fandom seeing how its gotten to be i'm surprised at how little its mentioned of its even been referred to in article i'm not saying we should start posting up links to fanart or fanfics don't care for them but some things should be made mentioned of shipping considering its relationship with both the series and fandom definately needs made mention of not zomg katara and aang should like totally get together kataanger ever something like one aspect of the series is the 'shipping' which has come to be one of the franchise's main foundations this is best expressed by the last comic con panel which included a hilarious slide segment dedicated to identifying each and every one and then some the most infamous ship is that of the 'zutara' ship as the portmanteau name implies the ship involves the characters zuko and katara and was first catalyzed by zuko tying katara to a try and attempting to bribe her with the necklace of her deceased mother in 'the waterbending scroll' one way or another it has grown to be one of the most recognizable ship and also helping it was the fact that the two voice actors shared a parallel relationship on another show 'american dragon jake long' regardless of it origins due to being known to regularly visits their fansites and forums the creators are quite aware of the ship or at least seem to enjoy playing with it as it has been mentioned in almost every interview convention also evident is the fact that the very first commercial clip for the season two finale centered around informing viewers that the two were to be 'spending some unexpectesd time together' now as a person who doesn't ship for any show as it has a knack for getting in the way of the plot and true characterizations and this show's no different sokka's role in lake lagoi for example i'm surprised their isn't even some little line like for one reason or another numerous fans have enjoyed pairing blank with blank ever since their interaction in the waterbending scroll in complete disregard of the natural intial unliklihood some are thoroughly convinced that the two will 'end up together' somewhere in their trivia section once again fanart and all that other crap shouldn't be put here but there are some who should be made mentioned of kimberly miranda aka isaia aka aviaq's satirical take on the avatar fandom has earned her mention in articles and recognition in the eyes of the staff she was right on the money with that one to go even further recently the deviantart user rufftoon known best for lighthearted avatar based strips has been enducted as a storyboader for the series seriously finally in terms of media avatar fanvids and online episodes have come to be quite common on youtube even earning some most viewed honors but are constantly deleted because of copyright issues though common for most youtube vids problems arose with the google youtube deal and have reached a headway in that tens of thousands of vids were once again removed and due to avatar's relations to viacom it was affected the staff once even expressed their sympathy and support for the production of the videos we did remove the illegal episode broadcasts but the mashups are great everybody at avatar loves them i have also noticed that some of them have been removed however it is not by us most likely it is the record companies pulling the content because of the music that is used google is cracking down on a lot of this now that they have bought youtube we still encourage mashups and videos to the fullest naturally all this crap doesn't have to go on the main page could just have a link to its page like with the media information come to think of it fits well under the franchise category doesn't even have to all be crammed in one place like this it just calls for some mentioning here and there ya'know heart of series more or less