#chitsangenthusiast

[chiliger]

5 and 14!!!

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

Omg so many things... To name a couple: My original comics, first and foremost. Far too many ideas, so I gotta prioritize, but I'm nearly done polishing the plot for one of them. I still think about a short animatic of Yue, after surviving the siege, to part of the song "Champagne Problems."

14. How has your art changed over the years?

I found this old progress tracker and figured it was high time to add an update on it.

However! It skips a crucial part of my art development: My awkward kiddie weeb phase circa 2009-2011.

[erisenyo]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ELECTRIC LOVE!!!

Ohhh this was tough to pick! I'll go with this bit from their shopping date:

“What’s this?” Zuko asks, holding up a deceptively simple-looking circle of thin, stamped leather. “An armband? This is nice?”

“…Let’s do one thing at a time and save armbands for later,” Sokka suggests, doing a double take at the raised-eyebrow look the shopkeeper gives him over Zuko’s shoulder as Zuko shrugs and goes back to the basket.

“My son works for a wholesaler in Zhou,” she says, lips twitching.

“Ah,” Sokka says—it’s a frequent stop for Southern trading vessels, even before the end of the war—as he waves away Zuko’s questioning look and goes back to looking through the basket again with a new purpose in mind.

I am unable to resist teasing a proposal between the two of them but not actually writing it, as it turns out, and I really liked the idea of using that in particular to show the boys' relationship progression here and to orient the reader into this post-canon moment where they're together but also still figuring it out, to some degree.

(I also just love the detail of armbands for the SWT as a sign of commitment, from the novels)

Both Sokka and Zuko's attention is caught by something proposal related in the story (Sokka here with the armband, Zuko with the jewelry making to anyone who has read some of the other stories set in this AU). But neither of them directly references it or brings it up to the other, and Sokka outright redirects the conversation. There's a readiness that isn't there for either of them yet for that conversation, even though they feel very sure and happy with each other--which makes sense, since they're probably 18/19ish here (I don't feel like doing the math) and both still heavily involved in their individual post-canon rebuilding efforts and functionally in a long-distance relationship.

And there's still a level of unfamiliarity with the details of each other's cultures, too, in the fact that Zuko doesn't know about armbands (where this vendor whose son would interact with Southern traders does). I wanted to show the ways they're still learning and sharing with each other, and also suggest their tendency to get very caught up in each other and the giddiness of being back together. Plus, it felt like something Zuko wasn't likely to get in a Fire Lord briefing ahead of some formal visit South, and that no one else would think to tell him.

For this Fanfic Directors cut ask game!

[haroldtea]

OHH 'nonchalant'??

wheeheeee from rdtas again:

“Oh, so me winning the points for the cooking is boring?” Sokka asks, examining his nails with faux nonchalance. He gets a pillow to the face within the next breath, revealing a wide grin as it slides off.

“Yes, actually,” Zuko says, crossing his arms but allowing the very corners of his mouth to tick up. “Very boring. Snoozefest.”

“Uh-huh,” Sokka hums. “And I suppose it’ll be more exciting if you win the cuddle points, then.”

send me a word, if it’s in my wip document i’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in!

[drive]

[ash-and-starlight]

it’s been more than a month but i finally remembered that @chiptrillino tagged me in the last line challenge so here u go!

carefully drawing every single gray hair on their beards to distract myself from the fact that i intend to draw Several Sceneries

tagging hmmm @erisenyo @marriedzukka @chitsangenthusiast @faux-fires if u feel so inclined u3u

[chiptrillino]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

got tagged by @ranilla-bean with these huge eyes and expectation of sharing something specific, which i now pretend to completely forget what it was! also i forgot that i should share one thing but i already prepped 6 different ones soo... uhhh

(ID in ALT text)

tagging with absolutely no pressure, but if you would like to do! @ssreeder @chitsangenthusiast @petricorah @paramouradrift @blu3berrydraws and uh. -pointing at whom this perhaps could be crossing on the dash!- no seriously, tag me, i am noisy and curious!

[petricorah]

wip game!

rules: share a few lines or a snippet that sums up the main relationship(s) in your wip

i was tagged by @ash-and-starlight (thank you!) and you can see her version here~

ids in alt text. tagging @chitsangenthusiast @longhairsokka @yayee-prsp and @bisexuallsokka if they want to participate!

[3cosmicfrogs]

Last line tag game!!

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

tagged by @frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

not a writer but i do draw. since yall have been SO lovely in welcoming me to Triangle Corner, here's a spoiler for my next 3zun art:

Anyway

Tagging @chitsangenthusiast and anyone else who wants to join (i have very few mdzs moots pls i just started going here)

[colorofneurosis]

Last Line Challenge

tagged by @erisenyo🌿 (i salute you for still poking this hibernating bear) so here have a lounging Eddie covered in a mass of Very Unfinished Lines.

(We'll fix him up don't worry)

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

tagging : @sparklyslug (yeah you know it) @carbonbased000 @jamiethegardener55 @flieslikeamoron @chitsangenthusiast @wingedquill @artbean and/or anyone who feels like sharing any kind of line (snort) (double snort) (ok she done bye)

[marriedzukka]

was tagged by @ash-and-starlight ages ago to share last lines from a wip, and it's been a while since a retgmt16 snippet, so here you go 💙

A warm wind stirs the trees. Patches of clouds drift slowly overhead, the only movement in an otherwise peaceful landscape. It’s been a while since Zuko’s been here, but time passing or not, the long, winding paths among the graves are still the same. Izumi tightens her grip on his hand as Sokka, Mai, and Azula trail not far behind.

And it’s here, just under the shade of an old willow at the edge of the cemetery lot, where the Hasegawa family grave sits: a larger stone monument nearly as tall as Zuko, with the names of the deceased elegantly engraved. There’s a sick twinge in his chest when he sees Iroh. It still doesn’t feel right. By now he knows that it never will.

Then again, he’s not sure what he’s supposed to be feeling right now. The stone beneath his hand is hard, sharp, cold— and so unlike the people he knew and loved who now rest beneath it.

Through the numbness comes a sting of guilt: he should have come to visit the grave sooner. He should’ve done more, been better—

Forgive yourself, Nephew. Again and again and again, as many times as you need to. The time will pass anyway.

The breeze kisses his face. A hand on the small of his back pulls in another presence at his side. No matter what’s going on or who else is around, there’s one person who always considers him. Worries about him. Loves him.

“Okay?” Sokka asks.

“I think so.” Zuko glances over and finds grounding, lovely blue. “I’m glad you’re here.”

Sokka smiles, a soft thing, and drops a kiss on Zuko’s shoulder. “What first?”

tagging @chitsangenthusiast @lesmiserablol @backhurtyy and @ofherlionheart if you have anything you wanna share! 💙

[zukkaart]

hiiii i don't know if you are the right person to ask. but. i've been looking for a specific zukka fic i read on ao3 during covid. it's an au where zukka and sokka hook up the day before the college semester starts. then they go their ways in the morning.... and then when sokka shows up to class zuko is the professor. they have to navigate that. do you maybe know this fic or who wrote it? i can't find it anywhere 😭😭😭😭

I have been digging through the TRENCHES of Ao3 to find this fic for you and have come up with nothing. Fear not- I shall keep looking

In the meantime I shall tag some of my faves who have been on ao3 much longer than I have to help!

@sulkybender @picnicbitchsokka @ultfreakme @momos-servants @marriedzukka @chitsangenthusiast

[erisenyo]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

Tagged by the lovely @chiptrillino and @ash-and-starlight and @pensiveabstraction and @sulkybender and @ssreeder and @transboysokka and wow I got so far behind on these jeez here's a bunch of lines then!

(NSFW ahead)

“Shit,” Sokka gasps, somehow managing to jerk his eyes up to the mirror to meet Zuko’s intent, molten gaze and Sokka could happily sink into that expression, into the hunger Zuko has to make him come apart. But, “Right here, right?” Zuko says, his free hand tapping gently on Sokka’s chin, and it takes Sokka a moment to realize he’s indicating Sokka’s face. “That’s what you’re supposed to do? Look at yourself, draw what you see?” Sokka swallows hard, something hot twisting in his gut, throbbing in his dick. “Zuko,” he says, shaky, staring at himself arousal-flushed, his lips wet and parted over his gasping breaths, wanton, wanting… “Give it a try,” Zuko grins, wicked—and keeping hold of Sokka’s dick as he slips around to kneel between his spread thighs. “Holy fuck,” Sokka says, stunned in the way Zuko dropping so gracefully to his knees always stuns him. “Don’t forget to look,” Zuko smirks up through his lashes, tugging open Sokka’s pants. “Fucking—” “Or draw.” Sokka lets out a tight noise as Zuko licks up his dick, just with the fucking tip of his— “Your hand stops, I stop.” “I fucking hate you,” Sokka says, quickly grabbing up his charcoal again and dragging his sight away from his dick right next to Zuko’s smirking lips and onto the mirror and his own desire-flushed, hectic face. “Let me hear how much,” Zuko says, and waits for Sokka to start drawing again to swallow him down.

And that is way too many people to tag so uhhh @allgremlinart @blu3berrydraws @drowthelynes @boiiiko @dickpuncher420 @bleekay @chitsangenthusiast and anyone else who wants to play!

[thepurpleether]

Dude wtf fanfiction is amazing for all the reasons already well known, but yesterday I read one and the way colours were described was just so beautiful and amazing!!!

Anyway this is a roundabout way of saying that I’m my English language exam today when I quite literally had no ideas of what to write about, this gave me inspiration and I started describing colours!!!

Fucking amazing!!!

Anyway shoutout to the fic Gold in the Air of Summer by @chitsangenthusiast on ao3, fucking amazing

[dickpuncher420]

writer's meme

thank u reikah @faux-fires for tagging me! <33

How many wips do you have currently?

only 2 that i can claim to be actively working on. one of them is a zukka yuri oneshot that i meant to finish for zukka week (oops! that did not happen), and the other is chapter 2 of my pacrim au.

Which one are you finding the hardest to finish?

i'd say my pacrim au, given that it's been over a year since i posted the first chapter LOL. truth be told i haven't worked on it all that much recently, and i'm still only on the first scene of chapter 2. i REALLY want to work on it again, but i have a hard time working on multiple projects at once, so hopefully once i finish my zukka yuri fic i can devote all my energy to pacrim <3

What does it usually look like when inspiration strikes for you?

it almost always happens at night. either i can't fall asleep because i've been struck with inspiration for a new fic, or i wake up in the middle of the night and need to scrawl all my ideas down in my notes app as fast as possible before i forget.

Do you curate playlists for each fic or is your process different?

lmao i have never in my life made a playlist for a fic. whenever i write i just put on whatever music helps me focus the best; most of the that's lofi hip hop or film/video game soundtracks

Do you go balls to the wall and write as you go or are you more organized?

depends! for short oneshots i tend to just go balls to the wall, and whatever happens happens. but for my pacrim au i meticulously planned everything out before i began writing—as a longer, more serious project, i really wanted the whole thing to be cohesive. my notes doc for it is 14k words long (LOL), and i have the whole thing divided into sections that i can easily jump between

tagging! @ofherlionheart @chitsangenthusiast @zukkababey @goldrushzukka @sokkalore

[chiliger]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

Got tagged (peer pressured XP) by @frostbitebakery

I have a whole bunch of WIPs that are being rotated depending on my mood and energy level. So I offer the cream of the crop, an inconspicuous puddle in the middle of the hallway. Someone might wanna clean that >__>

I am working on the next chapter of Window Reflections, but I don’t quite feel like I have anything to share for that one yet. Instead, I will present my recent brainworm AU of clones with powers (this is a super self-indulgent idea and believe me I love the clones being just regular guys but my superhero obsession from middle school decided to peek it’s head).

Non-obligatory tagging @enigmatist17 @chitsangenthusiast @razzbberry @puppetmaster55

[ash-and-starlight]

here are the books i’m looking forward to read in 2025!! tysm @bajoop-sheeb for the tag mwah <3

tagginggg @ranilla-bean @kyoshialone @faux-fires @chitsangenthusiast @mispatchedgreens @deaddove and 🫵🫵 the girl (gender neutral) reading this