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all things I love | she/her

[aisatsaa]

we'll meet again don't know where, don't know when

[twinkle-toph]

I have a headcanon that Toph never, ever, not as a child, not as an adult, not as a terrifying old woman, regardless of whether Su is Sokka's daughter or not, never got over her crush on him. And I love it because it gives a sensitive side to such a relentlessly tough character. A little loser behavior hidden beneath all that winning.

Toph can bend metal. Toph can feel your heartbeat through the ground. Toph Beifong does not lose.

Except at this one thing. Quietly. For her entire life.

Good grief, was this well-said. Thank you for this anon. And you’re literally so right. There’s a reason why this WOMAAAAN is one of my favorite ever characters (if not my favorite—I’m being generous). She’s got her layers bro

Toph is this force of nature in her stubborn, terrifyingly capable, emotionally constipated way, to the point of comedy…….. yet Sokka is the one thing she never quite figures out how to beat??? She cares about him, she loves him, and that’s not something she can just bend into the earth’s core the way she really wants to most of the time. It’s hard to let herself feel, let alone be forced to sit with it every day of her life no matter what form of creative avoidance she tries

She wouldn’t want pity over it, either. She’d rather die. She’d joke about it, insult him, act unaffected, move on with her life, have entire relationships and children and accomplishments, but there’d still be this tiny, buried part of her that softens around him in a way nobody else ever gets to see. That only he does. Because he’s earned it, yk? And it’s just. It kills me i—

Don’t tell her but Toph Beifong can overpower almost anything except her own vulnerability or wanting someone so much that she can’t even suppress it properly. I think Sokka being the one person who could genuinely hurt her without ever meaning to is insanely important to her character. So important

And also just thinking about this makes me spiral so let me quieten 😌

Thank you for this anon!!!

Send me asks about our faves!!!

[these-things-illneversay]

!!!!

This is one of the main reasons why I got drawn to this character and this ship. Because of this so-called loser behavior beneath the toughness and smugness. Something that she can't seem to beat with brute force, or by waiting, or listening. It's very endearing to me and it adds so much into Toph's character.

[mittenaere]

If you ever plan on taking STEM, just know it will drain the life out of you.

(my most recent blog after nearly 2 months of not opening this app, my schedule is so full I can't even open tumblr to check my acc help)

[lion-turtles]

if tokka were to have a book, this would be the title 100%

[lovelycleon]

Just saying 👀

[twinkle-toph]

I miss Tokka

[zmpl]

it’s funny how we’re getting to the point in the AI lifespan where you can feel the desperation from tech companies to have you use their AI features. instagram has moved their AI effects to the top of the menu when you’re creating a post for your story, exactly where the draw/edit button used to be. gmail is creating one-click AI-generated replies right before you open up the text box. spotify put a beta AI playlist generator on the front page that looks just like a search bar so all of their users accidentally click on it when they go to search for a song.

tech companies are shaking in their boots trying to prove to shareholders that their investment in AI is worth it, to the point where they’re tricking their users into using the AI features even for a split second in order to fudge the numbers. like awww is your little environment-destroying toy not wielding the results you hoped for? so sad!

[mittenaere]

We're better off without AI anyway. People use it more often than they use their actual brains. It's crazy

[kosmogrl]

september was practice… in october I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in november I'm getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in december I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in february I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in march I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in april I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in may I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in june I’m getting my shit together

[ohime-illust]

𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 _____

Finished Katara today as well, so she can join Toph :D Next is Zuko!

[tired-demonspawn]

(writing a chreon fic and stumbled into this meme by accident)

[mittenaere]

RE 2 Remake (2019) The Notebook (2004)

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Best friends to lovers will always be my favorite trope. It never started off as tension, mystery, and confusion. It was built from trust and loyalty from the start.

Reminder: Love should be fun. 🪽

[perfectlypanda]

“Ember Island Players”, but the version where the show decided it was actually important to address that kissing people without consent is not okay, even if you think that person is your “forever girl”. Especially if you think that person is your “forever girl” but she kind of just rejected you. Remember kids, unless you get an enthusiastic yes in consent, then the answer is no.

Aka in this house we stan Katara, and are still upset 12 years later about how the forced kiss was never mentioned again when homegirl is a major character and was clearly very upset by it.

Also, if you think it would be fun to learn how to create gif manipulations and decide to teach yourself…. choose a less ambitious first project than creating an entire “missing” scene from a cartoon. I am very tired.

♥ Please do not repost. If you like it and want to show people, share a link to this page instead. Thank you!

EDIT: I had someone ask why Aang kissing Katara in this scene was a bad thing if they end up together, you can read my explanation here.

[mittenaere]

Zutara editors never stop being peak pls

[lawyercleon]

The slowburn system works so that the robot doesn't fall in love immediately, so it only takes a more direct approach after having passed that step, and this happens in the media but in a freer way. I recommend you search: how to write a slowburn screenplay. This gives you a general idea of how it works and allows you to identify which works have used it.

[thelastdayalive]

▴ fire lord zuko wip

[lion-turtles]

why does tragedy exist?

because you’re full of rage

why are you full of rage?

because you’re full of grief

Grieving, grieving, constantly grieving. I mourn what could have been, what will not be, what I can’t save.

Nesse, When Grief Spoke It’s Name

part ii/iii

[lion-turtles]

when you sit and think about not only how contrasting toph and sokka’s backgrounds are, where one seemingly had everything but is treated as if they’re incapable, while the other had everything taken from them but is burdened with the responsibility of always having to appear capable but also how their shared trauma in the finale connects them and makes them trauma-bonded for life and you can’t help but love how they are able to come out of it scarred but very much alive and together regardless of it.

[lion-turtles]

sokka and toph express love through actions rather than words because, in different ways, they both learned to distrust promises.

for sokka, who, more than anything, is a realist and his cynical nature prevents him from trusting people easily, a promise is absolute. he learned early on in his life that it is something that can’t be said lightly but a commitment that comes with a lot of responsibility and has to be fulfilled no matter the cost. he refuses to make promises he cannot keep because, to him, broken promises are a form of betrayal. this stems from his childhood, where his father would often make promises he was unable to keep, so sokka grew up associating empty words with disappointment and abandonment. and because of that, he values reliability over sentiment and prefers to express love through consistency, protection and presence rather than verbal reassurance.

toph’s relationship with words is different but it leads her to the same conclusion. having spent her life surrounded by overprotective parents who constantly claimed to know what was best for her, she learned early that words could be manipulative, performative and ultimately meaningless. they promised understanding while refusing to listen, claimed that the restrictions and deprivation of her freedom came from a place of love and dismissed her frustrations with vague assurances such as “you’ll understand one day”. because of this, she came to distrust language itself. words became, in a sense, a kind of “vocal appearance”, something people used to present themselves rather than reveal the truth.

which leads me to think that they’d both be upset by anyone who made a promise out of baseless hope, especially if they knew that it would be hard to keep. and also, it’s precisely why both of them rely so heavily on action as an expression of love. neither trusts declarations on their own because what matters to them is what a person consistently chooses to do. and what they do for each other has always been enough.