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[pikabot]

Jesus fucking christ, Avatar fandom. We've only had official confirmation of the new series for like a day, and there's already shipwank.

This is the worst fandom.

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[gabenut.livejournal.com]

I just read about the new series! I think this time round I'm going to avoid the fandom and just look forward to it. I'm hoping there's a chance we'll see an old Toph or Sokka, cos that'd be awesome. :D

Edit: So my curiousity got the better of me and I looked in at avatar_fans. Apparently, I didn't pay that much attention to the fandom the first time round, cos I had no idea there was such a following for that pairing! XD

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

No comment because I stepped back from this fandom a while back, but I love your choice of icon especially because everyone in Avatar is so underage

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Dude... dude seriously? You'd think fandom would be OVERJOYED by the fact of a new series after that failure of a movie, but nooo, we gotta wank it up in here.

Ahhhh fandom. /shakes head

[pookaseraph.livejournal.com]

Wtf is there to talk over?

[pikabot]

Ah, you see, one of the characters (not the main character, but the one who teaches her how to airbend) is Aang and Katara's son.

[pookaseraph.livejournal.com]

Man, dear shippers, it's ok to have a canon ship, it's ok that it's not yours, gtfover it.

I don't really blame the creators, but I think their shipbaiting did make some expectation in some fans' minds that they wouldn't canonize anything. I prefer different ships, but Sokka/Suki and Aang/Katara and Zuko/Mei are canon. I think it's the line between people who ship ships that are like 'theoretically possible' vs people who ship the never gonna happen ships, you get different expectations and they make you crankier than when you go in knowing your ship will never happen.

[lissibith.livejournal.com]

ooh, they confirmed it was Katara's too? (The only article I'd seen just said Aang's son)

I now know what I'm googling to death over my lunch break today :)

ETA: this graph removed due to comprehension fail on my part, sorry!