words are hard

fanfic writer, she/they, living in the hellscape of modern america, zuko is life

[wanderhermit]

Fic List

I'm going to try to make one of those fancy pinned posts that lists all my fanfics!

Hidden Lotus

A Southern Water Tribe Zuko story, the first of a series covering his upbringing and all the events in canon season 1

COMPLETED! 😁

Hidden Lotus: Volume II

A sequel to Hidden Lotus following southern water tribe Zuko (Li) through the events of books two and three of the show

Heir Zuko

A gender swap Zuko centric fic where she gets accidentally kidnapped by the Gaang who have no idea that she is actually a cisgendered girl due to a consistent mistranslation between Fire language and Common. Some fun with linguistics.

(There are ships but even I don't know which ones will actually set sail at this point)

Her Dilemma

Set in the same gender swap concept as Heir Zuko but NOT a sequel. Darker with more mature themes. Teen pregnancy and past Jetko with Zukka endgame

Complete

Sorry to Call So Late

One shot piece, modern AU, Zuko is 22 and has been hiding how bad his home life is for years until one night he calls Katara at 3 am needing her help

Smells Like Teen Spirit

A dark and trashy high school AU. Zuko is a drug dealer 'dating' Jet who got kicked out at 15. A traumatized emo mess of a person.

Sokka is a pretty regular teen who is intrigued by the new kid at his underfunded city high school.

(on hiatus)

Nothing Days

What if when Zuko was burned and banished he was dropped off alone in the Earth Kingdom and General Fong took him prisoner?

Sweet Cinnamon

Non traditional A/B/O dynamics story set in Ba Sing Se where Omega!Zuko is abducted by the Dai Li and brainwashed. Drama, romance, angst. Kuei/Zuko

Wyoming

A very short one shot modern AU with trucker Sokka and his ride along boyfriend Zuko. Projecting my life onto my favorite ship a little, but that's part of what makes fanfiction so fun. (Zukka, complete)

Obligation

A Kuei/Zuko arranged marriage fic with A/B/O dynamics. Set in a world where the war ended before Aang reappeared and Iroh is the Fire Lord.

[finalsquidmissile]

Aang: Do you think they're going on adventures without me?

Katara: Go back to sleep Aang

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[autistobrat]

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

[userfish]

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

[creez-un-compte]

Your monkeys ?

[thereisalesbianintheforest]

those aren’t mine.

[portraitoftheoddity]

Ah yes, the four printer ink colors: cayenne, magneto, yellow and potassium.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Every morning, I put on my thinking cap and my smartiepants. Unfortunately, there is no shirt that properly proclaims my intellectual abilities, so I have to go tits out

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[chaoticgouda]

I’m sorry milord, but the peasants are nailing erotic artwork of you and your court jester to the church doors again

[fieldbears]

and the ship name, squire? what is the ship name

[artemis-in-space]

“… Kinglebells, m'lord.”

[cryotrash]

Did you know that most plot holes can be fixed by making your characters canonically stupid

"This doesn't make any sense, why would he ever-" my man hasn't stumbled onto a thought in years

[el-juguete-rabioso]

Tramp stamp tattoo that reads "WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALAN ALDA"

[taylortut]

for an army show, MASH has surprisingly little toxic masculinity. and even though they're obviously smart, they act like dumbasses (i once more draw your attention to the episode where hawkeye and bj are playing darts facing backwards and neither of them make a single shot. it's just a little throwaway joke, the idle thing they're doing when the actual scene starts, but it's so fucking funny. a lot of shows would show men who can make a bullseye without even looking but they even say that the only thing they're doing is putting holes in the tent). they show bj's devastation about having to miss his daughter's childhood. they show hawkeye scared and upset and missing his dad. even the colonel often gets emotional about how much he loves and misses his wife.

so much of the show is just about being stupid with your best friend under terrible conditions and having realistic emotions about being separated from everything you know and love. watch MASH if you haven't.

[queen-suzu]

the anti-ai oath

(with your hand in a bunch of pages of ao3’s source code)

I [tumblr or ao3 username], do solemnly swear that all my slop is my own, and that no ai was ever used in the creation of it,

and that while it may be shit, it is my shit, created with my own two paws.

I acknowledge should I ever break this oath, I will be banned from ao3 for life, and will face execution by firing squad.

amen.

gay men.

[acriel]

Tumblr: O, Archive, Star of my days, Sun of my nights, please don't abandon me!

Ao3: Dear?

Tumblr: What will I say to the children, if you leave us… They can't survive without you, and I won't either!

Ao3: Dearest?

Tumblr: [mumbling] (What's the quote again…)

Tumblr: Do not go errr… gently in the dark night? (No, that's not it…)

Ao3: TUMBLR!

Tumblr: Y-yes, Beloved?

Ao3: Dearest, what are you talking about?

Tumblr: Your illness?

Ao3: What illness?

Tumblr: You're going to the hospital today?

Ao3: For a maintenance routine procedure.

Tumblr: But you had one last week! Who needs weekly maintenance? Surely, it's a malicious illness!

Ao3: Last week?

Tumblr: And the children were panicked, and there were juggling balls everywhere, and—

Ao3: Dearest, that was 4 months ago.

Tumblr: … Oh.

Tumblr: So… No deadly illness?

Ao3: No deadly illness.

Tumblr: You're not leaving me forever?

Ao3: I'm going to be away for 15 hours. I'll be back tonight. Surely you can hold on for less than one day

Tumblr: … I will.

Ao3: Good.

Tumblr: … But the children may not.

Ao3: At worst, send them visit my cousins.

[lesbianfl]

the best part of the princess bride is how it says that love is the number one motivation in life but! a close number two is spite.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4034:

write one word. write one goddamn word on that page. i beg of you. just one word. please

[konoko]