“Choosing a class became choosing a discipline, and choosing a discipline became choosing a career, and choosing a career became choosing a life, and how was anyone supposed to do that, when you only had one?”
“If God is so large, why build walls to hold Him in?”
“That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
I can’t say much else without getting really emotional or screaming but yeah I highly recommend this book to everyone :)
The way αnti-Zυtαriαns often try to use the fact that a lot of Zutara shippers are brown teenage girls as something against Zutara always puzzles me. Because, newsflash, one half of the Zutara ship is a brown teenage girl. One would think that brown teenage girls might be capable of better understanding a brown teenage girl character than some middle-aged white men (looking at Bryke with their Book 4: Air “joke” here) may think.
But I guess that’s not true. Brown teenage girls shipping Zutara couldn’t possibly mean that they want good things for a strong character who is representation for them in media. It couldn’t possibly mean that they analyzed the symbolism, themes, character arcs, relationship arcs, and the story of ATLA overall to arrive at the conclusion of shipping Zutara. It couldn’t possibly mean that they used their critical thinking skills to come to the decision of shipping Zutara.
No, if a brown teenage girl ships Zutara, it must automatically mean that they’re just “self-inserting onto Katara to f*ck Zuko.”
Please. The disrespect and misogyny is there, and it is absolutely unacceptable. To quote Jo March in “Little Women,”
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.”
Here’s a thought: if you automatically dismiss the interpretations that brown teenage girls make of media as being driven by their “self-inserting desire for romance” as opposed to perhaps being driven by their critical thinking skills, maybe consider that you are viewing brown teenage girls as just fit for love, as opposed to being people also fit for using their perfectly capable minds to think.
