#sokka uses they/them

[petricorah]

I love "i would kill for you" ship dynamics but what about "i would stop killing" ship dynamic??

I would lay down my sword for you. I would change my nature and go against everything i've known. I would resist the easy way out of solving my problems. I would give up the adrenaline of battle to stay by your side and make tea instead. I'm not sure I know who I am without a weapon in my hand because I've had to fight for so long but for you I'm willing to try and figure this out.

It must be hard. To put down your weapon that's protected you for so long. It's allowed you to stay alive it's kept you from getting hurt--physically and mentally. Because you've never had to worry about a real relationship if you think you'll be dead at the next battle. And you feel naked without it and it feels like you're ripping off an extension of yourself. Are you even whole without it? Are you worthy of being loved if you can't prove it by risking your life? And yet they've found someone who's asking them for something much harder than dying in battle on their behalf. They've found someone who wants them to live. And that's much more terrifying.

#i know this sounds like the 'bad guy falls for good guy' which can be fun but thats not what i mean #anyway. this wasn't quite zukka but i do think it aligns with my au of zuko not dying on the throne and sokka retiring his sword to paint #and living like piandao in the mountains. urging zuko to retire and zuko no longer needing fire bending and not knowing what to do with #himself if he doesnt have to fight #so he uses his bending to make tea instead :) #aka this is how divorced zukka can still get together #zuko being upset bc sokka chose work over them in the first place but so dodnhe #but he gets a second chance in retirement #if he can give it up

[comradekatara]

okay be honest. if someone as hot as sokka (is constantly established to be by other characters within the text) said these exact words to you, you would also fall in love with them on the spot and/or be overwhelmed with uncontrollable horniness. yue is valid

#id in alt text #sokka #yue #sokkaxyue #i am once again thinking about Them #they are sooo cute its unreal #and i will not apologize for that!!!! #also yes. i know im gay but i have many straight friends okay #or well. i have one straight friend but she's REALLY straight she is the heterosexualest woman in the world #so i know how their minds work #and besides. man or woman there is nothing hotter than an attractive person who is also an awkward dorkass nerd #it's like catnip to us (girls who probably have something wrong with them but are really good at masking it) #frankly it's the kind of thing everyone i've ever dated or ever considered dating has said to me #yes i would like to do an activity with you!! at a place!!! for some time!!!!! #anyway. my point is #people clown on sokka for this (namely; katara) #but it would work on most if not all of you #i guarantee it

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

#I also have minor critiques like #Why are all the guards drawn as short and noodly-armed as Sokka pretending to be a guard #Why are the guards the only ones allowed to have funny lines #Did anyone consider using a lack of dialogue in some panels to establish mood and let the visuals speak for themselves (no they did not) #Why is Azula villain monologuing for so long at the start #She does like her villain lines but in the show they're short #And generally aimed at fresh opponents #Not last week's old news #I kept wondering why Azula was even there instead of generic lackeys especially since she had to have been dealing with the conquest of #Ba Sing Se around then. big This Could Have Been An Email vibes #Also as a gardener #HOW FAST WERE THOSE PRISON PLANTS GOING TO SEED AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME #Apparently they needed minimal (almost no?) light and tiny cracks of space and were nutritious and tasted good raw and grew so fast they #Could substantially affect the diets of multiple prisoners within a short time span? #I WANT THEM IN MY INDOOR SETUP ASAP #Screw lettuce I want Suki's Magic Beans #avatar the last airbender #atla #Suki #There continue to be no comics in Ba Sing Se but this was a better attempt than some #Suki Alone

[zaylinbutmakeitgaylin]

little zukka drawing I made for @ssreeder !!i I think I may have posted it?? IDK it was some time ago on an alt account I lost track of (￣Д￣)ﾉ

#I have so many alt accounts it’s not even funny #and I use NONE of them #but anyway GO READ THEIR FIC #it’s so good #liab #atla #zukka #fanart #zuko #Sokka #avatar the last airbender

[purplew]

tHIS IS THE LEVEL OF UNHINGED IM HERE FOR

#zukka #if your faves dont do fanon justice like this are they really ur faves #fucking insane #batahit wild #never did i think i would see this day #but lawd has blessed us in this trying times #i love them theyre so silly #they're driving the zukka train unapologetically and im here for it #and theyre so real #cuz i also would get matching tshirts w my best friend if our characters were shipped da fuq #i love them ur honor #natla #atla #zuko #sokka #zukka nation #atla zukka #whoever's fanart is this #i hope ur having a good day #tumblr works hard #but ian and dallas werk harder

[sufferingsokkatash]

zukka drawing prompt.

(credit: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe5XSp2W/)

#zukka #it’s so them they even have red and blue cotton candy #sokka would have been a fire nation goth with zuko and mai #this ride sucks and there’s no shopping #zuko find us some food

[mugentakeda]

the successful aftermath of the first ever (improvised) top surgery, invented by master katara of the southern water tribe and performed on fire lord zuko (circa 104 ag)

#sokka is a prodigy inventor that specializes in engineering and tactics. #and katara is a prodigy that specializes in EVIL SURGERY and ANATOMY MURDER. she just doesnt know it yet. #and zuko is her NUMBER ONE ENABLER #its like how azula is a prodigy in firebending and zuko is a prodigy in breaking and entering #hes like I bet you anything we can use bloodbending for good things (trying to make her feel better about it) #and it leads to unethical medical practices (because they cant do anything legal and normal for fun together) #she didnt even come up with a plan for how she was gonna do it she free styled and it worked #sokka hates them both so much hes never leaving them unattended together for longer than 5 minutes ever again #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #zuko #blood tw #alicias art

[woodlaflababab]

My brain has been like 70% zukaang, 25% sokkaang, and 5% anything else and so naturally I've been thinking about all three of them and I never really considered them as a trouple before but it's on my brain tonight and just

- Zuko watching his two idiots lose braincells together

- Aang and Zuko teaming up to make sure Sokka is well aware how much they admire him, bending or not

- Zuko and Sokka on a collective 'protect the avatar' team

- Aang and Sokka constantly pulling Zuko around on fun trips

- Aang and Sokka traveling together but always returning home to Zuko

- The three of them doing 'nonbending fights' with Zuko and Sokka having these deadly blades while Aang just gets to constantly wack them with a stick

- Sokka dragging the other two on 'man adventures'

- Aang and Zuko's collective exasperation at said man adventures

Like-

#aang #sokka #zuko #zukaang #sokkaang #zukka #zukkaang #zokkaang #sokkaangko #idk what ship name to use so Im using them all #zukkaang ideas #atla #woodlaflababab

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[metalandmagi]

Of all the egregious mischaracterizations in the live action ATLA series, the worst and most offensive one that no one has mentioned is how dirty they did Hakoda. Over my dead body would Hakoda say anything about Sokka not being a proper warrior. Like hell would he talk shit about his son behind his back while pretending to be proud of him to his face. At first I thought the vision Sokka was having wasn't real (since in the cartoon, he never had his boat trial and did it later in the Bato episode), but he confirmed it was a memory when talking to Yue later. How dare they disparage our water tribe dad like this.

#i think at one point in the cartoon he was concerned about his kids fighting and that's why he left sokka in charge #and he'd been gone for so long and wasn't used to seeing them as warriors instead of kids #but idk i could be misremembering #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla live action

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

#zukka #zukka fanart #sokka #sokka fanart #zuko #zuko fanart #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender #zukka fic rec #myart #yall. yall. dani. this FIC #first off it made me cry twice. not like 'oh im crying' internet speak no. like. eyes are too blurry to read let me stop this for a sec #it is SO GOOD #your prose? amazing #your insights on grief? life changing #THEM??? THEM their relationship and trust #'zuko looked at him and his world shifted on its axis' #ive been thinking about that line for WEEKS STRAIGHT #i can't tell you how many passages i screenshot just because of how beautiful or cute they were #the moment of seeing the painting of sokka's mom? how did you manage to make it so telling character wise--so sweet so PAINful AND so #cute with their relationship?!!?! #'oh so you think i'm beautiful too' #GOD #i had so many scenes i wanted to draw it was crazy #also #'Our loved ones leave impressions on us that can still impact our decisions and feelings even after they're gone' #fuck. had me crying AGAIN #seriously this fic is so wonderful and not just through a zukka lens. truly life changing you're an AMAZING writer #the fandom is so lucky to have you and i can't Believe it took me so long to get around to reading this masterpiece

[comradekatara]

oopsie 

#found this in my drafts from 3 yrs ago #fwiw they shouldve assumed he'd use sozin's comet to do a genocide. since roku told them that and of course they would #but yeah. oopsie #id in alt text #aang #zuko #sokka

[gwydionae]

SAY IT WITH ME:

FEMALE CHARACTERS CAN BE WARRIORS AND FEMININE

MALE CHARACTERS CAN BE SMART AND MASCULINE

BEING BOTH IS NOT A "FLAW" WHERE ONE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED

IT'S CALLED "COMPLEXITY"

#i won't tag it #but #HECK if i wanted to chuck episode 5 out my window and then run it over with a car #i mean these issues have definitely been hinted at before ep 5 but that one just went ALL IN #i knew from 3 and 4 what they would probably do with hakoda but GOSH am i bitter about it #i swear if they don't walk this back somehow and make hakoda a bad overbearing dad or whatever i'm gonna riot #and katara's whole 'you know i'm not good at this [womanly] type of stuff' NO SCREW YOU WHOEVER INCLUDED THAT #WHY #if you want a female character that rejects the stereotypes of femininity you'll get one in season 2 gosh DANG IT #you don't need to try and force katara into that role #sokka wanting to use his brain AND fight well is not a flaw #katara wanting to use her waterbending to fight AND knowing how to sew is not a flaw #OH i hate this #i hate this so much #i can understand the need to change story elements to work better in a different format #i don't think they're always doing that WELL but i can understand the need for it #but i will never understand why they felt the need to butcher characters' personalities #again some things won't transfer well i get it i really REALLY do #it's like with sanji in opla how he had to be toned down - that makes sense for a live action adaptation #just removing things simply for the sake of removing them? no just no #'updated for modern audiences' has become a curse to my ears i swear because it always means the same thing #'we're going to remove all complexity and make it as one note as possible so we don't offend anyone' #there was nothing wrong with katara or sokka or aang or anyone else that they needed 'updating' yall are just close-minded #ok rant over just REALLY needed to get that out...

[sourstiless]

like i genuinely think the world will heal when people stop pretending that not shipping zutara is about morality

#because it’s not and i’m tired of y’all hiding behind that #if u don’t like the ship that’s one thing and totally fine it’s your opinion #but acting like the morality police because you don’t ship it is so fucking old #because if it was about morality you wouldn’t have sokka/zuko shipper #or zuko/aang shippers #or zuko/jet shippers #or zuko/jin shippers #like the morality of zutara was really the issue #none of those ships would exist and NONE of them would be popular #but the very existence of those ships and the popularity of them makes that take so wildly insane #its also insane to me to equate shipping zutara with white supremacy bc like over half the people who do ship them are literally poc #many of us queer poc #zutara

[flandelimon]

9.12.20 8.29.21

I never posted these here I think, this is from an au I had where Zuko is the son of a mob mafia boss king?) and Sokka's dad is a detective or something like that... I should draw them more

#I had a bunch of doodles on my old computer but I’m not sure I can recover them ;; #I like zuko with longer hair too #they fight all the time but they love each other okay #ignore my handle #that’s how I used to be called on IG lol #atla #sokka #zuko #zukka #doodle #atla fanart #myart #myfanart

[atla-suki]

i want less gaang art (either official or fanart) w suki in her KW getup. more casual suki pls. y would she be all dressed up in her formal warrior uniform all the time while the others r just looking normal? she wouldn’t. put her back in that turtleneck from suki alone (that actually looked way too good on her for a turtleneck) and show us her pretty face. (please).

#atla #suki #the gaang #my fav girl ever but have u guys noticed that in almost every group art (not many of them) she’s always in her full uniform and makeup? #let this girl breathe! #take the armour off her for 3 minutes PLEASE #show us her face she’s so pretty with and without the makeu #like they never put sokka in his WT armour / facepaint or zuko in his firelord robes and yet suki is always dressed up #let. her. relax. #for ONCE.