oh, ATLA... *sigh*

[timepiececlock]

I'm tired of seeing these post-war fics where Katara is Zuko's consort or secret lover or something, his mistress while he's married to Mai.

Why the frell haven't I seen any fics where Zuko is the mistress?

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Sometimes its a necessary cop-out, though, if you're here to write a 2,000 word oneshot and not a novel. I just don't have the energy to fairly and with due attention break up Katara and Aang in an amicable way before getting onto the zutara I want to be writing, you know? That's ten chapters of a dying relationship that may be in my head but will never get to paper.

[misora.livejournal.com]

No, for a 2K oneshot that's different. I'm talking about a multipart, multichapter fic. I think when you have in mind to write a long fic like that, that a convenient "he/she died" in the beginning of the story seems like too easy of a way out.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. As cop-outs go, I like "We broke up" much better than "He died", since I think it's a lot more likely, for one.