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Selections are now CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who gave their input! Prompts + Dates will be announced Sunday, June 8th! If you'd like to keep in touch and get to know some of your fellow participants, you can join the official Zutara Week Discord Server Here!: https://discord.com/invite/n3MKJJ93Y6 Thanks!

Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2025!

August, fellas! We're looking forward to this year's Zutara Week! Below you can fill out our Google Form to help us select from a carefully curated list of prompts, as well as help us choose which dates in August will better work for when to hold the event! We are also looking for some artwork to use for our icons/banners this year! So if there were any participants from the last few years that wouldn't mind for us to use their work, please reach out! Responses will close at the beginning of June, with announcements following soon after. Thanks a bunch, guys!

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Zutara Week 2024 - Day 5 Melody 🎵

For Love~~~

*great uncle Iroh looks very touched 🥹

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Ehee..sorry I was super late.. 🥲

Anywaay featuring my Zutara steambaby..hehe (still unnamed because I cannot decide his name yet)

2 more prompts to go!! Yeaah!!

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🚫please do not use, edit, reupload my arts! Thx~

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Market Mischief

Pairing: Zuko x Katara Word Count: 820 Prompt: For Zutara Week 2024 | Day 6: Sweet @zutaraweek Warnings: Mild language, lighthearted teasing, humor, food-related themes, playful banter, minor romantic undertones

The marketplace buzzed with activity as vendors hawked their wares, carts rattled, and children darted through the throngs like mischievous sparrows. Katara weaved through the crowd with practiced ease, her arms laden with an assortment of ingredients for dinner. Zuko followed behind, his expression tight as he kept glancing over his shoulder, as though expecting a surprise ambush from a cabbage merchant.

“I still don’t get why we’re here,” he muttered, adjusting the hood of his cloak to better conceal his face. “We could’ve just—”

“Don’t even finish that sentence,” Katara interrupted, shooting him a pointed glare over her shoulder. “If you think I’m letting you ‘firebend’ our dinner together, you’ve lost your mind.”

Zuko grumbled something under his breath, but his steps quickened to keep up with her. “I’m not bad at cooking.”

“You burned rice.”

“It was one time.”

“And toast.”

“It was...extra crispy.”

“And that pot of tea.”

“Okay, fine!” He threw his hands up. “But it’s not like you’re perfect either. You made soup that was so salty Sokka said he could see through time.”

Katara froze mid-step and spun to face him, a saccharine smile that promised retribution spreading across her face. “Oh, really? That’s how you want to play this?”

Zuko immediately backpedaled. “I’m just saying—”

“I’ll show you ‘just saying,’” she quipped, grabbing a bright red fruit from a nearby stand and shoving it into his hands. “Here. Let’s see if you can even pick a decent lychee.”

He stared at the fruit like it was a bomb about to go off. “What’s wrong with this one?”

“Too mushy. Try again.” She crossed her arms, one eyebrow raised.

Zuko frowned, muttering something suspiciously like, “It’s just fruit,” before exchanging the lychee for another. Katara didn’t even bother inspecting it before shaking her head.

“Still wrong.”

“Are you making this up?” His voice pitched slightly, somewhere between incredulous and irritated.

“Are you seriously questioning my superior market skills?” Katara smirked, taking the fruit from him and swapping it for one from a different pile. “This one’s ripe.”

Zuko squinted at her. “How do you even know that?”

She tapped the side of her head. “Water Tribe instincts.”

“Oh, so now it’s instincts?”

Katara turned on her heel, heading toward the next stall, but Zuko caught the faintest grin tugging at her lips. He scowled, speeding up to walk beside her again. “Fine. Since you’re so good at this, what’s next?”

She didn’t answer, distracted by a stand overflowing with delicate jars of candy. The vendor—a cheerful, round-faced woman—beamed at them as they approached. “Looking for something sweet, young lady?”

Katara nodded politely, her eyes scanning the colorful array. “Just browsing.”

Zuko, however, narrowed his eyes at the jars like they owed him money. “Isn’t this kind of a waste?”

“Excuse me?” Katara looked up sharply.

“I mean,” Zuko said, flailing slightly under her glare, “we’re here for dinner ingredients. Why bother with candy?”

“Why bother with candy?” Katara repeated, her tone somewhere between disbelief and the ominous calm before a tidal wave.

The vendor wisely stepped aside.

“Let me tell you something, Sparky.” Katara plucked a jar off the shelf, full of little sugar flowers, and held it under his nose. “Candy is joy in edible form. It’s a reward after a hard day. It’s the perfect combination of ‘I deserve this’ and ‘Don’t judge me.’ And you, Prince Pessimism, could use some joy in your life.”

Zuko blinked, momentarily stunned. Then his lips twitched, threatening to curve upward. “So…you’re saying I need to eat candy to be less miserable?”

“Exactly!” She thrust the jar into his hands. “Consider it therapy.”

He snorted, a sound so uncharacteristic Katara almost dropped the bag of rice she was holding. “Fine,” he said, unscrewing the jar and popping a sugar flower into his mouth. His expression immediately shifted to one of wide-eyed horror. “This is…this is…”

“Sweet?” Katara offered, biting back a laugh.

“No,” he croaked, clutching his throat dramatically. “This is…too much.” He doubled over, mock-gagging. “I’m dying.”

Katara finally let her laugh burst free, the sound ringing out above the chatter of the marketplace. “You’re such a baby. It’s sugar, Zuko.”

“It’s poison,” he deadpanned, though the corner of his mouth twitched again.

Katara grabbed a flower from the jar and popped it into her mouth. “Mmm. Delicious. Guess I’ll have to finish the whole jar myself.”

Zuko straightened, his eyes narrowing. “Not if I get to it first.” He swiped another candy, tossing it into his mouth with a smirk.

And just like that, the competition began. By the time they left the marketplace, the jar was empty, Katara was triumphantly clutching the last flower, and Zuko—now suspiciously energized—kept insisting he wasn’t going to help clean up the “disaster kitchen.”

“Sweet, huh?” he said, nudging her with his elbow as they headed back toward camp.

Katara rolled her eyes but smiled. “Yeah. Sweet.”

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There's still an hour left of Zutara week... I'm not late! This is for day 7: sweet

I woke up this morning and decided I needed to finish this. It's a little rushed, but I did it! I had another idea for this week, but in the end, life got ahead of me. Such is the life of a full-time student 🥲. I'll just have to post that piece some other time!

Thank you for your support 💙

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day seven: sweet!

i made this in like three days (im a high school senior in the us public school system ok) bc the other prompts were lowkey complex and there was no way i was gonna be able to make seven different pieces in one week. so final day it was! 😇

i still fucking hate side profiles but idk i think i kinda cooked this time

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Zutara week 2024

Day 7 - Sweet 💕

Something short but sweet for the best ship🥰

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zutara week 2024 | #7 sweet

a lil adult zutara doodle to end the week (using this lovely chibi pose from @snuffysbox)

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I was nervous because this week has been my first time posting in years, but this community is so welcoming that now idek what I was worried about :) love to see everyone's art and headcannons, thanks for keeping the ship alive 💜

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Sweet and Sour

For Zutara Week: Sweet

Inspired by this fanart from @pineapple-frenzy

Sweet and Sour

All week, the counselors had left for the night together in a big, laughing herd. On Friday, though, people took off early as they finished preparing their areas, ready for the first batch of campers to arrive on Monday.

So when Katara hiked up from the lake, she found the Four Nations camp empty. 

She wasn't shocked. Aang and Toph had both texted her that they were done, and did she want her to wait for them. She'd sent back denials both times. She had a lot to do in the boathouse and she didn't want to keep either of her friends. 

Iroh had sent out a text to everyone that he'd had to go attend to an emergency, and they should lock up their own areas and turn the keys in at the office when they were done. 

Iroh Sozin was one of the summer people, who lived in the big fancy houses on the east side of the lake, drove shiny cars, and spent so much money in just three months of the year that townies could live on it for the other nine. Everyone had expected him to build a bigger, fancier house when he'd inherited a huge chunk of land. But he'd shocked the town of Watertribe when he'd announced that he was going to use it for a summer camp. 

Keep reading on AO3

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Blowing on Embers chap.7 - Sweet

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Zutara Week 7 - Sweet

Zuko and Katara were slowly waking up. They slept in Zuko's fire bed.

Katara: Hey.

Zuko: Hello there.

Katara: Thanks for the tour.

Zuko: I hope it wasn't too much for you.

Katara: No, not at all.

Zuko: Our respective nations may never accept us, but I don't care. I was often the pariah of my own nations for doing and saying things they didn't agree with. But I don't need to justify my actions to anyone, ever again.

Katara: I think I know how you feel.

Zuko was moved by that response.

Katara: I think you're sweet. We've come a long way from the rocky parts of our relationship.

Zuko: (Nods)

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Zutara Week 2024 - day 7: Sweet ✨