One true pairing?! But there's so many to choose from

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

you know, regardless of how else one might view their relationships, potential or otherwise, I think that sokka and zuko are exceptionally and casually physically affectionate. they're up in each other's space, literally sitting on each other, playing with each other's hair, eating off each other's plates, getting into play scuffles and throwing each other around. they're not even paying attention 90% of the time they do it, they're not trying to be intentionally provocative at all. it's just that zuko is starved for physical contact and sokka gives it so freely without a second thought that they end up naturally gravitating into it.

the thing about zukka is that sokka being into zuko is like not at all out of character for him. sokka's type is like someone who is strong and who has a deep and unyielding sense of duty and pride for their culture and love for their people and post-redemption arc thats basically zuko's whole thing. and zuko being into sokka is not out of character because sokka’s like the rizzmaster 8000

Your honour I present to you further evidence that he has an agreement with Mai owing to the need for the firelord to produce an heir and he has a very committed relationship with our boy Sokka