#maileeweek2022

[ash-and-starlight]

Mailee week day 3 // Hair

Ty Lee still needs help untangling her braid

[A colored digital drawing of Mai and Ty Lee from the bust-up on a pale peach background. They are both smiling softly and looking at each other, and their hair are left down and open. Mai is standing behind Ty Lee, untangling her braid, while Ty Lee is resting her cheek in one hand and in the other she’s holding a hairpin with cherry blossoms on it.]

[icrowler]

Blooming together as one. Day 2 with Flowers

for @maileeweek2022

[chitsangenthusiast]

[id: a layered papercraft showing mai and ty lee seconds before sharing a kiss. ty lee cradles mai's jaw in her hand as she leans in, and mai has one arm wrapped around her waist to pull her in close. her other arm rests over ty lee's shoulder, and in her hand is a small bunch of yellow, orange, and white flowers. behind them is a circle of red torch ginger lilies and pink siam tulips, all outlined in black to resemble stained glass art. over the entire photo are soft streaks of sunshine.]

for @maileeweek2022 (belated) day 2: flowers // featuring stained glass artist!mai & flower shop owner!ty lee 🌹🌷

"Are those dandelions?" Mai asks, and it's a wonder that there's barely a tremor in her voice with how hard her heart is stuttering, how obvious her hands are shaking as she accepts the dandelions and clover flowers thrust at her the minute Ty Lee rushes back into the workshop. "You caught me by surprise!" shecries back, all sunshine and watery giggling as she uses her now-free hands to wipe at her eyes. "If I had known you were doing this then I would've come prepared! I've been planning for weeks—I have so many specially curated flowers back at the shop just for it!" Mai looks down at the flowers in her hands. They're hastily picked, a far cry from the striking bouquets back at the flower shop with the bruised petals and uneven stems and a clearly hurried attempt at creating even a passable presentation, and yet— They're beautiful. Mai has never pressed flowers into glass before, she's never had the desire to. But already she knows stained glass won't be enough, none of the vast array of colors in her workshop could ever come close to recreating the sheer radiance of such a declaration like these few flowers themselves do. "Well—" finally, the tremor presents itself, overwhelmed exhilaration flowing out to match her racing heartbeat as she asks, "do dandelions and clovers mean anything?" "They do!" and Ty Lee is beautiful. Full of delighted laughter, her eyes endlessly darting from the stained glass piece resting on the table behind them to Mai and then back again. Her cheeks are a light pink, a stark contrast to the shining reds of the glass and her own top, the most stunning color Mai has likely ever seen in her life. Ty Lee sways forward then, closing the gap between them as she slips her hands up the length of Mai's arms, up to cradle her jaw, before tucking her grin into the corner of Mai's gasping mouth. "But I'll tell you in a sec. Come here."

[rei-is-hiding]

[theotherace]

Mailee Week 2022, Day 1: Aunt Mai & Aunt Ty Lee | @maileeweek2022

Tiny little prince spending time with his favourite aunties. (Don’t tell Azula.)

[ID: A digital, coloured drawing of Ty Lee and Mai from Avatar: The Last Airbender, both in their early twenties, with a young toddler. They are depicted from the hips up, with Ty Lee on the left, holding the child, and Mai on the right, holding out her hands for him to grasp. They are both smiling with closed eyes. They are standing before a bush, behind which a little of the sky is visible. /end ID]

[jaanii]

hyacinths that come back every year

written for @maileeweek2022, day seven: ember island or free day

Mai should tell her to stay with the Kyoshi Warriors, to stay somewhere safe, to not leave at all, to talk to her parents, to help her plan anything she needs, to take her to someone, to tell her that running away is not the solution, it never has been. She should do any number of those things.

Instead she says, “When do we leave?”

(ty lee runs away and mai follows)

banner by the lovely @boybff who also made art for this fic which you absolutely need to check out because it’s my favourite thing in the world and i don’t have the words to express how much i love it ! ily jax tytyty oughdnddkd i loved working with you and i’m so glad you liked this fic <3

[zukkaoru]

written for @maileeweek2022 day five: cuddling

Rating: Teen & Up

Relationship: Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar)

Characters: Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Azula (Avatar)

Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Cuddling & Snuggling, Angst with a Happy Ending, 5+1 Things, Pining, POV Mai (Avatar), Lesbian Mai (Avatar), Mentioned Zuko (Avatar), mentions of fire nation propaganda, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, First Kiss, Little Spoon Mai (Avatar), Mailee Week 2022 (Avatar)

Word Count: 4400

Summary:

If the world were only them, Mai would fall asleep just like this - Ty Lee’s hair tickling her neck, the weight against her shoulder both grounding and comforting. They could fall asleep like this and not have to worry about Mai’s mother finding them still lying like this come sunrise. In a nicer, kinder, world, Mai would not have to watch every move she makes. She doesn’t know the meaning of swirling warmth in her stomach whenever Ty Lee touches her, but she knows it is not something she should indulge in.

five times mai & ty lee have to be careful when sharing a bed + one time they're allowed to hold onto each other

[that-was-anticlimactic]

stop the world (please)

written for days three & five of @maileeweek2022​: hair, cuddling

“You’re leaving?”

Ty Lee nodded, clenching and unclenching her fists in her lap. “Yeah. Tomorrow morning.”

Mai stared at her, gaze unwaveringly blank. “Why…” she paused. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

There it was—the question Ty Lee didn’t have an answer to. What was she supposed to say? It was a last minute decision (half-truth)? That she was too scared to tell the only person in her life that actually cared about her that she was joining the circus? She was a coward through and through.

“I’m sorry,” she said eventually.

[or, ty lee leaves for the circus tomorrow morning and has one night left with mai]

💫2,820 words | mailee💫

[sokkagatekeeper]

“you must love him a great deal,” ty lee whispers and it echoes in the haunting empty of their shared cell.

“what do you mean?”

“you’re afraid of azula, yet you betrayed her so he could escape,” ty lee says, not whispering but still very quiet and plain. not at all like her usual tone. “so you must love him a great deal.”

@maileeweek2022 day 1: the boiling rock.

[indecisiveartform]

Mailee Week Day 3-Hair @maileeweek2022​

Pining Ty lee is entrances by Mai’s beauty.

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Mai dyed her hair with Sokka

[ ID: Digital image of Mai and Ty lee from Avatar the Last Airbender seeing each other for the first time since Mai changed her hair.

On top is Mai from her bust up, she is wearing a burgundy no sleeve turtle neck. Her eyeliner is burgundy with a black outline, it’s a triangle shape that goes up to her eyebrows, the width is approximately the size of her dark iris and the placement also aligns with her irises. Her eyebrows are black & thick, the tail end is shaved off. She has 8 black hoop piercings on her ears. She has small space buns on each side of her head and has bangs with longer strands of hairs on the side of her face. Her hair is black but the bottom of every piece of hair is dyed red. She is framed in a panel with a pink filter, and hearts and glitter surrounding her. On top of the frame is written:��“Ty Lee vision”.

On the bottom is Ty Lee from the bust up. She is wearing a shoulderless pink top and a matching choker with a silver “T”. Her hair long brown curly hair is loose on the right side of her shoulder and goes out if frame. She also has short side bangs and silver hoop earrings with pink beads. She has pink lipgloss on her opened moth, pink heart-shaped eyeliner aligned with her grey iris with heart-shaped pupils. The outside on her eyeliner is dark pink and the inside is light pink. She also has a pinkish white winged eyeliner on. Her thin eyebrows are raised and she is blushing. Her face shows amazement. In a speech bubble next to her is written “You changed your hair... It looks so pretty!” / END ID]

[commander-minkowski]

[id: a digital drawing of Mai and Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender. They are drawn in a semi-realistic style and wear modern clothing. Mai wears a long plaid skirt, a striped turtleneck, a vest, and striped arm warmers. her hair is in the same style as in the show (gathered behind her, with two small buns on top of her head and two thin strands loose). She has her arms crossed in front of her and is looking off to the side with a neutral expression. Ty Lee is next to Mai with her arm reaching out, almost touching Mai's shoulder. She is waving to Mai with her other hand and smiling widely. She wears a tank top, sweatpants, and a heart-shaped necklace. Like Mai's, her hair is in its style from the show (a single braid with long side bangs). There are speech bubbles coming from both of them. Ty Lee's is a wall of text that starts with "Heyyy would you wanna work out w/ me later today? I know you're into throwing knives and" ... most of the rest of the text is obscured and gets smaller until it becomes illegible. Mai's speech bubble says "Fine ... I guess ...", while an arrow pointing to Mai is labeled "secretly loves it <3". the artist's signature is @commander-minkowski. end id]

heard about @maileeweek2022 and drew this in the spur of the moment ^^ I'm always a sucker for a goth/jock romance

[ash-and-starlight]

Mailee week day 1 // The Boiling Rock

It’s about the hurt-comfort 🤌

[ID: A colored digital drawing of Mai and Ty Lee. They’re both dressed in red prisoner uniforms, and kneeling on the floor of a prison cell at the Boiling Rock. They’re hugging each other tightly, with their eyes closed. The cell is dark, and there are four bands of orange light illuminating them.]

[icrowler]

Breaking free. Day 3 with Disability/Neurodivergence

for @maileeweek2022

[tragedykery]

rating: G

relationships: Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar)

additional tags: Hair-Braiding, Pining

word count: 1620

mailee week day 3: hair

It has been years, but the motions are familiar, still. Her fingers slip into an easy rhythm, a remnant from the time when this was a regular occurrence, when they were young and foolish and didn’t know they shouldn’t. When they hadn’t yet learned that this was something to be hidden.

[In the prison, Ty Lee asks Mai to braid her hair. Mai struggles with wanting.]

edited on 25/2/23

[rei-is-hiding]

rainy day 🌸

/ available as print too

[naga-and-appa]

Hello, Little Baby

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/F Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Relationships: Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai & Sokka (Avatar), Sokka & Ty Lee (Avatar) Characters: Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Fluff, Aunt Mai (Avatar), Aunt Ty Lee (Avatar), Established Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar), Mailee Week 2022 (Avatar) Summary: Mai and Ty Lee find out that they're aunts now.

Written for @maileeweek2022

Read on AO3.

Sokka smiled as he held out the baby for them to see. “This is your Aunt Mai and Aunt Ty Lee, he said in a high-pitched voice.

Mai cringed. She hadn’t expected to receive a special title when she found out the baby was coming. Growing up, she hadn’t called anyone aunt or uncle except her parents’ siblings and their spouses. Giving the title to random people wasn’t done in the Fire Nation, at least not among the nobility. She wasn’t against it so much as she was unsure about what to do with the position.

But unlike Mai, Ty Lee was thrilled. She hurried to get closer, giggling down at the infant. “Hello, little baby.”

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