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"My Breath—that is what I call this song," says Bato, "for it is as necessary to me to sing as it is to breathe."
When Hakoda exhales, his breath crystallizes in the frozen antarctic air, shimmering and beautifully mesmerizing. The Water Tribe word for poetry is the same as its word for to breathe. Both come from the root anerca—the soul.
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11 Apr 2024
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meditations on grief (i will love again) by goldlyboing
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Jul 2020
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Hakoda stops then, his eyes widening. His whole body stills.
'Oh.' Hakoda thinks. 'Bato is courting me.'
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08 Apr 2024
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Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France... by Mithrigil
Fandoms: Inglourious Basterds (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
15 Jun 2011
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Sixteen-year-old Erik Lehnsherr is waiting for the Basterds at La Louisiane instead of Bridget von Hammersmark. This, well, might change a few things about how the war ends.
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02 Apr 2024
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“Hakoda, can I… buy you a drink?”
“Actually,” a deeper, rumbling voice says from behind him. “I’ve got it covered.”
“Zuko,” Hakoda says. “This is my husband, Bato.”
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- Part 1 of 'Til You See The Light
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20 Mar 2024
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It's the night of Fire Lord Zuko's coronation when Bato and Hakoda finally find a moment of peace to themselves.
Bato knows he shouldn’t stare but isn’t strong enough to look away tonight, too mesmerized by how the ocean-blue eyes of his best friend burn in the amber glow of the Fire Nation lights surrounding them. So beautiful that it makes him want to curse the Spirits for always keeping him just out of reach. The man he’s loved for as long as he can remember. An ache as familiar and instinctive to him as breathing.
What he doesn’t expect is the way, tonight, Hakoda stares back.
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19 Mar 2024
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We'll play hide and seek (to turn this around) by crosspin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 Jul 2020
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Sokka gave him a sheepish smile. “It’s…well, you see, there’s this boy…”
Hakoda sighed and set down the sports section. This was going to take a while.
“He works at Barnes & Noble. At the big information desk in the middle. Every Saturday. And I really want to ask him for his number, but it’s super awkward because there’s always this other guy working the information desk at the same time. He’s old, like you. But I have a plan." Sokka’s eyes lit up deviously. “You come with me to Barnes & Noble today when they’re working and distract the old man. And while you have him distracted, I’ll swoop in and get the goods!”
Sokka has a plan to ask out the cute boy at the bookstore. Hakoda is a begrudging participant until he meets the boy's beautiful older coworker.
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- Part 3 of All I Want (BakodaFleetWeek2020)
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18 Mar 2024
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Ouroboros by blatantblue for Gimbal_animation
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Sep 2023
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Sebastian owns five shirts — two black ones, a brown one, a white one, and one of an irrelevant colour, too worn out to even consider.
Not one of them seems appropriate to wear to pay a visit to a long-lost friend at a brothel.Especially as a client.
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01 Feb 2024
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Seven Years Between the Lines by blatantblue, Trapezoider
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Oct 2023
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After seven years of drifting apart, Ominis and Sebastian find each other again through a chance meeting and a few brave letters.
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01 Feb 2024
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A short-lived series of private lessons took place after Christmas in Harry Potter's fifth school year, during which Severus Snape attempted to teach Harry the skill of Occlumency. The lessons were ultimately cancelled when Harry was caught prying into Snape's memories, discovering the strangest things: A mysterious prophecy connected Harry's fate with Voldemort's, Harry's dad was an insufferable bully, and Severus Snape had been in love with Harry's mum. Naturally, Harry now has a million questions. Snape would prefer to answer none.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. The same question arises in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"
...Or, a classic approach to stubbornness.
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18 Jan 2024
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Azula has decided to deal with a few issues all in one go, by turning her brother Zuko into her sister Zuzu, and then turning her out to the palace guard in exchange for loyalty. But for as much as Zuko doesn’t want to be a bargaining chip for his sister, the spirit world magics change not only his body, but his mind, and holding out isn’t as easy as it sounds. Commission for Yoshiop.
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12 Dec 2023
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Put Down Your Sword And Crown by Zee for akingnotaprincess
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Apr 2015
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“So think about this,” Aang said. “What kind of person should your future wife be? Are you looking for someone serious, someone funny, someone charming?”
Zuko looked into Aang’s eyes. It was a good question, but his mind felt slow and blocked. “I… don’t know. Someone funny, I guess. Someone that I can have fun with. Someone I can trust.” Someone who could lift him up out of a dark mood. Someone who would balance out his own internal demons.
Someone a lot like Aang.
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06 Dec 2023
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we hold our hearts in silence by psychedelic_aya for Melukia
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
21 Nov 2013
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Seventy years later, Korra tries to figure out Zuko and Katara.
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04 Dec 2023
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“Koda,” Bato says again. “You…you have to leave me behind.”
The world goes cold.
Hakoda is selfish. He knows this.
What most people get only once in a lifetime if they’re lucky, he wants for a second time. He wants so badly that it overpowers the pragmatism and rationality that rules every other aspect of his life. And what he wants, he would risk anything for. His men, his Tribe, his own life are all poker chips he would gladly wager to get what he wants. Because Hakoda is selfish, and he knows this.
Bato is badly wounded. Hakoda makes the excruciating decision to separate the wolf from the pack.
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- Part 1 of All I Want (BakodaFleetWeek2020)
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24 Nov 2023
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[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.
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23 Nov 2023
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All The Leaves Are Brown (And the sky is gray) by AvocadoLove
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Iron Man - All Media Types
20 May 2014
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The Winter Soldier's mission is nearly complete. Howard and Maria Stark are dead, leaving him to dispatch their four-year-old child. One quick twist of the neck is all it will take, but the Soldier finds he cannot do it.
So instead of killing Tony Stark, the Winter Soldier takes him away to raise as his own.
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23 Sep 2023
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"Wind whispered secrets through the cattails and the fluttering ribbons of willow branches, carrying the black smell of the nearby marsh up to the front of the plantation owned by Mr. Vladimir Masters. It was an old-looking house. An ancient stone wall circled the miles of grounds, cracked in places and crawling with vines… but the lawn was manicured to perfection and the house was like something out of a southern tourist catalog, with its flawless white finish, crown molding, and two floors with a balcony overlooking the rose gardens. Willow trees taller than the house bowed over the lawn like crones in their old age, branches trailing like a grandmother’s fingers. Soft and lingering, but smelling like death.
And the stars were beautiful… on the night it all came to an end."
A Danny Phantom/Until Dawn au
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25 Aug 2023
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It felt like a mirror shattered. One moment you're looking at them through one piece of glass, then all of a sudden there are dozens of pieces everywhere and you find out that it's hard to hate someone when you know so much about them.
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09 Aug 2023
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You Don't Have To (Say Yes) by luminousbeings
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
03 Apr 2016
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The abridged sexual history of James Tiberius Kirk.
Or, Jim’s varyingly unhealthy idea of what sex is supposed to be (a it-gets-worse-before-it-gets-better story)
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- Part 1 of You Don't Have To 'Verse
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18 Jun 2023
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Narada's Children by LadyJanelly for jadejabberwock
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
08 Aug 2018
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Nero is dead, killed by a previously unknown person on the Narada. This man, this 'Kirk' holds the lives of a million Vulcans in his hands and the first thing he wants is a doctor.
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- Part 2 of Narada's Children
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14 May 2023
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"All Vulcans are liars."
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10 May 2023