1 - 20 of 104 Bookmarks by AceBit
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 127,146
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Collections:
- 212
- Comments:
- 14,529
- Kudos:
- 69,174
- Bookmarks:
- 23,931
- Hits:
- 1,695,986
Bookmarked by AceBit
19 Oct 2025
-
the art of redirecting lightning by TheRainbowElectric
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
A realization that’s been lapping at the edges of Sokka’s mind all night finally crashes over him in a wave. “You really hate yourself,” he says slowly, as the cold understanding sinks in.
Zuko’s glare could melt glaciers. “You wouldn’t, if you’d done all the things I’ve done?” he says, which would be fair, except — it’s not just about the things Zuko’s done, is it? It’s also about the things he hasn’t. Zuko hates himself for things that are his fault, and things that aren’t. For who he is, and who he hasn’t managed to be.
And Sokka can see, with sudden, sharp clarity, that if he were to plot the strength of Zuko’s self-hatred alongside the strength of his bending over time, the two lines would hug in almost perfect synch. Which leaves Sokka with only one question: whether someone’s self-loathing could run so deep and unrelenting that it sustains their bending for the better part of a decade.
The night before going in search of Sun Warrior ruins, Zuko starts to doubt that hatred is the source of his bending after all. Sokka helps him figure out what it really is.
Bookmarked by AceBit
15 Oct 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"I don’t fear The Great Rest. Not in the way humans do. Why fear something that is a part of life? Something we have all been working toward since birth? I have lived a long and beautiful life since My Human found me, and I have no regrets. But I am not without worries. The tears on My Human’s face worry me. The slumping of her posture worries me. I want to get up and go to her. I want to purr until her heart is soothed and her tears dry and her back straightens. But I’m just so tired. Who will do it when I am gone? Who will bring her mice when she has not eaten and who will zoom around the room to remind her to go to bed and who will sit on her lap and purr when she is stressed? How can I leave her behind? "
Or...
Post-canon; A loving goodbye and a well-earned rest.
A series of canon-compliant one-shots, each told from a different point-of-view, each telling a different part of the story, but each with a common theme. Sometimes waiting in the sidelines is just as hard.Series
- Part 15 of Left Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,492
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 64
- Kudos:
- 136
- Bookmarks:
- 30
- Hits:
- 1,394
Bookmarked by AceBit
01 Oct 2025
-
though my language is dead by solvskrift for AlPallington
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
"Grimmauld Place is cold. He’d have thought the old house would be stuffy and suffocating with the weather warmed up and every door and window shut tight, but it’s not. Maybe it’s magically controlled, Harry thinks, or some sort of by-product of being stripped by Death Eaters the year before. Or maybe the house just never knew how to be warm. Harry can’t blame it.
He doesn’t really know either."
Harry - and home - after the war.
Bookmarked by AceBit
09 Aug 2025
-
Tags
Summary
To him, the spring of '98 is about sex and funerals.
---
(Or: the big, bold, rocky, and epic post-war story.)
-
Tags
Summary
[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 23,034
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 21
- Comments:
- 296
- Kudos:
- 9,625
- Bookmarks:
- 2,391
- Hits:
- 95,083
Bookmarked by AceBit
26 Jun 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Rocked by the guilt from the Battle of Hogwarts, surrounded by the ghosts of the dead and drowning by the expectations of the Wizarding World, Harry vanishes one night from the Burrow and is not seen again for three months. He resurfaces at the first place he'd ever called home: an interim Defense Professor at Hogwarts Castle. Students, lessons, and spell casting has always brought him calm, but as the world rebuilds around him, he struggles to rebuild himself.
One thing is certain: All is not well.
-
Tags
Summary
They say a cockroach can live up to a week without its head. Harry wonders how long he could live without his head. Feels he’s already lost it. Feels his days are certainly numbered.
NOTE: This is not abandoned, but I realized I cannot write and post consistently.. So, I am working on it (reworking some parts and figuring out where to go next) and then I will re-upload it when I can post it all at once! I do not want to give a time frame/estimate bc that has not worked out so far (ahahah). Thank you for your patience! Means a great deal to me that I still get comments on this. Stay tuned!
Bookmarked by AceBit
06 Jun 2025
-
- Words:
- 543,957
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 452
Bookmarked by AceBit
04 Jun 2025
-
Tags
Summary
At age ten, Harry Potter disappeared. His guardians report that he has been taken, the Trace is broken, months of searching by the Ministry and the Order of the Phoenix has turned up nothing. The wizarding community resigns itself to the worst. That is until, four years later, a mysterious and suspiciously familiar boy is found living on his own in Muggle London. Remus accepts the task of reintroducing him to the wizarding world, Harry resisting all the while. Between meddlesome Ministers and mad escaped convicts, Remus attempts to discover the truth. Where has Harry been? And will he ever learn to trust?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 189,360
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 660
- Kudos:
- 1,496
- Bookmarks:
- 574
- Hits:
- 54,783
Bookmarked by AceBit
03 Jun 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Something's been bothering Zuko all day, and nobody knew what to do to get him to open up to them about it. Taking a page from the Water Tribe's traditions, the Gaang decides to share stories around a campfire to get him to open up.
In retrospect, they probably should've thought a bit more about what they were getting themselves into.
Bookmarked by AceBit
17 Mar 2025
-
old habits die screaming by justanothermess
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Nov 2024
Tags
Summary
“But you just said honor is about doing what’s right. You must have known that wasn’t right,” Sokka presses.
There’s a long moment of silence. Then, “I knew it didn’t feel right. But I always told myself that if I knew the first thing about honor, I would still be home.”
“I don’t understand."
“I didn’t, either,” Zuko sighs.
~
Of course Sokka has seen the scar. It’s kind of hard to miss.
…It just hadn’t occurred to him that it meant anything.
Bookmarked by AceBit
17 Mar 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“You always do this,” Katara whispered. She hoped he could hear the hurt there, riding the waves of her voice.
She hoped he could sense the anger there too, the same that had her clenching her hands into tight fists.
She also hoped he wasn’t looking at her; she didn’t want him to see the tears that were balancing precariously on her lashes.
“I don’t have a choice.” Aang’s voice sounded bitter, a caustic edge she’d rarely heard from him surprising her as it cut into her heart.
——————
Aang doesn’t come out of his fight with Ozai unscathed. He should’ve known he wouldn’t be able to hide it from Katara.
Bookmarked by AceBit
14 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Only a few months after the end of the war, Aang finds himself undercover yet again at the same Fire Nation school.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,532
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 227
- Kudos:
- 1,224
- Bookmarks:
- 335
- Hits:
- 13,872
Bookmarked by AceBit
13 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"It didn't work.
Katara clutched the amulet of spirit water to her chest, her heart pounding against her knuckles. The moment her fingers left Zuko's face - revealing unchanged, leathery skin - was the moment she knew she had made a mistake.
The properties that the water once held were gone, and Zuko's scar hadn't even been healed."
-
Katara goes through with using the spirit water from the oasis on Zuko's scar and bears the consequences.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,147
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 10
- Kudos:
- 171
- Bookmarks:
- 38
- Hits:
- 2,758
Bookmarked by AceBit
05 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Phyllite didn’t respond after that, and then Gabbro couldn’t breathe.
Their deaths were connected, in a way. If Gabbro missed their hammock coming down, Phyllite would die as well. Their ribs would be crushed, and their breath knocked out of them.
If Phyllite missed the mark or didn’t slow down in time, Gabbro would also feel the effects. That’s how the loop restarted perfectly. They had to die together, or they wouldn’t both be in the same loop.
Gabbro closed their eyes, feeling the breath leave their lungs. Blue light filled their vision, and they saw their memories replay.Gabbro hated when Phyllite had to go through that. Gabbro wished they would just stay with them the whole time, for the whole loop.
But Phyllite wasn’t like Gabbro, and they wouldn’t ever be able to stay in one place for as long as Gabbro could.
Gabbro’s radio crackled to life, a voice calling out to Gabbro. “Gabbro, come in! This is Slate of the Outer Wilds Ventures!”
Bookmarked by AceBit
01 Feb 2025
-
26 Years Later, and 87 Meters Down by toomanysecrets for fresne
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
24 Dec 2024
Tags
Summary
For immediate distribution: The Global Federation of Nations will release an important message from President Annenberg on Thursday, October 20th at 12:00pm UTC. Viewing strongly recommended.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,902
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 25
- Kudos:
- 301
- Bookmarks:
- 72
- Hits:
- 1,367
Bookmarked by AceBit
11 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Ryland Grace has been living in the human-friendly bio-dome on Erid for a human month. But with Rocky being busy with other work most of the time, the Eridian scientists start to wonder if maybe they should let him socialize more. Adrian knows a bit about Ryland, and Ryland knows a bit about Adrian, so the decision is made to let Rocky introduce the two and see if Adrian could be the one to keep the human stable until the dome is stable enough to let him freely socialize.
—-
Short happenings of Grace’s life in the dome, with time skips interspersed
-
Tags
Summary
"There’s a line of stuff in our system, okay, but what’s the big issue? We do not travel beyond our borders, so it’s not impeding on us, and there’s no other reason for us to worry, is there?”
“It is getting brighter, Rocky.”-- I start to get a bad feeling about this. Where’s it getting the extra light? Is it reflecting something, or emitting itself? --“And our star is getting dimmer.”
⋔
We get to see what happens in order to launch the Hail Mary, but what about the Blip-A? How'd Rocky get tangled up in all of this? OH BOY DO I WONDER
Series
- Part 1 of 434,000 hours
-
and if i make it through, it's all because of you by notAleks
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
21 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
I don’t think the mission was a failure. I don’t think Rocky’s dead — I can’t bring myself to believe that. They’re alive. Oh, Universe. Please say Rocky’s alive.
⇌
It’s been just over 600 (eridian) years since Rocky left. The crew was assumed dead long ago; the mission, declared a failure. But when a dim light reads on the petrovascopes, it’s all Adrian can do not to cry out in joy. The whole planet is carapace-deep in celebration…until they realise that — oh, goodness — that’s not the original ship; and they get word that everything has gone so, so terribly wrong.
* You don’t have to have read the other story in the series to read this!
Series
- Part 2 of 434,000 hours
Bookmarked by AceBit
04 Dec 2024