that wasn’t very zukka rights of you

badgerfrog on ao3 original posts tagged "op"

[badgerfrogs]

modern au zuko doesn’t have a “job” he doesn’t believe in “work” he pets all the stray cats he’s attracted to the backyard with treats and reads theatre scripts and each day he gets to have one (1) fit of melodrama over a trivial matter and sokka his grumpy eccentric inventor husband draws up blueprints and engineers inventions in his study that are for the betterment of the community and he styles numerous fashionable outfits that he wears at night when they eat dinner together in the backyard and drink tea while all the cats sit with them and sokka draws the cats and zuko tells him how good his drawings are

[ofherlionheart]

Some Zukka fluff for you:

Imagine Sokka being a lecturer doing his classes over zoom and toddler Izumi comes in his room, interrupting his class

Cue a panicked Zuko running in 10 minutes later, trying to find her

lmfao yesssss izumi toddles over to sokka who, without missing a beat in his lecture point, picks her up and puts her on his lap. when he ends his points, he says 'this is our baby' and then dives right into the next ppt slide. izumi is staring at the screen with that toddler intensity as she wordlessly smacks sokka's chin repeatedly with her hand

zuko tries to stealthily come in 10 mins later (he misjudges the camera's width and everyone sees him) and when he grabs izumi from sokka, sokka says "blah blah physics, and this is my baby daddy, so then when the variable increases, blah blah physics"

student message boards blow up for the days afterward abt the hot gay physics professor ALSO being a cool gay dad

[greelin]

really? you’re STILL hung up on me trying to kill you? it was only on like twenty separate occasions. Grow up

[thatssroughbuddy]

[dranktwocoffees]

its them again.... its them again.... its them agai

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT text)

Zuko is just playing hard to get

[punkjabi]

[15w11h2o]

Sounds like sokka will accidentally give zuko a katara's haircut

[ktty8last-deactivated20260214]

born tu zukka forced to study

[garfield-milk]

this could also go the other way around but whatever😋

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[ash-and-starlight-deact]

EPIC FOOL’S DAY PRANK boyfriend TRICKED into getting a forehead kiss NO CLICKBAIT

[oneheadtoanother]

look at my head boy

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

something something making an item of betrothal in ur bfs culture

[geneslovee]

everyone's favourite siblilngs in their new movie outfits 🫶❄️

[petricorah]

lee from the tea shop boutta get it (wip) [id in alt]

edit: completed illustration here

[geeblees]

i’m running a little late but wanted to make a zukka Valentine’s Day contribution :)

[macabr8y]

I have a friend who used to frequently state that in academia the fights are so vicious because the stakes are so low, and I think a vicious yet low-stakes conflict would suit Zuko well. As such, I have an Academic Zukka AU for your consideration:

Zuko, a workaholic fire ecologist studying the effects of fire suppression in California. He's going to need to travel into some hard-to-navigate territory and when he registers his plans at the ranger station, people give each other looks.

Sokka, a park ranger who was planning to ride out that way anyway to check on [something, might even be fake], offers to accompany Zuko for safety. This is now Zuko winds up trapped and annoyed that his peace and quiet has been disturbed.

From Zuko's perspective, it's an enemies-to-lovers situation, but Sokka's experiencing more of a friendly-acquaintances-to-lovers arc as he cheerfully plows through Zuko's gloom.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

not slow burn, but controlled burn