#zukkacore

[jadeandquartzes]

Sorry for turning mine into a Bit but i just wanted good will hunting so for the fic ask how about “which could mean nothing”

SCREAM HFDKJGHDFKJ. I LOVE THIS. oh my god that's amazing. never apologize for The Bit. we love and support The Bit in this household at all times.

which could mean nothing [critical role: exandria; dorian/orym; crack taken so so seriously; modern celebrity AU in which everyone is avoiding the tabloids as hard as possible; the AU is told primarily from the perspective of said tabloids.]

Subject: [Title Pending] Wyvernwind Front Page Exposé - Draft 1 SCANDAL ABOUNDS! The Silken Squall's renegade prince, Brontë Wyvernwind, was caught on camera in Jrusar tonight leaving the high-end establishment known as The Golden Leaf, along with some of Exandria's most well-known rabble-rousers. [insert photo here.] His presence had been talked about for weeks back at home, and it had been rumored he might be making his long-awaited return to the Squall to finally claim the throne, after the sad passing of his brother last month left him as the sole and lonely heir to the massive Wyvernwind financial empire. [note: Meghan, did we ever get a confirmation as to cause of death on Cyrus? Someone look into that for me, stat.] Well, dear reader, rumors are not always to be trusted. It looks like the former black sheep of the family is not planning to head home anytime soon. And my oh my, what company he's keeping! Amongst his newfound retinue is the notorious professor and oft-theorized princess Fearne Calloway, as well as an unknown and shockingly handsome man who appears to have a history as a bodyguard for various high-profile members of the Air Ashari. He and the man [note: Rufus, can you dig up some details on that guy? I need a name!] were getting quite close to each other outside the club, and taking up a frankly dizzying amount of one another's personal space. Could it be that our runaway Brontë has run away...for LOVE? Well, stay tuned to find out! More reports are soon to follow, as yours truly GOES UNDERCOVER, and tracks this ragtag band across the globe. [note: Lydia, you'd better not be kidding that my travel expenses are going to get reimbursed. These guys know I'm after them, and they're not messing around. The ride-share fees are killing me.]

send me a made-up fic title and I'll tell you what I'd write!

[bisexuallsokka]

Hiiii for tbe prompt thing either 26 or 31!

26. a kiss as an apology.

Despite his best efforts to be quiet, Sokka is only in their bed for a few moments before his boyfriend rolls around to face him.

"You're home late," Zuko mumbles sleepily.

Sokka smiles fondly at the way Zuko tries to open his eyes to look at him, but his exhaustion wins and he just reaches his hand out. Sokka grabs it, kissing his knuckles then leaning forward to kiss his forehead. He starts to pull back before noticing the head tilt that Sokka knows too well, so he grants Zuko's silent request for a kiss on the lips before settling back on the pillows.

"I'm sorry," Sokka says. "Katara insisted that we stayed until the karaoke bar was closed. Were you waiting up for me?"

Zuko mumbles an incoherent answer, not that Sokka expected anything else. He starts shuffling under the covers and at first Sokka thinks he's pushing the blankets off him like he does oftentimes when he wakes up feeling too hot, but a pillow emerges and is pushed over the side of the bed and Sokka realizes Zuko had wrapped his arms around it as a replacement in Sokka's absence.

With the real thing in front of him, Zuko practically shoves Sokka over to his other side then wraps his arms tightly around Sokka's waist, pulling Sokka's back against his chest and falling back asleep in seconds. Sokka stifles his laughter, resting his hand on Zuko's arm and closing his eyes as he settles comfortably in the arms of the man he loves.

[whoblewboobear]

Hey sorry if this is weird to say n I know the tags you left on my post the other day when I was joking abt like. How all roads for Jace lead back to Porter like I know they’re old tags and I meant to reply sooner but I really liked what u had to say esp the part at the end I guess abt like. Is Jace returning to Porter even when we try to give him something new tragic or is he glad he got to experience new life with other people who also got to experience new life through essentially the act of creation. I just thought that was a beautiful sentiment. Like I joke about us being in the Zarajace trenches but I love her so much and i get she’s a minor character but it really does make me sad that she’s never seen as a character whose interiority is worth taken seriously. (I literally checked to see if i was crazy and like for example on ao3 she’s only in like 10 works and one is mine two are yours! and the others are like misc Zaraporterjace or sb content n offhand mentions.) I love her so much. Maybe this is silly but even as ‘always a duo’ can be so personal there is something to like. Imbuing a constellation of people including Zara that also get second rich life when we write abt our little blonde guy that we put in Situations :’)

Anyway keep fighting the good zarajace fight ily we’re stronger together! 💪

It's not weird at all! I got so in the weeds with my tags on your post bc Just the idea that maybe we all doomed Jace by tying him back to porter makes me sad but then there's duality to it of, hey he got agency and maybe he's happy too. They started in such a dark place because of the implications within canon but like- the power that creation holds is so special. In the show, Zara had a lot more to work with and I remember being a little scared to write her because it felt so daunting. She already had agency and personality that felt so clear. Like I look at her and I want to be truthful to the seeds that were planted with how she's portrayed. But it really is that same internal debate of did we doom her and take away some of that agency by tying her to Jace? Or is she happy?

ngl I have both you and @italicized-oh to thank for putting the ZaraJace brainworms in my head bc I- wow. Just like- I came into this a starbreaker girlie and fell ass backwards into ZaraJace best friends to QPR to Lavender Marriage pipeline and I think through that, through Jace and through creation Zara is happy. Plus I love that her paramour is still acknowledge a lot of the time. She has such a deep love for them outside of all the Jace and Porter shenanigans. Maybe when the lens isnt focused on her, she's having a full life in her own right. I like to think that she's fulfilled and she's happy. But goddamn I would love to see and maybe even write some Zara charater studies bc as a vampire loving whore, I'm in love with awe of her 😭

Thank you for such a lovely message~ and godspeed in the ZaraJace trenches bc we're gonna need it lmaooo

[hauntedwizardmoment]

J2 having a thriving the best solo career out of any of them but also ending up being arm candy but also like. Maybe covert pull as an industry producer is something so personal. And I am convinced his new manager that’s his endgame is also kinda Portercoded but if Porter was normal actually and people STILL can’t help but infantalizing j2 like. Did you know j2’s husband is 30 years older than him? I think we should kill that guy w hammers. And it’s like. Ok but they met when j2 was like 30+. You guys do understand this is a grownup w a career who said I wanted to fuck the old man and then did right.

YEAHHHHH j2's never escaping the infantilization. once a large contingent of the fanbase has been convinced youre babygirl you cant even get hitched to a hot generationally wealthy DILF who spoils you and eats you out within an inch of your life every night without everyone having something to say about it.

j2 kind of grows to resent and hate his fans after a while. like it's a gradual but NOTICABLE shift from the extremely parasocial "i love my fans so much you guys are my REAL family!! im gonna have my team handpick a bunch of you to invite to my home in fallinel for a secret listening session for my new album every album cycle!!" to cold detached (jace-like) "honestly dont even bother putting out a PR statement responding to these entitled cunts, just let them say whatever they want and it'll blow over. enough of them will still come to the shows and buy a tshirt anyways"

and then he retires from music to his home with his husband, only occasionally working as a producer for close friends like lucilla, j3, and j4 (i think j4 takes a long time to let him back into her life after how everything went down. and he gets it. but it hurts until she does).

and j2's husband is soooo portercoded but like you said he's normal. he's not cheating with j2, hes not comparing him to jace constantly or making him feel small and unimportant and idiotic. he just thinks j2 is sooooo hot and very sweet and he needs to be Inside him. and j2 with lots of therapy is able to severe the connection in his brain between "being cared for" and "being someone's caged pet"

[amicamorpha]

[oopszukka]

i saw this on fb and now i'm just thinking about zukka :)

[lunaticamic]

[army-of-mai-lovers]

Do Jet &/or haru for the ask game!

I can’t choose so I’ll do them both!!!

Jet

realistic: River brought up this really interesting point from the Kyoshi novels on one of my Jet posts about how EK folks are really hostile to orphans, which has led to me hcing that one of the reasons Jet was so cavalier about the whole Gaipan situation is because he was forced to not only survive himself on his own (as a literal eight year-old boy until when we see him as a teenager, but to care for five other people and fight what seems to be a futile battle against the FN, without any help from the people of Gaipan. I also think that after the gaang leaves Gaipan, the people turn from being passively to actively hostile towards the Freedom Fighters, which leads to their downfall. 

hilarious: this is really only funny to me but I always have Jet inexplicably working service after the war, just because I think it would be absolutely bizarre for him to go through all of that only to serve tea to EK randos. it isn’t an hc I use when I’m deeply exploring his character (not ready to make nice is not going to end with Jet working at the Jasmine Dragon) but it is a fun way to include him in stories where he wouldn’t have much of a role otherwise. 

heart-crushing: cannot get Until Ba Sing Se out of my head so I’m going with an hc from that fic that Haru and Jet met and had a relationship prior to Jet, Smellerbee, and Longshot going to Ba Sing Se and that’s what Jet thought about when he told Katara he was fine in “Lake Laogai”

unrealistic but I love it: Jet lived after Lake Laogai, got therapy, and opened an orphanage with Haru and the rest of the Freedom Fighters, as well as doing some political organizing against the EK monarchy and the Dai Li

Haru

realistic: this might just be canon lmao but Haru’s relationship with his mom is very “overprotective mom of color inflicts trauma on her son by forcing him to hide a huge part of himself in an attempt to protect him from structural trauma” (which sidebar is one of the reasons a queer reading of Haru is compelling to me personally, like typically when white people write homophobia of color they don’t talk about how the homophobia of our cishet parents often comes from a misguided attempt to protect us from even more trauma than we’re already going to face as poc. I don’t like to write homophobia in the ATLAverse and I tend not to make it a central aspect of modern aus, but Haru’s relationship with his mom is something that resonates with me a lot as someone who has trauma from homophobia of color but also has the perspective now to realize that it came from a place of trying to protect me)

hilarious: I have to bring up Haru Thee Stallion here like come on that was hilarious and iconic, truly a stroke of genius.

heart-crushing: Haru remains cautious about Earthbending in public years after the war, especially in front of FN characters. Mai and Ty Lee don’t find out that he’s an Earthbender until they’ve known him for years. 

unrealistic but I love it: the mustache was fake he was doing a bit

send me a character and I’ll tell you one realistic hc, one hilarious hc, one heart-crushing hc, and one unrealistic hc I love!