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"Mothers, gone. Mothers, taken. Mothers, lost."

Happy (early) Mother's Day to Faye, Natasia, and Anna with their little ones 💕

Anastasia Trusova (Russian, born 1989)

From what I’ve researched, chokers were traditionally worn by some Native American tribes rather than by the Inuit, who traditionally preferred looser fitting necklaces. But Sokka’s particular choker is identical to traditional Alaskan Inuit bracelets, which are made from walrus or whale ivory.

Which means that Sokka might just be wearing a bracelet as a choker. And I can’t think of anything more perfectly Sokka than using an item for something beyond its intended purpose. I can totally imagine how the whole thing started:

Mother Kya: “One day, when Katara gets married, I’ll give her this necklace that Gran-Gran gave to me.”

Lil Sokka: “No fair! Why don’t I get anything?”

Hakoda: “Sokka, this necklace is for girls only.”

Lil Sokka: “Fine, I’ll just make my own necklace.” *ties his bracelet around his neck and immediately starts choking*

He’s upset that it keeps sliding over his hand, so he has the bright idea to untie cords and retie it as a necklace (being as he is Lil Sokka, the sizing works out so that it - mostly - fits).

“which are made from walrus or whale ivory.“

In Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut, an Inuit elder describes the hunt of a walrus in these words: “When a walrus was sighted, the two hunters would run to get close to it and at a short distance it is necessary to stop when the walrus’s head was submerged… the walrus would hear you approach. [They] then tried to get in front of the walrus and it was harpooned while its head was submerged. In the meantime, the other person would drive the harpoon into the ice through the harpoon loop to secure it.”

The Avatar-world equivalent to that would probably be walrus-whale hunts. I was going to say, “Can you imagine?” or “Someone should draw that!”, but a quick Google search revealed that walrus-whales were apparently once a real thing:

Thus, the limit isn't really "600 tweets". A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it's responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!