#tlok toph

[yukaro353]

do you have any headcanons for Lin and Suyin

I have many, I'll put some here✨

🍀Both are passionate about dancing, they were in academies because Poppy enrolled them, however Lin abandoned the hobby when she was absorbed by her career and now that they are adults Suyin makes every effort to get her sister to take up the practice again.

🍀Suyin asked for issues of the Republic City newspaper to keep up with Lin's life once she started her Zaofu project, unlike Lin who completely ignored Suyin once she left Republic City.

🍀When Poppy was teaching them to be high society ladies, Lin excelled greatly in protocol and etiquette while Suyin had a greater affinity for arts such as poetry or instruments, they used to tease each other a lot by making fun of their respective weak points.

🍀It was easy to tell their toys apart, Suyin accumulated stuffed animals and Lin accumulated dolls.

🍀Lin learned to read quickly just so she could read stories to Suyin from the books Sokka brought them from afar.

🍀When Lin started to become popular with the boys (and girls) Suyin made sure to sabotage the letters and gifts that arrived at home because she was deeply jealous at the idea of someone trying to steal Lin's attention, she already had enough fighting for Toph's attention.

🍀Lin was quite strict with the friends Suyin brought home because she couldn't stand seeing her surrounded by "unemorial vagabonds", but she was more lenient with those who were Suyin's age; those who were dangerously older were the devil incarnate.

🍀Suyin was never good at cooking, her contribution to meals was to sit at the counter and talk for hours while Lin cooked (they loved that).

🍀When Suyin married Baatar she left a free seat for Lin in the front row, hoping that she would arrive. When the event ended and Lin showed no signs of attending, Suyin locked herself away to cry for a while.

🍀When Lin was planning her own wedding with Tenzin she had a conversation with him about inviting Suyin and her family, each had their own point of view on the matter but Tenzin encouraged her to include the letter and "take the plunge". Naturally, neither the invitation was sent nor the wedding ever took place.

🍀When news reached Suyin that Tenzin had married someone else, she religiously and anonymously sent raw meat to the air temple in Republic City for at least six months.

🍀Lin keeps a research folder on Baatar filed away in her office, updating it from time to time in case he ever hurts Suyin.

🍀Suyin recreated her wedding with some anniversary as an excuse so that Lin could attend this time.

I can go on and on, but that's enough for now.

[queer-headcanons-archive]

Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender is aromantic and pansexual! (headcanons)

[beifong-brainrot]

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.

[jasminedragonart]

The major arcana is finished!!!!!!!

I'm thinking of getting this printed in a mini zine. If you're interested please let me know since I'm looking for distributers for a copy for myself at least.

Commissions are open and info can be found here

My ko-fi is here

[kierofoxen]

The Gaang's all here ♡

ɪɴꜱᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ x  ᴛᴡɪᴛᴛᴇʀ x

[uy-niix]

They haven't changed at all

[rise-deepseamonster]

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

The asylum:

[haunting-jane]

well

[virtualrinavenue]

don’t ask how toph can play video games 🙏

[hotpinkrathian]

I am so upset (not) at LoK for making women muscular I will never get over it 😤

Also, the audacity to say the LoK women are less sexy than the ATLA women is WILD considering the Atla girls are minors

[operationbeifong]

𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝒀 𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑯 — EARTHBENDING + SUB-SKILLS APPRECIATION POST.

[queen-morgana91]

Oh this goes hard

Arts by Ctreuse109 ❤

[beifong-brainrot]

"Why did Toph come to save Su but not Lin?"

We can solve this mystery ✨️together✨️

[maybecordelia]

“its just a kids show!”

explain this then…

toph raised her kids to be fucking vicious

[krekee]

[i-put-the-ass-into-sass]

I want to get these tattooed just need to figure out WHERE