Beyond Selidor

I tend towards the second opinion myself, especially because it's always irritated me that she never let Albus' sexuality be more than subtextual in the books. To me, that makes her so-called strong stance against discrimination ring a little false.

As I said in my post, I'm quite happy to be corrected by authors when I get facts about their stories wrong (such as when I falsely labelled two of Sophia McDougall's characters Christians when they were Zoroastrians), and also happy to debate issues of interpretation (the instance with John Marsden involved me asking him if his YA retelling of Hamlet was meant to be saying that adults interpret teenage thought patterns and behaviour as being somewhat mad, but he said that his Hamlet was always meant to be mad, not just a misunderstood teenager. I still disagree with him, and the fact that he's the author and I'm not doesn't bother me in the slightest. I can see what I want to see in his book). What I hate is when authors react to differences of interpretation as if I've somehow destroyed their precious baby. Their story still exists. My interpretation does not threaten its existence.

And I consider it my right to be a brat because A: TLA writers put Aang and Katara together when Zuko and Katara were SO CLEARLY meant to be together!

Hahaha! I didn't watch A:TLA at the time it was airing, so I missed the whole shipwar. To be honest, I don't really think much about Aang and Katara, because they seemed too young to be thought about that way. And on the other hand, Mai was just so awesome, and I could see why she and Zuko were together. I'm an odd kind of A:TLA fan in that I started watching the series because I heard there was an angsty antihero character (i.e. Zuko), and then immediately realised I was much more interested in Sokka, who became one of my favourite characters of all time. My A:TLA OTP is actually an OT3 of Sokka, Suki and Toph, so I'm very much in the minority of A:TLA fandom!

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