Eda: Listen, Kid…

okay but for a split second can we all imagine short zuko? just imagine. 

zuko getting upset because the gaang doesn’t find him threatening enough due to his height.

sokka making so many short jokes on him that it’s unbelievable. 

azula being taller than her big brother.

iroh being about the same height as zuko and trying to let his nephew know that height is not something to be worried about.

zuko constantly getting mistaken for being younger than he is because he’s the same height that he was when he got his scar.

sokka just picking zuko up and throwing him over his shoulder and zuko being able to do nothing about it because he doesn’t want to hurt sokka with his firebending.

imagine the possibilities of short zuko. please.

 the southern water tribe ambassador AU that we all love and adore so much.

(a little zutara for you guys just because i felt like it ♥)

drew some fanart from one of my favorite jetko AUs: boarding school! jet and zuko are sneaking some alone time on the school roof after closing hours

Hunter would be the perfect guard dog on Christmas Eve though. No one is getting into that room before they‘re authorized to unpack their presents. No. One.

You get up to try and sneak downstairs early in the morning when Camila is still asleep and you just see glowing magenta eyes staring at you from the bottom of the stairs. I'd go back to bed.

Somebody asks zuko why ty Lee and she says “because I was the prettiest.”

okay so GENUINELY I was just supposed to make this mini taob comic for @hella1975 but my brain was like "no that's not enough. It's not even shaded. provide more" soo uh yeah there are a lot more doodles added to this than I intended lmao

LEADER TRIOOOO my hate-filled egotistical control freaks beloveds

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my pet peeve is azula fanart that draws her sexy af. short schoolgirl skirts and cleavage out and bold lipstick 24/7. and like. i get it. her color is red. she’s intimidating to u. she’s #meangirl #darkacademia #trustfundkid to u. she’s an east asian girl and you’re having some trouble w metacognition right now, to say the least.

but this is a 14yo girl who is TERRIFIED of displeasing her father in any way or any amount. ozai is tyrannical, prone to violence, w black-and-white vision where you’re loyally in or you’re permanently out of his in-group, and prone to taking any actions of his children as personal attacks, statements, embarrassments, and injuries. he is a narcissist who nearly killed her older brother in front of her, then tossed him out to sea for an entirely age-appropriate social mis-step, who inhabited a world of domination and violence, likely displayed some level of domestic and spousal violence in front of and possibly against azula when she was younger. ozai regularly treats and respects azula as a possession of his.

all that and you think 14yo azula is dressing sexy?? azula is wearing dad-approved jeans and plain solid-color t shirts. azula is begging to get her ears pierced. canon azula is dressed, advised, served, and socialized by adults. she has no comprehension of how to do makeup or her own hair. she lives in a massively, toxically radically masculine world of logic, violence, dominated/dominator duality, career-focused, emotionless, loveless lives, and u think that this girl, raised by her violent and possessive father, without a mother or single older woman around, can do anything for her hair besides a ponytail?

azula uses st. ives apricot facial scrub and neutrogena grandma lotion her elderly housekeepers buy for her, she wears ponytails and buns she learned exclusively from youtube tutorials that she watched in secret, she wears practical polo shirts and dark wash jeans that ozai approves of his daughter wearing outside, and for occasions she has a stylist that puts her into designer blazers and adult black dresses. on those occasions she looks so 14 trying to be a real adult, like the soulless and joyless ones that surround her. she’s intimidating in spite of/with her non-sexiness. not because of it.

and i do see azula going high femme as an adult. and i do think when she wants to rebel against ozai, in scenarios where she’s taken in by iroh as well, she goes for daring teenage tiktok looks (“one positive side to my first guardian being put in jail is that apparently my new guardian is willing to let me download social medias, so I have a tiktok now. he even fired the intern in charge of my official instagram and let me be the one to delete it.”)

but like. cmon guys. azula, as we know her in canon, will not rebel an inch. she is safely, terrifiedly sitting in her approved corner, and that’s not where sexy is. where’s that post abt how zuko is an iroh-advised grandpa sweater polo shirt prep kid. real after-school kumon/mathnasium core. that’s azula too. she’s wearing lots of gold jewelry and a halter top in the beach episode but don’t let that fool you. that’s her first time dressing up “to be a normal teen” and she coats herself in the equivalent of head-to-toe gucci because that’s how other #teenz dress, right??

and like. how come the nerdy dorky sheltered traumatized brother is often acknowledged as the grandpa sweater polo shirt prep he is, w thirst traps, as is his human right, but some ppl view azula, who shares most of those traits, as constantly seductive? how come it’s this character, an east asian teen girl, who wears the miniskirt and the red lipstick of the gaang to some of u? let’s think abt it for 2 seconds

okay rant done i have a capri sun now :)

Fire Siblings Post War Headcanons

request by anon: Fire siblings post war headcannons? (This means disregarding the comics cause I don't like them nor the way they treat mental illness and Azula)

note: finally, my first official atla request is out! I loved this one sm, and I can't wait to ignore the comics and actually give Azula a chance and not mock and villianize mental illness, as we should! I also tried to make this as open to all ships as possible, just to be sure!

I have about 9 others either ready to go or in progress, coming up the next days and weeks, but I'm still accepting new ones, so if you're interested in that there's a link at the bottom on this post!

I really am the biggest supporter of Azula getting some much needed therapy

but I also think she's resist it at first?

her treatment starts far away from Caldera, the palace and Zuko

with healers and therapists and lots of mediation

Zuko probably ends up pushing off therapy for a solid while after becoming Fire Lord, being way to busy

Good old Ambassador Sokka and Uncle Iroh ends up literally kidnapping him and sending him to therapy when they're scared he'll just collapse

Zuko puts off requesting to see Azula for a good while

he's really unsure and nervous about it all, which is fair

but it's not just that, with therapy, time and experiencing what real love and a sense of family feels like, he feels a lot of hurt and sympathy for his baby sister

he starts getting nightmares about the aftermath of the last Agni Kai, and after a couple of weeks where it happens every night, he finally reaches out

he's surprised when he's told she'll she him whenever he's ready

this can be me just projecting how I act after trauma and big episodes, but I can see her not wanting to talk at first?

they're just in the same room, learning to just exist together again

Zuko has a lot to talk about, anyways

mundane things from the palace, stories about Sokka in the Fire Nation, about Iroh and his shop, little, simple things

after a while he starts talking about more serious topics, as he sees it clearly peaks her interest a little more

he tells her about his life as a refugee in Ba Sing Se, he swears she almost smiles when he tells her about the wonderfully awkward date with Jin, and he talks about the crew on his ship, and how terrible went when he tried to befriend the Gaang

the first time she says something again is when Zuko has had a little breakdown and chopped of his hair when he looked in the mirror and thought he started to look like Ozai

it's uneven and he has weird little bangs, but she just looks at him for a few seconds, and calmly states that the long hair wasn't working for him, anyways

Zuko tries so hard to stay chill, and he kinda manages, but he totally cries a little when he leaves her room

after that the visits starts becoming more of a conversation, and while they thread lightly, they're also feeling a new sense of... familiarity, maybe?

the first time Azula visits the palace goes surprisingly well

at this point, Zuko has spent a lot of time talking to Sokka about Azula and their rehabilitations, and Sokka is trying hard to be there for Zuko and make this as easy as possible

Azula finds him a little annoying at first, and on time she gets really annoyed and jokes that he can chill, she's not gonna try to kill Zuko again

Sokka s horrified, but Zuko actually laughs

the first time Zuko hears Azula laugh without it being out of someone else pain, and for the first time since the war ended, is at one of Katara's little jabs at Zuko

(that's just how she shows him she cares, it's the same kind of bickering she does with Sokka)

Azula actually barks out a real laugh and Katara forgets to be weary and actually grins at her

it's weird and awkward but also kinda really beautiful

Zuko and Azula starts having tea once a week, no matter how busy they are, and they keep that tradition even as they get older

I have some many aunt Azula headcanons, and I've kinda talked about them before, but I just need to add a few sorry

she totally feels super awkward when she first meets her as a baby

the first time she holds her she just looks at her and is like... holy shit... a whole tiny person... in my arms.... help..?

but it turns out Azula quite likes toddlers, esp when they get to that age where they can talk, but have yet to develop a filter

she's crazy protective of her, and Zuko kinda just appreciates it

but she also loves teaching Izumi ways to mess with Zuko, so much

whenever Zuko complains about it, he stops and realizes he kinds wouldn't want it any other way

the older they get, the more they both love gossip lmao

middle aged fire siblings spilling tea while drinking tea?

why, yes of course

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I just remembered my second Pride, where I made different flag themed daisy chain bracelets/necklaces to hand out. I need folks to understand something:

They were free.

They were fucking free.

They were maybe ¢60 of acrylic yarn each at the most, and the whole ziploc bag of them took 2 hours max.

Three people gave me sad eyes until I took their money.

Someone who was clearly the mom friend of their group made me take a $5 and gave a 10 minute pep talk.

At least four more people insisted on getting change to pay for the, once again, free bracelets.

In spite of all these shenanigans, the absolute best was this one person who I can only describe as, “queer surfer dude who looks like a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend.” I can remember nothing of the outfit, only the impeccable vibes. I did the same thing I did with everyone else, explaining the bracelets were free, and they nodded along as they took the last 6 strand rainbow bracelet. As soon as they had it on their wrist, they pointed at something over my shoulder and, like a fool, I looked.

Next thing I know, they’re running off cackling, yelling, “YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME!” and I’m holding a fucking $20. I had to stop at least two people from chasing them, cause they thought the person stole something, and then they tried to give me money cause they thought it was funny seeing me flail over people being Too Nice.

That was the year I got reverse-robbed at Pride. I hope everyone out there is having a good time and, in particular, that queer surfer dude is out there still causing benevolent chaos.