“Dadko is out of character” Ok then explain this:

no YOU rise with the moon, they go down 😴

When I say that my favourite atla ship is Zutara people assume that I dislike Aang. But that couldn't more further than truth. I love all the kids in team avatar.

I really like Aang, I just don't find his relationship with Katara romantically interesting and therefore I don't ship them.

So if you like both zutara and Aang please like or reblog this post. I want to see how many of us share this mentality.

Katara 🌕!!!

This urge to draw her probally came from the new atla live action. Idk if it's going to be good becuse my expectations are lowering with every new information we get. And i hate the whole art direction of the series. And don't even get me started on the costumes.

But putting that aside, ever since i watched atla 2 years ago, i couldn't wait to draw all the characters in digital medium ( : And here I am, finnaly doing so.

The patterns, tattos and jewerly are inspired by inuit coulture ( i know its not really accurate).

Anyway, I hope you like this piece

A tragedy in three acts. AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER | 1.03 Omashu

I love how “Field trips with Zuko” escalate from let’s go check out some ruins to let’s break into the most secure prison in an enemy nation and then let’s go kill your mother’s murderer. No notes.

Even if the new adaptation ends up being bad, we’ll always have the OG!

Zutara, romance novels, and the female gaze

Okay so I’ve been thinking about the female gaze a LOT so I checked out a subreddit about romance novels, despite never having read one. I came across this meme (which was initially a Tumblr post and then got posted to Instagram and then to Reddit and I’m now bringing back to Tumblr — Internet telephone, pls never change):

And…what is The Southern Raiders, if not a platonic grovel? Katara’s pain is central to the episode. It’s central to Zuko. Zuko asks Katara what he can do to make up for his betrayal; she demands the impossible. He reads between the lines, cockblocks her brother to get the necessary information, and then waits outside her door overnight (which he also did for Iroh, the one person we know for sure he loves). He basically makes himself a receptacle for her rage, and he holds space for her by coming with her on her revenge quest and carrying their bags and not saying a damn thing about what she should and should not do beyond like…asking her to rest. And obviously the grovel works! She forgives him and then they’re thick as thieves, bantering and fighting and saving each other’s lives, etc.

On a different note, I’ve been told that enemies to lovers is one of the biggest tropes in romance novels, similar to YA lit and fanfic. Here’s something else I found in the romance novel discourse:

And…yeah. In TSR, Katara really does show Zuko her worst self, because she doesn’t feel the need to perform for him. She doesn’t feel the need to perform moral perfection OR cold blooded vengeance. She bloodbends in front of him and he just goes with it. She doesn’t kill Yon Rha and he just goes with it. He doesn’t treat her any differently afterwards. Maybe they talk about it off screen, but I kind of like the idea that they don’t, because Katara doesn’t need to explain anything. And it’s so interesting, because some people in the ATLA fandom have a totally different read on TSR. They think Zuko was encouraging Katara to get revenge (by what, keeping his mouth shut?), and that Aang is the one who acts as her moral compass. I believe that either Bryan or Mike said in the DVD commentary that Aang is the angel on her shoulder the entire time. And this interpretation does make sense if you see it from the male gaze, where Katara as an object of affection is acting in an angry, irrational, threatening way. But if you see it from the female gaze, you recognize that actually it’s probably the most emotionally taxing experience Katara has to go through, and she doesn’t owe it to be nice or perfect to anybody. Katara’s formative trauma literally comes to a head, and she has to make a decision — no, a discovery — about who she is in relation to the tragedy that defines her life and even her identity (as a waterbender, as a parentified child who becomes the mom friend, as a genocide victim), and she’s accompanied by someone who trusts her judgement and validates her feelings.

I’m not saying TSR is explicitly romantically coded, but when it conforms so well to romance novel tropes…is it any wonder that so many people thought “yes this is her man?” And then he takes lightning in the heart for her and reaches for her when he’s literally dying, I will never be normal about that either

a little sketch of zutara because I love them and the live action hit hard with the scarf scene

katara is a little small but she is one of my headcannon for this couple

Pardon me as I enter my ATLA phase…

More of my fictional husband. Actually tried for ages on the damn background on this one. 😐

For @zkmythicalcreaturesweek day 6: Asian folklore -- inspired by the Chinese tragic romance, the Butterfly Lovers.

I'm not sure if this submission counts, but in the end (spoilers), they both turn into butterflies, which is mythical-esque...

My tablet and software have been acting up lately 🥲 so less art

⋆˙⟡ Under the Same Stars⟡⋆˙

A Zutara Fancomic: Part 1

every year im hit with the zutara brain worm and i wanna rewatch atla but i have to hold myself back cause like. the show isn't gonna be different girl they do not end up together

So bad at being good

Me when I'm starved for close platonic friendships but also starved for healthy romantic relationships that narratively foil unhealthy ones:

platonic Glimmadora... or romantic Glimmadora...

platonic Zutara... or romantic Zutara...

Our angsty boi Zuko in my style

I think this is one of his very few genuine smiles in show lol