#Lin Beifong

[yukaro353]

Any armor I see is an Outfit for Lin

[hannah-muzi]

Random lin beifong fanart I made cause yes

[expectiations]

Tenzin, recalling how he met Lin: "and she just swept me right off my feet—"

Bolin: "aweeeee."

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Lin, recalling how she met Tenzin: "so I roundhouse kicked the idiot and sent him flying into the wall—"

[danbeifong]

Lin Beifong - Reference Image

[the1980sgamerguy]

did Lin beifong had sex with Kya before going to work

Lin giving Kya kisses before work. 

[korrasamibottles]

Genuinely. This interaction is tattooed on my brain for all time.

[mitochondria-larson]

I am very clearly deranged I simply couldn't not post this

[dollvix]

I looooove the Linzumi friends to lovers that starts with Izumi being there for Lin after the breakup so she doesn't leave her alone (like the rest) and ends with them falling in love.

And her going undercover to help her even on dangerous missions? yeah, there's no better way to avoid the sedentary lifestyle of being the Princess and future Fire Lord than making sure your woman gets out alive, very badass.

I think I could kiss your brain, I love it, thank you so much for sharing!

Izumi has a lot of things on her mind, but the main thing is to keep Lin alive.

🫀

Izumi dressed simple to look low-key and accompany Lin on a mission, Because since she's been single she doesn't seem to know the meaning of "be careful".

[d4rkerthanbl4ck]

The amount of queer people this show birthed must actually be astronomical.

[t3rrarium]

"They have never interacted in canon" TO YOU I've seen them kiss though

[wilcze-kudly]

People will go on about how "Katara's story is a tragedy" because she... ended up marrying the guy she loves, having children and grandchildren which she was always excited about and literally becoming a master waterbender and rising to the top of her field as a healer.

Yes, Katara's story has tragic aspects to it. And there are certainly flaws in how she is written in tlok (Though I will argue that there are actually more issues with how Toph and Zuko are just plopped in there for no reason in later seasons). And her storylines aren't perfect, for example her resolving her trauma around the murder of her mother being more used to prop up Zuko than her own internal turmoil. (Most of TSR is from Zuko's perspective and I hate that actually)

"Katara's story is a tragedy" Why do you have such a hard on for this woman's misery? Let her be happy, man.

You know what gaang girlie's life is an actual onscreen tragedy?

Toph's!

People will fucking downplay Toph's childhood abuse because she wasn't physically hurt, but her childhood was a never ending carousel of abelism, misogyny, neglect and isolation. The way Toph describes her parent's treatment of her as "pressure and pain" is heartbreaking.

Toph's only escape was Earth Rumble and earthbending, but despite her skills, she remained the perfect little lady her parents always wanted her to be. She's never known a different life, and she was only able to be her real self in secret.

And when Toph finally opens up to her parents, when she finally lays her real self bare in front of the people who are supposed to love and care for her?

She is met with what may be, in my opinion, the cruellest rejection in the show.

Despite this, even when Toph runs away, she still cares for her parents' approval. Hell, she's even lured into a trap due to her getting a forged letter from her mom and getting excited because it looked like her mom was finally accepting her.

It's also important to note how determined to be self sufficient and to prove herself Toph is. We can especially see this right after she joins the Gaang, where she refuses to participate in splitting with the rest of the group, insisting on "pulling her own weight". This isn't Toph being a brat, or spoilt, this is her wanting to prove that she can handle herself because people have handled and understimated her her entire life.

Eventually, Toph starts to learn to trust the members of the Gaang and this is a step in the right direction. She's literally making friends for the first time in her life I'm so proud of her.

However, I was genuinely upset when Toph's life changing field trip with Zuko didn't work out. When Toph was trying to connect with Zuko and he blew her off (I'm not blaming him tho they had shit to do), I couldn't help but remember the rejection Toph suffered from Lao.

Post canon, Toph continues to try and prove herself, starting a metalbending school and training new metalbenders.

She also reconciles with her father. Not before Lao disowns he rmultiple times and calls her a rude, ungrateful thing. And while he eventually comes to understand Toph and cherish her, that type of trauma sticks with you.

So it's no wonder really that Toph, someone who went her entire childhood seemingly without even speaking to someone her age, would have trouble forming connections. She has children with two different men, neither of which seem to stick around.

Toph tries to do right by her daughters and gives them the freedom she never got. Sadly, the pendulum swung too far to the other side, since it seems that she started to neglect her daughters, which led to them developing a sleugh of issues of their own.

Toph becomes the cheif of police, which kind of makes sense. Republic City was only slowly emerging as an actual metropolis. Toph took on a role as a protector, and probably as a way to prove herself. But as Republic City grew, Toph probably realised that she became something she hated. A cog in the machine, and started to despise her job.

Searching for a semblance of the freedom and happiness her travels afforded her in her childhood, Toph leaves the city and takes up the life of a hermit in a swamp. She managed to fix her relationship with Suyin to some extent, but still seems reluctant or simply unable to connect with her daughter or grandchildren. Since she apparently hasn't seen Opal, a grown 20 year old woman since she was a little girl.

On the surface old Toph doesn't seem terribly dissimilar to young Toph, still tough and spunky. But she is more jaded, depressed and pessimistic. She comes out to save Suyin from immediate harm and manages to somewhat reconcile with Lin, but then she fucks right back off to the swamp where she seems to literally hide until Wu and Korra straight up force her to come with them.

Toph's story began with her alone and it seems to end with her alone as well. It's a story of a girl who grew up isolated and handled by others, and was woefully unprepared for the real world, which only jaded her further. She lives with the guilt of fucking up her daughters' lives and a belief in the pointlessness of life.

Toph started off longing to experience the world and ended up willingly isolating herself from it.

If that isn't a tragedy, I'm not sure what is.

Mind you, this is not the trauma olympics. I'm not saying that Toph has suffered more than Katara or that Katara's trauma is not as valid as Toph's. Katara and Toph's experiences are completely different, Katara being a victim of genocide and war, Toph being a victim of child abuse. I'm just saying that, objectively, Katara had a happier 'ending' than Toph.

[dollvix]

I guess there are two options: that they used the same matching pajamas in their relationship and that they continue to use them either copy’s or the same ones because their bodies wouldn't change much in 15 years being both so athletic

or that when they see each other again they opted for those because well, their outfits are very specific to their role and it's not like they allow themselves accessories and the pajamas would be the only thing they could freely decide on besides that Lin's blue could be for Tenzin's eyes or associated with his part of the water tribe and Tenzin's could be less like the strong yellow of the Air Nation and more like the dull yellow of Gaoling

✨APT.mp4✨

HAHAHA. it's been a while since I last made an edit… and this is what I ended up with. LSS: APT 😆 I'M SORRY.

Book 1 LINZIN >>>

hahaha kasalanan to ng mga APT remixes sa tiktok e XD LAROOOOO

[flameobitch]

I really like Kya's hair!!!

[a--p--i]

Lok ladies that gave me a sexuality crisis

[sengiewhy]

lin beifong beloved ur so hot to me