Happy Zutara Month, everybody! What, you didn’t know that was a thing that existed? Well, it is, and it does, and it has for at the very least the nine years that have gone by since the finale of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender tore that ship apart, set it on flame, and then salted the ashes.
Still, here we are, celebrating the ship almost a decade after the fact. And that “us” is not just rabid fangirls in their twenties to thirties, hiding in their own tag on tumblr.
Alrrrighty. I’ll be very interested to see if any of our writers want to take on a rebuttal of sorts (a Kataang shipper’s rejoice?), but I have to say I love the way Jana calls herself out as a shipper in a lot of places, and how she walks a line of “but isn’t this better” along with “okay, my goggles here.”
Very very thoughtful and meticulous analysis that gets at the idea of why Zutara is still a thing, still compelling to some, and still painful for those shippers to think about.
…Yeah, so, me writing stuff is still a thing. This time about something very silly that is very, very dear to me.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 