#zukka fics have me in a chokehold

[leafsfromthevine]

hello i just finished this i loved every second of it and i highly recommend the 1989 (taylor's version) vault tracks as listening as well as all the suggested songs.... i finished this fic before i heard the vault tracks AND THIS FIC WAS ALL I COULD THINK ABT 😭😭😭

and i'll do anything you say (if you say it with your hands) chapter 11

art for this chapter by @boybff, thank you for bringing this final chapter to life so beautifully <3

When people talk about a leap of faith, it’s always about the exhilaration. The adrenaline of the jump. It’s always the safe landing, the being right all along, the trusting your gut.  People don’t talk about the fall. They don’t talk about the moment after the jump, how desperately they miss the caution they just threw to the wind. They don’t talk about how fast the ground comes to meet them. They don’t talk about how even then, even staring certain doom in the face, it feels a little like flying.

read from the start

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Post sparring sketches bc of the inherent homoeroticism

[chitsangenthusiast]

3, 12, and 25 for fic writer asks <3

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year i honestly have so many but my top choice is probably the last scene i wrote in mallrat chpt 3, where zukka are doing their little flirt moment in the back of the tea shop lol specifically these lines:

He makes a show of licking his bottom lip, and the aborted exhale he gets is as wonderful as the sight of Zuko tilting his head slightly, seemingly unconsciously, positioning himself just right. He looks enraptured, he looks ready, he won’t look away from Sokka’s mouth. “You’re very welcome, sunshine,” Sokka murmurs back. So softly, so close.

dorks lol

12. favorite character to write about this year OH MAN my gut reaction was to instantly shout SOKKA but actually??? it was writing zuko being just head over heels smitten/in love with sokka!! true sokka appreciation hours over here by his bf, exactly as he deserves <33

25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read i'm cheating and giving three!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hate accidents except when we went from friends to this by triplefire - 5 times Sokka asks his friend Zuko to marry him without meaning it, and 1 time Zuko asks Sokka to marry him and very much means it. Starts off in their childhood but ends in their 30s. (the softness in this fic had me tearing up on my living room floor with the lights off bc i was too invested in this to turn them on!!)

silver moons by acezukos - Hakoda and Sokka find each other in the early morning. Neither of them are sleeping, really, but maybe helping each other is easier than helping themselves. (i have such a soft spot for fics that touch on hakoda and sokka handling themselves+their relationship with each other after the war and this was the first one i read <33)

like real people do by verdanthoney (uwu) - Sokka knew he would be dealing with a raging case of baby fever during their annual vacation on Ember Island. What he didn’t expect was to discover that he was also hopelessly in love with Zuko, and had been for years without realizing. (when i tell you this fic still has my heart in a chokehold i'm not lying!!! hannah btw i was literally still crying when i left you a comment on this lmao)

fanfic end of the year asks!

[chitsangenthusiast]

fic writer review

tagged by @bisexuallsokka thank you 🧡 🧡 putting my tagging here so @maderilien @dickpuncher420 @marriedzukka @zukoscalzones @babydotcom if any of you are interested!!

1. how many works do you have on ao3? 27! only eight of those were written within the past two years tho lol

2. what's your total ao3 word count? 163,360.....which felt fake bc of the long break between writing so i counted only the recent fics and that's. still 91,749 holy shit lmao

3. how many fandoms have you written for and what are they? if i'm remembering correctly, then six! (atla, harry potter, that singular fruits basket fic when i was 14, kpop (shh), marvel, mdzs, and atla again lol)

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos? useless facts (clintbucky - and tbh only bc it's a 5yo fic lol)

hold me like you do, cover me in blue (zukka)

hands, knees, please, tangerine (zukka)

get a glimpse of this candy paint (clintbucky - also a 5yo fic lol)

don't go wasting your emotion (sangcheng)

5. do you respond to comments, why or why not? i actually didn't use to, but i do now. i feel like the 'leave a comment' game has changed significantly on ao3 and i like showing my appreciation back now! (oh man i have so many comments i still need to respond to omg)

6. what's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? lmfao none. i'm not a huge fan of writing angst-based stories or endings, BUT i guess technically it's the mallrat in me can be considered for this one since chpt 4 did end with some angst (for now!)

7. do you write crossovers? if so, what's the craziest one you've written? i don't write fandom crossovers but i do like writing ridiculous au's, and i would say that the funniest jobs i've given any character was the clintbucky exterminator/locksmith story that never got finished lol (rip)

8. have you ever received hate on a fic? holy shit poor little 13yo kath used to get OBLITERATED for my characterizations lmfaoooo please know that my attempts at writing good characterizations now come from blood, sweat, and (literal) tears

(still salty i never received hate from the sangcheng troll last year tho. they loved to attack me on twitter but NOT my fics??? i feel slighted smh)

(more below! felt it got long!!)

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind? l m f a o

anyway keep me humming, keep me going is now the second fic that has a title from beyonce's song 'blow' bc those lyrics have a chokehold on me when i write nsfw!

10. have you ever had a fic stolen? no but i've had specific passages from some really old stuff that was stolen and very obviously rewritten/paraphrased, which is. harder to prove lol

11. have you ever had a fic translated? nothing recent but a few of my old hp fics on ff.net were translated!

but omg the best time it ever happened was a year ago when i found out that not only had a 15yo fic of mine been translated (and credited!), it had also been converted into a beautiful pdf!!! complete with cover art and border art!!!! wasn't even aware it was done bc whoever did it had only done it within the last few years i think, but it was such a wild experience to find it i have the pdf saved on my laptop lol

12. have you ever co-written a fic before? i have not! i don't think i've ever had a dedicated beta either, which probably explains a lot lol

13. what's your all-time fave ship? ALTAIR/MALIK they're not even my first otp (which draco/ron and zukka still go strong, followed by clintbucky) but THEY are the ones that seize my heart like no other ship has done 🧡🧡

14. what's a fic you want to finish but don't think you ever will? the zukka ba sing se/blue spirit poetry fic 😔 which is unfortunate bc i'm still so excited to write it/there's a lot written of it, but chaptered fics are nerve-wracking lol

15. what are your writing strengths? idk if ppl necessarily like it, but i really like my writing style! sure it's obvious i write for fanfic vs anything publishable, but i enjoy that lol

also ppl tell me i'm really good at banter, characterizations, and immersing them in the story, which is wonderful bc i do work really hard on that!

16. what are your writing weaknesses? finding the right words. in general, it's so extremely hard for me in that i don't have much of a mental dictionary/thesaurus i guess. it can be upsetting at times, especially when i know there's a better word or way to phrase the line but just have to let it go. i am simply not one of those people who can come up with big words (or words that are like. normal ones to use when describing smth lol)

17. what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages on a fic? it can be a good touch to the fic! i don't have very strong feelings on it, i suppose

18. what was the first fandom you ever wrote for? atla, tho harry potter is the one that actually survived the period of fic deletion i once went through on ff.net lol

19. what is your favorite fic ever written? everyone is going to know the answer to this one, but hmlyd hands down my actual baby <333 after a 4yr long break from writing, i knocked out 3 fics but it was hmlyd that really got me excited! writing it was a BLAST, my entire heart went into it, and it's one of my fics that i actually do genuinely go back and read frequently bc it makes me so happy lmao

tbh if i hadn't written hmlyd, i probably would've stopped writing for the fandom after hands, knees, please, tangerine and gone back to lurking lmao

(keep me humming, keep me going is a good contender tho. which goes to show that the fastest way to my heart is just inundating myself with tender competitive lovers lmao)