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As a Mai x Zuko shipper, I am furious that they broke up in the comic, like what??? It makes no sense if you actually watched the show.
As a Mai x Ty Lee shipper...I'm okay with it.
He would tho... He is that type of boyfriend
mai: I really like strawberries
zuko: oh..
(Next day)
Mai: …zuko did u just buy the whole market’s strawberries?
azula is feeling rather mischievous
Based on that one gacha life meme but I can't find the original 😔😔😔
All my Atla screenshot redraws so far
Would you give us a Mai/zuko fanart? Loved the tyzula first kiss post!
Yuri maiko because drawing men is exhausting
I hope that's okay 😭😭
"I heard you telling someone you'd be partying from dusk till dawn. It's dusk. So we're here 😸"
The Fire Lord and her first two consorts
Suki!!
Zuko cunty pose!!!
I'd started to draw this but got pissed that Sokka didn't look right and ended up getting distracted by another project 😭
Maiko core
Maiko core
FEMC in the game 5
FEMC simply gives some comments ➡️ she became influential to MC’s decision ➡️ she can interact with the real world ➡️ NOW
MC can choose to spend time with her
Ah yes. Me. My boyfriend. And his 500 pound nine foot long baby dragon.
forever obsessed with this being an official illustration
Code Names
Zuko: From now on, will be using code names.
Zuko: You can adress me as Eagle One.
Aang: *scoffs*
Zuko: Mai is “Been There Done That.”
Mai: *rolls eyes*
Zuko: Katara is “Currently Doing That.”
Katara: *face palms*
Zuko: Sokka is “If I Had To Pick A Guy”.
Sokka: What the he-
Zuko: Suki is “It Happened Once In a Dream”.
Suki: Excuse me?!
Zuko: And Toph is…
Zuko: Eagle Two
Toph: Oh, thank god.
Jet: hey I’m jet and this is my boyfriend zuko and his girlfriend Mai and her girlfriend Azula and Azula’s girlfriend ty Lee and her girlfriend toph and Toph’s girlfriend Katara and Katara’s girlfriend Yue, and Yue’s ex Sokka, and sokkas girlfriend Suki, and him and Suki also are kinda dating my boyfriend.
fav atla ships
helloooo! today im going to say my fav atla ships. Fair warning I’m a multishipper so there is A Lot. (These are in no particular order)
- sukka
hhhhh them<3 I’m obsessed with them!!! They were my very first atla ship and they are very dear to me. my favorite canon atla ship for sure. I love their dynamic and it’s just!!! So wholesome!!!
- maiko
they are overhated </3 so amazing!!! They fit well together and have some really cute moments. The whole childhood friends to lovers thing they have? amazing. love it. they are,,,so dear to me.
- katoph
Katara and Toph rights!!! Absolute gfs. The dynamic is unmatched. best friends. love them. katoph content on avatar studios that’s all I want 💔 I think the episode where they go to the spa together and Katara called Toph pretty was when I started shipping them and I loved them ever since :’)
- tyzula
i really like this one bc azula just seems to trust ty lee and is much softer with her sometimes, and ty lee seems to genuinely like Azula. I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I believe Mai and ty lee genuinely liked being friends with Azula before her mental health declined so much. anyways I think tyzula is just very neat and I love them<3
- maizula
anyways I’m obsessed with them?? Like it’s a suuuper rare pair which was surprising to me but they would just be so good together and there’s so much angst potential...like ‘I love zuko more than I fear you’ would have so much different meaning if they had feelings for each other.
- maizulee
this is where I combine my love for tyzula and my love for maizula and make it a poly ship. The fact that zukki is more popular than this ship (don’t get me wrong, zukki is awesome) has always surprised me bc they just seemed much more obvious. Anyways they worked so well together and had such a good dynamic, I am obsessed with them. The angst of boiling rock...unmatched I tell you.
- yuetara
them!!! The moon/ocean dynamic, the tragic end, the ‘my crush is dating my brother?’ Moment, they would be so perfect together🥺severely underrated but starting to gain more popularity so maybe they’ll have their yueki moment. the scene they had while watching Aang meditate was soooo cute and I wish we saw more of them in canon. - ty lee/azula/toph/Katara
I actually started shipping this quite recently!! I love tyzula, and tophzula, and katoph, and just recently read the ty Lee and Toph comic so my kind just immediately jumped here. They’d be so cute!!! I know all female poly ships (especially ones that have more than three) aren’t popular in this fandom but like I actually love this a lot??? I think they’d be pretty awesome together and since I hc ty Lee as an air nomad descendant it would be like the four nations.
- teoaang
okay but they were so cute??? like they arent very popular but I think they’d be so sweet together :’) best boys. Aang would love having someone to fly with with. They’d be awesome together <3
thats it!!! I ship a couple more things but these are my main pairings. If you like any of these go ahead and follow bc I will be posting more about them!
maizulee + maiko post canon <3
(This is not comics compliant) not seeing enough Mai/Azula or even Mai/Azula/Ty Lee stuff today so take my interpretation of how it would work post canon:
im horrible at getting together stories but ANYWAYS I think mai would be with zuko and she’d also have feelings for Azula so for a while she’d be torn between the two and then she’s like why not both :/ to herself one day so she tells zuko and he’s like you want to date my sister too??? And Mai says something along the lines of ’i have a type’ (i think I’m hilarious)
anyways tyzula would already be established at this point and I think Mai would not confess her feelings, I actually see Azula being the one more likely to confess (or ty Lee ‘accidentally’ lets it slip to Mai lol) but yeah I don’t really have an actual getting together moment planned.
so I headcanon zuko as transmasc nonbinary and personally love adopted!izumi so that happens <3 Azula and ty Lee still like being called her aunts rather than moms but they raise them together. ty lee would teach her chi blocking bc she’s a late bloomer in terms of bending. Mai would teach her to throw knives and izumi thinks its hilarious that she’ll see her mom look super Powerful and Threatening™️ one minute and then the next her mom will just be laying on the couch cuddling her girlfriends and writing a love letter to her husband who’s on a diplomacy trip. azula and zuko teach her fire bending ofc. Sometimes Azula has to take breaks because it triggers memories of her intense training when she was a child, but her family is always there to calm her down 💘
anyways if you have anything to add pls comment or reblog!!! Not enough maizulee content tbh :( I’ll be posting more of them soon.
Ghibli Movies x ATLA
Ghibli movies as atla ships (romantic or platonic)
Howl’s Moving Castle: I’ve always interpreted it as a maiko movie. Sophie’s conflict with herself and how reserved she is at the start feel very Mai to me and my whole family agrees that Zuko is a like. Flamboyant Howl. (that scene where Howl starts to ooze reminded me of when Zuko got sick from making a good decision)
Ponyo: Yuetara. Katara as Sosuke? She would take such good care of Yue/Ponyo I just KNOW it. Koichi as Hakoda...it just makes sense. Yue as Ponyo would be cool because her dad keeping her trapped kind of makes sense from what we know about Yue’s life. (I actually made some Yue as ponyo art but I will never post it)
My Neighbor Totoro: this one is 100% Sokka and Katara. Kya being sick, Hakodate taking them to visit? Appa as the cat bus and Aang as...idk? That doesn’t make as much sense but um. Anyways I just think this one is really sweet 🥺
Princess Mononoke: I’m not the first person to say this, but suki n sokka. Wolf lady Suki? Yes. And the whole ‘I’ll cut your throat! That’ll shut you up!’ Scene...I would pay to see them as San and Ashitaka. Katara as Ashitaka’s little sister would be so cute 😫
Spirited Away: This one was harder- i can see it as katoph, tyzula, or azutara, but I decided on Tyzula because I’ve used Katara so much already. Azula as Haku??? Ty Lee and no face (mai)? but anyways this au would be everything. Lin would definitely be suki, and the cleaning ladies would be like the kyoshi warriors.
When Marnie Was There: going to be honest I thought this movie was about lesbians til Marnie left the silo with the guy. when I learned they were related I immediately was horrified i thought it was sapphic 😫anyways, it would be cool to see this as Katara and Ikki, or Toph and Opal. I’d go with katara and Ikki though because Marnie is much softer than Toph. Ig the guy katara left the silo with would be Aang, or zuko, or whoever you ship her with. anyways I think that would be sweet :)
thanks for reading!!! I had a lot of fun with this :)
i think im the avatar of the shipping world
Ashes of the Academy 🔥
spoilers in the tags
THIS! THIS IS FACTS!!!
“Are you mad because Zutara didn’t happen?”
“No. I’m actually quite satisfied with how their relationship was portrayed in the finale. I like how these two had such a beautiful and pure friendship. I love how Katara supported Zuko and encouraged him to seek out Iroh. I love how Zuko asked Katara to be there with him during the Agni Kai without any hesitation. Not to mention that beautiful moment when Zuko sacrificed himself to save her, and then Katara took down Azula so she could finally heal him. I just think it’s amazing how these two got so much great development within the finale. It’s everything that I could have ever hoped for.”
“Wait, so if you’re not mad that Zutara didn’t happen, why are you so upset with the finale?”
“I’m upset because Katara got with Aang and Zuko got with Mai.”
“But isn’t that the same thing as being mad that Zutara wasn’t endgame?”
“No, actually those things are very different. You see, the thing with K@taang and M@iko is that there wasn’t any actual development in the relationship. There wasn’t a scene where they honestly talked about their relationship to their partners. I mean, M@iko did have that one conversation before Zuko’s coronation, but it was all… fluff essentially. They didn’t actually address the issues that plagued their previous relationship. They didn’t talk about their miscommunication and try to work past that. Instead, we got a scene of Zuko telling Mai that he basically forgot he left her at the Boiling Rock.
“And don’t get me started on K@taang. The last conversation Katara and Aang had about their relationship was during The Ember Island Players. In case you forgot, Katara told Aang she was confused about her feelings because she needed to focus on the war and then Aang decided that was the opportune moment to kiss her. Katara got upset, obviously, and stormed off. Their last conversation ever before their finale kiss was during Sozin’s Comet: Part 1, in which they yelled at each other for their differing opinions on how Ozai should be dealt with. Like, you have the time to include those conversations but then you don’t include a scene where Katara and Aang talk about that and apologize? A hug before the make-out session is supposed to convey the message that they sorted everything out??? I just… I don’t understand what the thought behind that was.”
“Well, it was implied wasn’t it? Doesn’t that count? And besides, Aang deserves Katara. He saved the world. And Mai deserves Zuko because she saved his life.”
“Ok, first of all, that’s not how love works. People are not entitled to other people’s affections because they saved the world, or that person’s life, or did anything good once ever. That’s like me saying Zuko deserves Katara because he saved her life, which again, is not how love works. And yes, I guess it was implied that K@taang talked about their relationship before the kiss scene, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that they didn’t include it. If the ending shot is going to be of them kissing, shouldn’t the writers have spent more time actually showing this relationship in a healthy manner? Why was there more Zutara frienship development than actual K@taang development? Why were there specific shots of Katara reaching out for Zuko and Zuko reaching out for Katara when that wasn’t really necessary? It would have been so easy to sacrifice a few seconds here and there to compensate for the time it would take to show a proper conversation between Aang and Katara. But they didn’t. And that’s why I’ll always be upset over the finale. Do you understand my point?”
“Oh, sorry what? I kinda spaced out while you were talking lmao. Anyways, K@taang and M@iko are great ships, you’re just butthurt that Zutara didn’t happen.”
TIL that zuko canonically took mai out on a romantic date to a picnic on the burial site of his ancestors and i think that’s honestly the most on brand thing ever
To the non-maikos it’s always: mai and zuko boring. mai and zuko no passion. maiko only based on logistics. people only like maiko bc it’s canon.
To me it’s: mai and zuko share a cultural background which helps them empathize with each other. mai and zuko have a deep understanding about how the other was raised. mai and zuko take comfort in each other because of that. mai and zuko fit like puzzle pieces. mai calm and is his peace. zuko passionate and brings out her inner fire. mai and zuko are each others safe spaces. mai and zuko both made mistakes during the war and need to grow from it. mai and zuko have Fire nation roots and therefore have experiences that help them envision a better nation. mai and zuko team.
I'm in my Maiko feels today, and I gotta say: we don't talk enough about the fact that Mai is too shy to say she loves Zuko to his face.
On The Headband she says "I don't hate you." On The Beach she says "I care about you." In the finale she says "I actually... kind of like you." The ONE time she full on says the word LOVE, is at The Boiling Rock, when she's talking to Azula.
She can call him her boyfriend, act flirty, make out at any time, say he ripped her heart out with the break up letter and jokingly "threaten" him to never do it again... but she just can't say "I love you." She literally started blushing when she tried in the finale, and couldn't get the right words out.
It's such a cute little detail. She's not used to expressing how she feels, so she doesn't know how or when she should say it.
She'll 100% just let it slip someday, in some casual conversation. Zuko is gonna stare at her all wide-eyed and happy, and she's just gonna feel her very soul screaming in agony and embarrassement.
Anyone else finds Teashop Lee x Flowershop Mai adorable?
katara: wow, the stars are beautiful tonight.
zuko: yeah, they are.
katara: you want to know who else is beautiful?
*at the same time*
katara: aang
zuko: mai