky, perfect socialite; despite his goofy/comedic side, he's fairly guarded and closed off. Their characterizations are often off to me, and they're both pushed into a sensitive/heroic dynamic that they really don't fit based on their canonical personalities/experiences. In addition to all that, I also just genuinely dislike the fact that Zukka has now essentially become "Zutara but gay."

Overall, the vibes projected by most current Zukka shippers now is that they ship Zukka solely because of the fact that both Zuko and Sokka are really attractive male characters in the series and they're looking for a new MLM ship to obsess over. It made me really uncomfortable, and I genuinely don't think many of the new wave of Zukka shippers have even watched the show.

That, coupled with the fact that some Zukka shippers severely antagonize other shippers in the fandom while also claiming that the show queerbaited them (I still don't get how. Sokka is the literally the straightest character in ATLA), really drove me away.

I enjoyed the idea of Zukka as a fun ship, but some Zukka shippers take it way too seriously and way too far. To go so far as to antagonize Dante Basco and call him a pedophile for shipping Zutara while Zuko and Sokka are literally minors too? That's hypocritical. To go through and steal all of the Zutara headcanons that those shippers have been building for YEARS since the end of the show? That's messed up too. To hyper-obsess over a non-canon MLM ship over the canon WLW ship in the show? That's fetishy.

I implore anyone who happens to see this post to consider fandom etiquette. Don't tag your Zukka posts in the Zutara or Maiko or Sukka tags; that's really impolite. Don't bash other shippers just because they don't ship yours. Don't harass the VAs for their personal shipping views either. It may be impossible now, but I hope one day to see an ATLA fandom where Zukka has subsided and people will be able to truly recognize Zuko and Sokka for who they actually are: simultaneous idiots and intellectuals, two bros who happen to love each other (and in my current personal opinion, make up the best brotp of the series).

TOH finale

What a great way to end the series ❤️

She's going out with her children

This game has me on chokehold, Chelsea has me on my knees and Chief/Chelsea will be the end of me.

So have some fanart I drew of them from last week.

RIP chief but if I was on the brink of death and Bai Yi started talking to me like this I would use my last five remaining seconds on earth to kiss her

Nightingale sighs as she puts the 0 back on the "It Has Been ___ Days Since The Chief's Latest Intensely Homosexual Interaction" sign

Made this for fun out of boredom

From twitter

adoption by bribery, quick redraw of that one meme

Langley x Chief

Bruh, I’m a u of m student on my last semester this fall and finding friends is so damn hard!! How do y’all do it?