#homophobia but morality (in a that certain way of self-hatred) concerns her a lot less | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tragedykery · 2 years

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I think mai would struggle a lot with feeling monstrous. for her queerness, for her coldness, for her thoughts and feelings (both for having them and hiding them). moving away from the fire nation helps her and ty lee unlearn the idea that what they have/what they’re doing/what they feel is wrong or shameful and that they need to hide it

#(also for her intrusive thoughts but that isn’t canon)#atla #mailee #mai #ty lee #it’s about healing and overcoming the ideas you internalised by living in a world/nation with bigotry at its very fundaments together <3 #elli rambles #this is why big spoon mai is so dear to me #it allows her to be gentle and trusted and love and be loved by somebody she cannot (and will not) hurt #rereading the jas.mine throne got me thinking fuck what *IS* it to be monstrous #anyway the mailee-ification of ‘even if you try to hurt me you can’t. I won’t let you’ (paraphrased)#mai and ty lee and both malinicore and priyacore in different ways #though both more like malini than priya. obviously #also the reason I said mai is bc I feel like ty lee would struggle with feeling monstrous a lot less. like obviously she has internalised-#homophobia but morality (in a that certain way of self-hatred) concerns her a lot less #(you know that post that’s like my moral compass is surrounded by magnets? that’s her <3)#she’s very practical and her main motivation during the show is survival and I don’t think she’d care as much what the ‘morality’ of–#her actions as long as she achieves that. and with that her morality in general too #r #maileeposting

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