#mako deserve better

[the--firevenus]

rewatching some lok analysis, listen im not a lok fan in fact im closer of a hater , but i love listening to people make analysis of this messy show, great stuff

anyway, rewatch some of these analysis videos reminded me of how much i feel so fucking bad for mako, he was done so dirty in the writing that i think i want to die a lil bit cuz hes my fav. HE WAS MY FAV AND GOD FUCKING DAMN IT IM STILL SALTY AND SAD AND MAD

he deserve so much better.... god they wasted my boy so bad, so fucking bad im still seething with anger years later god fucking dammit

[wildrosesayshigh3]

ATLA/LOK Thoughts/Headcanons pt1.

I think that the reason Zuko wants to go home so badly is because deep down he realizes how dangerous his father is and he. left. his. little. sister. with. him. Like imagine being thirteen year old Zuko your father has just burned you and you're still loyal but you don't trust him. You don't feel safe with him anymore. And you left your little sister with him. It doesn't really matter that she can protect herself because she's your baby sister the same one you held and promised to protect. It doesn't matter that she doesn't want you there because you've just always needed to be there. And then three years laters Zuko sees his sister again and his heart just shatters because the sister he sees in front of him isn't the same sister he left behind.

The fire nation imperial family are descended from dragons

Iroh probably feels guilty for Azula turning out the way she did at the end of the cartoon. He chose Zuko again and left her behind. Protected one and not the other. Logically he knows he could only get away with Zuko because Ozai didn't care but emotions aren't logical.

Lin had every right to be mad at Su. Cause the 'apology' she gave was her acknowledging that she was difficult. She ran with a gang and got caught and scared her sister's face.

Lin also should've punched Suyin in the face and never look back. She deserved a proper apology not some spiritual magic healing that forces you to fix something that wasn't your fault so others can tolerate you better.

Bolin should have gotten an apology from Korra and Mako separately.

Part 2

[invisible-pink-toast]

“The woman dies.

She dies to provide a plot twist. She dies to develop the narrative. She dies for cathartic effect. She dies because no one could think of what else to do with her. Dies because there weren’t any better story ideas around. Dies because her death was the very best idea that anyone could come up with.

‘I’ve got it! Let’s kill her off!’

‘Yes! Her death will solve everything!’

‘Okay! Let’s hit the pub!’

And so, the woman dies. The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. We watch it happen. We read about it happening. We come to know it well.”

- The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda (translated by Polly Barton)

[korrasamibottles]

Yeah Venom of the Red Lotus showed us how crazy powerful Korra is but The Last Stand had Korra transform the destructive power of a massive bomb blast into something regenerative in the culmination of one of the best character arcs I've ever seen. In my OPINION!!

[hawktims]

Well, like my father always said, if you have a shot, you take it.

CHUCK HANSEN | PACIFIC RIM (2013)

[hotgirlkorra]

Why do people who hate Makorra ship Wuko?

[buckybarnesss]

on today's episode of i will not start fights on social media.

I WILL SEE YOU IN HELL

what is this fandom's fucking problem? what is this absolute ass pull of a fucking take?

[nostalgicfortomorrow]

mako and bolin parallel each other because:

mako kept everything soft and sweet inside of him, curled into a tight little ball while he trapped himself in a hard casing in order to protect his brother.

bolin kept everything hard and angry and destructive into a pit of lava in his soul, hoping it would never come out. he encased it in layers of softness and naivety because someone has to make sure that people doesn't consume themselves with their own anger but bolin being able to bend lava when there were no other "softer" options, while the fire burned in his eyes and you could see the stone and flames consume him and he knew that theres no other way to do this except embrace this side of you BECAUSE HOW ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO SAVE YOUR BROTHER WHO DID EVERYTHING TO PROTECT YOU AND YOU DID EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO MAKE HIM HAPPY.

[deafchild2000]

I refuse to believe Charlotte was never supposed to be a mermaid.

Was the timing shitty with mermaids already occupying the area? Yes.

Did it help that she formed a crush on a mermaid's ex and dated them (with permission, just to add)? Not really.

And did it help that said mermaids were being hypocrites dealing with their own issues and used her for a scapegoat before she fought back? Definitely not!

But I refuse to believe that Charlotte becoming a mermaid was never meant to happen.

It's fair game (I'm willing to admit) about Gracie's locket. She threw it at the bottom of the Moon Pool, so it's open to interpretation she didn't care for its fate as she wanted it out of her life (like Max & being a mermaid). But why keep drawings of Mako, the Moon Pool, and Max? Why continue to wear homemade jewelry? Why even tell Charlotte stories about the ocean if she didn't want any of that a part of her life!?

I can't help but believe she couldn't. Aside from my "Mako is Sentient" headcanon (which might have merit), the only thing I truly believe is that she subconsciously knew Charlotte would end up a mermaid.

Whether she was one of those individuals with that "special touch" or she & Mako Island had a magical link, Gracie knew that she couldn't avoid her past forever. If Mako indeed had a link and kept calling her back, she ignored it and probably kept Annette from going to the Gold Coast just in case. But if she knew she wouldn't live long to keep her family from going to Mako, then at least she should prepare someone who might come into contact with the island: Her own granddaughter.

And to add more fuel to the fire, every time the girls and Lewis tried to debunk her findings and steer her away, she only just got closer to the truth. (Lewis's fib about the lockets being mass-produced would've been clever, had it not been for Charlotte's mom - GRACIE'S DAUGHTER - being a direct line of source to tell her otherwise!) Not to mention having a picture mounted up would of course lead to the possibility - even so slim - that there's more to be found, hence worth the risk of stealing that film (And HER MOM who helped digitize the film as well!)

Seriously, if the writers had been smarter, all you need is a scene with Charlotte digging up Gracie's high school yearbook and (using her drawing) narrowing down the search for Max Hamilton before tracking down a phone number to call! Luckily, Lewis saved her the trouble and led her straight to Max himself thanks to her keen eyes and Lewis's track record with lies at that point!

But here's the real kicker: 2x13 "Moonwalker".

This is the shit here you can't make up! Look:

First: Charlotte finds Cleo just...standing there. Look, if the whole idea was for Cleo to find the moon pool, she'd have already been gone. Instead, she's just standing still as Charlotte approaches.

Next, notice how the camera pans between both girls. Charlotte is genuinely confused & concerned and Cleo is...appearing as if she's contemplating something before locating the land entrance to the Moon Pool (and if I really wanted to go there, I'd almost say she's listening for unspoken orders.)

She walked and literally dropped down the tunnel, and Charlotte chased after her like any sane person who was thinking " Follow her and see if she's okay!" And down the rabbit hole, she goes...

Seeing Cleo nowhere in sight, Charlotte follows the steps - literally - until she finds the Moon Pool. And there goes Cleo, in mermaid form, watching her from underwater in what I can tell is curiosity? Expectation? Anticipation? And not a moment too soon, Emma and Rikki join her.

Suddenly, they look worried as she tries to touch the moon pool once it's activated while Charlotte's just enchanted at the sight. But why? Cleo lured her there! But Emma exchanges glances with them before freezing the pool before Charlotte could touch it.

See this is where I see y'all antis come in and say "Well, that means Charlotte didn't deserve to be a mermaid" or "I guess that means even Mako didn't see her as worthy" but that's the point: The choice was taken out of her hands by the mermaids themselves! When the moonstruck phase was wearing off, they looked to Emma - who froze the pool before Charlotte could touch it!

This wasn't some "let-loose, drunk girl", power-overloading, siren-singing nonsense! This was some Otherworldly, puppet-master-pulling-your-strings entity bullshit calling the shots! And since we now know Mako can create sentient beings in S3, this just gets spookier in the long run!

Mako is a literal, magic place associated with mermaids. It would later create a Water Tentacle to warn them of an impending threat! And best of all, this happened 8 episodes before Charlotte had even a reason to connect Gracie with the island and mermaids. The reason she was even able to find the place was because of Cleo!

Mako wanted Charlotte there. It had to recognize a former mermaid through her (Gracie) & used Cleo to bring her to the Moon Pool. The girls were watching to see what she would do before something comes over them and stops her.

Why? Why stop her? What would have happened if it was just Cleo watching her?

But perhaps that's the biggest foreshadowing Jonathan gave us for the rest of the season:

Mako wanted her as a mermaid, but the occupants would refuse to accept her.

[88y53]

Gail Simone once said about Superman and Batman’s relationship as “if you have to make one of them a woman for their to be a romance, then they were already pretty gay.”

I never forget that observation (for the record, I don’t really see it with S & B), and I can’t help but apply it to the relationships I see in a lot of movies/TV show. I call it the Rule 63 Test—if the relationship is dysfunctional if the genders are reversed, then it was already pretty toxic.

Which brings me to Legend of Korra

I may be alone in this, but if Korra was a man, I’d think he was a massively entitled dick.

Seriously, look at the relationships Korra had with Mako, Bolin, and Asami, switch the genders around and honestly tell me if you think Korra acted in completely unproblematic ways.

You can’t.

[misuutira]

Hellooo back from the dead with another Calamity AU doodle! Not so much of a thought dump, but I wanted to experiment with the “possessed by Mako” concept a bit. The whole point of this section of the story is to not only create a dramatic climax, but to also reinforce--at least to the gang’s non-mers--just how difficult human relationships have been for them: Rikki’s feelings of betrayal towards Zane, Emma’s detachment from others since her trip, Cleo’s fear of pulling others (i.e., Lewis and her family) down, and Bella’s resignation about the fact that Will won’t take the time to see her for who she really is. 

I genuinely felt sad about not including Bella in the last sketch compilation so I thought it’d be nice to imagine how that plot point might look for her. She gets her moment to cause havoc, which honestly? We were so robbed of, especially with the crap that she let Will get away with. So maybe this is also somewhat cathartic for me as well (RE: the ‘aren’t you tired of being nice?’ meme...which I sketched and forgot to digitize WHOOPS). 

ALSO- I am finally sketching out the first pages of the Calamity AU as a comic! I’ll probably keep on posting little brainstorms of lore bits, but I am slowly (emphasis on slowly) working on making this an actual start-to-finish story. So be on the lookout for that...Soon™

Until then, thank you guys so much for all of your feedback! It always puts a smile on my face seeing the excitement for this AU. :D

[rukiexramen]

[sorikaied]

honestly i may have more worse blogs that i followed and ended up unfollowing after a point more than worst mutuals throughout the decade i’ve been on hellblr

[hotgirlkorra]

How to test a friendship: Tolerating your friend for being a Swiftie and a Wuko bitch.

[halflingkima]

got uncomfortable during this rewatch bc i know i didn't ship makorra but i like mako and then i remembered. i don't.. like korra kljhg

[voidselfshipp]

"Rigid and cold hearts,when they meet, togheter they create warmth.

Tragedy and death mean nothing when im in your arms,friend.

Solitude ends when we meet, and im really glad we did.

Mako and Jerico,now and forever, kicking kaiju ass in badass jaegers"