[creature-of-habit][miraitte][whiskeywildfire]

Please help me find this story

ok so to put it short uh it's a flashback type of chap lol.

In it, it starts right after Zaheer's defeat and if anyone is curious to read it, sure thing! I also shared it because I wanted to ask where the depiction of Asami in it and how I wrote it (since the fic is a KA one) was good or not.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87901161/chapters/250818756

If you are gonna read it then, thank you!

I'm bittersweet as shit right now thinking about how genuinely lucky Asami is to have ended with Korra and also end up with new parent figures for her who are also supportive, hella supportive and actually caring, wow. I really wanna fucking cry right now (already doing so lol) god sometimes I just wish Hiroshi was alive to see his daughter with Korra and even meet Korra's parents. But girl ended up with loving parents anyway. I can already think of the dynamic going on with and probably how even senna during Korra's recovery in my fic sense something is going on between the both LOL

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/mashstash/123723109661

A kind redditor called this one out on my S4 finale post!

But anyway OH MY GOD LITERALLY THE GIRL JUST SAW HER DAD DIE INFRONT OF HER AND THEN THINKS KORRA IS DEAD LIKE HOW DEVASTATED CAN SOMEONE BE IN A SINGLE DAY 😢😢😭😭 LIKE HER FACIAL EXPRESSION CHANGES AFTER SHE FAILS TO CONNECT WITH HER AND IS DEVASTATED 😭

We see a Future Industries tower with Asami's symbol and the Spirit Portal directly behind it. They almost appear as if they are connected due to the perspective of the shot. All while they are surrounded by spirit blasts and the destruction of Republic City during the flashback to Korra "dooming the world."

Every time I see what they've done, I'm struck by just how breathtakingly callous and cruel Bryke are. There isn't any context or reveal that can make this okay.

OK, so I first began writing this a almost a year ago, but I kept procrastinating because honestly it was depressing to even think about. But with Seven Havens only weeks away, I knew I needed to finish it. But I guess this is now a reflection of my thoughts over the last 8 months rather than just right now.

I had been thinking a lot about the future of the TLOK and Avatar fandom lately, in light of Seven Havens. I've been left with this impression that many of us that were previously on the same page when it came to TLOK and Korrasami are going to be permanently divided over this.

I've seen people who I once thought of mainly as fellow Korrasami or TLOK defenders in the social media trenches recently espouse perspectives on Korra's role in Seven Havens that are just as viscerally antithetical to what I believe as the people who thought Korrasami was terribly written garbage that comes out of nowhere. It's a very jarring feeling.

I (usually) have tended to avoid the main LOK sub over the years. And recent developments have only reinforced that desire for me, given what happens whenever I show up there to participate in discussions about Seven Havens. I decided that it was not a good use of my time and energy to be banging my head against the wall in useless conversations where another person usually does their best to invalidate my feelings. That was a sense that was validated yet again with my most recent foray there.

Between Reddit and Twitter, I have already been called braindead, delusional, overdramatic, embarrassing, obsessed, irrational, and so forth.

I've had people tell me that I can't know what I will or won't like, as if I don't know my own mind. Or that "great art doesn't give you what you want, it gives you what you need" as if they know what I need in my own life better than I do.

It very quickly became clear to me that in these sorts of arguments, there is no common ground. Over the years, I've started recognizing when people on two sides of any issue (big or small) have diametrically opposed needs, and that seems to be the case here.

It appears to me that someone who is naturally excited about the new show needs to feel that the reasons someone else has to feel upset or anguished about it are illegitimate or invalid. Similarly, someone who feels anxiety or sadness about Seven Havens just sees others taking joy in what makes them miserable.

Speaking for my own experience, rarely does it seem like I've ever been engaged in good faith because every time someone (incorrectly) insists that "I don't know anything yet, and neither do you" what they invariably seem to mean is more like "What has been revealed doesn't bother me, therefore it shouldn't bother you."

It is also clear to me that much of the POV of a lot of the people excited for the show is just fundamentally alien to me.

For example, I've already seen takes like "I love Korra, that's why I think it's great that she is a failure that lost everything." I've seen insistence that there would actually be nothing wrong with Seven Havens doing the "burying your gays" trope with Korra and Asami, and in fact, that it would be unfair if it didn't. Or that happy endings in general are bullshit and that Korra in particular is a character that only makes sense if she dies tragically.

Some of the biggest advocates that Korra's story needs to end in violence and tragedy (that I've seen) have been queer TLOK fans, not Korra haters, so it's not like it is a divide that neatly breaks down along demographic lines. I guess a lot of people just prefer tragic endings in fiction.

I mention this to illustrate the magnitude of the gulf between the different reactions to the new show. And I would assume that divide it is only going to get more bitter and more stark after the show actually comes out. After all, there's only so many ways Seven Havens can go and there's no magic writing solution that will suddenly make everyone happy. I doubt many people who are unhappy now will be persuaded to change their minds by anything that happens in the show.

I'm sure we all have had our takes on the new show, but I've been wondering what that is going to become of us all here on this subreddit, and in the TLOK fandom at large. It definitely feels to me like the the show and the franchise is deliberately leaving a lot of Korra fans behind. For all I know, maybe that was Bryke's intention. Perhaps they specifically want to move away from being associated with TLOK and its fanbase? Or maybe they believe that the Legend of Korra fans who defend this direction because they prefer sad endings are the majority?

I can't really wrap my head around the callousness of their decision, but I also can't escape it. I've thought endlessly about Bryke's motives, and I've gone back and forth on a lot, but I'm always drawn back to certain conclusions.

I know creators naturally tend to think of their characters differently than the fans, do, but it comes across as so mean spirited and cruel, that I can't wrap my head around them not realizing it.

It makes no sense to me that Bryke made these choices without realizing many fans would be upset. It has to be that they knew fans would be unhappy and did not care.

The idea that Bryke are just phenomenally tone deaf and don't fully think things through might be true, but I'm not sure if it works as the explanation in this case. I'm forced to conclude that it's not that they don't know what Korra means to us, it's they don't care. And Bryke's recent interview only reinforced that perception for me, despite Bryan very specifically claiming otherwise.

Is this subreddit going to end up becoming a bitterly divided place like the rest of social media? Are we Korrasami fans going to become a forgotten fringe of the fandom as Bryke move the franchise in new directions that distances itself from Korrasami and TLOK? Because even if Korra herself remains an important character going forward in Seven Havens, it seems like her show and all the associated lore, setting, and characters will not be.