Ao3 Author

Same name on Ao3, mainly writing JetxZuko, but also currently posting some narusasu from the good old days. Missing some of you favorite pairing? Not quite the scenarios that you want? Guess I'll just go and make it myself.

[unevenpatterns]

What you can find on this blog:

A whole lot of Jet x Zuko, some fics I've written for the pairing and a tiny bit of art.

Other ATLA content. I'd run out of reading material too fast if I only went for JetKo 🥲

Fic recommendations for any fandom that I'm currently reading

NaruSasu. Mostly a very old fic of mine that I'm reposting after a little polish up.

Random shit about labs (as in laboratories, not the dog) since I work in one.

Other random thoughts from yours truly 😊

And Jeeko, as I've also started writing that pairing recently (Lieutenant Jee x Zuko)

Feel free to grab anything labelled fic idea and run with it, the more fanworks the merrier!

I'm also open to questions or ideas thrown my way.

(I also read fics from many other fandoms; marvel, supernatural, check please!, the witcher, teen wolf, hockey, generation kill, detroit: become human, suits etc)

[dkrltktma]

The concept of joo dee zuko and dai li jet

[lemxnerror]

Lmao I am NOT patient with my posting schedule

[lemxnerror]

Theyre hopeless 🫩

[theneighborcatarts]

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[inkwashhhart]

[lightwdangelo]

ok but imagine youre an ottawa fan, and out of nowhere Ilya fucking Rozanov joins your team, and you feel hope for the first time in years

and then after another years, after almost losing your beloved team in a plane crash they finally start winning again, and they go to the play-offs and you're beaming

AND THEN ILYA ROZANOV IS MARRYING SHANE HOLLANDER AND HE'S ON YOUR TEAM NOW AND NOW YOU JUST KNOW YOU'LL TAKE THE STANLEY CUP

man, that must have felt better than drugs holy shit

[unevenpatterns]

Not just the fans, imagine the team.

Like, you're stuck on this shitty team with little to no hope of ever getting a cup, but hey, at least you're playing professionally right?

And then in comes Rozanov, unlikely savior of your team and suddenly there's a spark of hope.

But then! Shane joins too?! Man, someone would be crying into their cornflakes of pure happiness the morning they got news about the transfer.

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[beardedmrbean]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Eternal Stew style potion. Adds an element of whimsy knowing you might get last week's side effects.

[unevenpatterns]

This is what it's like being a chemist. At first it's all "get a long education so you don't have to work as a dishwasher" and "wow mixing colorful stuff and creating new things"

HA. Joke is on me I'm spending an insane amount of time cleaning glassware. The main difference from regular dishes is that instead of soap water, I use shit that has the potential to kill me. And if anything is left behind it will fuck up your next potion.

[camcat1320]

I am writing a fix-it Book 4 fanfic and was rehashing in my mind what Guru Pathik said about chakras. Then it hit me- Zuko had opened and balanced his chakras by the end of Book 3.

After the events of Ba Sing Se, Zuko's chakras were all out of balance. He was a mess during The Beach. Then came the Day of Black Sun and he turned over a new leaf.

Zuko had the courage to face his father, opening his Earth chakra. He showed willpower when he laid out his plan to free his uncle and help the Avatar. This opened his Fire chakra. By speaking the truth to his father, he opened his Sound chakra. Zuko demonstrated insight when he saw through the lies of the Fire Nation. Zuko had also opened his Thought chakra when he let go of his earthly attachments. He wrote a letter to Mai to break up with her (we don't text message break up folks). Then he left the palace, letting go of his royal status and his father's approval.

So that's 5 out of 7 chakras that were put into balance within just one chapter. Then he balances the remainder of his chakras in the following chapters.

With every field trip Zuko goes on with the team members, he unblocks his Air chakra (Pathik didn't give it a name, just said the chakra is located in the heart and deals with love. I'm making it the air chakra). When the heart chakra is balanced, the person can give and receive compassion, empathy, and forgiveness. It also builds connection with others and is a unifying force.

When Zuko saw uncle Iroh again, he unlocked his Water chakra by addressing his guilt. When the sacral chakra is balanced, one becomes content and capable of deep intimacy. Relationships also become uninhibited, much like the relationship between Zuko and Iroh is repaired.

By Sozin's Comet, Zuko's chakras were balanced which led to him demonstrating stronger firebending than Azula. This is why Azula cheated, knowing Zuko had become a very powerful bender. 👀

[desertbcrnnobody]

Oh, this is beautiful.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it is always hilarious to me that hermione managed to go 7 books with a reputation as a goody two shoes. all the school rules she’s broken…heck all the international wizarding laws she’s violated….kept a person in a jar for a year

[the-funeral-party]

As a straight A student with a reputation as a goody two shoes, I cannot begin to tell you the shit I got away with.

[appendingfic]

Being known as the quiet rule-abiding kid gave me a free shot at electrocuting my entire physics class because no one thought I’d do it

[unevenpatterns]

I beat the shit out of a bully with zero consequences. The teachers thought he had to be lying about what happened, since I wasn't the type to get into fights (to their knowledge lol).

I guess it's just not expected from the kid that brings 400 page novels to read at recess.

[kubinawa]

scraps

full comic #jetko 无题 - KUBINAWA的插画 - pixiv

[lemxnerror]

Another wip I’m cooking up ermmmm..

[guest-1-2-3]

claws at cage. do you guys ever think about jet from atla

[escuerzoresucitado]

[brionysea]

we need to keep this circulating so it can find the people who are about to stay up for 3 to 4 hours

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[ninjaotta]

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

[toughtink]

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

[biglawbear]

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

[ironbite4]

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

[patrickdiomedes]

The fight between Tenzin and the Red Lotus reinforces this. Zaheer is pretty skilled for someone who’s only been Airbending for a few months, and he has the advantage against a lot of people because there still aren’t really enough airbenders for people to know how to fight them. But against an Airbending MASTER like Tenzin? He only wins because he has backup

[leebrontide]

I just wanna say that this mirrors something I got to watch in real life. I fenced as a teenager, with my wife, who continued fencing in college.

But her college had fencing equipment but no team, so she started coaching them. But she fenced lefthanded. She ended up with a team of fencers who almost ALL learned to fence lefthanded.

A small % of fencers are lefthanded, so even very good fencers are often NOT USED TO fencing lefties.

So her dinky little team of mostly newbies came in and fucked severely with teams of much more experienced fencers who couldn’t cope with fencing leftie after leftie. Her one protégé who was also very tall just laid waste to nationally rated fencers.

Whereas I, a very shitty fencer, can hold my own against my wife no problem, because I’ve fenced her from the start.

This isn’t JUST a fun plot point and a lovely way of showing social influences and planning and creativity, it’s completely based in real life. Even a shitty fighter can be a problem for a good fighter whose never encountered their style before.

[deliriumsdelusion7]

I’ve been saying for years now that Zuko took the Avatar’s journey same as Aang did, but always one step behind. In season 1 he learns airbending techniques from fighting Aang - namely, staying at his opponent’s back, like he learned in their first fight - to the point where he uses them against Zhao during the Siege of the North. In season 2, he learns waterbending forms from Iroh to redirect lightning, and mimics Katara’s moves in the finale. In season 3, his focus is a lot more on wide stances, and he uses a lot of deflecting moves, like an earth bender. It’s only when he joins the avatar and they learn firebending together from a master that he finally catches up to the boy he’s been chasing all this time.

[lemxnerror]

Guess what…. more jetko

[unevenpatterns]

Zuko asleep on Jet's shoulder is so cute 🥰