I love Pip!
Happiness in Shipping
Fandom: All that matters in shipping is how Bolin feels.
Korra: But I'm the main character. Don't you think I should have a say in who my love interest i--
Fandom: NO. YOU'RE A TERRIBLE WOMAN WHO HURT OUR BABY
Mako: Hey, I think Korra has a point. I think I deserve happiness as wel--
Fandom: SHUT UP MAKO YOU'RE A HORRIBLE BROTHER. YOU DESERVE DEATH.
Asami: Hello everyone! How are--
Fandom: RUN MAKO! SHE'S AN EQUALIST WHO WILL SLIT YOUR THROAT IN YOUR SLEEP!
I just knew that this episode was going to bring the Nice Guy™ sympathizers out of the woodwork.
- Korra isn’t attracted to Bolin, and attraction isn’t something that can be forced. Let me repeat: Attraction can not be forced.
- Bolin wasn’t the only one who got shot down. Korra also ultimately did not get the guy she was interested in. The implication that only men suffer from “friend zoning” (unrequited love or attraction) is ridiculous. Women get rejected too.
- Women don’t owe men dates or sex or a relationship as a reward for their “niceness”. Being nice is basic human decency.
The people in this fandom who are bashing and maligning Korra (calling her a “bitch” or a “slut”) for who she is or who she isn’t attracted to need to think long and hard about what bullshit they’ve internalized.
(And ugh, the asinine quote in the image came from Brotips. Seriously guys, that is not a good tip. It is a red flag for spotting jerks.)
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“Watching my soulmate spend his life with the wrong woman became too painful.” - Pema
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sidenote: As fun as the idea is, I don’t actually think Tenzin dated Lin when they were younger because in all likelihood they grew up together and had to see each other all the time at gaang reunions and my experience is that if you grow up with someone since childhood it’s very hard to see them as anything other than siblings. And from their snippy exchange in episode 1, I feel like Tenzin and Lin definitely have more of a sibling rivalry going on. This was just an excuse to draw a younger Tenzin and Lin. ;)
Although! If Pema’s story is true, I doubt she’s the type to homewreck a happy relationship - it’s much more likely that Tenzin was involved in a relationship that made him unhappy or unsatisfied in some way, which became more than Pema could bear. /headcanon
