#(& like im not saying zuko deserves ppl getting angry w him i just. its a human emotion yknow)

[hello-yue-here]

Yuetara, zukka, and maiko

yuetara

ship

1) its not one of my main ships. i dont rlly read fanfic for them but if i see a cute fanart of them ill enjoy it and i think i first started shipping it because of good fanarts for them.

2) i like yuetara because of how similar they are. theyre both women from the water tribe. they both understand the misogyny that they have faced. and they both said f sexism im gonna be a strong woman. i also love the tui and la parallel. moon spirit and ocean spirit parallel COME ON. YUE IS THE MOON. KATARA IS THE MOST POWERFUL WATERBENDER. THEY ARE THE OCEAN AND THE MOON. the push and pull they could give eachother. that dynamic ftw.

3) i guess if i didnt like something about this ship would be the fact that if i read a fic or see a fanart w yuetara then than means in that particular au i wont get any yuekka and yuekka is probably my second favorite ship. but then again if i get yuetara than i could get a plethora of other sokka ships to go with it so my sadness disappears in like two seconds. gosh shipping is hard sometimes until you remember ‘hey i have like fifty different universes in my head. all ur ships can coexist in ur brain olivia’ other than that i really see no downsides to this ship. maybe i wish it had more content. maybe if it had more content id ship it a lot more but its not one of the more popular ships so the content is kinda few n far between on my feed.

zukka:

SHIPPP

1) my boys. my babies. my loves. i watched this show for the first time when it came out on netflix and when it ended i really didnt ship anything other than kataang. i came onto tumblr to find fun atla content and one of the very first things i saw under the atla tag was zukka content. i was like oh? whats this? zukka? interesting... i was intrigued so i found a list of fic recs and i fell in love with the ship. the rest is history. its probably my number one ship because it was my very first ship here and im nostalgic

2) oh boy there is so much i like about this ship. i relate to a shit ton of characters in atla. but sokka and zuko may be the ones i relate to most. i relate to sokka because i tend to feel second best a lot to my friends. i try to stay positive but things rarely go the way i plan or hope for them too and while im happy for my friends and their achievements i oftentimes find myself thinking why cant that be me? and i see this a lot in sokka especially in sokkas master. i dont feel special a lot and idk seeing sokka feel the same way and then realizing he is special kinda helped me realize that im special too. on the flipside i relate to zuko because i have wild anger issues and difficulty dealing w my emotions a lot as well. i get broody and short tempered and insecure very often and i tend to push people away and i refuse to ask for help (the amount of teachers and adults and therapists who have told me its okay to ask for help ur not any weaker because of it is astounding. do i listen to them? .....im working on it.) and i saw a shit ton of this in zuko. book one and two zuko rarely asks for help as seen in the blue spirit and zuko alone and he pushes away uncle so many times and even when the gaang iffers to help him in i think its the chase he tells them to leave. when he finally has his redemption and joins the gaang and lets them kinda become a better person i was so happy. i want that for myself yk. seeing him finally win the agni kai and overcome his family that always told him he was nothing was such a win. my sister and i get along but when we were children we were very much like zuko and azula. it was extremely competitive all the time and there was so much toxicity and sibling drama to a concerning extent. we get along great now which im very happy about but yeah their sibling relationship hit a lil too on the nose for me. seeing as i relate to these character so much and want them ti be happy i want to live vicariously through them so seeing them together is amazing for me to project into them. i love projecting onto fictional characters and with them i can project onto BOTH so its a winwin. plus so many zukka fics are so well written and heartwarming and heartbreaking and emotional and fluffy anf UGH the talent here us astounding.

3) what do i not like about the ship? again the list is long. oops. mainly the toxic shippers. there are so many toxic zukka stans that sometimes make it hard for me to enjoy this ship but hey! thats what the block button is for:) i despise how often people infantilize zuko and completely ruin his character for the sake of making him a soft weak lil boy who needs protecting. thats just not zuko for me. and ive seen many many accounts even state that this kind of portrayal of zuko is rooted in racist stereotypes about asian men (now i am white so i personally have never experiences racism but i feel the need to bring that up because it is wrong and attention needs to be brought to it because a lot of poc fans have criticised this) and the same for sokka. some ppl rlly skew his character and make him a big strong brute and hypermasculine and once again poc fans have said that this take is rooted in racist stereotypes. again! these are just my opinions! this is my favorite ship! but i think its important to acknowledge some of the bad parts of our ships as well and be critical where criticism is needed :))

maiko

ship

1) I LOVE MAIKO. “i dont hate you” “i dont hate you too” BRUH. my little heart just burst into flames. im sorry guys but maiko is so cute. they hate everything except eachother. BRUH that is one of the cutest tropes. i shipped them the moment i saw them together onscreen and i was so happy when zukos face lit up in the finale when mai came back.

2) “i hate everything but i have a soft spot for you” TAKE MY MONEY I AM A SUCKER FOR THIS. they are so cute together. like zuko is rarely happy in a majority of atla but mai makes him happy and i- 🥺🥺 HE DESERVES IT. and mai is always so supportive of him. when hes stressing out about the war meeting she tries her best to comfort him. and zuko cares about her too. he may not be the best at showing it but oh my god hes TRYING HIS BEST. i think its a very accurate portrayal of teenage relationships because they arent perfect and they do fight but like,, every teenage relationship does that. and even after everything and how he left her in the fire nation she still had his back at boiling rock. she still risked her life against azula to save his butt.

3) the thing i hate about maiko isnt even about maiko. its about antis who think mai is toxic and that zuko deserves better. that has got to be the worst take ive ever heard. they had a fight in ember island. that is NORMAL. they are teenagers. they are not perfect. but underneath all the rough edges and things they need to work out they still care about eachother so freaking much. i genuinelt believe that neither of them would do anything to intentionally hurt the other and i think thats what matters the most. if anything mai is the best girlfriend in the entire world because zuko fucked up like,, quite a few times. he got rlly jealous and dumped her thru a letter and ppl always say that mai was toxic for being mad at him for those two things. umm she had every right to be mad at him for both of those. and while zuko is allowed to feel his emotions and be angry sometimes as well sometimes he needs to think things thru and realize that hey maybe some if this jealousy is unfounded. BUT EVEN THEN. HE RESPECTED HER FEELINGS AND DIDNT TOUCH HER WHEN SHE SAID DONT TOUCH ME. HE RESPECTED HER. so i hate toxic maiko takes because they are literally so wrong in my opinion.

again all of these are just my opinions!! feel free to agree or disagree but please be respectful!! i will respect whatever u think as well because this is all just for fun :)

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #yuetara #maiko #ship game #ask game #long post #wow i wrote a lot #also if anyone wants to talk ships feel free to message me!

[midoriyaizukustan-inactive]

(1/2) I was looking at your about me and your description of how Bakugo makes you feel is so relevant to me. like I'm big into the 'everyone deserves a second chance and to get better if they truly put the effort into changing' mindset, but also I have experience with when people you think are your friends being abusive towards you and I'm just :/ not impressed with that boy. I was hoping he was changing but he really isn't bc in that recent chapter he looks down on the previous OfA holders

(2/2) for having 'weak' quirks and it is just a reminder that he is still the same person. he isn't becoming more neutral towards Izuku because he is growing as a person, he is just accepting that he has a powerful quirk now. he is literally only treating him marginally better because he's accepted that he's not 'weak' anymore and honestly I'm fuming. it breaks my heart that Izuku treats their fight like a resolution when it was really about Bakugo and his feelings not their past.

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yea i get your mindset nony

im really big on the whole “second chances” thing esp in like narratives bc it gives me hope,,,like we all mess up at some point or another but when i messed up i took it Incredibly Hard so all the reminders that ppl can earn second chances give me hope for myself, regardless of if those reminders r fictional

however theres also, u know, lines if u will, and every line a character that eventually will get a redemption arc crosses means the greater the work theyre gonna have to do during said redemption. bakugou has crossed a couple of those and this far in the story with him only halfheartedly trying? i can understand why youd be a lil eh

i havent read the chapter where the prev users’ quirks have been revealed so i cant rlly comment on that, but ur right abt the thing abt bakugou treating midoriya better only bc he has a strong quirk now. like he has to acknowledge him now whereas he used to call midoriya “nothing more than a pebble on the side of the road”. and that’s development in its own right sure but they’ve still got a Long way to go before they can become friends is all so i understand being “:/” abt how midoriya reacts to it all

also the resolution thing made me angry as well i want midoriya to like,,,he should be able to talk to you know. when they do have an actual conversation abt their beef, mido should get to talk just as much as baku, if not more. youre completely right that their fight was abt bakugou’s feelings and not their past. im not as mad as i was before tho bc horikoshi has said in an interview that this wasnt an actual resolution to their shared issues and that there needs to be an actual apology so ive gotten closure and hope for this one sjksjk

bakugou’s just got a lot of issues and i wish hori would like,,,make him deal w them. thats what really seems to be holding him back from completely developing so far. cause like he’s said and done things that try to show he’s changing, like what he said to the kid at the remedial classes, but one step forward two steps backward with how hori has been handling it so far. progress isnt linear but i just wish we could at least see some of bakugou’s thoughts then

he can’t completely get that redemption until he clearly acknowledges he was wrong before. im still optimistic that he’ll change cause like zuko’s redemption arc happened in like a season and it still turned out fantastic and also iron man did some shitty things before becoming a superhero but he still made it through. but i get being exhausted with bakugou that way he is now

hes just ugh. so complex. he has so much potential but in canon so far he’s only lived up to some of it and it is v frustrating i know

basically my feelings are: im tired of him right now but i have so much hope he will get the development that will make him a great character. i understand why u’d lose some hope for that nony but hori himself has said that baku needs to apologize so im sure we’ll get smth!

in the meantime tho i completely understand ur feelings and im sorry u’ve had bad experiences in ur life. i know this reply has been v messy but basically im trying to say i understand how u feel but dont lose hope!! baku will get that development and midoriya will get that apology and on that day i will win

#c makes a word #answer #bakugo katsuki #this is so long im so sorry #idek if i said anything like actually relevant in here im so tired #nony i love you thank you for trusting me enough to send this #im so sorry if i fucked up answering this