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mutuals-only, selective, canon divergent Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender & Legend of Korra.

mun is an adult with many hobbies so at most moderate activity. a study in contending with the effects of childhood emotional neglect + peer isolation, practicing fierce self-advocacy, and being a fucking legend.

est. 2014. hullo, i’m Blu. (she/they) let’s fuck shit up!

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#pinned!#out of the ring;;

clingyduoapologist

The lesson of avatar was never “killing bad people makes you just as bad as them” it was “you cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or loss” guys like come on it’s been 20 years

clingyduoapologist

Katara doesn’t forgive Yon Rha and hug him and dry him off and walk him home she leaves him scared and sniveling and crying in the mud but she leaves him alive because she realized in that moment that she was only doing this because she felt like she had to. She hates this man, therefore she should want to kill him, right? The narrative isn’t saying wow Katara killing a mass murdering fascist dickwad is just as bad as said dickwad killing an innocent wife and mother during a raid on her home, it’s saying wow isn’t it fucked up that this little girl has been forced to carry this deep seated anger in her for most of her life to the point where the only outlet she believes she has for it is killing a man in cold blood? And like… yeah! That is pretty fucked!

icannotweave

#katara realizing that the man who killed her mother #who has been the face of evil and the war for most of her life (prior to aang's bullshit) #is just a pathetic loser #and by extension that most soldiers who commit hideous crimes of imperialist violence are just Some Guy #god that's really something #like he's Not a monster he's Not uniquely evil he has NO particular grudge against her or kya #the most traumatic event of katara's life was just a day at work for him #and less than a decade later he's nothing. he's retired and miserable and PATHETIC and he's not worth her time #she's better than him in every way #brave and powerful and generous and about all PRINCIPLED in a way he could never be. she's exceptional #she doesn't need to kill him she's already beaten him in every way that matters #and killing him will not create any positive change in the world #katara doesn't show mercy for his sake she does it for hers #god I love you katara ( @batmanisagatewaydrug )

#good soup #sugar queen

badwolfbadwolf

I think I am officially Fandom Old. I am so worn out from the arguments on who's the top or the bottom (who cares), what is allowed to be written (anything you want, bejeebus), what is Problematic (I know, just tag it), what other people Should Do (they Should live their lives free of judgment). There isn't a Right Way to do things. Tag your stuff appropriately, don't read stuff you don't want to read, and leave other people (me) alone.

leeshajoy

There is nothing quite like the freedom of having gone through all of the Discourse and come out the other side into the promised land of Not Giving A Fuck.

randomslasher

The three keys to the promised land are “Block, Unfollow, and Do Not Engage”

#out of the ring;;

tadpole-art

Saw this hairstyle on Pinterest and knew I had to draw Toph with it >_<

#wanted;;

helenvaughans

📢📢📢

#out of the ring;;

autisticcodex

We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

Defend the Internet Archive

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

goatexx

This is current- it was posted on 8/25/2025

non-bender-world

Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?

comradekatara

oh honey they are fully dead

chemicalmagecraft

No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.

comradekatara

oh, sure. she doesn't care though. she's 12 and she's thriving and she loves to murder

#out of the ring;;

momsopposed2theoccult-deactivat

I think one of the things that makes Toph such a compelling character is that in many ways she is reminiscent of the creative ideals we hold about powerful symbols. She represents the balance of the Apollonian traits of perseverance, control, and ambition with the Dionysian impulses of the passionate, intuitive, and liberated self. She recognizes her own power, is not ashamed of it, and asserts it repeatedly to great effect. Her arc doesn’t focus on coming into that power, as we often get in heroic epics, but on the fact that accepting help does not necessarily strip her of her power.

I completely agree. I watched a Troupe Talk video once about how to write compelling and convincing “powerhouse” characters (Basically I saw Toph on the thumbnail and clicked. I’m a simple girl with simple needs, what can I say?) and their argument was that in order for such a character to be convincing, they need to be humanized, perhaps even the most human of all the characters. They need human struggles, they need fears, insecurities, weak spots. A character who does nothing but hit stuff is cool, yes, but they aren’t going to resonate with your audience. A character like Toph, however, is compelling because although she is strong, that strength is wrapped up in insecurities she feels about how if she isn’t constantly giving things her all she’s proving her parents and the world right: she is too helpless, too weak, too blind. That strength comes at the price of her mental health, as she completely refuses to let herself show any vulnerabilities or let anybody worm their way into her little world to provide her with some much-needed help and support. For example, when she failed to save Appa she got so upset at herself over it that she worked for months to master sandbending until she was able to build an identical replica of Ba Sing Se purely from kinaesthetic memory out of sand. That’s extremely impressive, but it’s also something I find sad. I wish she wasn’t so hard on herself.

seismicsight

Yesss exactly.

It’s funny you mentioned that she has these insecurities about being PERCEIVED as weak because it’s very different from being insecure about actual weaknesses. It’s the optics (pun intended) that matter here, because while by the time she makes an appearance on the show she has already known the internal reality of believing in herself, her childhood experiences are colored by the perception of weakness. It’s how she is viewed by others that bugs her, even as she proclaims otherwise.

That’s why I loved the Tales of Ba Sing Se novella she had with Katara. In that episode one of Toph’s insecurities is put on display, because even though logically she knows it doesn’t matter what she looks like or how others project ideas onto her, it certainly doesn’t hurt when she is seen and acknowledged by Katara. She craves that recognition because she was denied it for so long. The two sentiments can exist at the same time and it’s this nuance that is just *chef’s kiss*

Another point that comes to mind around optics is that I think her need to project strength, while largely attributable to her upbringing, might also come from the influence of Earth Rumble. Think about it…Earth Rumble in many ways resembles the hyper-masculine world of wrestling (though of course the combat is real). Making inroads in that kind of environment could not have been easy without making a lot of tough talk, backing it up with displays of her power and ability, and shutting down anyone who questioned her place in the competition. I think it’s definitely where she learned how to refine her back-talk, but also where she learned some of the social conventions of power and their ties to masculinity.

In the past I’ve opined on how her friendships with Katara, Suki, Aang gave Toph a wider exposure not only to gender nonconformity but also reclaiming the power in femininity in more healthy ways than she observed in her own life back home. In some ways Toph parallels pre respect-women-juice Sokka. She made fun of Aang’s softness and Katara’s motherly nature because up until that point in her life the roles of genteel femininity were tied up in her oppression. Aang’s lack of care for masculine posturing was an easy target bc that’s probably what she observed in her own life, where any perceived weakness had to be exploited. Katara’s caring and neurotic tendencies probably rubbed at a wound surrounding her own mother-daughter relationship but might have also reminded her of the role she had been working to disconnect herself from to obtain freedom. Through these found family connections she can observe that there is also power in femininity and that expression can be as nuanced as she wants it to be. It’s not the rigid system she had grown up with.

And I think that’s so cool. I could go on and on but I gotta get ready for a school event so…to be continued!

#reblog #oldie but goodie

elvencantation

new favorite sister duo

lenaikart

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#wanted;;

triple-a-artist

alright I’m only gonna say this one time because i’m tired of seeing the discourse

I’m exhausted by the Iroh hate.

Iroh is a man who commited atrocities and then by the death of his son realized the intense evil he was committing and did everything in his power and in his life after that point to counteract his evil deed.

He joined the White lotus and worked to save anymore people from loosing their lives he helped the son of an evil genocidal dictator overthrow him.

Iroh is NOT comparable to real life figures who have commited atrocities and then put on an innocent face and was good in every other aspect.

the difference is Iroh WORKED to counteract what he had done.

We are not meant to simply forgive Iroh because he makes Tea and is nice.

We like Iroh because he is someone who understood the deep evil of his ways and lives his life in service of others he doesn’t expect forgiveness. Or sympathy. But he works for good ANYWAY

ATLA doesn’t want you to forgive the villains or the genocidal dictators.

ATLA shows you the complex existence and web of humanity and goes

“we are all products of war and it’s not what we say, It’s what we do that matters.”

Everyone is capable of Evil but people are also capable of change and working for it.

get that through your skull

#womp #finally some good fucking food #out of the ring;;