#gorilla asks

- @tildeathiwillread

I don't really ship it.

Why don’t you ship it?

Because to me, it's like, really boring, and I just don't care that much for Suki, and while I do like Sokka he isn't my fav. I don't hate it(I don't really hate any ship, any genuine hate I have for a ship is performative and mainly contarian either because the ship doesn't make sense and the fics tend to suck, like Hakozai, which I still consume, or because the shippers are annoying and piss me off, like polytrix, which I would genuinely really like if it wasn't for the fandom anyways and still fold with ease to. I lack grounded values that I stick to). But yeah, just really boring, no juice, no tension, no drama. Why do you think Zukka is so popular?

What would have made you like it?

If Suki was more interesting first of all. If she had, like, trauma. Like, if being a teen leader, warrior and extremely mature for her age affected her, if she had trauma from being parent less, if she just had trauma in general. And if she had a more developed personality and character arc. Like, I have not much to say about her. I know I look like a hypocrite for liking Ozai, but I've at least seen hints about him. I have gotten nothing about Suki whatsoever besides her being a tough Kyoshi Warrior, Sokka's boyfriend and a really healthy and stable person. She needs to be more toxic, more flawed and less normie. She doesn't need to be as bad as the rest of the gaang, she just needs something juicer about her. She needs to be a person outside outside of her surface level traits. I can't really say anything about Sokka as he isn't necessarily the problem in my opinion.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Yes, I very much do. It's the most healthiest, vanilla'est, normalist relationship ever in ATLA. Completely unproblematic(which many ATLA fans care about, but I personally don't care). It's the most preferable relationship in say, real life. Much healthier for Sokka's mental health than Aang, Ty Lee, Toph, Zuko or godforbids, Azula(not hating on Sokkla shippers, love yall, it's just definitely not what you would call healthy in real life). Kaatangers and Zutaraians acting like their own ship are so pure and safe when Sukka exists lmao. That's the only truly healthy ship in ATLA.

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I am the ultimate procrastinator, I need to get in the mood first and I am already making another fanfic currently. I need to get some space(in real life) so I can be able to actually process it and do it, stress in real life is already making it hard to write the one I am currently writing, but don't worry, I will get interested soon enough and start writing some Bowzai.

Let me see

1. I was vibing with gorillas and I was being an ape fandomer at that point and I found it funny plus I have pcos which is why the gorilla theme, and I am female, soooooo, rella. Also, I like gore.

2. Mulan. I really like it and I wish Mulan two was good and there was more canon and fanon Mulan content besides Shang being bisexual rn. Like, I want morrrrrrre of the trio with Mulan and Shang. Like I literally internally played the Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness intro song in my mind with Mulan being epic with Shang and the trio as a TV series. Should have gotten the Rapunzel treatment, smh.

3. I dunno, I am very xnxp, I look forward to many things at a time. Like, making a GLMV with Momo singing Gravity while missing Appa.

4. Buy a new PC, a new mic and get a drawing tablet, all for free.

5. Fruit juices. Especially Citric... yummy lemon, lime and oranges...

6. My mom combs my hair(look, I am a third worlder, we aren't as independent from our parents as yall are!).

7. Never thought about it tbh, it takes sooooo much effort to travel to a different country. If you mean a different place in my home land, again, never thought about it, but maybe I'll think about it soon.

8. October. Spooky Month and my Birthday.

9. Early morning. It's quiet, relaxing and not all too bright but bright enough to see clearly.

The gorilla makes no sense. I remember watching that episode, and yeah, while I was happy for all the clexa interactions, it was still the strangest episode. It was so random and to add to that, there was never a mention of it ever again. Like if the gorilla was such a threat, why weren’t there either people trying to kill it, or at the very least moving a long way away from where it lived.

But you’re right, it wouldn’t be possible for them to survive naturally in those enclosures for that long. With zoo keepers dead (more than likely) due to radioactive exposure, there would be nobody to feed the animals or maintain the place. So the only options really, would be that the gorillas eat each other, until there is one left, which would inevitably die anyway as it would eventually need to eat again.

Or, they are strong enough to survive the bombs and much like the mutations that occur amongst some people, the gorillas could give birth to mutated babies (maybe explaining the huge and extremely stronger Pauna in the episode). But this is also not exactly realistic (despite it being a sci-fi show, and realism isn’t always a necessity), as that would require a lot more time for the little one to grow and develop, than what they would have to survive, with or without eating each other first.