Hamlet, But Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Marty And Jennyfer From Back To The Future.

Hamlet, but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Marty and Jennyfer from Back to the Future.

had the brief thought ‘if the ATLA cast were Steven Universe gems, which would they be?’, blacked out, and woke up with this doodle in front of me.

anyway featured gems:

aang - yellow spinel + avatar diamond permafusion, gem is located on back, shaped like a clover

katara - sapphire, gem located on back of hand

sokka - striped jasper, gem located on forehead

toph - peridot, gem located on leg

zuko - fire opal, gem located on chest, gem is cracked

azula - fire opal, gem located on palm of hand, gem is in early stages of corruption

suki - nephrite, gem located in place of eye

jin - jade (nephrite also), gem located on chest

not pictured but also!

- hessonite Zhao, gem on cheek

- jasper Jet, gem on shoulder

- fire agate Iroh, gem on back of hand

- fire agate Ozai, gem on back of head

- opal Ursa, gem on chest

- moonstone Yue, gem on cheek

fusions pictured:

- Kyanite (Aang + Katara), Sunstone (Aang + Zuko), Lapis Lazuli (Katara + Sokka), Starfire Opal (Zuko + Azula), and Copper (Suki + Sokka)

the VERY first time I watched ATLA i had mixed feelings about Jin and Zuko being an item. but the ship has very quickly grown on me over time and it’s now in contention for my favourite Zuko ship ‼️ and top 3 easily. they’re invading my dreams. non-figuratively.

and by that i mean i had an actual dream while in bed asleep about them last night. that Jin was waiting in line at the coffee shop and when she got to the front of the line and Zuko asked for her order, she told him she’d waited in line just to see his face. which made him blush and then he went behind the counter and got a cup of tea that had already been waiting because he’d seen her standing in line and had prepared her favourite flavour which was her usual order. and then he gave it to her on the house.

maybe if i cross my fingers very hard and wish upon a star i can pretend they get back together post-canon further in the future. while writing this i have come to the realisation that they’re literally the coffeeshop au ship of the fandom. except again it’s canon.

zuko and katara have genuinely SUCH an interesting dynamic and relationship to explore when you don’t have a bitch in your ear trying to tell you they should kiss.

like there’s nothing objectively wrong with shipping zut4ra but i CANNOT find any proper duo content of them that isn’t romantic or romantically implied and it annoys me. no i don’t think they would work. no i don’t think Katara would give up her man for that guy of all people. no I don’t think Zuko would be romantically interested in Katara. yes i do think that reducing all of their feelings towards each other into ‘romance’ oversimplifies and undermines the depth of the platonic relationship that they actually do have in established canon. yes whatever I’m sure there’s something sweet about a boy trying to get a girl to forgive him by helping her get revenge on the guy that killed her mom but don’t you think that it’s actually much more profound if there are no romantic ulterior motives whatsoever and it’s actually just a demonstration of the lengths Zuko will go to because he cares deeply about his friends and their feelings and what they think about him and he wants Katara to like him and he’s genuinely sorry that he broke her trust by warming up to her slightly before betraying them and to make sure she knows that he was being sincere and he actually was touched by what she said he tries to find a way for her to heal a wound that he knows tears her apart and it’s a wound he wishes he could heal in himself. and he does it because he’s trying to earn her forgiveness, not her love. he’s trying to earn himself the right to look her in the eye, not to hold her hand. he’s trying to amend for the mistakes of his people for nothing but the better of others.

and when Katara offers to heal him in the cave, it’s not because she’s fallen head over heels at all, or even in the slightest. she’s the first to see the light in him, and she sees a boy who’s been hurt by the fire nation in a similar way to her. she recognises that if she can convince him to come with her now, the gaang is up by a firebending teacher and a friend at best, and down an enemy at least at worst. for a moment she sees him for who he is and what he’s been through and it’s not because she likes him. the thought doesn’t even cross her mind, it’s just in her nature as a person to be caring and understanding and she has the help she can tell he needs, so she extends a hand.

and when they face Azula together? Katara was the first to reach out when it was almost the right time, and she’s the one who’ll be there to help him see it through. When he takes a bolt for her, isn’t it more profound that he jumps in front of the bolt not out of romantic love, but because Zuko is the kind of person who would put himself in mortal danger for anyone he cared about? Because his heart’s too big and because he’s seen those he love get hurt too many times to stand there and let them take it?

anyway I’ve spent too much of this post refuting romance but not actually expressing what it is i do like about their platonic dynamic but it’s late and i don’t have the words. so i’ll just say it’s such in that it would be really funny if Zuko instead dated Katara’s brother. and they yap together and she gives him a list of interests and he tells her embarrassing date stories. they also yap a lot about Aang because like. Zuko’s bff and Katara’s bf he’d probably come up a lot. also Maiko’s platonic shit-talking exes/close friends dynamic solos their romantic dynamic but that’s a discussion for another day ^-^

ship name censored because I don’t intend for any negativity to actually intrude upon certain shipping spaces lmao. i’m rarely opinionated but i don’t really care tbh i just wish there was more platonic stuff out there or i saw less romantic stuff el oh el

hamlet: overthinking and doing nothing hasn’t been working for me. what can i do instead

hamlet: not thinking whatsoever and simply acting. surely this will yield results

polonius, muffled from behind an arras: now hang on a moment. this would be a really bad time to suddenly and violently change tactics. perhaps a middle ground between the two where you think out your actions but don’t let the fear of taking the wrong ones paralyse you entirely would serve you better than extreme action/inaction one way or the other?

hamlet, startled:

how now, a rat? dead for a ducat, dead

rip fire hazard siblings you would have both either loved and resonated with Hamlet or found the play uncomfortably familiar and not been able to read through it a second time but either way you both would’ve been putting Hamlet on the kinlist for different but valid reasons