korra

As the Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra ran though its four seasons first on Nickelodeon and then on Nicktoons and its website, the fanbase became particularly attached to the possibility of Korra and her heiress friend Asami falling in love, though no cartoon on a kids’ network had ever been allowed to depict lesbians (“Clarence” beat them to the punch a few months earlier on the male side). Then, in the last two minutes of the series, to everyone’s surprise, it really happened. Korra and Asami joined arms, entered the Spirit World portal, gazed into each other’s eyes and — pan up, Chinese lettering, cut to black, credits. The creators had to confirm Korra and Asami’s bisexuality later, because it was as far as Nickelodeon would let them go. In the months since that ending, fans have been starved to see something, ANYTHING depicting their budding romance in a little more detail, and fanart has been created by the bucketload to fill that hole (though, lately, the shipping nuts