r/ATLA • u/Starkrafty • 22d ago

Art Avatar discovers shipping by Booter-Freak

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u/ganjablunts420 22d ago

Not iroh pimpin šŸ˜­

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u/TELLYUU__WORUDO 22d ago

He on dat Ao3 grind, all the tags ESPECIALLY DD:DNE, I think he made 3 collections and hus fans are begging for more angst zutara

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u/Square-Newspaper8171 21d ago

A pimp named Iroh

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u/Random_Name_1987 19d ago

Can't we just call him Iroh for short?Ā 

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u/Square-Newspaper8171 19d ago

No, no. It's A Pimp Named Iroh. It's like A Tribe Called Quest, you say the whole thing. A Pimp Named Iroh

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u/Selacanis 22d ago

Someone get Toph some text to speech, and a description. No one deserves to suffer alone

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u/Liam_theman2099 Boomer Aang 22d ago

Eh, going by her character, she might like being shipped with Sokka or Zuko. She might laugh at being shipped with Aang though sheā€™ll get REALLY confused by being shipped with The Duke or Katara and facepalm at being shipped with Suki.

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u/Cucumberneck 20d ago

Don't forget Ty Lee. I think their only interaction was when Toph recaptured the bear.

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u/Liam_theman2099 Boomer Aang 20d ago

WHAT?! She got shipped with Ty Lee too? Monkey feathers, the crazy shippers find whole new ways to weird people out.

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u/Captsillva 18d ago

Azula as well. Though Azula Katara and Azula Sokka are both much more popular.

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u/Liam_theman2099 Boomer Aang 18d ago

OH COME ON! I knew about the ships between Azula and Sokka and the one with Katara and Azula but why include Toph? How would it even work?

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u/Captsillva 18d ago

Honestly it isn't that wild. When you break their characters down Toph and Azula actually have a lot in common.

Both were born into noble families.

Both have parental issues.

Both are Bending prodigies.

They both have terrible senses of humor.

On top of that Azula's whole thing is being a great at lying and Toph is great at detecting lies and is one of the few characters in the series who isn't intimidated by her.

All of that being said, this is still an uncommon ship.

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u/Visual_Shower1220 18d ago

Toph: damn it... suki should have just let me drown..

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u/WantDebianThanks 20d ago

facepalm at being shipped with Suki.

She might get a lol out of throples with Suki and Sokka tho.

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u/Liam_theman2099 Boomer Aang 19d ago

Dude, no.

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u/Zarohk 21d ago

Honestly, knowing her character, sheā€™s already used text-to-speech to have some fanfics read to her, and has pulled up the smuttieat Sokka x Zuko fic and is trolling her friends by asking them to read to her.

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u/Fallout_4_player 22d ago

Ty Lee is speechless, Aang is PISSED, Azula is ecstatic, and Iroh is just chilling

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 22d ago

Ty Lee, Aang and Azula are understandable. Ty Lee can twist herself like a pretzel so if she saw herself shipped in such "compromising" positions she would be speechless.

Aang, well if he saw anyone touching Katara that isn't him, take cover.

Azula came across blackmail material and actual likes what she sees like Mai.

Iroh though, not a clue.

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u/Fallout_4_player 21d ago

Most people probably ship Iroh with characters he liked in the show, so he has no reason to be against it, that's my guess anyway šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Cucumberneck 20d ago

June i guess.

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u/Fallout_4_player 20d ago

June, maybe that lady in the train station of ba sing se for some reason, maybe one other I'm forgetting?

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u/Cucumberneck 20d ago

I think once read a content that said he had chemistry with the fortune teller lady.

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u/koontzim 22d ago

I don't think Sokka is fine being shipped with all the ladies...

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 22d ago

Yeah, the receptionist women who was at Ba Sing Se's train station and fugitive camp who took Tophs stamp is too much.

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u/koontzim 22d ago

I have no idea if you're joking (I mean obviously you are but I have no idea if you understood what I was saying)

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 22d ago

OK NOW I got it. Remove just the 1 girl then it's chill. I didn't put it together until you called it out.

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u/WhatsUnkown 21d ago

Whatā€™s the joke here?

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 21d ago

The 1 girl he was referencing that I got when he called it out was Katara. Ship Sokka with literally any girl on the list and it works, with the exception of his sister, it'd be beyond messed.

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u/WhatsUnkown 21d ago

Oh yeah that would do it.

Speaking of which, did you see that clip elsewhere in this thread of Azulaā€™s voice actress? That felt weird to me

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 21d ago

Tried looking, couldn't find but I found videos like that before, one of Toph actually.

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u/WhatsUnkown 21d ago

I can link it if youā€™d like

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 21d ago

Considering Azula is my 2nd favorite character I would like that. 1st is Toph.

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u/Xilefinator 22d ago

Oh that shipping. Not the one with the boats

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u/Kooky-Sector6880 22d ago

Ironically they have a lot in common when you think about it

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u/Architecteologist 22d ago

Particularly the oneā€™s headed towards icebergs

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u/condscorpio 21d ago

They are unsinkable?

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u/RealLars_vS 21d ago

What kind of shipping? I am confusion.

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u/Saiyasha27 22d ago

I love that Jet doesn't even know who Zuko is because he never even got his real name!šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/UniversityRegular819 22d ago

Why does Azula love it ??? Should not she be more furious than Aang ?

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u/Starkrafty 22d ago

I saw it as her being a sadist and enjoying the flame wars everyoneā€™s getting intoĀ 

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u/Maximum-Country-149 22d ago edited 22d ago

I mean if anyone can appreciate a good flame war...

It's Ozai, but Azula is a close second.

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u/Shad7860 20d ago

... I just got it

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u/alrightythenred 19d ago

Or maybe she liked the idea of being though hot enough to theoretically burn a hole straight through the crust of the earth, causing a sudden bursting of magma in a place where people wouldn't expect causing countless lives to be lost as people try to survive a disaster they weren't trained to expect... because she's so hot.

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u/Brady_boy_26 22d ago

I believe it is a reference to her being shipped with Zuko and the comment her VA made in a panel years ago

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u/back-that-sass-up 22d ago

The comicā€™s from 2008 (Sokkaā€™s comment in particular is very of that era). The flame wars answer makes more sense than the Zucest one since it was before Grey made that comment.

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u/Brady_boy_26 22d ago

Ah my apologies I did not see the date in the image

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 21d ago

She's prone to being a dominatrix and that's probably what she's seeing.

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u/Excellent-Compote135 19d ago

Cuz she's a FREAK

Also let's be real here she's a literal princess who gives off serial killer psycho girlfriend vibes and if the beach episode is anything to go by she ain't getting none despite being pretty. Home girl is definitely 'Anna Nishikinomiya' levels of repressed.

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u/Al_Hakeem65 22d ago

LMAO Zuko channeling that Bleach author's energy

Also love how smug Mai looks - 'cause she absolutely deserved her price when she stood up to Azula.

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u/Starkrafty 22d ago

here is the sourceĀ 

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u/TeaTimeTelevision 22d ago

What a blast from the past šŸ˜­ I saw this when it was new

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

I love this!

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u/Greywarden88 22d ago

Azula reading Gladiator šŸ«”

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u/Emapping 22d ago

Love seeing their reactions!

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u/Random_Guy_47 22d ago

Ty Lees face is priceless.

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u/JoliJoli3 22d ago

Who portrays Jet as a rapist????

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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 22d ago

I see blackmail in Azulas eyes, I LOVE it.

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u/Critical-Ad-8507 22d ago

Why is Azula enjoing it????

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u/Xx_Exigence_xX 21d ago

She's always the dominant partner šŸ˜‚

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u/Excellent-Compote135 19d ago

Cuz she's a freak

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u/GameMaster818 22d ago

Why did I think shipping, like, delivery?

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u/Demonskull223 22d ago

Azula "I'de get pregnant"

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u/GraveWoodSpeaks 22d ago

Actually had me laugh out loud, though I should've read this not in public

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u/DoubleFlores24 22d ago

Aangā€™s reaction is perfect.

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u/cj-t-bone 22d ago

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

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u/u1tr4me0w 21d ago

Sorry not sorry, Sokka, now shut up and kiss Zuko already

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u/Entire-Adhesiveness2 21d ago

You can tell this was made in 2008 cause itā€™s really unfunny

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u/Oldy_VonMoldy 22d ago

I get the comic, but what is shipping, and when did that become a thing?

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u/Chubs1224 22d ago

Shipping comes from an abbreviation of relationship.

It is a thing that is common in fanfictions.

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u/DebateObjective2787 22d ago

Literally hundreds of years ago.

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u/LaughR01331 18d ago

Thousands if you look at the epic of Gilgamesh in a certain way

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u/Oldy_VonMoldy 21d ago

šŸ˜‚

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u/DebateObjective2787 21d ago

Bro, people were literally writing fanfic and shipping John Watson and Sherlock Holmes together back in the 1800s. It's not something new; it's something that's been around for ages.

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u/Oldy_VonMoldy 20d ago

I meant the term ā€œshippingā€, not the concept. Yeesh

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u/ChildofFenris1 22d ago

Shipping is when people say that they think these two would be a good couple, should be a couple, are just say that they head canon it

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u/MellowPineapple22 22d ago

Iroh definitely going incognito and posting new ships to Reddit šŸ˜‚ā˜•ļøšŸ«–

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u/1nicmit 22d ago

A pimp named iroh

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u/otanthalion 20d ago

Ok I had to expand the picture to see all of their reactions but OMG Azula with the Grinch face just about killed me.

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u/Kanna1001 22d ago

Eh, not a fan of Sokka throwing a fit over being shipped with male characters. Feels like the author used a beloved character as mouthpiece for bashing slash fics.

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u/spyridonya 22d ago

I'm a veteran of this era. You're absolutely not wrong with the artist.

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u/Maximum-Country-149 22d ago

Okay, given Sokka already had sexist tendencies at the start of the series, it seems reasonably in-character for him to act like that. Took us a lot longer to get last homophobia and some of us still haven't.

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u/Indigokendrick 22d ago

According to the korra comics, Water tribe people aren't homophobic. they are very accepting of homosexuality.

The fire nation are the homophobic ones. It was considered a crime since sozin took over.

It would make more sense for Zuko to have homophobic views since he grew up blinded by fire nation propaganda.

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u/Maximum-Country-149 22d ago

You lost me at "Korra comics".

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u/Indigokendrick 22d ago

Sorry, but you can't deny canon just because you dislike it.

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u/Happy_Ad_7515 22d ago

You mean the korrasmi "yes this wasnt puled out of our ass comic" called terf wars.

Its not even the content its just bad.

Only good thing is that it made the theory sozin was gay for roku and thts ehy he banned gay marriage out of spite.

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u/Maximum-Country-149 22d ago

Yeah, I can, but that's beside the point.

LoK is a derivative work from AtLA; its setting and plot depend on things established in AtLA holding true, and thus AtLA is canon to LoK. The same is not true in reverse; AtLA stands on its own without LoK ever being created, which should be self-evident from the substantial amount of time that AtLA existed and LoK did not.

So things established in LoK are only necessarily canon for LoK onwards; they don't affect the canon of AtLA. Hell, new Aang-era comics wouldn't affect the canon of AtLA; the canon of AtLA is established before and independent of the comics.

This image alone doesn't make it clear which canon (AtLA show alone, AtLA show plus comics, LoK looking back on AtLA, whatever) is being used for characterization and context, and it can thus not safely be assumed that the canon established in LoK is in any way relevant here.

Plus, it's a work of fiction, to be consumed as its audience pleases.

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u/Indigokendrick 22d ago

Ok, whatever makes you happy. It is still canon though.

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u/goldnailz 22d ago

Yeah, thatā€™s how I took it. Just Sokka being hyper masculine.

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u/Latefordinner1 22d ago

At first I thought this was gonna be a joke about Amazon

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u/TheFamouseExit 22d ago

I thought you were talking about Amazon until I read the 4th box

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u/ChikumNuggit 22d ago

Stay pimpin pimpin

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u/ChildofFenris1 22d ago

Aang is pissed, but is it about Zutra or Azulang?

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u/Bigt733 22d ago

I for real thought shipping was ā€œshipping and handlingā€ for a sec.

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u/TonySherbert 22d ago

Classic DeviantArt days

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u/CodingAndMath 22d ago

I guess Jet wouldn't realize the scarred guy he had a run-in with in Ba Sing Se was Zuko because he only knew him as Lee, but wouldn't he know that Zuko is the Crown Prince/Fire Lord and wonder why people are pairing him with the Fire Lord when (he thinks that) he never even met him in real life?

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u/NDCodeClaw 21d ago

Do Appa and Momo get shipped together? What is going on there?

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u/DexterDeath 21d ago

What kinda atla fanfic has jet as a rapist???

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u/spicy-boba-milk-tea 21d ago

People do what to jet? šŸ˜­

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u/Brave_Committee_4886 20d ago

2008? This is a blast of old internet.

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u/raspberriez247 20d ago

a classic from the height of the shipping wars

Ty Leeā€™s panel was always my favorite but now it might be Maiā€™s

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u/TiredTalker 20d ago

Iā€™ve only ever seen the Suki panel in isolation šŸ˜­

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u/No_Firefighter8086 19d ago

If azula likes it Iā€™m scared but iroh pimpin seem right

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u/BettaSplendens1 18d ago

Azula and Ty Lee.. iykyk

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u/Atlas-Rising 18d ago

Azula's is the funniest.

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u/Captsillva 18d ago

Know the weirdest ships I've seen that kind of worked.

Aang and Mai in a work called "the Traitor's Face"

Azula and Teo in Equal Ground.

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u/CNJUNIPERLEE 16d ago edited 16d ago

Iroh's reaction is the best, followed closely behind by Azula and Ty Lee.

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u/MartianGovernor 14d ago

I know the whole point of Iroh's character is that he gives a fuck, but this is an exceptional circumstance.

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u/Toph_as_Nails 20d ago

Braille keyboards are a thing. Hello! I've read most of the ships you people get up to, and let me tell you, some of you people need to find religion.