Haiku fest!

[lettered]

Done with season three
Just recently. I loved it--
It's time to fangirl.

I thought it'd be fun
To discuss in haiku form
All of Avatar.

Say you just love Toph,
Or ship Katara/Suki.
Ask who Pakku is.

Best moments of all?
Does fall see nations at peace?
Let's talk Zuko's hair.

Come squee, chat, digress.
Comments go here to commence:
Haiku Comment Fest.

Fear not the haiku.
Sokka said, "This is easy,"
Circa season two.

(Mods, if this breaks rules,
Please delete it. Otherwise,
What rhymes with okka?)

Comments

This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[alias_sqbr]

Avatar's awesome cannot
be contained by seventeen
paltry syllables

Beyond that, hmm, let me think.
I love that a simple kid's show
was so deep and clever

Plus Toph is awesome
(And what else needs to be said?
Refrigerator)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

Everyone tells me
Avatar is just for kids . . .
The best tales transcend.

(Refridgerator
Does need to be said, quite true.
Also, rhubarb pie.)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[sqbr]

It also shows that
you don't need sex or violence
to tell a good tale

(My lit teacher said
Real haikus mention nature.
So: Melbourne is cold)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[annotated_em]

But without the sex
not to mention violence
the ficcers get bored.

Also...

[sqbr]

You asked for words that rhyme with Sokka
Which confused this sleepy Ocker(*)
Since what has rhyming got to do
with word choice when writing haiku?

(*)While checking if this term was too
Obscure for foreigners like you
I found the word's true meaning
Is not just "aussie", but demeaning
Instead one could, say, change this shocker
to "punk rocker" or to "locker"
(the internet also said "gawker"
and long terms like "histamine blocker"
But on the whole I've come a crocker
looking for words that rhyme with Sokka
And now I understand why you
chose sensibly to use haiku

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[sqbr]

But the lack of it
in the original show
gives inspiration :)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[annotated_em]

This is very true;
better to leave those spaces
than to foment wank.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[sqbr]

Have you seen the vid
Bryke made mocking Zutarans?
They do not fear wank.

Re: Also...

[lettered]

"Rhymes with okka,"
Is what Sokka said. See please,
"Tales of Ba Sing Se".

Re: Also...

[sqbr]

Ohhhhh...
And now I feel quite silly.
Well, never mind then :)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lizbee]

Melbourne makes me wish
I had Katara's jacket
And some jasmine tea

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

Internets tell me
Haikus mention time of year.
I punned with "season".

Avatar's best trait:
Sex and violence is there . . .
but just in my head.

Re: Also...

[lettered]

But it was Sokka,
Who failed the haiku challenge!
Plus I learned "Ocker".

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lizbee]

Burning faces off
Is still pretty violent.
Ask Zuko. He knows.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

Steaming jasmine tea
Makes me wish I had Iroh,
Who also warms one.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

Not to mention Mai
Is pretty goddamn sexy.
(Zuko knows this too.)

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lizbee]

I'll never write fic
About Iroh's Fire Princess,
Mary Sue supreme.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lizbee]

Speaking of teh sexx,
If Ozai had reigned shirtless,
He might have prevailed.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

Which to laugh at more:
Iroh's Mary Sue supreme?
Or your rad icon?

I did not mean "warm"
In that lascivious way!
Though Iroh's risque.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[lettered]

I never noticed.
Zuko did not inherit
that fabulous hair.

Re: This is what happens when I check my dwircle when I'm jetlagged

[sholio]

And yet, Zuko's hair
is not without a certain
distinctive appeal.

(Hmm. Online sources
claim "appeal" is a word of
just two syllables.

While I will defer
to authority on this,
I am skeptical.)

[sholio]

Avatar, indeed,
is the show that has it all!
Brilliantly written,

it far exceeds the
standards of not just children's
programs, but also

most Western TV.
(Admittedly the bar is
rather low. But still.)

More importantly,
however, it mashes down
all my squee buttons.

I'm a sucker for
families of circumstance.
Also for friendship,

love, sacrifice, hope ...
not to mention world-building ...
It's all in this show!

And do not get me
started on redemption arcs.
As much as I wish

I could let go my
most unseemly love of them,
it's a hopeless cause.

So. Yes. Avatar.
Not just my favorite show
at the moment, but

possibly one of
my favorites of all time.
Can haz sequel now?

And this is why I don't write haikus

[terajk]

Oh, Zuko, your hair!
I wouldn't recognize you
Except for your scar.

[rydra_wong]

Thinking of haiku
in a world of bending, I
return to Basho.

That well-known old pool --
Badgerfrog cannot jump in:
water is frozen.

Training or combat
often fails to consider
the local wildlife.

[lunarwolfik]

Fire and water,
opposites of each other,
Earth and wind are too.

But the Avatar,
finds harmony between them,
and is totes badass.

A tale of wonder,
just some kids and a flying bison,
against the fire world.

How can you not love
it is epically awesome,
plus there is Iroh.