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Following Roku’s death, he’d known that the Air Nomads would have to find their Avatar. Thinking of Roku - his spirit, rather - being born among the children in the Eastern and Western temples, a cycle beginning again, ever-new, ever turning, was beautiful.
Really, it was.
Truly.
Gyatso sighed.
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Four years after Avatar Roku's death, the monks of the Southern Air Temple search for the Avatar, and Gyatso finds himself contending with the strangeness of trying to find an old friend who is lost but not gone.
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“Aang? I’m not going to let them take you away from me,” Gyatso said without preamble, walking into the room.
He watched as Gyatso took in the scene: the note on his bed, Aang fully dressed and standing at the window with his glider clutched tight, ready to leave. Gyatso’s eyes widened with the realization, and the look he shot Aang, so full of heartbreak, made his cheeks burn with shame.
“Aang?”
Aang’s shoulders sagged. Of course Gyatso wouldn’t let them send him away. For a moment, all he felt was relief. And then he dropped his glider with a clatter on the ground and rushed towards Gyatso, still standing in the doorway with his hand resting on the post. He wrapped his arms tight around his teacher’s waist and pressed his face into the warm woolen robes.
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Aang stays. The world changes.
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even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
31 Oct 2025
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Zuko walked up to the Water Tribe boy and squared his shoulders.
“Hi?” said the Water Tribe boy, clearly unsettled.
“Hi.”
“Can I ask you a question?” Zuko said. The Water Tribe boy smirked at him.
“You just did,” he said sarcastically. Zuko didn’t bother giving that a response, just staring at the boy. He unsettled the members of this group, he knew that. Hopefully, it’d keep them from messing with him too much.
It worked on the boy, who cleared his throat, uncomfortable at the silence. “Sure. What’s your question?”
“Why is the Avatar doing dishes?”
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After joining the Gaang, Zuko learns a few things. Principal among them being that he's allowed to ask questions.
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the bougainvillea by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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She skips all her afternoon classes and sits in the grass by the baseball field watching dragonflies bump into each other. When school lets out, she camps at the library and flips through the cooking magazines and looks at glossy photos of cakes and pies and the happy families being fed them by happy mothers.
When she goes home, May eats quietly while her mother rants about the other secretary at her job at the steel mill, and wonders if everyone’s parents are like this.
After dinner, May cleans up and washes the dishes. Dries them. Folds the laundry that her mother started but didn’t finish, and goes to bed. Every so often, it hits her. The idea of forever going through each day, almost exactly like this. Sometimes better, sometimes much worse.
She goes to bed and wakes up the next day and does it again.
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May, and the understanding that abundance takes many forms.
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- Part 1 of the river
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if you live, your day will come by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
04 Aug 2024
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In February, six months before his birthday, Peter tells Rhodey. It’s vindicating that he tells him and Rhodey doesn’t suggest talking to Tony about it. He knows. He’s done that same song and dance where they beg and plead and pretend it’s not falling on deaf ears.
Together they gather. Social security card. Birth certificate. Rhodey shows him how to open a bank account, and then tells him about interest and loans and everything that matters when you have a little bit of money but doesn’t mean much when you’ve got a lot.
It’s a hard letter to write. It spans the front and back, and he pours into it. And then he leaves.
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On Peter’s eighteenth birthday, Tony heads into his room in the morning around ten and finds a neatly made bed and a letter sitting on the pillow.
Tony recalls reading the letter, stomach sinking lower and lower with each word, each anecdote of times Peter has begged him to sober up or to keep him out of the spotlight, or to stop destroying himself and asking Peter to watch. Peter wants a life of his own making, an iota of privacy. Tony lays on his son’s bed and cries until he’s nauseous, clutching the letter in a crumple against his heart.
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the river by ZucchiniBread
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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Spring Break, 1986. Will has been missing for six months, and his family and friends are running out of ideas. So, when three new leads develop, there’s no choice but to take them, despite the host of known and unknown dangers. From Hawkins to New York, Nevada, New Mexico, and across an entire ocean, nothing is going to stop them from finding Will and bringing him back home, least of all Will himself.
or: a season 4 rewrite featuring even more survivor’s guilt, a host of shiny new powers, and the road trip to end all road trips, perhaps literally.
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- Part 3 of california show your teeth
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
Or, a
fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .- Language:
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02 Jan 2026
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Here is what Jonathan will not say: I stabbed my boss in the neck with a pair of scissors. I watched him die, and I didn’t even like him. I can’t leave you and Mom in California to go to Boston because I’m paralyzed by the fear something will happen, and you’ll both die, and I’ll be 3,000 miles away.
Ultimately, Jonathan will not lay his issues, his trauma, at Will’s feet and ask his younger brother, who cried when their father stepped on bugs and who has seen horrors Jonathan will never understand, to deal with it.
[Or: On the way back to Hawkins, Jonathan observed. Outside a motel in Kansas, Jonathan and Will have a conversation.]
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22 Dec 2025
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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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10 Dec 2025
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“You used to talk to me,” Mike whispers.
Will’s lungs seize. Shit.
“We’re talking now,” he tries for casual, voice small, hoping it’s enough.
“Not like this,” Mike says. “Real talking.” He swipes at his eyes angrily, pulls away, wraps his arms around his knees. “You used to tell me everything. Even the stuff you didn’t tell Dustin or Lucas. It used to be just… us.”
In which Mike falls apart mid-mission, and for the first time, Will is the one to catch him.
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