"Well, If You See Zuko, Be Sure And Give Him A Kiss From Me."

[redbrunja]

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 soko_7 and 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 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*

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Umm... Zuko owes some amends to Song, definitively, but Jin? I mean, he was graceless with her, but not unkind, and Mai? How was he using Mai? He was dating her, and doing a far better job of being a boyfriend than his sister's cranky, emotionally unavailable friend was at being a girlfriend. (Zuko at least was trying.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Jin gets a bunch more tea coupons. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I could see her getting free tea. (And also, how thrilled am I that you see her again, in the tea shop, looking horrified as the fire nation invades?)