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Panic! At The Day Show by Project7723
Fandoms: The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
20 Sep 2020
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Annie Montrose's pre-press tour briefing did not include a section on what do to with world-famous astronauts hyperventilating on the floor of the men's room, but she'll do her best.
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24 Aug 2025
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Just a missing scene at the end of The Martian. Basically, a series of events that definitely happened as the book came to a close, and some that I think are entirely possible.
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- Part 1 of Let's Go Home
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22 Aug 2025
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Running to Stand Still by Kiyoko_Michi
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Aug 2018
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Shouta never needed much. He had his dream—getting into the UA Heroes course—and he had Hizashi, who’d carved out his own spot in Shouta’s life. That was enough for him… until he wakes up in a dirty alleyway wearing clothes three sizes too big. Faced with an unreliable memory and a school full of strangers, Shouta struggles to unravel what happened to him.
(a de-aged!Aizawa fic)
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- Part 1 of Aizawa is Too Tired for This Shit
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- English
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- 42,604
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- 14/14
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- 23
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- 740
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03 Jun 2024
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Outside, the storm rages on.
Inside, Zuko tells a story.Aang listens.
(Zuko and Aang talk about home and what it means to be family.)
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- 2,012
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- 1/1
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03 Dec 2023
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Zuko knew he would never be enough, and that was okay.
[Because if it wasn’t, he wouldn’t be able to do anything but silently start to break apart.
And what use would he be, then?]
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On Zuko, being broken, and the gold in his life that helped rebuild him. Because like the Japanese art of kintsukuroi, mending broken pottery with gold, he is broken down, and reborn.
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- Part 1 of Loyalty Through Fire
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- English
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- 5,048
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- 1/1
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- 6
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- 99
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- 4,289
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- 38,465
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03 Dec 2023
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her father's daughter by aloneintherain for vvavavoom
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 Aug 2020
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Izumi loved that scar. When she was too young to know what it was, she had smeared red paint over one eye and stuck a paper five-pronged crown in her ponytail. Dad didn’t like it. She didn’t understand why, until he explained what a scar was and why it hurt him to see her pretending to have one.
And now this man was going to give her one for real.
The smoke burned her throat. She choked, crying too hard now to form proper sentences, too scared to say anything other than, “Dad.”
Or: After Izumi is the target of an assassination attack, Zuko is left to deal with the aftermath.
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- English
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- 2,344
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- 1/1
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- 4
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- 196
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- 6,157
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- 1,126
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10 Oct 2023
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Like him, his children are born into war.
They are not the only ones.
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- English
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- 3,516
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 141
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- 3,559
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- 21,284
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10 Oct 2023
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He fears that he will awaken one morning to find that he is alone in their small apartment in the refugee tenement, that Zuko has disappeared over the walls of Ba Sing Se, vanished to somewhere Iroh cannot reach him.
Another day, Iroh begs. Let him still be here when the sun rises.
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- Part 2 of city of walls and secrets
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- English
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- 5,191
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- 1/1
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- 3
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05 Oct 2023
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For his first thirteen years, Zuko was raised in a palace. And yet somehow, it's the three years outside the Fire Nation that seem to count more – at least to the palace staff, who act like he's been raised by fox-wolves.
At first, this only annoys Zuko.
Until he begins to think that the Fire Nation needs more than a formerly-banished prince.
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- Part 4 of Avatar Ficlets
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- English
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- 6,334
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- 1/1
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30 Sep 2023
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It’s only when the Fire Sages are completely out of sight, Azula in tow, that Zuko exhales. He slumps involuntarily into Katara and of course she’s ready to catch him, as if she’s been expecting this all along.
“I’m fine,” Zuko pants, even though his legs aren’t quite cooperating. “Sorry. Just dizzy. That’s all.”
Katara’s not buying it. “You really need to lie down.”
“Just—just for a few minutes,” he concedes, and maybe he should’ve put up more of a fight, because judging by Katara’s face, actually agreeing to rest might be the most worrying sign he could’ve given her.
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- 3/3
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29 Sep 2023
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Easier Said (And Other Lies) by Concerned_Brown_Bread
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 Apr 2021
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Ozai had stood against the fire, light casting a halo behind a man who pranced around as a Spirit. Thirteen-year-old Zuko had looked up to him, like mortals looked up to the heavens. He had looked up, thinking that there would be mercy. He had hoped that this was all a dream, a sick nightmare, and that Father would cradle his face and wake him up. He had prayed -
And he had burned.
Or, Ember Island brings up old memories, a boy tells a story, and the Gaang finds out about Zuko's scar.
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- Part 9 of Tales of the Gaang
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- English
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- 5,644
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- 1/1
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29 Sep 2023
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Soulmates are chosen by the spirits and can hear each other’s thoughts. Sokka thinks it’s cheesy and dumb. Zuko thinks it’s poetic justice that he doesn’t have one because he doesn’t deserve it. Cruel irony is finding out that the prince of the Fire Nation (and the person currently hunting you) is your soulmate.
(Set during and after the events of ATLA, and during some of the events of the comics that follow. This was an excuse to write a slow-burn where Sokka and Zuko are soulmates)
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- English
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- 64,074
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- 12/12
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- 851
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- 8,383
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26 Sep 2023
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Five times the Gaang help Zuko while he's sleeping and one time they help him while he's (almost) awake.
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- 1/1
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24 Sep 2023
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Sokka begins to dream of his soulmate when he's eleven years old, and it just gets harder from there. Or, 125 moments soulmates share, and none of them come easy.
(In which your dreams are your soulmate's memories, and Sokka dreams of an all-consuming fire, growing and eating at his soulmate until it burns up the connection between their souls. In which they find love anyways.)
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- 23,119
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- 6/6
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- 8
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- 468
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24 Sep 2023
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All Zuko had been trying to do was wash some dishes. Or: The one where Zuko and Katara both mean well, but still can't find their footing around each other in time to prevent explosive shouting, broken dishes, an impromptu arrest, and Team Avatar's third- nay, fourth jailbreak. Fifth? They've lost count at this point, but at least they're not willing to lose Zuko... now, if only he realized that.
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- 4/4
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- 374
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22 Sep 2023
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i want to love (but i don't know how) by emrysthewarlock
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Mar 2020
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Zuko wonders if he will ever get better at this, at interactions. (Part of him is hopeful. The rest hasn’t known what hope is since his mother left.)
Or, Zuko learns four types of love that he's been pushing away for too long.
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21 Sep 2023
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This time the Gaang have to beg Zuko to teach the Avatar firebending.
AU where Zuko didn't make the worst mistake of his life in Ba Sing Se. Now Aang needs to convince his firebending teacher to teach him before the Day of Black Sun.
If only he wasn't so darn stubborn.
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- Part 1 of Life Lessons in Ba Sing Se
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- English
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- 15,253
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- 9/9
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- 5
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- 297
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- 6,085
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- 71,215
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20 Sep 2023
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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.
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- 127,145
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- 20/20
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- 14,755
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17 Sep 2023
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Toph says, “It’s never nice when someone tries to make you feel small. Especially when they’re grown adults who should know better.”
Zuko blows out a breath. “Yeah. It’s--yeah.”
(Toph and Zuko, protecting each other at cross-national balls.)
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- English
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- 2,032
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- 1/1
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- 28
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- 280
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- 16,710
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- 77,774
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15 Sep 2023
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good to see you again, this is a home to me by jublis
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Jun 2020
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That night, with Appa snoring next to them and Katara snuggled against his shoulder, Aang breathed and counted. He raked his mind for very little tradition, every little custom, everything he could remember about Air Nomad culture. Otherwise, it dies with me, he’d thought, suddenly terrified. It dies with me.
At ten, you become responsible for your own air bison. They’re companions for life. At eleven, each airbending child gets the chance to visit the wenwú shí of their Temple. At twelve, the standards become higher; assisting the air nuns and monks is your top priority. Thirteen, the first taste of travel; at the Eastern Air Temple, the Shēnqíng de hú will be the start of your spiritual journey. Fourteen is the age of enlightenment; with the mastering of your element, the arrows start being drawn over your skin.
It’s a long process, and a sacred one. Each age brings with it something new; with each age, something grows.
Needless to say, Aang hasn’t gotten a lot of experience with that.
Or, Aang never really stops grieving. Featuring Air Nomad culture, birthdays, and a conversation on a rooftop.
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- Part 2 of heirloom
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,077
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 137
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- 2,319
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- 286
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- 14,717
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15 Sep 2023