cactus-juciest
cactus-juciest
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cactus-juciest · 10 hours ago
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i wish my city had better public transit :[
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cactus-juciest · 2 days ago
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prev is a 400 foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings
@pongowayo @bluespiritshonour @atla4art
New REBLOG Game
Just fucking lie about the previous poster
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cactus-juciest · 15 days ago
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I'm having Mai thoughts that I feel like sharing... I picked up Superman comic books again because the movie's gonna drop and instead of reading anything new I just reread old favourites and I have an idea for a Mai comic brewing in my head. About colours.
Please don't be horrified. At the mention of colours and Superman with regards to Mai! I don't think Superman and Mai are remotely similar! (He and Aang on the other hand...) It's just an idea for the narration tool and the metaphor used in a story in Superman: Red and Blue. It made me think it's something I could use on Mai.
Anyways!
Half of ATLA fandom treats Mai's apathy as a personality trait rather than a coping mechanism and the other half thinks it's a complete façade... Where as... It's something in-between?
It's definitely a coping mechanism. But oftentimes when Mai says she doesn't care... She really means it too!—she definitely doesn't believe in auras and she truly has no opinion on Ruon-Jian.
She definitely doesn't care about Fire Nation winning the war beyond her family's safety. If she and her family would be sent to the gulag with the Fire Nation falling, then she cares. Or if she'd be stripped of her privileged lifestyle. (Mai likes being rich and she's not the kind of rich girl that would romanticise poverty)
It can be seen in how she really doesn't care when she fails in her missions throughout the course of the show. As long as Azula is secure in the idea that she has Mai in line. Because the cause wasn't something that was dear to her beyond functionality.
Comparison: Ashes of the Academy. Now that she has agency to do something, she cares about the cause she's working for. Being able to actually do something about Fire Nation society that she didn't like matters to her. For obvious reasons!
She parrots everything they teach them at school about the Fire Nation being superior but as for the cause of "bRingINg CivilIzAtioN tO tHe sAvaGes", I don't think she cares. Is she prejudiced against people of other nations? Definitely. Example: she thinks Fire Nation fashion and cuisine are superior. Does she think Fire Nation is truly superior? Nope: here, you get your face burned off and banished for speaking out of turn and only sons and/or firebenders matter and everyone pretends to care when in reality they're all scheming. Mai is neither a son nor a bender but she does fine, thank you very much!
She definitely considers herself superior to people of other nations by virtue of being Fire Nation but also to people of Fire Nation. (Exception: Azula) But no one asked for her opinion and your opinions might send you and/or your family to the gulag. Best keep quiet.
And her inability to express herself is definitely not a personality trait!
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She expresses herself fine when it's safe around. When it's Ty Lee. (Note: she trusts Ty Lee not to snitch!) Or even her mother. She knows her mother doesn't put any stock in her opinions on things—but her mother isn't going to hurt her for it. She might get a lecture, sometimes she'd have the energy to actually express an opinion and take the lecture. Sometimes she'd be like "yes, mother. Of course." Because she isn't in a mood to trigger a lecture.
And when it comes Zuko, she has to turn her face away because he brings forth strong emotional response from her:
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Mai calculates when to express herself, taking into account the people around her. And whether or not the sentiment she expresses would come back to bite her in the butt later.
But she definitely has her own opinions about a lot of things that she thinks about only in the privacy of her mind:
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She also has a sense of right and wrong. Upon witnessing an injustice, Zuko would rage and cry and lose sleep over it. Mai would think the world is a horrible place—that Fire Nation society is stupid and doesn't deserve her productive participation, then she'd shrug and move on.
Here, I really do think it doesn't trigger that strong an emotional response from her—(exception: Zuko). She could have been like, idk, Zhao maybe. She could've been a bully of Zhao's level. But like Zuko, she didn't fit the ideal that Fire Nation society expected of her. But unlike Zuko, she learned self-preservation and made herself unobtrusive.
We all read about stuff online and get incensed, I think Mai would be able to say: "I have enough on my plate already" and move on. She also wouldn't see a point in beating yourself up over something you can't do anything about.
Comparison: Zuko, Aang or Katara. They'd be like "I can't do anything? Do you have me physically tied up? If you do have me physically tied up I'd break out of my bonds. I'll show you 'doing'". Consequences be damned. But Mai thinks about consequences™. Until Boiling Rock that is.
Katara saw the villagers suffering because of pollution and thought "I can't just leave them behind!" Mai saw Zuko about to become stew and thought "I can't just let him die."
Sokka wanted Katara to and not because he didn't care. He's more practical: ending the war would automatically help these people. Ending the war is solving the root of the problem, hence, takes higher priority.
I think a Mai that wasn't raised in FN would've been a tad more like Sokka. More pessimistic than him and quieter than him. I do think Mai was quiet and reserved even before Fire Nation society "got to her". More stoic than him, because Sokka cares and isn't afraid to show it. But he can grit his teeth and make difficult choices. Katara and Aang (and Zuko) can't. Mai doesn't have to grit her teeth to make difficult choices. (On a Mai scale Sokka is practical. On a Katara scale Sokka is stoic).
I don't think Sokka is stoic. I do think Mai is. Her façade of apathy is half façade, half truth.
There are stoic people out there. They know what's right and wrong and don't hurt people or anything. They just don't feel as strongly and can weather things. I think Mai's like that. There are exceptions of course: Zuko (she cares about his safety and happiness) her family (she care about their physical safety only, other than she'd much rather be away from them)
Ty Lee... Now, I think Mai learns to care more about Ty Lee after the war. When they both can be genuine with each other with no fears. Besides, Ty Lee stood by Mai when she needed her the most. I don't think Mai is a woman of principle, but I think she'd remember and appreciate Ty Lee's sacrifice her whole life. (Not as a matter of principle) Azula and Zuko do principles, not Mai.
So all that rambling. I think I'm trying to say Mai has a sense of justice (even though she doesn't act on it beyond thinking about it and definitely doesn't lose sleep over it. Read: stoicism).
Example: The Beach. Zuko just called her big blah because she doesn't air out her opinions for the world to see like he does.
But she does have them. She grew up in a society that fucked up her self expression and her home situation wasn't ideal. But things to be noted:
Despite her parents having a son preference she doesn't consider herself inferior. Proof: she resents her parents.
She verbally acknowledges she's privileged. She knows others have it worse than her. She handicaps her complains about her parents but not in a self-depricating way.
She knows what a healthy relationship looks like and what accountability is yada yada and she wants that from Zuko!
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Zuko matters to her enough to waste her energy on, to yell at, to expect better from.
"That doesn't excuse the way you've acting."
I love her so much for that. Even as she let Fire Nation corrode away her personality, in the privacy of her mind, she does have opinions on things!
Mai does have an understanding of justice and right and wrong and the whole thing. But she doesn't get sentimental dreaming about it.
(also I love these because Zuko doesn't invalidate Mai's parental abuse because it was less severe compared to his ❤️)
As for Mai acknowledging her privilege: she isn't doing it in a soap opera heroine's i-should-be-content-with-my-lot kind of way. (I love her for that) She does it very... neutrally. Zuko had it worse than her. It's cold, hard fact. She must be thinking: my dad sucks but at least he isn't Ozai. She isn't content with her lot (her mother admonishes her for not being grateful for what she has) she'd like it if FN wasn't a horrible place to grow up in but at the same time she knows it's a waste of energy to dream about things that aren't possible (she's proven wrong about that of course, when she takes a leaf out of Zuko's book and goes "I can't just sit and—")
Compliance is expected of her and she complies. She plays the role of a noblewoman and a good daughter. She isn't going to pretend to be happy doing that on top of it all! (Unlike soap opera heroines, who're genuinely happy doing that somehow)—her prickly, unpleasant personality is it's own form of rebellion. The only kind that she can afford (very goth of her).
I hate everyone who says she should've been more loving of her family. She cares enough to comply even when she doesn't want to! She doesn't have to be happy doing that on top of it too! Especially not when she doesn't get enough love from them in return.
So I really do agree Mai pretends not to care, yes. But there is some truth to her apathy too. It really isn't 100% a façade. It doesn't interfere with her capacity to judge what's right and wrong—only with what she does about it. Which is, nothing. Until she does do something about it.
I guess I like Mai's stoicism 😅
Also, note: she's not shy to express herself when Zuko needs to hear it. She's shy when it's about expressing herself for her own sake because damn it, Mai has feelings™ that simply wouldn't do! She's nonchalant af, she doesn't do feelings. That's for people like Ty Lee! Ew.
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Except, she'd pull stunts like at the Boiling Rock and I can't emphasise enough how much execution matters.
Boiling Rock could've come across as her being pathetic! But instead it comes across as heroic. There's a very thin line and in this particular instance, it's what separates Mai from the self-sacrifcing soap opera heroine.
I think she's somewhere between Zuko and Azula. Unlike Zuko, she let Fire Nation society diminish her. Unlike Azula, she couldn't 100% internalise Fire Nation ideals. She'd land smack in the middle of any alignment charts.
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I don't think Mai was offering flattery or being dishonest here, that's Ty Lee. She does genuinely enjoy when Azula terrorises other people. Although she does have her own limits for how much of it she's okay with. She was a meanie and I don't like people saying it was hundred percent an act. Only some of it was.
And even without all that, I do think a Mai that had been raised with loving parents in the earth kingdom or water tribe would still be somewhat stoic or reserved. Of course, nothing like the violent repression she undergoes in Fire Nation in order to be safe. She'd still be a little dry and stoic though. I like to headcanon (I emphasis the word headcanon) she's some flavour of neurodivergent that processes things differently and people find her odd because of it. I think it's an experience neurodivergent people can relate to. Being raised the way she was worsened it. So I really do think that's what "Mai didn't have to change who she was" boils down to:
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Mai had a happy ending without having to change her identity
(Note: Zuko would never, ever ask her to act the proper noblewoman in public. She might do so of her own accord. Maybe sometimes she wouldn't just for fun. He'd never ask it of her!)
Her arc wasn't about becoming a hero. And she doesn't have to start caring about everything under the sun like Zuko and Katara and Aang. And that's okay.
People like Zuko, Katara and Aang need people like Mai and Sokka to keep them alive (even though I don't think Mai and Sokka are much alike apart from being able to prioritise things and be practical. The audience might think they're heartless for it but I guess you need balance. That's why these characters are banded together)
TLDR: I think we swerved too hard from the "apathy is Mai's personality trait" that shippers-that-shan't-be-named like to harp about that we landed in a place where I feel like we're invalidating Mai's own unique way of processing things. Stoic people do exist and they aren't bad people! And I think Mai is stoic. Her façade of apathy isn't hundred percent a façade. Although it was exacerbated by being raised in FN.
Also, I'm making a Mai comic. Yay!
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cactus-juciest · 15 days ago
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mai/Sokka (Avatar), Wang Fire/Mai (Avatar), Mai & Sokka (Avatar) Characters: Mai (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Wang Fire (Avatar), Shihan (Avatar Comics), Zuko (Avatar), Fire Nation Citizen(s) (Avatar) Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Aged-Up Character(s), POV Mai (Avatar), Light Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Developing Relationship, Getting Together, Ambassador Sokka (Avatar), Sokka is a Good Significant Other (Avatar), Badass Mai (Avatar) Summary:
As far as Mai is concerned, it’s just another day of teaching at the Royal Fire Academy for Girls…
(…not her birthday, which she definitely doesn’t care about or expect anyone at school to know or care about either…)
…until an unorthodox Fire Nation general arrives to give the whole Academy an impromptu lecture—about food, of all things.
  Written for the tumblr @atlararepairmonth​ Day 3 “Education/Teaching” prompt.
(Better late than never I guess?)
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cactus-juciest · 1 month ago
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allergies are kicking my ass
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cactus-juciest · 1 month ago
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Hi! You mentioned that Jin x Sokka is one of your favorite Sokka ships—so how/why did you start shipping them?
Any headcanons or general ideas about their relationship you’d like to share? Thanks!
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so i got into this fandom and shipping. 1 of my first ships was a rarepair; ty lee x aang. i eventually really got into shipping and multi shipping. i honestly just think a lot of characters are shippable in some way, similarity or polar opposite traits
just remembering the scene with jin going on the date with zuko and replacing the characters, is how i do it mostly (i can ship practically anything & anyone)
when you also consider their personalities, their way of eating etc, you can really see how they match
apart from sukka they're just so adorable together
i can't think of any hc or anything at the top of my head
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cactus-juciest · 1 month ago
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After several dates, Azula comes to Sokka's apartment for the first time. She is horrified at the dozens of instant ramen bowls of all varieties in his pantry. When she opens the fridge...
Azula: Why do you have more hotdogs than a grocery store?
Sokka: Because they were on sale for two for five!
Azula: And the leftovers dated...
Azula [internally]: Everything in this fridge is dated perfectly. Different days of the week are even color-coded. WTF?
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mai/Sokka (Avatar), Mai & Sokka (Avatar) Characters: Mai (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Aged-Up Character(s), Humor, Fluff and Humor, Cuddling & Snuggling, Innuendo, Married Couple, POV Mai (Avatar), Light Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Black cat/Golden retriever, sorry for the spoiler but the golden retriever wins, Implied Sexual Content, nothing smutty or dirty they’re just married Series: Part 2 of A Perfect Conquest Summary:
Mai doesn’t have much love for cuddling.
Sokka tries his best to change her mind.
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jin/Sokka (Avatar), Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Toph Beifong & Sokka (Avatar), Aang & Sokka (Avatar), Aang & Toph Beifong & Katara & Sokka, Jin & Zuko (Avatar), Iroh & Jin (Avatar), Jin & June (Avatar) Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Jin (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Toph Beifong (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), June (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Kuei (Avatar), Bosco (Avatar) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Aged-Up Characters, Rare Pairings, Love at First Sight, Food, Humor, Dirty Jokes, Minor Mai/Zuko (Avatar), POV Sokka (Avatar), POV Jin (Avatar), Crack Relationships, all characters are in their late teens or early twenties fyi, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Crack, ATLA Mayday Rarepair Month 2025 Summary:
A pair of star-crossed foodies fall in love at the Jasmine Dragon’s first-annual Liberation Day Potluck.
Bad luck—in the form of a hungry, rampaging bear—may push them apart, but nothing can keep Sokka’s meat and Jin’s dumplings away from each other for long.
 Written for the @atlararepairmonth​ Day 2 “Love Languages” prompt.
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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In Game Plan, how will Azula's parents react to her breaking up with Chan and getting together with Sokka instead?
We will see Ursa and Ozai reacting to Azula dating Sokka in the second part of Game Plan. As for their reactions regarding her breaking up with Chan... well, here you go anon, I couldn't resist:
Ursa tapped her fingers thoughtfully against the table. This script looked fantastic, and the role she was proposed was definitely something she would enjoy exploring. With Zuko already in university and Azula off to that next summer, it was a good time as any to get back into acting full-time. She's been getting a bunch of scripts, directors and producers were trampling all over each other to try to get their movies to be her big screen comeback. Yet so far, only this script truly caught her eye. She will need to sleep on it and give it another read tomorrow though.
She closed the stack of papers and glanced up. Across the table, Ozai was frowning down at his tablet. Must be something about the acquisition of that airline that has been keeping him busy and grumpy. Ursa tilted her head and lifted her foot, nudging his leg under the table.
He did not look up,but she could see the smile on his face. Well, she could convince him to…
"Mother, father, I am home!"
… okay, maybe later.
"In the sitting room, Azula!" Ursa called, turning around in her chair. "The cooking staff plated your dinner and put it in the fridge, you just need to heat it up."
Azula appeared on the threshold, still wearing her cheer uniform, and her sports bag slung over her shoulder. "I ate with the girls already." she said, not entirely apologetically. "We went to the build-your-own ramen bowl place. To celebrate the… routine. It flows more than satisfactory at this point, but we will keep working on it, of course."
Ursa decided not to point out the quick interruption in Azula's words. That was interesting. "And the game, how did that go?"
Her daughter's face scrunched up, as she shifted her weight from one foot to the other. "The school's team lost."
Azula was not about to say 'we lost'. She hasn't lost a single damn thing and she will not take the lacrosse team's failure upon herself. As far as she was concerned, she hit jackpot.
Ursa sighed when hearing that, looking inquisitively at her. "How is Chan taking it? Were you also with him?"
Azula snorted, a very un-Azula like sound, prompting Ursa to raise an eyebrow. "He was crying over it. However, that is no concern of mine anymore. He cheated on me so I broke up with him.
"Oh my," Ursa stood up, beginning to walk across the room. "Do you need to talk? It's not easy, your first break up."
Azula simply raised a hand to signal her to stop. "Not at all. I feel no emotional impact whatsoever from this." she shrugged. "I'll just take a bath and go to bed. Goodnight to both of you."
Ursa watched thoughtfully as her daughter disappeared in the hallway. There was something there, that she couldn't quite put her finger on. She didn't get the feeling Azula was lying about the heartbreak part but…
"Do I need to spell it out for you?!"
She turned around, looking questioningly at Ozai. He was on his feet too, walking from the end of the table to the edge of the couch, one hand to his ear speaker.
"Yes, that many zeros and what part of 'I am authorizing it without an immediate signature' is unclear? Send the godforsaken payment already, and have the paperwork on my table tomorrow morning, and I'll sign it. Yes. Fine. Good evening."
Ursa raised an eyebrow. "What was that about?"
Her husband took out his earpiece and set it aside, his back still turned to her. "I just made a one million ban donation to the Fire Temple."
She was aware she was gaping, but that seemed like a proportionate reaction. Ozai wasn't even religious. At all.
"Whatever for?" Ursa asked, instead of inquiring if he accidentally got food poisoning or a concussion.
"Because," Ozai whirled around with a huge grin. "All my prayers have been answered!"
He threw his tablet on the couch before pumping a fist into the air and laughing enthusiastically. It reminded Ursa of the times when he would win one of his multi-player video game tournaments. "Finally, she got rid of that good-for-nothing, ambitionless, meathead!"
Ozai was overjoyed. Not because his daughter was going through heartbreak — though judging by her reaction, there was not much, if any, heartbreak to speak of — but because she will <i>finally</i> stop wasting her precious time with that useless boy. And to think that waste of oxygen cheated on her. If this was feudal times, Ozai would have had his head on a spike, and stick it on the Palace's outer walls.
"I know what you're going to say. I shouldn't rejoice because Azula broke up with her boyfriend. But darling, you surely understand my point. That Chan boy was not good enough for her." Not that any boy was, if Ozai had to be honest. "He was excelling at nothing, and even the one thing he was supposed to be good at, he still failed. Our daughter is too good for such low effort ball and chain to bring her excellency down."
Ozai sighed dramatically, hoping his little speech was enough to mellow Ursa out. To his surprise, when he turned around, instead of a disappointed scowl, he saw his wife holding two glasses and a bottle of vintage Chindonnay.
He blinked in surprise. Not that he was going to complain about his lovely wife smiling so brightly, despite his confusion.
"I thought you liked him."
She rolled her eyes. "Now, like is a pretty strong word, dear. I didn't really."
"But," Ozai frowned, as she approached, setting the glasses on the table."You were so welcoming to him all the time. And encouraging Azula to go out."
Ursa snorted. "You were already playing bad cop and terrifying the poor kid with that permanent scowl… yes, just like that."
Ozai's eyes crossed as he watched Ursa's finger press in between his eyebrows.
"She needed some encouragement to be more social. It's not bad for her to have a teenage relationship to see what she wants."
Despite her prodding, he was still frowning. "What if she stuck with him?"
That earned him an eye roll. "I don't know about their school dynamics, but in the real world, he's nowhere near what Azula needs. It's a high school relationship. She wouldn't have kept him."
Ozai huffed. He had certainly hoped as much. Which is why he told himself that if the Spirits were kind enough to rid Azula of her idiot boyfriend, he'd give a generous donation to the Temple. Hmph, who said divine favour couldn't be incentivised by money? Fools.
"So," Ursa finished, raising the bottle between them. "Shall we?"
Ozai grinned. "I'll get the wine opener."
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Just finished Severance S2 tonight and can’t stop thinking about how well the Mark - Helly - Gemma mess dynamic would work for Sokka - Azula - Yue.
Sokka loses his wife, can’t handle the grief, gets severed to cope, meets Zula S, hatches a plot with their MDR coworkers Haru and Jet, finds out during the OTC that Yue is alive at the same time Zula meets Ozai and finds out she’s Azula Sozin…
And while outie Sokka wants to get Yue back at all costs, innie Sokka’s priority is Zula.
Don’t need to change a single thing about the plot.
(The goats would have to be gorilla goats though.)
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sokka/Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai & Ty Lee (Avatar) Characters: Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: Inspired by The Little Mermaid (Disney Movies), POV Ty Lee (Avatar), Ty Lee-centric (Avatar), Fairy Tale Parody, Disney Parody, mermaid!Ty Lee, stingray!Mai, Prince Sokka (Avatar), Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Rare Pairings, ATLA Mayday Rarepair Month 2025, Attempt at Humor Summary:
A lovesick mermaid receives some shrewd advice from her trusted stingray companion and decides to take a more direct approach in pursuing her prince.
“Next time he’s at sea, you should jump out of the water and land on the deck of his ship—or into his arms, ideally.”
 Written for the @atlararepairmonth​ Day 1 Fairytales & Legends prompt.
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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get out of my house!
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Do you have any smut headcanons about aged up Ty Lokka?
Only if you feel comfortable writing them, of course.
Thanks for the ask, Anon! For smut, “fade to black” is where I tend to draw the line but I’ll give some vague ideas in mostly SFW terms under the cut:
When it comes to physical affection in general, Ty Lee usually initiates—not because Sokka isn’t eager, but she’s just a little more forward and beats him to the punch…or the touch. Sometimes he’ll be reading a book or sketching out the blueprints for a new invention and Ty Lee will just wiggle into his lap or lie across his work table with a nonchalant, “So watcha ya doin?” as if she has no ulterior motives. Sokka often finds himself watching her practicing her circus routines or doing yoga, but he’s content to let her do her thing…although if Ty Lee catches him looking at her that way, she’ll pause to give her audience some love.
Mentioned this in another ask a while ago but Ty Lee strikes me as someone who takes the ‘no shoes inside the house’ rule to the next level: ‘no clothes inside the house’…but only when it’s just the two of them. To be fair, it’s her home that she shares with her husband, so why should she have to wear anything if the blinds are drawn? And Sokka always makes sure the blinds are drawn—not least of all because he also participates. If his wife wants to “air out her aura,” he might as well join her! Needless to say, their auras tend to get tangled up in each other regularly—they’re both in very good shape, after all, and each other’s biggest admirers. (Ty Lee drools on herself when he lets his hair down and Sokka is always in awe of just how fit she is while still sporting her legendary pair of anterior anomalies.) They’ll make eye contact as they’re in the middle of doing chores, Ty Lee folding laundry and Sokka washing dishes, and just drop what they’re doing to jump on each other.
Ty Lee may have a freaky streak, but Sokka recognizes that it’s motivated by her need for attention. He’s very attentive with her and generous in his praise, trying to show that he loves her for her and not because she goes over the top with the whole ‘hyper-flexible nymphomaniac’ act. She just wants to feel loved, and he expends a lot of energy making sure that she does. (That said, he’s never objected to her twisting herself into a pretzel for his benefit.)
They’re both enthusiastic cuddlers…like, really enthusiastic. Some days they’ll just stay in bed long past noon, engaged in a rinse-repeat cycle of cuddling and lovemaking which basically blurs together into one thing after a while. Just feeling each other’s warmth and having that skin-to-skin contact is enough for them.
Sokka is a man of routine. If he can start and end his day by spending some quality time with his wife, he’s a happy man. Ty Lee is more spontaneous. So long as they have privacy, the shower is as good as the roof of Zuko’s beach house…but she also struggles with the concept of “quiet” so her standards for privacy are a bit lower than they probably should be.
That’s all I can come up with for now. Thanks again for the ask! Love to know that there are other Ty Lokka appreciators out there! Never hesitate to send me an ask for them.
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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i ended up really liking this lighting, its romantic and also lowkey creepy at the same time?? im so conflicted
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Mai
(a commission)
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cactus-juciest · 2 months ago
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Saw “bakery (falling tide)” on your wip list and you’ve got me intrigued with that title. Anything you’d like to share about that one? 👀
huhuhu thats the one i shared a snippet of in this post, under the "kindness" prompt :D
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