Jake…..why Didn’t You Wait For Me? 

rough animation of this x

Graphic design … is my passion

Rise’s apocalypse living rent free in my head

Adventure Time was just like “here’s s fart joke, here’s a talking piece of candy, here’s an absolutely soul crushing scene where a woman realizes that the man who saved her from starvation and dangerous mutated humans in the aftermath of a brutal global nuclear war no longer remembers her fully or who he used to be because the thing that kept him alive all those years also drove him completely insane and now she finally has to accept that he’ll never truly be the same friend she once knew and decides that even though he does questionable and sometimes dangerous stuff now because of his insanity she’ll still accept him back into her life as he is because he’s still important to her and probably needs a friend now that his mental state has caused him to be alienated by most other people, here’s another fart joke

what don’t people get about the fact that “sokka raised katara” and “katara raised sokka” are not contradictory statements! they raised each other! sokka relies on katara’s support as equally as katara relies on sokka’s support. they both have a mentality of “ugh I have to do everything around here” born of frustration with the fact that they are kids with too many responsibilities, but in truth, they share responsibility, supporting each other both physically and emotionally. sokka raised katara, and katara raised sokka, because that’s what loving siblings who had to grow up without parents do.

Who do you think is smarter, Sokka or Azula?

well I suppose one’s answer depends on how they define intelligence. personally, I value intellect far less than I value one’s capacity for critical thinking, self-awareness, and empathy. I believe that those are the fundamental pillars that define one’s character, and whether or not they know many things and possess many skills matters far less to me.

sokka and azula have a lot in common. they’re both strategic, calculating, resourceful, creative, and most importantly, they both enjoy stupid puns. (also they’re both entps but u didn’t see me say that...) another thing they share in common is that they are deeply motivated by a desire to emulate their fathers, to be the strong, respected, infallible leader they see him as, and due to their subconscious worship of patriarchy, they consider any sign of vulnerability, even amongst those they supposedly trust, to be a weakness—and they consider any weakness a sure sign of failure.

now, crucially, sokka grows out of this mindset. he learns to open up and express his feelings, and he learns to be his own person. he realizes that his father is proud of him regardless of how great a warrior he is. sokka desperately wants to prove himself, but it is in realizing that he should follow his own path that allows him to fully self-actualize. (zuko gets it.) azula doesn’t.

by the end of the show, azula is only just realizing that her father does not truly love her, that he only sees her as a pawn, to be discarded when she is no longer useful. azula doesn’t know who she is outside of her abuse, and she never got the chance to self-actualize. due to the brainwashing she experienced all her life, she lacks true self-awareness, whereas sokka has only been growing more and more self-aware through the seasons. (he’s still far more insecure than he should be, but he’s getting there.)

sokka and azula are both extremely intelligent. there’s no denying that. but to frame it as who is more intelligent is folly. the better question is, who would win a game of pai sho? and the answer to that, of course, is that sokka beats azula easily. not due to her lack of skill, strategy, or cunning, but due to her hubris.

Mom isn’t coming home.

More doodles of the Warners because my body naturally produces them at this point

((if the bottom right looks familiar, it’s a redraw of my own art from years ago))