#mriachka's posts

toph birthing two children remains one of the more interesting choices in tlok to me. from the way her daughters describe their childhood, it's not strange at all that they'd believe themselves to have been unwanted, and yet the wider context suggests that toph could have very easily gotten rid of them had she wanted to. she didn't have to go through those pregnancies, and it's likely that she wouldn't have liked to: she hates feeling restrained and inconvenienced, and there's no way to carry to term, birth, and keep alive an infant without being restrained and inconvenienced by them. despite this, she chose to do it. in fact, she chose to do it twice. so, she must have wanted a family, and she must have wanted them to be her family. though she may not have done the best job raising lin and suyin, she wished for them and she loved them. it was never about anyone else. they were always "it" for her.

lin believing that toph loves su more than her and su believing that lin doesn't really care about her all that much and toph believing that the best thing she can give her daughters is the absence of her weight in their lives... what if you loved somebody so much it made you sick yet you could never convey that love just right and you could never ever make them feel it.

while we are on the topic of controversial opinions, let me also say that i don't believe twst cast would refer to their lover through yuu nicknames/generic yet interesting in-world words. malleus will not be calling the one true lover "child of man", because it's a slightly more polite version of sebek's "human". the people malleus truly respects and knows are referred to through their names (although a nickname could work as well, a sort of mirror to "tsunotaru"). leona will not be calling the one and only special queen "herbivore", at least not in earnest. "herbivore" is meant to be read as derogatory (just like "omnivore" for fellow is an insult). somebody worthy of standing by leona's side is not an herbivore, not in the typical sense. floyd also refers to jade and azul through names only. why? duh. because they are jade and azul! floyd's nicknames are meant to be condescending, a bold way of defining a person through floyd's worldview. "shrimpy" is cute (and likely to be used at first), but a lover would not be a "shrimpy" only. i get why writers use those words—they make speech patterns so much more recognizable—yet it does break my immersion.

lin repressing every thought of suyin until the only manifestation of her sister comes through the nightmares vs suyin looking up pictures of lin in newspapers and mentioning lin to her children and thinking about lin actively all the fucking time. cutting it out but it won't go away vs putting traces of it into everything but it won't come back.

kuvira being so in tune with her bending that she can manipulate gold is insanity-inducing to me. imagine picking out your jewelry specifically on the basis of the material's known unbendability, only to then have it come to life—twisting, turning, wrapping tight around you—out of nowhere, from nothing more than her will. it's like toph's second coming. you think you are safe enough, negotiating far away from any earth or industrial metals, and then, with a singular flourish of her hand, your precious necklace snakes around your throat, cutting the air off. i would have fallen to my knees. i would have become religious.