*canonballs Into 2024 Bc I've Grown Inured To The Horrors And Am Overdue To Be Bedazzed By The Wonders*

Such a rough day being cute and adorable

The reasoning behind why Iroh choose a doll for Azula, from a colonial perspective

irl, colonizers and other dominant groups made dolls of minorities to assert their hegemony and subjugate them, often using stereotypes e.g. https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/toys.htm

These toys were also used to indoctrinate children into particular cultural values or racist ideas. This might be the purpose of Azula's doll. It might be made in EK or FN colonies. Either way, it may represent the colonized EK female, symbolizing women the colonizer can own and objectify. It fits the stereotype of the pretty EK girl from Iroh's song. That might be the message of the doll.

If so, this wouldn't make it better that Iroh gave Azula the doll not the knife. But it shows his chauvinist and sexist thinking that he would use the doll to say: FN women, you can be imperialists too! (just not by fighting or being ruler, that's for boys only).

by @theteashopgirl

so guys turns out that being raised by queer people alienates me from the queer experience. probably not a good thing

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose