#if teenagers on tiktok can post thirst traps and not be embarrassed then i can pose with my sword damn it
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This is your permission to take advantage of some ridiculously harsh sunlight for the specific purpose of posting low-quality cringe
#my mask is on because i'm not about to post my whole face lol. but somehow the mask makes it more cringe#i need one of those little white coifs asdfgdsgdh#anyway say hello to my friend. got him for myself as a birthday present in the summer <33 he does have a name but it's too embarrassing#i can't tell if these pictures are giving me gender euphoria or making me feel even smaller#though i did see a dude on the subway yesterday who was my exact height so that felt good#i might delete this but at least i found an opportunity to wear my green hoodie shirt#it's going to be part of my robin hood costume for halloween if i ever finish it#maybe the sword also. but likely my other sword which is smaller.#if teenagers on tiktok can post thirst traps and not be embarrassed then i can pose with my sword damn it#like you know when you see sun streaks and just turn into a golden retriever?? ye.#i've got this one friend who's convinced i have 'the tism' and if they see this they're gonna go wild sdfgfdsfdgh (because special interest#like every time we go out there's a point when i start going off about the middle ages or something and they just laugh (affectionately)#it's not my fault my dad let me watch monty python and the holy grail at age 7 and bought me knight costumes
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my pet peeve is azula fanart that draws her sexy af. short schoolgirl skirts and cleavage out and bold lipstick 24/7. and like. i get it. her color is red. she’s intimidating to u. she’s #meangirl #darkacademia #trustfundkid to u. she’s an east asian girl and you’re having some trouble w metacognition right now, to say the least.
but this is a 14yo girl who is TERRIFIED of displeasing her father in any way or any amount. ozai is tyrannical, prone to violence, w black-and-white vision where you’re loyally in or you’re permanently out of his in-group, and prone to taking any actions of his children as personal attacks, statements, embarrassments, and injuries. he is a narcissist who nearly killed her older brother in front of her, then tossed him out to sea for an entirely age-appropriate social mis-step, who inhabited a world of domination and violence, likely displayed some level of domestic and spousal violence in front of and possibly against azula when she was younger. ozai regularly treats and respects azula as a possession of his.
all that and you think 14yo azula is dressing sexy?? azula is wearing dad-approved jeans and plain solid-color t shirts. azula is begging to get her ears pierced. canon azula is dressed, advised, served, and socialized by adults. she has no comprehension of how to do makeup or her own hair. she lives in a massively, toxically radically masculine world of logic, violence, dominated/dominator duality, career-focused, emotionless, loveless lives, and u think that this girl, raised by her violent and possessive father, without a mother or single older woman around, can do anything for her hair besides a ponytail?
azula uses st. ives apricot facial scrub and neutrogena grandma lotion her elderly housekeepers buy for her, she wears ponytails and buns she learned exclusively from youtube tutorials that she watched in secret, she wears practical polo shirts and dark wash jeans that ozai approves of his daughter wearing outside, and for occasions she has a stylist that puts her into designer blazers and adult black dresses. on those occasions she looks so 14 trying to be a real adult, like the soulless and joyless ones that surround her. she’s intimidating in spite of/with her non-sexiness. not because of it.
and i do see azula going high femme as an adult. and i do think when she wants to rebel against ozai, in scenarios where she’s taken in by iroh as well, she goes for daring teenage tiktok looks (“one positive side to my first guardian being put in jail is that apparently my new guardian is willing to let me download social medias, so I have a tiktok now. he even fired the intern in charge of my official instagram and let me be the one to delete it.”)
but like. cmon guys. azula, as we know her in canon, will not rebel an inch. she is safely, terrifiedly sitting in her approved corner, and that’s not where sexy is. where’s that post abt how zuko is an iroh-advised grandpa sweater polo shirt prep kid. real after-school kumon/mathnasium core. that’s azula too. she’s wearing lots of gold jewelry and a halter top in the beach episode but don’t let that fool you. that’s her first time dressing up “to be a normal teen” and she coats herself in the equivalent of head-to-toe gucci because that’s how other #teenz dress, right??
and like. how come the nerdy dorky sheltered traumatized brother is often acknowledged as the grandpa sweater polo shirt prep he is, w thirst traps, as is his human right, but some ppl view azula, who shares most of those traits, as constantly seductive? how come it’s this character, an east asian teen girl, who wears the miniskirt and the red lipstick of the gaang to some of u? let’s think abt it for 2 seconds
okay rant done i have a capri sun now :)
#atla#avatar the last airbender#azula#princess azula#azula redemption#azula apologism#mango speaks#myy writing#zuko and azula#azula and zuko
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