Keep Thinking About “I Don’t Think Boomerang Is Coming Back This Time” And How Sokka Realized He

am i… the only one who thinks sokka would improve on his art? that he would practice and get better, and would develop the habit of just absently drawing what he saw? his sketches of wartime water tribe life being displayed in cultural centers, his drawings of early cranefish town, his sketches of the FIre Lord and the Avatar and Master Beifong and the Kyoshi warriors becoming important cultural pieces in themselves? maybe they’re not photorealistic paintings, but the feeling of intimacy of these important– near mythical– figures in history being drawn by their close friend… Fire Lord Zuko with his hair down, Avatar Aang with his children, Master Beifong’s concentration as she practiced her forms, all of them having tea together. maybe he draws the group every time they get together, and all of these drawings are donated to a museum after Aang passes away. shit dude, artists are valuable!! 

idk, maybe Sokka's just really emotionally attached to his boomerang because he lost his mother and he's really scared of losing his father and the boomerang is literally designed to always come back to him 🥺

Despite all the relationships inside tmnt 2012 and the guys having their ways of interacting with each other (a lot of the time fighting), it wasn't an abusive household...

Yeah it was different to how they portrayed them in Rise and how they were brought up had a massive effect on that, but taking what they had and calling it abusive is a major exaggeration. 2012 has portrayed the love the family had for each on countless occasions but that gets shoved under the rug as soon as they wanna compare it to Rise.

Both iterations showed a great example of what it's like to have brothers, the good and the dirty stuff, but they both had just as many links to the other as well as the differences both shows have

Nah fam 2012 was abusive asdfhjk. No parent is perfect, but the was 2012 Splinter overtly favored Leo to the point where, after his death he only addressed Leo specifically when his other grieving sons were right there. He also never gave them the choice, he put them in a feud with a man he had beef with. He made them soldiers, and pushed specifically both Leo and Donnie to breaking points bc they were under such pressure to find and cure Splinter’s daughter all while Splinter sat back and barely joined the search.

All of this is a byproduct of poor writing but it was still compelling if u looked at it through the lenses of “this is what happens when u live in a toxic, abusive household”. And 2012 could have been successfully less frustrating if they would have just acknowledged that this was intentionally meant to portray a sucky family dynamic instead of trying to play it off as normal.

Ultimately 2012 Splinter fostered the tense and strained relationships between his kids, didnt really make the important decisions and left a majority of it on Leo- who then projected his stress onto his brothers, namely Donnie. Then 2012 Splinter knew his favortism was causing Raph a lot of anger and hurt, and did nothing but teach him how to channel that anger...instead of ya know, not favoring Leo to an extreme. He also never spoke to Mikey asfdghjkkl

And when Leo got beaten into a coma, Splinter convinced him his pain was all in his head to get him to recover quicker just to send him out to fight his battles again. He also taught them healing hands mad late and only taught it to Leo and not Donnie who...was the family medic at the time.

Like cmon this is abusive atp! Still interesting! But still abusive!

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Pizza date nights >>>

good morning today i am thinking about protective sokka

Listen, I didn’t want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder.

I commissioned @all-things-geekie to combine my two favorite fictional characters of all time into one and I will never stop screaming over how beautiful the result is

It just dawned on me that Sokka truly is a man of the arts. Haiku, painting, an appreciation for theatre(and yes, I do consider pro wrestling as a form of theatre, which is seen how hyped he was during Earth Rumble VI). He is the ideal engineering major with a huge appreciation for art.

don’t forget sculpting (his blubbering blob monster sand sculpture of suki), carving (the bear fish he carved for yue), and set design (he praised the effects in the boy in the iceberg). i’ve always said that i think there’s a false dichotomy between stem & liberal arts, because true science is a lot more theoretical and abstract, philosophical and artistic than we like to give it credit for. sokka is very logical, yes, but he’s also incredibly creative, which are the two key traits required in puzzle-solving. sokka solves problems through creative means; that’s what makes him so brilliant. but we see he enjoys harnessing that creativity elsewhere, too. it’s a shame that he never had time for art between the ages of 10-16 (”you can’t fight the fire nation with fun,” after all), because i do think with some practice he’d be genuinely great at art, and it’s clear he loves it.