#but it felt like Lin was absolved of her ‘sins’ of not wanting kids by sacrificing herself to protect tenzin and pema and the brood

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don’t currently have the brain power to do a full breakdown of this, but I’ve been stewing over the stereotyping of Lin Beifong as a workaholic who doesn’t have time for a family/her family versus Pema as a woman consumed by motherhood (as in she has no serious personality outside of being an airbending baby incubator)

both stereotypes make me incredibly angry for how constraining they are for each character; especially how utterly bland Pema is due to bryke’s view of motherhood as draining seemingly any personality one might have