Tag: korrasami

amessofgayyyships:

The best ships are the ones where they’ve been shown to work great as a team. Where the characters balance each other out without eclipsing the other person but, instead, bring out the best in each other to get a job done or fix a problem. If I die young, bury me in mutually beneficial partnerships.

This speaks to something larger that bothers me about a lot of canon ships, or just determines what I ship I guess. Mutually beneficial partnerships. That is a great way of phrasing it.

I’m still trying to get at what it was about korrasami that made so many queer fans read it as canonically romantic but left other fans completely blindsided when it came out and this is getting there…

soundsperfect:

One of my favorite things about Korrasami is that the aspects of the ship’s canon development that are usually the most heavily criticized are the parts that queer folks point to as the strongest and most relatable. Like. I’m sure it wasn’t even intentional on Bryke’s part because it is just so intimately accurate.

Please. Take it from a girl who slowly fell in love w her friend lmao. It’s painfully subtle from the outside looking in. It’s hesitant af even after it’s silently deemed Inevitable or even official by both parties. Explicit Romantic Contact™ means jack shit next to the gradual process of becoming each others’ main support system (read: Asami being present for a Tenzin Talk in 408. Those tiny shifts are huge, and I think that moment is frequently overlooked bc it’s in the clip episode). 

So like. Listen to the gays when they say they felt it coming, even if they didn’t believe it would ever happen, because a lot of queer romance develops well outside the conventions we’re used to seeing, both in media and in real life, and K/A is, imo, a really strong example of that phenomenon.