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My brain is sometimes filled with very peculiar things. For instance, my recent fun times debating boys-only fanboy purists at startrek mixed with my cautious delight of the Last Airbender teaser led my brain toward imagining one of those large, ensemble fanarts where you see all the characters at their various corners of the picture doing crazy things.

In the form of a Star Trek / Avatar fusion!


Kirk = Sokka (actiony spaceslut)

Spock = Katara (prone to extremes)

Uhura = Suki (the professional)

McCoy = Zuko (McGrumpyFace)

Sulu = Aang (flyboy forever)

Chekov = Teo (prodigy)

Scotty = Toph (cause if Toph were European, she'd be a Scot stereotype)

((Maybe with Azula in a bubble in the corner of the image as a Romulan, and Mai & Ty Lee as time-travelling Data and Wesley, respectively.))


This is totally disregarding my ship preferences, but that's just how I can see it playing out. Katara cross-dressed as 'Spock' makes me giggle the most.

p.s. I love the updated Water Tribe logo.

I still ship Mai/Earth King.

I still think that somewhere there's the unwritten tale of a political marriage and tense interactions and his silliness softening her sternness and her analytical and ruthless mindset guiding the EK into a shining era of political badassery...basically, forced marriage trope that we've seen a bajillion times for Zuko/Katara, Zuko/Song, Toph/Zuko, Katara/Aang, etc. But gender flipped.

"There have been thirty-seven Joo Dees in the time since Long Feng took power. Every woman--every single woman--that takes the name Joo Dee was once a political prisoner, who was captured and tortured for dissidence, insurrection, and speaking the truth in the face of tyrrany. Nineteen of those women are alive at this moment. Eleven still serve the Dai Li, their minds suppressed and their willpower subverted to serve the government that enslaved them. Of the remaining eight, two escaped on their own and six were rescued by our campaign. We have cells spread across the city, and most of our number are benders."

"You're all women."

The woman with the tattoed palms smiled, a sickly twist of her features that evoked no happiness. "The Dai Li, of course, are all men. Surely you noticed, in your meetings with the king? When they hunt us, they either absorb our men into their number or they kill them. Most of the time, actually, they kill them, as men are not as receptive to the mental conditioning. They make...unreliable vessels. Women the Dai Li capture get what is perhaps a worse fate, but that hasn't hindered our actions as much as they'd like to hope. The women of Ba Sing Se are harder to hunt and harder to kidnap than the men, as we move in community circles they cannot touch. Our network grows every day, from weaver to school teacher to the child selling pastries on the street. They believe they can silence us; they believe they can kidnap, torture, rape, murder, and brainwash us, but we are stronger than they. The day will soon arrive when Dai Li will be disbanded or detroyed, and I will have Long Feng's head in a box on my desk. When that day comes, Avatar--and it will come soon--you must decide who you believe deserves to hold power over this city."

"I will not help you n a coup against the Earth King."

"No one is asking for your help, little Avatar. Just stay out of our way when the time comes. Those poor women with the dead smiles need to be saved, and Long Feng's corruption of our great city must end. This is about justice, Avatar."

"The movie people are here!" yells one boy, and a bunch of excited 11-year-olds lines up to fill out cards and look sternly at the camera.

"What does 'ethnicity' mean?" asks another boy.

"Asian," says Bold.

"If you're Mongolian, put 'Mongolian,' " Ricketts says.

I think I'm going to be ill.


ETA: A good industry timeline of casting events, news-based not fandom-based.

Okay, he's not Chinese, but I'll take an Indian Prince Zuko over a blond pop star any day.


(There's huge irony that the one character I thought would be white, Zuko, is going to be the only colored person, but I don't care!....for the record, I'm still pissed about the water sibs, tho.)

Edit 2: I'm also concerned about Katara's actress looking so young. How is she going to be the team's mom/organizer if she looks 12-13?

They'll probably have her verbally worry all the time and say "that's her acting like our mom"
instead of her "acting motherly" equating to "Managing our camp, keeping us on-mission, talking down the super-spirit-weapon Aangzilla, conversing with Earth Kingdom generals, and acting as the Avatar's mentor and first body guard / last line of defense," which is what she did in the show.

The Katara I want, the Katara in my mind...is the Katara who sweeps out her arms and rides a wave of mother fricking FURY across the crystal caves and goes "OH YOU DIDN'T BITCH!" on Zuko and the Dai Li.

I'd love to see an Iroh music video to the Jungle Book song "The Bare Necessities".

Edit- umadoshi showed me it does exist!

::sigh:: It's going to get ridiculous when you get to the "Asian" names like Bei Fong and Ba Sing Se and Ty Li and Jeong Jeong and Lu Ten and Yue.


ETA: Letter-writingbending campaign. Not for emails, for actual letters. Spread it forward!

ali_wildgoose's above post says to "post a photo of yourself in the comments holding your stamped envelope so we all know you're awesome!" after you've written the letter.

I say DO ONE BETTER, AND POST IT IN YOUR DEVIANT ART ACCOUNT. The picture of you with your letter ready to be mailed, not the text. Or make a YouTube video of you mailing your complaint letter!

Of course not everyone has DA or YouTube accounts, but if you do, well---DeviantArt.com is a cesspit of viral memes and fads so hey maybe it'll catch on.

This is ridiculously amusing because I can't quite believe they did it.


http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_zutara/303847.html

Oh, my fandom. Oh, Dante Basco, you awesomely accommodating actor. You spoil us. You don't know the can of worms you've opened. I feel spoiled, and I thank you for being so cool with fans.

title: The Clearest View (lame, I know....I'll pick something better soon)

Summary: After five years of peace, Aang and Katara are friends without benefits, Ty Lee and Mai are contraband runners, Sokka and Suki's marriage is in trouble, Toph's become a dragon worshipper, and Zuko is turning into a butterfly. Life goes on.

sound track: david bowie!

context:

( Five years later. )

redbrunja mentioned it in her journal, and I thought I'd just outright ask in mine. For shits and giggles.

Of the people who are either on my flist or follow my journal, raise your hand if you happen to like Katara/Zuko [zutara] shipping for Avatar: The Last Airbender and also like Kakashi/Sakura [kakasaku] for Naruto.*



*with Kakashi/Sakura I generally mean in a future hypothetical sense, since, obviously, pedophilia is not cool.
** Out of curiosity: Dragonball Z ships? Because if a number of you that raise your hands below also shipped the same pairing I did for DBZ, that would be too weird. If you're not sure, think and I'm sure you'll figure it out. I kind of have a pattern.
***I'm also just going to assume everyone who ever comments on my journal liked Spuffy. If that's somehow not the case, don't shatter my bubble of happiness! It's a good bubble.