Sailing the Shipping Seas

When the WIPs be staring back into my soul because I'm indecisive af and don't know which one I want to work on.

[Art of a Black knight, shown in profile from the knees up. He is wearing full armor with his shield and helmet strapped to his back. His hair is close-cropped. He’s standing next to a white horse who has their head lowered. The knight looks serious and determined. ]

It's kind of wild that Katara is the first person in well over a century who could have credibly fucked a bender of each element. Lin Beifong is probably the second, and Bolin is the third. Good for them.

Unsubstantiated headcanon of the day: When they were in their early twenties, Katara and Yakone debated before the Water Tribe council of elders over the repatriation of Hama from the Fire Nation prison and the international legal status of bloodbending. In a compromise between the two young masters, Hama was ultimately brought back to the Southern Water Tribe, but the art of bloodbending was outlawed. Hama was intrigued by the back and forth between the two powerful waterbenders and not so subtly suggested that they should marry and lead a united Water Tribe. Katara was not amused by this commentary. Angered by the fact that bloodbending was criminalized while firebenders continued to wield deadly lightning unconstrained, Yakone broke bad and reigned terror in Republic City with his Red Monsoon Triad, while Katara used her powers as a council member to stop him. Push and pull, tui and la, equal and opposite—the rival prodiges could never truly be rid of each other.

Lin: Kya? Why are you on the floor? Kya, murmurs into the floor: i can’t see or hear my problems from here. Lin: I… well, shit. make room for me.

Lin: I'm gonna burn this place to the ground. Kya: I'll show you where my bills are; you can start there.

Bumi: I've never encountered a problem that can't be solved by an spontaneous musical number.