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  1. Public Bookmark 71

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    Nothing has been untouched; starvation, exploitation, and death at the hands of the Fire Nation. As the Southern Water Tribe’s benders are hunted to extinction, one is born beneath a full moon. Her first cries echo through the night: a waterbender.
    The raid came fast—brutal, merciless. But Katara was spared. Hidden away in the Fire Nation palace, growing up in the shadow of her enemies. Forced to assimilate for survival, she clung to the only remnants of home, her mother’s necklace… and the light in a lonely boy’s golden eyes.
    Zuko. The prince who made her laugh when nothing else could.
    The Avatar returned, the war’s tides shifted, and Katara seized her chance to escape.
    Joining Aang, she fights for the world’s freedom—while battling the ghosts of her past, including the boy who never wrote, the boy who stood on the wrong side when it mattered most.
    He comes seeking redemption. And though she’s the only one who hasn’t forgiven him, those long-buried feelings—have never truly left her.
    In the quiet moments between battles, they begin to surface again, soft and smoldering. And slowly, painfully, their hearts begin to remember what they once were… and thoughts of what they might become.

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    03 Dec 2025

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    TBR- Highly Recommend.

  2. Public Bookmark 44

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    Zuko and Azula have been tasked by Fire Lord Ozai to find the Last Southern Waterbender, and whoever succeeds will prove themselves worthy of the throne.

    Zuko has never been lucky, and if he has, he can never really tell. That's why, when he runs into a waterbender at the North Pole, he has no idea she's who he's looking for.

    Katara makes the best of a bad situation, and they make their way across the world together- both with the goal of wanting to go home.

    Last Waterbender AU, no avatar.

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    27 Sep 2025

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    to be read

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    "Things used to be simpler. Worse. But simpler."

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    In the twelve years after Ozai's defeat, much has changed, but not all for the better. After another fight, Katara leaves the Air Temples - no, flees from the Air Temples - to seek refuge in Caldera. She hadn't spoken to Zuko in years, not since the letter, not since Ember Island... Whether she is making a mistake, she does not know.

    Not all things have changed for the better. Their group of five has been splintering under the pressure of politics and personal grudges. Their enemies know how to use their disagreements to their advantage... When an unforseen calamity strikes Caldera, and the Fire Nation appears to be on the brink of a civil war, Katara and Zuko have to revisit the last years of their relationship to unravel the mess of guilt, shame, anger, and longing. In the meantime, the web of questions and mysteries thickens, eventually spanning most of the known world... Who is responsible for the attacks? Who is the head of the Dai Li? Who is eyeing the throne?..

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    19 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    when xiyun’s power had begun to manifest, no one had expected her strength. during a meditation session a month ago, the spiritual power that was expelled from her body was so immense that she had accidentally frozen the life force of the elder that was with her.

    in a flurry of panic and uncontrollable emotion, she had then gone on to freeze not only her parents, but most of the xilan clan too. since that incident, she had been captured and thrown in a heavily warded cave in a secluded mountain of xishan, isolating her from the outside world.

    so she’s gone mad, dongfang qingcang thinks. i think she can help me. i need to save her.

    OR, to master liuli fire, one must have great love and compassion. a generous act like saving the xishan shennü from imprisonment has to count, right?

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    03 Feb 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    “I love you,” Xiao Lanhua says. They do not say it often, at least not in words. I love you is her hand in his, and his lips on hers. I love you is in every morning and night, and the moments in between and on the cusp of each. I love you is every drop of morning dew, and every petal of every flower in the greenhouse.

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    Five hundred years of marriage in a dream.

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    03 Feb 2023