#but poor poor sokka

[witchering10123]

hakoda: you need to stay here and protect your sister

13 year old sokka, whose only point of reference for "protecting his sister" is literally his mother sacrificing herself in katara's place: ok 😃

#not shaming on hakoda here #well... #little shaming on hakoda here #but poor poor sokka #katara and sokka #please grant them therapy so they might move on from their codependency #yo kyas sacrifice #aside from fucking sokka up cause you know thats his mum #also fucked sokka up when he believed that everyone decided that katara was far more important than him #and thus him sacrificing his world for her was not only the right thing to do #it was also expected of him #anyhoo #dont we love how depression fucks over this child #hakoda and kya and sokka and katara #my fav disfunctional fam

[calmingthoughtsinyourhead]

Poor Zuko

He just wanted to join the Gaang but now the blind girl is moving metal, the sweet watergirl is bending blood and the kid is talking to spirits

At least he can count on Sokka to be normal. Oh, where did you say that sword was from?

Yeah, that’s right, fucking outer space

#poor zuko #prince zuko #zuko #avatar renaissance #avatar aang #avatar #avatar the last airbender #fire lord zuko #atla zuko #im loving the atla renaissance #atla #katara #aang #atla aang #toph beifong #atla toph #sokka #atla sokka #sokka avatar the last airbender #avatar sokka

[thorcep]

Zuko and Suki had an awakening in the blimp after boiling rock

#poor Sokka #they want your dad fr #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #suki #atla suki #sokka #hakoda #the boiling rock #my art

[nerdpoe]

AU where the first time Zuko fights Aang on the ship when the Avatar's escaping, Aang accidentally energy bends Zuko.

Zuko is no longer a Fire Bender.

Zuko is now an Air Bender.

Zuko is also Freaking The Fuck Out, and so is Aang.

"Change it back, change it back!"

"I don't know how! I don't know what I did!"

"Then learn! Fix this!"

Meanwhile, Iroh is internally screaming because yeah, this is a death sentence for his nephew.

Sokka and Katara are just. Hanging out. Staring at each other and then the crew.

Everyone's confused. The crew just...slowly edging away to get back to steering the ship and laze around and stuff.

Katara knows it's a weird Avatar thing Aang did.

Sokka has now formulated a conspiracy theory that Zuko was only pretending to bend Fire the entire time.

#ATLA #ATLA AU #story prompt #zuko #aang #katara #sokka #uncle iroh #poor iroh man what the fuck #ur brother attacked ur nephew and ur just trying to keep the kid alive #and some rando air bender avatar grants him the kind of bending thats an automatic death sentence #zuko hears what sokka's conspiracy theory is #and is like ya know what #that's actually a pretty good idea hold on im gonna learn how to do that

[freeryebread]

idc what you say aang was the #1 zukka shipper like the second the boys came back from boiling rock he just knew

like spirit cupid just sat on aang’s shoulder and whispered “they wanna make out so bad” in his ear and aang was just like “oh i agree.”

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #atla sokka #sokka #atla zuko #zuko #zuko atla #sokka atla #aang #aang atla #atla aang #aang is tired… omfg #poor aang having to sit through years of watching his best friends yearn #the boiling rock #aang no.1 zukka-er ever

[leafsfromthevine]

sokka and zuko laying on top of each other i mean what omg who said that

#the fact that aang falls on katara and sokka falls on zuko idk #poor toph crushed by them #i loveeee pretending the source material has zukka crumbs its my favorite hobby #like look ‼️ they're touching in this scene ‼️‼️‼️ #i hope you all know my clips/ss from the source material are not like LOOK AT HOW REAL THEY ARE BELIEVE IT!!!! #its like uhhhh this is hilarious because nothing in this says zukka but i am. projecting #also art references LMAOOOO #zukka #zukka gif #i keep switching up my tags i need to not #also the first gif is just cute for the normal ppl out there i wanted to include #atla

[gascreates]

doodles where no one is smiling except me

#aang's got tha pakige look avfhgshf #everyone is suffering in some way #but poor aang msot of all #momo is FINE. just wet #aang is not fine and he does not want to be sokka's friend anymore #sokka crying in the last bit has nothing to do with the dinos #but it happened on the same page so #enjoy #atla dino au #atla #sokka #aang #zuko #@somethingfoamy for the idea for pic 2 #i had to draw the consequences

[comradekatara]

look. im not saying hakoda is a bad father. he clearly loves his kids a lot and did the best he could in abject conditions. but “being a man is knowing where you’re needed the most” are pretty bold words coming from a man who left his children behind in an extremely precarious environment with no protection or way to defend themselves from the pretty regular raids that their people are subjected to. like, i get that he had to lead the swt into battle as their chief, and also why he wouldn’t wanna stay at the site of his wife’s murder, but none of the men were like “maybe some of us could stand to stay behind to defend our village, i don’t really think this prepubescent kid who lacks support and experience is actually qualified for that job.” and somehow hakoda also managed to phrase that choice to sokka in such a way that fostered a maelstrom of interwoven masculinity, identity, self-esteem, and existential issues that he will never be able to fully disentangle because he idolizes his father far too much to acknowledge that perhaps that time hakoda told him as a child that his manhood is staked to his obligation to die for his sister was actually pretty fucked up. so he’s not exactly father of the year either.

#but to be clear im not saying this is a bad writing choice i think it’s awesome actually #and ive talked before abt how hakoda is not at fault for internalizing self-dehumanizing logic as a colonial subject #but like. poor sokka #if i think abt how fucked up his martyr complex is for too long i black out! #hakoda #sokka #hot takes #hakoda&sokka

[petricorah]

you can't choose inspiration it comes hurtling at you

#sokka #mydoodles #poor sokka....going through it

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

they’re judging people x

#zuko #Katara #atla #atla fanart #Zuko fanart #Katara fanart #I love them as sly besties who gossip about ppl and giggle at their poor outfit choices #they’re so petty individually so put them together and #hell #is what u get #Sokka is so scared of them #u can’t see him cuz he’s in the back cowering

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Sokka: You know what the problem is? You’re really cute and powerful, so no one ever told you to shut up.

Zuko: You think I'm cute?!

Sokka: SHUT UP!

#Sokka thought Zuko was being cocky with that question #Zuko was actually just genuinely confused #poor guy doesn’t know he’s cute #avatar the last airbender #sokka avatar the last airbender #zukka #sokka x zuko #zuko/sokka #atla zuko #zuko #sokka #sokka of the water tribe

[kukos-satellite]

It’s official, I’m getting over my childish hatred for Katara because I only hated her when she snapped at Sokka that one time about their mom. She was just a little girl and the only water bender in her tribe left, so yeah baby girl is deeply traumatized to say the least. Oh baby, I’m so deeply sorry, and if I went back in time I would’ve whooped my little self’s ass or something to click it in my head.

Like what the fuck was I thinking hating her? I’m so disappointed with myself on that ☹️

#avatar the last airbender #aang #katara #sokka #zuko #toph #ty lee #mai atla #i’m so sorry #and disappointed #like wtf is wrong with me #that’s so?? EWWW #my poor baby :(

[muffinlance]

After reading your snippets I usually have kinda weird but upmost entertaining dreams.

Today it was Sokka as a bookshop assistant, doing deliveries. Local Tea Guy was claiming his vision is not as good as it was, so he made his half blind nephew read to him. Half of Iroh's books are self help books, and it took Sokka like, two seconds to get the picture. It helped that during readings Azula kept making dry comments on everything and Iroh was doing miniature embroidery.

Sokka made reports of those readings and gave recommendations on which book fits best to Zuko's feral tone.

Thank you for your stories! I like them very much and you helped me a lot to don't shy away from including seemingly silly/just for fun details into my own art.

All the love <3

This is a whole one shot fic right here, thank you for gifting us with Screen Reader Zuko (Does Not Realize He's Being Tricked Into Being a Self-Help Encyclopedia) on this fine morning

#Iroh moaning over his poor eye sight #to his half-blind nephew #while DOING EMBROIDERY #is peak Iroh #Zuko completely not getting it while Sokka gets it at a glance #also peak Them #Azula doesn't know how she's related to these people but at least she can be confident she got all the Good Genetics #with bonus free entertainment #avatar the last airbender #atla #gift fic

[concernedbrownbread]

reconciled zuko and azula the good-cop bad-cop dynamic

#except zuko is medium cop #azula is just SO mean that it makes him look like good cop #azula: i can overthrow your empire in a day #zuko through gritted teeth: tea? I put salt in it #sokka the actual diplomat: ignore them. please. that's what i do. #fire hazard siblings #atla #zuko #azula #the poor officials: trembling

[vomits0cutely]

Sokka: *can’t see his mother face*

Katara: *can’t stop seeing her mother’s face because Sokka is her exact imagine*

#you didn’t love her the way I did #she was my mother too.. #poor babies #poor katara #poor sokka #katara and sokka #sokka and katara #siblings #sad siblings #kya #kya avatar #katara atla #sokka atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla

[quillthrillswriting]

the gaang...as an indie rock band....? kataang, where aang's only way of confessing his feelings is by writing katara a love song....? 😏

💳💥💳💥💳💥💳💥

i present to you, excerpts from my new one-shot: Well, My (Not-Yet) Boyfriend's In A Band

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Aang winced, shielding himself with his drumsticks as he walked into Sokka and Katara’s garage almost a full half-hour later than their agreed-upon rehearsal time, as if the two thin pieces of wood could protect him from the combined side-eye of his friends. Even Toph, who regularly rolled in ages after rehearsal had started with a tea in her hand from Uncle Iroh’s, was shooting him a glare, which is how Aang knew he’d really messed up. He ducked his head into the entranceway, silently cursing himself for being just a bit too tall for the garage doorway.

Katara shifted from her position against the opposing doorframe, where she had been judgmentally leaning as she echoed the look in Toph’s eyes. “Aang…”

He threw up his hands in preemptive defence, words tumbling one after the other from his mouth. “I know! I know, I know I’m late,” he tugged his high-top converse off awkwardly, stashing his skateboard in the usual crevice he leaned it against. “But I swear, it’s for a good reason.”

“It better be,” Toph scoffed. “I blew off homework to come here.”

“Toph, you wouldn't have done the homework either way.”

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“I can feel you glaring at me, Zuko.” Toph smirked, then turned back to Aang. “You’ve been rustling around in your pockets for a while now, you sure you’re not stalling for a good reason on why you were late?”

“It is a good reason. Look!” Aang finally managed to tug out the crumpled piece of paper from his cargo pocket, unfurling it for Toph to see.

Silence filled the room, and then, in a tone laced so much with sarcasm that it was hard to tell when the tone stopped and the sarcasm began, Toph said flatly. “Well, it sounds like a piece of paper, but I assume you’re referring to what’s on the paper. Way to taunt a blind girl, Aang.”

“I-I didn’t mean, I-” Aang stuttered awkwardly, his cheeks flushing an embarrassed shade of pink. 

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“The only problem,” Aang added, “Is that the songs can’t be covers. We have to write something original. The idea of the music festival is to spotlight new young voices in indie rock.”

The others exchanged sidelong glances. “I’m sure that we can write something.” Sokka said with finality. “How hard can it be?”

Hours later, Sokka was sprawled on the couch, head stuffed between the dove grey cushions as he groaned at their utter lack of progress. Katara was perched on the arm of the couch, biting her lip as she tried to run through lyric ideas in her mind. Toph was (very un-subtly) preparing for a nap, curled up in the room’s vintage armchair, while Zuko paced with a hand on his chin, lost in thought.

Unsurprisingly, the five of them had discovered that writing original music does, in fact, require both skill and inspiration, something none of them felt they had at the moment. 

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“What about a love song?” Zuko suggested.

 “Ick, oogies!” Sokka yelped from his position next to the mini fridge as he pulled out a pair of sodas. He moved as though he was going to throw one to Toph, then thought better of it and just gently placed it next to her as he sat. 

“You have a girlfriend, Sokka.” Zuko pointed out as Sokka settled next to him. 

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“Aang, this is, this is great!”

“I like it.” Zuko nodded.

“Would someone please put text-to-speech on?”

“Let me read it out loud.” Sokka said, apologetically. “My bad, Toph."

♥ check out the (completed) fic & my ao3 here! ->

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