her heart was a secret garden.

Manga as Penguin Classics

the director was like ok throw him ur best fuck u eyes but sanji guy heard fuck me eyes?????? I'm on it boss 👍👌

stoking the flame.

dunno if i like or hate this but if i do any more work on this piece i might jus lose my mind so ima jusss chuck this here lol

Roy and Riza in the rain

the unknown distance to the great beyond, stares back at my grieving frame

i don’t see why a “hung jury” would be a bad thing? we love big dicks

The southern raiders

I saw this comment wondering about where zuko and katara got their stealth clothes from in the southern raiders episode

(Above image from avatar the last airbender , the art of the animated series)

And that got me thinking too🤔 honestly I can't remember where they got it from 😆 seems like they just whipped it out of thin air

So I had to draw them getting ready :)

Here's a smol bonus cut

Idea credits to @ zutaramedia on twitter (now x) !

Adult zutara is just🥺💯

I especially love the fact that Zuko has long hair it suits him perfectly!!!

Listen I don’t like k.ataang and m.aiko because the narrative structure strongly implies for them to not end up together.

The abandoned plot line for Aang’s arc (want vs need) learn to let her go. Aang wants to be with katara but he needs to be the avatar.

And Aang having plenty of time to come around to the possibility that maybe it’s not meant to be.

Similar to Zuko and Mai in boiling rock. Zuko was still holding onto Mai while talking to Sokka. Zuko didn’t want to drag her into this. but by the end of the episode

Zuko: this isn’t about you this is about the fire nation,I’m doing this to save my country 

Mai: save it your betraying your country.

This was definitely the moment where Zuko realized that there ideology was too different, and the relationship wouldn’t work, which is why he didn’t even bother asking her to come with him. Sure maybe she would’ve gone with him but not for the right reasons. 

Zutara was just a lovely little treat and would have tied up everything in a lovely bow. But it didn’t need to happen. But m.aiko and k.ataang happening really hurt the arcs of the characters and the narrative flow.

"'My father,' he croaked finally. 'If he knew…' His words died in his throat, his eyes glazing further.

Instinctively, Katara gripped his face in her hands and tilted it to make him look at her. 'Zuko. You said we’re a team, right? We still are. So we’ll figure it out and we'll fix it. We will.'

His amber eyes were wide and hazy, trailing slowly across her face.

But slowly they began to clear, and Katara let out a quiet, relieved sigh.

They were standing so close to each other that his breath intermingled with hers. He smelled vaguely of cinnamon, and the other scents she knew by now were his, the ones that clung to his robes. Earthy wood. Musk. Something herbal. Smoke."

- Incendiary Chapter 11 by @roslynwrites

i just

i just gotta get on my soapbox for a sec bc like

mai becoming fire lady is like. her worst ending. she's just being stuffed back into the box of nobility! the life that bored her so desperately that she was willing to go with azula just for a fucking change of pace

i will always think of the person on lj who described mai as "spoiled beyond feeling" bc she's been given everything she has ever needed or asked for... except freedom or love

my ending for mai is -- for one, her reply to azula is not "you miscalculated, i love zuko more than i fear you," it's "you miscalculated, i am not afraid of you" as she attacks azula and takes control of her own life

and in the epilogue, zuko actually goes to the boiling rock to free her, only to find a letter -- a letter! thematic consistency! -- from her explaining that she and ty lee are already free (either having escaped on their own or been released by her uncle) and have decided to break out of all their chains and see what the world has to offer (or be made to offer) two dangerous ladies who are stepping out of the gilded cage and coming into their own

so her happy ending is not going back into the nobility and continuing to be spoiled beyond feeling, but choosing to forego the spoiling to find feeling and meaning and freedom

it's also ty lee choosing to forego being part of a matched set or being under someone else's power or thumb and choosing to find out who she is on her own, not the sixth sister or the circus girl or azula's lackey, but ty lee, standing on her feet without any lines or nets to catch her nor any claws or flames to contain her, titling her chin up and capitulating to no one and deciding for herself who she wants to be

like holy shit, the canon endings for them suck so much they both deserve so much better and especially mai who i genuinely fucking love and think is such an interesting character whose endgame ship is just. it's so bad. it's a net-zero for her characterization, she just... goes back to exactly what she left before and... that's it

that's the ending

that's the ending?

mai deserved better

there, i'm saying it: mai deserved fucking better than that

Zutara, after the war

Katara's other canon love interests give her agency, and her pov.

And gets a moment where the two connect over similar losses.

Except Aang.

Kataang is framed entirely from Aang's point of view.

Even when he violates her boundries.

And is unable to handle Katara's grief.

But Zutara?

We get Katara's pov, and give her agency.

He saw her at her very worst, and wasn't at all hostile.

And Katara opened up to Zuko in the most significant way.