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Disclaimer: I love Mai. I'm saying this because it's funny, not because I think it's okay.

Now, currently laughing at the idea of Zuko being that "You have a girlfriend" "Deadass I forgot about her" meme.

Zuko: "Hey Aang, there's this wedding coming up and I need to bring a plus one."

Aang, gently: "... Zuko you have a girlfriend."

Zuko: "Mai! Right, I forgot about her."

Aang: "Maybe don't mention that to her."

Aang: "Alright, well, I've got to leave for a week to check in with the Northern Water Tribe."

Zuko: "Ugh, who am I supposed to talk to."

Aang, tired of this bullshit: "Mai."

Zuko: "Right. My girlfriend. I wonder what she's been up to."

Anyway, when Mai dumps his ass, Aang is on best friend comfort duty, but on the side he's just, "yeah, that's been coming for a while."

Also, Mai and Aang dynamic. I think they'd be great friends, but there'd also be Aang having to be like "Sorry I stole your boyfriend, genuinely did not mean to." Mai doesn't actually hold it against him, but she does hold it over his head forever. Especially when she wants a favor from Aang jsbdjsndn

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A quick doodle I made for chapter 3 of the fanfiction I'm working on

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64262563?view_full_work=true

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It wasn’t long before the lanterns were released, ascending high into the sky, bringing with them the cheers and laughter of the old and young, as hope once more was renewed by the presence of the Avatar in Caldera after a hundred years of war.

Zuko smiled, and couldn't help but glance at the man sitting beside him, feeling something surrounding his heart unwind…

In the end, his mother was right...

Hope brought the Avatar was back.

Finally, 'The Festival of Szeto' piece for the next chapter of Reverse is finished!

The inspiration for 'The Festival of Szeto' is taken from the Lantern Festival/New Year's Celebration in China (Also, a tiny bit from MDZS, if any of the MDZS's fans are wondering). So, enjoy!

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SPOILERS for the latest chapter of The Avatar and the Fire Prince!

Be careful about looking below this point (or don't, if you don't mind spoilers lol).

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It finally happened... my favorite ship became canon in my own fic, after 3 years of meticulously building up to this moment...

I'm SO excited for the future of this fic now that they're finally together, you guys. I've got so many fun things planned, and I can't wait to start writing these two dingdongs as a couple from this point forward :D

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(prompts list also in image alt text)

Thank you to everyone who voted! The theme for Zukaang Week 2025 will be Soulmates.

This year, we organized prompts related to each other into a group for each day, with three prompts per group.

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I totally suck at drawing 3/4 profiles so of course I had to try it on Zuko questioning all of his life choices over the silly boy eating his noodles

Link to the fanfiction:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64262563/chapters/164947072

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What if Zuko and Aang talked at the end of "The Blue Spirit"?

As I am gearing up to motivate myself to finish this fic, I'm desperate to share the artwork that I have commissioned for it from the AMAZINGLY TALENTED @addictedball!

If you're into top Zuko/bottom Aang (vibes, there is nothing explicit in this fic), protective Zuko, Zuko being head over heels in love with Aang, and/or canon-divergent show rewrites, then this fic is for you! I'd be honored if you considered giving it a try!

Also, PLEASE go follow @addictedball if you love amazing artwork by talented artists! Thank you!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54675337/chapters/138561292

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One of my favorite tropes is "character has a crush but doesn't know it's a crush and thinks these are totally normal Best Friend feelings" and Katara is the epitome of that, like

"We're best friends, which means I think he's the coolest thing ever and will throw hands with anyone who doesn't think that"

As soon as she meets Aang she's already on that, literally calling the kid full of wisdom as he intentionally gets his tongue stuck to his staff. The firsherman accusing Aang? She goes 'how fucking dare you.' The anti-kyoshi town accuses Aang? She goes 'how fucking dare you.'

"We're best frinds which means I want to kiss and hug him all the time, as best friends do" (they do not)

All her little cheek kisses and hugs pretty much whenever there's an opportunity for it jsndnsndn

"We're best friends, which means I regularly want him to tell me he thinks I'm pretty and will get very upset at any slight implication he doesn't."

The fact that she regularly asks Aang how she looks, and her panicking because he tried to make a silly joke about her hair

"We're best friends which means I need him to think I'm the coolest person ever and will get upset if anyone is ever seen as cooler than me"

Aang calls Toph sifu and Katara is immediately complaining and gets very happy when he calls her sifu as well. Katara's little pout when they're all missing Sokka and Aang doesn't think she's funny. Katara getting grumpy because Sokka says another girl looks good next to Aang and like, 'excuse you but I look best next to Aang and your tastes are shit'

Like, honey, baby girl, you're not subtle.

Not to mention that one scene where she gets behind him to correct his stance but it was blatently incorrect (because they both immediately go into wide stances to do the water tentacles thing) and Aang gets visibly confused as she starts because ????? no???? we both know what stance is needed Katara???? Katara why you moving me instead of, like, just showing???? And then he gets derailed by crush panic. Which like FAIR because she did not need to get that close, especially to give BLATENTLY INCORRECT INFORMATION

KATARA, HONEY, BABY GIRL, YOU'RE NOT SUBTLE

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Hiiii I'm just happy to find another zutaraang fan

Hiiiiiii! Always happy to find zutaraang shippers! They were literally on my mind all day yesterday.

(I've been laughing about modern AU them. I like to think they'd be very defiant to normal gender roles and stereotypes, esp Aang and Zuko bc they want to be Good Husbands™ but then one day they get bunch of chairs from Ikea and Katara is like "read the directions" before leaving, and that deep internal urge we all have to throw the directions away and brute force it takes them both and Katara comes home to a very pissed off Zuko ranting about screws and a depressed Aang on the ground surrounded by his three different attempts at putting the seat cushions on)

(thought about writing it, spent too long laughing at it)

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i never noticed that when zuko captures aang back at the beginning of season 1 and they fight in zuko's chambers in the ship aang extinguits zuko's flames by envolving them in a sphere and priving it from oxygen

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And dying from lightning that one time. Aang is 100% my chronic health issues representation. At least in my head he is

as it turns out, aang experienced some long-term chronic health issues from, you know, being frozen in ice for one hundred fucking years

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If I had the drive to develop good art skills, man, I'd be drawing Aang SO MUCH yall dont even know.

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All my adult gaang designs in one place!

Aangs skin tone is mostly incorrect in the first drawing. I used the wrong skin set

I should redraw toph and sokka. I wanna do suki but I'm drawing a blank on headcanon to contribute to a good design. Let me know if you guys have any good ideas or design recs let me know!!

Sorry for reposting old stuff. My grandma is in active heart and liver failure. Its hard to draw right now

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LAST DAY LETS GOOOOOOOO

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Yooooooo! My favorite rarepair ToT theyre shenanigans personified. Love the Momo ears lmao

Drawing for this commenter @woodlaflababab

Aang and Sokka decided to go for a walk. Then they got the idea to pick some mushrooms — and cook them later.

Sokka:— Aang! This bush is insulting me.

— What are you staring at?

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Call me crazy but I'm of the opinion that Kanna did love Pakku from the beginning. She kept the necklace from him and even passed it down as a family heirloom. As soon as Pakku shows up in the SWT they're a thing. The only thing that suggests she didn't love him is Katara's assumption. One he does not comment on, still clearly hurt and confused by her leaving. He very clearly did love her, not just as an arrangement, but as someone he knew well and was excited to spend a future with.

I do think Katara was right in that Kanna 'wouldnt let your stupid customs run her life' but I don't think it was specifically the engagement to Pakku (though the fact that it was technically a marraige she didn't get to choose probably played a hand.) The NWT in general has a lot of sexism going on.

The way I read it is Kanna leaving because of general NWT suffocation, not informing Pakku, and building her life in the SWT. Pakku doesn't know wtf just happened because he didn't know what there was for her to be upset about (clearly he does not see the damage sexism has on the women).

When Katara, the granddaughter of the woman he loved that was so unhappy she up and left, pops up with the necklace and says 'she didn't love you' he probably believed it, understanding through both Katara's loud spite and the misery from Kanna that he missed, that the things that were pissing off her grandaughter so much probably were the things he hadn't seen before.

Then he goes to the SWT because Katara is inspiring as hell, reunited with Kanna who, this time, gets to actively make the CHOICE to be with him, without the restrictions on her freedom from her life before. Also probably helps that her granddaughter kicked his ass and he clearly learned his lesson lmao