#stetchmarks

[heyitslucky]

reblog if you think stetchmarks are just the cutest❤️

[illycanary]

“The problem is she does seem to stop caring.”

Exactly. And it’s one of the worst character assassinations I’ve ever seen.

100% agree with almost everything in this thread, by the way.

My intention—which I can see now I didn’t articulate well at all—was to say there was no reason for motherhood to turn Katara into a wallflower and doormat. (That’s not motherhood; that’s Bryke. I honestly believe that every portrayal of Katara after ATLA ended was a deliberate choice on Bryke’s part calculated to punish her fans.) My point was that motherhood is one of those things that makes you more of what you already are, not less of it. And in Katara’s case, it should have turned her into a savage Mama Polar Bear-Dog who would throw down with the sun itself.

I think there is some evidence in the show that Katara wanted to be a mother, but her wants were never one-dimensional. She wanted to be a mother AND a fighter. And a lot of other things too. She’s a complex character with many dreams and goals, just like real women. And there’s room in life to be so many things. There’s room for babies and statues. Not to mention healing schools and politics and ecoterrorism and rebuilding SWT culture and rekindled love with an old flame…

The only thing there wasn’t room for was Bryke’s ego. That—not Katara’s role as a mother—crowded everything else out.

A key difference between Katara and a lot of real-world mothers is that having babies didn’t wreck Katara’s body. 1. Because she’s fictional, and 2. I guarantee Bryke’s dream girl fantasies don’t include Aang romancing a woman with stetchmarks, pelvic floor issues, or sagging *anything*. Katara doesn’t have to pay for childbearing with a bad back and compromised health and chronic fatigue. She’s canonically one of the most accomplished, powerful, magical warriors in her world, and she’s fit as a fiddle at any age. So she has fewer limitations than the average real-world mother.

She has the same inherent drive to be a helper, champion, warrior, and advocate that she displayed in youth, plus the added compassion of motherhood and the desire to make a better world for her children, plus a crap-ton of powerful political connections, plus all the power and good health to do it with.

Even assuming that she takes a break from public life for a few years because raising kids is a full-time job, relegating her to the one-note role of Aang’s wife for the rest of her life makes even less sense as she gets older. After all, she only spends half of her lifetime parenting Aang and a quarter of it parenting the rest of her kids.

“Katara deserves a quiet life after the war, so becoming a healer (who made no contributions to the field) is actually a good arc!”

It is already bizarre to me that in ATLA, Katara is this confident & combative & ambitious girl who LOVED to fight and wanted nothing more than to help as many people as possible…then comics!Katara and TLOK!Katara showed neither her previous personality traits nor a career commensurate with those traits…

but it’s even more bizarre to me that ATLA fans would defend her trajectory as if it were some kind of progressive story of recovering from war trauma.

I’ve seen multiple takes like this. “Katara is not a YA heroine, she’s not a bloodthirsty girlboss who loves fighting so it’s actually a good thing that she doesn’t have to fight anymore” “after everything she’s been through she deserves a quiet life and a loving family”

For Katara, fighting in the war was actually empowering. It didn’t burn her out. It didn’t disillusion her. It didn’t take more out of her than she can give. Katara is not Katniss Everdeen, who needed to step back and discover her own agency and a sense of peace after fighting in a war she never chose to start. Katara’s war trauma largely happened before she took an active part in it. After she chose to be a part of the war, she became a waterbending master, made close friends, found her father again, got closure for her mother’s murder, defeated the Fire Lord, and met the love of her life. If Katara were a real person, maybe she’d be traumatized, but nowhere in the text of ATLA does she exhibit the sign that she’s tired of fighting on behalf of the world. If anything, she just got started.

If you take her post-ATLA arc at face value (vs as bad writing), it’s a tragedy of a woman who has learned to minimize her own relevance and her own power. In The Promise, she begins deferring serious decisions to Aang. She doesn’t even express a strong opinion about the fate of the entire colony of Yu Dao, or the fate of her friend Zuko. In North and South, she accepts Northern encroachment of the South in the name of progress. In TLOK we see her not as a politician or a chief, but rather as “the best healer” — albeit one who apparently never established a hospital, or trained acolytes of her own, or done anything to help people at scale, which she has always wanted to do. It’s even more egregious when you remember that in Jang Hui, she was not satisfied to simply heal the sick as the Painted Lady. She wanted to solve the root of the problem, so she cleaned the river and committed full-on ecoterrorism. Just because the war is over doesn’t mean she wants to stop helping people. In fact, the problem she addressed in Jang Hui is exactly the type of problem that would become more prevalent after the war ends, judging by the rapid industrialization between ATLA and LOK.

In the original ATLA, I think Katara is about as close to a power fantasy as you can get for a teenage girl, because she gets to be messy and goofy and powerful, even though she also had to perform a whole lot of emotional and domestic labour. But post-ATLA, she doesn’t get power and she doesn’t get to make a change. She gets love and a family. That’s it. And her grandkids don’t even remember her. Her friends and peers, on the other hand, were shown doing all sorts of super cool things like, you know, running the world they saved.

It’s not feminist to say that a female character deserves “rest” when she’s shown zero inclination that she wants a quiet life. Women who want a quiet life deserve to get it — I think Katniss’ arc is perfect — but women who want power deserve to get it too, especially when they’re motivated by compassion and a keen sense of justice. There’s nothing feminist about defending the early 2010s writing decisions of two men. Like just admit that they fucked up! It’s fine! Maybe they’ll do better in the future!

[jessibbb]

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[fadedgilt]

This goes out for the ladies with boobie stetchmarks

[kin-silver-jewel]

I debated on whether posting this for awhile. I figured I might as well do it now. I’ll add the cannon details after I play the demo. I’ll admit that she is physically based on my own body, stetchmarks and all, just not the peircing and haircut. she won’t have my hair or eye color, since mine are just average. While I was drawing this I decided to have a little fun with it, like a what if scenario. @twincovesgame if something like this happens in Kai’s route (I’m not asking for or expecting it) I think I’ll start laughing.

[5sosbitchfest]

I know that stetchmarks are normal but I never imagine celebrities with them. Never heard Cal talk about them but if he did, I’m glad he’s normalizing something that shouldn’t have to be so taboo.

Exactly. Almost everyone has them

[h0odspice]

My stetchmarks have completely faded away like wow 😭💓

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[momynia]

Totally love and I mean love this😁😁😁i have stretch marks on my arms fading #itworks #defininggel #stetchmarks #momof2 #workingit

[lesbianau]

you know what not to be gay on main but i love how freeing it is to just . exist for women only like i can let my stetchmark scarred thighs and tummy rolls and flabby underarms out just for girls to see and love and i can love theirs right back!! what a power flex!!

[jaxonah]

Im pretty sure Jackson has stretch marks on his ass tbh. He probably has some on his inner thighs since everyone seems to have them there. I have skinny legs and I have them there. Since everyone is talking about stretchmarks I used to hate my stretchmarks (I used to have huge hips and most stretchmarks were on my hips) until I got cocoa butter to fadecmy stetchmarks and I realized everyone has them.

My baby and any type of markings he has on his skin are purrrrrrfect. I really fucking hate the ones I have on my stomach and hips sm but I think in the right lighting, the ones on my butt are kinda pretty

[ostentatiously-odd]

Natural ingredience Skin care

- Orange peel (powder) → Antibacterial → Oily skin, Acne, blackheads

- Healing clay → Antibacterial, Antiallergic → Oily/Dirty skin, Acne, blemishes/wounds Dermatitis, Poisen ivy, Insect bites, Inflammation

- Honey → Antibacterial → Moisturizing, Clarifying → Dry skin, Acne, Aging, Burns

- Salt ( Mineral-rich) → Exfoliating, Detoxification → Dry skin, Dead skin/scars

- Sugar → Exfoliating, Moisturizing → Dry skin, Dead skin

- Coconut oil → Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antioxidant → Moisturizing, Hair growth, Aftershave → Dry skin, Chapped lips, Wounds/scars/ stetchmarks/burns, Sunburns

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[honeylikewords]

OKAY BUT THIS'LL BE THE LAST FOR TODAY IT'S 2AM HERE... GOTTA GET SOME SLEEP SO ANYWAY GRADY HATES IT WHEN OTHER MEN LEER AT HIS WIFE IT MAKES HIM SO MAD AND A TAD BIT POSSESSIVE!!! YEAH HIS WIFE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE UNIVERSE (HE DOESN'T CARE THAT SHE HAS STETCHMARKS FROM GIVING BIRTH TO HIS ARMY OF BABIES) BUT HAVING OTHER MEN LOOK AT HER LIKE THAT OR TALK LEWLDY ABOUT HER OHHHH BOI GRADY DOES NOT LIKE THAT

okay number one: GET YOUR SLEEP!! you need it!!! second: FUCK

he’s always in awe of his wife and how an ugly mug like him managed to win her over and his small town doesn’t have many girls in it, so all the men always check her out and grady is DEFINITELY the kind of guy to jump another man for even LOOKING at his wife wrong

so if he EVER sees someone checking her out he goes to full height and sticks his chest out and glares hard while wrapping his arms around her, then dips her down and kisses her HARD in front of the other men and she’s flustered as all get-out and says “GRADY WHAT-” “mmm hush just a minute more, okay?” and he goes back in for the kiss to show them that SHE’S TAKEN, ASSHOLES

she’s ALSO possessive of him because, let’s face it, he’s the ideal man in little rock. he’s got a farm, he’s big and strong, and he’s handsome, too. he’s got a fair amount of admirers and the prettiest young thing in town seems to have an affection for him and eVERY TIME this woman looks at grady, grady’s wife sees red and comes over to put her arm around his and says “oh, honey, who’s this?” and grady can tell it drives his wife INSANE which he, on one hand, loves, but on the other he’s uncomfortable with some other girl looking at him so he brushes the girl off and reminds his wife that she’s The One for him and BYE IM DYING

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