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Seriously, Photoshop…

Y U SO NECESSARY?

I’m sitting here, just trying to make things work, and then…

BAM

Everything just vanishes.

Please don’t do this today. I really need to get this work done.

I shall now get back to work.

Or at least try really really hard.

I love it how people go bonkers after every Legend of Korra episode

Really. It reminds me of how much fun it is to be a fan aside from the whole OMG you damn bastards give us the storyline we want!…

Still about fandoms and shippings…

This is a not-at-all brief post on shippings, starting in current events, going down Harry Potter memory lane and getting back to Legend of Korra.

So, on my last post (where I ranted a little about all the shipping ranting that I’ve come across lately), the lovely laceableheart answered like this:

I agree with you but I think the intensity of our ship wars demonstrates to outsiders just how vigilant LOK fans are :)

LOK stands for Legend of Korra, the very cool follow-up to the awesome-tastic The Last Airbender - and was, in fact, one of the main reasons why I wrote my previous post on shipping wars. Like I said before, this is not my first time around shipping and ranting, so I tried to step back and think over the whole “how vigilant” fans (not only LoK’s!) are.

Let’s take as an example I know the most. Back in the day when Harry Potter was still in the course of being written and published, JK Rowling said in an interview that people who shipped Harry and Hermione were, in fact, delusional. It was all over the fan sites and quickly some people went and said that Rowling herself was deluded if she wasn’t aware of how she had, in fact, written Harry/Hermione shipping all along (even though, at this time, Harry had already fell in love, kissed and dated Ginny, and Hermione had threw a hissy fit over Ron’s dating Lavender).

But, on the other hand, I’d always thought Luna and Neville were perfect for each other, and the scene in the last Harry Potter movie made me go all fangirl mode in the cinema. Every-single-time.

But some people were outraged by the fact that Rowling herself had stated that Luna would go on to marry some other guy (whose name I can’t remember now), so obviously they couldn’t happen by the end of Deathly Hallows.

Well, I don’t know about everyone out there, but couples like Katara and Aang and Harry Ginny, people who get together in their teens and spend their whole lives together…that’s rare.

So now people are getting… aggressive…over Asami-Mako-Korra-Bolin and I gotta say I feel a little…lost. Before this week’s episode, I saw some very strong opinions out there, people complaining about how someone’s personality was completely off…from a teaser. I mean, really?

In The Last Airbender, by this time, we were going from Kyoshi Island to Omashu and…how much did we really know about these characters? I mean really? But in Legend of Korra we’ve decided that we already know pretty well who the brothers are and what is or isn’t appropriate to them! And after one episode - one episode! - people had already decided they hated Asami. Why? Well, because she’s the competition…apparently. And it doesn’t matter that she seems nice, or that even Korra doesn’t find her everything her fans think…

This week’s episode’s resolution was a lot better than I had thought and, quite frankly, I really like the way things are between the four of them. Being a teenager is complicated, imagine if you’re the Avatar!

Oh, yeah, but can we please, pretty please, remember there’s a revolution going on? And there’s this crazy dude trying to take away bending from everyone? And that Korra is not ready to go after and defeat him? Because she can’t airbend? Because she doesn’t know how to get in touch with airbending? You know… Main plot, please?

As a very wise young man once said…Oy, there’s a war going on here!

(By the way, I still think Zuko and Katara would’ve been a way cooler pairing than Katara and Aang… Guess that’s what fanon is all about!)