Another Reason Why Youtube is Evil
Because then they show you crack!ships like this. Then you start thinking about how it could work, followed by the realization that it could work. After that, you abandon a couple hours of studying for finals just to see if you could write a plausible and good fanfic for said crack!ship. The fact that the music is one of my favourite songs from Evanescence doesn't hurt either.
And for this, I have produced the beginnings of Delirium also known as "What Happens When a Goddess of Discord and a God of Death Fall in Well You Know...Love." This will be written as a romantic comedy because otherwise it would be too much of an angstfest. And come on now, one of the reasons why Hercules was enjoyable was because Hades a la James Woods made it funny. Eris also has a rather puckish sense of humour.
Then there's this:
No you are not seeing things. The video was posted flipped, thus why Zuko's scar is on the wrong side.
Which caused much needed joygasms and nerdgasms (noygasms?) and is making me count down the days to 2012 even faster for the specific purposes of this show. The video was taken down but not before I got the screencap that apparently showed me that my OTP for this fandom has been re-approved if you squint at it.
After three seasons of A:TLA, the opening threw me off a bit as I'm used to it starting with "Water, Earth, Fire, Air" rather than that "Earth, Fire, Air, Water" but it makes sense since the cycle has continued to the next Avatar in the cycle, Korra, a waterbender where as the last sequence was for Aang, an airbender. One prominent comment I keep reading is the passing of Aang saddens them. Maybe it's just me, but the fact that Korra is around to me means he's not gone. He's still there, with her. Mourning for the dead to me, even for a ficitional character, makes no sense to me; if I do mourn, it would be for the living that the dead left behind.
Another thing was that many people got up in arms about how Zuko ("Fire Lord Zuko") and Aang were the only ones mentioned in the opening sequence. I would like to point out that yes even though we have the Gaang, there were other crucial members to plot in saving that world as well, so there's no way the opening would be able to give reference to them all past visuals. For all intensive purposes, the audience, particularly if it's a new audience member, would only need to know about Aang and Zuko as they were the ones to create the United Republic of Nations from the Fire Nation colonies.
Given the premise of the tie-in comics that's supposed explain what happened during the time between both shows, it will show how those two progressed to make the United Republic. Which when you kind of think about it could be the expy for the U.S. or other countries that proclaimed independence from their previous sovereign state and hopefully minus the war for their independence given that that world is still recovering from a 100 years war. Is it bad that I'm actually more interested in dissecting how the world building works right now than what possible shipping I could do?
As I've stated before, I'm a hardcore Zutara shipper but it's done. That series has ended and really I'm not interested in shooting down Aang or Mai for the purposes of my favoured ship living. That's what fanon AU stories are for, so that I can indulge in my pairing without killing what made the series great. And quite honestly, what had killed those two canon couples for me was really bad romance writing. I still cannot watch season three without cringing at episodes 2,5, 9 and 17 (for that one scene). I think someone fumbled the ball on that and on explaining Aang's stance without him sounding like he's not killing Ozai because everyone else wants him to rather that for the sanctity of life. If I ever get around to finishing this one Zutara fic I had going on, I plan to address that issue because after three years, I think I finally understood why the message was written that way. It just took three years of life experience to sink in correctly.
Click to viewAnd for this, I have produced the beginnings of Delirium also known as "What Happens When a Goddess of Discord and a God of Death Fall in Well You Know...Love." This will be written as a romantic comedy because otherwise it would be too much of an angstfest. And come on now, one of the reasons why Hercules was enjoyable was because Hades a la James Woods made it funny. Eris also has a rather puckish sense of humour.
Then there's this:
No you are not seeing things. The video was posted flipped, thus why Zuko's scar is on the wrong side.
Which caused much needed joygasms and nerdgasms (noygasms?) and is making me count down the days to 2012 even faster for the specific purposes of this show. The video was taken down but not before I got the screencap that apparently showed me that my OTP for this fandom has been re-approved if you squint at it.
After three seasons of A:TLA, the opening threw me off a bit as I'm used to it starting with "Water, Earth, Fire, Air" rather than that "Earth, Fire, Air, Water" but it makes sense since the cycle has continued to the next Avatar in the cycle, Korra, a waterbender where as the last sequence was for Aang, an airbender. One prominent comment I keep reading is the passing of Aang saddens them. Maybe it's just me, but the fact that Korra is around to me means he's not gone. He's still there, with her. Mourning for the dead to me, even for a ficitional character, makes no sense to me; if I do mourn, it would be for the living that the dead left behind.
Another thing was that many people got up in arms about how Zuko ("Fire Lord Zuko") and Aang were the only ones mentioned in the opening sequence. I would like to point out that yes even though we have the Gaang, there were other crucial members to plot in saving that world as well, so there's no way the opening would be able to give reference to them all past visuals. For all intensive purposes, the audience, particularly if it's a new audience member, would only need to know about Aang and Zuko as they were the ones to create the United Republic of Nations from the Fire Nation colonies.
Given the premise of the tie-in comics that's supposed explain what happened during the time between both shows, it will show how those two progressed to make the United Republic. Which when you kind of think about it could be the expy for the U.S. or other countries that proclaimed independence from their previous sovereign state and hopefully minus the war for their independence given that that world is still recovering from a 100 years war. Is it bad that I'm actually more interested in dissecting how the world building works right now than what possible shipping I could do?
As I've stated before, I'm a hardcore Zutara shipper but it's done. That series has ended and really I'm not interested in shooting down Aang or Mai for the purposes of my favoured ship living. That's what fanon AU stories are for, so that I can indulge in my pairing without killing what made the series great. And quite honestly, what had killed those two canon couples for me was really bad romance writing. I still cannot watch season three without cringing at episodes 2,5, 9 and 17 (for that one scene). I think someone fumbled the ball on that and on explaining Aang's stance without him sounding like he's not killing Ozai because everyone else wants him to rather that for the sanctity of life. If I ever get around to finishing this one Zutara fic I had going on, I plan to address that issue because after three years, I think I finally understood why the message was written that way. It just took three years of life experience to sink in correctly.