hi! have you seen this edit on tiktok? they're spreading the rumor that Lin is actually Toph and Zuko's love child (with Kanto being Toph's code name for Zuko). and then there was someone else in the comments saying Izumi and Lin actually look alike and that Izumi's weak eyesight (her wearing glasses) was caused by inheriting Toph's blindness gene. I don't know about the second rumor but I'm curious what you think of the first rumor and whether you can be convinced to write some delicious angst for it 😋
Hi my friend! I'm sooooo sorry this took so long to answer. I have not seen this edit (bc it expired by the time i wanted to watch it :((
But a Zutoph angsty idea where Lin is their baby girl? I think I could manage an idea.
Zuko and Mai are separated. In the middle of this separation, Zuko goes to the Earth Kingdom to have some time to himself and hang out with some friends. He finds Toph and they hang out together since she also just got dumped by Kanto.
Both have had some sort of crush on each other in the past, but never acted on it. Toph makes Zuko take her on a life changing field trip, which turns out to be a dud tbh. But spending time together makes them feel lighter. Freer. They understand each other coming from a similar privileged background with family issues.
Them finally addressing that changes something between them.
Before they know it, they're in a cave overlooking the village and hooking up.
They keep hooking up and having a great time. Neither admits that their feelings for the other is growing. It just feels like something they can continue without needing to say it aloud.
Everything is great until Zuko gets a message from the Fire Nation.
Mai is pregnant. His presence is requested immediately.
He doesn't want to go back. But he does want to be a father. If only he could have that with Toph, but from the sound of it, she doesn't want to be a mom.
So he returns to the Fire Nation. It's important for him to break the toxic cycle his father intended, and he's going to be a dad! He's saddened by the idea that Toph doesn't want to be a mother, but doesn't push the issue. He cares about her and if only things were different....
Toph's thoughts?
"Oh yeah...he's still married. We were just having some good fucks. That's all it was. He's got some solid muscles. Crazy stamina. And that firecracker is gonna be a dad...Good for him."
The reality of Zuko being with Mai officially reminds Toph that she's just a fuck buddy. They had their time. They had a few deep talks. They had drinks. And she told him she wasn't really interested in being a mom.
Then she finds out she's pregnant.
Mai is almost ready to give birth by this time.
Toph wishes she could tell Zuko about the baby. Their baby.
But doing that would only ruin her kid's future. Her kid would be called a royal bastard. It would ruin her best friend's image. And she wasn't really close with Mai, but it didn't feel right to ruin her family and marriage either. Zuko deserves a family with a wife, and no problems surrounding that.
Toph knows that she might be called terrible names for being a single mother. She knows people will talk about the Beifong name.
But she can handle that because she's always done things her way and been unstoppable about it.
So Toph faces it all head on. To protect Zuko and her daughter, Lin.
Many years later, when Bolin asks who Lin's father is, Toph says, a guy named Kanto.
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Linzin Drabble – a concept not well-thought of but I feel like I wanted to write something out.
I’m still alive; life (and death) got in the way. But whenever I feel like I need to create something, I go back to this fandom.
---
You only see color when you meet and know your soulmate. Lin saw color too early. Tenzin saw it too late.
It was a funny thing – colors.
She never understood how It was supposed to be.
Children were supposed to see the world in shades of grey until the moment they meet their soulmate – the one person whose soul resonated with theirs. A single touch, a single glance, and the world would bloom.
This usually happens post adolescence, sometimes even all the way into someone’s adulthood.
But not Lin Beifong. She has seen color since she was four.
They whispered freak behind her back.
Toph Beifong sighed, unsure how to raise a child who seems to have broken some sacred rule in the universe.
Being a child of a blind metalbender was enough to warrant attention.
What more being a child who sees colors?
The metalbender decided to send off her child to Gaoling.
With that, Lin learned to keep it to herself.
To pretend the world was muted.
To pretend that the sky was not blue, and the metal she bent did not shine as silver as her mother’s uniform.
She had learned to lie before she learned to trust.
She learned to hide before she learned what it all meant.
That seeing color early meant only one thing: your soulmate was already in your life.
---
He didn’t know any better.
Tenzin grew up waiting.
Waiting for the moment the world would shift.
Waiting for the soulmate the spirits had promised him.
Waiting for a love that encompassed all – like his parents’.
Waiting for the colors he had never seen before.
He imagined them often: what blue might look like, what red might mean, what green might smell like.
He wondered if she was alive (already born?).
If she was close.
If she was looking for him too.
He wondered if he would recognize her by the way the air changed.
---
Pema claimed she was his soulmate.
The air acolyte said she saw colors.
She said it happened when she met him.
She said it softly, hopefully, like a prayer she wanted him to believe.
And he tried. Truly, he did.
But on the day of their wedding, he asked her to pass him the ceremonial golden goblet.
She placed it in his hand.
He looked down.
The goblet shown dark pewter.
Not gold.
Not even close.
And in that moment – quiet yet devastating – he knew.
---
He wondered.
He had heard the stories, albeit rare ones.
Of people who saw color burst into existence while others remained unchanged.
Of soulmates who never aligned, of timing that was cruel.
Maybe that was what happened with Pema.
Maybe she saw him and her world bloomed. Maybe she believed it so deeply that it manifested.
But he knew better.
He had always known.
---
She knew.
Lin had known the truth long before he did.
She had seen color from her first memory – a play date on an island, although a short-lived one. She barely had time to get acquainted with the other children when a horn bellowed throughout the island and her mother hurriedly pulled her and her sister to a safe room. And, she supposed, their playmates were pulled to another.
She was not immediately aware that something has changed while they stayed in the dull greyness of the saferoom. It was only when they were back to their city house did Lin see the greenness of her sister’s eyes.
Sitting in Gaoling, she wondered which of the children they were supposed to play with was her soulmate. As months turned into years, this wonder slowly ebbed into a dull ache.
Until her mother deemed it safe for her sister and herself to return to Republic City.
The day she met Tenzin, her world sharpened.
As if everything she had seen was only a sketch and he was the ink that defined it.
She had looked at him and felt the universe settle.
She panicked.
Because she had already lived a life where she did not fit the rules. She did not want to draft him into that chaos. Not when he was already being groomed to take over his father’s mantle.
She did not want to be the reason he questioned everything he believed.
She kept quiet and stoic, waiting for him to acknowledge her.
---
Lin.
He saw her first as their family alighted into the island.
The way she stood – solid, unyielding and sharp as the metal she grew up bending.
The way her eyes turned away from him whether their paths crossed, as if looking at him hurt.
He felt the strange flicker in his chest the first time they met. The strange flicker of his view, a peek into colors that quickly faded back into grey.
He told himself it meant nothing.
He extended his hand to her. She gave a tight nod.
He told himself he was not disappointed.
He lied.
---
The aftermath brought calmness.
After the war with Kuvira, Republic City rebuilt. The Air Nation expanded. The Avatar headed to the Spirit World.
Life moved forward.
Lin's colors never changed.
--
Tenzin had been living his life in greyscale.
Literally and figuratively.
He lived with purpose, with duty, with loyalty.
But never with color.
Until the day after Kuvira's surrender.
He was walking through the rubble of the city, tired, grieving and relieved when he saw Lin across what used to be the city center, barking orders at the metalbenders.
And finally (finally) his world shifted.
Not exploded.
Shifted - like the dawn slowly creeping, lens snapping into focus.
Tenzin inhaled sharply, because, for the first time, he saw color.
And he knew.
He had always known.
But now he saw.
---
"Lin."
The way he said her name made her freeze.
She saw it then - how he blinked, how his breath hitched, the way he looked at her, like seeing her for the first time.
She knew what that meant.
She always knew what it meant.
Her chest ached, she had longed for this moment a lifetime ago.
But today, it was like a wound reopening.
Why now.
"I can see color."
He said it softly, like an apology. Like it was a truth that he should have spoken about decades ago.
She swallowed hard. "You're late," she whispered.
He closed his eyes. "I know."
---
"You let me think I was wrong."
"You weren't wrong."
She hated how fast he said it.
She hated how much she needed to hear it.
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"Because I was afraid of what it meant. To you, to me, to us, to the Air Nation," he whispered. "To everything."
She stared back at him. "You were afraid," she repeated. "And I was alone."
The words hit him harder than any metal cable ever could.
---
He will never know the feeling.
He will never know the despair she felt when her world of color flickered to grey as she battled P'li, knowing that for a brief moment she lost him to the Red Lotus.
He will never know the -.
---
A violent surge of spiritual energy suddenly rippled across the city ruins.
The world vibrated. The colors bended, twisted, and warped.
The glow of the Spirit World turned bright.
Lin felt a punch to her chest, Tenzin felt a gale push him.
"We need to go."
---
The Spirits were not gentle.
The spirits gathered around them.
"You carry a bond unspoken. A thread stretched thin by time."
Lin stiffened, frowning at the spirit.
"You came because your bond is unstable, unbalanced and unfulfilled." The spirit trilled.
"What does that mean?"
"It means," The spirit continued. "That soulmates who deny their connection disrupt the flow of color, of energy, of harmony." The spirit drifted closer.
It addressed Lin. "You saw color too early, because your soul recognized his before your mind could."
Lin swallowed hard.
"And you," it turned to Tenzin. "Saw color too late because you refused to look."
Tenzin's breath shook.
"You're two halves of a whole, but you have lived as fractions."
Lin looked at Tenzin.
Tenzin looked at Lin.
And, for the first time, neither looked away.
----
Note: this was a stream of consciousness kind of thing. unedited, un-beta'ed. So please forgive the possible incoherence but I do hope you enjoyed some part of it. Let me know what you think
you jest but now I'm genuinely curious what penguin meat would taste like under all that blubber. would it retain any "bird" flavor or would it be more similar to marine mammals??? i don't actually want to eat a penguin to be clear, you've simply sparked my curiosity
My grandfather reported that they taste like fishy rubber boiled in motor oil. So bad that he only tried it once despite being on a ship in the Antarctic ocean for months on end. 1940s dry rations were preferable to fresh penguin.
Ok so I tried something similar today during work.
Pretty much most marine birds who mainly have fish in their diet taste pretty similar.
I tried a number of auk species (those include things like puffins, little auks, guillemots, razorbills ect.) And when boiled they both smell and taste kind of like wet Catfood and have dark meat.
Pretty gross and not reccomedable.
I could imagine its fair to assume penguin meat will not taste much different, though I can't give first hand accounts.
BUT i live in a place where people used to hunt and eat young gulls and they supposedly tasted good ( biggest lie ive ever heard).
I think with most of these marine bird species you really only eat them when you NEED to or go through a longer process of trying to get rid of the fishy taste by keeping them in milk baths or vinegar.
The joy of cooking has a similar suggestion for eating varmints who tend to eat garbage, such as opossums: Keep them alive for a week or so, feeding them oats, cereals, and honey.
there's actually a similar process with coconut crabs! while they favor coconuts (as the name implies), these guys are scavengers. so they eat anything from coconut to fish caught in tide pools to dead rats to compost!
so, unless you want to be eating the guts of a crab that's been surviving on whatever it could wrangle out of your trash, you catch it, tie it's claws together so it can't catch and eat whatever rodents or insects or other small creature happens across it, and feed it coconut for... i think it was a month?
i'm iffy on the time. but yeah! this is according to my uncle, whose friend catches and preps coconut crabs to sell as ready-to-cook. here's some pictures of coconut crabs :)
it's actually so funny that all you need to do as a female athlete to be immediately disqualified is being good, because everyone knows women suck ass at everything and if a woman is good at something that's unnatural. hashtag feminism hashtag protect women.
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We seriously need a post-canon Linzin incredible sex. And happy new year🥳🎉
Somewhere in the Fire Nation, a newly reunited Lin and Tenzin discover a secret waterfall.
It all begins as innocent dip in the crystal blue waters. Standing beneath the cascading water and releasing all of the stress and tension that's collected in their bodies. Behind the curtain of water is a small cave to shelter and conceal any visitors.
Tenzin caresses Lin's waist and pulls her away from the waterfall, behind the waters. Their lips connect passionately and Lin wraps her legs around Tenzin's waist as he pulls her flush to his body. His hands greedily grab her ass while their tongues spell the other's name.
The power of the waterfall crushes all sound around them, forcing Lin and Tenzin to only focus on the touches, the love, the intimacy, and lust simmering between them. Tenzin can barely hear Lin's moan as he pulls away and traces open-mouthed kisses down her neck and into her cleavage.
Small drops of water drizzle down her smooth skin and Tenzin licks at them curiously. His teeth bite into her bindings and pull them down, mouth immediately searching for her breast. Lin tightens her legs around him and tilts her head back, moans freely given to nature.
Lin grinds into the hardening bulge. A familiar heat pools in her core and she finds little relief with the fabric separating their union. She pushes Tenzin further into her chest and yelps his name.
Tenzin releases her breast and kisses behind her ear. "I want to fuck you," he groans.
"Then fuck me," Lin whispers back.
He wastes no time pulling her toward the cave. Lin bends the rock to lift them out of the water. She combs her hair out of her face and Tenzin is seeking her body against his. He kisses her neck, hands undoing her bindings and lips following her exposed breasts.
Lin inhales when hot breaths warm her abdomen.
"Can you bend me a table?" he asks, kneeling before her and fingers tugging at her panties.
Gently, he pushes her to sit and lean back on the rock table. Tenzin kisses her inner thighs and pulls her panties down to her ankles. Lin spreads her legs as he pulls her into his hungry mouth.
Lin almost suffocates Tenzin as he tastes and drinks her essence. His tongue is stroking and then sucking her in a way that leaves her drunk. She's in a dimension between fantasy and reality as Tenzin's lips suck on her clit.
She feels that current spiraling into an orgasm and she pushes Tenzin's face deeper into her, grinding into his face. "I'm almost there...keep going like that..."
Her legs quiver and Lin's spine arches, her eyes rolling back and voice dying in the cave. One hand is gripping Tenzin's head. She needs him to grow his hair back just one time so she can grip dark brown hair when he serves her pleasure like this.
A trail of her pleasure coats Tenzin's lips and he licks at it. He presses more kisses up her hips, the undersides of her breasts. Tenzin slowly stands up and lowers his shorts to his ankles.
His erection springs from its prison. Tenzin strokes himself tightly, one hand lightly caressing Lin's inner thigh. He teases her slick folds and runs the underside of his shaft between them. The stickiness of Lin's orgasm and arousal gets him even harder. His skin is slightly red and the head of his dick slides an inch inside of Lin.
Lin's excitement is short-lived as he pulls out and massages the thin layer of her essence along the entirety of his dick.
She attempts to inch closer to him. "Give it to me, Tenzin. Please."
Tenzin guides himself into her and thrusts into her with slow intention. Lin gasps at his size and length stretching and filling her completely. Their bodies were both cold from plunging inside the water.
But now, pulsing warmth fills and surrounds their union. The slow movements of Tenzin's thrusts stirs embers and fires within their bodies. Their moans mingle together and echo off the cave walls.
Tenzin bows forward until his body is pressed completely against Lin's and she raises her legs up to welcome him. They meet in endless kisses, lip nibbles, and sultry tongues. Lin doesn't hold her voice back as Tenzin fucks her hard and steady.
His growls fill her ears and it's still the sexiest sound in the entire world. His voice has always raised goosebumps on her skin and gotten her wet on more times than she'd like to admit.
She sounds pathetically submissive and incapable of sounding like an intimidating woman, but Lin doesn't care.
None of that matters when the love of her life is fucking her senseless with no souls to witness their horniness. Even years later, their bodies know each other best. Tenzin fills and strokes her in ways that no other man could.
And no other man ever will.
"You're so fucking incredible," Tenzin growls into her skin, thrusting harder.
The waterfall is still hiding all echoes of their bodies clapping and moans and cries and groans. But they can hear it clearly in their private world.
Without saying anything, Tenzin feels Lin's inner walls quiver and tighten around him in a steady rhythm. He smirks and licks up her neck. "You came, didn't you?" he asks, maintaining his own speed and intensity.
Lin meekly nods, eyes dazed and blinded by her own pleasure.
Tenzin bites her shoulder and hooks his arms beneath her legs. His hips collide against hers harder, faster.
"I'm going to cum inside of you."
"Yesss, please," Lin moans.
He selfishly fucks her the way he wants, plunging inside of her deeper.
"Oh fuck, honey...I love you so much, nnnnngggggh!"
Lin kisses him as he spills everything inside of her. She feels warmth filling her and his dick twitching inside her.
They're still for a few minutes as they regain clarity and consciousness again. Tenzin plants tiny kisses along any inch of exposed skin he can on Lin as she caresses the back of his neck.
"I'm getting sweaty," Lin mutters, gently pushing him off of her. She feels some of his seed spilling out of her as she sits up and stands.
Tenzin picks up her swimsuit and gives it to her, but Lin shakes her head.
"I'll put it on later. Let's go swimming." She grasps his hand and forces him to leave his shorts behind in the cave.
"B-but our things--"
Lin kisses him and pulls him back into the water with her.
Beneath the water, Tenzin tightens his hold onto Lin as they hold their breaths and use their oxygen confirming their love.
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If We Fall Before We Rise were a TV series who do you think would be the real life actors for the main roles?
Thanks for being patient on this! Without further ado, let's find out who's been cast for Gaang Jr in our Teacher AU for Linzin (K-drama AU)!
Lin Beifong:
Our leading woman is Honey Lee 💚
IRL she's 41 now, but this is what she looked like at 24 (left) and 30 (right)
She was Miss Korea in 2007, and I think she has the perfect young baby/sexy face when she's younger. Then, her beauty evolves into that powerful woman look by the time she reaches 30.
Her co-star for Tenzin, also happens to be her IRL Fiery Priest co-star...
Tenzin Wang
Kim Nam-Gil
Priest Teacher who has major temper issues?
Both he and Honey were leading co-stars in Fiery Priest and they were perfection! The tension and chemistry together gave me Linzin vibes ^^
Here's a scene from the drama (I also highly recommend watching!)
Suyin Beifong
You'll be surprised by this one:
~Blackpink in ya areaaaaaa~
Lisa Manoban
Do not come for me about her skintone bc if she embraces her Thai roots, she would match Su's in the drama. But anyway, Lisa perfectly embodies and balances savage, boss ass bitch energy + cute personality
I think Su knows how to act cute and sweet to get things done
Plus, Lisa is a natural charismatic star in front of the camera. She'd be perfect as Su.
Kya:
Kelly Hu (also bc she Hawaiian and Chinese like me :)) and she's also 57 IRL but check her with blue eyes:
In her 50s, she's totally giving Kya in canon
Runner up for Kya was Maggie Q!
Bumi:
Ma Dong-Seok (Don Lee)
He's more buff than I would imagine Bumi in this AU, but as a gym teacher, I can also see Bumi being #bodygoals for the boys
And as you can see, he's got a funny side with a rough look
Izumi Lee
I have chosen Chinese actress Li Bingbing
I considered her for Lin, but I think she's a better fit for Izumi bc she has this intelligent and elegant charm to her. It feels befitting for a character who would be Fire Lord (or a librarian)
Bonus: In The Meg, her character's name is Suyin lol
Modern furisode by Disney Princess seen on Studio Alice, inspired here by The Little Mermaid. Look how modern and fresh the uroko (triangles symbolizing scales) pattern is!
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Modern furisode by Disney Princess seen on Studio Alice, inspired here by Moana. I love the colors and polynesian patterning, the jade obidome mimicking the heart of the ocean of the film is a also nice touch.
