Okay, so I don't ship in Avatar: The Last Airbender? They are all tiny babies, and also they are all family with each other, so it's just weird to ship in the group. (Like, it's the kind of friends group where they probably will all date each other as teenagers, but none of them will stick, and if they do end up with long-term partners it'll be outside people that they bring in, except for that one token teen sweethearts pairing that makes it mostly by being super low key the whole time, which in this case is probably Zuko and Mai, as weird as it is to ever describe Zuko as "low key".)

Anyway, so I don't really have any shipfic recs for AtLA. I read shipfic sometimes but don't really get invested? Which is honestly usually a sign that it's a fandom that doesn't really do enemyships, but, then again, Zuko. This fandom has to be on this list, because Zuko.

I mostly enemyship Zuko/Any Healthy Relationships Of Any Kind, though. So here's some Zuko & ship fic.

• Blue Rendezvous (60273 words) by beepbeepsan
  Chapters: 20/20
  Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Appa (Avatar)
  Additional Tags: Blood and Injury, Canon-Typical Violence, POV Sokka (Avatar), Big Brother Sokka (Avatar), Hurt Zuko (Avatar), POV Zuko (Avatar), Blue Spirit Zuko (Avatar), Zuko Joins The Gaang Early (Avatar), Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, Sokka is a genius dumbass, Ba Sing Se, Lake Laogai (Avatar), Episode: s02e17 Lake Laogai, Holding Hands, ATLA Big Bang, ATLA Big Bang 2020, Possibly Pre-Slash, zukka if you squint, Bigotry & Prejudice, Swearing, Animal Death, they/them pronouns
  
  Sokka makes friends with the Blue Spirit. Too bad he's never seen him with his mask off!



• Salvage (127169 words) by MuffinLance
  Chapters: 20/20
  Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Hakoda & Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & The Southern Water Tribe, Zuko & Responsible Adult Role Models
  Characters: Zuko (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Bato (Avatar)
  Additional Tags: Hakoda just wants to talk terms, Ozai just wants a convenient barbarian to off his son in a politically expedient manner, they are having a MINOR DISAGREEMENT on fatherhood, Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, who is very angry about being kept away from Avatar-hunting, and also mildly concerned that someone is going to kill him in his sleep, which is not stopping him from actively aggravating the enemy crew, like a really growly puppy-kitten with a history of abuse, let there be BONDING, Hakuddles, Hurt/Comfort, Slowburn Adoption
  
  Zuko falls overboard, gets picked up by Hakoda's ship, and gets accidentally adopted before any of them quite figure out who each other are.



• Embers (704200 words) by Vathara
  Chapters: 91/91
  Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Rating: Not Rated
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Zuko (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Sokka (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Amaya, Yue (Avatar), Meixiang, Huojin, Jinhai, suyin, Jia, Min, Tingzhe, the more show up the more are added, Shirong, Long Feng, Kuei (Avatar), Bosco (Avatar), Jet (Avatar)
  Additional Tags: Adventure, Family, I am bad with tags, dealing with spirits, Some angst, Some politics, a bit of character study, much more realistic in its ways than the actual show, Don't copy to another site
  
  In which Iroh and Zuko's escape to Ba Sing Se goes a bit differently, and everything goes even more different after that.

1. BEARS

2. So I have now read Avengers: The Children's Crusade (which was very very omg good, all my YA feels are now reignited after being slightly meh about the Secret Invasion and Dark Reign trades).

Also I really need all the fic about Billy and Teddy and their grandfather and all the different things that family means. (There are only a couple - Trust Me by dangerouscommiesubversive is really really good - but there need to be more.)

(btw I wrote up an outline of the first issue of the YA-set-in-billy-and-teddy's-apartment series. *innocent whistle*)

3. I keep meaning to catch up on replies to everyone else's posts but at this point I am SO FAR BEHIND. I am reading and enjoying them all though!

4. umadoshi asked: Is there a book/show/movie you've been fully intending to get to this year but find yourself putting off for some reason? (Fear of disappointment, not wanting it to be over--whatever!)

Oh gosh, there are SO MANY of these. I am totally the person who will listen to your recommendations and nod along sagely, but even if it's something that sounds perfect for me, I can never start reading/watching/listening until the time is right. Sometimes that time is ten years later.

( Today I am going to talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender )

Anyway just this week I bought a couple of the missing S3 discs at a flea market so maybe I will get back to watching it soon. I could do it over the holiday when I have the TV to myself again except I was planning to spend the holiday watching both series of Cosmos back-to-back (something else I keep trying and failing to watch through.) So I guess we shall see.

SOMEDAY.

And then I can start putting off watching Korra.

5. Bears.