20 Works in Disability AtLA
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How to Dance in Ba Sing Se by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
26 Sep 2026
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After a semester of online classes while recovering from an injury that left him with a facial scar and eye damage, Zuko starts his first semester at Ba Sing Se University. In his first class, he meets Sokka, who recruits him for an on-campus theatre club. This story follows Zuko as he prepares for the show at the end of the semester, while adjusting to his new life away from Ozai, dealing with ghosts of his past, and navigating new situations (like an ableist professor, an infinite number of group chats, his first real extracurricular activity, a possible love triangle, and the first election cycle in which he will be old enough to vote against his father) with the support of his uncle and his new friends.
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The Tale of the Turtleduck Theatre Troupe by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Jul 2025
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Kiyi created the Turtleduck Theatre Troupe in memory of her late parents. When she expands it to Republic City, she recruits Zuko and Bolin to help (Zuko because he's her brother; Bolin because she's seen the NukTuk movers). While working the registration table, they meet a student who needs some extra help and inadvertently helps them figure out something about themselves.
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Sokka has ADHD, Toph is blind.
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It all started because of fidget spinners.
Zuko remembers the day clearly—he was walking down the halls with Sokka, his boyfriend, who was happily spinning his fidget spinner, as one with a fidget spinner does.
It just so happened that Zuko’s ex and current best friend, Jet, was walking in the opposite direction at the time, twirling his own fidget spinner.
Jet and Sokka had never really gotten along well; they were always tense, defensive, and quick to anger around each other. But, since they were in the same friend group and both cared deeply for Zuko, they sucked it up.
Until the fidget spinners.
[or, five times jet and sokka claimed that they hated each other but still looked out for each other when they needed it]
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Toph keeps bugging Zuko into trying out a screen reader. Zuko keeps being an idiot.
Chapter 2: Toph and Zuko have a talk about internalized ableism.
Chapter 3: Zuko learns how to actually use a screen reader.AKA I'm continuing my "let the Gaang have disability aids" agenda.
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Yue spends a lot of time in the palace, where she has the chance to sit, recline or lie down, so it’s sometimes easy to forget – even for herself – that she has scoliosis and chronic pain.
But then, whenever there is an occasion where she has to walk or stand a lot, she is hit with horrible, undeniable pain.
Katara comes up with an plan to help her.(Originally posted to Tumblr. Updated and polished for AO3.)
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Toph urges Zuko to try out a screen reader.
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A Brief Essay on Lemons and Lemonade by TheRoseBlush
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Mar 2021
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He doesn’t need to justify his pain. That’s something he’s learned, recently. It wasn’t a sudden moment of clarity, but an unlearning of what he’d been raised to believe. There isn’t always a reason, there isn’t always an ultimate force acting behind something. Sometimes, you just get handed a lemon by life and you realize lemons just… kind of suck.
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Zuko's never been to Pride before - he's never felt anyone would be willing to support him through it. Now he's dating Sokka, he knows he can trust him.
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- Part 6 of Sokka/Zuko Week 2021
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Ever since she could remember, Katara had been fascinated with soulmates. Who was her's? How many did she have? Just one or more? What did they look like? Where did they live? How old were they?
Thousands of tiny questions littered her young mind since she was old enough to comprehend thought.
So from since she first learned to write when she was a little kid up until now at 14 years old, she wrote to her soulmate.
But the thing was…
They never wrote back.
No once, not ever, not a single time.
________________________This is a Soulmate AU where everything you write on your body shows up on your Soulmate's body as well.
And a Katoph fic
So you know it's gonna be kinda frustrating.
(Also Sokka's soulmate is Aang and Zuko, I think the ship of the 3 of them is CUTE OKAY)
I hope you enjoy!!!!!
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you never quite say (but i hear) by thatwasanticlimactic
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Feb 2021
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"I just wish that the things I said mattered to someone."
"They matter to me."
[or sokka comes to the realization that no one cares about what he says so he just stops talking thinking that no one will notice or no one will care.
zuko notices, and zuko cares.]
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Aang wasn’t sure when he started crying. He wasn’t sure when his friends joined him on the balcony, either. But when they all wrapped their arms around him in a massive, ridiculous, everything-he-could-have-ever-wanted group hug…
They were Aang’s present. His friends grounded him, keeping him in the now. And yet, if he opened his eyes?
Aang suspected he would fly.
(A collection of ficlets written for Aang Week 2021, hosted by @ aangweek on Tumblr.)
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During the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se, Prince Lu Ten, rather than dying, was injured.
It was through his recovery, that Lu Ten, and his father, gained a greater perspective of the world.
Now, four years later Lu Ten and his father were sailing the world with Lu Ten's cousin Zuko, in an effort to capture the Avatar.
At least, that was Zuko's plan, Lu Ten's? Well that's a bit more complicated.
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- Part 1 of An Unknown Variable
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Sokka’s slightly beat-up Toyota pulls up at Iroh’s house at seven. Zuko grabs a jacket and practically jogs to the door.
“I’m leaving, Uncle!”
“Use protection!” Azula calls back.
“Have fun, nephew. Be back by eleven,” Iroh replies calmly from the kitchen. Zuko takes a deep breath and heads out the door.Sokka and Zuko's first (official) date
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Hakoda paced back and forth across the living room.
His son had been gone for over an hour.
His daughter was in her room, the door slammed shut minutes after Sokka and Zuko had left.
His mother was in the kitchen, making his favorites for dinner, but she hadn’t spoken to him since the doors had shut around him.
He was such an idiot.
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- Part 12 of Change of Address
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Azula is a fast learner.
She molds herself.
She buries the parts that Father won't like.
She creates parts Father might love.
She experiments, and tests, and prunes herself until she is what he wants. Until she's safe, and favored, and powerful and his loyal, perfect daughter.
She cannot be like Zuko.
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- Part 11 of Change of Address
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For some unfathomable reason, it was almost impossible to get Zuko alone in the weeks after their first kiss.
So Sokka had invited Zuko to see a movie. And the completely oblivious, perfect, adorably stupid dunderhead had invited everyone else. Sokka really should have made it clearer.
By then, though, he was trapped.
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- Part 6 of Change of Address
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Zuko didn’t like Doctor Zhao.
Father had never come into the room after the first session, satisfied that Zhao was the kind of therapist who wouldn’t wimp out of proper treatment.
If he could just be better. Be normal. Then they could stop having to teach him. But he wasn't better. And he wasn't normal.
Zuko’s first experience with therapy was sanctioned and supervised by his father. Healing was not on the agenda.Series
- Part 4 of Change of Address
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The war is over, and they go to the beach.
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Inconvenience by Khashana, read by Khashana (Khashana)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Jun 2020
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Aang and Zuko aren’t always very good at validating themselves. But that’s okay, because they’ll just validate each other instead.
The birth of Aang and Zuko’s ride-or-die friendship.Series
- Part 4 of Disrespect!verse