#since up until that point

[linnoya-writes]

Katara’s sacrifices for Kataang

What’s really, really messed up about this relationship is that Katara worked so hard and probably kept so many deep feelings from Aang so as to not cause confrontation and have him physically or mentally “run away” from her-- something he was known for doing in ATLA if he ever heard something he didn’t like or was pressured into doing something he didn’t agree with.

And so Katara builds this habit of gently approaching Aang with her issues, not wanting to upset him.  She uses that “healer” voice, and doesn’t protest whatever Aang decides; instead, she supports it.  

She complies with everything Aang wants as a coping mechanism to never give Aang a reason to disappear and leave her.  And this becomes grossly more apparent once they go from being friends to being in a serious relationship.

She forfeits most of her Watertribe culture to prioritize Aang’s Airbending culture once they have children.  She doesn’t fight with Aang about not having a close bond with Bumi or Kya just because their not air-benders, and she doesn’t fight with Aang about the fact that the Air Temples don’t know Kya or Bumi exist.

And this is how the relationship keeps working, between them.  

Aang sees Katara as being a completely-devoted, dutiful wife and mother to his children, only doing things like healing and practicing social justice or whatever if it doesn’t interrupt his agenda.  

It’s every young boy’s fantasy come to life: having that older pretty girl you always had a crush on not only be with you, but completely tailor her life’s purpose and whole identity around yours.

In reality, Katara is hiding so much of herself in order to make that relationship work... internally dealing with the abandonment issues from her father, the trauma of losing her mother and let’s not forget her life-long idolization of the Avatar... that she does whatever it takes to keep Aang close to her.  

Be it not ever disagreeing with him.

Be it not wanting to leave his sight for a single moment.

Be it dating him because she already knows he wants them together (and not give herself the time to process how she truly feels about him).

Be it marrying him, and having the world’s eyes suddenly turn to her -- not as Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe, but as the Avatar’s wife.  The woman solely responsible for bringing air-benders back through her uterus.

Be it forfeiting things about her culture, because it doesn’t work with Aang’s.

Be it raising Bumi and Kya practically on her own in a newly-constructed Air Temple Island, far away from her homeland, not questioning Aang on why the other AirTemples don’t know about Bumi or Kya.

And still. 

Still... as it’s implied in LOK... Aang ends up leaving her, constantly. 

Aang ends up traveling the world to visit the other Air Temples, eventually taking their son Tenzin with him.  And while Katara doesn’t protest it, and has learned to hide her emotions extremely well... we can imagine she would feel absolutely devastated by Aang doing this.

Hadn’t she done everything right to try and prevent that from happening? Giving up her argumentative, fiery side so as to not confront Aang and make him uncomfortable?  Forfeiting her water-tribe culture, so as to not have it clash with the airbending way of life?  Even raising her children far away from the WaterTribes, so as to honor Aang’s legacy and culture?

In the end, none of that effort made a difference, and Aang was totally oblivious.  

Aang always got what he desired because he believed Katara was coincidentally on the same page with him in everything.  He didn’t see the rows of mountains this girl was moving just to go along with everything he wanted.  

Aang lived his life believing Katara was his literal dream-girl, a woman tailor-made exactly for his wants, needs, feelings, desires.

Katara has to live with this sense of constant abandonment from Aang as a partner, husband, father to their children... and not say anything about it, because it’s now too little too late.  She married into this loneliness, despite believing that bending her entire identity and purpose would keep Aang close.

It’s not until Aang passes away that Katara is finally able to return to her roots in the Southern Water Tribe to find some peace, and her children, having grown up far away from that culture and already grown accustomed to that divided family unit... don’t seem to check in on Katara too often.

Katara lives the rest of her life alone.  Having lived most of her life for Aang, anyway, it’s more comfortable for her to be distant from the world as a recluse-- quite different from the life she once wanted for herself.  

This amazing warrior woman finishes her life in isolation, in the same way she had lived it before she met Aang, not realizing she’d been capable of doing incredible things for the world in spite of him, not because of him.

The real tragedy here is that Katara never got to be with someone who truly understood her.  She kept those rough spots and that confrontational side hidden in order to make a relationship with Aang work.

She, of course, still honors her late husband’s legacy and mourns Aang after his death... and there is a part of her that truly learned to love him.

But ultimately, Katara never got to experience that kind of love in return.  The kind where two people could see each other for who they were, and see their relationship clearly, honestly, rather than blindly just go along with it.  

You know?  The kind of love that’s real.  That sacrifices.  

Katara never got to experience real love...

...because Aang never had to compromise in that relationship, did he?

He always got what he wanted.

#avatar the last airbender #kataang critical #katara #aang #katara deserved better #meanwhile Aang thought she was fine #why yes I did borrow Hakoda's words from the North & South comic #and it's silly to think those words were meant to be about Kataang #since up until that point #Bryke had barely started scraping the surface regarding Aang's maturity selflessness and consideration about Katara's feelings #and Aang hadn't made a single sacrifice to be with Katara #that's how you spot a trophy relationship

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

#so confused about people saying the season finale feels like the end because to me it didn't at all #there's like 5-10 issues immediately set up for another season #they're in a happy place at this point because they've both realized their love is bigger than anything else #and makes it worth working on their problems together #the problems are still very much there #both of them have deep self esteem/self loathing issues that haven't been resolved in the week since ed woke up #ed doesn't know about stede's trauma #they haven't talked through anything #and they'll be shit at starting/running an inn lmao it's not gonna go well #and those are just some of the internal issues #then there's prince ricky and all the authorities that would very much like to get their hands on both blackbeard and stede bonnet #because stede just full-on kept using his government name after faking his death. nice one #the crew are not “gone” they're more like off to college for a bit but will probably run into trouble immediately #again because while they escaped to the ship they didn't eliminate the threat (the british empire) #it's not a forever goodbye #ok this got super long already anyway i have a whole fic marinading in my brain until i've finished these 4 wips i'm in the middle of ✌️ #hope we get a renewal soon because i want to see the rest of their story!! #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death

[puppyeared]

au where asriel comes home early

#this came to me in a dream but i dont remember the rest #i just think it would be pretty interesting if asriel comes home since im assuming the game #takes place over a series of days until he comes back from college #i havent kept up with deltarune since chapter 2 came out so i dont remember much abt the theories around asriel #esp what ralsei is supposed to be- im kinda suspicious of ralsei actually since he didnt mention the roaring until #the end of chapter 2. plus we dont know why hes able to go between dark worlds without freezing so im a little sus #plus noelle points out that he looks like asriel so it makes me wonder if ralsei knows abt that or ow he would react to that information #and when noelle points it out she gets cut off because she says ralsei turned to face them as she was thinking that. hmmmm #im also curious if we actually get to see asriel and what he looks like so im looking forward to that #my art #myart #doodles #utdr #deltarune #ralsei #asriel dreemurr #deltarune asriel #kris dreemurr #deltarune kris #deltarune fanart #au #i dont think id actually call it an au its more of a one off but if anyone wants to take this and run go for it ^_^ #its probably already been done at some point anyway lol

[dandelionandkrindle]

THE LAST OF US 1x01 - "When You're Lost in the Darkness"

sarah reacting to joel's violence vs. ellie reacting to it (based on this post)

#joel miller #sarah miller #ellie williams #the last of us #tlou #tlou hbo #tlouedit #tlouhboedit #tlou spoilers #spoilers #thinking abt this parallel in regards to tlou2 and the violence that we know ellie herself is so capable of #sarah is horrified bc up until that point she'd gotten to live an ordinary and normal life #whereas ellie has had to fight to survive since the moment she was born

[vurelly]

every day i wake up, go to work, get home, and draw robots getting kisses but why don’t the robots draw ME getting kisses

#vu talks shit #and by every day i mean every day since saturday cause i've been cleaning up the kofi sketch requests #up until this point i haven't drawn so much as a headbonk towards sun or moon HAUHGAEU

[todayisafridaynight]

journalists underestimate the magnitude of my addiction and how far i'll go for the bit

#snap chats #im lying i physically could not marathon this i got school LMAO BUT IMAGINE #my god speaking of school i signed up for a japanese history class. because of course i did #i also needed an extra class and i didnt know what else to put LMAO but i might swap it or somn #thinkin i should get back into theater..... i got like two months to decide anyway #i was thinking about how im gonna play IW during streams... if the lord will let me i might stream for 2~3 hours or so #im putting such a small time limit due to Aforementioned School but also idk if my computer can record any longer than that #when i tried saving the video to my flashdrive it only lasted about two some hours right ? maybe 3 if i remember right #i decided to record to my computer's hard drive instead of the usb since it has more space so maybe i can record longer #ill prob do a test run later today and record a nonsense video. i WILL delete it i just wanna see what the limit is #cause my plan is to just Record One -> Upload It -> Delete OG yk. Lazy Susan type of plan #didnt mean to type out my whole gameplan in the tags LOL BUT HEY I WANTED TO TALK BOUT IT AT SOME POINT #my final message is that ive Hopefully preordered the ichi statue. i say Hopefully cause i am once again doing it through jp rabbit #and i didnt get the confirmation it was successful yet so I Will Simply Wait. #point is it was a lot cheapter than i thought it was going to be <3 yay <3 #ok im running out of tags tl;dr im gonna marathon IW until my eyes bleed BYYYE

[palmclan]

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#palmclan #clan generator #clangen #palmclan main story #palmclan wavechaser #palmclan skyheart #palmclan gullpaw #palmclan crabkit #palmclan saltwing #palmclan puddlesplash #palmclan squidkit #ok im going to be honest ive kind of grown to resent this blog. i started the comic a few weeks ago because i was super hyperfixated #on warrior cats and clangen. i could not get myself to stop thinking about starting my own clangen blog. for a little while i did have fun #with it but now i can hardly convince myself to post the finished pages. now #since i do have a few pages drawn in advance #maybe i will pick back up some time and i wont ever loose inspiration. but im an oc guy. im allergic to making fandom art and the only #reason this went on as long as it did was because these are technically ocs. but theyre attatched to a fandom and they mean nothing to me. #this is a shame because clangen has a great deal of appeal to me. the concept of continuing one clan for a very long time is TREMENDOUSLY #exciting to me. it makes me want to keep a clan going for years and years until it's completely unrecognizable. but i dont think i have it #in me to give attention to any characters who arent a part of one of my main projects which i love so dearly. and ill admit when i was so #obsessed with palmclan i kind of put aside everything else. it was a very bad hyperixation. i couldnt stop thinking about it to the point #misery. not just a oh haha wow i cant focus because im so obsessed but a serious god i am in misery because i cannot get my brain to take a #break for even a moment. so of course this wouldnt last. #and im saying all this #but maybe i will return to palmclan. i will post all of the existing pages. but i dont know if ill draw more. which is a shame. i had ideas #but i wont do it if it makes me miserable #if you like my art follow @incbot24. i dont really post because i have had no reason to #but i do have some art there to look at and if you like it and are interested in the characters it might be worth your time #its not warrior cats though so be aware

[koifrog]

can we see tango pwease :3?

ABSOLUTELY YOU CAN!!

His first gotcha day was at the end of February this year 💚

#ask #talk #tango #he’s a little jerk I love him so much #also the toy he’s playing with here is literally a sock stuffed with plastic bags and he’s been obsessed with it since day 1 #he beats the shit out of it until it is ragged and full of holes and I have to replace it #he’s on iteration like. 5 at this point #the most recent ones been holding up really well for some reason

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinks about the master & the doctor cuddling thinks about them cuddling thinks about them cuddling thinks about them cuddlign thinks-

#its a vrry specific flavor of cuddling its like. #its exhausted. first of all. and its lonely. #its the kind of cuddling that starts because one of you literally flopped on top of the other and wouldnt move #and then started squirming to become an even bigger hiderance than they already were if they were being ignored #its a puppy pile of two. they are in the weirdest most uncomfortable looking positions imaginable #you look at them and you think ‘this is how glass sculptures would cuddle if glass sculptures had feelings and were touch-starved’ #its a cuddle that might end with one of them putting the other in a full body lock for whatever reason. either to keep them from running #or because they had a nightmare. they do have nightmares you know. and they aren’t fun to sleep next to. the best comfort is a good defense #its the kind of cuddling where one of them is awake for too long. breathing slowly so they dont disturb their partner and staring. #memorizing. taking note of every difference since last time. #its the kind of cuddling where even if you walked in on them at a point where while they were asleep theyd scooted apart and weren’t #touching anymore. you’d still notice that they’re practically mirror images. curled up the same way and facing each other. until one of them #kicks in their sleep and disturbs the illusion. but still. #you get me? #and also theres biting.

[sysig]

Hiya :) I've been getting into DSMP animatics, and I love seeing the different interpretations of the character designs even though I only have a vague sense of the lore so far. It's all got cool vibes!! Can I request a drawing of Ranboo or Wilbur, or maybe even both? I'm not sure if they actually ever interact in the story or not, but I'd say interpret the prompt however you want and have fun??

Day 19 - Stuck inside

#My art #Requestober #DSMP #Ranboo #Yeah I don't think I've seen any instances of Wilbur and Ranboo meeting either :0 #Well they did meet when Ghostbur came into town after the whole thing with Techno and Phil was still under house arrest #But I don't think they had any particularly hard-hitting moments just pleasant greetings haha #Which is a shame! Then again everything is a missed opportunity with what Ghostbur didn't get to do huh haha #I never really got into Alivebur so I opted for Ranboo for this one :) #See! He and Ghostbur would've both had to hide from the rain! Lore-wise anyhow haha #In this case I was thinking of Ranboo going to visit Michael and then it starts raining #Although it would only snow where Michael is wouldn't it? Ahhh just don't sweat the details too much lol #I don't think I ever saw Tubbo's house either - and Ranboo kinda moved in with Techno too didn't he? #At least at one point he was next door I think - man it's been a while since I brushed up on my half-learned lore lol #Point is! Rain outside Ranboo inside! #Hopefully someone will come to visit him soon :) Or it'll stop raining so he can go run around some more haha #Also the kinda ghosting effect on the glass was not intentional! :0 I actually didn't notice until now haha #I think I like it though :D

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

On the subject of gotham county line and batman noel and so on and so forth it’s pretty frustrating (from a watsonian pov) that anytime Bruce hallucinates Jason being loving/ caring/helpful/compassionate towards him it’s always as robin and never as his current self

#it's ironic because Jason as robin never got the chance to become as obedient & devoted (malleable) to Bruce as he currently is #which is a result of being abused/manipulated for a more prolonged period of time #“maybe if I try harder and do it right this time he'll finally see the truth” #classic abuse tactic #no matter how well the victim fits the mold set by the abuser they’ll never acknowledge it #rather if they see you trying they’ll push harder and tell you you’re not perfect #the small shreds of affection here and there are important for motivating the victim to keep trying #kelseethe #Jason initiating the hug in rhato 27 after Bruce insinuated that those beatings will be a regular occurence bc he deems it a necessity #continuing to support Bruce even after Ethiopia and sticking around to help get Damian back #eagerly cooperating with Bruce + co in event leviathan then getting surprise pikachu faced/hurt after being betrayed #making a conscious decision to comfort Bruce in gotham war after Bruce fucked him up and left him behind #having undying conern for Bruce's wellbeing while Bruce regularly endangers his life #ex. Bruce's weird habit of committing vehicular assault on Jason whenever they're on the road demonstrated both in tfz and gotham war #point being: Jason was much more psychologically fit to be defiant towards Bruce when he was robin compared to now #he's more of a “good son”™ now than he was as robin Bruce is just too used to thinking whatever he wants and never being satisfied #the only times Jason got mad/upset at Bruce during one issue and continued to stay mad until the next #other than lost days and utrh was batman 410-411 and early in aditf before Bruce helps Jason find Sheila #so much worse has happened since then and all that just magically became water under the bridge off-panel

[layla-carstairs]

hmm since Clary also has the scar from having contact with an angel, do you think all of Clace's kids will inherit it? like will it stop being the "one of our ancestors fucked in a cave" scar & start being the "our ancestors were child experiments" scar?

#like up until this point it's been solely a Herondale thing since its only inherited father to son #but if it starts going mother to daughter too then after a few generations it will lose the herondale association #(or whatever lastname Clace end up going with lol) #also it would be an anti-incest measure because All their descendants would have it & pretty much no one else #which is really funny actually #bella talks #bella reads cob #clary fairchild #jace herondale #will herondale #the mortal instruments #the infernal devices #tessa gray #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tmi #tid #clace

[theprinceandthewitch]

After learning how Dana was never gonna get into the Wittebro and Evelyn lore, it makes sense why they wasted their final two episodes on TC's redemption and Huntlow lol.

That's pretty horrific ngl.

It really does make you wonder how The Kiss in SAI was going to happen without ever showing us Philip's history with Caleb and Evelyn.

In SAI, they literally made King say, "skip to the finale because it's quite a payoff" over a whole ass Lunter kiss, but they were never going to get into Philip's backstory... that kiss was a thing that was on their minds and... idk man, I think we should be grateful TOH got canceled, considering how the canon couples played out lmao.

I thought that they had Caleb and Evelyn's story figured out and were gonna do a big reveal after the build-up they did in HM and TTT [plus, the grimwalker details hidden in the background in previous episodes]. But it's like... oh... no... they weren't ever gonna go there. They were only ever going to give us vague hints in the background, which will be missed by most people. It existed purely as theory fuel because they were never gonna give us shit LMAO. And hey man, I'll take these Caleb/Evelyn = Lunter hints - because Luz and Hunter getting together makes sense for the main story, but that doesn't mean the show should get pass for neglecting its main villain.

So, yeah, it's no wonder why Belos is completely absent in season 1 - he is not considered to be the most important piece to the story. That's why season 1 is Like That... they wanted a multi season show, but they didn't want to put alot of effort into into their main antagonistic force - the thing that actually drives the main conflict in a story.

That's - uh. hm.

So that's why Hunter doesn't show up until Season 2 - not for shippy reasons, but it's because of his history with Belos. Hunter is tied to Belos' backstory, but the writers didn't actually want to show us his backstory, so the lil man needed to get placed in limbo for a whole season. Without Hunter and Philip, they can continue to avoid the main plot for as long as they want to.

That's - hm... TOH getting cancelled really was a blessing all alone tbh

#lunter #see. this is why if I was ever going to do a rewrite I would need to throw out the whole plot up until WBW #but im not going to do that since I might as well write my own goddamn story at that point #TOH's plot can't be fixed with just a few touch-ups - it's whole frame is fucked up and you need to tear it down #to build a new one

[antaripirate]

this is the exact scene from ACOL just before they board The Ghost, actually

#kell and lila were already like a married couple by acol i will take no arguments #also completely irrelevant to the post but #went on a date with someone last night who i basically didn’t know at all #and halfway through the night he was like #hold up #are your eyes different colours or have i had too much wine??? #and it surprised me so fucking much bc people never realise it ahahaha #including my best friend who i literally dates for four years and have known since i was 11 #who didn’t notice until someone else pointed it out i- #anyway #ramble over #just needed to mention it to someone before i exploded #gnight #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #kell maresh #a conjuring of light #lila bard #a gathering of shadows #v e schwab #delilah bard #kellila #holland vosijk

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

How do you get characterization so PERFECT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!? HOW PLEASE ITS SO BEAURIFUL MY EYES TURNED TO TEARS PLEASE

i'm not sure if i'd say Perfect but thank you! accurate characterization is very important to me, and one of my favorite things to do is analyze the shit out of characters until i feel like i Know Them

#this is actually why yall havent gotten an actual welcome home fic outta me yet #i feel like i have a better grasp on everyone but mmmmm im missing important pieces to fully Understand yk #ive been fascinated with picking apart characters for years and years #i remember being a freshman in highschool deconstructing bakugo until i was like 'oh ok im the only bitch who gets him. ok' #and i have only ever been proven right and vindicated Since! #but i try i try #if im making something thats actively memey i let myself be a little lax on characterization #but the rest of the time im like This Needs To Be As On Point As I Can Manage #for myself! for others! for the Source! #rambles from the bog #something that helps me stay focused and determined #is asking myself 'how would it feel to have people mischaracterize MY brain guys' #and then my soul shrivels up and i start studying whoever im writing lmao #im always scared that im falling short... i hate writing things that are ooc...

[zero-is-nebulous]

Some pesky bird sketches I coloured from my anatomy study that I'm probably not gonna finish oops

#i think ive drawn grian once in my life until this point btw #just randomly getting mildly obsessed with hermitcraft every 6-17 months dont mind me #ive only watched like #season 8 and 9 religiously tho #i wanna go back and watch the other seasons but its just SO long #same deal with last life etc #anyway #grian #grian fanart #avian grian #hermitcraft #mcyt #pesky bird #parrot grian #watcher grian #anatomy study #not rlly tho #i jusy havent drawn wings properly since my mlp phase and needed to hype myself up abt it #yippee #🌩nebulous' art🌒