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review about reviews It tries to hard. And it just fails.
Honestly, this "tough toph" is two things:  a) Weaker than the
canon one. (she can't bend sand or truly see with vibration,
like Toph demonstrated in the Phoenix King) B) A parody of the
badass action girl.  And I don't mean an direct parody of the
Action girl, like other reviewers are implying. It's like seeing
a 12 year old girl trying to be a cold hardass and failing at
it, which is ironic since the actual 12 year old was a
fascinating amalgamation of a great warrior, a genius and a
scared, insecure high born girl. This is just a jackass who try
to hard to impress the audience.  Just from the title you know
that it's a silly fic. It's not a deconstruction of Fan Wank in
the same way that crank is not a deconstruction of action films.
It's not even a take that of the Fanon wank since it doesn't use
the obvious reasons why toph is so adored (she is strong but not
a bully, independient bu