Me: Im sick of dumbass ship wars they've aged me 20 years it's time to get tf over it!!!

Also me: should I start some shit and pull out some receipts that zutara shippers were deliberately baited by Nick marketing just for Bryke to call them stupid n delusional when it was over

Starting a thread cuz I'm feeling petty atm

Like what the fuck is this

Iroh dead ass wondering bout zutara in the sozins comet novelization like huh?? Why tf would you put this in here if it's supposedly not part of your intended story?? Why is this HERE??

But also: Iroh is MVP if he says zutara rights then he's RIGHT idgaf

From Nickolodean magazines

Huh... That's weird

They released the Avatar Extras, -(written by Joshua Hamilton, who was one of the assistants to the writers for many Atla episodes such as The Blue Spirit, Cave of Two Lovers, Crossroads of Destiny, The Guru, etc). He included these tidbits for the Book 1 & 3 sections

However, back to the Sozins Comet novel, Bryke denied the previous as "goofs" with its release and said katara x aang was always the plan

(but these are the same dudes who said korra x asami was always the plan too despite pulling it out of their ass and ending the first and only season of lok they initially had with mako X korra so miss me with that shit)

And Bryke have also been contradicted by M Night in an interview when discussing the rights to the live action film that "they didn't know who katara would end up with" before book 3 was written

Like I genuinely do not get why M Night or Josh Ham would put in/mention that shit if they weren't under the impression it was true?? Like why bring it up at all that Bryke has to "correct," like either their marketing/writers room got real confused or SOMEONE is lying

Also you can't tell me it isn't weird as shit to have Katara more interested in Zuko that in aang in their little chibi shorts?? Like they deadass had zuko fighting over her with her other very viable love interests to go to the dance while Mai was also right over there??? lmao

maybe it's a ref to fandom shit but like... They'll just take this as validation, it rubs the wrong way otherwise, esp when you later take their art & publicly mock it :))). I guarantee we wouldnt be as annoyed about the final ship stuff if they hadn't consistently poked at it