nightworldlove:incidentalpiratequeen:representation fucking matters.Toph is my hero, she really is!
nightworldlove:incidentalpiratequeen:representation fucking matters.Toph is my hero, she really is! When I went through HELL; spent one entire summer in the hospital when I had only turned 14 a month and a half before that. I had one christmas where I couldn’t help with ANYTHING, not even setting the table because I couldn’t lift or any like that (I wasn’t supposed to put pressure on my eyes, for FOUR weeks due to recovery). I went blind on one eye (later it turned out to be cataract; little did we know back then). I missed my 18th birthday and had seven eye surgeries in total and they told me to keep in mind that I could go blind at an younger age than average because of all that. But you know what, Toph gave me HOPE and STRENGTH. She showed me that even if I’d go completely blind; it’s not the end of the world and there are other ways to ‘see’. She is my fucking hero and nobody will EVER change that! -- source link
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