#How They Get Mako

[rocketbirdie]

meanwhile, in another timeline

[mintjuliee]

[moment-live]

Unreliable narrator

[starboardharpy]

They hate each other. Trust 🤞

Featuring my small redesigns

[beifong-brainrot]

Tlok is so weird about abuse, particularly when their female charcters are abusive towards their male characters.

Like Eska's abuse by Bolin was played completely for comedy. Despite him being shown as clearly uncomfortable, and crying on multiple occasions.

This is especially upsetting because Bolin has been shown as being a rather vulnerable individual with trouble setting healthy boundaries and an aversion to saying 'no'. But even when he does actively express his discomfort and attempts to end the relationship, his autonomy is violated and he is literally forcefully engaged to Eska. And we are supposed to laugh.

He is shown to be so traumatised by the experience that he still actively panics when shown even a picture of Eska and is clearly very hurt that Mako didn't offer him more help in the situation. Which is honestly understandable.

Speaking of which, Mako and Korra's relationship in B2 was... troubled to say the least. Now, Korra had a lot on her plate and was rightfully stressed by the events happening. However, it seemed that she often took her stress out on Mako, getting into arguments with him and yelling at him.

She kicked his fucking desk across the room. While Mako may have upset her by going behind her back and ratting her out to Raiko, but this is no way to react. But we are supposed to be annoyed and angry with Mako, and we are meant to see Korra reacting so violently as justified. [While I don't like Mako's actions in B2 he didn't deserve this.]

This is not helped in the slightest after Lin enters the scene, and comments on thw mess, saying that he 'got off easy'. And she implies that she committed even more property damage after Tenzin broke up with her.

Ah, Lin. I think while Korra and Eska's actions toward Mako and Bolin have been called out sometimes, we tend to overlook how fucking horrifying what we're told about Lin's reaction to Tenzin breaking up with her is.

Because, if we think about this for a little, this is a scary situation. Lin is a very strong and physical person who has been shown to be quick to violence. Air Temple Island is Tenzin's home, and the home of multiple Air Acolytes, full of fragile artifacts that we are shown that he values tremendously and for which he feels personally responsible for.

Ans it's honestly hard to believe that Lin didn't know this about Tenzin, since they persumably have known each other for a while. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if she damaged the temple because she knew it would hurt him.

And it's understandable that this wasn't presented as a very morally wrong thing to do, since the 'crazy ex girlfriend' isn't an unpopular trope in comedy, but it is damaging. Since it plays women doing genuinely scary and upsetting things towards men for comedy, therefore making it more difficult to take such behaviour seriously.

But hey, I guess we can kinda pretend that Lin most likely damaging Air Temple Island with earthbending is comparable to egging someone's house or keying their car. So let's let that slide.

Oh yeah, she also abused her position as chief of police in order to try and get rid of a romantic rival.

Which is extremely fucked up, especially with how Lin presents herself as extremely professional and serious about her job, yet she apparently used it to terrorise a woman for 'stealing' her partner. What kind of bunny boiler shit is this.

And all of these scenes presenting Lin as a vengeful, borderline abusive ex to Tenzin are presented as comedic, further driving tlok's most likely unintentional message of normalising female on male abuse. It's not as in your face as Eska's abuse of Bolin, to the point that without the context of Eska and Korra's behaviour, I wouldn't really point Lin out, but with this context, you can't help but consider it.

Once is by chance. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern.

And I hate to make this argument, but if the genders were reversed in these situations?

If a boy were pressuring a young, emotionally vulnerable girl into marriage, treating her as his slave, manhandling her, getting angry when she speaks to a male friend?

If a young man were to scream at his girlfriend multiple times and go so far as to throw her desk across a room?

If a male policeman implied he caused severe property damage at his ex girlfriend's house after she broke up with him and if he tried to use his status to arrest her new partner? (you know, actually 40% of cops are- *gets shot*)

I feel like we'd have a completely different perspective.

While male on female abuse is still often stigmatised and overlooked, I still think that Eska, Korra and Lin's actions would be scrutinised more closely and reacted to more negatively if they were men. Concurrently, I think we would treat Bolin, Mako and Tenzin with more leniency and gave them more of the benefit of the doubt had they been women.

I want to think that this wasn't a message that was presented on purpose, but it's still one of my least favourite aspects of tlok and I genuinely dislike the part of the fandom that trivialises these actions by Korra, Lin and Eska.

[pixelatedraindrops]

I love me a good forehead-to-forehead check 🌡️

And Makoto’s got a LOTTA forehead on him~ 🤭

Just a doodle to practice side profiles

(and ofc i’m still horrible at them)

[tercka-s]

Obsessive Korrasami fans can be so horrobile sometimes.

[rocketbirdie]

The Rebirth B-Team that we deserved...

[skrunksthatwunk]

now that they've all got some downtime...

bonus:

[kirkwallguy]

ok i do have complaints and hate the gameplay (<- bad at it) but i am enjoying mass effect MUCH more now im out of the citadel.

[cold-neon-ocean]

Remember when I drew everyone as horses lolol??? I should bring that back tbh that was fun. I can't believe these are 3 years old (yeah i can sheesh) I kinda want to bring this AU back though, it was fun and evoked happiness for me ;; my silly horsies

[mako-the-zora]

im 5 minutes into my chicken research and i already want to give up, there's just so many breeds im gonna go crazy😭😭😭 (but i did find something interesting, theres some crossbreeds that are "sex links" im still confused at what a sex link is, but it was so funny, wdym theres chickens with the word "link" a joke is waiting to be made, i just don't know wich one)

am i overthinking this, probably, at first i thought "it would be fun to make the main character cuccos have some fun features" but then i was like "hmm theres probably different cuccos per reagion, do i have to make different cucco breeds per reagion based on real life chicken breeds?" "would the other races have chicken farms? i don't see the zora having cucco farms, they eat mainly fish- would the rito have cucco farms? it sounds kinda wrong... (why the zora eating fish sounds right, they ARE fish...well i guess they are based off sharks in botw. But what of the river zora? do they eat fish?.)... back to the cuccos, the gorons don't have any reason to have cucco farms, also i doubt any cucco would survive in death mountain...(unless there was a special breed that can, and the gorons could consider them pets)....anyway the gerudo- same as death mountain i don't think it would be easy raising cuccos in the desert, but the gerudo did sell meat, did they also sell poultry? i don't remember... (where do the gerudo get the meat tho? theres nothing in the desert to hunt....unless its sand seal meat....im gonna ignore that option-)

i think im thinking too hard about this...

(probably hylians are the only ones that have cucco farms, but the cuccos wouldn't be the same in a cucco farm in a akkala and a cucco farm in necluda...right? diferent climates, diferent enviroment... are there cuccos in faron? sounds wrong...the people there seem more of a fisher comunity....they did have cows tho- so not impossible-!)

...i should go do another thing im hurting my brain

[starboardharpy]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT SHIPPED BRAD AND LEE FOR THE LONGEST TIME OH MY GOD??? Costars to Lovers my beloveds!!!

YEAHHHH :D I just remembered them while I was making my Find The (E)x post, and realised these two have potential, so I made a post about them because they'd have such an interesting dynamic, I feel

I just think they're neat :>

[dbarenzu626]

...What can I say, I love a good redraw challenge?

I saw this on my feed a few times and my brain made instant connection with what I was thinking of, so I took up redrawing this Archie comic panel with Main Triverse lovebirds, Mako Eikochino and Mimi Hiromi!

The sweet challenge with this was trying to mimic the poses with different body structures, after all, Mimi isn't inherently a slender character, she is pretty big-boned for a Jadesunian female. And with the height difference between her and Mako, that only added to the challenge. But I think I did exceptionally well in capturing a romantic snapshot of sorts here! Besides, the whole meme felt in character for Mimi to do.

In a way, you could call an alternate title of this "Sweeping the Swimmer Off Her Feet"... c'mon, it writes itself~

(To learn more about the ever ongoing work on “Stitch Triverse”, check out the Carrd site here! https://stitchtriverse.carrd.co. Or? Check out the new Tumblr account: @stitchtriverse! )

[avatarcompanion]

Makorrasami cheek kisses!

[milkfroggo]

Alo's parents! Mako's least favorite family, info below!

Their mother is Megan (or Meg) and their father is Dominic (or Don, I'm still workshopping it). All of their nicknames (and Mako's government name) make megalodon! Which is one of the reasons Mako changed their name, they don't want to be associated with them.

Both of them are distant from Mako but in separate ways, Meg raised them 'until they could survive on their own', which is common in shark-like kobolds but she still left Alo at a very very young age.

Don is a fisherman, often away on fishing trips. Once Meg left, instead of staying on land until Mako could get a job, he gave Alo enough money to last a few days and left. He usually returned in 2-3 days but month after month he slowly took more and more time at sea, never really giving Alo enough money to last that amount of time.

Many merchants noticed this, growing a steady hate for Don and teaching Alo many of the skills of their trade. Eventually Don returned from months at sea only to find a swarm of angry people all wanting to imprison him. Alo never saw either of their parents again after this until, they (not yet but almost Mako) reached out for help from them while they were at their worst, creating a memory that forever changed their outlook on their parents.