attackfish

I have a special bee in my bonnet about people who try to make the Fire Nation into better villains by making them sexist in fics. One of the tings the show got really really right is that sometimes reprehensible regimes have good points, and a culture that encourages one kind of bigotry can see another kind of bigotry as unthinkable. The writers did a really good job of making the Fire Nation into a place with a real culture and real flaws and good points.

I usually like to make the Fire Nation really ableist, because it gives Azula a reason to Do Something Stupid with regards to underestimating/insulting her brother in fics where he's disabled. Actually, the guilting of disabled people by the Fire Nation is fun for me to play with.