You Bitches Keep Your Mouth Off Suki

[redbrunja]

Dear Avatar fandom,

The next time I find someone saying (via explicit text or via lyrics in a vid) that Suki is:

-a fling of Sokka's

-seduced him

-isn't worthy of him

-somehow did him wrong

-is not heart-wrenching important to him,

I will smack you with metal fans until the stupid bleeds out of you.

I do no care if you ship him with Toph. I do not care if you ship him with Yue. I do not care if you ship him with Ty Lee.

But fucking respect the relationship he has with Suki and stop trying to cheapen what is arguably the second most important female relationship in his entire life. (fyi, Katara is #1 in that category.)

No love,
redbruna

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

"-isn't worthy of him"

Didn't I once do a whole rant about people saying that about female characters? (I don't know...I was pissed about everything resembling fandom for a few weeks there and ranting left and right.)

"-somehow did him wrong"

How? No, really, HOW???

You know your Avatar posts generally just make me glad I don't remotely participate in the fandom outside of posts on my f-list, right? (The whole fandom is just so rabidly obsessed with shipping and I have no desire to ship anything there except a bit with Suki/Sokka.)

(People ship him with Yue? Why? From her first scene, she was obviously meant to be nothing more than the tragic first love to give him some angst along the way...)

*finds the idea of hating any female character of even remote important on Avatar silly in the extreme*

(Also, you forgot Zuko...Yes, there are Zuko/Sokka shippers...)

[pikabot]

"-is not heart-wrenching important to him,"

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

What kind of moron would say this? Did they not SEE the Day of Black Sun? How could you possibly miss something that obvious--

Oh, wait. This is Avatar fandom.

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

I don't understand some fans. See, my initial response to Suki was that she was pure and concentrated Awesome. Because it isn't just any woman who can get Sokka to dress in drag and teach him how to fight like a woman.

And I shop Sokka with Yue too. But then there's the whole thing where Yue dies, so I had no problem with Sokka moving on. And Suki/Sokka (you know she tops), is also uber awesome.

I seriously don't get some shipping wars.

[dharmavati.livejournal.com]

Wait. WHUT?

Maybe it's just me but that fact that Sokka has many equally awesome love interests is what makes him so awesome. And I don't even mean it in a pimp-ish kind of way. He really does have this thing for romance with all these female characters. And I really don't get the need to restrict him to one female character (or the bashing of the other potential love interests).

C'MON GUYS. IT'S SOKKA.

And Suki's awesome. Awesome in a different way than Yue or Toph or Ty Lee. But STILL. AWESOME.

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

Aw man. Every time I think I am aware of all the different kinds of mind-numbing stupid that Avatar fandom engages in, I am introduced to YET ANOTHER.

Also you are totally right about Suki. She and Sokka go way back, and there's a lot of affection between them. You only have to watch DOBS to see that.