#past yuekka

[zukoisgayforsokka]

Happy birthday @naberriesamidala

Ships: suzukka, past yuesukka

Note: British Nonbinary Sokka, British Trans Suki. I finally wrote them in a UK setting, I have strong opinions about breakfast tea brands and where abouts they grew up

Summary:

[It hadn’t even seemed like a good idea at the time, so why Suki has come here, she’s got no idea. Zuko wasn’t even especially convincing, he was just very sincere and, well she has to admit she’s a little curious.

In the past she had rarely taken an interest in the other people her partners dated, but she was curious to know Zuko’s type. After all, she knew herself, and that was one point towards Zuko having good taste, even if little else pointed in his favour.]

Thank you to @unacaritafeliz for beta reading and @queerplatonicsolid for checking my characterisations and cheering me on

[krastbannert]

Title: One Night in September

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Characters: Sokka, Suki, Iroh

Tags: Sokka/Suki, past Sokka/Yue, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Falling in Love, Not Beta Read, Romantic Fluff, Romance, the fluffy bits are tooth rotting and i will not apologize, Sukka Week 2021

Summary:

[He looks back at her, and Sokka knows what he sees written in her shy smile, looking up at him through her eyelashes. She glances away for a moment – and yeah, yeah, that’s what it is. Sokka’s not a complete idiot. His stomach grumbles again as he slips a hand surreptitiously into his pocket, his fingers brushing against the crumpled picture.

(She’s gone, he reminds himself, but he isn’t.

He’s still here – and he still has a life to live.)

“Yeah,” he finally says,” I’d like that.”

Her face lights up like the sun, and he thinks it just might come close to being the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.]

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It's been two years since Yue passed. Two years of grieving, of missing the girl he had married at just sixteen years old - and lost moments later. Two years, and he decides that maybe it's time to stop running, and start again. And he's not quite sure when he first started thinking of Suki that way, just that it feels right.

Sometimes a second chance at love is earth-shattering - and sometimes it's just a random September night and a girl who can kick his ass.

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Written for Sukka Week 2021.

(@sukkaweek2021 hey here you go it's a thing for you)

[boomerangguy]

The more I’ve thought about it, the more confident I am that Sokka and Yue wouldn’t have lasted even if she had never sacrificed herself.

There were never any solid signs that Yue would have chosen Sokka over her perceived duty to her people, whether it be turning into the moon or marrying Hahn. Regardless, starting out a relationship with such a drastic commitment imbalance spells disaster down the road.

Credit to @smilindesperado’s most recent chapter of My Heart Still Beats For You for helping me to fully understand this! (It’s a great fic with one of the best platonic rare-pairs I’ve ever read.)

[zukka-fic-recs]

Zukka Fic Rec List - Recent Reads

Just some fics I have read (or reread) and really enjoyed lately! 💕

Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores by @onmyliteraturebullshitagain

Available on Ao3, Complete, Teen, Internalised Homophobia, Colonialism, Selkie/Seal-merman Sokka, H/C, Blue Spirit Zuko, Blue Spirit Sokka, Betrayal, Zuko Joins the GAang Early, Slowburn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Wordcount: 141,659

Sokka is a sort of merman/seal-shapeshifter who gets caught in a net by Zuko's ship just before canon, and canon events unfold from there. This fic is amaaazing. And owwwww, my heart, their relationship is so freaking sweet I can't even describe how it makes me feel, I'll tear up, don't look at me. The plot, the premise, and the characterisations, all shine through. There's even a cute komodo rhino! One to reread for sure.

it's just me and you by capt_snoozles / @capt-snoozles

Available on Ao3, WIP, Teen, Trans Zuko, Single Dad Zuko, Fluff, Trans Author, Izumi (!!!), Coffee Shop AU

Wordcount: 35,104

Zuko is raising Izumi in Ba Sing Se in this AU. One day while working at Suki's coffee shop he bumps into Sokka. Tiny bits of angst here and there, but overall this fic is a wonderful source of fluff and happiness. Love it.

Boomerangs and Rainbows by mindbending

Available on Ao3, Teen, Complete, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death (for more details the blog @boomerangs-and-rainbows has spoilers), hopeful ending, Panic Attacks, Torture, Child Abuse, Slowburn

Wordcount: 67,555

This fic is about Zuko haunting Sokka from Season 2 onwards - basically Zuko joins the GAang early, but as a ghost. Don't let the tags or summary scare you away! I know they're heavy, but I promise this fic is worth a shot, I love it with all my heart. The premise is so great, very creative, and all the little relationship facets and cultural things that the author put in are so interesting. There's humour, there's angst, there's love, there's grief. It's an excellent fic. Another one I love to reread.

when the prison doors are opened by alternatedoom

Available on Ao3, Complete, Explicit, Mostly Canon-Compliant with slight Divergence, Underage, Dub-con, FWB, Fuck buddies to Friends to Lovers, Animal Death, Humiliation, Dubiously Consensual Voyeurism (Toph)

Wordcount: 164,644

The GAang agrees to Zuko's offer to be their prisoner at the Western Air Temple. This is... Whew, hothothot for one thing. Also, the feels, oh the feels. While the relationship is explicit from the start, it is very heart-warming as the connection between them begins to grow. The interpersonal relationships and interactions are great, and fantastic characterisation which felt very grounded in reality. Well-written.

I'll Share the Moon, If You'll Share the Sun by @anarchycox

Available on Ao3, Mature, Complete, Past Zumai, AU - Canon Divergent, H/C, Lies

Wordcount: 86,514

Arranged Marriage AU. Iroh staged a coup against Ozai and ended the war early. He and Hakoda arrange a marriage that will link their two nations. This fic is sweet, steamy, and well-paced. Love Zuko and Sokka's relationship here.

Some Say Love is a Burning Thing by @paintedlight

Available on Ao3, Explicit, WIP, Canon Divergent, Canon-Typical Violence, Child Abuse, Suicidal Thoughts and Implied/Referenced Suicide, PTSD, Enemies TO Lovers, Minor Zumai, Past Yuekka

Wordcount: 77,642

Inspired by The Handmaiden (a film which I also adore, so you can imagine how much I'm enjoying this fic!!!). Sokka makes a deal with Mai to help her capture Zuko in exchange for Hakoda. This fic is... So. Good. The angst, the yearning, the treachery, the characterisation, the plot, ugh. I highly recommend giving it a shot. Also, Boiling Rock! What's not to love?

through the ice, darkly by chuffystilton / @volkswagonblues

Available on Ao3, WIP, Teen, Biopunk, AU - Canon Divergent, Role Reversal, Mystery, Kid Fic, Southern Water Tribe, Airbenders

Wordcount: 44,705

This series is so cool!!!!! The world-building is amazing, and the way the author skillfully allows the plot to gently unravel is so compelling. The execution of the role-reversals is so perfectly thought out and makes perfect sense in this 'verse. Reading this makes me want to hold my breath, it's fantastically well done.

The Art of Burning by @hella1975

Available on Ao3, WIP, Gen, Slowburn, Dadkoda, SWT Fleet, Blue Spirit Zuko, OCs, Kid Fic, Azula Redemption, Torture, Imprisonment, Internalised Homophobia, Angst, H/C, Food Issues, Zuko Wump

Wordcount: 336,447

This fic... Man, this fic is good. Zuko gets kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe fleet. A lot of bonding and angst and character development. I love the OCs in this and the platonic relationships are great - the Zukka is very very slowburn, but what there's been of it so far is fist-clenchingly lovely. A lot of angst and it gets quite dark, but also a lot of comfort. And look at the wordcount, so much fic to enjoy!

[asfearlessasamango]

#thinking recently abt how perhaps part of azula’s wider unpopularity/misunderstood status with the fandom is from how there’s no one to ship her with… like most of the protagonists hate her, and she doesn’t seem to have much of a juicy romantic past (chan is like -10 romance points on her record lmao). characters like sokka who canonically fuck hard (zukka, yuekka, sukka) get lots of love and attention. but every ship for azula is lowkey a rarepair.

and something something abt how fandom is often consumption of romantic ever-afters packaged up as shipping and azula is a thorny character very difficult to ship, and therefore rare to get fandom attention. and something something abt how those who don’t understand azula think she’s pure evil and ship her with prison/insanity, and those who do understand her know that azula is not ready for a romantic relationship and ship with her long slow healing and healthy independence. so like. either way azula is really difficult to “fandom-ify.” does that make sense?

[hello-yue-here]

thank you @chiptrillino for tagging me in a wip game!

not quite sure what the rules are but based off of your AMAZING POST OF ART WIPS (check it out here yall chip is so talented) ive decided to just share some parts of my writing wips that i rlly like because i cannot draw whatsoever lmao

enjoy some lil snippets hehe

from heart don't stand a chance:

"Zuko couldn’t get over her eyes. She was looking past the camera towards the man who took it. Zuko could see clear as day the love she held for Sokka in her gaze.

It was a perfect moment that Sokka had captured. No wonder held it with him at all times. If someone had looked at Zuko like that, he’d never want to see anything again.

As he took in the photograph, Sokka sat next to him in silence. His hand was clutching the ring around his neck again in his fist, pressing it close to his mouth as he peered over Zuko’s shoulder to look. Zuko turned to him to compliment the picture and saw a sad fondness lingering in his eyes."

this is a scene i wrote a while ago thats gonna appear in a much later chapter. but yeah. more yue angst for you guys im so sorry.

from i love you (and that's all i really know):

"Mister Sokka," a little voice wishpered in his ear as he felt tiny pokes on his cheek, "Wake up Mister Sokka."

"Good morning to you too Izumi," Sokka responded wearily as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He looked towards the little girl who was standing on her tippy toes to see over the edge of the bed and poke his face until he rose.

She smiled at him once she realized he was awake.

"Can we have pancakes?" She asked shyly, hiding her mouth just below the edge of the bed as she looked up at him with hopeful eyes.

That look was going to be dangerous for him later on, he could aready tell.

"Sure thing, Izumi, just let me sleep for five more minutes, mkay?" He asked as he shut his eyes again. He was exhausted from last nights events, and the sun had barely risen. How did Zuko do this?"

this is a scene from the next chapter of this fic. so much sokka and izumi bonding you guys are gonna explode hehehe.

from cherry (the mailee fic i wont shut up about that is now a whopping 19 pages):

"Mai never had to guess with Ty Lee. She always knew when Ty Lee was happy about something because she would use an obnoxious amount of exclamation points. She would send gifs of people or cartoons making outlandish expressions whenever she wanted to react to Mai’s text with a specific facial expression. Sometimes Ty Lee would even send voice memos whenever her thoughts became too long, or she got too excited about a story that her fingers couldn’t type as fast as she could speak."

hehe i love mailee.

from yours (the mailee sorority fic that i promise i did not forget about):

"Mai lifted her head off the pillow again and met Zuko’s eyes. She studied his impassive expression, trying to figure out if he was joking or not. He did seem like he missed Mai and Azula, so maybe he did really just want to catch up with them.

But Mai wasn’t going to give up a golden opportunity like this.

“Tell us everything about the boy toy as well and you’ve got yourself a deal,” Mai said.

Zuko rolled his eyes and sighed, “Ugh, fine. And his name is Sokka by the way.”

“Nuance. You also have to wake up Azula.”

“No chance in hell,” Zuko scoffed, “You’re the roommate and her fellow ‘pong princess,’ wake-up duty is all yours.”

“If she murders me, it’s your fault. She’s a bitch when she’s hungover.”

“Whatever you say, Mai,” Zuko grinned before returning back to his phone."

i have decided that zuko is a little shit for this fic and no one can stop me.

from Where'd All the Time Go? (the yuekka fic that i have severe writers block with that i also promis i have not forgotten about):

"“Sokka I really think you need to take a moment and-”

“I am fine Aang, I don’t have time for a feelings talk right now. Right now I need to find the fucking chief of this damn place.” His words came out harsher than he meant, but he didn’t have the time to dwell on that.

Before Sokka could run off again to continue his search, a hand grabbed his arm. One of Arnook’s advisors, Malina, had started dragging him towards the podium.

“Do you not realize how late you are for this Sokka? The ceremony was supposed to begin with your speech nearly an hour ago-” she hissed at him as she pulled him along through the crowd.

“Malina I’m sorry but I really need to speak with Arnook it is urgent-”

“This damn speech of yours is what’s urgent right now Sokka, you can speak with Arnook later but the guests are getting antsy so you need to give your speech right. Now.”

“But-”

“Now.”

Maline shoved Sokka towards the podium and suddenly all eyes were on him. Every guest in attendance had their focus solely on Sokka."

homeboy is stressed in this scene. things are slowly going to shit in this chapter. i promise i will update this before the end of the year. i swear. im so sorry.

from a currently untitled jetko/sukka boiling rock fic:

"“Oh good, you survived after all,” She said in a mocking tone.

Jet didn’t answer. He knew anything he said would be used against him. He didn’t know where he was. He didn’t know what was happening. But he would be damned if he showed that weakness in front of the fire nation.

“I was told you were more talkative than this,” the girl mused. There was something familiar about her, “my informants were very detailed when discussing your little teashop romance.”

I knew it. Jet snarled in his mind, That bastard betrayed me."

i want this fic to be a little darker but idk how good i am at writing darker fics because i love fluff and humor too much. this could be good angst practice for me.

from a toph and sokka fic that i wrote a while back to help me cope w some shit that i dont know if ill ever post:

"“Sokka? Are you still there?” Toph asked, the slightest hint of concern began to slip into their voice

“Tell me a story,” he was trembling. Despite all of his efforts to sound calm, he knew his voice came out trembling and scratchy and pathetic-

“Is everything okay? You don’t sound too hot,” Toph said through the phone.

Breathe, Sokka, breathe. You don’t want them to be worried, you just need to calm down.

“Please, Toph, I just,” he said through shaky breaths that weren’t nearly deep enough for him to be getting enough oxygen, “I just need a distraction. I just need to hear your voice okay?”"

nonbinary toph anyone?

from a 10 things i hate about you kataang and zukka au:

"“What? Something on my face?” the guy asked deadpanned. He rubbed at his scar as if he were wiping off a smudge of mustard, and Aang’s face went pale.

“Stop scaring the sophomores Zuko, this one’s new. He won’t get your… humor… just yet,” Ms. Wu said as she waved Aang off again.

“I’m hurt that you’d imply I’m not funny, Wu. I’m hilarious,” the senior, Zuko, said as he walked past Aang.

Aang let out a sigh of relief knowing that this Zuko guy didn’t seem all that offended by his awkwardness, and darted out of the room."

zuko is a little shit part 2. the amount of sarcasm i have dripping off of heath ledger zuko is glorious. let zuko be a little shit. i havent added to this in months but when i finish some of my other wips i cant wait to get back to this.

i have more wips and drafts saved but none of them have anything juicy or funny or interesting yet because all of them are like less than three pages so far

but yeah, heres a good chunk of sneaky peakys from my wips!

I hope you liked them!

anyone who wants to do this can totally go for it. imma tag @ambykinns @lumities and @flowers-inthepieshop (only if you all want too!!) because this was fun :)

[that-was-anticlimactic]

sokka for the ask game because it's always a good time to give your local sokka stan an excuse to gush about sokka <3

yES YES YES I LOVE HE brooke i adore you

how i feel about this character: um well. i love sokka. i love him with my whole entire heart. one of my favorite characters ever. like, seriously, i love this character.

it's being the older sibling and putting your safety and happiness on the back burner because it isn't as important, it's not feeling like you're special and compensating by being loud, it's putting on this mask and pretending to be someone else because you like pretending, it's not understanding your own worth, it's putting on a front but actually being soft and having a huge heart, it's being creative in a witty and unconventional way, it's liking to know things and feeling uncomfortable when you don't know things, it's making lists and plans and coming up with strategies because it's consistent and makes you feel safe and it's fun, it's learning to love yourself and learning that you don't need to be anything / do anything to have worth.

i love sokka. he's such a complex character who wears these masks because he isn't even quite sure who he is so he pretends to be someone else because at least that has some kind of script. he's genuinely funny and is a genuinely good caretaker. he has so many different arcs: discovering self-worth, beating misogyny, learning how to trust, and learning what it means to be a warrior [amongst others]. in case y'all couldn't tell, i am a huge fan of characters who don't have the magic or the powers hehe.

all the people i ship romantically with this character: zuko. zuko. zuko. zuko. zuko. i ship zukka so hard. i breathe zukka. zukka is my everything. they have such good chemistry and bring out the best in the other, they teach the other what it means to live, fill in the pieces of life the other is missing. being older siblings, bettering each other, accepting each other after hatred... ahhhhh

yuekka and sukka are also cute, i love they. i just. love zukka much more oops.

my non-romantic otp for this character: ooo jet. jet and sokka friendship is my everything and i kind of explore that a lot in a friend is still a friend which is a jet and sokka frenemies to friendship fic and is basically a love letter to their friendship and the ways that they unconditionally support each other and both treat the other as if they were the little brother they never had and being able to move past initial distaste because "i'm the only one that can be mean to sokka / jet" [i have a lot of feelings about this]

and also sokka and mai because like. yes? yes yes. the "obnoxiously" loud friend and the soft spoken friend. the loud friend helps the quiet friend feel more comfortable in their own voice and the quiet friend helps the loud friend feel like the things they say actually matters. learning to open up and being friends despite being so different. also, shameless mai to my sokka promotion, everyone go read i slithered here (from eden) just to sit outside your door by my fantastical friend @zukkaclawthorne which is a mai and sokka friendship fic written for gen week about snakes and infodumping and i love it very much hehe

aLSO sokka and azula. these two have so much in common in all the ways that zuko and sokka don't. they both need consistency and schedules and they both need to know things. they're both smart and evenly matched and the complete opposite of impulsive. they both feel like they have to prove themselves to be worthy of being loved and are weary with trust. they both have this need to be the best at something (and if they aren't, pretend that they are) because they believe that they only matter and are only useful if they are the best. they both have this obsessive need to be perfect. not to plug a third fic in here, but i also explore the relationship between these two in threshold of eternity, an azula-centric fic where it focuses on her relationships and recovery :) (the first relationship being sokka, then jin, then toph, then mai, and then finally zuko).

my unpopular opinion about this character: okay y'all know this was coming... sokka has tourette's syndrome. i feel like that statement is my entire personality summed up in one sentence, but i stand by that. sure, it's self-projection, but it also just makes so much sense to me ??? maybe it's because i see myself in sokka or think about it so much that i sometimes forget that he doesn't have ts in canon, but sokka has ts :)

but anyways, sokka with ts feeling even more like a liability because he can't stay quiet, sokka with ts feeling even more out of place in the fire nation, sokka with ts having his tics impact his chronic pain at times, sokka with ts feeling ashamed and less than because he's not just the resident nonbender, but he's also the guy with ts and zuko kneeling before him and kissing his fingers and his nose and his shoulders and his lips and anywhere else he may tic. and sokka learning to love himself even with his tics, old and new, and toph making sokka fidget toys out of metal and sokka with ts being self-conscious about cuddling with zuko because he wants to be held by zuko but sometimes zuko's arms feel too constricting and it makes his tics worse and sokka wanting to hold zuko but being too scared of ticcing while doing so because he thinks his tics will make zuko uncomfortable and sokka with ts where zukka holds forearms and wrists instead of hands because sokka's finger tics make him too aware and hurt.

yeah<3

one thing i wish would happened / had happened with this character in canon: oooo well, the main issue i have with sokka in canon is that he looks freaking white in lok like. i cannot look at him. what even that is not my sokka. that is not the sokka that we know and love. i wish he looked more native and culturally accurate.

i also wish that we could've had a scene where he talks to yue when she's the moon. i think that would've been neat. because they.

[theolddivorcedzukka]

💌 :) also vee wtf how many ask games have u been doing in the past 48 hours

look one thing about me is that i need attention and asks 24/7 or i beep oh so sadly like a cat that’s been locked out of a room but also it’s been 4 ask games i think

okay i love your yuekka posting and you totally made me love them 10 times more than usual. your ship posts are also so cute too like wtf zukka sitting grumpy. oh and you’re super nice and sweet also you’re fun to talk to

[legobatjoker]

🌹😑💙💖💢💓 for the ship ask game ? :3

🌹(OTP): yuekka and carulia ofc !!!

😑(ship ur indifferent to): jetru. its fine but like why

💙(ship u used to have as an otp): [SHIP] <//3.. boyf riends… t taakitz… ive made a lot of mistakes

💖(ship that needs more love): UHM i think sukitara has great potential but i rlly never see it on my dash.. maybe thats my fault for barely ever following ppl for fandom tho LMAO

💢(ship thats most misunderstood): ZUKKA OFC i mean. all popular ships are ofc gonna be misunderstood the most but like. this is the one that most frequently annoys me rn LMAO

💓(ship that u didnt expect to ship but now do): MARINETTE/KAGAMI im obsessed w them but past me would be sooo mad abt it

[fanwright]

If Sokkla happened in the canon universe, what would Azula think about Yue?

Okay, first of all, if Sokkla happened in canon, I would literally run out into the street and scream with joy at the top of my lungs. I would not be able to process the sheer amount of happiness flowing out of me.

Getting serious and addressing the question though, Azula could simply approach this in a pragmatic way. That being, “Hey, I’m alive, and she’s dead, why should I worry about her.”

Azula would known about Yue even before knowing Sokka had potentially courted her I feel. She would have at least some knowledge of the Northern Water Tribe, which would include their royal family. The Fire Nation has squared off with them in the past and I doubt Azula would have missed this information. She would have at least known Yue’s name what family she may be a part of, and possibly the story around her birth, though that’s not likely.

The only way she could really know Yue is through Sokka, and from what we know he never talked much about her after season one, except on relevant and very important occasions involving the moon.

If you think Azula might be envious or jealous that Sokka might still have some affection for Yue,  then I can see why. If she was more insecure about such things, she might jump to conclusions, but I believe that she wouldn’t really care. She might be a little shocked if Sokka talked about it at length to her, but in the end I believe she’d be more pragmatic about it all. 

Yue’s long gone, but Azula’s right there, alive, warm, and just within his grasp. Although its very (very) sad for me to say this (I do have a little soft spot for Yuekka), provided she knew all this from Sokka, she would probably say something like this: “The dead had their chance. And I will have mine.”

If you’d to add to this, feel free. Its anyone’s interpretation really.

[zukoisgayforsokka]

To See The Way You Smiled (at me)

Pre-relationship modern pining meet-cute for t4t sukka, as they deserve

Words: 5k

Ships: Sokka/Suki, past Sokka/Yue

Summary:

"One late night turns into three, and before he knows it Sokka has a nightly routine of sitting by the window and sharing his lighter with the pretty girl from upstairs."

@unacaritafeliz happy birthday!! Hope you had a lovely day

Beta'd by the lovely @naberriesamidala

[zukoisgayforsokka]

We're Only Immortal For A Limited Time

Zukka And Friends Gift Exchange: for @yeszukka

Relationships: yue/sokka, past yue/zuko, yue&izumi, sokka&izumi, sokka/zuko

Featuring: deaf trans hijabj yue, trans cane user sokka, nonbinary izumi, t4t married yuekka

Words: 5k

Summary:

[This must be at least somewhat new information to Izumi, who flaps a hand at him to interrupt, frantically asking “Wait, but I thought people only have to come out once?” ]

After her transition, Yue returns home to her life in Republic City, and discovers the distance between herself and her niece might not be as far as she thought.

Beta'd by the incredible @kyoshialone

[zukka-fic-recs]

Zukka Fic Rec List - Social Media AUs

Avatar The Last Airbender youtuber AU by TooAceForThisShit / @nadjasloverboy

Available on Ao3, WIP, Series, Modern AU, No Bending

Wordcount: 47,085

Modern AU where the GAang are, as promised in the title, Youtubers. This series is so funny and also so true to fandom life that while I'm reading it I am usually either smiling, groaning, or laughing. I also love rereading this.

Oh I Would Love You If You Let Me by LovelySapphic

Available on Ao3, Complete, Teen, Modern AU, Fluff, H/C

Wordcount: 11,474

Sokka decides to do a Tiktok challenge where he does romantic things with/for his crush (Zuko) each day for the week leading up to his birthday. This is friends to lovers and it's very sweet.

atla college au by @oldpapertowns

Available on Ao3, Teen, Series, Complete, Modern AU, College/University AU, No Bending, Past Yuekka

Wordcount: 23,979

A cute College AU series, starts off with Zukka being paired together in class in the first part, and the rest of the series follows their shenanigans from there. :)

Tiktok Dance Your Way into My Heart by Planteria

Available on Ao3, Teen, Complete, Lockdown

Wordcount: 3,645

Zuko suffers through Sokka's Tiktok addiction. Short and sweet.

electrify my heart by soullesfollower98

Available on Ao3, Teen, Complete, Established Relationship

Wordcount: 2,499

5 + 1. Zukka do Tiktok challenges. Simply adorable.

Social Media AU by kryptonianmenace / @tactiletelekonesis

Available on Ao3, Gen, Series, Complete, Modern AU, Youtubers AU

Wordcount: 4,375

The GAang and Zuko are Youtubers. Then Sokka asks Zuko to collab and, well. The rest is history. This one made me laugh!

love amongst the algorithms by nights

Available on Ao3, Teen, Complete

Wordcount: 7,232

A Tiktok AU. This one made me cackle. Also, I love the fire girls in this!

I Can Fix That by memeingfultrash

Available on Ao3, Explicit, Complete

Wordcount: 3,936

A PWP - which watching Holes the day before did not put me in the right mindset for lol, but it's still a very steamy read! Also, some funnies and feels. Tbh, there isn't that much social media involved but... it's my blog and I'll be tangential if I want to!

[hello-yue-here]

About your atla ship songs, I have a couple of questions (sorry if my phrasing comes out wrong, english isn't my first language and I worry it might across as accidentally defensive): how did you end up with the choices for zukka, jetko and yuekka (note: I haven't seen the great comet, so feel free to obsess over it, I'm intrigued now and the hype is appreciated!)? Sidenote: I think the mailee choice is HILARIOUS and the tokka one just make me sad, I didn't expect to be attacked like this😭

kdjfha;s i love you im gonna obsess SO HARD over great comet now. you may regret this

this is gonna be so long so the rest is under the cut whoops

yuekka: no one else from great comet

where do i even begin. WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN

okay so background information on this show: it's based off of a 76 oages excerpt from war and peace and its centered around a woman named natasha (and this guy pierre but he's irrelevant to this song so we wont worry about him) and natasha's bethrothed is off fighting in the war right now. she hasn't seen him in a while but she is in love with him.

every single lyrics of this song SCREAMS yuekka to me. the innocence and purity of their love. the love at first sight. and even the melancholy ending just- i go apeshit for this song. i love this song so much. and denee benton's voice??? kljsdhflwksugf please listen to this song if you haven't already. listen to the whole show. your life will be changed forever.

onto the lyrics (i stg this is ab to be the whole song whoops)

"the moon"

THOSE ARE THE FIRST WORDS ON THE SONG. natasha and andre (her bethrothed) met underneath the moonlight. Sokka and Yue first spoke to eachother at night and always met each other for their most intimate moments under the moonlight. also yue is LITERALLY the moon so like: right of the bat with those two words it's yuekka.

"and i saw your eyes / and i saw your smile / and the world opened wide"

sokka fell in love with yue the moment he saw her in the canal. she literally enchanted this motherfucker. everything about her made his heart go crazy. and 'the world opened wide' to me is from yue's perspective. Yue had never left the north pole and sokka had seen a good chuck of the world at the point. He took her on appa, he told her about his adventures. he saw the world yue wished to see and you know damn well that Sokka would have done anything to give it to her.

"oh the moon /oh the snow in the moonlight / and your childlike eyes and your distant smile / ill never be this happy again / you and i and no one else"

natasha sings fondly about the moon and the snow, seeing as it was where she fell in love with andre. yue and sokka LITERALLY fell in love in the same place: in the snowy nothern water tribe under the light of the moon. childlike eyes: THEYRE CHILDREN!!! distant smile: this is where it gets a little sad. theyre both children with way too many duties during a world that has known nothing but war for the past century. they want to be happy but yeah, theyre smiles are distant and far away because happiness seems out of reach for them most of the time. i'll never be this happy again: the moments yue and sokka shared together were probably the happiest either of them ever were. they were able to ignore the war and the world in the moments they shared together. and with no one else. no one else would be able to give each other this sense of peace and happiness and love.

"joy and life inside our souls / and no body knows just you and me / it's our secret"

Yue and Sokka had to sneak out in secret at night to go and see each other. Yue and Sokka couldn't be together for real because Yue was already engaged, but they were literally in love so she decided to see him anyways in secret. kasdjfhklasjd im losing my mind over them at this point.

"this winer sky / how can anyone sleep / there was never such a night before / i feel like putting my arms around my knees / and squeezing tight as possible / and flying away"

these are my FAVORITE lines in the entire song. yue and sokka had never felt this strongly about anyone before and that's why they are so drawn to each other. they had never experienced love before and they wanted to hold onto it for as long as they could even though they knew they couldnt. Sokka takes yue up on appa and she is wistful and wishes she could live like he does every day: ie flying away. oh my god these two deserved so much better. so much fucking better.

now for the saddes part. the saddest fucking part.

"maybe he'll come today / maybe he came already / and he's sitting in the drawing room / and i simply forgot"

natasha misses andre so intensely at this point. when i first listened to this show and heard this song i was like "wait a min... is andre like... dead?" and im sure i wasnt the only person who assumed that this was why natasha felt so sad by the end of such a beautiful song. (spoiler alert andre is fine)

but this line really exemplifies how sad natasha is, and hints at the fact that andre may never come back. it implies that their relationship is doomed (at least in my opinion) and that's all yuekka. Sokka misses yue intensely when shes gone. Yue accepted her fate almost immediately but sokka was in denial. he thought there had to be another way. but in the end it wasn't meant to be. and sokka will go on, loving yue, wishing for her back, even though it's not possible.

fuck im gonna cry.

zukka: all i've ever known- hadestown

"i was alone so long / i didn't even know that i was lonely / out in the cold so long / i didnt even know that i was cold"

sokka is from the swt so theres where the cold comes in. also in the gaang (initially) it was just him katara and aang. and katara and aang were much closer to each other than sokka was with aang and the two of them were benders so sokka was kind of an outsider with the two of them. He also represses a lot of his emotions and feels the need to do everything himself so i do see a lot of loneliness in sokka. and the fact that so many people in his life have left him (his mom, yue, his dad, suki briefly, etc...) he is known to keep people at an arms length. i see a lot of loneliness in sokka.

zuko's loneliness is a lot more obvious: he has literally been cast out and abandoned by everyone except iroh. and even then he still feels the need to be alone (remember zuko alone? thought so) these boys look after themselves and push others away and revel in their loneliness in order to keep themselves from getting hurt. at least in my opinion on canon and also some fanon because id be a liar if i said fanon didnt influence how i view ALL my ships (not just zukka)

"all ive ever known is how to hold my own / but now I wanna hold you too"

COME ONE MANNNN, they just wanna hold each other. theyre both very big protectors as well and kljhflkasdhg they wanna protect eachother like kljdhfl im gonna lose it rn.

"You take me in your arms / And suddenly there's sunlight all around me / Everything bright and warm / And shining like it never did before / And for a moment I forget / Just how dark and cold it gets"

SUNLIGHT SYMBOLISM. zuko is literally powered by the sun. i don't think i even NEED to elaborate on this one anymore lol. They find comfort in each other away from all of their trauma. when they're together nothing else matters and i personally love that for them. they both deserve love.

"I knew you before we met / And I don't even know you yet / All I know is your someone I have always known"

these two are extremely similar in canon. many parallels. older brothers overshadowed by their prodigy little sisters. longing to make their fathers proud (granted one dad is good and one is fuckin evil), both are pretty bad with emotions. both are seen protecting others before themselves (sokka protecting suki during the serpant's pass, sokka protecting toph on like multiple occassions, zuko protecting katara in the final agni kai), the list goes on. they know who the other is because they see themselves in the other person. they already know each other because they are each other (in a way, not entirely, but the similarities are strong in my opinion)

"I'm gonna hold you forever / The wind will never change on us / Long as we stay with each other / Then it will always be like this"

i just think this line is so cute and sweet (ignoring all the symbolism and foreshadowing that comes with the last line in the musical itself. im gonna pretend this is nothing but happy) and i think these boys deserve happiness so yeah. this song is zukka to me lol.

jetko: thrill of first love- falsettoes

if you've never listened to this song go an do it now. you will know INSTANTLY that it is jetko because of the dynamics alone. marvin and whizzer are pure jetko and i take no crticisms.

marvin and whizzer are both extremely stubborn, and they don't always get along, and they fight a lot, and they get mad at each other a lot, and they are both passionate as hell, and they will bring this passion into everything. they love each other that is without a doubt, but they arent perfect and they are once again stubborn and determined as fuck.

sound familiar? it's literally jetko.

the lyrics aren't what remind me of jetko, but the dynamic itself. the lyrics are too on the nose for a gay couple in 1970's america so that rlly cant apply to jetko all that much. but the way these two characters bounce off of each other and get annoyed with each other and argue with eachother reminds me of jetko. because let's be honest: these two are the most stubborn characters in the whole show. they will fight for what they believe and it will take literally everything to change their minds.

i love jetko but i think they would have petty arguments all the time and get aggravated by one another so easily. and this is even seen in canon: they work so fucking well together but they did not even HESITATE to fight one another after neither of them would give in and let the fight about whether jet was right or wrong about zuko being a firebender. like i cannot say it enough they are stubborn as fuck.

but underneath all that stubborn pettiness and bickering: marvin and whizzer still love each other. and jet and zuko would still love each other. because even though they are stubborn when it comes to arguments, they are even more stubborn and determined when it comes to each other. these two passionate motherfuckers are in love.

(now when i chose this song i decided to ignore the fact that this song literally spells out the fact that marvin and whizzer's relatinoship is doomed because they literally say passion dies. thats the difference between jetko and whizzer and marvin because i dont think passion dies. i chose this song strictly for the bickering lmao)

and i know you didnt ask about tokka but,,,,

i rlly wanna talk about the tokka one

so im going to

tokka: on my own- les mis

look. i KNOW this song is about unrequited love and i love tokka as a couple but,,, the unrequited love in this song just SCREAMS unrequited tokka to me so thats what i went with.

eponine is a girl who has neglectful parents who lives life by her own rules: toph. eponine is shown to be tough and confident and spunky to others but behind all of that she has emotions, she feels love, she hides her vulnerability so much: toph. she is in love with a guy she cant be with because he loves someone else: TOPH

eponine is toph to a t and toph is eponine to a t. this is not up for debate lmao

"without him i feel his arms around me"

toph is always seen grabbing onto someone (and its almost ALWAYS sokka) when she's somewhere where she can't use her feet to see. FEEL and ARMS cmon. look at it.

"and i know / i know that he is blind"

COME ON. IMAGINE TOPH SINGING THIS LINE. this line is already powerful enough in les mis but having toph, a blind character, sing it just makes the symbolism even deeper. toph sees the potential relationship they could have together. toph sees that sokka is oblivious to this. toph is not blind to the truth or the potention, but sokka is blind to her feelings. im about to lose my mind over this line.

"I love him / But every day I'm learning / All my life / I've only been pretending / Without me / His world will go on turning / A world that's full of happiness / That I have never known"

i need to sit down for a moment. toph grew up in a household where her parents did not understand her. she has learned to hide her true emotions and vulnerabilities from everyone. and its the fact that toph knows that she and sokka will never be together and the fact that she still loves him in spite of that is what makes this even more heartbreaking.

"but only on my own"

TOPH AND EPONINE SWEETIES I LOVE YOU

thank you for indulging my theatre kid nonsense. you are very sweet and kind and lovely and awesome and i hope you have a lovely day bestie :) <3

ask me why i think these songs go with these ships

[hello-yue-here]

hey guys ive been a zukka fan for a long time but i also really ship yuekka and i was just hit with inspo to write a yuekka fic and i v excited for it (i also have plans for zukka fics but my yuekka fic has the most solid foundation) so i finally made a real atla blog for it and im kinda new here and i was just wondering if anyone would be interested in it. it would include:

-yue lives

-single dad sokka

-platonic best bros zukka (sorry aang but zuko is totally sokkas best friend in this fic)

-angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, no smut, happy ending(?) (jk happy ending. im tired of the only yuekka fic being sokka mourning her and ending up with suki or zuko. no more past yue/sokka. i want them as the MAIN COURSE)

-varrick as sokkas son

-possible chief katara👀👀

-past sokka/suki (i love suki. suki will not be a bad guy in this)

anyways i have like the first 8 chapters outlined and im excited ab it lmk if you like this idea!!

i also have some ideas for a HIMYM zukka fic hut thats for later

this got long. oh well.

😁