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xabura · 2 days

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Bryke confirming that Katara loves Aang like a "babysitter" or a "little brother" is fucking killing me. Kataang shippers are always screaming about how if you think Kataang have a sibling-like dynamic then you are delusional but even the creators viewed their bond like that.

#anti kataang #i can't say i'm surprised though since the mommy girlfriend trope is such a massively common straight male fantasy #people on tiktok still pushing the zutara are siblings allegations only to then claim zutara weren't even friends lol #but mention that kataang reminds you of siblings and they absolutely lose their shit #atla #avatar: the last airbender

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lupanaoflaminar · 3 days

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Happy Zutara Month guys.

Written in the Stars.

Generations will know the story of the young Firelord and his waterbending companion, and how he saved her life during his fight for the throne, earning him another permanent scar.

This doesn’t follow any specific prompt, I just got inspired after a conversation with my friend and boom. Thought it would be a good way to end things since the month is now over!

Zuko’s came together easily, it was Katara who was more difficult (go figure! Stubborn girl hehe). Still not sure I’m happy with it.

I DO NOT OWN THE POSES. Nor am I claiming to. I just used them as a guide.

#zutara #atla #zutara month 2024 #zuko #katara #avatar: the last airbender #constellations #they are written in the stars okay #fire lord zuko

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bengiyo · 3 days

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I’ve just finished my rewatch of Go Ahead, a cdrama you will probably never watch because it’s het and mostly about family trauma. But it’s one of my all time favs and one of the best things about it is the strong found family theme—it’s essentially about three broken families and how they join together as one to support each other. It got me thinking about my fav found family narratives, and especially those that are explicitly queer, because there’s often added life or death stakes in those stories. What are your favorite found family stories in queer media?

This is an interesting question, and I think you qualified appropriately right away by bringing up the life or death stakes of this kind of narrative. I think I want to make a distinction between "finding your people" and "found family" because I think these things often get blurred in romance stories.

Favorite Queer Found Family Stories

For me, a good found family story has to be about the found family component of it. Romance can be a significant portion of the story, but the primary driving relationships need to be about the queers being each other's primary network. I think estrangement from your bio family is a critical component, because knowing you are all each other has is a big part of it.

POSE (2018-2021)

It's really impossible to establish what found family looks like without referring to a show about ballroom culture in NYC in the 90s. We were dying. We were being abandoned. The houses gave people a place to be and a sense of purpose. These kids called their leaders Mother for a reason. Every single queer character in this show was saved by another character in this show before going onto save another character in this show. No show has ever done it like POSE.

Despite their fighting and bickering, Elektra saved Blanca. Blanca would go on to form her own house and provide shelter and support for multiple kids. There is a desperation to queer found family for me that makes it so important. Pray Tell's final choices still resonate with me to this day.

Queer as Folk (2000-2005)

We remember all of the fucking in this show, but this is another show where the queers are their primary support network. Their families aren't really there for them. Justin is kicked out of the house and lives with Debbie for a while, and is nursed by his community after being bashed. Michael and Ben adopt Hunter. Brian donates for Lindsey and Melanie. Debbie housed Brian in the past. Emmett's family disowned him, so his friends are all he's got. The community rallies constantly to protect each other.

Part of what makes this show so special as found family, like with POSE, is how often these folks piss each other off and get into huge fights. They fall out repeatedly in this show over fundamental disagreements that are not easily solved. Some of those fights are ugly in a way only people who know you best can hurt you.

The Fosters (2013-2018)

There's no way I'm not including my favorite TV lesbians of all time raising all them kids on this post. These two public servants found each other, made the difficult choices to be together, and keep expanding their family with more fosters and adoptees over time because there's always more love to go around. This show tackled how important it is to be able to call people family, and what it means for that to be a choice over an obligation. These two always found a way to make it work for their complex family and gave a budding queer the space to grow and be a brat of a teenager after saving him from having the shit beaten out of him for wearing a dress.

Sense8 (2015-2018)

From the directors of The Matrix (1999) and the creator of Babylon 5 (1993-1998), few shows are as queer as Sense8. Eight strangers suddenly become connected to each other and cannot turn it off. Half of them are queer in some way, and it's about their adaptation to each other and looking out for each other as they're literally being hunted. This is one of my favorite sci-fi concepts of all time, and I love the way their relationships outside of their cluster play into their dynamics.

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat (2022- )

This is a recent favorite for this, particularly because of Season 2. In Season 1, we know that Nomoto puts a distance between herself and her family because of the pressure to become a wife. In season 2, we learn that Kasuga has severed ties with her family because of the expectation that she surrender her own life to take care of her family. When she tells Nomoto this, Nomoto gets angry on Kasuga's behalf and they decide to commit to living together. They are also building their community around them, and I better see everyone in their new apartment in season 3.

Gameboys 2 (2022)

So much of what's going wrong for Gav in this season is that he doesn't feel connected to the rest of his bio family after his grandmother passed, and he's desperately holding onto all of the friendships he has because he's so lonely. It's why he's still close with both of his exes (Pearl and Terrence), and why he won't let them go. Also, he's falling apart and Pearl is the one making sure his bills get paid on time.

The Shape of Water (2017)

Shout out to my man Doug Jones for always playing creatures that everyone is attracted to. The way this movie is so much about undesirables choosing to love each other and saving each other. Go watch it if you haven't. This film is not about a sexual awakening. It's about loving inside of a white capitalist structure.

Not Queer But Good

Shout outs for my faves. Some have queer characters in them, but aren't inherently or explicitly queer.

The Golden Girls (1985-1992)

No one did it like them. A bunch of aging women living together and making the most of their lives still resonates almost 40 years later.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)

All of these kids are estranged from their families, and are building out something that works over the course of the show.

The Good Place (2016-2020)

I really love that this is a show about people who didn't get it together in life getting it together in the afterlife because they decided to work together, and then to care about each other. When you're literally being tortured by devils, you're all you've got.

What Doesn't Fit?

This is where things can get a little bit wiggly, but why I want to draw a line on this. I think that shows about queer friendship are important, but I also think that there's a difference between "we are all we've got" and "these people are the most important to me." So we end up with shows like the following.

Noah's Arc (2005-2006)

I often call this the Black answer to Queer as Folk, but I don't think it had time to fully-develop the found family themes in a way that QaF did with its much-longer runtime. Noah and his friends are super codependent and absolutely there for each other, but I don't think the absence of their families is explicitly attributed to their queerness but rather a byproduct of the focus on their gay life dynamics in LA. I love this show dearly, but there isn't a desperation to this that belies the family angst necessary for found family.

For The Boys (2021)

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In many ways a spiritual successor to Noah's Arc, this show falls into the same place. The friend trio at the core of this is the most important relationship in their lives, but this show doesn't have the necessary found family angst.

What about QL?

For me, the biggest problem with doing found family in QL is that the primary genre is romance. These shows prioritize the way these relationships will turn romantic in a way that detracts from the found family component even when it's present. Also, because QL focuses so hard on coming of age plotlines, there's an element more of "finding your people" that supercedes any found family dynamics.

I Promised You the Moon (2021) is a good example of this. The primary drama of this show is about the romance between Teh and Oh-aew and the complications they face once they leave Phuket. Oh finds his people there and blossoms from it, but this is a story about how he and Teh can't get over each other.

As much as I love What Did You Eat Yesterday? (2019- ), the only real component of that is in Wataru's character. Kenji gets along with his mom and sisters, and Shiro is working on repairing the relationship with his family the entire time.

With Thai BL especially, I feel like they're big on friend groups, but not as big on found family. New Siwaj loves big friend groups that love each other, evinced by Love Sick (2014-2015), Make It Right (2016-2017), Until We Meet Again (2019), EN of Love (202), My Only 12% (2022), etc. He's done some great work in the space with queer friends, but not really queer found family.

Cheewin, a former collaborator of New's, also loves friend groups that have each other's backs. Probably his best example of that is Secret Crush On You (2022) with that friend quartet. The closest I think he came to found family was Uea in Bed Friend.

Another example that comes close is the unit that forms on their road trip in The End of the World With You (2023). I often think about this group of queers and the kid they adopted screaming to the heavens that they want to live.

Something I love, but which doesn't count for me is Our Dining Table (2023). There are powerful family dynamics here, but like in WDYEY they're adding Yutaka to their family and Yutaka reconciles with his adoptive family. I don't generally think that adding a romantic partner to your family counts as found family. Besides, Yutaka has a stable job and housing.

Final Thoughts

For me, the stakes are pretty high with queer found family, and it really needs to have a queer basis for me to feel strongly about it. Going back to their bio family is not an option, and often times the terms we use for traditional relationships don't always fit properly (yet another reason why Unknown got so much right). I don't think it's queer found family when they're students in college whose families just aren't around because they're paying for their kids to go to school. Finding your queer community as an adult is a huge part of growing up, but a queer found family is there for the really ugly and desperate parts of existence that your friends might not see.

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atuats-sidechick · 1 day

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Kuruk, wearing the rainbow target suit: Happy Pride, everybody!

Aang: Thanks! That's uh... an interesting look?

Roku: Bold.

Yangchen: Someone remembered! Thank you!

Kyoshi and Korra: WTF, Kuruk???

Kuruk: What? I'm an ally!

#sorry this is dumb #happy pride everybody!#pride #chronicles of the avatar #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #atla #tlok #kyoshi novels #yangchen novels #kyoshi #yangchen #aang #roku #kuruk #korra

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coralpaperthoughts · 20 hours

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zuko as Heather by Conan Gray after the Boiling Rock Incident, watching Sokka simp over Suki and wishing he could take her place

Happy Pride !!!

#when will i stop thinking abt atla when listening to songs #why do they live in my head rent free #atla #avatar: the last airbender #zukka #sukki #ok but also zukki coz i say so #heather #zuko #sokka #suki

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waezi2 · 12 hours

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Sokka: (sigh) I know I would never had a chance with Yue because she was engaged, but-

Aang: Actually, Hahn died.

Sokka: … Oh… I see… (Burries face in Appa's fur and screams)

#avatar: the last airbender #avatar #avatar the last airbender #Aang #Sokka #princess yue #hahn

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tophsazulas · 2 days

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Fire Siblings headcanons

-Azula is trans lesbian & Zuko is trans bisexual

-Zuko, fighting back more, doesn’t care and is open about his bisexuality along with being transgender (even though he spent s1 chasing his dad’s approval, I still don’t see him hating himself for being who he is)

-Whereas, Azula tries to “make” herself straight because she wants to stay on her dad’s “good side” and “doesn’t want to lose his approval”

-When it comes to being trans, Azula genuinely believes that Ozai accepts her and believes that he’s just “joking” whenever he pokes fun about it.

-Zuko and Azula always spoil either other's nieces, which pisses the other off

-Azula always hogs the bathroom, driving Zuko insane

Tagging @astraeasilvers if she wants to join because I cannot think of any more.

#avatar the last airbender #zuko #avatar: the last airbender #azula #fire siblings #atla headcanons #azula headcanons #zuko headcanons #lesbian azula #bi zuko #trans azula #trans zuko

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xabura · 2 days

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I'm tired of Kataang shippers claiming that Aang already let go of Katara and mastered the Avatar State in the Crystal Catacombs. No, he did not. Aang never unlocked his chakra on his own and he never let go of Katara. Hell, Aang is even more possessive of Katara than ever in Book 3 so it does not make sense for him to have already let go of his attachment at the end of Book 2.

Aang was in the process of letting go of his attachment to Katara but he was interrupted when Azula killed him. His chakra remained locked and his attachment to Katara was left intact. Aang hitting a rock to become a fully realized Avatar was a deus ex machina that allowed him to gain full control over the Avatar state without having to let go of Katara. There is never any explanation provided on how this worked.

This idea that Aang already let go of Katara is a fanon interpretation that audiences themselves created to handwave the bad writing.

According to the Avatar Wiki:

While in the Crystal Catacombs, Aang and Katara faced overwhelming odds against Azula, Zuko and the Dai Li. Believing that entering the Avatar State was their only hope, Aang isolated himself and meditated, hoping to let go of his attachment to Katara and unlock the seventh chakra. Though Aang began to release the chakra and entered the Avatar State, the "Celestial Avatar Spirit Aang", he was unable to complete the process due to being shot by Azula's lightning bolt. Consequently, Aang was prevented from clearing the seventh chakra and mastering the Avatar State, leaving his attachment to Katara intact.

The official website says:

This colossal figure represents Aang’s mastery of the Avatar State. Aang encounters this giant version of himself in space during his meditation on the seventh chakra (pure cosmic energy.) The first time he meditates, (in 2.19) Aang has a vision of Katara in trouble and has to abandon his celestial twin. The second time he meditates, (in 2.20) Aang is interrupted when Azula shoots him with lightning. In both cases, Aang is unable to clear the chakra and master the Avatar State.

In the Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle novelization, Aang refuses to let go of Katara, stating that he sacrificed everything to remain attached to her. They totally handwave the situation when he hits the rock:

What? Who's that? Is that... Katara? Her face is so clear in my mind as if she's standing in front of me! If I lose, if I give up, I'll never see her again. I've sacrificed everything, even my ability to enter the Avatar state, for her. It can't all be for nothing. Yes, I have a duty to the world. But I love Katara. I remember the first time I saw her face. She had rescued me and Appa from the iceberg where we'd been trapped for a hundred years. No! The scene is fading! I don't want to leave that time... Hey, there's Avatar Roku! And the Air Nomads! Everything is happening so quickly.... There are all the other Avatars of my past lives.... This feels a lot like my chakra training. But there was so much pain when my final chakra closed to me. This feels different. Hey, I think my final chakra is opening at last! I'm coming back. I've never felt THIS kind of power before.... That's it! I'm back in the Avatar state again, for the first time since fighting Azula in Ba Sing Se! But it feels different from before. Usually the Avatar state scares me, and it's hard to control. But this time it's different! I'm in control, I can feel it! Finally! I've become a true Avatar!

#people say zutara makes no sense when kataang literally had to have an asspull for them to get together lmao #atla #avatar: the last airbender #anti kataang

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oneatlatime · 4 months

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I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender

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aboutiroh · 4 months

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You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.

#iroh’s content and comments #atla #avatar: the last airbender #i was actually thinking about Sokka and how his opinion on bending changes throughout the show #but this turned into a Katara post anyway #I’ll leave my Sokka thoughts for another day

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