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comradekatara · 3 months

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katara’s role as the show’s narrator is so underrated because no one really seems to understand just how deeply katara is impacted by the nature of stories, with regards to their craft, their promulgation, and their cultural significance, so they don’t truly register the sheer metatextual brilliance of having her be the resident storyteller of the narrative itself.

the first thing atla establishes about katara is that she is someone who is fueled by dreams and fantasies, and believes in a return to a world where “all four nations lived together in harmony” (which is obviously an illusory ideal, as there was always geopolitical strife even if it wasn’t as overt as the devastating imperialist project they are now subject to), described to her by kanna’s stories about the old days.

katara is someone who indulges in fantasies of adventure and heroism, projecting these ideals onto both herself and others. she is an idealist in the truest, purest sense of the word, and what is an idealist if not someone who tells themselves stories about a more beautiful world to survive?

it’s no coincidence that the episode where katara successfully scares everyone with a very compellingly narrated campfire story is the same episode that she must contend with her heritage, the ominous lacunae in her stories, the pitfalls of her own naive idealization. it’s also not a coincidence that the story she tells was first told to her by her mother.

katara grew up hearing stories passed down to her from kanna and kya, and those stories gave her hope and brought her the possibility of happiness in a bleak, cruel world where she was ultimately alone. there used to be people like her, said the stories, and they were brave, and they fought til their final breaths to hold onto their culture, their love for their people, their humanity.

well that’s who i’m going to be, says katara. someone who fights, someone who cannot be knocked down (because there is no one else left to take her place), someone who will never cease to have faith in the capacity of others for good, for truth, and for justice.

stories are her heritage, they are her culture, they are how she defines herself and how she understands the world around her. stories are how she copes, how she survives; they are all she has left to cling to. and sometimes they are reductive, and sometimes they are outright false, but that’s okay too. she grows, she adjusts her narratives, she learns to leave room for more grey in her neat tapestries of black and white. stories can define a tragic past, but they can also pave the way for a better future. she keeps telling stories.

#i could sunlit garden this girl so easy (probably what hama was thinking)#katara #analysis #kanna&katara #katara&kya #hama&katara #this is also what makes the southern raiders so brilliant as the apotheosis of her arc #but that’s for another post #(one that I’ve probably made before lbr)#everyone in atla has a sunlit garden / mythmaking event / whatever you wanna call it #but katara is the QUEEN of narrativization #and you do not get katara at ALL until you get this #fyi.#anyway i love her so much that i nearly teared up writing this. it’s whatever tho

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f1reladymai · 2 months

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I have so many thoughts about Sokka and Kya. I feel like Sokka is never given the chance to grieve, when in reality he’s the oldest and probably has much clearer memories of her than Katara does. Every time I say that, someone always says “but he said himself he doesn’t remember her face!” but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t remember her.

He remembers her holding him close on nights when it was so cold even the animal furs couldn’t keep him warm, curled up against her chest. He remembers her placing him on her lap, a baby Katara in his arms as she nuzzled into his hair and told him what a good big brother he would grow up to be. He remembers her taking him out in the canoe to cheer him up after his dad insisted he was too young to go hunting. He remembers her forehead kisses.

But the pain proves to be too much and he doesn’t deal with his grief the way Katara does. He isn’t open about it, he doesn’t get a chance to process on his own terms. He shuts it down, he has a responsibility to his sister, his tribe and later, the world. and because of these feelings he’s repressed, because he never gets to talk about her, cry over her, because he has to appear to be the strongest person, the big brother, the protector, his fear of forgetting her manifest into him forgetting her face. a common trauma response that kids have when they’ve lost a parent, and it’s so tragic because Sokka looks just like her.

That doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel the loss of his mother, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t remember her and it sure as hell doesn’t mean he doesn’t love her as much as Katara does, it means they deal with things differently. When Katara said “you didn’t love her the way I did” it might have hurt, but I don’t think she meant she loved her more, I think it means they loved her differently. they both saw different things in Kya and enact their love for her in various ways.

But Sokka should get to process his grief, should get to cry and be comforted. He should be able to let his memories of her flow, and enter his mind without guilt and be able think about them when he needs some respite.

#I wrote some of this on Twitter first but I needed more words lmao #atla #a:tla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #avatar: the last airbender #sokka #atla sokka #katara #atla katara #water tribe #kya #hakoda #sokka&kya #katara&sokka #water tribe siblings #katara&kya #my shit #txt post: watertribe sibilings

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eeriezoundz · 17 days

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I could be a good mother

#atla #Katara #i love her sm #bumi #kya #Ik she was such good mom #eueueueueu #i love the kataang kids #fanart #atla fanart #kataang

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chiptrillino · 1 year

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ID: Katara and sokka in swimgear. in the first image, sokka is searching for something in the water. his hair getting wet. katara leans over to him saying "don't you think, its time for a haircut?" in the second image sokka rose form the water, a dog-shark creature in hand, swinging his hair in Katara face splashing her. smugly he says "no <3". End ID

i know its winter! i know it likley snowed by now on the northern hemilsphere! but... on the southern side is summer time right??? so... its fine.... this is fine!!!

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!!! please do not use or repost this artwork without permission!!!

#chip!art #atla #sokka #katara #water tribe #teeny tiny aang #loong hair!sokka #katara i am sorry i promis i will draw you a nice image soon!#also may or may not inspired by my brother.#but my brother is like 13 years older then me. and i was like... tiny compared to him when he did that #and i think i also got smacked by a swiming bord in the face #so whats better? swiming board or wet hair? i will never know...#i think... i overdid the lenght a bit this time though hahaha #or maybe its the same lenght... i kinda think sokka has kya's hair while katara hakodas #so stright hair is the onlything straight on sokka....

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katy-89 · 20 days

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This.

The aang and kataang renaissance is the funniest thing of 2024

The haters always get crazily ratioed 👀

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #kataang #you can't bully them anymore #kya #bumi

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demaparbat-hp · 2 months

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Felt like sharing some Lee & Kya From The Tea Shop AU sketches ✨🍵

#zutara #atla #zuko #avatar the last airbender #katara #atla fanart #atla art #atla zuko #atla katara #zutara fanart #zutara au #lee and kya from the tea shop #lee and kya from the tea shop au #katara of the southern water tribe #zuko fanart #zuko x katara #zuko art #zuko as lee #lee from the tea shop #katara art #katara fanart #Katara as Kya #This must be the fluffiest AU I've got. I mean there's still some White Lotus spy shenanigans involved but yeah #Also Jet drama #Lots of Jet drama #My boy has an antagonistic crush on both Katara and Lee and it's hilarious #About 99 percent of this AU is domestic ZK living alone in Ba Sing Se's Lower Ring and I'm here for it #Sometimes I just need to draw my fav characters being emotionally intimate with each other #And judging people together. Don't forget about judging people together.#I've got a WIP for the scarf scene just wait

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chiptrillino-art · 4 months

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Hello! Wellcome to my sort of 2023 recap!

ID in ALT text shockingly i drew more zukos then sokkas this year.... which is weird to me personally? although... i did have a sudden 'i have no clue how to draw zuko?!?!?" moment this year. oh also..uh... i was wondering if i drew egnouth faces to make them 'turn around' and well...

kind of?

#atla #chip recap 2023 #zuko #sokka #jet #aang #yue #bato #hakoda #katara #kya #iroh #izumi #chit sang #still wild i drew more zuko then sokka...#well i am not counting the conzept doodles...#the turn arounds are silly hahah

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sevrinve · 3 days

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bedtime

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fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma · 1 month

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i am disgustingly late but for women’s day i wanted to appreciate the mother figures of the world :)

#atla #atla fanart #zuko and ursa fanart #kya sokka and katara fanart #avatar fanart #aang fanart #suki fanart #toph and katara fanart #juST to clarify the last one is not me saying katara is a mom friend bc like. she’s 14 #im more saying that it’s literally canon that Toph looks more to katara as a mom than her own mom sooooo #Idk I needed them being soft #anyway hi happy women’s day (very very late uhhhhh)#women’s day

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witchering10123 · 3 months

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hakoda: you need to stay here and protect your sister

13 year old sokka, whose only point of reference for "protecting his sister" is literally his mother sacrificing herself in katara's place: ok 😃

#not shaming on hakoda here #well...#little shaming on hakoda here #but poor poor sokka #katara and sokka #please grant them therapy so they might move on from their codependency #yo kyas sacrifice #aside from fucking sokka up cause you know thats his mum #also fucked sokka up when he believed that everyone decided that katara was far more important than him #and thus him sacrificing his world for her was not only the right thing to do #it was also expected of him #anyhoo #dont we love how depression fucks over this child #hakoda and kya and sokka and katara #my fav disfunctional fam

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qirarey123 · 1 year

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Katara has always been my favourite character and she doesnt deserve the hate just for mourning her mother.

#katara #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla kya #atla fanart

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comradekatara · 2 months

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kyaaaaaa

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bernard-the-rabbit · 10 months

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everytime they refer katara as "the best healer" in tlok i have the urge to punch my wall

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#MASTER KATARA U FOOLS #THIS WOMAN DIDN'T BEAT THE ASS OF AZULA DURING THE SOZIN COMET #FOUGHT AGAINST THE RULES OF THE NORTHERN WATER TRIE #JUST TO BE KNOWN AS THE BEST HEALER #my trashy art #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender fanart #avatar the last airbender #katara #katara fanart #tlok bumi #tlok bumi fanart #kya II #kya ii fanart #tenzin #tenzin fanart

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hotpinkrathian · 29 days

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I am so upset (not) at LoK for making women muscular I will never get over it 😤

Also, the audacity to say the LoK women are less sexy than the ATLA women is WILD considering the Atla girls are minors

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demaparbat-hp · 3 months

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Forgotten half-children

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punkeropercyjackson · 1 month

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"Well it's not like you can just TELL the non-Water Tribe characters are poc too,you'd have to pay extra attention!"Aang is a buddhist monk,Ty Lee is named Ty Lee and Zuko literally has monolids

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