#lin lok

[raidenssblog]

ngl i want lin beifong to sit on my face

[balanceoflightanddark]

Azula + Lin AU "Republic City"

Azula: This city is a cesspool. Lin: ...what. You're not getting any arguments from me. Why do you think I wear my armor everywhere? Azula: I mean, yeah. But I was thinking more about the architecture. It's so...odd. Like somebody decided to make everything drab and gray. And when it's not, it's garish and out of place. Lin: It was part of that new architectural movement once Republic City started to get a lot of prominence on the world stage. Saves more money and whatever. Needless to say, none of the other nations like it. Azula: Well that's good to hear. And the noise from these automobiles. I can't hear myself think. I swear it wasn't this loud back in the day- [An automobile nearly runs Azula over] Azula: EH! I'M WALKING HERE! [slams the hood of the car] I'M WALKING 'ERE!!! [Lin just stares as the automobile drives off] Lin: Yeah, you'll fit in just fine.

[no-f-left-to-give]

*Lin ripping Kya's summer dress*

Kya : Lin!!!! this is my favorite dress

Lin: Sorry love, but it was on the way

*Kya and Lin playing twister*

[teaforthotxxx]

Lemme tell you being a Kyalin fan has the same vibes as being a Wolfstar fan.

[kyalinappreciationacct]

[kittymsmithwritesstuff]

5, 8, 17 :)

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5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Definitely Season Break. It was basically just a little, "oh neat, Fusehound is canon" thing I made in literally 2-3 days because I wanted to write something soft and it has like, almost 1000 hits in less than a month? For the APEX fandom? Surprised the fuck outta me lmao. Also didn't expect the uptick in activity with my OW fic I Am as Human as You but Overwatch 2 coming out changed things and a lotta people, evidently, rediscovered argumentative lesbians.

8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Technically MoiraxMercy/Moicy from Overwatch. Been updating the previously mentioned longfic on them pretty consistently (also shoutout as always to @lizziebylife who betas the monster) and I have an almost finished Soulmate AU with them and some other smaller projects. Actually, they're definitely what I wrote for the most including unpublished stuff it's like over 100k of words and I had to finish my bachelor's dissertation and has some Serious Shit happen so that's a fuckin' ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Runner-up is the (unpublished) work I've done for Kyalin/KyaxLin from The Legend of Korra. If things go right that'll probably be my next big project. :) But I have a solid 30k+ just on them without counting my notes. Oddly enough after that is probably Fusehound and I only actually started writing for them when they were made canon. Or maybe a little beforehand. I think they're a sweet pair.

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

This is kind of a hard one for me but oddly enough I think it was Moira. Lin is also really fun but I think part of that is just going back to an old fandom/writing for something that isn't a video game and is a hell of a lot bigger and older than my current fandoms. Moira is independently an interesting character that has so many different facets to her that I like to explore (to be fair so does Lin) but she has a really vague morality that goes very interestingly with some of the parts of her character, like that she never really gives up, thinks theres always room for improvement, and supposedly had a normal and maybe wholesome home life that makes what she became really interesting to examine.

Also she's hot and I think she' s funny.

[redcatmusings]

Absolutely stunning wowowowow. Gorgeous work!

Beifongs I did couple of months ago for the ukrainian Avatar fan artbook!

[mitochondria-larson]

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

[d4rkerthanbl4ck]

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

[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.

[a--p--i]

Lok ladies that gave me a sexuality crisis

[sengiewhy]

lin beifong beloved ur so hot to me

[nsstress]

better together

[melinavostokoffkisser]

Lin keeps pictures of all 4 of them in her wallet and claims it's only because they go missing and/or are kidnapped on the regular so she needs them to make a quick missing poster.

[mesapies]

Headcanon that zuko taught lin his break dancing fighting style

[whatifitookalilnap]

Toph: I love all of my grandchildren equally. Opal, Korra………*tries really hard to remember the other names* Well, Wong, Hula Hoop, and uhhhhhh, Butter Jr.?????

Suyin: seriously Mom? You only got one grandchild’s name right! Korra’s not even one of my kids!

Toph: well duh, I know that. She’s Lin’s

Lin: the hell are you talking about? I don’t have any kids. I can assure you the Avatar is not my daughter-Korra don’t play with Naga on the street you’ll get run over!

Toph: not your daughter. Right.