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redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2008-04-08 03:41 pm
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"Well, If You See Zuko, Be Sure And Give Him A Kiss From Me."

Reason 1,763 that I love Avatar and its fandom:

So, I'm scrolling around the main comm, and I come across a rec post for [profile] soko_7 and [profile] 5_loves. Now, I'm like, 'Soko?" So I start to do the mental name splicing you do when you come across a pairing name that you don't know (and seriously, people, why does every pairing name need to be smushed together? I mean, for Zutara and Kataang it works, because that's what you end up saying/typing anyway when you've said Zuko/Katara or Katara/Aang ten billion times in a brief period, but Sukka? I'm dyslexic, people, when the pairing name is ONE LETTER away from a character's name, just take the time to type that extra four letters +slash please?).

But back to my tangent, I'm like "-ko, -ko, okay, must be a Zuko/somebody pairing, So- So- whose name starts with -oh. Sokka/Zuko." So I mentally bite my tongue on thoughts like, 'why are you pairing Zuko with the water tribe peasant who he DOESN'T have fights full of UST with?' and scroll down while doing that mental white noise thing I spent most of my time on [community profile] saiyuki doing, and then I get to the part where the poster goes, "something, something, Zuko/Song."

Me: You mean... Zuko + sweet healer girl for that one episode? There's a whole comm just for them?

Avatar fandom: *smooch*

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2008-04-09 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I totally understand why it would be more popular than Zuko/Jin, because of the angst - she's been (literally) burned by the fire nation, he stole her ostrich-horse, etc. There's just so much to work with, on both sides, where Jin is a much more cheerful girl who doesn't have that painful history, or that history with Zuko.

(In my episode recap for "Tales of Ba Sing Se" I went, "and he says 'it's complicated' while in the same city as Katara Coincidence?")

I am mainly just basking in the glorious het. Part of it is that Avatar has some many awesome female characters, but FMA has the same amount, and it has WAY more slash. I think Avatar is just an amazingly het-friendly fandom AND I LOVE IT SO, SO MUCH!!!!!!!!