juggling blorbos

25, she/hers || sideblog dedicated to writing in fandom

[ofherlionheart]

wait okay. can u give a little boo chronicles timeline? specifically is the new fic before or after that little one shot you wrote about sokka taking care of zuko after that night out when he’s sad (the “your voice is so relaxing” one)? i was thinking the new fic is before bc then it makes sense for him to be more aware of zuko’s vibes on that night out, and then i was like ok i’m overthinking so. goin to the source

sadkfjsdlkfj it is after! this ask made me realize that while ik exactly where in the timeline fracassé happens there is not nearly enough details in ch 1 for anyone else to know tf is going on OOPS.

pls accept, as an apology, full timeline with links:

darling, i feel like i'm robbing time [pt 3]

i want you to be a part of my future

your voice is so relaxing

fracassé (je m'suis habitué) [pt 5]

finding the other wearing their clothes

hotel sheets, brimming with finery [pt 1]

hotel sheets from z's POV: beginning, the Smooch™, slow dance

having their hair washed by another

to be only, to be every [pt 2]

[pt 6]

i've waited so long for this

talkin' shit (and they're damn right) [pt 4]

[a ramble: how did izumi enter their lives?]

[bluuuuesis]

[qrbits]

all is good in percy-verse

[marsipanart]

Trying to fix my values and threw a few Zukka in there 🫢

[sotiraki]

Boomerang boy 🪃

[ofherlionheart]

babes we did it … 5 years later and they've finally smooched …

[sooz-art]

would you draw momo? maybe doing the long cat thing?

[ofherlionheart]

i'm slowly working thru a reread of bitterblue by kristin cashore and it's wild how much it influenced the early stages of writing like the sun

[comradekatara]

“Why did sokka bring zuko to the boiling rock but not katara (boiling) or toph (rock). He is so stupid and I am very smart.” well you see there is actually a very simple explanation for this. which is that sokka thought there was a very good chance that he was going to die there. and he does not want katara and toph to die. because he likes them or something. whereas he didn’t really mind if zuko died. because outside of fanfiction world he didn’t really care for that guy .

[theotherpacman]

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

[itsiitsu]

don't go Nanamin don't go

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

[sowlmates]

best friends to lovers is about DEVOTION it's about CODEPENDENCY it's about the intimacy of being known and being seen it's about holding someone so close to your heart you forget where you end and where they begin it's about knowing the worst parts about someone and loving them not only despite but FOR it

[ponytailzuko]

thinking about zukos epilogue again at 4 am. relapse.

[ponytailzuko]

idk why but lok having zuko having a daughter but no mentions of a partner is like my absolute ideal. i know zuko is like... the fandom bicycle and gets shipped all the time but...

i dont know, i just find it almost satisfying in a way to show clearly how being fire lord is so fundamentally isolating, and how zuko is focused on ideals about creating a better future, his legacy, etc. in lok, his first focus is getting back home to his daughter, and they say he was aang's closest counsel, and i think that clearly outlines zuko's priorities to me.

any post-canon zuko content to me always feels like it must center aang in some capacity. zuko in the main text basically declares his main drive is aang and his cause - he only gets his firebending back at all because of this. zuko dedicates his main passion to the avatar's goal of making a better world, and he says so in his coronation speech about healing the world from the scars left behind.

and then after that it should probably center izumi. and i always find zuko's relationship with his daughter especially interesting, because i always wonder what its like. because he only has one child, and in lok she does inherit. and its not through death, but zuko giving it willingly. i always wonder about how he would raise a kid with such a heavy responsibility. and i wonder if the comics will ever get to it.

not to say zuko shouldn't have a partner. or shipping him is wrong or i don't do it... but... zuko's epilogue has always given me an impression of the bittersweetness of a lonely morning on a porch watching a garden one grew blossom. the knowledge that the hard grueling work is necessary but one may not necessarily see it flourish or blossom for years. one may never reap the rewards of one's actions, but someone else - now or in the future - may. its lonely but sweet nevertheless. focusing on the big picture.

[infectiouspiss]

i need him cold trembling and delirious from blood loss but still kinda bouncing on it

[foolfortune]

current mantra

[sockablock]

Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes I attend somebody’s thesis presentation and I’m so impressed that I follow them home to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am.

[itsmyturnonthegender]

Sometimes I watch someone eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am with such fervour I am compelled to attend their thesis presentation