It's been 3 years and it still sucks. By the way, this

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>tfw never watched tlok and never will

You know what's REALLY funny? Back in the day, immediately after Book One had finished airing, Korrasami was actually a popular pairing on /co/, at least among Korra fans. Our reasoning at the time was that Mako and Korra were revolting as a couple after everything that happened in Book One, and Bolin was ruined as a character, so it was fun to do fanart and little stories pairing up Korra and Asami, simply because it seemed to be the only Krew pairing that wasn't awful.

Of course, then Book Four happened, and Bryke MADE it awful.

3 fucking years already? please no... i can't die like this.

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Tell me Gurihiru's not wasting their skill on this shit

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>>93799247
also I kinda hate how Korra is clearly the top and everyone is so open-minded.
Feels incredibly fanfic-y

>>93799161
>tfw they didn't have the balls to do this on screen
Looking back, the show would've been way better if it was all about Korra and Asami's relationship. Have them do s Dirty Pair thing, but with Kei and Yuri falling in love. They even have the tomboy and girly girl thing going on. It's right there, you hacks!

>>93799267
Nope, it's another artist who draws korra like a stick and gets triggered when they point it out. Because she's asian and a lesbian you see. She knows better
Unless they fired her, dunno

>>93799272
But Korra being the top goes against what KYHU and Owler taught me!

>>93799258
vocal minorities are also a thing
I remember during book 3, the korrasamifags were really annoying
the worst part is when creators submit to their loudest most obnoxious fans
it sends a message

>>93799272
>clearly the top

What the FUCK, Korra is a sub if I've ever seen one. You just know she likes being dominated by Asami.

It's gonna be so exciting reading it together with /co/!

>>93799326
>>93799340
I know right?
Fuck this creative team!

This looks awful.

>>93799272
>>93799247
This is legit fanfic. I cannot take this seriously at all.

>>93799352
It's going to be like wading into the dead sea

>>93799258
>Bryke MADE it awful
This. I don't hate Korrasami, it could've been fucking glorious. But they weren't able to write it in a satisfying way. It seems it'll be the case with the comics too.

>>93799272

>everyone is so open-minded

Well she is the Avatar

They gotta deal with it

>>93799161
Korrasami was a mistake. Not praticualry the pairing itself. But making it canon sent a message that if Tumblr bitches hard enough they can control future shows

>>93799424
it's weird how porn has given us better korrasami material

>>93799247
>>93799272
I've read Harlivy fics with the same premise as this shit and at least the fics had the decency of create conflict between one of the characters and their parents. This is just pure safely shit

The art is pretty iffy, and I loved the show

>>93799443
before I see the spoiler, it's gonna say "you gotta deal with it", right?
yes
yes it did

>>93799444
this is why voltron fans are nuts
bryke ruined fandoms for everyone

Even the fucking narusaku fans stopped being salty by now

>>93799465
Do you honestly want an Avatar story though where the parent is having a spat with their kids because of a gay relationship?

Personally just want interesting villains and fighting, but I don't expect much from the comic in that regard either

>>93799444
> Any pairing tumblr likes being canon is a sign of pandering

Alternatively: The show runners did it because they liked it?

>>93799161
Which official comic? I only know the gurihiru ones.

storytime it.

>>93799161
>It's been 3 years and I'm still butthurt

>>93799528
I'm just saying that if you are gonna get the parent's involve at least put one of them shocked or something and not make it so safely.

>>93799539
The argument has always been that it's not well-developed and seems to come out of nowhere. One gets a strong sense that Bryke just threw it in at the last minute. Some people who are very cynical believe the reason it was thrown in was to make the show immune to criticism, because they could just then call their critics homophobes.

>>93799528
>Do you honestly want an Avatar story though where the parent is having a spat with their kids because of a gay relationship?
No, but I don't want it to be so easy either
I want some surprise and awkwardness, and a slower development of acceptance into the family, while the actual story happens

>>93799247
Jinora looks pretty excited to see them.

like, "I want to join in" kind of excited.

>>93799563
yes and?

>>93799340
Not just Asami. You ever realize how may times she gets kidnapped or reduced to helplessness?

>>93799557
the one coming out in 2 weeks

>>93799564
some parents actually love their children because they aren't disappointing neets

>>93799272
I guess it beats the overdone angst and conservative parents trope, and it means any relationship related drama is out of the way and the plot can be focused on.

Dunno if there was a way coming out to her parents could have been done without it being cliché, unless it was just skipped over and we could have had Korra's parents badgering her about making one of those betrothal necklaces and settling down now she has a partner. Something that would add a little tension by bringing up marriage so early in a relationship but not be beyond overdone in various melodramas.

>>93799594
I'd be better than kai

>>93799461
>>93799465

From the pages I've seen it seems like they're pretending that Korra and Asami were always great friends and Korra never did anything to fuck Asami over. I'd hoped they'd adress some unpleasant things that happened in the previous seasons but nope.

>>93799614
What I'm meant to say was what this anon said >>93799583. I'm not good with words, you see. The fics I've read usually goes down that part

>>93799630
>I'd hoped they'd adress some unpleasant things that happened in the previous seasons but nope.
they got over that. the stuff in the first two seasons they were over in season 3, and asami forgave korra for the 3 years in season 4

>>93799504
He doesn't think fandoms haven't been shit before Legend of Korra

>>93799666
they weren't satan. fandoms used to be fun places but korra ruined them with shipping and shit writing

>>93799581
Problem is it was better than many of the earlier romances, which was just love at first sight

Honestly I think the best relationships in the series were the already existing ones like the one between Zaheer and P'Li

>>93799581
I could really see it happening in season 3, they had alot of time together and seemed to get really close, especially at the end.

But then season 4 separated them for the most part so the relationship seemed weird. Not awful, but they should have been closer together in the last battle, perhaps shared some kind of moments that would foreshadow their crushing on eachother more.

I was just pleased Makorra didn't return.

>>93799680
Actually technically the original Avatar fandom ruined fandoms. That's where all the shipping and terrible fan content started. The show is great, of course, but the fandom it spawned is patient zero for the current cancer.

>>93799666
fandoms used to be
>lol I love mah perfect babbees xD *snugglez u* ^_^
Now they be like
>if you don't make klance canon I will illegally release the spoilers from the third season

>>93799680
There is currently 40 000 fanfics on fanfiction.net for Avatar the Last Airbender, each one worse than the last in writing, Legend of Korra couldn't even reach half that

There are also 769 000 Harry Potter fanfics who make Cursed Child look like fucking Tolstoj

>>93799707
Nah, I think that's Naruto. I remember Naruto being absolute shitflinging insanity. I reckon the cancerous naruto shipping fanbase became the cancerous AtLA shipping fanbase.

>>93799742
>Cursed Child
the what now

>>93799721
Way to steal from a Tumblr post.

>>93799707
Harry Potter ruined fandoms

Also the longest piece of fiction is a 8 million words Smash Brothers fan fic

>>93799757
Actually I think >>93799742 raises a valid point: it may be Harry Potter, not Naruto, where this all started.

>>93799660
I don't remember Korra apologizing Asami for messing up her relationship with Mako. If I'm wrong point me to the episode where that happens. IIRC They never really talked about it which really irked me. The only thing I remember was putting the blame on Mako and laughing it off. It was like they were deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room.

>>93799701
>But then season 4 separated them for the most part so the relationship seemed weird.
it's hilarious how much Mako spent more time with Korra being buddies together than with Asami. They even bothered in showing him worried the most by the cinematography, while they relied on using Asami in the background in the same shots where Mako was screaming for Korra's safety.

It's insane. That handholding was completely a last minute change and it was obvious. The voice actresses even told they were going to add a few lines to the last episode.

>>93799763
A Harry Potter "continuation" in the form of a play, partially written by JKR herself.

>>93799258
Sure, if by a bunch of guys fapping over the idea of cartoon lesbians makes a pairing popular, then yeah, super popular.

>>93799773
jokes on you, I saw it on twitter
who's the tumblr user now, faggot? you are!

>>93799779
Fucking J.K. Rowling.

>>93799763
Ever heard of the infamous Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal? Some people must have read that and thought it would make an excellent theater play for Harry Potter

Then Rowling gave it her stamp of approval and helped some of the writing, it is arguably one of the worst pieces of fiction of the 21st century

>>93799797
season 3 episode 1

>>93799812
is it any good

>>93799797
Beginning of Book 3 when they are in the car.

>>93799844
Nope.

>>93799844
no
this thread has told you many times that it isn't
what's wrong with you?

>>93799864
dang

>>93799828
but it still souds like something i need to read

>>93799875
i love harry potter

How bad IS The Cursed Child, anyways? The only thing I remember from any it is that Rowling went on the defensive about the casting of a black woman as Hermione.

>>93799877
>but it still souds like something i need to read
Only if you like terrible fan fiction tier material

>>93799877
Its as clownish as the new Star Trek Discovery series complete with Mary Sue characters.

>>93799902
a plot point is that voldemort used a time turner to go to the future and cuck malfoy

>>93799902
you know how the original harry potter books are cool mysteries?
this is a time travel fixfic

>>93799926
i have never seen any star trek thing

>>93799926
So it's basically already a given that Discovery will be bad, then?

I love korra because regardless of how mediocre it was, it still caused enough ass hurt when /co/ can never talk about the avatar universe again.

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In retrospect I like it better when gals are pals instead of gay.
Change it back, Bryke.

>>93799614

That's certainly true, but X amount of pages of the characters meandering around to instant, ecstatic celebration from every relative and acquaintance hardly makes for an engaging read.

>>93799816
It was likely a Tumblr screenshot.

>>93799272
Well, these are Eskimo people. It's not like they're well known people of homophobia history. Japan fire people probably totally don't mind tho due to those gay ancient arts.

>>93799902
Bad enough that the plot is eerily similar to one of the most infamous pieces of fanfiction in existence

>>93799956
>In retrospect I like it better when gals are pals instead of gay.
not to sound tumblr-y, but we get so few good female protagonists in general that when I see female friendship it's like finding an oasis in the desert. I really like female friendships, and I hate it when the fans go immediatly for the "make it gay" route

>>93799939
Its actually where Mary Sue comes from in the modern vernacular. A piece of Star Trek fiction written that featured said character and then had all the other characters fawn over how important and great they were.

The play does that. Also shits all over Ron.

>>93799247
>bolin has that what the fuck is going with the world face

>>93800000
>A piece of Star Trek fiction written that featured said character and then had all the other characters fawn over how important and great they were.
so, wil wheaton's character

What are some of the best Korrasmi artists? NSFW is appreciated.

>>93799948
Well I thought it was great, but I also realize that a lot of people here disagree vehemently

>>93799928
>>93799936
>>93799983
Sounds like shit.

>>93800000
Addendum: The original Mary Sue in the Star Trek fanfiction was a parody of that character archetype, which had been prominent in enough fan stories that such a parody was conceived.

>>93799945
Yep. The writing for the main character is laughable. Most important person in the universe., seriously that's not a joke she's written like that.

First Human to go the Vulcan Science Academy and Sarek's adopted daughter.

>>93799948
Actually, Scrapper is one of the main reasons we can't talk about Avatar, since he tends to come into every Avatar thread we try to have and derail it.

>>93799997
My dick wants it though, too much anime

>>93799981
Fire nations isn't Japan, it's Thailand and of those other nations but they still still kill the shit out of gays

>>93799848
>>93799837
Ok, watching it now I remember what bugged me. At the start of season 3 they're shown to be very good friends. But there was no organic transition that would make the change in the relationship seem natural. One season they're merely acquaintances and the next they're already BBFs. We've missed all the progression. They indeed mentioned the love triangle, but it was merely brushing it off. Not what I would call a satisfying resolution.

>>93800032
I do love the series too. Second season might have been a mess and the last 10 minutes were stupid, but the show was always really fun and I looked forward to it every week. I really miss it, I loved Korra as a character, and the rest of the krew was ok. Mako got too much hate over nothing. Asami was shit, tho', they never did anything with her.

>>93799247
who´s the writer of this?

>>93800021
Yep.

>>93799247
>>93799272
Oh boy I can't wait to read this trainwreck and be mildly reminded of the better years of 2014-2015ish.

>>93799340
I heartedly concur with you my African American brother.

>>93799352
Love you too.

>>93799410
Indeed

>>93799443
Nice play there.
>>93799504
>>93799707
Everything makes sense now.

The ending of Korra itself is fine; it's ambiguous and suggests a possibility of romance between Korra and Asami while focusing on other things. The actions of Bryke since then have been fucking stupid, engaging in great self aggrandisement to claim that their show was far more progressive than it actually was to try and preserve their legacy when the narrative before the finale was that Korra had received a mixed reception and was a ratings flop. Korra and Asami suddenly being lesbians with no build-up whatsoever is dumb and another sign that Bryke would sully their own artistic integrity for a minute amount of praise from a small cadre of progressives.

>>93799272
>>93799247
>tfw never had any reason to inherently dislike gay people
>The last 5 fucking years of pandering and shoehorning for progressive points has made me so intolerant of this garbage
>realize there's nothing wrong with these images out of context and the fact that the hack writers decided to make two established characters gay suddenly as a substitute for a satisfying ending or character development

I hate this

>>93800082
Time Skips be a bitch to the series. Months for Book 3 and then years in Book 4.

>>93800077
It's Southeast Asian with the Imperial ambitions and modernization(at least militarily) of 19th century Japan.

>>93800085
According to wikipedia: Michael Dante DiMartino

>>93800057
How about it goes 50/50? You can't mention Avatar the Last Airbender because of Scrappy, and Legend of Korra is off limits because tumblr thought a gay relationship in the final scene made it the end all be all of entertainment

Like I loved Legend of Korra, but I know to back away when Buzzfeed, Tumblr, Jezebel, Salon, and Mary Sue starts praising it, too many red flag sites coming out of the woodwork in support in that case

>>93799258
>Bryke MADE it awful.

...Korrasami wasn't really anything or really on the show.

Maybe these comics will suck, but the show was...there wasn't really anything there. At very last few seconds were maybe the very start of something.

I guess I just don't understand the bitterness? Unless it's them getting brownie points without really having a gay couple on the actual cartoon. Going by the show itself they're just two friends.

Meanwhile Makorra was a huge plot tumor that was shoved in your face every fucking episode.

>>93800085
bryke

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>>93799272
I don't get mako reaction, he should be a awkward for him.

Bolin is more surprise than him.

>>93800180
May not be the first time he dated two girls who ended up together.

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>>93800108
I honestly never followed up on what Bryke did after the show was over, maybe that's why I still love the show

Honestly what I remember from Bryke was the smackdown presented when people were claiming Aang and Katara's children were white washed

>>93800077
Really? I've lived a lie this whole time. But what about the whole powered by the rising sun thing?

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Artist can't even draw a decent Korra

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>>93800161
This. It wasn't even sudden making out or any shit, just two friends going off on an adventure in sexuality, it wasn't half the cancer makorra was.

It really stirred up the shitheads in the fandom, though, as funny as it was to see the "big" ship makorra getting fucking obliterated last second by korrasami, so many people were such little shits about it.

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Bryke fucked their shit up so bad the only think people will remember was the fag shit that came out of nowhere

>>93800243
don't listen to him
he's dumb

>>93800243
Read>>93800130

>>93800243
The guy is talking out of his ass, a lot of the Avatar nations are hodge podges of different asian cultures, for just the Fire Nation there are clear influences from Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Siamese, and a whole host of other cultures

In the Earth Kingdom the clothes could range from culturally Korean to Japanese to then Chinese depending upon which village they were in

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>>93799680
>korra ruined them with shipping
>>93799707
>the original Avatar fandom ruined fandoms

Are you fucking serious? The first Kirk/Spock shipping fanfic was written in 1974 and Mary Sue fanfics were enough of a problem that they were parodied which is where the whole fucking term came from. Fandoms have been like this for at least that long so...almost half a century.

I also remember even longer ago a guy writing and publishing an Ivanhoe shipping fic because he was mad that the protagonist didn't end up with his waifu/Best Girl but with the other girl. So he wrote a shipping fic where the other girl dies and his ship gets together and published it as a book. I'll bet this shit is as old as Greek mythology or older.

>>93799272
>>93799981

>“I’ve talked with elders and they’ve told me that traditionally (gay sexuality) happened,” says Komangapik.

>Bringing up such issues can be challenging. “I think what surprised me the most was that being critical of Christianity struck me as equally, or more taboo, than discussing LGBTQ issues,” says Mark Kenneth Woods, who co-directed Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things with Michael Yerxa. “I had expected that the community would embrace traditional Inuit spirituality alongside Christianity, but it seems that even looking back to those spiritual traditions is somewhat taboo.”

Okay so quick research says gays were originally normal in Inuit traditions bedore the Catholic Church came. Korra and Asami would have been known as "two soft things", Inuit for lesbians. And white people haven't existed yet in Avatar unless they live in the white side of the moon

>>93800251
Probably never seen a proper muscle in her life

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>>93800161
The bitterness comes from exactly what you said, nothing on the show portrayed their relationship. It came out of nowhere. The writing in Korra was pretty bad, especially the finales. But people worship this episode because it ended in a gay relationship. It's not that people are angry about the gay relationship, it's that the relationship came out of nowhere and doesn't automatically make the ending good.

I mean fuck, the only reason Korra had a relationship with Asami and no one else and it seemed special was because she only responded to Asami. She was the only one there because she literally hid away and never responded to anyone but Asami.

>tfw Korra tells Asami she was the only one there for her when Tenzin had to put up with her bullshit for fucking years

also it doesn't help that when anyone does try to criticize the relationship they immediately get called a homophobe

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>>93800251
>Artist can't even
She fluctuates. Any number of artists who shipped Korra/Asami would get them more on model but none of those artists are used to drawing comics. You have to meet deadlines depending on what your bosses want.

>>93800339
The Odyssey is sort of an Illiad fanfic.

>>93800339
I'll bet this shit is as old as Greek mythology or older.

You'd be correct. Much of ancient mythology is based on even older tales and traditions with new inserts to legitimize the new cultures.

Human History is built on fanfics. Scary isn't it?

>>93800349
That's the same faggy ass excuse they use for the whole current gender bullshit though

Look I think Korrasami is great, and I love the show, but I wouldn't buy the lack of negative reception stemming from the "tolerance" of the Inuit community

>>93800108
The thing that gets me is how they claimed to be brave for doing it, and how other venues praised them for their courage in depicting such a relationship.

It's like, brave how? By not acknowledging any sort of relationship of the kind until literally the very last second, and leaving it vague enough that they had to confirm through social media afterwards?

How is that brave, or courageous? How is doing anything for a progressive agenda? I read comments from people who embraced it like it was some banquet of homosexuality laid out before them and it's barely a crumb.

Are they really so desperate to be represented in every form of media that they'll take this pittance and call it a fortune?

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>>93799997
You ain't whistling dixie.
I have a hard time thinking of many examples of genuine female friendships that don't have romantic subtones or are needlessly catty.
Nina and Jeanne are seriously the only example I can think about

>>93800403

You mean Aenid is Homer fanfic

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>>93800394
that korra still sucks though

>>93800384
>had to put up with her
>isolated her in the South Pole
>lied to her for 13 years
>held information back from her
Tenzin's nowhere close to Ozai/Ursa levels of parenting, but he made mistakes.

>>93800457
Sucks that Asami clam I bet.

>>93800467
Tenzin didn't hold her in the south pole, the white lotus did. Which was terribly bad writing. There was no way Katara and Aang would set that up considering the role of the avatar and that they did it during war and it was during peace time for Korra.

>>93800481
lesbians lick, don't suck, unless it's nipples
get it together, anon

>>93800457
She at least tried to give her some defined muscles and breasts in that picture versus the swimsuit one. It still sticks though, that's true.
Have one artist like KYHU do the characters and another do the backgrounds and get any other writer better than DiMartino.

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It's still 10 times better then KorraxMako (which isn't saying much mind you) and most of my anger comes from the fact that people are to stupid to realize that they're being baited and pandered to and could've use this very scenario to criticism why homosexual romances feel lackluster and nothing more then effortless pandering to shut up stupid gays and please straight dudes with something to masturbate to.

>>93800497
Aang didn't set up shit, he must have been dead for Korra to even be born, think for a second

And it is actively stated in the show that Korra's father and Tenzin wee the ones behind the idea of the compound, which was then later in book 3 revealed to be because of Zaheer and the Red Lotus trying to capture Korra

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>>93799161
>Korra is good because it's about THEMES and IDEAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGQGmnMt0I

The guy's Hobbit videos were pretty great, but I hate this trend of Youtubers trying to rationalize the things they like by grabbing a random "meme" philosopher/critic/artist/etc. and pretending the show was built with that in mind. It feels like it's trying to fellate the fans' egos by convincing them the stuff they like is somehow smarter and deeper.

On an unrelated note, fuck The Nerdwriter. He's a hack.

>>93800421
good point. If they wanted to be "brave" and "progressive" then doing it at literally the last moment and having them hold hands isn't then the people are fucking nuts

>>93799161
Korra was an asshole to Asami for like 3/4ths of the whole show. It's not a relationship. It's not even a friendship. Bryke just want the praise with none of the work.

>>93800417
Why does there even need to negative reception? Isn't it going to be called pandering no matter if the parents have more drama than Terrence House show or not? If they have huge conflict, people are just going to roll their eyes and be all "hurr durr getting tired of comics pandering to the gay experience I don't care about." If they play it safe , people are going to roll their eyes and be all" getting tired of comics pandering to gays who want their fantasies realized in a well known show"

>>93800556
Which considering all the other writing in the show it might as well have been a retcon. They didn't even expect to get a second season, it was an asspull to justify shitty writing.

I mean weren't the red lotus in jail? She was safe as soon as she left, well from them anyway, so why didn't they let her out when they were in jail?

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>>93800447
The Aeneid isn't even very good fanfic, it's like the fanfics where half or more of the story is just a rewrite of an episode of the show since Aeneid blaantly rips off Illiad for one half and blatantly rips off the Odyssey for the other half. What the fuck.

Then again I'm trying to remember if that's the one where Virgil died and told people not to publish it because he knew it sucked but they did it anyway because I need muh Roman propaganda for Augustus/Octavian.

>>93799272
>everyone is so open-minded
I think I'd rather take this than creating unnecessary angst. Angst would just make it seem like a modern Marvel book.

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>>93800533
I don't get why they didn't just get the artist from the TF2 comics, she's done a lot of Legend of Korra fanart in the past, and she did the free comic book day issue about Korra and Naga, and I think her art is pretty consistent with the show

>>93799272

I didn't know people were so tolerant in the avatar verse

>>93800566
Korra IS about big ideas. Every season has this big proposal of a premise. The show does have many themes.

It asks about equality, spirituality, anarchy and fascism. They use the themes for the first half of the show pretty effectively...

And then they proceed to never answer those questions. That's why it sucked. Because they gave us all the potential for a good story and muddied with traditional western values or nothing at all. Just punching.

>>93800604
>I mean weren't the red lotus in jail? She was safe as soon as she left, well from them anyway, so why didn't they let her out when they were in jail?
because the writing is bullshit and makes no senses. Red Lotus is a threat and that's why she's hidden away? Well that's funny because it wasn't until the third season that they escaped and the whole time nothing else happened.

When did they even lock them away?

Lots of old men yelling at clouds ITT.

>>93800705
my favorite part is how she let the spirits cross over and we can see the vines slowly taking over everywhere and Korra just asks everyone to live together with them. Eventually the world is going to become just like it was with Won.

There was NO reason for her to do that, every time spirits and humans live together it goes wrong.

>>93800705
How do you answer those questions in a proper way in your opinion then? Personally it seemed like the show picked a rather conservative stance where none of the revolutionaries were in the right

>>93799521
>stopped
HAHA. No they haven't. They're even angrier now that the anime is putting Bort with that Hinata clone instead of Sarada.

Was anyone else disappointed that Korra never reached out to Aang for guidance? I know the reason was all the bullshit about her having no spiritual connection, which was never explained, but then they severed all the connections to her past lives so it couldn't happen when she did eventually resolve that.

Wait did she resolve that? Did she ever fix that whole lack of a spiritual connection?

Also what exactly got severed? Did the old avatars die in the spirit world?

>>93800417
>faggy ass excuse

It depends on the time and place, we all know there were ancient cultures like the Spartans where gay = expected and others where it wasn't okay, it's impossible to tell what ancient hunter gatherers were like but probably the answer was "it depends" that it depended on the specific group of people. There were burials where some men where buried with women's things and women with male things. All the LGBT stuff springs up all over the world and it doesn't come out of nowhere, when you think about it, if it didn't just keep happening there would never have been for example laws against being gay since no one would ever be gay, I remember the Middle AGes even had laws to deal with deciding to live as the other gender because that was a thing that happened often enough that they needed to deal with it.

Occam's Razor is that it happens in humans and some cultures are okay with it some aren't some or sort of in between. I mean bonobos are bisexual. Nature is just messy in this area probably.

>>93800763
Yep, that was incredibly stupid. The world looked hellish when the spirits roamed earth. Deformities, fear, that shit was terrifying.

There was no advantage of getting along with the spirits, they only caused chaos.

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>>93800349
Wouldn't the fact that the water tribes run on monarchy rules, she's their only kid, and the people next in line would be the offspring of his brother; who tried to kill them and subjugate their country make them hesitant about Korra not just dating outside the tribe, but a woman to boot?

>>93800663
Because she would just make the comics about Korra and old people. Also she has other contracted obligations.

>>93800604
>so why didn't they let her out when they were in jail

Well in the show they explain that the Red Lotus never said a word after capture, they didn't know if there were others

Which with Unalaq being secretly a member seems to have been a rational assumption

Also the compound was to protect from other threats too, if someone tried to rob your house once you might invest in some better security even if the original thief got caught

>>93800862
>Because she would just make the comics about Korra and old people.
You are aware artist and writer is not the same occupation correct? Or do these comics work Adventure Time/Steven Universe/John K style?

>>93799161
Meh, another lesbian couple. This shit is so effortless.

>>93800791
the problem with the revolutionaries is that they were all extremists, and the show presumes of being about balance, but it never was
it was always good vs evil. Good has to win. No one learns about nothing.

Except season 1, surprisingly. They change the goverment by season 2. They have a non-bender mayor now.

But we never saw the equalist movement stopping, they never had a reason to stop even after Amon.

>>93800858
>the water tribes run on monarchy rules
The Northern tribe runs on monarchy rules. South has a council of elders who elected Hakoda all those years ago. Then Sokka. And now Korra's father, Tonraq. Don't know who was there from Sokka to Tonraq.

>>93800862
I like the old people in the show better than a lot of the young people honestly, Tenzin is infinitely better than any of his children

Also it very well might have been other obligations, but I do think she would have been a better pick art wise

>>93800863
>they didn't know if there were others
So they made a place in the same place that the kidnappers already hit once?
Rather than take her to Suyin's perfect paradise utopia? The Fire Nation in the Royal Palace like how Roku grew up? Despite tensions in RC being high, Tenzin felt it was okay to have his children and Pema stay in the city limits. So why couldn't Korra stay on Air Temple Island?

It doesn't make sense.

>>93799272
I actually prefer this. If the book was just angst about her parents not accepting her then the whole book would just be about social issues and Korrasami and no other plot.

I don't mind well-done stories about real social issues (they're rare) but this doesn't seem like the right series to become All About What It Means to Be Gay.

Also...she's canonically a spirit that reincarnates as a man sometimes and a woman otherwise, and in this universe that's very real and everybody knows it. I wonder if that might change your way of looking at things.

>>93800863
Oh come on you have to admit that all the shit we saw the red lotus pull off, there was no way that little snow fort was going to do anything. There was no way they actually thought hiding her away was making her safe. Not that compound anyway.

>>93800898
>This shit is so effortless.
How many lesbian couples can you name?
How many heterosexual couples can you name?

>>93800906
They also kept the spirit portal open after book 2, but I always thought personally that was a bad choice, which I mean it did cause the events of the next season, which caused the conflict in the season after that

As for the equalists, they did lose the mastermind, the muscle, and the person behind their technological advantage, I can see how the movement got rather neutered after book 1

I mean are you also surprised that after a quick surge and then heavy beatdown that most communist revolutions in Europe quickly died out? They're not completely gone, but they're in no way any position to overthrow regimes

>>93800951
that's actually a good point. They wanted to keep her safe so they kept her in a snow fort? Why not the fire nation imperial palace, she could have been taught by Zuko. I mean I'm pretty sure they could have found a safe place somewhere in each nation.

>>93800858
The NWT maybe, but in the SWT Tonraq was elected as chief.

>>93800791
Having Amon turn out to be a blood bender with daddy issues all along and then having him be defeated by Korra suddenly gaining airbending and punching him out of a window so he can, for no reason, waterbend like fucking crazy in front of the public and delegitimize himself, which somehow causes the entire movement to collapse overnight with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever beyond a token mention of "They let nonbenders run for office now" at the beginning of the next season is certainly not it.

>>93800970
Better than nothing though, would you dismiss your bodyguards just because you suspect your would be assassins have a decent chance to kill you?

>>93801067
I love how everyone was able to recognize it was Amon right away considering they only saw his face once at a rally from far away. And now they were seeing him from far away while he water bent himself out.

Also why the fuck did he lose his cool like that. Why not just go to the surface? Why use all this energy to make a fucking water sprout fifty feet in the fucking air.

Between all this shit and then the Aang literal deus ex machina it really makes the show feel like a train wreck from a writing standpoint

>>93801098
Isn't that exactly what happened by the second episode though?

>>93801098
>Better than nothing though
There's always the death penalty for the already captured attackers. There's also having you move around to the Fire Nation to train in firebending. Then moving to Zaofu to learn earthbending. Then moving to Air Temple Island to learn airbending. All those places are safe and secure.

>>93801067
A lot of the communist leadership came from the same privileged class they wanted to overthrow, I honestly found Amon being a bender to be rather fitting from a historical point of view

Also historically revolutions can die fairly quickly, halfway into the 19th century revolutions sprang up all around Europe, and they were all quickly suppressed through both force and concessions

>>93801163
>There's always the death penalty for the already captured attackers.
What no, that makes no sense. They are only a threat to the closest thing the world has to a deity who appears essentially to keeping the world from falling to chaos

Now this would be an interesting topic for the show to discuss but fuck it, here's another love triangle!

>>93801163
>Then moving to Zaofu to learn earthbending
>All those places are safe and secure

Zaofu proved to be about as secure as the south pole, and at the time that Korra was five Zaofu might not yet have its domes and guards considering it would have been a rather new city

>>93801163
>There's always the death penalty for the already captured attackers

I would presume the Red Lotus gives about zero fucks if it means getting exactly what they want

>>93801235
>might not yet
Might not yet being the key words here. It doesn't make sense to isolate the person who needs to experience the world they are protecting and learn from the cultures they will be taking action to protect. Especially when there are safe places out there.

>>93800985
>How many lesbian couples can you name?
>How many heterosexual couples can you name?
every couple in current year
no couples in current year

>>93800535
>It's still 10 times better then KorraxMako
That's the thing, though, it's really not. It has ALL the same flaws (I.E. the person she's paired with not being a particularly interesting or dynamic character) without any of the conflict, somehow making it even LESS interesting.

A lot of the problem in this lies with Asami, who, as a character, pretty much exists to be shipped with someone, only unlike Mako, who's actually got a bit of backbone and some level of self-determination, Asami's so agreeable and amenable to just about anything that she doesn't really challenge anyone she's with unless they outright personally wrong her in some way. She's the perfect girlfriend, built specifically to be objectified by the shipping audience.

If she had some semblance of actual character Korrasami may not have actually been a lot more of a accomplishment. As it stands...it was just low hanging fruit. It's the McDonalds of cartoon romance pairings. It only has any real appeal to lonely shippers or girl-on-girl fetishists, which as far as I'm concerned are pretty much the lowest common denominator of any fandom.

>>93801286
>It doesn't make sense to isolate the person who needs to experience the world they are protecting and learn from the cultures they will be taking action to protect

That's hippie bullshit though, the problem wasn't Korra not knowing of other cultures, problem was the rest of the world were growing on the idea that the Avatar is irrelevant

>>93800033
Marissa Picard?

>>93801371
>problem was the rest of the world were growing on the idea that the Avatar is irrelevant
it only seemed to be republic city

>>93801286
Considering Korra's personality it actually might have been a terrible decision. She grew up to have no spiritual connection and be so hot headed, stubborn, stupid, etc. she was the exact opposite of what the avatar was supposed to be

>>93801371
>problem was the rest of the world were growing on the idea that the Avatar is irrelevant
huh, it's almost like when you hide the avatar away for two decades people start to question whether they are necessary

>>93801334
>girl-on-girl fetishists

Go jump into the fog of lost souls, I like my fetish, and you can cry as much as you like

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>>93801169
>A lot of the communist leadership came from the same privileged class they wanted to overthrow, I honestly found Amon being a bender to be rather fitting from a historical point of view

The problem is it removes a lot of the moral ambiguity and intrigue, not to mention sacrificing any spiritual hook for a pretty boring and mundane explanation.

Imagine if Amon actually did have some sort of connection with the spirit world - or, at least, a particular spirit. That suddenly makes his conflict with Avatar, who is supposed to be the bridge between the two worlds, a lot more dynamic. It would lend him some legitimacy and could give Korra, a character who defines herself by her bending ability, reason to pause and actually make the issue personal.

I mean, sure, there's some historical precedent and I can appreciate what they were going for there, but that neat nugget of an idea is squandered by hamhanded, inept execution.

It also astounds me that they establish how important Korra's bending is to her self-image, and how much she struggles with spirituality, and yet in the first season she only loses her bending in the last ten minutes of the last episode. They wasted a perfect opportunity for a character arc. What was the fucking point, then?

>>93801371
>the rest of the world were growing on the idea that the Avatar is irrelevant
And yet they clamored for Avatars.
People wanted Amon to come and save them and kill cultures.
The North wanted Unalaq to lead them to kill their sister tribe for not being spiritual enough.
Zaheer wanted the people to experience freedom, so he denied people freedom and tried to kill them to promote the will of the people like how the Avatar promotes the will of the planet (original idea for the Avatar as per Bryke way back in the planning stages of ATLA.)
And the Earth Kingdom wanted someone to save them from suddenly everyone becoming bandits.
The people wanted Avatars.

>>93801334
Trust me anon I agree with all your points 100% and is a large reason why the relationship didn't work.

But the reason it's ten times better is that KorraxAssami only lasted 5 seconds at the very end. We had to suffer through Korra and Mako for one and a half seasons.

>>93801380
And the Red Lotus, and the Earth Queen, and Kuvira

>>93799247
>Mako is smiling
thank god, i'm glad they're at least keeping them friends

who cares, they're hot

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>>93799412

Of course it is. Did you expect it to be anything different? Korrasami's been porn and fanfic day one. One of the creators posting a message making it cannon doesnt make it any less of a crack porn ship.

The dykes around here are just desperate for it to be more legitimate than it is. They were thrown a bone, a rubber bone if anything.

That's why this will never read as anything more than a fanfic/deviantart level lonely lesbo teen fandrivel. It cant be anything else, because there's nothing there to make it anything else.

>>93799707
>>93799742
>>93799784

Fandoms have been this cancerous since FF7, sailor moon, and Inuyasha, none of which are even CO. That was the bishi era of stupid fangirl psycho bullshit. It came to be that FF7 particularly was hated almost exclusively because of the fandom and what it did.

>>93799814
Its worse, it has the combined power of yurifetishists and fanfic obsessed, basement dwelling queers.

>>93800161
This. Also, as bad as Makorra was, it was par for the road for stupid angtsy teenage romance bullshit. It was the perfect signal that they should have just dropped romance period and focused on the events at hand and Korra being an avatar.

Pairings, romance, and related bullshit took the right place in Last Airbender. The last place. The backburner place. Anyone who thinks the romance plots played any real importance beyond being fluff are exactly the kind of cancer who are causing problems. This is why Korrasami is ultimately shit beyond typical dyke stupidity. ShipCancer has been given legitimacy, and now there's a chance any future show can be ruined the same way (a la Voltron).

>>93801397
And considering the people on her side were idiots themselves it didn't help matters. For as much as they didn't want Korra to fight, they end up asking Korra to fight without ever doing anything productive themselves with actual results.

>>93801493
he said he would always be her friend didnt he

>>93800180
it's been three years and there are apparently really no hard or romantic feelings between him and korra

i'm glad they're going with this approach because i don't need to see korra become an even bigger mouth piece than she already is in this comic

>>93801441
>What was the fucking point, then?
To show how awesome Mako was, is, and will continue to be forever and ever.

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>>93801461
>And yet they clamored for Avatars.
>People wanted Amon to come and save them and kill cultures.
>The North wanted Unalaq to lead them to kill their sister tribe for not being spiritual enough.
>Zaheer wanted the people to experience freedom, so he denied people freedom and tried to kill them to promote the will of the people like how the Avatar promotes the will of the planet (original idea for the Avatar as per Bryke way back in the planning stages of ATLA.)
>And the Earth Kingdom wanted someone to save them from suddenly everyone becoming bandits.
>The people wanted Avatars.
10/10 post, fucking saved

>>93801441
>The problem is it removes a lot of the moral ambiguity and intrigue

I thought the moral ambiguity and intrigue is still there, the show never clearly answered if Amon did it for power or because he honestly believes in the cause, although the show through Tarrlok implies he actually believes bending to be the cause for all conflict

As for spirit world connection, we saw that through Unalaq, and I'm honestly not the biggest fan of the whole spirits side of things

In the original show the spirits were more like condiments to spice up the world building, it kinda goes overboard once the spirits try to actively shape the material world

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This wouldn't be so fucking awkward if they weren't the only gay couple in the series. It seems way too forced, man.

>>93801533
yeah but i can tell you a lot of korrasami shippers were salivating at the idea of this being awkward for him, or even him being homophobic.

anyway someone needs to leak the whole thing because it'll piss off the artist.

>>93801470
>And the Red Lotus, and the Earth Queen, and Kuvira
The Earth Queen is royalty and has that idea that the Fire Nation had that Azula puts forth to Long Feng. The divine right to rule is something that you are born with, says Azula. The Earth Queen is born with the right to rule. And the Avatar is born with their right.
Kuvira became an Avatar for her cause.

To them the idea of an Avatar wasn't irrelevant.

>>93801519
the white lotus were completely useless and it was so annoying, it's like they didn't know how to write them in as being actually impactful and still lose so they just made them a joke

also what happened to the white lotus usually consisting of masters? Did they just forget about that? The white lotus were just faceless nobodies

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Nothing like some good ol' asshurt straightfags

>>93799161
I love it

>Korra's the top
Ahaha suck it, nerds.

Anyway is it just me or does this coloring style not mix well with Koh's own style? I think it would've been better in black and white.

>>93801587
Of course it was the only gay couple. The network would have come down on them hard for trying to do that.

But remember, they are brave for sneaking in a hand holding scene and having them stare into each others eyes at the literal last second!!!

Kya's a lesbian/bi and that one Red Lotus guy who was working for Su was too, but he's dead.

>>93801631
You're surprised an organisation that helped save the world suddenly gets swarmed by mediocre glory seekers?

>>93801632
I'm ecstatic about Korra kissing girls, not so enthusiastic about her kissing a piece of cardboard.

She should be kissing me.

>>93801682
>but he's dead
Good

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I'm ok with this because Korrasami porn/fanart is fucking righteous

>Asami usually drawn in some sort of fancy/ornate lingerie to seduce Korra

Fuckin killin it

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>>93801587
if there were more than one, you know people would just cry that much harder about how it was a political agenda and they're forcing homosexuality down your throat and they're doing it for publicity or whatever other complaint you can think of

there'd be so much "wow, gays are a minority, why are there so many gay couples in this?"

people will always reach for some kind of logical scapegoat to cover up the fact that homosexuals just make them uncomfortable

>>93801632
More porn is always good anon but haven't ever wondered maybe it's possible to have a lesbian romance that isn't just hot but also not badly written?

At least with something like Overwatch it's fine because that game is specifically made to pander but Korra had expectations and shit, and people praise it like its an actual piece of art.

I'm retarded and actually didn't dislike Korra (the character) for most of the series, so the fact that they she literally became bisexual/gay at the last second bugged the hell out of me. The fact that the leaked comic pages seem to be saying nothing but, "Look, they're gay! Isn't it amazing and the best thing in the world?" is especially pissing me off. It makes me feel like all of this is just to make a statement and is an insult to the characters (not that many people really liked them in the first place).

>>93801693
Because it totally makes sense for a secret organization run by literally the wisest elders on the planet to let this happen.

Of course this could have been another plot point, the white lotus deteriorating, but nope.

>>93801766
>to have a lesbian romance that isn't just hot but also not badly written?

That's a problem with most romance in general, after doing it halfway decent with Han and Leia in the original trilogy, Anakin and Padme in the prequels made me vomit in my mouth

>>93801737
People will always be retarded no matter what happens. For example, some people think Assami is a well rounded character.

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>>93799272
>also I kinda hate how Korra is clearly the top
Why wouldn't she be? When has Asami ever been close to demonstrating the kind of assertiveness Korra has? Asami LIKES to be held and cuddled and made to feel safe. She's not a femme fatale.

This is why I dislike the Korrasami fandom, they all got caught up in projecting onto Asami because they want to think of themselves as fixing Korra and ignored what little canon characterization she has.

>>93801777
You sound pretty homophobic

>>93801777
I mean one of the main criticisms was that it came out of nowhere and wasn't explained well so I guess they wanted to fix that and make sure people were absolutely clear on it.

That and let's face it, they're aware of the shipping community. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the main reasons to have Korra follow a teenager and have a bunch of teenage relationship drama. As much as people don't like it here there's a large part of the fanbase that does and they are giving them what they want.

>>93801777
Koh said in an interview they actually didn't want to take the whole "everyone is magically okay with being gay" approach, I reckon someone in the central group at some point is going to express some discomfort over it. Probably gonna be Lin because she's an easy target.

>>93801777
Terrible writing aside, it's fucking weird that it bugged you that badly.

>>93801805
>That's a problem with most romance in general
Fair point, but so many people are actually praising this romance and not even because it's well written or interesting. The fact that it "exists" makes it the greatest thing ever and that's really dumb.

If people actually held KorraxMako at that same value, you bet your sweat ass I'd bitch about in an anonymous Chinese forum.

>>93799161
It says a lot of this show that no one, not even the people that liked it, ever remembers anything about it except the Korrasami ending.

>>93801855
>like it here there's a large part of the fanbase that does and they are giving them what they want.
Those people don't purchase the material though. They wait for it to be posted somewhere to download.

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>>93801855
>That and let's face it, they're aware of the shipping community. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the main reasons to have Korra follow a teenager and have a bunch of teenage relationship drama. As much as people don't like it here there's a large part of the fanbase that does and they are giving them what they want.
that would explain why they used amnesia to restart the fucking love triangle

>>93799272
>Asami and I have been friends for a long time
They have?

>>93801866
Or Tenzin.

>>93801833
Not that guy, but it's possible to have a same sex relationship that isn't shit. Steven Universe had Ruby/Sapphire planned from the beginning and properly foreshadowed.

>>93801927
I think Korrasami is shit but damn I think that would sting a little. I really liked his and Korra's relationship.

>>93799161
>>93799247
>>93799272
>>93801777


so the comics are this in a nutshell?

>>93801917
alright, you can hate the ending all you want. You can hate the show all you want. But don't come in here acting like a retard when the obvious is stated.

Korra and Asami were not only friends, but BEST friends for 3-4 years before they became a couple. It's a fact. It's in the fucking show.

>>93801334
>It has ALL the same flaws

It really doesn't though because the biggest and most important annoying thing about Makorra was how much of the plot it took up in the first season. Korrasami took up 0% of the plot/screentime.

A background couple might be unrealistic and terrible but it's not as obnoxious because who cares?

>>93801939
except the ruby sapphire relationship is terrible. It's toxic and codependent at best, downright mentally ill at worst.

>>93801975
The first volume is basically about Korra and Asami coming out to their friends and family. Also something about an amusement park.

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>>93801975
fug forgot pic

>>93801917
Well there was kind of a three year timeskip after Book 3 and they were clearly friends in that one.

>>93801927
>>93801962
If my Dad was reincarnated I would have a bigger problem with him getting it on with a guy than a girl?

>>93801985
Not him, but they were friends more maybe a year, the majority of the time they spent apart writing letters to each other.

And as much as you can still think it's possible to develop a relationship that way, the problem still persists that there was no evidence or suggestion anywhere.

If anything the ending doesn't look like them starting a relationship as it does Korra trying to get alone with her a destress by fooling around with her.

>>93801939

>>93801939

This. Disliking a particular homosexual relationship for the terrible manner in which it was written is not the same as saying that you dislike homosexual relationships.

Frankly, Korra in general was full of terrible writing, so this shouldn't have been a big surprise, in hindsight.

>>93801962
I honestly can't see anyone else in the main group that might have a problem with it if her parents are also OK with it. And Tenzin has still a bit of a traditional stick up his ass.
Of course I might be wrong and it turns out Bolin hates fags.

Is it even possible to write a gay/bi character that doesn't feel like pandering/virtue signaling?

Or is that all LGBTBBQ is these days?

>>93801991
>except the ruby sapphire relationship is terrible. It's toxic and codependent at best, downright mentally ill at worst.

I feel like it's supposed to be kind of fucked up though. All of the gems are dysfunctional with messed up family relationships.

>>93801985
>Korra and Asami were not only friends, but BEST friends for 3-4 years
For starters, Korra and Asami barely interacted during book 1, and that was roughly over the spawn of several months (Korra arrives in the summer and the finale is in the winter). Then even though they were apparently BFFS according to you, they didn't talk about what happened with Mako for another SIX MONTHS. Then maybe after a month of them hanging out and getting more friendly with each other, Korra disappears for three years and they only communicate via letters.

This is something they desperately needed to do a better job at, because Asami was barely a character, never mind the love interest for the damn lead of the show.

I'm a yurifag too but it's not surprising at all that two straight guys sucked at writing a meaningful friendship and relationship between two girls.

>>93800127

Out of curiosity, where would you draw the line between pandering and inclusiveness?

At what point did the pandering affect a property you enjoyed so deeply that it turned you off?

From my reading of your sentiments it seems more like you're saying "I'm not a homophobe, but" and expressing an incredible degree of entitlement over the rights to the creation of a medium that you do nothing but consume.

>>93802058
She's the fucking avatar. Who the fuck would care?

>>93802073
The problem is that you'd have to write a good relationship otherwise it would feel like pandering/virtual signaling, and writing a good relationship is hard.

>>93802086
which is fine but I've heard numerous times that they have the best relationship in the show. Which might be true but still doesn't make it a good relationship. I actually have no problem with it and it's place in the show, them being fucked up makes sense. But I disagree with the fans who think they are a good relationship.

>>93802058
>Bolin
Might be, I mean look at his reaction here >>93799247

>>93802073
Yes, give them actual depth and personality. If the most interesting thing about your character is that they're gay, then that should really tell you how superficial the whole thing actually is.

>>93802123
>She's the fucking avatar. Who the fuck would care?
Well a running theme for LOK was that just because she's the Avatar doesn't mean she's immune to the public's opinion of her. All it would take is some journalist spinning a "the Avatar would rather run around with a PRIVILEGED, RICH girl than help solve Republic City's problems!" and she'd probably have another meltdown.

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>>93802073
I think the thing about SU is that Pearl is a creepy stalker and her love of Rose is not healthy so it doesn't feel like pandering to me. In fact I know some people bitch that the show has unhealthy gay relationships. But I think the Greg and Rose relationship is creepy too. Rose treats human beings like amusing pets and that she fucked Greg so she could be reborn as her own son or some weird shit is just strange. While I guess Connie and Steven is the closest thing to a healthy relationship even that had the part where she wanted to throw her life away for him and weird age issues now.

>>93802129
I can see Bolin having a problem with it but not saying anything because he respects them and values their friendship. Oh shit complex writing in Korra, naw it can't be that

>>93802150
Good point, see this is how they could have used the in a good way. For social commentary, connecting to common themes, being part of the plot, etc.

Instead it's just a literal last moment ass pull.

Also seriously, was I the only one who didn't see this as them starting a relationship as Korra just wanting to destress and bang someone after all the shit that she just had to go through?

>>93802073
Nier and Nier Automata seem to do it well.

>>93799528
I think that anon refers to how lesbian couples in fiction are most usually presented as perfect and conflict-free -- i.e. boring; even when they touch the topic that either's parents or other people disapprove of their relationship -- which always ends with the haters getting told, thus making the couple look even MORE perfect and pure in contrast.

Lesbian pairings are almost always a sum of every stale and tired romance cliché played unironically, but because YAAAS KWEER PRIDE LUV WINZ xD they get a pass every time.

>>93802179
>That episode where Pearl and Greg finally confront each other via song and it seems like Pearl has finally gotten over Rose
>Three episodes later she falls for a girl that looks exactly like her
You're right about everything but god fucking dammit that episode pissed me off. It feels like they're going around circles then actual development.

>>93799521
Naruhina is still better than Ichihime...

>>93802261
well yeah the writing has become a trainwreck

>>93802197
The problem I could see Bolin having with it might be less with Korra together with another chick and more that she's together with someone else of their friendship cycle but she never really gave him the time of the day. Like he was unconsciously still holding a bit of a torch for her.

>>93802179
Garnet. Garnet is a good relationship. You are right with all the others though.

>>93802197
>I can see Bolin having a problem with it but not saying anything because he respects them and values their friendship.
If you switch Bolin with Mako I could see that happening, but I'm glad that's clearly not the case. Actually I bet Mako's gonna be like "oh yeah I knew", that'd be funny.

Anyway knowing Bolin he's gonna ask how they have sex.

>>93802121
>where would you draw the line between pandering and inclusiveness?
How about starting with treating gay characters as characters with actual dynamics, instead of shiny trophies you put in your display for all your liberal friends to praise you?

That and not turning your incompetent, insufferable MC gay as a cop-out.

>>93799272
Only in 1 of the panels where Asami is hurt. Korra will never be a dom. It's against her quite shy and awkward side which is as canon as her small (compared to other characters) height. She's a big kid, serious only during a fight.

>>93802268
Ah yes, I forgot there's also the IchiRukifags.

>>93802338
>It's against her quite shy and awkward side
What quiet shy and awkward side? All it took was Mako admitting he liked her for her to throw herself at him.

Anyway, dom Asami is officially dead and not canon. All hail dom Korra.

>>93799583
Kya is officially a lesbian. They've faced it for years. Guess they're used to it. Kyoshi had a female lover too so...

>>93802310
>she's together with someone else of their friendship cycle but she never really gave him the time of the day. Like he was unconsciously still holding a bit of a torch for her.
I'm surprised this doesn't come up more often. Korra kind of acts like a whore. I wouldn't put it past her to make a move on Jinora when she got older

>>93802325
Not that anon but Garnet also creeps me out. They've been shown multiple time that they're incapable of separating without freaking out. Hell, they're whole stick is that they're a single entity and not their own person once fused.

That's sounds a lil' fucky to me.

*Cough*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKaQqinWKY

If you can get past this dude's cringe-tier edits, he makes a solid few points.

>>93802409
I'd say in a funny way it's intentional to make her a foil to Aang, who only ever wanted Katara.

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>>93802406
>Kyoshi had a female lover too so...
Is that canon now? Did more of the comic leak?

Anyway yeah you raise a good point about Kya, so it's probably not Tenzin who's gonna be weird about it. Pic related.

>>93802409
>whore
You mean slut. Whores get paid.

>>93802409
>Korra kind of acts like a whore.
It's okay when a man does it.

>>93802409
Well back after book 1 a lot of people raised a valid point in that realistically Asami would've ended her friendships with both Mako and Korra. I guess the three year buffer was supposed to make things less weird.

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>>93802331

I'm sure someone will correct me and tell me all of the things that were wrong with it, but I liked how they portrayed Booster Gold and Blue Beetle in the recent Injustice 2 comics, in that their relationship didn't feel any different than any other type of relationship and wasn't the focal point of their characters.

>>93802473

THEY AREN'T GAY!

>>93802371
She was a rabel with Mako and shy with Asami. This shynesd is still there. Just not in that one panel which is perfectly understandable.

>>93802459
I don't remember anyone in Avatar, either series or either gender, opening their legs as much as Korra

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>>93802371
>All hail dom Korra.

>>93802506
The fuck is a rabel? Also we know from other leaks that Korra is the one who initiates their first kiss. She doesn't turn into some brain dead sub every time Asami looks at her, and that's canon and arguably the best thing they could do with this ship short of breaking them up.

>>93802406

Did she? I want to say that she had a daughter, so I guess she was bisexual if that's true.

>>93802507
Kuruk proably. Water Tribe is filled with sluts apparently.

>>93802436
The drawings in ATLA shows her with a woman and bryke had once hinted it too. Just like those girls in Ba Sing Se who were doing laundry. They also said that sexuality doesn't matter in the Avatar world.

>>93802507
Korra with Mako and now Asami
Bolin with Eska, Ginger, and now Opal
Mako with Asami and then Korra
Tenzin with Lin and then Pema

That's the core group in that new friends poster. Mako, Korra, and Asami know who they have been with.

>>93802507
Sokka. But the real difference is that Sokka was an actual good character that was endearing and had development. Korra was good for one season then steadily went downhill for the rest of the show.

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>>93801927
>shitting on Tenzin all over again

I'm sure they'll do it.

Why couldn't everyone but Lin and Tenzin and maybe Bolin before Episode 5 die in a horrendous house fire?

>>93802539
No, it's Asami who initiated it, lol. Read the whole page.

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>>93801975
the korrasami equivalent of

>>93799936
>fixfic
Fixing implies they've made something better. Throwing a time-travelling spanner into an engine fixes nothing.

>>93802436
Lin really is the obvious choice. But then again wouldn't she be used to it too, seeing how she used to be together with Tenzin?

>>93802556
Yeah, she had a husband and then a female lover. No idea if she had anyone else. She lived for 250 years so she could've been in a stable, long term relationship/marriage 3 times.

>>93802501

Really? Damn. It was so heavily implied that I really liked thinking of them that way when I read it.

>>93800763
>>93800853
something something realsocialism

>>93802636

Where'd you get this from? Not saying you're wrong, but I'd love to see the source for this.

>>93802631
>Lin really is the obvious choice.
>Lin: So the two of you are in a romantic relationship?
>Korra: Yes.
>Lin: Noted.
And then she walks away back to work.

>>93802598
We see the panel right next to it and it's clearly Korra going in for it.

>>93802677
ATLA story of Kyoshi, a hidden episode (I think there was something there too) and one hint during one of the interviews with Bryke. It was put in korrasami defending posts on Tumblr pretty often after LOK had end.

>>93799956
The problem is how relationships are portrayed.
It's like couples can't be casual with each other or something.

>>93802631
>>93802688
Lin is really only "obvious" because of how grumpy she is, I think she honestly wouldn't care.

Tenzin grew up with a gay sister so if it bothers him he does a good job at hiding it. Korra's parents are pleased, Mako is happy for them, that only really leaves Bolin. Or maybe Su.

>>93802714
Nope, it's Asami. It's her who wants to do it. Korra is only leaning towards her once she realizes what Asami wants to do. Korra initiated it is when Asami is hurt and Korra is relived she's alive.

>>93802688
She's the to go to grouch character. Other than that I have to agree with anon's above that Bolin might fit the bill too.
Or maybe it's Meelo since Korra stole Asami away from him.

>>93802722
Weird how they'd use that to defend Korra and Asami's relationship, seeing as most of the arguments I see against it seem to revolve around the opinion that it feels shoehorned and out of character for the two, not that homosexual relationships didn't exist in the Avatar world.

>>93802770
So if Asami is the domineering one why didn't she just go for it herself?

This is such a retarded argument but I know idiots who convinced themselves their head canons are real are going to be mad when Korra doesn't spend the entire comic bending to Asami's whim. Asami doesn't have whims. She doesn't have anything.

>>93801379
I mean that Mary Sue was always conceived as an insult. And for good reason.

>>93802759
Maybe Kya being gay was something Tenzin actually never figured out. I mean the guy didn't realize his dad only took him and not his entire family to those nice Air Bending trips, so he has a history of being oblivious.

Everyone arguing about who's going to be against it when obviously it's going to be the villains in the comic, probably a rich businessman running for office with a strong resemblance to a current US president

>>93802886
Read >>93801866

>>93802886
The comics were written like two years ago, they were only delayed because they needed to find a new artist.

Also the summary for volume 2 already revealed Zhuli is planning to run against Raiko.

>>93802121
SU does/did gay characters better than Korra.
Korra and Asami are gay because the writers realized their ending was awful and needed something to divert attention from it. They realized making Korra and Asami gay could do 2 things: 1. Make the finale impossible to criticize because if you did, you were a homophobe. and
2. create controversy to make the finale a talking point for a while.

Pearl is an actual character that just happens to be gay and their sexuality isn't their defining trait.

I can't think of a single fucking thing Asami did throughout all of Korra other than shocking her dad and holding hands with Korra. Other media with gay characters do them better, too. Jesus in TWD, Arcade Ganon in Fallout: NV come to mind.

>>93802914
>Raiko
Now there is someone that would hate faggots, if only because Korra turns out to swing that way.

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>>93802600
>DianaXAkko

What the fuck this is LITERALLY 63 Draco x 63 Harry.

What the fuck Japan.

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>>93801766
Outside of kyhu's girlboner for Korra, korrasami doesn't produce porn anymore, only mouthpieces.

>>93802956
>we're gonna build a wall around the portal and make the spirits pay for it

>>93802971
Diana is a bit of a mix between Hermione and Draco though, since Draco was otherwise maybe an above average wizard in terms of prowess.

>>93801985

Women being "best friends" doesnt mean anything. Women have new best friends every couple of months or years,

>>93802971
>>93803020
Isn't Akko closer to Ron too? Because Harry was actually a pretty good wizard.

>>93802179
The thing about Pearl is, that Rose thinks Pearl is in love with her because she is "conditioned" to it and as a free Pearl she has the obligation to ignore these feelings as they are artificial.
So Rose is actually thinking she is doing Pearl a favour for not indulging her.

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>>93799258
>Back in the day, immediately after Book One had finished airing, Korrasami
>nobody has called him out on his underrated bullshit lies

No it wasn't. In fact many Asamifags were pissed and hated the shit out of Whorra after S1. It was a crack pairing until Season 3 when it started gaining fans and Bryke stopped the dumbass love triangle.
Nice revisionism you have there you underage b&.

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>>93801991
they just need emerald to come down from the heavens and set them straight

>>93803050
Akko is like if Ron and Harry produced a mpreg girl baby.

>>93803071
Korrasami was popular as a revenge ship.

Hahahahaha. I actually wasted my time watching this garbage when it was airing. It's my fault for being so stupid. Good thing the only true canon is the ATLA cartoon.

>>93802073
Whom are you kidding?
For that you need to write good relationship stories first.
And they are never good, because nowadays, they hire these whacks straight outta fanfiction,net to do it for them.

>>93802796
Don't ask me why they used it, I myself have no idea why. They were trying to point that the Avatar was a lesbian at least once (which is wrong in the first place bc Kyoshi was bisexual) so it's ok for Korra to be too (which is also wrong bc she and Asami are bi as well).

>>93802808
I'm fine with Asami not being dom when she's injured. Korra was clearly scared so it's ok for her to initiate the kiss in that moment and position - it would've been difficult for Asami to initiate it.

>>93803188
You know there's actually no dom/sub dynamic between them right

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>>93799247
>>93799272
Asami is hotter.

>>93803100
No it wasn't. Even a fucking meme ship like AmonxBolin was more popular.

>>93803223
Is that Yennefer?

>>93802914
Oh? She's gonna win. I hate Raiko so freakin much.

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>>93803235
Or cartoon Talia.

>>93803236
Yeah the United Republic's first foray into democracy hasn't been a stellar one. I don't know what Raiko's done for the country besides blame Korra for everything.

>>93803097
just like muh fanfics

>>93802073
All the other anons are on point: a writer should first of all write characters with depth and good relationships. But there is hardly any pressure or need to do that when everyone around you is gonna shower you with praise and ignore all else you did simply by making said characters gay.

In fact, you could say that writing gay/bi characters is inevitably pandering because of how much of a gravy train it's become.

>>93802914
Just read the summary for volume 2

> Meanwhile, when Republic City’s housing crisis reaches its peak, Zhu Li sets her sights on the biggest public figure in the city—President Raiko—in a bid for the presidency!

So how is the former assistant and current lover of a man who tried to kidnap the president and instigate a war, and then joined with Kuvira and discovered the spirit vine's destructive potential going to win against the man who lead Republic City's defense against Unalaq and Kuvira, and who was voted in through popular support as a non bender after the attempted equalist revolution

>>93803253
Or Elizabeth?

>>93803226
Are you talking about just 4chan? Korrasami I remember being pretty popular in the general fandom from the beginning mostly because a lot of people hated Makorra and it was just a fuck you to that ship.

>>93803226
You're delusional

>>93801917

Lesbian time is more dense than regular time because it is so sinful.

>>93803266
>good relationships

When are any romantic relationships written well? It seems like straight or gay they are almost always just fucking shit I'm thinking of the main heterosexual relationships on Arrow and The Flash. They are almost always terrible and painfully written.

>>93802936
She took care of Korra more than anyone, her parents included - Senna had to travel to RC and I don't think her dad would change her diaper which she sadly for sure needed for a long time. She helped a great deal in saving Tonraq from the prison. Not to mention she was the one who took everyone to travel around the world to search for airbenders. She almost saved Korra's ass when Zaheer attacked them in the oasis. And she was the one who brought them out of the desert and almost died creating an opening in Kuvira's giant.

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>>93803361
Do you have a leak of the comic or-

>and I don't think her dad would change her diaper which she sadly for sure needed for a long time

Dude what

>>93803344
>When are any romantic relationships written well?
Statistically, I suppose there's gotta be one or two of that out there.

>>93803361
You're arguing with someone who enjoys SU, there is no rationality to be found

>>93803344

Sometimes I wonder how many writers have actually been in a romantic relationship (or at least a decent one), given how many of them write them so terribly.

>>93803220
Yet, Korra does feel like a sub. And acts like it often too. It might be because she feels dumb compared to Asami. It's for sure not about the money - Korra is a princess, Avatar and chief's daughter, she can have more money than Asami desu.

>>93799902
It ruined Voldemort Day.

>>93799161
are the offical comics out yet??

>>93803392
Watch the damn show.