Latest Posts by xynnietheslut - Page 3

i like the lore that piandao trained zuko but i don't think it was exactly the wholesome adoption that people like to do with zuko and any father figures. like in my mind piandao receives a letter from the fire lord like "the crown prince sucks at firebending and you're the best swordsman in the nation so we are sending him to be trained. this is non-optional" and piandao's legitimately contemplating committing treason rather than compromise his values and then the end of the the letter is like "we know you're usually selective we'll pay whatever" and piandao's like. okay FINE please pay me an absolutely ridiculous amount. and ozai agrees bc anything to get his failson out of his hair and piandao sends the money to the white lotus to fund a resistance group in the earth kingdom

and baby zuko, that turtleduck-loving mama's boy theater nerd, arrives on his doorstep and this is where most people would have him change his tune but piandao's just like "sure he seems cute now but he'll grow up to do imperialism". he teaches zuko the dual swords, a commoner's weapon, bc the ideal path for this kid who seems way too nice to be part of the royal family is to give it all up. but he doesn't think that's gonna happen. like iroh comes for a visit and he also seems nicer than the rest of the royal family but he did the siege of ba sing se so like. what does it matter that zuko likes theater and turtleducks and his mommy? he can still hate the earth kingdom and water tribes.

all of this is going on in his head, of course. in his actual interactions with zuko he's a very kind and patient teacher. he knows ozai's a bad dad and he wants to at least try to help this kid onto a better path. but it's not until he hears about the banishment and reports of a guy in a theater mask with dual swords committing treason that he's actually like "oh shit maybe there's some hope for this kid after all"

and he only really adopts him post-canon when iroh fucks off to ba sing se and SOMEBODY needs to help this poor kid navigate fire nation politics and i guess that's gonna be me. okay actually i like him now :) maybe i'll set him up with sokka

Zukka little comic, short of, that nobody asked for but is here anyway? Thanks to the thread that I don't even know when it started, I literally found a screenshot on Pinterest and decided to draw it out. But shout out to @your-royal-momoness for starting the thread, I hope this is close to what you had pictured

I think I peaked with this art specifically

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its uh titts out monday (i think) In case you don't know, there is this really entertaining and spicy fic @ranilla-bean wrote named Nip It in the Bud.

zuko sure wasn't subtle and sokka an absolute gentleman.

Hello Zukki Nation, please let me in

"You've changed"

Prints available here

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image 1: a crowd of people in colors of the fire nation, water tribes, and earth kingdom in a large throne room in the fire kingdom.

image 2: a view of Sokka talking with some people in the crowd.

image 3: Sokka looking out of frame with surprise mid conversation.

image 4: Zuko holding a closed fan dressed in regal clothing and golden sun and fire jewelry with advisors in the back, looking into the crowd.

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atla au but nothing changes except sokka is taller and zuko is shorter

I really do hate the idea that Aang was having kids JUST to repopulate the air nomads. The idea that Tenzin was a third time’s the charm situation, that Aang kept “trying” for an airbender and was disappointed with Kya and Bumi

I honest to god think Aang was not thinking “I hope this kid’s an airbender!” Each time. I don’t think the thought would even cross his mind until someone else suggested it. He’d be typed up thinking about how he’ll balance his new child in his life, Katara’s health, how to even be a father having no parents himself. All of those take priority in his mind

I honestly think Aang would be super appalled by the suggestion that “repopulating” was his goal with his family. What it says how about he thinks of his wife.

If anyone is going to have the thought “I hope it’s an airbender” I’d bet it was Katara. It’s still not why. But she knows and loves Aang and has seen how hard he’s struggled without the airbenders, how lonely he’s gotten, I could see Katara having the thought “For Aang’s sake I hope you’re an airbender” before Aang ever thinks “I hope you’re an airbender”

I don’t know man. This idea is just so gross to me, and I hate how it’s thrown around by the fans like it must be the case, with no room for questions, why ELSE would Aang be having kids?

Rubs me the wrong way. Really does

The BEST family

continuation of kataang swapped au in the cave of 2 lovers

Katara is so REAL for this :D

au where Aang gets told he's the Avatar (and subsequently frozen) at 16 like he was supposed to.... I think it would change a lot honestly

That infamous prison escape.

Ah, your atla arts are lovely!

Can you maybe draw young adults kataang with painted lady Katara, and a tall Aang pleasssse 🥹

anon is this good

I literally think this is canon

sleepy gaang >>>> everyone else

inaugurating the reposts of my old art on this acc with something i have never actually put on tumblr ✨

solstice

heres more of that stupid au

Sear thy eyes on mine countenance.

+Jack close up cuz i happen to be very proud of it

sketches so messy they dont deserve their own post

Gotta love the implication from the marauders fans - if you're an ugly, white, poor kid - you deserve the many crimes committed against you. But if you are an ugly, black, poor kid - wait, that will make my faves look bad. My faves are saints because their victim is ugly and not part of a minority.

They're like Lily, laughing at someone who's being abused because the abusers are ~handsome~

Well, at the end of the day, these are people who engage in victim blaming, support and excuse bullying, and minimize sexual offenses—so it’s not like we can expect much from them in terms of moral consistency or ethical coherence. The real issue isn’t that they think it’s acceptable to abuse a white child; it’s that they know they can justify it because no one will call them out the way they would if the child were a POC. The latter is visually more striking, carries far more controversial implications, and forces an uncomfortable conversation they don’t want to have.

The problem with these people is that they refuse to confront their own cognitive dissonance and the narrative of victim-blaming and perpetrator-exoneration that they’ve upheld for so long. They know that the moment the severity of the bullying Severus endured is laid out in a way that can’t be denied—because it will be too visually explicit to ignore—they won’t have anywhere to hide. And honestly? I find that wonderful in one way, but on the other hand, it’s pretty sad that this isn’t about genuine political awareness for them but rather a purely materialistic concern over their own image within the fandom.

marauders fandom: james bullied snape because snape was a death eater and blood purist!

lily: leave him (snape) alone. what’s he done to you?

james: well, it’s more the fact that he exists, if you know what i mean…

marauders fandom: nooo, james bullied snape because snape was a death eater and blood purist 😭

lily: you think you’re funny. but you’re just an arrogant, bullying toerag, potter. leave him alone.

james: i will if you go out with me, evans. go on… go out with me and i’ll never lay a wand on old snivelly again.

marauders fandom: b-but james-

“jkr compared voldemort to hitler, so snape is literally a nazi” jkr also compared trans activists to death eaters, so what?

guys, you need to understand that comparisons are subjective and not literal. i can compare voldemort to my uncle, does that mean he is LITERALLY my uncle? no.

The news about Papaa Essiedu playing Snape has been a "mask off" moment for many people, and I'm really disappointed. I've seen bad takes from both sides, Snape fans and haters. Does it always have to be like that? Why can't people leave black actors alone? I don't even want to watch the show, because I don't want to support JKR, but this is disrespectful to the actor who just wants to do his job.

It’s interesting to me because I’m not going to watch that show—I just have no interest in a new version of Harry Potter. It’s not even about not wanting to give Rowling money, because that’s an easy fix (just pirate it), it’s simply that I don’t care for it and I don’t think it’s necessary. But okay.

My issue here is that, look, I can understand fans being super hesitant because they have a very clear image of Severus in their heads. I get it because, in my head, Severus looks a certain way too, and I would like him to be represented like that, but honestly, I don’t care that much. At this point, book-to-screen adaptations take more and more liberties, and I’ve just gotten used to it.

What does bother me is how everyone—literally everyone—tries to act all progressive while making up excuses that do nothing but mask their racism. I’ve seen people say they’re so worried about the hate the actor will receive, and that’s why they think this casting isn’t right. As if the actor isn’t a grown, autonomous man who’s fully aware of the consequences of taking on a role like this. They treat him like a clueless child who doesn’t know what he’s doing, being unbearably paternalistic, because they think this fake concern will somehow cover up the stench of racism coming off their words.

Then there are people who simply complain that he doesn’t look like their Snape. Okay, whatever, at least they’re being honest.

But the ones who piss me off the most are the ones crafting these elaborate arguments about how problematic it is for a black man to play Snape (as if people of color don’t have the right to play whatever character they want, even the controversial ones). They spew nonsense, calling him an incel (false), a Nazi (false), and throwing around all the utterly untrue, completely fanon bullshit people say about Snape—just to mask what really bothers them: that their favorites are going to look like the abusers they actually were.

Severus is a character shaped by poverty, abuse, and social exclusion, and it’s because of these things that he ends up following the people who provide him with a sense of safety and belonging—people who give him a space where he can have ambition and not feel like an outcast. It’s literally the same story as many kids from disadvantaged backgrounds who end up in gangs. He’s a working-class character who was systematically bullied and assaulted by a group of four people—none of whom were poor. (Because Lupin wasn’t poor as a teenager, sorry. His father worked for the Ministry—deal with it.) The ringleaders of that group were two white, cishet boys from obscenely wealthy families with bloodline statuses equivalent to the Muggle aristocracy. It was the upper class teaming up to humiliate and marginalize the lower class.

And the thing about Severus’s haters and Marauders apologists is that they constantly use every rhetorical trick in the book to minimize this dynamic, justify it, and even suggest that Severus deserved it. The problem with this casting is that it’s going to make it impossible to deny that there was a major social component to that abuse. They simply won’t be able to ignore it. And that’s what’s pissing them off—it has them shaking because they won’t be able to keep excusing the sexual harassment, the attempted murder, the constant bullying, etc. They just won’t.

And I think it’s disgusting to use race as a shield, to pretend to care about racism when the only thing you actually care about is defending characters who represent the privileged, oppressive social elite—just because they’re your favorites. It’s repulsive.

The problem with these people isn’t that they have some incredible social awareness and genuinely care about the representation of Black men in fiction or about racism. No. What they really care about is how this might affect their attempts to seem progressive online.

What actually worries them is that the abusers they constantly defend—whose classism, social prejudices, and repeated abuses of power they refuse to acknowledge—can no longer be hidden behind excuses. That now, they won’t be able to defend them without looking like complete idiots.

But here’s a spoiler: they already are. They don’t need Snape to be Black for that. They’re already defending and justifying abuse, violence, and sexual assault. The only difference is that right now, they can deny it more easily. But that doesn’t erase the sin.

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