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post-ironicweaboo · 2 years

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Meant to contribute to the MaiAang week earlier in the year, but failed spectacularly. So I’m here for the Mai week! This is an amazing series of outfit designs for Mai from my fic I swear I will get back to, “Porcelain”. https://archiveofourown.org/works/36711316 This is for @maiweek Day 2: Canon Divergence! Since the fic’s AU is a result of Aang killing Ozai, and the repercussions/reverberation of that event. Gorgeous art is by the absolutely wonderful @sacrinecro ! Thanks so much for drawing this for me.

#mai #mai week #Avatar The Last Airbender #mai week 2022 #my commissions #porcelain

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gotticalavera · 2 years

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"Do you trust me now?"

Day 2: Jealousy // Canon Divergence

AU!Runaway Mai

Everything is the same, but... The Gaang and Azula arrive late to Omashu, Bumi retrieves Omashu after making them believe they won, Mai manages to escape the battle badly injured and with Tom-Tom in her arms.

While trying to go to the nearest colony to be safe, she is ambushed by Jet and the Rebels. With injuries and a child in her arms, she decides to lie to them and make them believe that she betrayed the Fire Nation. She receives their help and ends up joining the team, and spending time with them and seeing the ravages of war... Did she really lie?

Jet: Hey, pretty~! Mai: Focus

Jealousy

Zuko: You don't know Mai. I have known her since we were children. What do you know about her? Jet: Maybe you have known Mai for a long time... But I know the new Mai

@maiweek

#Let's just say that Jet and Zuko's fight in the tea shop...was for a slightly different reason #mai week #mai week 2022 #mai atla #mai avatar #AU!Runaway Mai #maijet #maiko #mai x zuko #mai x jet #gotti art

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maiweek · 2 years

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Mai Week 2022: Rules, Prompts, and FAQ

[Image ID: A banner with an olive green background and a screenshot of Mai in her Kyoshi Warrior disguise. The text reads “Mai Week 2022. October 3 -7″ /End ID]

Thank you everyone for your prompt suggestions! The prompts have been chosen for Mai Week 2022, which will run Monday, October 3 - Friday, October 7. Every day will have two prompts for you to choose from, and there are two additional bonus prompts to swap in on any day.

This post is intended to serve as a masterpost for the entire event. It will include the dates, prompts, rules, and a FAQ! Make sure to click the read more to get ALL the information!

Prompt List

Day 1; Monday, October 3: Expression or Arranged Marriage

Day 2; Tuesday, October 4: Jealousy or Canon Divergence

Day 3; Wednesday, October 5: Knives or Vampire AU

Day 4; Thursday, October 6: Forbidden or Boiling Rock

Day 5; Friday, October 7: Training or Hurt/Comfort

Bonus prompts: Tattoos or Ember Island

Rules

All works must focus on Mai! Any and all ships are allowed, as long as the ship with Mai is at the forefront. You are also welcome to create general, non-ship content for her.

Any and all gender/sexuality headcanons are allowed! And no ship-bashing, please.

There are 2 prompts for each day. You can choose one or both of them to inspire your work. There are also 2 bonus prompts for you to use on any of the days. If none of the prompts speak to you, feel free to create your own Mai content. The prompts are meant to promote creativity, not restrict it!

NSFW/Mature content is allowed, as long as you tag everything appropriately. So on tumblr, that means following their guidelines for NSFW images. On AO3, that means giving your fic the appropriate rating and tags.

Any kind of creative content is allowed! Fanfiction, fanart, edits, playlists, headcanons, moodboards, ANYTHING!

If you create a visual piece, such as fanart or an edit, please add an image ID, either in the alt text or under the picture itself.

(click under the readmore for FAQ)

FAQ

How do I participate in Mai Week?

Create your content and post it on tumblr. If you post on AO3, make sure to share the link on tumblr. Also make sure to add it to the Mai Week AO3 collection, which will be posted about later. Tag this blog in the main body of your post (@maiweek). In the tags, tag “mai week."

If we don’t reblog your post within 24 hours, feel free to send us a message with the link! I’m sure we all know how unreliable the tumblr tagging system is, we would never intentionally not reblog someone’s post!

If I’m not a creator, how can I support Mai Week?

The best way to support content creators leading up to and during Mai Week is to let them know you support them! Reblog and comment on their work, send Mai content into this blog for us to post, etc. We’ll be reblogging Mai content from now up until the week itself. Supporting that work now will encourage creators for the event week itself.

Also, you don’t have to be an artist or an author to create content! Click here for other ways to participate in Mai Week besides fanart and fanfic!

Who is in charge of Mai Week?

This blog and the event are being run by @praetorqueenreyna and @lady-tortilla-chip

I have a question that isn’t here!

Feel free to send us asks, we’d love to hear from you all! They can be questions, headcanons, ideas, or anything else! If you have a question you’d like us to answer privately, be sure to let us know in the ask. Otherwise, all other asks will be published on our blog.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #tla #atla mai #mai #maiko #mailee #maizula #mai week #mai week 2022 #masterpost #rules #prompts #faq #posting this early because we finished early!

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praetorqueenreyna · 2 years

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“You're so colorful, it's making me nauseous.”

For Mai Week! No prompts or days, just general Mai vibes.

@maiweek

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #atla mai #mai #mai week #mai week 2022

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bearsandbeansart · 2 years

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My submission for @maiweek, vampire.

It's a combination of things, tbh. Those volcanic snails just sort of seemed like the exact sort of pet Mai would love, and someone posted in the discord a dress that just screamed Mai, so here we are. Vampire!Mai rocking an incredible dress and showing her pet some love.

#mai week #mai week 2022 #mai #vampire #tw blood #atla fanart #fire nation

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lady-tortilla-chip · 2 years

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Mai sighs, “Since when are we honest with each other?”

Suki drops her gaze, fingers tightening over Mai’s knee and some part of her longs for her to move her hand up just a little. To glide up her leg and trace the inside of her thigh. She wants her to touch her without any layers too.

Looking down at the other woman in this context has her considering how simple it could be to cross the line.

“What do you want me to be honest about?” Suki asks, her voice quieter now. Speaking as though there were others in the room, as though someone could hear her. Maybe if she spoke any louder someone would. Maybe Ty Lee would.

Mai doesn’t actually have an answer to that so she doesn’t try to offer one, instead saying, “I’m tired.”

Suki looks up at her again, eyes narrowed in consideration. The pause is long and Suki looks as though she has to build courage to ask, “Will Zuko be joining you this evening?”

Mai rolls her eyes, gaze landing on the wall beyond Suki’s head, “That would be unlikely.”

Suki hums, “Then please,” she starts, hand finally shifting up to trace her thigh, her other reaching up to tilt Mai’s chin towards her, “allow me to be here with you in his stead.”

Her breath stops in her lungs and her mouth dries at the prospect. The idea of it, of Suki rising up to press their lips together, to keep pushing until Mai gives and takes and pulls, it pools in molten desire in her gut.

She wants.

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Read the rest here!! @maiweek Day 1: Expressions/Arranged Marriage

#AH THIS TOOK SO MUCH OUTTA ME PLEASE ENJOY IT #Mai #mai week #maisuki #Suki #maiko #KINDA #Zukaang #MUCH LESS KINDA #LOT MORE LEGIT #mai week 2022 #fic rec #my fic #my edit

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avrelia · 2 years

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Mai week's collected

All my posts for this Mai week collected in one document on AO3:

Mai week playlist:

@maiweek

#atla #atla mai #atla maiko #mai week #mai week 2022 #mai's expressions #mai playlist #Spotify

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drowning-in-cacophony · 2 years

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My Mai Week Fic Masterlist

fascinations - written for day three: vampire au

“If you want him, just go get him.” Ty Lee sits back, as if it’s just that simple. It is, to her. It always is. Mai’s eyes drift slightly, to the guy they’ve all been talking about. Dark hair, gold eyes. A scent she can just about catch, if she concentrates. Mai sighs. Agni, she hates it when Ty Lee’s right. Or: the vampire au I never thought I'd write

hazards of faith - written for day four: boiling rock

When Mai heads to the Boiling Rock to help Sokka free his father, the last thing she expects is to run into her former boyfriend Prince Zuko, but well, that's just the sort of luck that plagues you when you join Team Avatar.

Or: a Boiling Rock Reverse Roles au

juncture - written for day five: training

Mai has one job tonight: kill the Fire Lord. Shame that someone's trying to kill her back.

Or: an assassin au

@maiweek

#mai week 2022 #mai week #atla mai #maiko #avatar: the last airbender #atla #thought I'd make a masterlist for ease of reading/finding #also I loved this character week #much appreciation to the mods for putting it together!#anna writes #alloriginalanna

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all-inmoderation · 2 years

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Her gaze is as sharp as a blade.

@maiweek

#mai week #mai week 2022 #mai #atla fanart #mine*#avatar the last airbender #i dont draw yall this took me like two hours #lol #the hands gave me a lot of grief #mai fanart

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likeadragonfruit · 2 years

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Last week I posted an Azula shipping statistics expansion on phantomstatistician’s wonderful post.

When planning ahead for redoing the Azula shipping stats in January, I decided I also want to use the same process for Mai ships then as well.

But, it’s Mai Week, I’m too impatient to wait three months to start getting answers, plus I’m stuck on the fics I wanted to write for Mai Week, so here’s an early run of Mai shipping stats.

@maiweek

Methods

On October 5, 2022, I started with a list of 34 possible Mai ships (and thank you, fandom friends for the all suggestions). Once I eliminated all the options without any works or even a tag on AO3, I took a survey of works for the remaining 21 Mai ships from 01/01/2013 to 10/05/2022.

Data

This chart is for the totals of the sample surveyed. And the other is a table of the chart’s raw numbers.

This is the chart of the total Mai ship fics broken down by year. It included the top 10 ships (Maiko, MaiLee, Maizula, Maitara, MaiAang, Maikka, Maiyue, Maiki, Jet/Mai and Mai/Kei Lo)

And here’s the table for the both the 10 ships in the chart, as well as one showing all 21 ships in the sample

Then there’s this chart that shows the year to year output of works rather than the total. It features the same 10 ships as the previous chart.

And then the raw data tables for this chart

Observations

Total sample of works by year

Before 2020, the growth of the sample never exceeded 150 works

2020 was the year where the most Mai ship works were added

2022 is on track to be the third most productive year, while both down significantly from 2021 and still higher than every pre-2020 year

Cumulative count by year

in terms of total fic count, maiko has consistently remained the Mai ship with the most works.

MaiLee has been in second place for every year except 2016. That year, Maizula held second place.

In 2013 and 2014, Maitara held third place. In 2015, Maizula took third and in 2016 MaiLee took third place when Maizula was in second place that year. Since 2017, Maizula has held third place.

Annual output by year

Maiko has consistently not only held first place, but each year the majority of Mai ship works were Maiko.

Starting in 2020, Maiko’s majority dipped to 61%, and below 60% since then.

Again, the year isn’t over, but Maiko’s output by percentage for 2022 is the lowest it’s ever been (54%)

MaiLee’s highest output year was 2020, at 32%. This has slightly declined to 27%, but is far and above pre-2020 performance.

The Mai ships who currently have the second and third highest output of works for 2022 are MaiLee and Maizula

Speaking of Maizula, while the year isn’t over, 2022 looks to be Maizula’s highest output year since 2016

Other observations

Every year, the annual output of M/F Mai works is greater than the output of to F/F Mai works

Before 2020, the M/F Mai works to F/F Mai works output was usually 80% M/F to 20% F/F

Since 2020, the M/F Mai works to F/F Mai works ratio has hovered between 60% M/F to 40% F/F and 65% M/F to 35% F/F

Parting words

So that’s how Mai’s shipping stats are looking currently. I know that with Mai week in progress, not only have new Mai ship works been added, but new Mai ships are being added to AO3. Much like with the Azula ship stats, I’m hoping to update these stats in 2023 with the finalized 2022 numbers, including the new ships that weren’t included this time.

But I’d also like to say how interesting the data has been. Not only learning about new Mai ships - it’s always surprising what people will come up with - but also how old some ships really are. (For example, Maiki and Jet/Mai have had works since 2013? Impressive!)

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privatefire · 2 years

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SELF PORTRAIT

[ID: Funko Pop Mai, with her arms crossed in front of her chest, a blade in each hand, stands in darkness. A tight spot light is on her and only she is visible. End ID.]

#Mai week 2022 #Mai appreciation week #atla mai #fun with Funko Pop Mai #funko pop #Funko Pop Mai #maiweek #Mai Week

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dearestpartnerofgreatness · 2 years

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mai/Zuko (Avatar), Sokka/Suki (Avatar), Aang/Katara (Avatar), Mai & Zuko (Avatar), Mai & Ty Lee (Avatar) Characters: Mai (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: Mai Week 2022, Arranged Marriage, Maiko Endgame, No cheating, Pining, AU, AU of an AU?

Written for @maiweek 2022 (Prompt: Arranged Marriage).

In which Mai is married off and never joins Azula's team, only to end up becoming her old crush's bodyguard after the war ends.

Plot is inspired by this part from my other story, shadows and steel: “We’d meet again at one of those mind-numbing social functions. My husband would be at the other end of the table [...] I’d be contemplating offing myself with a pair of chopsticks while Ty Lee flirts with all of my brothers in law. You’d see me, I’d see you. We’d remember that time we kissed by the fountain, but neither of us would say anything. We’d be trapped, just like we are now.” Setting down her drink, she offered him a pointed glance. “Only we’d be alone.”

#mai week #mai week 2022 #maiko #mai #arranged marriage au #here we go again lol

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gotticalavera · 2 years

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"It's forbidden to speak without Azula's permission" "It's forbidden to rebel against Azula" "It's forbidden to break Azula's leash"

Day 4: Forbidden//Boiling Rock

I didn't know what to do on this day to combine both concepts, soooo... here you have a Mai in a prison uniform breaking her bond with Azula

@maiweek

#mai week 2022 #mai week #avatar the last airbender #mai avatar #mai atla #gotti art

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maiweek · 2 years

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Mai Creator Appreciation: Fanartists

Thank you all for your submissions for your favorite Mai creators! In the lead up to Mai Week (which will be held October 3-7, click here for prompts and rules!) we wanted to take a minute to highlight the amazing artists who have made Mai art in the past. Image IDs are in the alt text. In no particular order, we have:

@ash-and-starlight