Reason 4,678 That Awesome And Hot Girl Is Not Dead

[redbrunja]

One day I will not ramble about Avatar. Today is not that day.

(All the reasons boil down to 'because I won't allow it' - I think Mike and Bryan could show me her bloody corpse and I'd go, 'we have necromancers in this world, right? Also, my mother never even considered the idea that Suki was dead, which I take as a good sign.)

But I had a point. It hit me recently, that Azula has all those Dai Lai under her sway - Dai Lai who are quite practiced at brainwashing. What if the reason Suki doesn't mention Sokka anymore is because she doesn't remember him?

You could have a totally awesome meeting where Sokka is like, "Suki! Thank god you're alright!" and Suki's like, "Back off. Who the hell do you think you are?"

Which leads to much angst and sorrow.

(And since I'm in the middle of writing 'what I think happened to Suki' we're sure to find out this Friday, before I have a chance to finish my fic. At this point, I don't know whether to hope I find out what happened to her this week, or hope I don't.)

Now, to segue to smut instead, before I actually watched Avatar, I floated the idea that this might be a show I could write girl-on-girl for, with all the great female characters running around.

So, I was reading this fic that had Toph in a lesbian relationship, which made SO much sense to me (and then I worried I believed that because she's nontraditionally feminine and if that said bad things about me and my social constructed paradigms about sexuality) and then I saw a really cute pic of Katara and Toph kissing and you know, that would be a very interesting relationship.

(This is a tangent: I was talking to mother about this, as we paired up the people in Avatar the way they should be - needless to say, Zuko is going to get a damn fine Fire Lady, and Toph is going to be queen and/or get Haru. Or a lesbian relationship. Anyway, the point is... *tries to remember point* Okay, I've got it. So, we're talking about Toph and lesbianism, and my mother mentions, that when she first say Toph she thought Toph was going to be "a rival for Katara."

Me: "I don't know if they'd do that. You know, have an actual lesbian relationship on a children's cartoon. But it would be pretty awesome if they did."

Mom: "I meant a rival for Katara regarding Aang."

Me: "Oh.")

However, what I actually want to talk about was Azula. Now, smilaraaq has written/mentioned that if anyone in Avatar wants to top, it would be Azula, which is just blatantly true. HOWEVER, I often find that having the obviously dominant character in a couple top can be... predictable, you know? So then I thought, who would be topping Azula? Well, it obviously wouldn't be Mei, because topping Azula would take effort and, you know, having a pulse, but Ty Li? Can't you just imagine her using her circus freak acrobatics and pressure points to have her way with Miss Thing?

Randomly: you know how on a molecular level glass is a liquid? I wonder if Katara could do fun things with glass, or if that would more be Toph's milieu because glass comes from sand.

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Well, and Toph is (1) a deeply sheltered kid who's out on her own with other kids close to her age for the first time and (2) only 14. So I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine she'd get over that crush eventually, especially if it's not reciprocated.

And yes, Res truly called that one -- hairshipping is the wave of the future! (http://a-hollow-year.livejournal.com/303647.html) *snickers*

On the kid front, though, for Zutara I could see them having more than one -- if Zuko ends up as Fire Lord it is generally safer for the succession to have backup heirs, and we've already seen that Kat is one of those girls who does go all goopy over babies...plus in the palace it's not like they wouldn't have servants to help with the more tiring aspects of childrearing. Now, Toph, on the other hand, hairshipping jokes aside, is one I could see having only one kid or none; she's not shown that maternal streak like Kat, and she's enough of an iconoclast that if she doesn't feel like popping out babies for her own reasons, societal convention isn't going to change her mind about it!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Toph's crush is something I can easily see her growing out of, and I really can't image it being reciprocated. Toph is too much 'one of the guys to Sokka' and totally not the type he falls for (he likes 'em nicely out of his league).

You make a good point about the succession. It would be interesting to see how that would play out with Zuko's experiences with his sibling. But I bet Katara would lobby for a little brother for their little heir... someone for the Avatar to abdicate the throne to...

Totally agreement about Toph. I actually have a hard time seeing her ever having kids. That doesn't sound like something she'd want, and I can't image her partners wants swaying her (which isn't totally a bad thing.)

Hairshipping is the wave of the future. And what the hell is prostate milking?

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

*Snortgiggle.* Prostate milking...They used to do it for the soldiers in WWII, I don't know if they still do it, but it's like when a guy is getting a prostate exam, only much, much better for them. Literally. They used it to give them orgasms so they wouldn't get so tense and stuff in battle. I really can't remember where I read about that...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, like whores, only cheaper!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

You can't beat the Axis if you get V.D.! (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visualculture/venereal.html)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Fascinating reading.

I'm always surprised by how tawdry and sexualized history was. Which shouldn't be a shock - sex wasn't discovered in the 1970s, after all, but I always get a little jolt at these things.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is why I am endlessly fascinated with vintage and ancient porn, raunchy old blues and folk songs, and the like -- I even have a small collection of antique electric vibrators from the 1920s through the early 1950s. Anybody who thinks the past was pure and innocent compared to the present...sorry. There's nothing new under the sun, just old perversions getting recycled in new media.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

1920s vibrators? Oh man, I need to come on a field trip to YOUR house. That is so... cool.

Speaking of, I got my present. I almost expired of the awesome, and it prompted a discussion between my mother and I regarding what Gojyo's hair would smell like.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

You can find the damnedest things trawling through eBay's "Medical Antiques" category. I still need to figure out a good way of displaying them one of these years -- like these vintage examples (http://www.vibratormuseum.com/), none of 'em look obviously like sex toys (non-representational, non-insertable external use ONLY, natch) so they could be left out without being too blatantly shocking unless someone *asks*. The prize of my collection is an early-1930s electric, still in the remarkably well-preserved satin-lined leatherette box with niches for all of the original attachments, similar to these old White Cross models (http://www.goodvibes.com/Content.aspx?id=363&leftMenu=2&lr=y).

And yay, glad it arrived! I had a couple of packages going out to the Left Coast at the same time and have been waiting to hear if they made it out safely. Was the Hermessence swatch still damp enough to be sniffable? And what'd you think of my best beloved Perversion?

I can't remember if I made a note of it, but the earrings are all on niobium wires, and now you probably see why I was being so coy about jewelry colors and weights. If beads like that are about at the right sort of heaviness for what you have in mind, I've got a more vibrant blue choker pattern laid out that could be strung and finished in a jiffy. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, you HAVE to have those out so that unsuspecting guests can ask questions. *gigglesnort*

All the scents were sniffable. Perversion... I can really see where you get Gojyo off of it. I'm not an ordorafactorly inclinded person normally, so I need a few more sniffs before I get a really good read on what I think of them. (And that is yet another set of items that I left at home.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I do at least have the infamous Hello Kitty vibrator (http://www.kittyhell.com/2007/05/08/hello-kitty-vibrator/) lurking innocently on one of the bookshelves... ;)

And I'm looking forward to your thoughts once you get your hands back on the sniffies!

So are the sort of beads I used for the earrings about the right sort of medium weight you were describing?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh that poor man. I wonder if he knew of his wife's obesession before he married her. And hee! At your Hello Kitty placement. That is hilarious.

re: beads. those would be fine for a necklace. Maybe a little bit heavier, but not much.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I'm not nearly that bad! From where I'm sitting here in my comfy little chair in the corner, I can only see, hmmm, sixteen Sanrio items, and they're not even all Kitty-chan! And that's less scary than it sounds, honest, since that's mostly lots of small things like the earrings you sent me, or CD wallets...and they're not even all Kitty, there's a bunch of Badtz-Maru and Landry and Pochacco mixed in with all the subtle blue-and-white Angel Kitty stuff.

_{Never mind that the number would be higher if the sock drawer and underwear drawer were open. That doesn't count because I said "visible"!}

And those beads are just sort of the main base -- there are a few smaller ones and several larger ones mixed in as accents. Want a picture, or would you rather be surprised? :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd rather be surprised, please. And hey, honor your Hello Kitty-ness. I think it's adorable. (As is that icon.) I wish my underwear had perky cartoon characters on it. Instead, it's just sherbert colored, and I think I was the one person in the world who requested underwear and socks for christmas - after Paris, none of my whites where white.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Heh, and it turns out I actually missed a couple of things...forgot about some bookends, and a bookmark that was sticking out of something on the reading pile, and the netsuke hanging off my wallet. But it really isn't as bad as it sounds, I swear... you'd notice the huge collection of stuffed huskies long before you spotted all the tiny subtle Sanrio bits and bobs! ;)

And if your stuff got all pastel-ish from stuff running in the wash, there are a bunch of decent laundry treatments that might perk them up -- Dylon, Rit, and Carbona all make specialty color run removers that work reasonably well, and even just plain ol' peroxide bleach like Oxyclean can go a long way towards cleaning up that sort of thing if the fabrics aren't too delicate. (Or you can go the "if you can't beat 'em..." route and just dye them all to more intense colors...)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Good point. However, I think a lot of my whites were really beyond saving, and there was just this viceral pleasure in just tossing them away...

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

*Cackle.*

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could see Zuko maybe having reservations about having a bigger family, given what a wonderful experience life with his sister was...but if Kat really really wants more kids, I think she could be more than stubborn and persuasive enough to get him past that. And both those kids have enough issues about lost/distant family members that I can sort of see them compensating for that by way of their own new family...whereas Toph having a mess of babies feels about as wrong as that whole stupid Hermione/Ron epilogue.

And sheesh, talk about a wild segue...the prostate milking thing? Direct prostate stimulation can produce ejaculation, even without any attention paid to the more obvious erotic zones; it may be just an orgasm-free sort of reflex response, especially in a more clinical sort of setting without any other stimulation; or, especially in a more pleasurable sort of setting, it can contribute to very intense orgasms.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think Azula would destroy anyone's ideas about the niceness of siblings. However, I can't imagine Zuko withholding anything Katara really wanted, especially when the giving it to her would be so pleasurable.

And I'm in totally agreement regarding Toph. She would TOTALLY not want kids, and it she ever got one.... you know, I have a really hard time picturing her even having and oops baby.

Ah. Thank you for the info.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Between the need for an heir and Kat's goopiness over babies, I can definitely see Zuzu giving in on that front pretty quickly; making her happy and that whole demands-of-royalty sense of duty would pretty easily outweigh his personal objections.

Toph, well, she's young enough that I *could* maybe see her at some point way in the future eventually deciding she wants a kid; but I could just as easily see her quite happy to not go down that road. I don't recall her being particularly freaked out like Sokka back when Katara was delivering the baby back in "The Serpent's Pass", but she also wasn't going all gushy over it like Kat.

_{Sorry you asked? Beware asking Pervy Jedi Masters questions, for they WILL answer them! ;)}

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Plus - possible conflict and angst! yay!

Toph... it would be really interesting to see a good writer handle the Toph + kids =? equation. Because if there is only one child in question I could see it going either way - or her picking up some not-old enough to be on there own kid and raising him/her.

(Not sorry, that was actually what I was expecting - not that they did it to soldiers in world war 2, but the act in general.)