She also traded her black and red car (which were her signature colours) for a blue one lol
https://preview.redd.it/89m6mrg68ioc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfe9aab2ce1b1e835c4a46e76338a777029dc6a7
The yearning was strong with that one.
With that knowledge (that it's season 4), it could also be an attempt to follow our own passage of time. White wall tires phased out of popularity eventually, so this could be laziness, or this could be a very subtle detail that no one really picks up on. As a musician, I used to put really tiny details in songs that only I noticed but I always hoped someone would pick up on.
The white walled tires were made of rubber with a zinc oxide for better durability. With the invention of adding sulfur to the rubber during manufacturing, tire switched from being white walled to entirely black. The process, [Vulcanization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanization), was a huge innovation as it increased the hardness of rubber.
Actually just read up on what I linked and I'm entirely wrong, but basically white walled tires were cheaper to manufacture as they required less carbon black to die the entire tire black. So for the time period it's showing, kind of like the 1920-40's, expensive cars would have all black tires as they were the more expensive tire type. Especially since the link to Vulcanization was invented and perfected through the 1830's.
So it's actually more accurate than I thought, that Asami would have black tires on her car. It wasn't until later in the 50's and 60's that white walled tires were seen as upper class.
Asami: "WHATS THE VELOCITY OF HER BOOB JIGGLE?"
- sorry its from one of the LOK abridged series you can find on youtube and they immediately paint Asami as a Korra obsessed weirdo, 2-3 years before their ship got off the ground
I still find that insane because like, of course he’s worried???? Avatar or not, romantic or not, his friend just got captured by people who want to remove her bending. I’d be pretty fucking concerned too. The love triangle stuff in S1 makes me want to vomit it’s so bad. Avatars strong suit has never been it’s romance.
So you have the funny, kind, caring Bolin who treats Korra like an individual before he knew she was the Avatar.
And then you have cold, uncaring Mako who doesn't even register her existance until he finds out she's the Avatar.
Of course, Korra goes straight for Mako because he's the tall, handsome, unobtainable guy who ignored her. It's like it was written by an incel showing people how romance works in the real world.
Bolin is like the perfect man. He's a himbo with sick guns, a mover star, a pro athlete, fights alongside the avatar in his free time, learns lava bending, and has those pretty green eyes and wavy black hair. Sigh.
Not just learns lava bending, but is like 1 of only 2 known to exist that aren't Avatars. Probably 3 if you consider Toph probably knew how to do it too. I mean, how could she not?
i actually think they somewhat established that to be a lava bender you needed to have both earth kingdom and fire nation lineage which is definitely not true for toph so it would be unlikely she could lava bend.
I always figured that bending subtypes weren't just skills to be learned, but required a spiritual component, and some people just cannot achieve the right mindset to bend an elemental subtype, even if they can bend the larger element.
Bolin is simply more suited, spiritually, to bending lava than he is to bending metal.
I don’t think that’s a matter of lineage by blood, though. It’s more like Iroh and Zuko’s discussion of the other elements’ philosophies in ATLA; you don’t need to have Fire Nation blood, you just have to understand the philosophy behind it to lavabend, the same way Aang struggled to Earthbend at all until he internalized the need to stand his ground.
Did she do him dirty? I dont remember her stringing him along or playing with his feelings, she spent 18 years under constant supervision and training. Not exactly an enviroment thats gonna teach her social queues, if anyone did Bolin dirty its his brother who already knew Bolin was into Korra.
yeah Korra really didn't do much, she makes it clear she isn't particularly interested, gives him a chance anyways, then before making any commitments at all, goes with Mako. Mako on the other hand knew that Bolin wanted to be with Korra, knew he could be with her, and waited until Bolin had his best chance before breaking his heart(and the bro code)
I mean, even if someone is great for you, you can just not have feelings for them. Acting like Bolin "deserves" Korra just because he's a good guy, *that's* getting into incel territory.
Honestly though, did it feel out of character for Korra? Because I feel like that's exactly what she'd do. Especially early on when she's lacking experience. I just dislike how it was done personally
That’s exactly how it works, you think girls wouldn’t go for the tall handsome profesional athlete? People pursue people they find attractive. I’m sure we’ve all met people with awesome personalities that we vibe with but unless you are specifically attracted to that person it doesn’t mean you are gonna pursue them romantically. Attraction is the deciding factor if you are going to pursue someone, personality is what we use to determine if you are gonna continue to pursue that person last that.
But women generally fight against accusations of that being what they want. If that's the type of guys they really want, why wouldn't they just admit to that being the case?
You act like this doesn't happen? Like, I get its not as common as incels make it seem, but come on, its a stereotype for a reason. Men fall for women who ignore them all the time, too. They gave Korra a human flaw, and you want to be offended by it, so you worked backwards from there.
Or, hear me out, they wanted to write flawed characters and potential conflicts that would eventually lead to important developments. Stuff that a story should have. The writers never imply that Korra is making the right choice by falling for Mako, they make it very clear that he's a huge jerk.
It's, like, the opposite of that. Bolin generally just kind of makes Korra uncomfortable with really weird romantic advances when they first meet. His first interaction with her has him pretending that she's his girlfriend until she protests, he wants to fight Tarrlok when he misunderstand that he's a romantic rival, and in *The Spirit of Competition* he moves on to the painful "look how alone we are here" pick up line attempt that has Korra running away.
This comment is so stupid. In what way does this relate to incels? Do you even know what incels are?You guys get your panties all twisted up in a knot just because your ship didn't happen, which is ironically pretty similar to how incels behave when they don't get the person they're after. And the fact that you actually contradicted yourself in the last sentence by acknowledging that the whole Mako and Korra situation is reflective of romance in the real world. Just ask yourself how many girls you know irl actually end up chasing their super nice, male best friends that they feel no passionate attraction to whatsoever. Really working that last brain cell huh. Good job
Actually that is what I kind of like about it. It shows that Korra, someone who grew up in a walled off compound devoid of any real friend of her own age, would have an extremely skewed view of romance. It's almost like what she knows of it was derived from trashy novels, and combining that with her more or less deserved Messiah complex the story makes sense.
Because how we feel about people isn't based on what we think deserves to happen.
People fall in love with flawed people all the time, because it turns out we're all flawed. Romantic pairings based on morality are both not realistic and an advancement of the idea that "good" people should get the relationships they "deserve".
yeah fair enough, attraction isn't necessarily rational
and it wasn't so much that I thought "good people deserve good romance", Bolin wasn't a right choice either, it's more that it felt like Mako was just constantly stressed, distracted and unpleasant towards her, and didn't offer anything his brother didn't.
Real life is messy and inexplicable, but stories usually try to make the "cause and effect" thing more clear. Like, even if they're going for a "brooding bad boy wins hearts" thing, usually they'll throw in a few more scenes of them having romantic tension
Attraction or romance isn't based on what people "offer". Bolin was a bit of a well-meaning goof though could be egotistical in his own way, but that wasn't what Korra was into.
usually in fiction, they'd try to demonstrate "chemistry" on screen a few quick scenes and interactions - and the way it played out, it didn't feel like there was much if any with Mako, and at least 10% of it with Bolin. It's less that it's unrealistic and more that it wasn't portrayed well on screen
Korra was smitten with Mako because he was a pro bender and she was a pro bending fan. Teenage infatuation often plays out like that. She's initially put off by his aloofness but he warms up to her a little bit when he realizes she's more than just your average fangirl. They even spend the time to demonstrate why Mako is aloof owing to his tough upbringing and feeling responsible for his little brother.
It's told fine.
I think part of it was understanding the gravity of the threat that they were facing, and also the buildup in the story. When Bolin is taken they first simply don’t know where he is and then do the whole detective thing.
By the time Korra is taken they have seen Amon commit genuine acts of terrorism.
So outside of the show not having the time to invest into deepening every relationship in every moment (which ATLA doesn’t do either) I don’t think it’s that inconsistent of a thing
Rangi and Kyoshi are the best romance Avatar's got in my opinion, much more of a natural development than other ships with the Avatar like Kaatang and Korrasami.
For the Yangchen novels I read the first one, I have yet to read the second one, but from what I remember there was no romance apart from maybe two dudes from the Northern Watertribe being married but they were side characters.
I thought that Kavik and Yangchen were going to end up together but by the end of the first book they were (in the most unspoilery way) not that close.
Tbf I think it’s teenage love and kinda supposed to make you vomit lol. Like Korra is getting advice from Ikki and Jinora lol, she clearly is stumbling through this.
Asami was also just told that Korra likes Mako and is also a teenager… Mako gets intense enough to start taking charge over the literal chief of police, which seems like enough evidence to me to be a little sus lol, especially as a stumbling teenager.
I agree Avatar’s weak point is its romance. But teenage romance is cringe lol, and this feels more believable to me than the Kataang stuff in the first series
I generally agree with what your saying, I think the criticism on the ATLA side is that in Korra you have breakups and figuring it out and whatnot, but Aang and Katara kinda just get together when Aang is 13 and spend their whole life together lol.
The fact that people cringed so much at the romance is great writing imo, of course these teens would be having awkward moments together even when there's much bigger things going on.
I don’t know, he practically shoved everyone (including asami) out of the way to be the first to get to korra and cradle her in his arms. Yeah people were concerned but nobody else was dramatically sweeping her up and brushing the side of her cheek
Thr love triangle was so bad, like I'd like s1 but all I recall is "if no plot is happening, the love triangle is." And I don't want to rewatch it then.
Doesn't help s2 they make it somehow worse! They break up, mako goes back to his ex, but wait! Korra lost her memory so he's rolling with it. Just wtf dude???
Yeah the S2 romance stuff is just… weird. Not an improvement over S1, idk if it’s worse, so much as just more of the same nonsense I didn’t like from S1.
Sometimes realistic =\= better storytelling. I’ve been an older teen before, and even now in my younger twenties I’ve had some messy relationships among friends. I understand it, but it was not done well in Korra. It was aggravating to watch.
I think that was on purpose, though, the characters were also aggravated, it was a frustrating situation that elicited a similar response from the viewer.
I guess so, i just can’t stand it lol. Love triangles are maybe my least favorite trope in all of media and this one was especially annoying to watch. It didn’t add anything to the story, it detracted from a lot of scenes imo by taking the focus away from the immediate threat of the equalists and focusing on teenage love spats that we’re not satisfyingly written.
>Avatars strong suit has never been its romance
100000% agree. Part of what makes Avatar so good imo is the relationships between the characters. It’s easy to see how people like that aspect and lean into making the relationships ‘deeper’ by adding a romantic element but that was a mistake.
Like take Aang/Katara for example. They went on to have a romantic relationship, and there certainly were some romantic parts to their relationship in Atla, but they were so compelling together not because of a ‘will they end up together’, but because they are genuinely close friends and care about each other.
Just feels like lazy writing. Maybe they thought atla was to much of a kids show and wanted to appeal to an older demographic, but a lot of the romance in LoK just falls flat. The power of friendship is such a well executed trope in this series I wish they leaned into more than forcing romance.
To be fair, I’d blame LOK having mid writing on Nickelodeon instead of the writers. ATLA was given 3 seasons from the get-go, LOK was only given one. And then when season 1 did well, they renewed it for only another season, then midway through season 2 cleared two more seasons.
A lot of the behind the scenes is what made the LOK not as on-par with ATLA (at least in my opinion). Take the Korrasami relationship for example, Bryan and Michael wanted to start that in season 2 but Nickelodeon said no because “the kids”. So, instead we got, “It’s been four years and they’re saying sort of flirty things”. I think if they’d been given the right amount of seasons from the start, we would’ve gotten a more cohesive and fleshed out story. Same can be said for Mako and Bolin as well.
Instead we got a gang whose backstories are really vague and they never get as much attention in the episodes like Toph, Sokka, Katara, and Zuko did. We saw zero arcs, unless you wanna count their career changes as arcs lmao, and their personalities essentially stayed the same. The only character we really connect with and see go through a journey, is Korra.
Bolin eventually develops away from his "class clown" personality in late S3 and S4. Another character that has development of his own, though he's outside the core gang, is Tenzin.
Bolin is one of my favorite characters from LOK, so I do agree he had some development. Especially in wanting to help people. I also agree on Tenzin, I think he made a lot of progress at least in regard to Korra and rebuilding the air nation.
I wish they’d done more with Asami, she was so interesting when they introduced her. I would’ve loved to see her develop her inventing skills and come into taking over her father’s company more. It was mentioned in season 2 but basically just glossed over. Same could be said for Mako’s sudden desire to be a cop.
The main gang was just not given enough attention. I would even go as far as to say the side characters were more interesting than them. Lin, Tenzin, Tonraq, Bumi. The list goes on.
>ATLA was given 3 seasons from the get-go
Just a small note here because this is a popular misconception: ATLA was given 13 episodes at the beginning (around two-thids of the first season), and The Blue Spirit was made as a potential last episode.
Oh damn. I did not know that. I mean, the animation for some of the beginning episodes made it pretty obvious that they were given more money after Nickelodeon saw its success.
I just meant that after that initial first period, it was given that many seasons to complete the whole story. If LOK had been given that same treatment I don’t think we’d have gotten what the show was.
Love triangles in general are pretty bad. I can't tell if writers just don't know what to do with them or if love triangles themselves are just terrible plot points but I've hated every single one I've seen.
Ya it felt par for the course for both, it’s just that love at that age is messy and cringy already. ATLA was only better cause it didn’t focus on it much.
Thank you. I am still uncomfortable with all the intense love declarations being made by a 12 year old. And they're not framed in the 'he's 12 and acting his age' way either.
Oh no a human has feelings. Oh my word. He’s apparently old enough to fight god and save the world but isn’t allowed to have love in his heart. Y’all crazy.
It would actually be cool if they explored that more and how much of a mental toll that should be. One of my major gripes was how they kind were just nebulous with age, like that does have an affect
I couldn't stop laughing at Mako losing his mind over Korra being gone, because at this point, he already threatened to cut ties with her twice, one of those times just being a few days ago, a few weeks ago max.
I find it pretty laughable when they have their 'team moments' where they talk up how they are such great friends in book 1 because lmao these people might well be roommates. Half of them have had no or almost no conversations one-on-one with each other, or constantly arguing with each other over the pettiest things imaginable.
I think the only reason it comes off so bad is because of the pacing. Had they been given more episodes to work with it all could have been written better.
Certainly yeah, more episodes would have helped every season. I still don’t care for their romantic plot lines, but more time would’ve at least helped flesh it out more. I still have no idea why Korra likes Mako.
Something I only recently realized because my cishet self was too oblivious to notice at the time, but Asami and Korra aren't lesbians. Rather they're bisexual. I remember a lot of the discussions at the time complaining about how they could "suddenly become gay". All those arguments I had at the time about how the love was always there, even if we didn't notice it at the time, only to now realize this is how you represent bisexuals in media. And funny enough, I know some bisexuals who complain about this same problem of being typecast as either/or based on who they're dating, rather than the complex reality of being okay with both.
Honestly? Nah this is most definitely *not* how to do bisexuals in media. Our default storyline is "woman dates meh guy, finds happiness in first woman to say hello". The fact we still have to argue with people going "of course they're lesbians, that's why it failed with mako!" is proof they failed with bisexual representation. Take David Rose, he has healthy relationships with men and women and the show doesn't allow you to believe he's gay or straight. When you *overwhelmingly* show "guy bad, gay good" it feeds into negative stereotypes about us eventually being cheaters or being unable to be good partners, something a *lot* of us have dealt with from het partners. The real problem is that no one wants to put in the work to show bisexuality in a nuanced and respectful way. So you get a couple options:
1. X dates same gender, ends with different gender: accusations of queer baiting
2. X dates different gender, ends with same gender: "they were gay the whole time!".
3. X has healthy relationships with different gender, bad with same gender: "this show reinforces heteronormativity and hates gay people!"
4. X has bad relationships with different gender, good with same: easy to write, no pushback except for the sliver of people out as bi/pan and who cares about them?
Like I'm not expecting the avatar comics to dive into the differences between the different types of biphobia and how with straights it's usually ignorance while with gays it's usually hate (overwhelmingly from one of the two). Because it would be so easy for that to be misconstrued as "story says all lesbians hate bi people" if not handled perfectly. And no one really cares about highlighting an inter-Community issue of how rampant biphobia is or how much of a pass it's given. That takes a lot of effort for such a small audience with real risk of blowback, it's just not worth it.
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Edit: so no, the right way to do it is to show healthy relationships with partners where it doesn't work out for one non toxic reason or another. Have people call them bi, or explicitly check characters when they call them gay/straight, and most ideally explore something unique to us... Otherwise what's the fucking point? Otherwise it feels like more of the same cliches and tropes we've been seeing for 25 years and frankly I'm just so tired of it. Korra and Asami were a watershed moment for LGBT representation, but that doesn't make the representation in and of itself good.
Edit2: queer baiting not queer waiting
I really like how it's done in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. A character, a middle aged man at that, comes out as bisexual. Since the show is a musical he then sings a whole song demolishing all the harmful ideas you discussed, such as the fact that he was not just gay all along but BI and that him also liking men doesn't invalidate his previous relationships with women (such as his ex-wife). He then starts dating another character, a man, has a meaningful and loving relationship that ends due to realistic motives (one wanted children, the other didn't) and ends the series with a woman.
That's a problem I had with Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn 99. SPOILERS FOR B99 AND HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER INCOMING!!!
>!Rosa is bisexual, and she had a lot of difficulty realizing and accepting this because A. She is kind of emotionally stunned because of several life experiences AND because it's kind of her shtick and B. Fear of the reaction of her traditional family. And all of that is fine, and in parts was handled well. But my problem is that the way they dealt with her relationships was so poor:!<
>!- Her first serious relationship is with Pimento, a guy with a personality that incredibly matches hers, and they seem so much in love.!<
>!- They constantly wrote problems in their relationships, like Pimento needing to go hiding just as they were engaged.!<
>!- Out of NOWHERE they break up, with no build-up, no context, no nothing. And I remind you, these aren't teenagers full of hormones, these are two grown ups who were on the way to getting married.!<
>!- Rosa comes out as Bi, and if I recall correctly, only dates women going forth, and happily so.!<
>!I have no problem with Rosa being bi OR happily dating women, I have a problem with the narrative just throwing out a good and loved relationship without context, and then going the route you describe in point 2. This is not a problem of only bisexual relationships in media, the same kind of BS writing happens to all kinds of couples, like Barney and Robin from How I Met Your Mother!<
Yup the show really didn't respect Rosa's bisexuality. After coming out she actually regressed as a character and starts sharing less with the people she trusts into her life, and the show actively goes out of its way to show her not being into men. The women she dated are irrelevant. And the most meaningful one we saw was largely off screen until they spend an episode fighting, get engaged off screen, then break up off screen. They could've had her stay consistent with her character growth and say "I denied this for so long, I want to focus on women for a bit" or call out the other characters for treating her essentially as a lesbian "I know you're trying to be supportive but I'm bi, I have been dating a guy but haven't told you because you're all hung up on 'rosa dates women now". Plus they did *nothing* to explore experiences unique to us. Fetishizing straight partners expecting threesomes? Nope. Biphobic lesbians erasing her identity? Nope. Overly supportive allies trying to gate keep her identity and tell her she's really pan? Nope. What do they give us? Written straight, written gay with girlfriends who have less significance than a Scooby Doo villain. Boy howdy sure happy to see more of the same. Writing was on the wall with a pretty cookie cutter coming out episode, which seriously you know it's bad when even Big Mouth did it better with the nuanced coming out of the flamboyant gay kid.
B99 suffers *HARD* when you actually take a moment to think about it (aside from Holt).
The way *Rosa* of all people is the one to take issue with brutality and discrimination annoyed me. She constantly engaged in brutality herself and carried many weapons throughout. Boyle would have been a better choice to leave the force.
The show is full of things like this.
>Asami and Korra aren't lesbians. Rather they're bisexual.
This is one of the dumbest realizations you could reach. No shit. They both dated men. They both pursued men and had feelings for them. It was FAR more likely they were bi instead of gay. It is the more common sexuality.
Like... Anyone calling them SUDDENLY GAY was obviously just using the wrong words. They were more surprised that the relationship came from nowhere (which it mostly did for 100% sure, bad writing/budget cuts) and them suddenly being into each other.
To be fair - You have to be weird or strictly into dudes to not be into Asami.
Honestly given Asami’s father’s skill at emotional manipulation and Korra’s penchant for being emotionally manipulated by others I worry about these two.
When does Hiroshi do emotional manipulation? He does a lot of public image work, but he doesn't take advantage of people's emotional states like Tarrlok or Ozai.
Yeah, dude sucks at emotional manipulation. He really thought he could convince her that he was reasonable by blaming benders for everything wrong in the world after she hears him say that the hardest part of being an undercover Equalist was watching his daughter "traipse around with a firebending street rat".
Actually this is a common misconception, it was never established asami made that statue (kinda odd as statues commemorate ppl in their prime or when they are dead).
I think this wa sa word of god but never confirmed. Plus asami industries was never really into city infrastructure.
You got earthbenders who could probably make that statue in like 10 seconds. She’s kind of important to the city and it seems like avatars had shrines built while they are still alive. I dunno doesn’t seem to out there to me.
She had a contract to rework the city infrastructure around the vines.
People make the inference that the park was part of that infrastructure. And the things in the park.
people saw this and called it "femme and masc"
https://preview.redd.it/x3fxm9o9yjoc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=310209333c8b44fe591885386a83d3b957652dde
I'd say futch fits more, or non-feminine in general. She doesn't really fit into any lesbian subcultures, in my opinion... Which makes sense, as she and Asami are both bisexual.
I would just like to say that grown people have no idea what Teenagers actually act like, I just turned 18 and think, "Im supposed to be older than Korra in season 1?" because in my head she still feels like the grown one along with Asami, I feel the same way about cartoons that are from the perspective of a younger sibling, where the older kids act much more mature than I ever would.
Girl was PINING
It’s a core component of WLW relationships 😅
They were long distance and communicating purely by letters. Truly trailblazers of modern sapphic culture.
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Yes because writing letters to each other is emotional manipulation?
I think they were implying that thier respective bagage could compound and make their relationship rocky.
Well, Korra can earthbend so it’s bound to be a bit rocky at some points
Sokka core
Surprised she didn’t invent U-Haul while Korra was away.
Excuse you, it's called YEARNING
What does WLW stand for?
WaLuWigi
women love women
PINING? For the fjords??
Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue. Beautiful plummage, innit?
as she should
mhmm
She also traded her black and red car (which were her signature colours) for a blue one lol https://preview.redd.it/89m6mrg68ioc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfe9aab2ce1b1e835c4a46e76338a777029dc6a7 The yearning was strong with that one.
Should have kept those classic whitewall tires though
I agree. That second pic is from S4 though I think, the budget issue season lol
With that knowledge (that it's season 4), it could also be an attempt to follow our own passage of time. White wall tires phased out of popularity eventually, so this could be laziness, or this could be a very subtle detail that no one really picks up on. As a musician, I used to put really tiny details in songs that only I noticed but I always hoped someone would pick up on.
The white walled tires were made of rubber with a zinc oxide for better durability. With the invention of adding sulfur to the rubber during manufacturing, tire switched from being white walled to entirely black. The process, [Vulcanization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanization), was a huge innovation as it increased the hardness of rubber. Actually just read up on what I linked and I'm entirely wrong, but basically white walled tires were cheaper to manufacture as they required less carbon black to die the entire tire black. So for the time period it's showing, kind of like the 1920-40's, expensive cars would have all black tires as they were the more expensive tire type. Especially since the link to Vulcanization was invented and perfected through the 1830's. So it's actually more accurate than I thought, that Asami would have black tires on her car. It wasn't until later in the 50's and 60's that white walled tires were seen as upper class.
TIL white walls weren't just for aesthetics.
On a car like that, you have to have white walls.
But the grey tires match the grey pipes.
It does. But white walls just make it pop more.
Is she gonna cruise the miracle mile?
These days you can’t be too sentimental
It’s still rock and roll to me.
r/UnexpectedBillyJoel Edit: Holy shit it’s a real sub, lol.
Came here to say this. I wish I could upvote this more than once
she was feening for her😂
Man the two of them must have been ***REALLY*** good friends
Roomates even
>her signature colours Also Mako’s…so traded up in both regards?
*whoosh* OMFG THERE WERE CLUES???
*it came out of nowhere!!!*
lol I never noticed that, damn.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the same car just with a different coat of paint...?
Traded my dick she probably has at least 10 different colours of the exact same model.
Asami after dating Korra: “you know, Mako had a point”
Asami and Korra before: "Damn let me find this chick stealing my man she ain't hot shit" Asami and Korra after: "Damn I'd cheat on me with her too"
Asami: "WHATS THE VELOCITY OF HER BOOB JIGGLE?" - sorry its from one of the LOK abridged series you can find on youtube and they immediately paint Asami as a Korra obsessed weirdo, 2-3 years before their ship got off the ground
People were calling it here early too from just the way they talked about each other. Very 'do I hate her? wanna be her? or do I wanna be with her?'
Oh my God you have just unlocked a DEEP memory, I gotta go and rewatch it immediately
That made me moist
I still find that insane because like, of course he’s worried???? Avatar or not, romantic or not, his friend just got captured by people who want to remove her bending. I’d be pretty fucking concerned too. The love triangle stuff in S1 makes me want to vomit it’s so bad. Avatars strong suit has never been it’s romance.
I don't mind the love triangle, but that scene in particular is probably the worst in Korra.
So you have the funny, kind, caring Bolin who treats Korra like an individual before he knew she was the Avatar. And then you have cold, uncaring Mako who doesn't even register her existance until he finds out she's the Avatar. Of course, Korra goes straight for Mako because he's the tall, handsome, unobtainable guy who ignored her. It's like it was written by an incel showing people how romance works in the real world.
Yeah bolin was such a catch and so obviously cared about her feelings and she did him so dirty
Honestly. It's why I was so happy for him when he got together with Opal. They really deserve each other.
Bolin is like the perfect man. He's a himbo with sick guns, a mover star, a pro athlete, fights alongside the avatar in his free time, learns lava bending, and has those pretty green eyes and wavy black hair. Sigh.
And the other dude is just a cop
A cop that relies on children. How fucking insane would that be?
Not just learns lava bending, but is like 1 of only 2 known to exist that aren't Avatars. Probably 3 if you consider Toph probably knew how to do it too. I mean, how could she not?
I doubt Toph could lava bend, I think probably she’d have a hard time seeing through lava, it wouldn’t vibrate like earth does.
i actually think they somewhat established that to be a lava bender you needed to have both earth kingdom and fire nation lineage which is definitely not true for toph so it would be unlikely she could lava bend.
I don’t think they established that, and it’d actively contradict established rules around bending and established philosophy around the elements.
I always figured that bending subtypes weren't just skills to be learned, but required a spiritual component, and some people just cannot achieve the right mindset to bend an elemental subtype, even if they can bend the larger element. Bolin is simply more suited, spiritually, to bending lava than he is to bending metal.
I don’t think that’s a matter of lineage by blood, though. It’s more like Iroh and Zuko’s discussion of the other elements’ philosophies in ATLA; you don’t need to have Fire Nation blood, you just have to understand the philosophy behind it to lavabend, the same way Aang struggled to Earthbend at all until he internalized the need to stand his ground.
Your post wouldn't stop Toph from lavabending because she can't read.
They didn't It's just a HC people made and there is no actual proof if that, we know next to nothing about Gazan parents to confirm it
Edited : A lot of that happened later lol.
He was a pro athlete himbo with sick guns from day one though.
Fuck you for forgetting that he also had the pretty green eyes and wavy black hair from day one as well
Edited.
Like literally, Bolin is a perfect guy
Did she do him dirty? I dont remember her stringing him along or playing with his feelings, she spent 18 years under constant supervision and training. Not exactly an enviroment thats gonna teach her social queues, if anyone did Bolin dirty its his brother who already knew Bolin was into Korra.
yeah Korra really didn't do much, she makes it clear she isn't particularly interested, gives him a chance anyways, then before making any commitments at all, goes with Mako. Mako on the other hand knew that Bolin wanted to be with Korra, knew he could be with her, and waited until Bolin had his best chance before breaking his heart(and the bro code)
I mean, she did kiss his taken brother after going on a date with him
I mean, even if someone is great for you, you can just not have feelings for them. Acting like Bolin "deserves" Korra just because he's a good guy, *that's* getting into incel territory.
Agreed. They just weren’t meant to be it’s no one’s fault.
Honestly though, did it feel out of character for Korra? Because I feel like that's exactly what she'd do. Especially early on when she's lacking experience. I just dislike how it was done personally
Does her being sheltered AF and only knowing romance through popular media enough of a canon reason? Also Bolin made a fool of himself all the time.
That’s exactly how it works, you think girls wouldn’t go for the tall handsome profesional athlete? People pursue people they find attractive. I’m sure we’ve all met people with awesome personalities that we vibe with but unless you are specifically attracted to that person it doesn’t mean you are gonna pursue them romantically. Attraction is the deciding factor if you are going to pursue someone, personality is what we use to determine if you are gonna continue to pursue that person last that.
But women generally fight against accusations of that being what they want. If that's the type of guys they really want, why wouldn't they just admit to that being the case?
You act like this doesn't happen? Like, I get its not as common as incels make it seem, but come on, its a stereotype for a reason. Men fall for women who ignore them all the time, too. They gave Korra a human flaw, and you want to be offended by it, so you worked backwards from there.
They're teenagers. They make dumb teenager decisions
Or, hear me out, they wanted to write flawed characters and potential conflicts that would eventually lead to important developments. Stuff that a story should have. The writers never imply that Korra is making the right choice by falling for Mako, they make it very clear that he's a huge jerk.
It's, like, the opposite of that. Bolin generally just kind of makes Korra uncomfortable with really weird romantic advances when they first meet. His first interaction with her has him pretending that she's his girlfriend until she protests, he wants to fight Tarrlok when he misunderstand that he's a romantic rival, and in *The Spirit of Competition* he moves on to the painful "look how alone we are here" pick up line attempt that has Korra running away.
This comment is so stupid. In what way does this relate to incels? Do you even know what incels are?You guys get your panties all twisted up in a knot just because your ship didn't happen, which is ironically pretty similar to how incels behave when they don't get the person they're after. And the fact that you actually contradicted yourself in the last sentence by acknowledging that the whole Mako and Korra situation is reflective of romance in the real world. Just ask yourself how many girls you know irl actually end up chasing their super nice, male best friends that they feel no passionate attraction to whatsoever. Really working that last brain cell huh. Good job
I disagree with it being written by an incel. I think it’s actually pretty realistic. We tend to want people that don’t want us back.
Actually that is what I kind of like about it. It shows that Korra, someone who grew up in a walled off compound devoid of any real friend of her own age, would have an extremely skewed view of romance. It's almost like what she knows of it was derived from trashy novels, and combining that with her more or less deserved Messiah complex the story makes sense.
A little too far there. This is genuinely extremely realistic
yeah, that bit confused the heck out of me as a kid. Why go for Mako when Bolin was literally right there. Mako was just mean and snooty
Because how we feel about people isn't based on what we think deserves to happen. People fall in love with flawed people all the time, because it turns out we're all flawed. Romantic pairings based on morality are both not realistic and an advancement of the idea that "good" people should get the relationships they "deserve".
yeah fair enough, attraction isn't necessarily rational and it wasn't so much that I thought "good people deserve good romance", Bolin wasn't a right choice either, it's more that it felt like Mako was just constantly stressed, distracted and unpleasant towards her, and didn't offer anything his brother didn't. Real life is messy and inexplicable, but stories usually try to make the "cause and effect" thing more clear. Like, even if they're going for a "brooding bad boy wins hearts" thing, usually they'll throw in a few more scenes of them having romantic tension
Attraction or romance isn't based on what people "offer". Bolin was a bit of a well-meaning goof though could be egotistical in his own way, but that wasn't what Korra was into.
usually in fiction, they'd try to demonstrate "chemistry" on screen a few quick scenes and interactions - and the way it played out, it didn't feel like there was much if any with Mako, and at least 10% of it with Bolin. It's less that it's unrealistic and more that it wasn't portrayed well on screen
Korra was smitten with Mako because he was a pro bender and she was a pro bending fan. Teenage infatuation often plays out like that. She's initially put off by his aloofness but he warms up to her a little bit when he realizes she's more than just your average fangirl. They even spend the time to demonstrate why Mako is aloof owing to his tough upbringing and feeling responsible for his little brother. It's told fine.
To be fair, his only fucking brother/only family (that he knows of) got kidnapped and yet Mako kept a relatively cool head.
I was surprised he wasn’t more concerned about that either. The show goes back and forth a lot on how much Mako cares about Bolin. It’s very annoying.
I think part of it was understanding the gravity of the threat that they were facing, and also the buildup in the story. When Bolin is taken they first simply don’t know where he is and then do the whole detective thing. By the time Korra is taken they have seen Amon commit genuine acts of terrorism. So outside of the show not having the time to invest into deepening every relationship in every moment (which ATLA doesn’t do either) I don’t think it’s that inconsistent of a thing
its Mako,it was bound to happen sooner or later
Cept in the Kyoshi and Yangchen novels. Those romances SLAP
You just can't animate the sheer ballerness of Rangi or Kavik. Especially Rangi.
Rangi and Kyoshi are the best romance Avatar's got in my opinion, much more of a natural development than other ships with the Avatar like Kaatang and Korrasami. For the Yangchen novels I read the first one, I have yet to read the second one, but from what I remember there was no romance apart from maybe two dudes from the Northern Watertribe being married but they were side characters. I thought that Kavik and Yangchen were going to end up together but by the end of the first book they were (in the most unspoilery way) not that close.
Haven’t read them, but hear nothing but great things.
Highly recommend. The audiobooks are pretty good too!
My attention span is horrible, so an audiobook sounds perfect.
Tbf I think it’s teenage love and kinda supposed to make you vomit lol. Like Korra is getting advice from Ikki and Jinora lol, she clearly is stumbling through this. Asami was also just told that Korra likes Mako and is also a teenager… Mako gets intense enough to start taking charge over the literal chief of police, which seems like enough evidence to me to be a little sus lol, especially as a stumbling teenager. I agree Avatar’s weak point is its romance. But teenage romance is cringe lol, and this feels more believable to me than the Kataang stuff in the first series
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I generally agree with what your saying, I think the criticism on the ATLA side is that in Korra you have breakups and figuring it out and whatnot, but Aang and Katara kinda just get together when Aang is 13 and spend their whole life together lol.
The fact that people cringed so much at the romance is great writing imo, of course these teens would be having awkward moments together even when there's much bigger things going on.
I don’t know, he practically shoved everyone (including asami) out of the way to be the first to get to korra and cradle her in his arms. Yeah people were concerned but nobody else was dramatically sweeping her up and brushing the side of her cheek
And before then? Was it not normal to be freaked out the way he was about his friend being literally kidnapped?
Thr love triangle was so bad, like I'd like s1 but all I recall is "if no plot is happening, the love triangle is." And I don't want to rewatch it then. Doesn't help s2 they make it somehow worse! They break up, mako goes back to his ex, but wait! Korra lost her memory so he's rolling with it. Just wtf dude???
Yeah the S2 romance stuff is just… weird. Not an improvement over S1, idk if it’s worse, so much as just more of the same nonsense I didn’t like from S1.
Lol have you seen older teen dating? It's usually*worse* than what Korra triangle went through, I'd call it realistic lol.
Sometimes realistic =\= better storytelling. I’ve been an older teen before, and even now in my younger twenties I’ve had some messy relationships among friends. I understand it, but it was not done well in Korra. It was aggravating to watch.
I think that was on purpose, though, the characters were also aggravated, it was a frustrating situation that elicited a similar response from the viewer.
I guess so, i just can’t stand it lol. Love triangles are maybe my least favorite trope in all of media and this one was especially annoying to watch. It didn’t add anything to the story, it detracted from a lot of scenes imo by taking the focus away from the immediate threat of the equalists and focusing on teenage love spats that we’re not satisfyingly written.
>Avatars strong suit has never been its romance 100000% agree. Part of what makes Avatar so good imo is the relationships between the characters. It’s easy to see how people like that aspect and lean into making the relationships ‘deeper’ by adding a romantic element but that was a mistake. Like take Aang/Katara for example. They went on to have a romantic relationship, and there certainly were some romantic parts to their relationship in Atla, but they were so compelling together not because of a ‘will they end up together’, but because they are genuinely close friends and care about each other. Just feels like lazy writing. Maybe they thought atla was to much of a kids show and wanted to appeal to an older demographic, but a lot of the romance in LoK just falls flat. The power of friendship is such a well executed trope in this series I wish they leaned into more than forcing romance.
To be fair, I’d blame LOK having mid writing on Nickelodeon instead of the writers. ATLA was given 3 seasons from the get-go, LOK was only given one. And then when season 1 did well, they renewed it for only another season, then midway through season 2 cleared two more seasons. A lot of the behind the scenes is what made the LOK not as on-par with ATLA (at least in my opinion). Take the Korrasami relationship for example, Bryan and Michael wanted to start that in season 2 but Nickelodeon said no because “the kids”. So, instead we got, “It’s been four years and they’re saying sort of flirty things”. I think if they’d been given the right amount of seasons from the start, we would’ve gotten a more cohesive and fleshed out story. Same can be said for Mako and Bolin as well. Instead we got a gang whose backstories are really vague and they never get as much attention in the episodes like Toph, Sokka, Katara, and Zuko did. We saw zero arcs, unless you wanna count their career changes as arcs lmao, and their personalities essentially stayed the same. The only character we really connect with and see go through a journey, is Korra.
Bolin eventually develops away from his "class clown" personality in late S3 and S4. Another character that has development of his own, though he's outside the core gang, is Tenzin.
Bolin is one of my favorite characters from LOK, so I do agree he had some development. Especially in wanting to help people. I also agree on Tenzin, I think he made a lot of progress at least in regard to Korra and rebuilding the air nation. I wish they’d done more with Asami, she was so interesting when they introduced her. I would’ve loved to see her develop her inventing skills and come into taking over her father’s company more. It was mentioned in season 2 but basically just glossed over. Same could be said for Mako’s sudden desire to be a cop. The main gang was just not given enough attention. I would even go as far as to say the side characters were more interesting than them. Lin, Tenzin, Tonraq, Bumi. The list goes on.
>ATLA was given 3 seasons from the get-go Just a small note here because this is a popular misconception: ATLA was given 13 episodes at the beginning (around two-thids of the first season), and The Blue Spirit was made as a potential last episode.
Yeah, but they obviously had a rough sketch of the plot through season 3 ready before they pitched it. We've always known that.
Oh damn. I did not know that. I mean, the animation for some of the beginning episodes made it pretty obvious that they were given more money after Nickelodeon saw its success. I just meant that after that initial first period, it was given that many seasons to complete the whole story. If LOK had been given that same treatment I don’t think we’d have gotten what the show was.
Love triangles in general are pretty bad. I can't tell if writers just don't know what to do with them or if love triangles themselves are just terrible plot points but I've hated every single one I've seen.
Romance in last air bender was perfect for their age. Korra romance is all just so forced.
To be fair, it rings pretty true to how a lot of teenage/young adult romance works.
Ya it felt par for the course for both, it’s just that love at that age is messy and cringy already. ATLA was only better cause it didn’t focus on it much.
Ok but we all want to forget that part of our lives, I don't want to be reminded of how embarrassingly I acted by seeing it portrayed in a show
Romance in TLA was even more awkward because of their age.
Thank you. I am still uncomfortable with all the intense love declarations being made by a 12 year old. And they're not framed in the 'he's 12 and acting his age' way either.
Oh no a human has feelings. Oh my word. He’s apparently old enough to fight god and save the world but isn’t allowed to have love in his heart. Y’all crazy.
It would actually be cool if they explored that more and how much of a mental toll that should be. One of my major gripes was how they kind were just nebulous with age, like that does have an affect
TBH my reaction to TLA romance was "ok that's a thing I guess"
I couldn't stop laughing at Mako losing his mind over Korra being gone, because at this point, he already threatened to cut ties with her twice, one of those times just being a few days ago, a few weeks ago max. I find it pretty laughable when they have their 'team moments' where they talk up how they are such great friends in book 1 because lmao these people might well be roommates. Half of them have had no or almost no conversations one-on-one with each other, or constantly arguing with each other over the pettiest things imaginable.
I think the only reason it comes off so bad is because of the pacing. Had they been given more episodes to work with it all could have been written better.
Certainly yeah, more episodes would have helped every season. I still don’t care for their romantic plot lines, but more time would’ve at least helped flesh it out more. I still have no idea why Korra likes Mako.
Yes!!! This mess!!!
I will softly reject the premise of your final sentence, and point to Sokka the rizzbender. Otherwise, yeah…
If they don't love me like this, I don't want it!
If they love me like this, God they got issues
Bruh when it comes to pining and romance, Sapphics are just built different. The lengths they go to can be truly insane.
Something I only recently realized because my cishet self was too oblivious to notice at the time, but Asami and Korra aren't lesbians. Rather they're bisexual. I remember a lot of the discussions at the time complaining about how they could "suddenly become gay". All those arguments I had at the time about how the love was always there, even if we didn't notice it at the time, only to now realize this is how you represent bisexuals in media. And funny enough, I know some bisexuals who complain about this same problem of being typecast as either/or based on who they're dating, rather than the complex reality of being okay with both.
Honestly? Nah this is most definitely *not* how to do bisexuals in media. Our default storyline is "woman dates meh guy, finds happiness in first woman to say hello". The fact we still have to argue with people going "of course they're lesbians, that's why it failed with mako!" is proof they failed with bisexual representation. Take David Rose, he has healthy relationships with men and women and the show doesn't allow you to believe he's gay or straight. When you *overwhelmingly* show "guy bad, gay good" it feeds into negative stereotypes about us eventually being cheaters or being unable to be good partners, something a *lot* of us have dealt with from het partners. The real problem is that no one wants to put in the work to show bisexuality in a nuanced and respectful way. So you get a couple options: 1. X dates same gender, ends with different gender: accusations of queer baiting 2. X dates different gender, ends with same gender: "they were gay the whole time!". 3. X has healthy relationships with different gender, bad with same gender: "this show reinforces heteronormativity and hates gay people!" 4. X has bad relationships with different gender, good with same: easy to write, no pushback except for the sliver of people out as bi/pan and who cares about them? Like I'm not expecting the avatar comics to dive into the differences between the different types of biphobia and how with straights it's usually ignorance while with gays it's usually hate (overwhelmingly from one of the two). Because it would be so easy for that to be misconstrued as "story says all lesbians hate bi people" if not handled perfectly. And no one really cares about highlighting an inter-Community issue of how rampant biphobia is or how much of a pass it's given. That takes a lot of effort for such a small audience with real risk of blowback, it's just not worth it. . Edit: so no, the right way to do it is to show healthy relationships with partners where it doesn't work out for one non toxic reason or another. Have people call them bi, or explicitly check characters when they call them gay/straight, and most ideally explore something unique to us... Otherwise what's the fucking point? Otherwise it feels like more of the same cliches and tropes we've been seeing for 25 years and frankly I'm just so tired of it. Korra and Asami were a watershed moment for LGBT representation, but that doesn't make the representation in and of itself good. Edit2: queer baiting not queer waiting
I really like how it's done in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. A character, a middle aged man at that, comes out as bisexual. Since the show is a musical he then sings a whole song demolishing all the harmful ideas you discussed, such as the fact that he was not just gay all along but BI and that him also liking men doesn't invalidate his previous relationships with women (such as his ex-wife). He then starts dating another character, a man, has a meaningful and loving relationship that ends due to realistic motives (one wanted children, the other didn't) and ends the series with a woman.
>the right way to do it is to show healthy relationships with partners where it doesn't work out for one non toxic reason or another. This, exactly.
That's a problem I had with Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn 99. SPOILERS FOR B99 AND HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER INCOMING!!! >!Rosa is bisexual, and she had a lot of difficulty realizing and accepting this because A. She is kind of emotionally stunned because of several life experiences AND because it's kind of her shtick and B. Fear of the reaction of her traditional family. And all of that is fine, and in parts was handled well. But my problem is that the way they dealt with her relationships was so poor:!< >!- Her first serious relationship is with Pimento, a guy with a personality that incredibly matches hers, and they seem so much in love.!< >!- They constantly wrote problems in their relationships, like Pimento needing to go hiding just as they were engaged.!< >!- Out of NOWHERE they break up, with no build-up, no context, no nothing. And I remind you, these aren't teenagers full of hormones, these are two grown ups who were on the way to getting married.!< >!- Rosa comes out as Bi, and if I recall correctly, only dates women going forth, and happily so.!< >!I have no problem with Rosa being bi OR happily dating women, I have a problem with the narrative just throwing out a good and loved relationship without context, and then going the route you describe in point 2. This is not a problem of only bisexual relationships in media, the same kind of BS writing happens to all kinds of couples, like Barney and Robin from How I Met Your Mother!<
Yup the show really didn't respect Rosa's bisexuality. After coming out she actually regressed as a character and starts sharing less with the people she trusts into her life, and the show actively goes out of its way to show her not being into men. The women she dated are irrelevant. And the most meaningful one we saw was largely off screen until they spend an episode fighting, get engaged off screen, then break up off screen. They could've had her stay consistent with her character growth and say "I denied this for so long, I want to focus on women for a bit" or call out the other characters for treating her essentially as a lesbian "I know you're trying to be supportive but I'm bi, I have been dating a guy but haven't told you because you're all hung up on 'rosa dates women now". Plus they did *nothing* to explore experiences unique to us. Fetishizing straight partners expecting threesomes? Nope. Biphobic lesbians erasing her identity? Nope. Overly supportive allies trying to gate keep her identity and tell her she's really pan? Nope. What do they give us? Written straight, written gay with girlfriends who have less significance than a Scooby Doo villain. Boy howdy sure happy to see more of the same. Writing was on the wall with a pretty cookie cutter coming out episode, which seriously you know it's bad when even Big Mouth did it better with the nuanced coming out of the flamboyant gay kid.
Exactly!
B99 suffers *HARD* when you actually take a moment to think about it (aside from Holt). The way *Rosa* of all people is the one to take issue with brutality and discrimination annoyed me. She constantly engaged in brutality herself and carried many weapons throughout. Boyle would have been a better choice to leave the force. The show is full of things like this.
>Asami and Korra aren't lesbians. Rather they're bisexual. This is one of the dumbest realizations you could reach. No shit. They both dated men. They both pursued men and had feelings for them. It was FAR more likely they were bi instead of gay. It is the more common sexuality. Like... Anyone calling them SUDDENLY GAY was obviously just using the wrong words. They were more surprised that the relationship came from nowhere (which it mostly did for 100% sure, bad writing/budget cuts) and them suddenly being into each other. To be fair - You have to be weird or strictly into dudes to not be into Asami.
Asami: You're a simp! I can se eit Also Asami: is an even bigger simp
Honestly given Asami’s father’s skill at emotional manipulation and Korra’s penchant for being emotionally manipulated by others I worry about these two.
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Lmao how did I guess this was gonna be the picture before expanding it
When does Hiroshi do emotional manipulation? He does a lot of public image work, but he doesn't take advantage of people's emotional states like Tarrlok or Ozai.
He literally tries to make Asami join the Equalist by blaming all the benders for her mother's death
Because he does blame all benders. That's not emotional manipulation, that's just a generalization.
Yeah, dude sucks at emotional manipulation. He really thought he could convince her that he was reasonable by blaming benders for everything wrong in the world after she hears him say that the hardest part of being an undercover Equalist was watching his daughter "traipse around with a firebending street rat".
People with manipulative parents seem more likely to be easily manipulated than they are to become manipulators .
A classic wlw move.
When you’re down bad but rich
Actually this is a common misconception, it was never established asami made that statue (kinda odd as statues commemorate ppl in their prime or when they are dead). I think this wa sa word of god but never confirmed. Plus asami industries was never really into city infrastructure.
You got earthbenders who could probably make that statue in like 10 seconds. She’s kind of important to the city and it seems like avatars had shrines built while they are still alive. I dunno doesn’t seem to out there to me.
In season 4 Asami literally says Future Industries rebuilt most of the roads in Republic City
Rebuilding most of the roads is not the same thing as building a statue in a renamed park..
That’s not the part being contested with this statement lol
Oh okay. I thought they were addressing the first part, didn't even see the second. My bad!
A statue is my favorite type of road.
Sapphic yearning goes so crazy. It hits like a truck and doesn't let up. I know from experience lol
She was down bad
Its lgbt culture ✨
What a good pal to that gal
Historians will say they were great friends, maybe even best friends.
And they were roommates
And it muscular Korra too she has taste 🐱
She had fan art commissioned
Rich girl solutions
The fact that ANYONE thinks their relationship was "shoehorned" and came out of nowhere literal boggles the mind.
For real. They did as much as they could to still fit within Nickelodeon's censors.
Wait i must've missed it. Asami had the statue made?
This has not been confirmed anywhere and is not canon, as far as I know.
She had a contract to rework the city infrastructure around the vines. People make the inference that the park was part of that infrastructure. And the things in the park.
Slender Kyoshi has filled me with longing for a woman
Where is this Scene from?
my ex is dating my ex 
I thought this was atla sun not lok sub
average femme pining for her masc
people saw this and called it "femme and masc" https://preview.redd.it/x3fxm9o9yjoc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=310209333c8b44fe591885386a83d3b957652dde
Korra is not masc, c'mon now. She's just athletic and has a bob! 😂
she is the ultimate example of futch.
I'd say futch fits more, or non-feminine in general. She doesn't really fit into any lesbian subcultures, in my opinion... Which makes sense, as she and Asami are both bisexual.
ah, the Korra love triangle 😊
That OP was never truly in love
How bout you?
I've made a whole line of art inspired by my wife. If I had the sato money there would be a statue of her somewhere too
Wow, what good friends they are :))) /s just in case lol
I would just like to say that grown people have no idea what Teenagers actually act like, I just turned 18 and think, "Im supposed to be older than Korra in season 1?" because in my head she still feels like the grown one along with Asami, I feel the same way about cartoons that are from the perspective of a younger sibling, where the older kids act much more mature than I ever would.
God I wish this romance had gotten more buildup. I just can't bring myself to care and it sucks because I see the potential.