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Yet another form! This one's on specific dates for zukki week 2025

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The Form Zone

Right now, I'm in the stage where I'm posting a lot of forms. So, here they all are.

Zukki Week 2025 date voting (specific dates) - closes January 5th

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I have another form for you all! This one's about dates for zukki week 2025.

This form will close on 8th December.

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Here is the feedback form! All questions are optional, but the more feedback I get the more I can do to continue making this better for everyone.

I'll leave the form open until December 22nd, and try and check in on it regularly and respond to the feedback.

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Thank you everyone who participated in zukki week 2024!

What’s next?

At some point in the next few days, I’ll post a feedback form

I want to get on with scheduling next year’s zukki week as soon as possible, to give everyone maximum time

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I think I’ve now reblogged everything I’ve been tagged in, if I’ve missed your post do go ahead and tag me.

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here we have a late submission for day 6 of zukki week 2024: heist au (click for better quality)

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more thoughts under the cut

i got back into leverage this week so of course i couldn't not draw zukki as the ot3. i think suki would work better as a grifter than a thief (maybe even a hitter) but yk. i also stayed up way too long thinking about who is the mastermind and who is the grifter/thief remaining and i got to the following conclusions:

song as the mastermind and jin as a grifter just butters up my heart like i missed these girls like crazy and i think it would fit them (also azula as jim sterling is way too funny)

but then we have azula as nate (which i think is equally funny) and ty lee as thief

also mai as nate but thats just because i ship mailee and i wanted them together

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For @zukki-week, technically still while the week is happening! For the Day 4 prompt "On the Throne", featuring everyone aware that they're in a relationship now, Zuko being all in, Sokka and Suki realizing it's their turn to catch up, Suki getting her turn in the middle, and throne sex.

[“Hey.” Zuko rolls onto his side, trying to ignore the pounding of his heart as he watches Suki rummaging for a clean-enough uniform. “You could—if you wanted, you could move some stuff in here?” He isn’t going to read into Suki dropping her pants in surprise.] OR, Sokka and Suki think they know what it’s like to date Zuko, seeing as they’ve been doing it for six years already. It turns out Zuko aware he’s in a relationship can still surprise them.

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all i want is the here and now - tap

For day five of @zukki-week: the mortifying ideal of being loved

wc: 765 | rated: T (for language and to be safe) tags: modern au, aspec zuko, love confessions [AO3 link] [prologue] [previous part]

Life continues mostly like it did before the impromptu couch sleepover and the gaining of pet name (and other) privileges that followed.

Suki goes to the dojo, goes to work, goes to the dojo again most days and comes home to eat with her boyfriends (!!). Usually, Sokka will make dinner for all of them and Zuko will help with what he can, sometimes, Suki will cook, her partners at the ready to do any tasks she asks of them. And every day, even if she stays out longer and eats reheated leftovers, either Sokka or Zuko or both make sure to sit with her while she eats because they know she doesn't like eating alone.

They usually ate together before too, but now Zuko and Sokka make a point of ensuring she's got company.

There are other changes too, so small and yet so meaningful, like how their hugs last a little longer now, are a little harder to step away from, how all of them seemingly want to linger just a little bit more. Or how there seems to be an increase in shirts that don't make it back to the right place, but how could she mind if her boyfriends look so cute and comfy in her clothes or when she notices their eyes light up when they spot her wearing one of theirs.

It's the little details really, that make her notice how loved she is, and how much she was already loved before.

But still, a lot stayed the same; they still split the chores the same way, keep their own rooms, and still sleep in their own beds most of the time.

Only now, sometimes, when Zuko can't sleep, he'll pad over to her room in his sleep pants and wake her up for cuddles. He'll hide his face in her neck and let her hold him until he's relaxed enough to try sleeping again, then he'll squeeze her even closer until he reluctantly shuffles out from her arms and back to his own bed before he actually falls asleep.

And Sokka will demand to be woken up with cuddles and kisses on their days off. Which Zuko and Suki gladly provide by sneaking into his bed after their morning meditation and snuggling against Sokka's sides, running their hands over him, each other, through his hair until he slowly blinks his eyes open.

It's on one of those mornings, when Sokka, still sleepy, is halfway turned over to kiss Suki, reaching back to squeeze Zuko cuddled against his back, that he says it.

"I love you, both of you."

Suki's heart explodes. She's known it, felt it through his actions all the time, but hearing the words again feels so good.

She surges forward to capture Sokka's lips, mumbles "I love you too" against them, kisses him again and again and then leans over to affectionately bite Zuko's shoulder, telling him "And I love you too."

But Zuko is frozen, his expression looks torn between freaking out, throwing up and blue screening. Oh no.

Sokka turns around too, seems to clock the issue instantly as his face falls from dreamy smile to concerned care. But he doesn't let go of Zuko, squeezing his hands, keeping the connection up.

"It's okay, baby, you don't have to say it. It doesn't change anything. Just let us love you, yeah?" he says as calm as he can. Suki still notices a slight tremble in his voice.

But Zuko exhales, nods, takes a deep breath again.

"I love you, Zuko," Sokka says once more, very deliberately. "Can I hug you?"

Zuko nods again and moves into Sokka's arms on his own. He presses his face against him, reaching out to pull Suki closer and press against her too.

"I love you, Zuko," she says equally as deliberately.

Zuko breathes out shakily, his fingers flexing against her side.

Tap. Tap tap.

Those were really deliberate touches too.

Oh! Suki recognizes the pattern, noticed Zuko pressing it against her back just before he'd slip out of her bed to get back to his own, noticed him tap-taptaping Sokka when they'd cooked together and thought it a cute quirk of Zuko's. But could it be– has Zuko been telling them "I love you" all that time?

"I love you, cuddlypoops," Suki says against Sokka's cheek. There's a tap-taptap against Sokka's side.

Suki can barely contain her smile, her happiness, all the love she feels between them.

She takes Zuko's hand, puts it against her face and nuzzles into his palm.

"I love you, baby."

Tap. Tap tap.

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everything has its place (i wonder what space i take)

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written for day 4 of zukki week (relationship negotiations) but this is a part of my pirate au (which is day 5) so i guess take it however you want (be warned that no actual piracy is done)

A few good seconds passed, none of them knowing how to broach the topic. Suki's eyes glassed over with a practiced calm. She should have thought of what to say. She should have known what to say. They'd already danced around it for too long, and it was a miracle they even took the time to sit down to discuss it like adults.

Sokka closed the door to Yue's quarters — the only place on the ship even remotely private — behind the three of them. Suki, plenty familiar with the space, flopped on the bed like it was the most natural thing she could do, while Zuko hovered over her with uneasy, fleeting eyes, before taking a seat beside her slowly, like there was a possibility the bedsheet might burn his ass off. Suki patted her thigh, motioning for Sokka to join them, and he settled with his back against the wall, with his knee pressed to her hip.

In the end, Zuko was the one to break the silence. He was always the blunt one, the one to rip the bandage off and get it over with as fast as possible. "I don't think this is a good idea." 'This' being them, of course. His eyes were set on the blanket Aang had gifted Yue, a poorly knitted thing, well loved by their captain if the rumpled state it was in at the end of the bed was anything to go by.

Daring a look at Sokka, she found him already looking at her. He was expecting — hoping? — she would contradict Zuko, that she would come up with an argument, a sensible solution, an emotionally intelligent response that would prove him wrong.

Could she really when she couldn't help but agree with him?

She averted her eyes.

Sokka'd always been a hopeless romantic.

"Maybe the two of you could make it work, but. I have a responsibility after the war is over, whether I like it or not," Zuko continued after a beat. Right. He would go back to the Fire Nation and fix the damage done by the war as best as one person could and put his country back in the good graces of the world.

After finding out that his uncle wouldn't become the Firelord, Zuko shut down on them, despite respecting his decision. When he betrayed the Fire Nation officially, he gave up on the thought of one day leading his country to greatness. By the time he joined them, he deemed himself inadequate to repair years of propaganda and colonialism. He spiraled into self-doubt for a good few weeks before the crew had a sit down and properly planned how to tackle the issue of the Fire Nation. Now, he seemed to be motivated by this responsibility.

Despite his reluctance, there was a fire in his eyes she couldn't help but look at longingly.

Suki sighed. "I'm not even sure what I'll do after this is all over. Logically, I would go back home and train the next generation of Kyoshi Warriors." Thoughts of Kyoshi Island flowed through her, from before she met Sokka and Katara, from before Zuko's rogue crew found them, before Zhao's destruction touched them. She thought of Hidemi and Shufen and their little Shigeo and Jingyi, who probably wasn't so little anymore, of the warriors' quarters, of food and mountains and unagi. She thought of loneliness and feeling othered, of the elders' decision to refuse aid, which almost led to starvation, of feeling useless in the grand scheme of things. "I don't know, though," she ended softly.

Something heavy settled over Sokka, a sort of finality, a hopelessness she didn't want to think she and Zuko tainted him with. "Yeah, I want to help rebuild my village, maybe even try out for chief after dad retires. I know Katara would have wanted to if Aang didn't put that wanderlust in her, so. Gotta seize the chance before she changes her mind." It felt a little like he was trying to convince himself. To what? To not throw away his future so he could... so he could be with them? She avoided looking at him, again, feeling a sort of shame at her thoughts.

They all avoided looking at each other, still not bringing themselves to say it, instead excusing themselves from the conversation by voicing everything standing between them.

It was kind of pathetic.

Sokka would have said it. He already talked to Yue, and even if Suki didn't know how it went down, she knew Sokka, and how much he felt and how hard it was to keep pushing it down. She knew Yue, and she knew she needed time to find herself, to find the world after living her whole life in a birdcage.

Maybe Suki just needed time, too.

The thought of leaving it all behind and just traveling to her heart's content, of breaking out of the isolationism installed in her by the Kyoshi Island made her feel strangely guilty. The war would end, but it wouldn't truly be over. Healing took a long time and a lot of effort, and starting back up again when it felt like it was all falling apart. She was supposed to be there and help, it was part of her duty as a leader and someone her people looked up to.

But oh, how tempting it was to fuck it all and join Yue, to take her place as her second when everyone would leave to fix their homes into a new normal, to discover everything again by her side like two children falling in love with the outside.

It was a selfish thing to want.

Duty was a hard thing to bear.

"I do... I do like you two. A bit more than I'm comfortable with," she braved out, feeling her heart in her throat. If Sokka could do it, she could. She could face her feelings and get it over with, and maybe after that, she could sleep for the next hundred years like Aang.

"Uhm... me too." Somehow, Zuko surprised her every time. His face was red as a shrimp lobster, the words sounded clawed out, and he frankly looked like he'd rather be anywhere but there, but it was a step forward.

Sokka buried his face in his hands, letting out a whimper. She patted his thigh in sympathy. Taking a deep breath, he uncovered his face, though his eyes were still closed. "I am in love with you!" he raised his voice, loud and clear, as if fearing they wouldn't hear him.

She knew. She knew, but it still felt like a punch in the gut, and warmth began traveling to her head, threatening to boil her brain straight out of her ears. Zuko was in a similar situation, looking at Sokka with big incredulous eyes.

That knowledge had sat in the back of her mind like a coiling snake waiting to strike when she was most vulnerable, but for some time she'd just put the lid over the pot, knowing it wasn't the right time (it would never be the right time). The intensity at which Sokka was able to feel always shocked her.

Tears began pooling rapidly in her eyes, and, in a fit of panic, she slapped Sokka's thigh as hard as she was able in that state.

"Hey! What was that for?" he howled, finally opening his eyes.

"For-for just saying that like that! Jerk!" Zuko snarled in her place, very eloquently, but she agreed wholeheartedly. Being loved was hard to hear, and even harder to accept. She was surprised he didn't straight up punch Sokka for just blurting it out when they barely managed to say they liked each other.

"You're a jerk, jerk," Sokka pouted, rubbing the place she hit him.

"So what do we do now?" Now that it was out in the open, Suki found herself at a loss. The duties that awaited them after the war weighed down hard on their shoulders, with seemingly no future for the three of them together without sacrificing something much grander than themselves.

Zuko, somber as always, pointed out, "There is a possibility one of us might not come back alive."

"I really don't want to think about that right now, Zuko."

Suki sighed, feeling the weight of the world settling on her chest.

"Are we willing to get attached when we know it won't work?" Like it was a certainty that no matter what they would do, it would end in heartbreak.

"Aren't we already?"

Well. Sokka was right, once again.

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Day 7 - Free day

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Day 6 - Shopping at 2am and/or Heist AU and/or 5+1

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Day 5 - Sparring and/or The mortifying ideal of being loved and/or Pirates