It Just Dawned On Me That Sokka Truly Is A Man Of The Arts. Haiku, Painting, An Appreciation For Theatre(and

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Assorted Nicknames Toph has for Sokka

Snuffles (canon)

Caveman (mix of someone telling her the Omashu caves story and also Toph sticking him in a cave once when he was pissing her off)

Crabmeat (a crab tried to eat him)

Fishfood (a fish tried to eat him)

Birdseed (Sokka has bad luck with animals)

Loverboy (c’mon, royalty sees him and are like o.o, anyone have dibs on that?) 

Shorty/Short Stuff/Strawberry Shortcake (he becomes the tallest before Aang’s growth sport and Toph is in denial)

Baby Bro (related to above, but also made Sokka cry, so Toph keeps saying it <3 )

Adopted (this one confused Katara bc she can’t tell if it’s suppose to be an insult or a compliment)

Porcelain (a teapot breaks and Toph pretends to think it’s sokka’s skull)

Sokka + Aang ♡

varrick definitely isn’t sokka’s son because sokka’s genes could never produce such a vile offspring, but varrick definitely did have a poster of sokka in his room growing up, and a picture of sokka he carries around in a locket that he kisses for good luck (even though he knows sokka would look down on him for it because he famously loathes superstition—which is so cool of him actually), and every meeting varrick’s ever had with chief katara about how his innovations could improve the southern water tribe end with at least half an hour of him grilling her with questions about her brother. so it comes as no surprise that when katara receives an invitation to varrick’s wedding in republic city, she politely declines on the basis that she needs to wash her hair that day.

Kaminari Denki in episode 92.

Rewatching When World’s Collide is so funny because I swear the only reason Mikey ended up with electrical powers had to be because in the middle of the writing process for the episode, the writers must’ve realized that they gave him like nothing to do when compared to everyone else so someone just went “lets kill him off briefly and then give him electrical powers when he comes back” and they just rolled with it not noticing how this plot line just happens and is never properly explained.

We all know that Sokka bears resemblance to his dad, but can we just take a moment to appreciate how much his mom looks so much like him in the flashback from the southern raiders?

It’s that concerned, reassuring, and yet somehow determined look. It’s one that only a true leader could bear. And this says a lot about Sokka’s own personality too as he develops into a leader and warrior throughout the show.

Happy birthday, Shinsou!! You’re going to be a wonderful hero.

tbh, i never thought lars and sadie were going to end up together. 

like. the writing was always on the wall that they don’t work, even if they care about each other / want the other to be happy. they’re better as friends. sadie was never what it took (nor should be made responsible) to push lars in a better direction. even when they were together, lars didn’t become the emotionally open person sadie needed. and i never got the sense that you should just mash them together once lars had grown a bit. that’s not who they are now.

there was never a strong throughline of sadie obsessing over lars in space, because it wasn’t about her or their relationship - it was about his growth. sadie needed to try to move on and live her own damn life (even if that made lars initially upset). her growing separately, into someone who is primarily concerned with what she wants & needs, always felt like the right move. and from there… they’re friends, yeah, but they don’t have the basis for a real relationship. sadie should never be lars’ prize for his growth. 

there may have been a time she was happy to put herself in that position - always waiting for him, passively hoping for him to get better… but going off on a tour of self-discovery, with new interests and a new partner? that seems to be a much better message - she deserves a life not dependent on his growth. agency in her own story. all without making lars a shallow ex-boyfriend stereotype, who can’t accept change. once? yes. but not now. he’s got his own life. of course he’s going back to space, that’s where he found himself. he’s got every incentive to go - and sadie has every incentive to stay on earth. 

so having her always be looking up, waiting for him to return, maybe even growing old like that… felt wrong. acknowledging that “growing apart” can sometimes be a good thing for both parties seems, to me, like a much more mature conclusion. it respects the characters they’ve become. they aren’t right for each other, without that being either’s loss. 

and of course, steven feels like that’s another instance of him failing to fix something… but this was never his to fix. it’s about them, not him. it’s private.

I think many people, in their quest to complain about the unrealistic skills Sokka showed with a sword after so little time, forget that he knows how to use a shit ton of weapons already.

Machetes, Clubs, Boomerangs, Sabres, Spears, and even Daggers. Sokka learned a lot of shit with these things, before he ever got a sword. Dude could slap darts out of the air with one swing of his machete. His aim with the boomerang is terrifying.

Sokka wasn’t some untrained pampered prince who’d never touched a weapon in his life prior to approaching Piandao.