I Heard Someone Swear “you Mother Fuck!” Over The Phone The Other Day, And All I Could Think Of Was

just thinking about how Zuko had a bandage over his eye and therefore had no depth perception when he went to visit all of the air temples in his search. No depth perception. At an air temple. How the fuck did he not die.

headcanon that Uncle Iroh always made sure to stand in between Zuko and the edge so that he could make sure his nephew didn’t fall. 🥺

vi got colonised tbh. it gives me that feeling when a rich white old man gets with a young SEA lady, brings her to britain and she only gets to see her family through facetime, and that's also the only time she speaks her native language because her man refuses to learn it

cait basically erased vi's identity as a zaunite. she loved vi in spite of that, instead of as a part of her. like how she told vi that she's not like the other zaunites, and saying 'i thought you were one of us' fully expecting her to step away from her people.

vi's been assimilated into piltover, even going against her own ideals by becoming part of the people (enforcers) who killed her parents, who were responsible for executing the systematic oppression of zaun. yet caitlyn's never assimilated into zaun, never even stepping foot into zaun beyond the first caitvi meeting and later when she was gassing the citizens. the show ended with vi living with caitlyn in the top 1% of piltover; no mutual exchange of culture. caitlyn never had to change her mind about zaun the way vi changed her mind about piltover, and remained oblivious to her own privilege and her family's legacy on zaun.

it's just that the sacrifices vi has made for cait, on her identity and on a moral level, has been completely one-sided. this, the imbalanced power dynamic and caitlyn's subtle prejudice against zaun (*) have never been acknowledged in the show. so for them to get back together and have their happy ending without some sort of introspective reflection feels. very uncomfortable. feels like cognitive dissonance.

(*) i say subtle because other than the warcrimes moment, cait often voices her opposition to extreme measures against zaun. however, she supports 'no extreme measures' and 'they are people too' as normative ideas, not really having the ability to recognise the violation of these ideas when it's in front of her and especially not when she's the one violating them. there's constantly an undercurrent of subconscious prejudice in her attitude towards zaunites, and just, a real lack of understanding

My friend was messing with Never Gonna Give You Up on her record player and she sped it up. It beCAME A FREAKING MAGICAL GIRL THEME.

IM GONNA CRY!!!!!

i like how literally everyone in the gaang is so good at coming up with convincing alter egos except for zuko and sokka.

katara and toph can come up with identities that are completely fitting for the situation, while aang just acts so outrageously that no one even suspects that he’s going undercover. (”there’s no way that this kuzon kid has anything to hide. it’s like he’s begging to be noticed.”)

zuko and sokka on the other hand…are complete ass at it. they discover this when the gaang tell zuko about the dumb shit they got themselves into in the fire nation.

zuko: wang fire? you named yourself wang fire? that’s like if i infiltrated the southern water tribe under the name mr. ice water.

sokka: oh yeah? if you’re so good at going undercover, then what was your alias in the earth kingdom?

zuko: lee

sokka: go on…

zuko: just…lee…

sokka: oh. so you decided to create an earth kingdom identity using literally the most common name in the fire nation. how clever. you should have just named yourself ZUKO WITH A C AND IT WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME EFFECT

zuko: I WAS PANICKING OKAY?

aang, katara, and toph see sokka and zuko being potential liabilities if they ever need to go undercover again. they make it a game to randomly give sokka and zuko scenarios to which they have to create an alter ego on the spot. sometimes sokka and zuko will just be chilling at the western air temple, cloud watching or some dumb shit like that, and suddenly it’ll be like…

aang: QUICK YOU WERE SPOTTED TRYING TO GAIN ACCESS TO AN EXCLUSIVE COUNCIL MEETING AT THE NORTHERN WATER TRIBE. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE THERE?

sokka: uh uH…oh oh! i know! i’m the ghost of the 33rd chief of the northern water tribe, chief tunriq, here to preserve the spiritual sanctity of my—

aang: okay i’m gonna stop you right there. zuko, your turn.

zuko: can’t i just fight them and get it over with?

aang: no!

sokka and zuko get pretty decent at it when they have to infiltrate the fire nation again, and they all continue playing this game long after the war is over. even though they don’t need to go into hiding anymore, it’s still a useful skill to have whenever they wanna disguise themselves as regular people to hang out. in a few month’s time, sokka and zuko are able to whip up pretty elaborate back stories on the spot, and the gaang feels like they’re finally ready to put their skills to use in public. but oh god. does it backfire.

random civilian: hey! you look a lot like the avatar’s friend. sokka from the southern water tribe.

sokka: i get that all the time. my name’s lee. i run a tea shop with my uncle in the earth kingdom.

random civilian: you mean like firelord zuko’s alter ego…? now that i think about it your friend looks a lot like him. who are you?

zuko: i am but a humble servant to firelord zuko, here to escort these earth kingdom civilians around the fire nation as part of the firelord’s campaign to make our country more hospitable to the other nations.

aang, katara, and toph: *whispers* oh my god he did it

zuko: my name is…wang fire

aang, katara, and toph: *commence internal sobbing*

from that point on, aang, katara, and toph decide that they should do the talking for them.

Coming into a fandom late

some tea boy zukos from my twitter

found family dynamics i adore:

the entire gang shares 1 (one) braincell which they takes turns passing around

unwilling teammates gradually grow on each other

Area Man Forcibly Adopted by Several Children

bonded over shared trauma

none of us have actual families or homes to go back to anymore, but at least we have each other

“every single one of these guys has tried to kill me at least once, but we’re cool now and i’d trust them with my life”

redemption arc comes with bonus new family and friends (bonus feature is non-negotiable and eventual acceptance inevitable)

i WAS going to leave the group and go my own way as soon as this job was over - and i would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for my meddling heart!

villains with Feelings™

Officer I Swear I’ve Never Met Any Of These People In My Life (But If Anything Were To Happen To Them I Would Kill Everyone Here And Then Myself)