17 Bookmarks by choppstick
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Hero is a good person. He's hardworking, kind, and perfect.
But then he remembered her.
He remembered the promise he made to her.
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Hero is a good person. And a good person doesn’t break promises.
He would fulfill it.
No matter the consequences.(NOT SHIP. STOP SPREADING THAT.)
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- Part 1 of You're Back, Mari AU
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"Twice Iroh goes to the Spirit World. The first time he is lost. The second time he is found."—After the War, Azula eventually comes to live in Ba Sing Se with Iroh. On Iroh, Azula, Zuko, and the ties that bind them.
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21 Dec 2025
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"The one-time general grits his teeth, but Ozai has made his implied meaning clear, and there are things more important than an old man’s pride at stake here. So Iroh closes his eyes, breathes. When he manages to calm his demeanor, he slowly sinks into a low prostration, can feel his brother’s smirk on him as he touches his forehead to the cold tile floor. 'Forgive me, Your Majesty.'”
There are some things that matter more than Iroh's pride. Zuko is one of them.
Iroh and Ozai, after the Agni Kai.
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21 Dec 2025
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So here Zuko is, with no family, no band, and no more record contract. Just another punker with a guitar who thinks he's got what it takes. Then he meets Avatar, the band breaking all the rules. They've got everything going for them, the rising star, and they're everything Zuko isn't. But maybe, just maybe, they want a new guitarist. As long as the pretty keyboardist with the blue eyes doesn't murder Zuko first.
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Lorelai laments a childhood dream that never came true. Luke comes to the rescue (as always).
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13 Dec 2025
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“I don’t want to talk about it, Mom,” she manages. “It’s nothing. It’s just—it’s just over, okay?”
“That most certainly is not nothing,” Emily says indignantly.Alternate ending for 6x21, in which Emily Gilmore is simply unwilling to accept that Luke and Lorelai aren't getting married, and some important conversations are finally had.
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Step 1: Risk your spot on the basketball team by failing a class.
Step 2: Flirt with your tutor to try to fix it.
Step 3: Flunk the flirting and the quiz.
Step 4: Accidentally fall for said tutor, who looks like he hasn't smiled since dinosaurs went extinct.Cheng Xiaoshi didn't plan on catching feelings. He just wanted to pass statistics so he wouldn't get benched from the basketball team. But now, he’s plotting regression equations and calculating the trajectory of Lu Guang’s perfect shoulders— and one of them is certainly his preferred variable in this equation.
Or, Star Basketball Player: Cheng Xiaoshi’s got a kink for hot nerdy tutors.
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For the first time in six years he desired someone. He wanted a single mom in his hometown who was hell bent on poisoning herself with junk food. A witchy woman with dark curls and blue eyes who made him smile. He was in so much trouble. (pre-series LL AU)
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Luke and Lorelai have wildly different stances on candy hearts, to the surprise of no one.
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13 Dec 2025
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No one knows what Luke's soulmate mark says. Lorelai takes a bet that she can find out.
A story of how two people can be so obvious and yet oblivious at the same time.
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"Live," she pleads. "I don't want you to sacrifice yourself for this war—for me. I just need you to come back. Please...please come back to me."
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Zuko writes the letters whenever he can. During a break from a council meeting, late at night in his chambers, after another training session with Azula—all he does is write to her. Because he needs to let her know that he's alright and their plan is working. She needs to know that he'll come back.
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- Part 1 of Leave the City Series
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13 Dec 2025
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It begins with Ursa, with that sparkle of life she vanished to protect. When Zuko finds her, everything changes.
Hope is a tender, fearless thing. Zuko's hope has the shape of a child and the eyes of his mother, and it must be protected.
The Avatar can wait.
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In which Lu Ten II, Zuko's little brother, takes the world by storm.
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The wanted poster had the scar on the wrong side.
Maybe he didn’t care enough to look at the poster before it got sent out. Or maybe, Ozai didn’t actually remember which side of his son’s face he had burned off all those years ago. Zuko wasn’t sure what was worse. Ozai had know which side the scar was on. He had to remember. Right?
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In which Zuko isn't sure Ozai knows which side of his face he burnt off and it sends him spiraling.- Language:
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13 Dec 2025
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suffer the pain of losing your firstborn by TheTartWitch
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Dec 2018
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this is what it looks like when your grandfather loves you but your whole family's emotionally constipated.
(except for your uncle, but that might just be all the tea he drinks.)Series
- Part 26 of One-shots of AUs
- Part 3 of Author's favorites
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In which everything is the same except Azula is the firstborn and she's eleven years old when she first meets her baby brother.
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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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.