Title: Bad Day by Lisse
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: OC, mention of canon characters
Word count: 1112
Summary: AU, Future Fic
“The war went badly.“ And "His old man wears an Earth Kingdom name like a shirt that doesn't fit."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love repetition as story telling structure, I love legacy and found families, I love everything this fic is. So far it may be my fav from this fandom.
Title: A glass darkly by AzarDarkstar
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Word count: 1,370
Summary: Canon divigent AU - child soldiers, and responsibility
Why I Rec This Fic: The words are clear but with weight thats fit the real horror of the situation.
“She wiggles her feet in the dirt, but that only makes her missing toes stand out more.“
Title: Exile by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: (spoilers) Katara, Pakku, Uncle Ihro,
Word Count: 2154
Summary: Canon divergent AU – where the final battle ends a bit different.
Why I Rec This Fic: Katara is so strong here, and she shouldnt have to – I adore reading about her and how she manages politics but it is so heartbreaking, poor kid.
Title: Generations by ArtemisRae
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara
Word count: 100
Summary: “Katara's first child is held up for inspection.“
Title: Does not say by Lisse
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Sokka, Sokka&Katara
Word count: 284
Summary: “On love, warriors, and what Sokka keeps to himself.“
Why I Rec This Fic: I love Katara and Sokkas dynamic. I love stories about people wanting to protect the ones they love, and i love stories about communication and the things we can´t say.
Title: More Than Words Can Wield by nebroadwe
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara/Aang
Word Count: 490
Summary: "When Aang tells Katara she was his first love, she struggles to find the right words with which to answer him. Set post-series."
Why I Rec This Fic: Poetry (and Folk Tales)!
Title: Changelings by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro
Iroh & Lu Ten, Iroh & Zuko
Word Count: 200
Summary: Episode: s02e13 The Drill "Somewhere here, his son died."
Warning: Intrusive Thoughts, Mention of Kidnapping
Why I Rec This Fic: We see Ihro kind of from the outside, and there is a lot of potential darkness to write about, I am kind of picky about what kind of it I want to read about but this is just perfect for me.
I like how perfect it slots into canon.
And the way the Intrusive Thoughts are written really hit me, felt my hear start racing with the sentences - it felt true to life to me.
Title: Six Years After by thesometimeswarrior for Zilliannie
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro
Iroh & Lu Ten,
Word Count: 200
Summary: "On the sixth anniversary, while you are living in Ba Sing Se, you wander. (Your legs are restless, and you have already drunk as much tea as you can, and you do not know what else to do.)"
Why I Rec This Fic: i love this, not a word too much not a word too few - and the reality/heartbreak that Lu Ten was fire nation royalty and military and not where Ihro is at this point - and the reality/heartbreak that Ihro maybe isn’t quite where people including himself like to see him - i am so there for that angst
Title: Shadows by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ozai & Zuko, Azula & Zuko, Iroh & Zuko
Zuko, Iroh
Word Count: 517
Summary: "Zuko is twenty-five years old when the man dies, consumed by despair and by a burning fury that no longer has any fire into which or young princes onto which to release it.
There is no fanfare, no memorializing, but Iroh comes anyway."
Title: Times Such As These by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Iroh & Jeong Jeong & Piandao
Iroh, Jeong Jeong, Piandao
Word Count: 555
Summary: “We do not induct children into the Order, Piandao!” exclaims Jeong Jeong.
“He’s not a child,” insists Piandao calmly, without standing up. “He might have been, were this a different time, had he not grown up in the midst of a war. But he did."
Title: Healing by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Kanna/Yugoda, Katara & Yugoda
Yugoda, Katara
Word Count: 643
Summary: Episode: s01e18 The Waterbending Master: Katara tells Yugoda Pakku will train her in fighting.
Why I Rec This Fic: I am always there for people looking at the shitty options and going it is either this or that, and chose door number 3 – I am also always there for more background on female side characters, specially the one that do not fit mainstreams idea of stories to be told like older ones like Yugoda here.
Now that she’s seen the girl’s resemblance to Kanna, it’s hard for Yugoda to see anything else on her face. Each move Katara’s features make, each expression, is just as she remembers Kanna’s to have been. And when the girl comes to approach her in the Healing Huts, Yugoda is able for an instant to imagine that she’s sixty years younger, that her one-time best friend is here, in front of her, with that defiant glint in her eye.
Title: The Mark of a Great Leader by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara & Zuko
Word Count: 700
Summary: “The offer that I made in Ba Sing Se,” says Katara in response to Zuko’s question. “You know, to try to heal your scar. It still stands.”
Why I Rec This Fic: Despite overzealous shipping wars I still do like Katara and Zukos relationship/friendship but I am a bit cautious about reading fic for them for reasons – this is nice, I like Zukos self-reflection, and I like her support, and the bigger political picture in which this teenagers have to navigate their friendship.
It’s the first day he’s had in the four months since his coronation without a meeting or some sort of public appearance scheduled, so, of course, he has to spend it waging war on the chaos that is his office. His uncle only recently moved back to Ba Sing Se, and though he has made it clear that he is willing to come back and help whenever Zuko needs him, the Fire Lord is not willing to call him for something as trivial as helping to organize.
Well, then, I’ll come, Katara had written when Zuko mentioned as much in one of his letters, and also how the task overwhelmed him. Aang is going on a meditation retreat that weekend at the Southern Air Temple anyway...He hasn’t had a chance to, since the War ended.
And then she had arrived, before Zuko could reply telling her it wasn’t necessary.
Title: Between Rocks and Hard Places by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro,
Ihro & Zuko
Word Count: 771
Summary: "He sits on the side of his bed, buries his face in his hands. The Avatar is a child."
Why I Rec This Fic: Rekindling early Ihro characterization with what the character grew to be.
Title: In Memoriam by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Zuko
Word Count: 1069
Summary: "There had been plans, under Ozai, for a memorial in heart of the Capitol City commemorating the massive number of Fire Nation lives lost during the Siege of the North."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great bit of world building, Zuko characterization and gives room to easily to forget side characters.
Title: Biases by thesometimeswarrior for Zilliannie
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro &Toph Beifong, Ihro &Azula,
Ihro, Toph Beifong
Word Count: 1483
Summary: “No.” His voice is firmer than Toph has ever heard it. “It is not her fault. At least, not entirely. Yes, she should be held accountable for her actions, as we each should be. But, Ozai…I saw that Zuko needed help. I knew Zuko. And when I came back from War all those years ago, I saw how much he needed me. So I tried to help him—”
“You did. From how I’ve heard it, you basically saved Sparky’s life!”
“And if I had not, he very easily could have been like Azula is now. She needed me as well…and yet I did not see it.” He pauses. “You will think poorly of me.”
Why I Rec This Fic: People clever then me have written about redemption and who gets them in media – Azula isn’t the biggest “should have been treated better by the narrative”- character in ATLA for me but she is on the list – and this piece does exams Ihro as a character with flaws wonderful and also gives a great interaction between Ihro and Tophs whos interactions in canon are just great and should have tons of fanworks together.
Title: Tea? by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro &Azula,
Ihro, Azula
Word Count: 2082
Summary: "he thought only she’s crazy, and she needs to go down, because he thought of Zuko, saw that Zuko needed him, especially then.
It is only now that Iroh realizes that she did too. That she still does."
Warning: mental instability, forced institutionalization
Why I Rec This Fic: Kind of a follow up to Biases by thesometimeswarrior. Azulas situation here really gets to me, and I am very happy that Ihro tries for her.
Title: At Least the War is Over by Sour_Idealist
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Azula/Ty Lee
Ty Lee
Word Count: 1123
Summary: "Sometimes we leave people because we're afraid of what we've become; some people are hard to leave no matter what they come to be."
Why I Rec This Fic: I really like this ship and I love the ANGST about this ship post-canon.
Podfic: here by Chestnut_filly
Title: like a fly will never love you by lastwingedthing for ConvenientAlias
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Azula/Mai/Ty Lee
Mai, Azula, Ty Lee
Word Count: 2372
Summary: "Mai hates the Earth Kingdom."
Why I Rec This Fic: Mais pov is so interesting, and I love the girls messed up relationship.
Azula agreed that the lack of attention on security in Omashu was appalling.
Azula agreed that something needed to be done.
Azula thought Mai was capable of doing it –
Mai had almost forgotten what it felt like, to have someone believe her, believe in her. Even when she – they – failed at their first task, letting theAvatar and his friends escape, Azula still wanted her for the mission. And Azula never accepted anything but the best.
When they left, the three of them together, Mai didn’t look back.
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