The Earth Queen's allergies
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attackfishWhat follows is almost completely spoiler free.
In all the awesome that is the new season of The Legend of Korra (and after all the problems with Books One and Two, it’s good to have that awesomeness back) I feel kind of like an ungrateful jerk for complaining about anything, but I do have a minor quibble: the Earth Queen’s allergies. I’m getting a little sick (no pun intended) of seeing my disability played for laughs, and used to make the suffer look like a buffoon. There’s a part of me that’s just glad that there isn’t any suggestion that the Earth Queen is faking her allergies, and in fact we get to see her allergies know Pabu’s around, even when he is hidden away. But I don’t like the way my disability only ever seems to show up as the butt of a joke. Also, lot’s of nice people who love animals are very allergic to them and have to avoid them because of it, like me with my birds, which I had to give up because allergies to them almost killed me and my mother.
tl:dr The Avatar franchise is usually so good with disability, why aren’t they good with mine?
In all the awesome that is the new season of The Legend of Korra (and after all the problems with Books One and Two, it’s good to have that awesomeness back) I feel kind of like an ungrateful jerk for complaining about anything, but I do have a minor quibble: the Earth Queen’s allergies. I’m getting a little sick (no pun intended) of seeing my disability played for laughs, and used to make the suffer look like a buffoon. There’s a part of me that’s just glad that there isn’t any suggestion that the Earth Queen is faking her allergies, and in fact we get to see her allergies know Pabu’s around, even when he is hidden away. But I don’t like the way my disability only ever seems to show up as the butt of a joke. Also, lot’s of nice people who love animals are very allergic to them and have to avoid them because of it, like me with my birds, which I had to give up because allergies to them almost killed me and my mother.
tl:dr The Avatar franchise is usually so good with disability, why aren’t they good with mine?
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Date: 2014-07-13 01:46 am (UTC)Asami's mom also had a similar hair style. My headcanon is that they all share a stylist, who was very popular in Republic city for a while, and after the Equalist revolution, Suyin convinced them to move in with the metal clan. The secret politics of hair stylist clientele is my strange Korra crack weakness.
The Tokka shippers never give up, never surrender. I don't see it either. I mean, if anyone's got secret Sokka genes, it's Kai. Just look at him.
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Date: 2014-07-13 01:49 am (UTC)Oh dear. You've just gone and reawoken the terrible Mirror Universe AU of my heart, where Tenzin is training the Avatar to follow in his father's totalitarian footsteps, and he and Lin run Republic City as a police state.
My headcanon is that they all share a stylist, who was very popular in Republic city for a while, and after the Equalist revolution, Suyin convinced them to move in with the metal clan. The secret politics of hair stylist clientele is my strange Korra crack weakness.
HEADCANON ACCEPTED.
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Date: 2014-07-13 06:16 pm (UTC)