December 17-18, 2014: Makorra Bottles Never Popped, Korrasami Changes Cartoons

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Well, this happened. This week, V and Emily take a look at two simultaneous fandom events in a fandom neither knows well: The Legend of Korra. And really, both events are the same event: the ending of the show. On the one hand, we have Makorras ready to pop biggest bottles when their ship becomes canon. On the other, we have a different (and queer!) ship becoming canon instead, a first for Western children's animation. The majority of sources for this episode were V actually interviewing people who participated in the LOK fandom and getting their takes, because every written source is, um, biased, and not how she remembered seeing it all go down on her dash back in 2014... So buckle in, bend some water(?), and join us in feeling conflicted about avatars!

Sources

KnowYourMeme
Fa nlore
And thank you to the people who allowed themselves to be interviewed and chose to remain anonymous!

2010sShow CancellationsFemslashShip WarsAvatar: The Last Airbender & Legend of Korra

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