#but! here are several for ya

[adriancatrin]

Best Zukka fic recs and/or Azula centric fics (bonus points for both!) I'm desperate for more content.

(digging thru my bookmarks) hoo boy ok let's see

i'm gonna put a cut because this might be long!! idk what all of the zukka 'classics' you've read so i just included 'em if they're my faves. list is in no particular order, pls heed warnings/tags on AO3 as some include potentially triggering content ~

like the sun inside of you by ofherlionheart: Zuko is sixteen years old when he’s handed a crown, a throne, and a hundred-year ancestral legacy of colonial imperialism. He’s not scared of the work; he’s scared of being consumed by the responsibilities and burdens he’s claimed. What Zuko doesn’t quite realize, yet, is that he’s not alone in this. Still in progress, one chapter left to go. Very slow-burn Zukka, and some great Azula stuff

To Cleave These Roots We've Made by Erisenyo: Sokka and Zuko have been roommates and best friends through college and graduation, through first jobs and new jobs and promotions, through friends getting married and sisters being pregnant and everything in between. But that all ends in four days. Four days to pack up an apartment. Four days before Zuko goes to law school and Sokka stays behind. Four days to untangle two lives that Sokka and Zuko have spent ten years weaving together. Can you call it a divorce, if you were never actually together in the first place? I don't remember Azula's involvement in this, but gosh darn it's a good one

i won't stumble as i follow down this path (cause words that are spoken are just other things to have) by jublis: It takes Zuko one year to visit his sister again. Featuring birthday weeks, struggling with your own goodness, and a future. Pretty sure this is a Zukki, ft. Azula very heavily

Destiny in the details by salytierra: Sokka heard that story before. Of course he did, the turning point of Zuko's destiny, the single bravest and most noble (or stupid) thing he's ever done. He retold the thoughts that went through his head back then, the repercussions... but he left out a single detail. And it's that detail that changes everything.  I need to see his soulmark. Sokka thinks, heart hammering in his chest. Fantastic post-canon soulmate AU. Azula's not in it, though

Divine Intervention by AggressiveStress: Sokka has had a lot of dates but they never stick around and he doesn’t know why. Literally everyone else knows why. Honestly I don't remember much about this one I just know I really liked it hahaha

Maybe I Don't Want Heaven by inkfingers_mcgee: Zuko does not realize that he wants to break up with Mai until she says, “We need to talk about us,” with an unmistakable finality, and the candles around his meditation mat don’t even flicker. // Five years after ascending the throne, Zuko reaches yet another crossroads of self. Sokka helps him through it. Mai incites national legislative reform. Azula is listed as a character in this one but I don't remember her role. The fic is great though. slow burn in case u haven't caught onto the trend of my fave fics yet haha

Of Tea and Turtle Ducks (and the Turtle Duck Guy) by Erisenyo: Sokka is nothing if not enthusiastic about his interests--Learning. Campus traditions. The campus turtle ducks. The guy who's watching the ducks so intently this year.  Zuko is nothing if not intense about duck watching. (It's not really about the ducks.) (Is it ever?) No Azula again but gosh darn it this fic is so cute. (expect more erisenyo on this list whoops)

this ultraviolet morning light by GallifreyanFairytale: sokka and zuko break up, make up, go undercover, thwart a rebellion, watch the sunrise, and change the course of fire nation history. not necessarily in that order. I don't remember the level of Azula's involvement in this fic, but I do remember she's in recovery and Zuko thinks about her a fair amount.

Empty Bodies, Empty Smiles by attackfish: Zuko sorts through the wreckage of his childhood and comes across a doll given to his sister. Not a shipping fic, just a character study of sorts of Azula as a child. It's... very sad, but incredibly nuanced in its understanding of her as a very unhappy and unfortunately disturbed child

Will We Last the Night by CSHfic/VSfic: Chief Arnook never assigns Sokka to protect Princess Yue, so he goes to fight the Fire Nation with the other men. When the moon dies, and the ocean spirit takes its revenge, Sokka is caught standing on the deck of a Fire Nation ship. Sokka should have drowned… and he would have drowned, if not for a certain Fire Nation raft fleeing the North Pole. An enemies-to-lovers season 2 rewrite, where Sokka is separated from the gaang during the Siege of the North, and travels the Earth Kingdom with Zuko instead Azula is just S2 Azula w/o redemption I believe, but my goodness the Zukka is just so. SO sweet

Burning Bright by Erisenyo: On a particularly hopeless night, Zuko sends out a messenger hawk to nowhere. He didn’t realize that his messenger hawk is deeply committed to completing the job. And that Sokka happens to be traveling straight through nowhere, at the time. I'm currently rereading this series for the umpteenth time, it's amazing, highly recommend, Azula is hyper intriguing in it too w/ a very complicated relationship with Zuko

All's Fair by Lovely_Elbow_Leech: Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)  Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.  And they argue. A lot. Another of my top faves. Book 2 is in progress

Real Slow by surveycorpsjean: “I see.” Zuko closes the scroll. “Is the Water Tribe sending a replacement?" “Uh yeah,” Sokka gestures to himself dramatically. “You’re looking at him.” No Azula I believe but heckin' slow burn

this is a gift (it comes with a price) by WitchofEndor: There is a ghost on the Wani. But the crew have grown used to - even fond of - Prince Zuko. And no matter how many times General Iroh tries to gently explain the boy’s predicament, tries to suggest that he might attempt to move on, Prince Zuko can always be found watching the sea. There is a prisoner in the palace. Not Zukka, but the relationships in it are fantastic, including Azula and Zuko.

 While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor: The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple. This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake. Wacky crazy fic. There's something funky fresh happening with Azula, but it's an in-progress fic so. who knows where it'll go

I probably don't need to include The Art of Burning but it's in my fave bookmarks so. Same for Blue

Also in retrospect I have a lot of issues with this fic, but here's my post-canon Zukka w/ Azula redemption fic: New Heights

#hope this helps! #being part of the atla fandom is the first time i've ever bookmarked fics on ao3 so. unfortunately i forget a lot and lose fics:( #but! here are several for ya #beesofnotredame #asks #fic recs #zukka fic rec

[chickensauras]

I think Laois and MY personal favorite creature, The Simurgh, would get along :]

#based her colors off bearded vultures #cause theyre also cool #dungeon meshi #simurgh #tech shes shown once on the manga :> #laios touden #gonna yap down here :U #simurgh likes adopting pasty white boys #whole reason shes my favorite is the story about her finding this albino prince named zal #his dad the king had him abandoned in the mountains cause he was albino and she took him in #raised him w her chicks and taught him all the knowledge she had aquired in her long life #she had seen the world end and begin several times btw like shes an old lady #and anyway im just sayin ya know whos ALSO a pasty white boy who loves trivia?? #that weird little fucker #know what else he loves? #chimeras and dogs #also hed def eat the whole ass elephants shes bringing home for dinner

[post-it-notes7]

Go call Arthur, the one who Needs A Nap and his redeemable idiot are out here feuding again 

#sir dragato #sir falspar #sir arthur kirby #post's art gallery #kirby right back at ya #kirby anime #galaxy soldier army #the first one is technically IYD related #the rest? a treat #this was supposed to be an explanation about their dynamic #until I realized that would take several more drawings and way too much context #to properly explain #so here you go have the smallest pinch of my thoughts on these two

[koutone-moved]

Thiefshipping request: outfit swap!

#got several requests for an outfit swap so here ya go znsjdhd #marik ishtar #bakura #thiefshipping #yugioh #my art

[desperatepleasures]

there needs to be more days in the weekend honestly

#there needs to be more days when i don't work is what i mean #<- guy who works Saturdays and then feels guilty for not also getting chores done on Saturdays #ummm this week has been stressful for several reasons and it got Worse today #at least I had my Date today hehe :'))) that was really nice #and i descaled my freakin humidifier!!! #but i also apparently lost a friendship. while I was fucking asleep #and also I'm doing a thing that is the right thing to do morally but also kinda dangerous career-wise #so. major fucking stress and i kinda just wanna sit here and cry all night #so i feel like i should get a do over day ya know? #an extra weekend day when nothing life changing happens and i just get to catch up on chores and read manga

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Happy WIP Wed! Arsonist Neil to celebrate?

WIP Wednesday (9/27)  | Arsonist Neil / Firefighter Andrew AU

Andrew snickers, because his twin is right. The dog is definitely not rocking its natural hair color. And it clearly hasn’t for some time. The thought of hugging an animal covered in that much grime makes Andrew shudder. Disgusting.

Andrew Wash that beast.

Nicky I will. Tomorrow. He needs cuddles now. He’s so scared. And sweet. I love him.

Aaron You could fall in love with a rock, wouldn’t you?

Nicky How cute is the rock? 

Andrew tolerates Nicky’s onslaught of dog photos for about ten minutes, then he remembers what he was in the middle of when his phone went off. He types the arsonist’s number in once again and then a short message.

After he presses send, wonders if he’ll get any sort of response at all. Probably not. Andrew shrugs. He’s already sent it. So he drops his phone on the sofa beside him and unpauses the TV, looking over at his phone every ten seconds.

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#here ya go! several of the next few parts will be text conversations. sorry in advance. i know it's not as fun to read :') #andreil #aftg #WIP Wednesday #Arsonist Neil / Firefighter Andrew #answered #🕊️ #thatrandombookworm

[theragamuffininitiative]

😅

#i let myself put words on an already words and y'all are being suspiciously quiet about it #which is fine don't get me wrong but like #very sus 🤣 #also going to say here on my own lil blog post that i do think there are many cults masquerading as christianity #i also think there are many churches that are christian in name that are instead cults #i have recently discovered how close i and my family were to falling into one #not like we were being led directly but like... #we were at a not safe distance going 'what a pretty mountain' and then while we wandered to a slightly safer distance #the mountain revealed itself as a volcano and exploded #like i can see and taste the ash but the lava flows didnt find me ya know? #anyways #had a recent discussion in sunday school about how there are several sects of religion that claim to worship and follow Jesus #but he is not the Jesus of scripture #and people have added doctrines to him often in works based salvation styles #of which latter day saints and jehovah's witnesses and several other things fall into #but so have the dangerously patriarchal fundamentalist churches #and we should just be very very very careful #that the God we are following is the one whose revealed word has withstood the test of thousands and thousands of years #and not a doctrine whose god and testimony cannot stand up to its own witness for a couple hundred years #ragamusings in the tags #my views on what makes good religion have so shifted in the past couple years #hopefully for the better and closer to the truth and further from what man has to say about it

[sea-buns]

I was rewatching the marisharaygun highlight vid of the m9's flawless heist (y'know for old times sake) and the moment I saw Travis' face when the first gravity sinkhole gets cast, I had to pause to fully process the realization that THISSS WILL BE ANIMATED!

IN ALL ITS DISASTEROUS GLORY!!!

he's so real for this reaction and I'll be using it at every opportunity

#like can u imagine the cuts from beau lying flush against a roof slowly pulling out two acid viles and MAYBE a dagger #to yasha weaving flower crowns inside fjords god-forsaken marine layer #to SEVERAL guys getting flung and CRONCHED into the ceiling #before caleb gives the very calm and collected and totally sane 'sarsaparilla'?? #shits a fucking masterpiece in the making i tell ya #also the chapter notes on that vid are so fucking funny. Beau Becomes Dexter. Travis only speaks in nouns. Hot Pockets! #every instance of 'Dear [blank]: What the fuck man?' spoiler there are many instances #any my all time favorite: Caleb is Here to... Save... the Day...? #thats not even half of them. everyone go watch the marisharaygun highlight vids on yt they are perfection #critical role #cr2 #the mighty nein #mighty nein #tm9 #m9 #yknow sometimes im so very comprehensive with my tagging system and sometimes im so indecisive and so forgetful #the mighty nein animated #c2e127 #kinda wanna go and just rewatch the arc of them running for their lives from ikithon #its got big scooby doo running through so many doors that dont make sense energy #travis willingham #he is the peoples champion in reacting to insanity. he and ashley just get us fr

[barrenclan]

what if. what if daffodilpaw became daffodilstar and Cormorantpaw decided to start working permanently in the nursery.

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#ask #anon #daffodilpaw #cormorantpaw #this ask has been sitting in my box for several and i just like. #cannot come up with anything interesting to say back #but i still want to post it so ah. here ya go #au

[mx-metronome]

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #thatskygame #season of revival #aviary #couldn’t think of a clever caption so just #drink it in #this area as it is right now #with the soft and empty music and the thick fog and the coldness and loneliness #takes me back to this time six years ago #when I was at my lowest and I’m talking so low that I dissociated SEVERELY #the emptiness felt exactly like this all the way down to the weight on my chest #but just like back then I know now that it won’t be like this forever #not while I have people I can rely on and work together with #and here I sit today knowing EXACTLY how this story will end #so me from 6 years ago? this one’s for you. you made it. you’re the strongest and most content and most outgoing you’ve ever been #glad ya made it pal

[ssspringroll]

And until/unless morphmaker gets adopted by a new developer, I don't really plan on making any more presets or sliders. Toddlers are broken right now. It's only a matter of time before all ages are broken with the way EA patches this damn game. I don't wanna keep making stuff that is, essentially, not going to be updateable, you know? It feels like there's an invisible time limit on morphmaker and I just don't wanna touch it anymore unless I have to.

Thanks for all the love on all my presets and sliders over the years. It's been fun! I love making stuff like that that's quick and easy and versatile. I don't know what my cc is going to be in the future. Anything I feel like making, I suppose, that's always been how I've done things. It'll probably happen a lot less often though. Everything else takes me so much longer to make and test and refine

#which is all to say‚ really‚ if you're just here for cc #i can't help ya. I'm probably not going to have anything to upload for months and months #i wanna get back into gameplay #i wanna get back into sim requests #i dunno #i feel like making cc is all im good for sometimes lol #but all i want to do is make sims #and I've been severely neglecting my cc folder. #it's hungry. it needs downloads. #i haven't done a clothing or hair shopping spree since like. island living. #simoleon

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Just had the idea of doing a Roxy askblog that's based on it being a secret blog she's not allowed to have and every so often if someone asks her something she just says stuff like "To the Fazspy reading this, I'm not the real Roxy." to try and throw the staff off her trail lmao

Will probably never make a blog like that, but it could be kinda funny. Maybe I bring the idea of an 'ask Roxy anything' game back where I draw the answers for it instead so it's not a whole ass blog dedicated to Roxy being a sneaky lil shit on the internet

#there's several reasons I probably won't do it but it's a fun spin on stuff #roxy exploring the closed off parts of the plex in first person lmao #taking pictures like 'look see? its right there!' and she's pointing at literally nothing because the camera doesn't see what her eyes see #could be funny! #but doing things is... I would say it's improving but not really #it's improving in a maybe it is maybe it isn't sort of way so who knows if I'll ever get to do it anyway #ANYWAY yeah I'll probs not do this. literally no one would interact with it #the people are bored of my plex history stuff anyway so like... yeah it's cool I know when something won't work #an askblog only works if it gets asks and uh yeah the amount of askblogs I've seen die off within a week here because of that is crazy #no thank you to that I think! #I'm not putting the effort into something like that just to have it die so fast #hi if you read this far go find an askblog and pester the shit out of them it's fun #I haven't seen any around for a while but I also can't view half of tumblr on my phone #so it's really fucking hard to see them even if I follow them :( #but yeah if there's any sb askblogs out there or anyone that wants to have a go at it tag me in a post. #I WILL show up to be silly in your inbox though I may not always remember the plot if there is one #again. I can't see half of tumblr on mobile and that includes blogs but I'll do my best man #askblogs are fun! they're goofy and chaotic! #highly recommend!! I haven't ran one in years but they were very fun!! #ANYWAY Roxy just making posts like 'Jerry. Sandy. I know what you two keep doing in the Gator Golf caravan. :)' #just name dropping random plex guests to be like 'I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE' for shits and giggles #'who are they?' 'oh just two morons that dont know I know Everything Ever. Don't worry about it.' #ya know?? fun! goofy shit! could be funny! #random pictures from inside the plex like 'lmao they think I cant see them' and its just a fucking wall like yeah I wonder why #maybe it's the fucking wall in the way who knows? it's a mystery sdfdsf #pop rox talks

[erythristicbones]

i think making my own discord server for my original stories was one of the best decisions ive made in awhile tbh

#i just! i might feel like shit and have been in a lot more pain than ive wanted to admit lately #but having my own designated space for my original works and having ppl i know + trust chilling in there witnessing my rambling #its been like this little bit of sunshine in my day #especially knowing like. these ppl care about me enough that they like to see ME get excited over things #that they technically have no stake in whatsoever #its nice. it makes me happy. im so glad i did it #so also once again #friends/mutuals/ppl i can trust not to bring drama into my silly lil story server that arent in it currently....... #if you want the invite you can dm me or reply here!! #im being a lil selective with who i let in bc i have severe social anxiety n all but like #if you follow me/interact with me/are good friends w my good friends #then i defs wouldnt mind giving you the invite #i cannot handle internet drama and i have hyperempathy okay. im nice and glad to invite people #i just also need the assurance that this server i created for myself before anyone else will not become a strain on me ya dig?

[fagbearentertainment]

Drawing animation meme YouTubers is healing my inner child fr

#didn’t draw e #them back in the day very much #bc ya know #they were better than me and I was a beginner so I felt bad if my art wasn’t as good as theirs #I did draw a few but only two drawings have survived over the several phone changes and moved I’ve done #in the past 8 years :p #anyway wish I could show these to lil me and go #‘you see this? well only get here if you keep drawing every day don’t give up #and draw those peeps that inspire you more’

[triple-pupil]

Headcanon: Michael hates his physical appereance, as he looked too much like his father. So the "zombification" had it's good things in his eyes, even if it didn't make a complete change. Still, when he doesn't hate his body and face for looking like his father anymore, now he hates it because he literally looks like a zombie for a good while.

There's no relief for the kid.

"Well"

"It does not look half as bad"

#tw dysmorphia #maybe??????? I'm not sure???? #Idk- what tags do I use? #help #fnaf headcanons #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #Does his physical appereance need a tw tag? #tw body dysmorphia #I think? #ya boi here has severe esteem issues #I love him but I'll make him sooooo tragic

[jvzebel-x]

[insert clever line here]

#heres a photo dump of my face from over the past however many days&also my shitty bathroom mirror lmao #i should probably look into getting a fullbody mirror but im still weird about mirrors lmao so i never remember to. #so enjoy my shitty mirror&also my burner phone for several of these pics LMAO. #yas