Rise Of The TMNT Is The Best Show Period.

@lesbians4sokka‘s post made me feel a lot of feelings on how Sokka’s grief was denied in “Southern Raiders”.

All I'm saying is Sokkas make up skills would immensely outdo Kataras

Sokka can do both watertribe and Kyoshi paint flawlessly but Katara would be trying to waterbend her liquid eyeliner and getting increasingly mad at the uneven strokes

girl fuck astrology how many siblings do you have and what’s their gender in what order

Ya for sure

A reformed villain becoming the protagonist’s protective older sibling is infinitely better than them becoming the protagonist’s love interest and you can’t change my mind

Watching Avatar I found myself always forgetting that Sokka is an underated genius. He's such a doofus and sometimes a down right idiot but then he does something genius and then ur like, oh yeah, I keep forgetting he does have a brain. I remember being mosly confused by his character????? Like why are u getting super serious, ur supposed to be funny????? Yeah it's called depth and that's what I love abt the series, none of them are one thing, especially sokka. I think his character shows that contrast the most but I feel because aince he's not a bender or Zuko, he gets kinda side lined. Honestly just seriously watching it again he is such an underrated character. He's the only one since the very beginning who pretty selflessly supported his friends. Katara was sweet and she really really cared but I feel like she was often swept up in her own head with things. Not bashing Katara because we all know she's a badass who would sell her soul if it meant saving her friends. Just Sokka never fell apart on them, never made his problems other people's and when he did need stability he went to his friends in a healthy manner. He might not have always been emotionally sensitive but I really feel like he was the rock of the group, the grounding constant that kept them together. He couldn't bend but he was still a nececity to the team because he was strong in ways the others weren't, not that it's a bad thing on their end. He's just a good boi. A dummy thicc brain boi who drinks the quenchiest of cactus water and is hella supportive and responsible. He made battle plans, kept the gaang on time, BASICALLY LEAD A REBELLION BY HIMSELF, was super supportive of aang when it didn't work, always helping toph (don't think I didn't notice who's arm she grabbed when she couldn't use her earth bending to see) supported his sister even when he didn't agree and was super quick to forgive zuko and treat him like a friend. I feel like he's often written off as just "the funny one" and he deserves better respect than that. This wasn't really prompted by anything, I just wanted to say this. Sokka is an A+ dude.

the way sokka and azula’s dynamic would progress from azula being like “sokka is extremely smart and needs to be destroyed” to “sokka is extremely smart and must teach me everything he knows,” but it’s also a very gradual process filled with a lot of rage and resentment and losing to him at pai sho; concurrently, sokka going from “wow I fucking hate you” to “wow I fucking hate you” (but said lovingly). also azula thinks all of sokka’s jokes are funny. every single one. they share the exact same sense of humor and this fact baffles all of their other friends so much

AU where Sokka’s high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)

based on this beautiful tumblr post

bonus:

Please pleas e pl e a se share more of your gaang kids headcannons I love them. And I'm also begging you to elaborate on what Sokka teaches the kids specifically!

yes yes yes anon thank you for the validation™! 

sokka and bumi have a really close relationship since bumi is the only non-bender of the group and sokka knows how that feels. bumi, therefore, is the only one who gets boomerang and sword lessons

sokka takes it upon himself to tell izumi all the stupid things zuko did as a teen “he invaded the northern water tribe on his own in the middle of a blizzard?! because he was...stubborn?” “yes, yes he did. now go bully him about it”

he also teaches izumi to yell that she must REGAIN HER HONOR at every opportune moment. zuko is ready to murder sokka about it

kya and bumi both inherit their sense of humour from sokka. they follow katara and aang around spouting bad sokka-style puns. katara swears she’s never leaving tenzin alone with him

sokka is secretly the mastermind behind all bumi’s prank wars. he’s a tactician, after all - let’s be real, he can pull off the best pranks

once, a extremely drunk teenage kya turned up on his doorstep because she knows her parents would be furious if they saw her like that. sokka isn’t exactly happy with her, but he lets her crash there and tells aang and katara she’s okay. her parents never actually find out how drunk she was and kya is always grateful to sokka about it

tenzin tends to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders and sokka is the only one who can get him to lighten up. he teaches him sokka-approved stress relief methods, including but not limited to: singing terrible and foul-mouthed sea shanties at the top of his lungs, getting mani-pedis and learning how to do kyoshi warrior makeup. tenzin still uses them today, leading to an extremely awkward interaction wherein korra catches him painting his toenails

sidenote: katara never forgives him for the time she heard tenzin sing a sea shanty  

lin and suyin are the only ones who don’t get taught how to annoy their mother, because sokka can never quite bring himself to be mean to toph.

lin likes listening to his stories. he tells her all about how he planned the invasion on the day of black sun, about how he and zuko broke into the boiling rock prison. he makes a special effort to tell lin stories about how brave and strong her mom is 

su gets the best advice from sokka. if she’s feeling low or like she’s not getting enough attention from toph, sokka’s the one she turns to. he always helps her talk through her emotions and is the one who encouraged her to reach out to lin when their relationship became rocky