people blame mako for fumbling the two baddest bitches on the planet, but if i knew one of them, let alone both of them, i wouldn’t know how to act either. i’d be acting like boo boo the fool just to get them to notice me, and then when they did actually notice me my whole brain would just shut down and turn to mush probably. and i’m saying this as an adult woman with game. mako was a socially inept maladjusted traumatized teenage boy with no swag and no prospects. the fact that the two most beautiful powerful amazing girls in the world were both vying for his poor autistic ass after spending his whole life just trying to survive in the conditions that made oliver twist is crazy!!! people get soooo mad at him for fumbling korra and asami but like. can we be honest for a second. like can we be soooo forreal rn. you’d fumble them too. we all would.
(Buck, Eddie, and Chimney helping Maddie move into her new apartment)
Maddie: He is so cute!
Buck: He has a kid tho.
Maddie: Wait, Chimney has a kid?
Buck: 😳?
YOU GUYS WERE NOT KIDDING, I THOUGHT Y'ALL WERE EXAGGERATING EARLIER WITH THE BUDDIE BUT Y'ALL WERE SO RIGHT, THAT MAN HAS ALWAYS HAD ONE OF THE LIMPEST WRISTS ON THE SHOW
I love the moment in each of the 911 shows (the og and lone star) when the firehouse has to respond to an emergency with a racist/homophobic/sexist/etc as hell person in need of immediate medical attention and the guy keeps rejecting crew members to treat him bc of their race or other perceived characteristics and then everyone gets a turn to ask "are you sure you want me, a homosexual/Muslim/half Mexican/etc, to save your life right now? :)" and they just go down the roster like that xD
legend of korra was really so ahead of its time. "what if your dad got reincarnated into an angry queer girl" "what if you brought warplanes to the martial arts fight" "what if henry ford was a terrorist and after you got him thrown in jail you dated his daughter and fucked off to the spirit world with her"
I wanted to go a bit more in-depth with this piece that I did for zukka week 2023 because i got inspired to do more insane clothing details. ID in ALT.
Ramble about the influences/inspirations below:
Design inspirations for Sokka's clothing are mainly Inuvialuit and Yup'ik, with Nenets, Tlingit, and Chukchi inspiration for the tassels, patterns, belt and beadwork. I mixed these with the ornaments canon shows us used by the Northern Water Tribe, and also in Legend of Korra. I got particularly excited about drawing from Inuvialuit sources since the tassels we see in canon look like they could be inspired by this. Going beyond canon's animation-friendly colour scheme, I drew from Nenets patterns/embroidery/sashes and Yup'ik beadwork for accent colours. I think in the future I'd like to find ways to incorporate more Tlingit-style patterns since I rarely see them in fanart (which is a shame - they're stunning), but since they tend to be very big I ultimately decided to only include them as a nod in order to keep the regalia recognisable as 'Water Tribe'. I wonder if I could start using Polynesian influences as well?
Zuko's headdress and particularly the shoulder garment and beaded embroidery draw heavily from women's clothing styles of Lê Dynasty Vietnam. The other main influence is men's royal clothing in Tang Dynasty China, and patterns worn by Mongolian Khatun. Since we have a bit more to go on in canon as to what fire nation regalia looks like, I blended that in as well. I got particularly excited about the embellishments on Lê Dynasty clothes because I could give a little nod to Zuko's dragon-fire by adding more colours to the embroidery. In the future I think I'd want to make the Mongolian influence a bit more obvious... perhaps even push the envelope by incorporating some Bashkir designs, though I'm not sure how well that will go.