#stemverse

brought to u by ur local earth sci major; ty to the crime fam for supporting me in making this post and @itszukkatime for coming up w like half of these​

zuko is an earth science major

- bitchfather ozai (business dude) is one of those ppl who devalue the humanities and made zuko do a stem major. zuko hates this but ozai kinda...pays for school so he has no choice. this goes on UNTIL he discovers earth science and his visual learner brain goes !!!!

- bitchfather disapproves bc he’s a climate change denier but cannot say anything bc it is stem

- zuko also double majors in literature bc fuck u dad and he has very strong disaster theatre gay energy: he does not sleep and sees no problem with this; also subsists on ramen and asian snacks even tho he can cook perfectly well

sokka is an engineering/lit double major

- he meets zuko in intro to american lit (why did i do that i hate american lit) and bond over the things they carried (the vietnam war novel) and shared family trauma aka hakoda being/having been deployed and zuko having the worst home life/no friends

- originally they both lived in single rooms but then one dorm flooded and a bunch of the assignments had to get shuffled around so eventually they become roommates

katara is a computer science major

- she will physically fight anyone who says women shouldn’t be in cs/stem. zuko joins her even tho she’s told him a hundred times that she’s fine; he just wants to beat ppl up

- she also joins zuko and aang (environ sci major/environmental activist) in committing minor acts of ecoterrorism

suki is a political science major and is in a sorority

- ty lee (psych major) hangs out with a really toxic sorority bc all her sisters were in it but Hates It There...but once she meets suki she ends up joining her sorority and havin a great time. she also plays the sousaphone in marching band bc just imagine the image

- azula is a business major and captain of the division 1 volleyball team

- mai plays the piccolo yall just need to know this.

piandao is zuko’s mineralogy professor and also advisor for his major

- he also teaches swordfighting at his studio a little off campus which zuko and sokka both go to (and don’t KNOW that they both go to and piandao sets them up by giving them both spare keys and after hours permission)

- he’s the local iconic gay professor (based heavily on MY iconic gay professor) he owns a shirt that says “queer scientist” and is dating jeong jeong, who is a chaotic dirt gremlin who somehow got tenure (he’s a field geologist who was forced to teach a class by the department)

-- toph is also a chaotic dirt gremlin who decided that jeong jeong would be her advisor and did not look back. their combined energy can and probably will bring a building to the ground

iroh owns the local boba tea shop

- literally everyone goes there to hang out and do schoolwork

What can I say, I'm a sucker for Earth Science, this is for my new Geoscience notebook, just a happy lil intro page to remember how big the universe is

omg you’re ME ain’t that crazy??? who needs sleep when i could stay in the study rooms in our science building until 2:30 am, walking back across campus alone with only 7% on my phone?? anyway!!!!

zukka college au’s make me SO HAPPY especially @pianjeong HEY WAIT SHE CHANGED HER @ HAHAHA ABBY ILY AND YOUR USERNAME IS ICONIC AAHHHH ANYWAY abby’s earth science fic?? hmm lemme find the link omg, you’ve prolly already read it but it’s so good, my fav zukka college au!!!

Sometimes, you just need to sneak into the earth science lab at three in the morning with your best friend whom you are in love with. This is far more of a formative experience for Zuko and Sokka than they originally intended.

or: the earth science!zuko au. ft. sokka thinking zuko is pretty, supportive gay professor piandao, an accidental thesis, and swordfighting.

Words: 14088, Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Piandao & Zuko (Avatar), Jeong Jeong/Piandao (Avatar)

Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Piandao (Avatar), Jeong Jeong (Avatar)

What they have is almost perfect, Piandao thinks, and surprises himself with the barest hard edge of resentment in it. Almost, but not quite. He’s loved Jeong Jeong almost his entire life and damn it he wants people to know. This is something that they can give themselves, if only they could dare to try.

or: the one where married professor life isn't all it's cracked up to be. but there's always another day, and another try; and love, and a little bit of communication, will carry them through in the end.

Words: 21118, Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Jeong Jeong/Piandao (Avatar)

Characters: Piandao (Avatar), Jeong Jeong (Avatar), Original Female Character(s)

@zukkababey had the excellent idea in tags of piandao and jeong jeong being those professors that always talk about "my husband" in class but NEVER give ANY clues as to who it might be and i’ve accepted that as canon so here is a post [ here is the og stemverse post ]

they're in the same department - piandao teaches mineralogy i came to this conclusion bc i love mineralogy and bc space sword, and jeong jeong is a field geologist who’s been forced to teach so he can keep tenure so he teaches the most chaotic "use of field techniques" course ever. all he wants to do is become one with the dirt none of this teaching shit what are people i hate people

and their students are all trying to figure out who their husband(s) are bc they DROP IT INTO CONVERSATION ALL THE TIME, but literally never think of or dismiss the option of it being each other....piandao is so zen he CANNOT be married to chaotic dirt gremlin jeong jeong. the two of them are doing it on purpose bc they think the chaos (and how the students think they can’t hear them discussing it) is funny

this would probably have continued until they retired if not for the disaster bis sokka and zuko who piandao catches in a closet at 3am (i will say no more on this subject bc it is coming in fic form) and zuko immediately panicks. gay icon piandao knows this and therefore stages an intervention trying to like. come out as to who his husband is so zuko stops thinking abt how he made a fool of himself ??