#jic bc again i dont want to upset anyone. its just not my cup of tea yk

[cescalr]

Zuko x Sokka for the ship ask, please

Always with the controversy :D

I don't like zukka for a number of reasons. For one, I see Sokka as straight, personally. I prefer other ships, like sokka/yue and sokka/suki. I think their preferences when it comes to romance differ, as in their love languages and needs in a relationship. They do have the mutual respect i require for shipping - eventually, anyway - but none of the tension. They work really well as really good friends, but I just don't see them as romantically compatible.

Also, it's kind of inescapable even in works where its untagged, which aggravates me. Fandoms need to tag their shit properly, istg. This is leftover from my early fandom days browsing the teen wolf and Harry Potter tags, getting blindsided by untagged sterek and drarry. I'm rarely someone who ships the most popular ships anyway, for whatever reason... maybe something to do with their sheer prevalence meaning there's a higher percentage of fics that contain them, so there's a higher liklihood they'll portray the characters in ways that are incompatible with my interpretations of them, and so thus create a kind of sour taste around the ship as a whole via association?

Either way - platonic zukka is great. Romantic zukka, not so much. I filter out the tag and move on, it's just not something I really ever put much mind to. I don't actively dislike it or anything like that, and it's a perfectly cromulent ship - I'm not gonna be bothered by other people liking it, like I would be for, say, some of the worst ships I've come across, like billdip or snape/harry (ew).

Thanks for the ask ♡♡ :)