Hello, Wednesday!
Nov. 9th, 2011 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeI love Wednesdays, because they're my mid-week day off. Here is today's to-do list:
-sleep in
-go to Bridge Road, acquire new skinny jeans and a bra that isn't secretly scheming to kill me with its underwire HOW CAN A STORE BE FULL OF BRAS, YET HAVE NO NICE ONES IN MY SIZE? Oh, it was full of lacy, fancy 14G bras, but none of them were plain, comfortable and supportive all at once! It's not that I don't like lacy, fancy bras, but they don't last at all!
- come home, work on Avatar Big Bang
I'm going to Sydney this weekend, and at one point I'd had grand and responsible plans to have the damn fic finished and off to betas before SQUIDCATION. But right now, I'd settle for "closer to the end than before".
Now, I'm going to have breakfast and embark on today's expedition. I leave you all with a question to ponder: why are there so many Azula/Sokka fics? Why do so many people look at Azula and think, "Yes! What she really needs is the love of a good man!"?
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- come home, work on Avatar Big Bang
I'm going to Sydney this weekend, and at one point I'd had grand and responsible plans to have the damn fic finished and off to betas before SQUIDCATION. But right now, I'd settle for "closer to the end than before".
Now, I'm going to have breakfast and embark on today's expedition. I leave you all with a question to ponder: why are there so many Azula/Sokka fics? Why do so many people look at Azula and think, "Yes! What she really needs is the love of a good man!"?
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Date: 2011-11-08 10:02 pm (UTC)why are there so many Azula/Sokka fics?
I've seen at least one person say the appeal (at least partly) was as an answer to Katara/Zuko. Also, both of them are their respective Team Genius?
What I want to know is: Where is all the Sokka/Teo fic? *grumbles*
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Date: 2011-11-08 10:06 pm (UTC)BUT THAT IS A RELIEF, LET ME TELL YOU.
I've seen at least one person say the appeal (at least partly) was as an answer to Katara/Zuko. Also, both of them are their respective Team Genius?
Those are both good points, although the fics I skimmed did seem to feature Stepford Azula, who is sweet and just a little bit snarky sometimes, and needs Sokka's manly man-ness to rescue her from villains. Which just goes to show that early psychopharmaceuticals had some scaaaaaaaaaaaaary side effects.
What I want to know is: Where is all the Sokka/Teo fic? *grumbles*
BUT YOU CAN'T BREAK UP TEO AND HARU!
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Date: 2011-11-08 10:22 pm (UTC)Ah. I suspect part of the reason Sokka/Azula strikes me as a reasonable thing (not "Wow, awesome!", but "I don't see why not?"), is because I have not read those fic, and am picturing a relatively-in-character Azula (having made the "I am now reasonably mentally healthy and do not want to take over the world, destroy anyone's civilization, or start a war" changes it'd take to get me to ship her with any of the heroes, but not Stepford Azula. Actually, how is Stepford Azula even possible? Those words make no sense.)
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Date: 2011-11-08 10:48 pm (UTC)As far as I can see, you basically make her Yue, but with black hair, and without Yue's wry sense of humour. Apparently that is what "sanity" looks like.
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Date: 2011-11-08 11:51 pm (UTC)...but that wouldn't result in the 'perfect' submissive and feminine girlfriend, which is what you get if you take Yue and remove everything interesting or distinctive or potentially challenging about her.
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Date: 2011-11-08 10:48 pm (UTC)I feel hypocritical saying this, as one of my major problems with my Kaleidoscope assignment was: "Oh, God, what if I got EVERYONE WRONG?" Also I watched the movie Battle Royale and then decided I liked the TV Tropes description of manga!Kazuo really a lot. Except I haven't read the manga yet but I wanted him RIGHT THEN so I wrote him in my head. But...WHUT.
BUT YOU CAN'T BREAK UP TEO AND HARU!
Haru/Sokka/Teo <--Fixed :D