No one gives a shit because the last thing the internet needs is MOAR ZUTARA.
There's nothing wrong with Zutara but it's everywhere. People want a fucking break sometimes and part of the point of kinkmemes is to do something else that you don't do most of the time.
I have never read an IC Zutara fic and I used to read a lot of fic.
That part of fandom became really toxic really fast to people who didn't do the exact same thing they were already up to. And they ran around being awful and telling everyone else their ships sucked. Not classy.
My friend had a fantastic, thoughtful, IC Zutara fic all planned out but decided not to write it. She just didn't want to be a part of that.
I'm the same way.
The problem is that many (not all) Zutara shippers don't actually seem to like the show or the characters very much if at all. They hate half the cast. How can you write good fic for a canon you don't respect or even pay that much attention to?
This makes me sad, because I like Zutara, but I also like Kataang and Maiko and Sokka and Suki, basically I ship everything on Avatar. I don't want me liking Zutara to lump me with the crazies :(
http://gypsyhook.livejournal.com/6823.html <-- master recc list
additionally, although it's not on that list this is a very IC Zutara fic (but woefully slowly updated) - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894262/1/Lotus_Resiliens
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(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)There's nothing wrong with Zutara but it's everywhere. People want a fucking break sometimes and part of the point of kinkmemes is to do something else that you don't do most of the time.
Most of fandom does Zutara most of the time.
Don't take it personally lady.
REC ME PLZ
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)If there's so frickin' much of it, at least SOME of it should be good, right?
Re: REC ME PLZ
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)I have never read an IC Zutara fic and I used to read a lot of fic.
That part of fandom became really toxic really fast to people who didn't do the exact same thing they were already up to. And they ran around being awful and telling everyone else their ships sucked. Not classy.
My friend had a fantastic, thoughtful, IC Zutara fic all planned out but decided not to write it. She just didn't want to be a part of that.
I'm the same way.
The problem is that many (not all) Zutara shippers don't actually seem to like the show or the characters very much if at all. They hate half the cast. How can you write good fic for a canon you don't respect or even pay that much attention to?
Re: REC ME PLZ
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)Re: REC ME PLZ
(Anonymous) 2009-05-17 01:45 am (UTC)(link)Anon delivers recs
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)additionally, although it's not on that list this is a very IC Zutara fic (but woefully slowly updated) - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894262/1/Lotus_Resiliens
Re: Anon delivers recs
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)Here's hoping it doesn't go pear-shaped once Mai shows up/there is kissing/Aang is displeased/etc.
Re: Anon delivers recs
(Anonymous) 2009-05-16 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)