#atlas screeches

[kazs-scheming-face]

thoughts on me going to the renaissance festival dressed as erin ruunaser

[mugentakeda]

I feel like modern au zuko can drive, is very good at it, has his license, and will get you where you need to go but like. with very dangerous efficiency. he drives like Evel Knievel. he drives like a bat out of hell. he whips the wheel hard as fuck and you will see Jesus even if the drive is from your house to the corner store. his car is used and like 10 years old but she is strong and loyal just like her master and wont break down for anything. she'll tear over anything in her path. zuko has given iroh so many mini heart attacks while driving him around (<- because iroh does NOT have his license). worst of all is that zuko does NOT talk or road rage ever when he drives he's DEAD SILENT and simply blasts the radio. and its always either terrifying Chinese opera or crazy shit like Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

I needed some more soft Zukka in my life so here u go

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

Zuko is so fucking annoying and he's sosososo rude, like a good 95% of the time. don't do him a disservice and take that away from him. gay people deserve to be rude.

[sillysnaily]

@lunarcrown and @aquaquadrant

eight chapter brainrot goes brrrrrr

[starfinss]

i can’t get the thought out of my head of Zuko practicing his confession to a frog and the reader either confronting him about it ORRRR thinks its for someone else,,,, maybe think its for katara? not sure how that will work and i get it might be a lot but in all just wanna share my thoughts as i continue to think about this,,,,

feel free to tell me to shut up

NONO PLEASE DON’T SHUT UP. I love when people get as involved as you are in requests, it’s so much fun to work with requesters on fics.

This is such good stuff, I’ll need to go through these asks again in the morning to write an outline. I love the frog thing, that’s so funny. Her thinking it’s about Katara or something would be interesting, too, especially for the confrontation scene, which could go something like this (but probably won’t).

“I THOUGHT YOU LIKED KATARA?”

“WHAT IN THE WORLD MADE YOU THINK THAT?”

“YOU TOLD THE FROG.”

“THE FROG?”

“YES, ZUKO. THE FROG.”

“OH, YOU SAW THAT. OH, SPIRITS. THE FROG.”

[stardust948]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Katara/Zuko (Avatar), The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar), Aang & Ozai (Avatar), Azula & Ozai & Ursa & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Kiyi & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Iroh (Avatar) Characters: Zuko (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Aang (Avatar), Ursa (Avatar), Ozai (Avatar), The Gaang (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Aftermath of Torture, Healing, Mental Health Issues, Depression, Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Political tension, Racism, Angst, Grief/Mourning, invasive thoughts, Working Out My Feelings Through Fic, Hurt/Comfort, Bad Parent Ozai (Avatar), Abusive Ozai (Avatar), Manipulative Ozai (Avatar), New Ozai Society (Avatar), Azula & Toph Beifong Friendship (Avatar), Toph Beifong and Zuko are Siblings, Azula and Zuko Have a Good Relationship (Avatar), at least working on it, Toph inserts herself into the Fire Family, Past Mai/Zuko (Avatar), Past Aang/Katara (Avatar), albeit a one-sided crush, Post-100 Year War (Avatar TV), Zuko Loves Katara (Avatar), Katara Loves Zuko (Avatar), Minor Sokka/Suki (Avatar), Angst with a Happy Ending, Additional Warnings In Author's Note Series: Part 3 of Kintsugi Summary:

Zuko and Katara navigate their newfound relationship as the world recovers and civil war threatens the Fire Nation. Tensions rise even higher when secrets from the past deals made in the dark are brought to the light.

[my-tatteredwingsof-freedom]

God the amount of tiktok/twitter people who severely misunderstand Azula as a character is so exhausting. Did we even watch the same show?

Azula was a victim of abuse just as much as Zuko but in an entirely different way. Ozai pit Azula and Zuko against each other because he realized he could do something with Azula that he couldn't with Zuko; he could mold her into the next version of himself. Azula one hundred percent was most like Ozai even when she was young. Zuko, on the other hand, held all the traits Ozai, and the Fire Nation as a whole, believed were weak; he was compassionate and curious, he believed in being fair and just, and he never saw sense in pointless death which we saw in the flashback of how he got his scar.

Azula, however, was young and already feeling like she was being separated as "different" by their mother; Ursa was not a perfect parent by any means. And Ozai gave Azula the praise and affection that he refused to give Zuko. Ozai celebrated her while Ursa shied away from her. Can you imagine being a little kid and knowing that your own mother viewed you as an outsider, a monster?

Like, i dunno, but parents favoring one over the other and pitting them against each other in everything at such young ages definitely feels abusive to me. Mentally and emotionally. And besides, we KNOW that the Fire Nation's teachings and histories were manipulative; their own historical texts they taught in SCHOOLS were WRONG. It isn't hard to figure that Ozai's parenting, even if he valued his daughter more, would be just as twisted and wrong. What would he have done if Azula had turned on him? If she had spoken out against him or did exactly what Zuko did in the war council? Ozai wouldn't have hesitated to hurt her to prove a point. He already did it to one kid. If Azula stopped being useful to him, stopped trying to please him and be the best at everything, there would be no way Ozai would have kept treating her like she was his pride and joy.

Azula was a victim of abuse and was groomed to become Ozai's successor. The amount of pressure that puts on a kid, especially one who from a young age already felt like a monster in the eyes of a parent that was supposed to love them, is one hundred percent abusive. Azula was the perfect child and it cost her everything. No, she wasn't a perfect person nor a good one. But she was a victim to not just Ozai, but the Fire Nation's corruption as a whole. She loved her brother. That was confirmed by the creators a long time ago; Azula loved Zuko more than anything but she also loved being better than him, than everyone, because that was what gained her their father's favor. It gave her the sense of satisfaction and the security of a parents love.

To see her be reduced to nothing but an insane and heartless killer is so exhausting. What's that quote? "My father is the worst man alive and I am his favorite daughter"?.

Azula was fourteen. She wasn't a good person by far but no child is born evil. But evil is a hundred percent taught.

[that-dumb-dinosaur]

i reallyyy don't want to put myself through watching the live action atla series but i am really curious of just how bad it actually is

[yourgayfroggiefriend]

Real pictures of me rereading Salvage by MuffinLance

[ofherlionheart]

[kazs-scheming-face]

schrodingers aromantic where I want nothing to do with romance but am simultaneously overcome with yearning

[wylinka]

Lilo & Stitch where everything is the same except instead of Stitch there's Momo

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Domestic zuuka= one of them doing their cultural foods as a surprise (ie zuko cooking something sourther water tribe) and sokka crying over how good the food is

YESSS. THIS!! It’s about the time and effort!! It’s about learning about each others cultures !!! aaHHHh I’m such Whore for this concept

[absul]

[ID: simple, lineless art of two cats, an adult and a kitten; alvue and atra. alvue is a pale brown tabby with dilute tortoiseshell markings and a big white blaze on their chest. atra is black with two white front paws and an upside-down-triangle-shaped blaze on his upper chest. the first pose has alvue sitting down with atra next to their front leg, beneath their body, clinging to it with a timid expression. alvue is leaning their head down to look at him, extending an encouraging paw out in front of them. alvue has excited marks coming from their head, and atra has three ellipses beside him. there's a black divider below them, which reads, 'many growth spurts later.' below the divider is the second pose, with atra now being an adult and larger than alvue, but still curling up to try and squeeze his whole body underneath them to hide while they sit. atra still has three ellipses next to him, and alvue has a cartoon-y little cat emoticon beside their head, which is shrugging in acceptance. end ID.]

alvue’s lil baby that they adopted has 0 base bravery. he’s also 10 whole pounds heavier than them now but that’s not gonna stop him

[liesmyth]

#from the creator of that’s rough buddy @tony-buddenbrook

Zuko (an empath): there's something off about her. I can't explain it, but she's slipping

Literally Azula: