Avatar: TLA - Book 2 (and more winter crap)
Made some progress today thanks to being snowed/iced in. :) As expected, the sun going down led to the refreezing of the roads, making them far nastier than they were earlier. Good thing I didn't head out; wherever I was, I'd be stuck. And it looks like I'm stuck tomorrow, too - little sister doesn't get off work until late afternoon, right
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It is always a good thing to miss, but thaaaat's not what the wars were about. Like people talked about it a lot (ad nauseum; insanely; forever), but the actual narrative roles of the various relationships and interactions were never the point. The point was trying to pretend that the over-arcing narrative about elemental unity and clashes had something to do with the very down and dirty, adolescent and earthy question of who ~likes~ whom and thus who will make out with whom. Which was a thing always based on characters themselves as people, not slotting them into elemental roles and them being some sort of SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF WAR AND PEACE. Just boys and girls, meeting each other or knowing each other, and having some feelings.
But. SEASON THREE OMG. So much shit gets so real.
There's a lot of stuff I think you'll find super interesting with Zuko and Azula.
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Some of it is vaguely referenced in the show itself and for some of it the general idea can be inferred from the show), but the comics themselves give more detail to the specifics.
The Gaang one is, fittingly, "The Bridge" and can be read in full here. And the Firebrats one is "Going Home Again."
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trying to pretend that the over-arcing narrative about elemental unity and clashes had something to do with the very down and dirty, adolescent and earthy question of who ~likes~ whom and thus who will make out with whom.
Making it strictly about "characters/ships = elements" would be missing the point, yeah. But when I talk about the dynamics of, say, Z/K or A/K, I'm not even talking about the relationships in a specifically romantic sense. I could really care less who Katara ends up snogging at the end. When I talk about Z/K being mirrors or Katara being Aang's anchor, to me that's got nothing to do with whether they hook up or not ( ... )
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Well, I like to PLAY IT SAFE. Mostly because CONFESSION: THE FIREKIDS AKA DANGEROUS LADIES PLUS ZUKO. THEY ARE MY FAVORITES. And their arcs are all just <3333 and I just don't trust myself to bring any of them up more than in passing without like gushing everywhere.
But when I talk about the dynamics of, say, Z/K or A/K, I'm not even talking about the relationships in a specifically romantic sense.
Oh yes. I know! Which I appreciate! I didn't think for a second that you were. What I was trying to say was that the fandom specifically and almost exclusively did this: just [relied] on symbolic representation to show two characters are going to hook up or who likes each other, even though the show itself doesn't really do that at all, and ignored this: the genuine relationships/feelings between the characters if it contradicted what they had decided was the SYMBOLIC IMPORTANCE OMG of whatever thing. It got to the point where people genuinely just wouldn't consider a pairing if they couldn't force ( ... )
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