Atla - Blog Posts
"'Cause, baby, if your love is in trouble..."
"When you know, you know."
"When you know, you know."
"It kinda makes me laugh, runnin' down that path when you're good as gold..."
"When you're old, you're old, Like Hollywood and me, the diamond on your ring"
"The soul that you bring to the table, One that makes me sing in a minor key..."
"Don't give up, 'cause you never know what the new day might bring"
"'Cause when you know, you know, When you know, you know."
margaret by lana del rey ft. the bleachers x Zutara from Avatar the Last Airbender
"'Cause, baby, if your love is in trouble..."
"When you know, you know."
"When you know, you know."
"It kinda makes me laugh, runnin' down that path when you're good as gold..."
"When you're old, you're old, Like Hollywood and me, the diamond on your ring"
"The soul that you bring to the table, One that makes me sing in a minor key..."
"Don't give up, 'cause you never know what the new day might bring"
"'Cause when you know, you know, When you know, you know."
margaret by lana del rey ft. the bleachers x Zutara from Avatar the Last Airbender
Y'ALL CHAPTER 3&4 ARE OUT!!!
"Dear Master Katara. I have to say, I did not picture receiving a letter from you under these conditions.
My nephew is a good man now. You and I know he will make a good Firelord. Even the people know.
The Fire Sages are an integral part of the Fire Nation’s constitution. Without them and their support, a coronation is impossible. It seems to me as though the best solution is, regrettably, what my niece not so tastefully informed you of a few days ago.
You would be coronated privately first, of course. Then Zuko’s coronation and your wedding in one.
This marriage will have to be final. The only way the people will accept is through a picture painted of love, not of strategy. The people of the Fire Nation are great romantics.
I advise you to find yourself. It depends on whether or not you are willing, Katara. My nephew will accept the agreement. That, I am sure of.
Your uncle and your wellwisher,
Iroh
Would he sign himself away to her for life? Pretend to be in love with her under the condition that he could rule and fix this slowly fracturing nation, held together by years of iron-fisted torture and greed?"
<<excerpt from chapter 4>>
and yes coronation and wedding is next chapter
debating on smut though
check it out!!!!!!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61792147/chapters/159557773
alr alr so hear me out in the agni kai vs azula TECHNICALLY katara was the one to defeat azula and TECHNICALLY the stakes for that agni kai were becoming firelord so...
WHAT IF
HEAR ME OUT
KATARA HAD TO BE THE FIRELORD AND ZUKO HAS TO MARRY HER IN A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE TO BECOME THE FIRELORD AGHHHHH
pls someone write this fanfic or else point me to it if it already exists or i'll have to write it myself
ok thank you for coming to my ted talk.
yes i posted that zutara titanic au on ao3 what are you going to do about it
when I tell you i actually cackled
happy autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place season to all those who celebrate
I considered making Zuko Rose and Katara Jack, but Katara's bethrothal necklace fit too perfectly with the Heart of the Ocean
So it's gonna be a combo, also partially inspired by Stacey Lee's Luck of the Titanic (for Katara and Sokka!)
Tysm for asking!
yes i'm writing a zutara titanic au what are you going to do about it
yes i'm writing a zutara titanic au what are you going to do about it
Here is chapter two of my Zutara marriage of convenience AU, with unrequited (as of right now) love, fluff, and a little bit of angst. The fic is based on this post I made earlier about how Katara won the Agni Kai for the throne so she was technically legally the Firelord.
Here is an excerpt of chapter 2 (I already have an excerpt posted of chapter 1 here:)
The silence is deafening as Katara and Zuko stride up through the staircase. Katara can’t help glancing at Zuko, whose face is still visibly bright red. It’s almost funny, and it would be funny to Katara in another situation where Zuko is embarrassed and averse to the idea of marrying her.
Katara looks away and decides to continue trudging up the stairs.
“You don’t have to stare, you know. I-I mean, I understand what...never mind,” Zuko stutters awkwardly, and it’s really kind of adorable.
“It’s alright, Zuko. You don’t have to marry me. Unless you want to, of course.” She’s trying to sound teasing and indifferent, but her heart is just breaking a little bit.
Just a little bit.
She is trapped in the ache of loving someone who doesn’t love her as more than a friend. Katara has no doubt Zuko cares about her deeply; but she will never be to him what he is to her.
Arranged Marriage/Marriage of Convenience between Zuko/Katara (Aged Up Characters/Canon Divergent after the finale)
Darker times will come and go
Times you need to see her smile
And mothers' hearts are warm and mild
I would rather feel this world through the skin of a child
—AURORA; Through the Eyes of a Child
Don't mind me, I just gonna leave this here
Something I have noticed is that so often in media and in real life, is that we push around this narrative that having a “dark side” or being someone who “you don’t wanna see mad” is a good thing.
If you have a “dark side” you’re dangerous, someone who could hurt others and be cruel, and that makes you strong. That being good in a fight, having the ability to be scary when your angry, those are things that push authority.
I don’t get it.
Why must being benign be seen as a weakness?
Being harmless does not make you fragile.
Violence and strength have been so interwoven to the point people mistake one for the other.
Being violent does not make you strong, and being strong does not mean you have to be violent.
One of the greatest ways to show strength not in a character but in life in general is to choose forgiveness (seriously, like watch ATLA and see how Aang shows great strength by forgiving others instead of lashing out).
Anger is a valid and real emotion that you are allowed to express, but it is not one that should be wielded as a weapon. Anger is a secondary emotion, morphed from pain and sorrow.
Anger is like fire. It’s okay to light a fire, as long as it is safe and contained. You can keep a fire in a fire pit going for as long as you want, just don’t burn a forest.
Do not fear your anger and do not use it to strike fear in others. Being kind does not make you weak, being forgiving does not make you soft.
Generosity, honesty, fragility with your emotions—these can bring you strength. To be open with who you are and how you feel is a tremendous feat.
It takes courage to cry, to ask for help, to forgive.
Know that being loving is not a weakness, understand that forgiveness takes strength.
It’s easy to kill a fly, but it takes effort to capture it and bring it home.
watching avatar the last airbender rn, and sokka is everything to me look at that goof. and look at kat shes such an icon omg. a friend recommended it to me and apparently s3's the best i cant wait to reach it(still in s1)
azula better than me because if I found out that my mother who I had an unhealthy relationship with went off and had a toddler daughter who called my brother by the nickname I made for him, and everyone and their grandmothers liked her more than me I would kill myself fr
Zutara this, Zukka that, let’s talk about the real ship that should’ve been canon, MAILEE 😩💯
I feel like so many problems people have with tv at the moment could be solved if we just went back to the good ole days of 20 episodes a season that’s just sixty percent filler and character development. Give the people what they want- less condensed story and more meaningless shenanigans
Attention crew, this is your... captain speaking.
Happy birthday.
the inarguably best three avatar moments in no particular order
that’s rough buddy
no firelord ozai YOU’RE not wearing any pants
that part where they’re all completely baffled by there being just a regular bear
After becoming Firelord, Zuko pardoned the Blue Spirit for busting Aang out of prison but still held him at large for all the other crimes
Does anyone know who the artist of this work is? I've been looking for him for a long time🥺, and I can't find a trace (excuse my English, I'm using Google Translate)
my favorite piece of avatar lore i’ve ever learned is that piandao apparently also deserted the Fire Nation military, but instead of going on the run he just. went back the Fire Nation. built a fucking mansion about it. and then when the army sent 100 guys to arrest him, he kicked the shit out of them so hard they just fucked off forever.
jeong jeong is out there in a hut in the woods living his most bitter life meanwhile piandao is sitting in his palatial estate sipping tea, fully daring the fire lord to fuck around and find out. bad bitch behavior
I never read a zukka fic until december of last year and now i'm obsessed with these lil bitches
ATLA Thoughts
I was rewatching the first season of the show and I had some thoughts about how they wrote Zuko. I think it’s really interesting how in the first two episodes they had Zuko as just the full antagonist. Only to turn around in the third and make you root for him by pitting him against the immediately dislikable Zhao. You also had his ship be revealed to be so much smaller than the others after making it seem larger than life next to the Katara and Sokka’s village. I just find it really fascinating how we were being primed to support him from the very beginning.
ATLA fic idea
So Zuko spent almost three years looking for any trace of the Avatar before Aang came out of the ice. What if, alongside investigating the air temples for information about airbenders, he also tracked down spirit tales. The Avatar is the bridge between the spirit world and the human one, it would make sense that Zuko would consider any spiritual activity to be possibly Avatar related. I think a fun story would be about the misadventures Zuko and his crew get up to tangling with whatever spirits they end up coming across and having to deal with in their search.
This could either be a funny slice of life type story or a more serious one. One of the Avatar’s main duties is dealing with problems between spirits and humans, with him gone there’s probably been all sorts of things going wrong on that front. An interesting idea could be Zuko being forced to handle some of these problems just because he stuck his nose in it and realizing just how important the Avatar really is to the world. I’ve always though the Avatar isn’t nearly as important to human politics as they are to human-spirit relations. That could be a cool AU, with Zuko wanting to make sure Aang does his duties like he’s supposed to.
I don’t know, this is kind of just a stream of thoughts, but I think fics exploring the spirits of the ATLA world are really interesting and I love stories with Zuko’s crew, so combining the two would be awesome.
did everyone magically remember atla exists in march
(and again i'm late but that's not anything new)
wait
people sort through a fandom for the first time using something other than bookmarks ???