#ink rambles

[midnight1nk]

manifesting this shot for the smg4 sonic 3 episode 🕯️🕯️🕯️

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SLIGHT EPISODE 2 SPOILERS

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i AM HURT, i AM BETRAYED /LH

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Water Siblings and Fire Siblings as Foils

Katara and Sokka are peak sibling rep: they bicker, they hurt each other, they take turns being the voice of reason while the other goes batshit crazy—and they'd die for each other.

And very clearly Sokka's daddy's boy and Katara's momma's girl: and for most parts, they seem to be content with that dynamic.

Look, parents have favourites, let's establish that first: don't come at me for it.

But in a healthy environment, where all of the kids’ emotional needs are met irrespective of which kid gets along with which parent, they're less likely to tear themselves apart yearning for parental affection.

Sokka and Katara's family was a normal one, a healthy one—as healthy as one can be in a war ravaged world—and Sokka and Katara are normal siblings. Even after their mother died Katara doesn't seem to care much that Sokka gets more time with their father. And everytime she brings up their mother Sokka gets this weird look on his face, which, I think is later explained by the fact that he feels guilty that he doesn't even remember what their mother looked like. And it's not because Katara seems to know more about their mother despite being younger.

Neither of them grudge the other for having been close to one of the parents—let's call it ‘being close to’ instead of ‘dad/mum loved you/me more’ because that's what would come up with Azula and Zuko.

One can say that Azula's daddy's girl and Zuko's momma's boy... Except it isn't like that.

Azula wasn't loved by her father; neither was she close to him. If anything she had the illusion that she's close to him. But children can sense when they aren't loved, which can explain why she took her mother being close to Zuko so hard. Because she didn't get that from her father and isn't she supposed to be daddy's girl? But dad's good to her; mum... isn't. Dad lets her do what she wants... As long as she obeys him or she'd end up like Zuko.

For Ozai, both his children are pawns. He uses Azula to abuse Zuko, which in turn is to get at Ursa. And honestly, Ursa was a bad mum and an abuse victim and not the villain are takes that can co-exist.

A lot of mums in primarily patriarchal cultures end up abusing their own kids while trying to protect them in an environment where they themselves hold little power.

Ursa and Hakoda can be compared in this.

Katara haters can look away: she isn't whiny. And even if she is, well, she takes responsibility when no one else does so I guess she deserves to complain if that's what it takes. Katara is extremely mature. When she was mad at Hakoda, she still had the critical thinking skills to point out that yes, she understands why he left. He had to! She doesn't blame him for that, it wasn't his fault that there was war going on—but it still hurt!

And what does Hakoda do? He hugs her and apologises. He doesn't defend himself, because he doesn't need to. She understands! She said she does and he doesn't insult her by making excuses. He acknowledges and validates her pain.

Unlike Katara, who grew up in a healthy family with parents and grandparents and a whole community—Azula was isolated and under the influence of Ozai. And she was so young! If you remember being that young, you'd remember thinking that parents are always right. You don't realise that parents make mistakes too—and while her emotional needs weren't being met by Ozai, she turned to Ursa—but Ursa was at her wits end trying to undo the damage of Ozai's abuse on Zuko.

If she had given attention to Azula, Zuko, who thought that Azula was perfect and already had father's approval would have gone off rails—and since she didn't... Azula went off the rails.

Which was exactly how Ozai would want it. I don't like the comics much but it made sense that Ozai would hold both the children as bargaining chips against Ursa. Ursa made her choice, or rather, the illusion of her choice and Azula had to pay for it: the real reason Zuko could turn over a new page while Azula couldn't was because from the very beginning, Zuko had his mum and uncle.

Azula had no one!

Like Hakoda had to go to war and leave his children behind, Ursa had to choose between Azula or Zuko; Ozai orchestrated it as such.

But while there were people to pick up Hakoda's slack, there was no one to guide Azula. Sokka and Katara raised each other and they had Gran Gran.

Zuko and Azula were constantly pitted against each other by a war-mongering father.

I don't like this unrealistic expectations that fandom has of a family where both the siblings not only love each other equally, they also process emotions similarly (see: the Sokka vs Katara debate on how they both react to trauma) and parents who love all the kids equally.

Katara and Sokka are normal and realistic in the way that they are both different people: they process grief differently. Katara takes up responsibly and grows up too fast, it takes a toll on her and she's vocally expressive. She turns her grief into anger. Meanwhile Sokka internalises it in a survivor's guilt kind of way.

There's also gender involved in the way both pair of siblings interact. It's more subtle for the fire siblings than the water sibling. Plus, Suki makes Sokka drink his respect women juice, please y'all don't call Sokka sexist. That was character development for him which was addressed. I could make another post for gender and A:TLA.

And they both love each other dearly and they're okay with the fact that one is daddy's boy and the other is momma's girl. It's okay.

In contrast Zuko yearns for his father's affection and Azula yearns for her mother's. And while Zuko feels inadequate, for Azula it's “behave or you'll end up like your brother.”

She also learns to derive a sick sort of pleasure from watching Zuko suffer—which is entirely her father's doing. Because in rare moments when she doesn't have anything to gain by getting Zuko into trouble...she actually kind of looks out for him. It's extremely rare and sprinkled here and there to show us the Azula that could have been.

And I don't think Zuko really realised that Azula was abused too—not until he lets go of his father. Until the final Agni Kai. What I love about it is that despite portraying Azula as Zuko's tormentor for 3 seasons (and she was his tormentor) they did not frame the Agni Kai as some epic good vs evil shit.

Because from Zuko's point of view Azula was perfect. He's out here vying for his father's affection while she gets it freely. She's so lucky!—until he lets go of his father and realises what a monster he was... And he also realises that father never really loved Azula either...

They didn't say as much in words. But the final Agni Kai is proof enough. Zuko doesn't rejoice bringing Azula down (technically Katara did it). At this point, I guess, he realises that Azula's a kid too. Even younger than him—that their father couldn't care less about either of them.

Okay. I really do think that Zuko suddenly becoming invested in Azula's redemption would make sense after the Agni Kai. I also read this Twitter thread by Aaron Ehasz where he says he had plans for Azula's redemption and it was fantastic.

So yeah. Without being overt, the water siblings and fire siblings are contrasted by each other. Which is why I don't like the comics trying to do this brother-sister thing where they put Sokka and Katara and Zuko and Azula in back-to-back panels like... Even if I'm a huge supporter of Azula-deserves-redemption I didn't like those panels in the comics.

P.S. don't pit Sokka and Katara against each other. You aren't Ozai. They're different people who process trauma and loss differently and hence, react differently.

Adios.

[squinkarts]

Back when me and @jellitianhearts were testing out the models, I got to record for this golden gif when he got excited bc he remembered he had caprisun, and it’s been an inside joke ever since

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heard boss mutter "what is a 'hawk tuah'?" while squinting at his phone earlier. what are you fucking bastards saying to him

[lucile-eris]

Day 22. Inktober 2024 Final Fantasy VII Themed Inktober.

Present

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Interest Check!

hi friends!

I've been feeling like I should spend more of my time being creative/productive.

in addition to reviews, would any of you be interested if I decided to stream (games/writing/dev stream) or make videos (let's plays, reviews, dev logs, etc.)??

[multiversal-inkblot]

HELLO MULTIVERSE !!

Hey hey everybody!! Name's Ink (or Squid) and welcome to my blog :D!! My pronouns are (he/him/blot/it/they)! Below is all the information you need to know about me and this blog (written without typing quirk)

This blog is a fictonkin focused blog for my Ink Sans kintype. Please treat this blog as if Ink were running it (which he is lol).

Posts will include ramblings, reblogs, my art, and maybe even some memories

I have a few source mates (Error/Killer, Dust, Horror, Cross, and Nightmare) and I'm always willing to be mutuals with more :)) (im cool with doubles as long as you're not rude about it)

Some of my ramblings, reblogs and art will be me shamelessly self shipping with my f/os. Here's a list so you know what to expect (this list will likely change):

- Nightmare*

- Error*

- Cross

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- Dust

- Fell

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(This post will be updated)

[sundrlands]

hi my loves… ive been incredibly busy and was unable to draw this week… but this week, i have a clear schedule so i should be posting more.

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tucked in, snork mimimi

[raiiinbowsquid]

[ * what are your thoughts on blenders /silly ]

[🖌💫] - Well, I can blend my toast in it-!!!!! So I guess it's good-!!! :3/silly

[midnight1nk]

III's Coffee & Bombs

1ST ANNIVERSARY [18 Nov.]

my beautiful boy 🥹

anyway, hey SMG3, I'll take one Cyanide Latte with 3 spoons of sugar, 1 pump of caramel, and 10 shots of expresso—

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I need yall to know my mom made a little jacket for my Pomni plush

[inkovert]

im going to start tagging the last 5 people in my notes for tag games bc I feel like I keep tagging the same 2 people all the time. and I'm too lazy to make another 'reblog this if you don't mind tag games' post because every few months the pool of active writeblrs change and the post becomes obsolete. so yeah. I feel like most people are okay with tag games? and if you aren't and I tag you...I'm sorry?

[paintbrushofjustice]

Hypothetically, has anyone ever flirted with you? Like in your job, ect.

obviously I’ve been flirted with if blue fucking exists

[inkstatics]

Don't be afraid, boop me

A headpat, if you will