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[umossu]

Zukka Big Bang 2024: The Pretender

writer: @sulkybender

for @zukkabigbang2024

more art under the cut →

NSFW art

[lnuns]

“You’re afraid of me,” Zuko says.

Sokka hesitates before nodding slightly.

“Yeah,” he says quietly. “Yeah, I am.”

Zuko smiles, lopsided. The flash of teeth and the flash of desire, sharp and nauseating.

“Good,” he says. “You should be.”

Alexa, play Who's Afraid of Little Old Me by TSwift

@sulkybender 's writing is just. Oof. Perfection.

[firelilysky]

Next installation in the art for fics I love series!

Fic Rec: u/oneeyedwonder

Author: @sulkybender

I loved the format of this one, with everything told through Reddit posts! As much as it hurts me to read about a broken Zuko I love how this was written with a hopeful tone and a soft, warm Sokka committed to helping him heal.

Show Sulky some love for this one!!

[bakedbeanchan]

thank you for your art, it is giving me LIFE <3

Thanks! I'm glad you like my art. Take the original doodle of one of my posts

[elfantasmadejanis]

Part 1 | Part 2

Well here it is, the first page for @sulkybender 's excellent fanfic the fourth ring

I was debating wether to post it just like this or wait til i finished the next bit of zuko's introduction which i really want to add (one of my favourite moments from the story) but i'm not sure when i'll have time to finish it and i just couldn't wait! Hope you guys like it and go read the fic if you havent!!!

[lovelyelbowleech]

what have you been reading lately in ATLA fic? if you feel like doing a little rec list :3

Hello! I have been terrible and have not really read anything in the fandom for ages! It's been a stressful six months, and I have spent my time writing or doom scrolling tumblr, and not actually doing any reading, which is one of my favourite things to do in the world. So perhaps I can turn this around, 😂 does anyone have any recent fic to rec? (Zukka, Zukki or plotty or angsty gen ❤️)

Thank you for the ask, sorry it is such a non answer! 😅

[lizardlicks]

WIP ask game!

“burn” 👀

i have

By the time he hauled himself into an opening carved out by meltwater, his arms were burning from exertion, nerves prickling all the way down to his finger tips.

and

Zuko was alarmed and confused when he awoke on the morning of his tenth birthday to a burning pain on his left shoulder blade. He had not been burned there. He was certain he had not been burned at all in the last week, he'd been so careful lately, putting in extra practice on his forms when time allowed, and he always kept track when his tutors reprimanded him, so why--

[nikantros]

It is so weird when you realize that anorexia is so deeply ingrained in our image of women that it’s actively hurting the women society claims to emancipate.

I had a bad anxiety breakdown last summer and couldn’t eat and couldn’t keep food down and when I told the psychiatrist about it she immediately noted me down as anorexic; told me to eat more butter; asked me if I want to be thin. Which… I was literally trying to escape mental pain by withholding my body any sensual feeling. I was trying to disappear because I did not want to exist as I did then. I mean, I barely had the strength to leave home at this point. But instead of - you know - her doing her job and figuring these things out with me, she took the easy way out - tiny female body, corrupted by patriarchy, just needs to be more feminist.

I did only spend four sessions with this therapist. And once I entered my job and work 9-5 and am finally out of uni I can eat. I can eat regularly and I can eat much and I can keep it down. I was able to put on 5 kg, more than I managed in 10 years. Because I didn’t have an academic setting that I couldn’t live in no matter how much I tried breathing down my neck anymore.

But I did not get to figure this out in therapy. Because according to therapy I just had to eat more butter and be a good woman.

[arillustrated]

some sketches inspired by this post by @sulkybender that turned into a sort of comic? i just have a very clear vision of how this would go down 😭

handwriting translation under cut

from right to left

image 1:

aang: i guess there IS such a thing as too much meditation

iroh: you are looking Very Handsome, sparkle sparkle, today young avatar

aang: i was about to say the same for you, uncle

katara: NO.

aang: but Katara...

katara: No Ozai Beard.

image 2:

aang: this is it. This is my new look.

katara: oh wow. it looks. um. greeaaaaaat aang.

katara: aang...are you super duper sure that this is the one you want? like, absolutely, no doubt, completely positive?

aang: actually, ive been wanting this style for a while now, to remember Gyatso. he was there for me when no one else was and taught me to be who i am. i know it's silly but, i was to give to the world was Gyatso gave to me, so that I never forget him

image 3:

katara: i wish i could have met him

aang: i wish you could have, too.

[allgremlinart]

commission for @sulkybender, based on their fic !! (its a pretty cool au you guys)

[erisenyo]

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[zukkabigbang2024]

ZUKKA BIG BANG 2024 - MASTER POST

Was It Over Then? (and is it over now?) / art (pt 1) / art (pt 2)

writer: @zukkaart

beta: @transboysokka

artist: @littlegayteaboy

Chalk It Up to Love / art

writer: @bisexuallsokka

artist: @purplew

Where You Never Knew You'd Go / art

writer: @ronilani

beta: @backhurtyy

artist: @ic3-que3n

I Taste the Salt on Your Hands +art (embedded)

writer: @littencloud9

beta: @cluedeedoo

artist: @djpuppy

Should I Write It in a Letter? +art

writer: @rejectscanon

beta: @sukiluvvs

artist: @britishmuffin

Bad Habits Are Easily Acquired / art

writer: @umossu

beta: @blbelmont

artist: @3cosmicfrogs

Cryptic And Machiavellian ('cause I care) / art

writer: @leafsfromthevine

beta: @kartoonkrazy

artist: @lnuns

Air Nomad Pet-Sitting for Beginners +art

writer: @dragonbagel

artist: @lizardlicks

Before The First Light / art

writer: @littlegayteaboy

beta: @syciaralynx

artist: @umossu

Hands, At the Day's End / art

writer: @backhurtyy

beta: @that-was-anticlimactic

artist: @blbelmont

Bouquets Are a Declaration of Intent / art 1 / art 2

writer: @syciaralynx

beta: @astralucy

artist 1: @julessongs

artist 2: @timetravellers-art

Into the Future, Into the Past / art

writer: @nikantros

beta: @atuats-sidechick

artist: @sidvishess

Dragon Tales +art

writer: @rosewatertears

beta: @syciaralynx

artist: @julessongs

Adrift In a Stranger's Galaxy / art

writer: @beachytablecloth

beta: @zukkaoru

artist: @shitelock

Something Stranger and More Wonderful / art

writer: @faux-fires

beta: @ranilla-bean

artist: @chiptrillino

Letters To the Void / art (coming soon)

writer: @sidvishess

beta + artist: @adriancatrin

Falling Feels Like Flying / art

writer: @that-was-anticlimactic

beta: @beachytablecloth

artist: @britishmuffin

I Shine Only with the Light You Gave Me / art

writer: @zukkaoru

beta: @justaloadofgarbage

artist: @blbelmont

The Mercy of Magpies +art (cover) / art (characters)

writer: @ranilla-bean

beta: @faux-fires

artist: @ash-and-starlight

How It Feels to Have a Heartbeat / art

writer: @transboysokka

beta: @zukkaoru

artist: @harbingersecho

I Could Follow You to the Beginning Just to Relive the Start / art

writer: @atsushigrayson

beta: @bisexuallsokka

artist: @sidvishess

The Light Prince +art

writer: @macabr8y

beta: @faux-fires

artist: @drowthelynes

tsit-sut-á +art

writer: Shen (aiyah on AO3)

artist: @3cosmicfrogs

The Pretender / art

writer: @sulkybender

artist: @umossu

Hold Me Tight (Or don't) / art (#1) / art (#2) / art (#3)

writer: @julessongs

beta: @syciaralynx

artist: @umossu

There Are No Ostrich Horses In Ba Sing Se / art

writer: @queenofmoons67

beta: @enbymoomin

artist: @ic3-que3n

The Things I Would Do (To Steal Time with You) / art

writer: @erisenyo

beta: @kartoonkrazy

artist: @lizardlicks

Catch Me If You Can +art

writer: @cluedeedoo

beta: @djpuppy

artist: @sukiluvvs

Nobody Can Save Me / art

writer: @pnsxlnotmnsxl

beta 1: @queendollophead-ao3

beta 2: @astralucy

artist: @lnuns

I'll Tell Them to Put Me Back In (darling, I would do it again) / art

writer: @andrea-lyn

beta: @syciaralynx

artist: @seasideoranges

No Light, No Light +art

writer: Tal (mooncourt03 on AO3)

beta: @rejectscanon

artist: @seasideoranges

wonderful, unattached art piece by @sukidude

[firelilysky]

Inspired by @paramouradrift @electro-strike & @sulkybender

[elfantasmadejanis]

Part 1 | Part 2

Continuation of the scene from @sulkybender 's the fourth ring

Here it is, finally! I really wanted to have the second part with the flame and i finally had time to do it. Actually fatigue's been a bitch this week so i could do little more than doodle in bed so that's where this came for!

I think it turned out a lot better than the previous one, it always takes me a while to get back into comic drawing mode so even though i don't love the inconsistency i think the second one is more polished. Let me know what you think!

Not sure when i'll have time to do more, there are still a couple scenes that i see very clearly in my mind but who knows when i'll get round to actually drawing them, as that post said if y'all could see all the art that i haven't done but exists in my mind...

Anyway, as usual go read the fic, it's incredible, and give fanfic writers some love cause they deserve it <3

[navajja]

Commission for @sulkybender 🌼🌊

[redacted-cryptid]

Inspired by the incredible fic: whatever returns from oblivion written by the insanely talented @sulkybender