(ID In ALT Text) I Had The Joy To Contribute To This Year's 2024 Zukka Novel!!There Were Some Bumbs On

(ID in ALT text) I had the joy to contribute to this year's 2024 zukka novel!! There were some bumbs on the road and last minute changes but here i can proudly share my illustration for:

"husten we have a problem"

written by @itadorifushi beta red by @sixseisliu

You can download and check out the other amazing contributions for this years novel here DOWNLOAD IT HERE (this year with cute merch you can buy!) big thank you again to rocks (@icrowler) for organising this years @zukkanovels

I love threatening to kill myself. you can never take it away from me. and if you try to stop me I’ll really do it this time

RAHHHHHHH

"Brutus"

Bro goes honey on my cheerio till I nut

Okay. Okay. I’m rewatching ATLA and I just hit The Runaway and… new headcanon.

After the war, Toph pulls Aang, Suki, and Zuko aside and explains the whole “Sokka can’t remember what their mom looks like” thing and says she wants to do something about it, for both Sokka and Katara. So they put together a plan. They get Hakoda, Gran Gran, and any other Water Tribe members old enough to remember Kya to give them as detailed a description of her as possible, then with Zuko’s financial help they hire a top-notch portrait maker to put it all together.

Sokka and Katara aren’t suspicious when Zuko approaches them about having them sit for a portrait together - they helped save the world, they have quite a bit of fame and political attention now, makes sense to kind of capture them how they looked when they first defeated the Fire Lord for posterity. But with both of them sitting for the portrait for reference, and with the information from the Water Tribe describing her to work from, the artist is able to put together a damn good recreation of Kya. And when Sokka and Katara finally get to see the finished product r and realize what the artist was really working on, and what their friends did for them… Katara of course bursts into tears, both sad and happy, grief for her mother and joy to see her face so clearly again after so long, and full of love for the friends who went to so much effort to give her this.

But all Sokka can do is stare at the portrait. For so long, his image of his mother has grown murkier and less distinct in his mind. For so long, when he’s tried to picture his mom, all he could see was Katara, because it was Katara who stepped up and took on that role, Katara who made sure everyone stayed together and kept them feeling like a family. But now, he looks at this portrait of his mother, smiling and warm and alive in a way that she hadn’t been in his mind in so long, and instead of Katara in her face, he sees himself.

We need to bring back the athletics body type post