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'Cause my heart softens to your name by solum_ad_legendum
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Dec 2024
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"You’re super early," Sokka said. "The only person who arrived before you is Zuko.”
“Who’s Zuko?” Katara asked, and jumped nearly a foot when she realized they were not alone. A slim but muscled figure stood in the corner of the living room, in front of a stack of boxes all labeled "Nerf Weaponry."
He looked around Sokka’s age, or perhaps a few years older. His face was…
Horribly scarred. Katara’s heart clutched at the injured flesh around his left eye. But it was also…
Beautiful. There was no other word to sum up the angles and lines of his face.
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30 Dec 2025
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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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25 Oct 2025
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What do you do when the person who promised to love you is the one killing you?
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Six months after the proposal, Aang's and Katara'a relationship couldn't be better. They were happily preparing for the wedding. As in love as they were on day one. Or that is what Katara thought until she started drowning in flowers. The proof of her unreciprocated love growing inside of her lungs. Only one reason for the sudden flowery symptoms.Hanahaki, the desease of broken hearts.
Now faced with the imminent possibility of death, Katara has a choice to make. Will she try to save her marriage? Risking her life for an unknown outcome. Or will she finally abondon this doomed relationship before it is too late? Finally giving in to the possibility of finding love somewhere else. Someone she has refused to even consider until now.
One thing is for sure.
Her sickness must be kept hiden off all.
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19 Dec 2023
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Katara is a second-semester freshman at Ba Sing Se University and her decision to study biology and public health is already kicking her ass. With some help from previously acquired credits, she's taking biochemistry a semester early but she was starting to understand why so many people suggested she take a break and just study on track with everyone else. Thankfully, her lab TA is incredibly helpful. He's also incredibly young, handsome, and funny. Katara thinks he might be into her, but she can't tell if it's just her wishful thinking and his naturally sweet demeanor. Her roommate, Suki, just feeds into her fantasies and, as the semester continues, Katara becomes more and more confused.
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15 Jul 2023
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Nobody Ends Up Dead in a Bathtub, Everyone Keeps Their Organs by justsome_di
Fandoms: Original Work
25 Nov 2023
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Alex is an ordinary, highly-introverted office worker. He clocks in and out and goes home to his little apartment he shares with his younger sister. He hasn’t dated in years. Until his co-workers set him up on a blind date.
The only issue is he and his date are not on the same page. At all.
While Alex thinks it’s a normal date, Damián is under the impression Alex is a client who paid to be there. No-so-quickly, they realize something is up. It’s all a prank. Damián is a sex worker Alex’s co-workers hired as a sick joke.
After reassuring that they’re both okay, Alex decides he wants revenge for both him and Damián. The plan is to use the stigma of sex work and start a 6-week, scandalous fake dating scheme with a big finale at the office Halloween party. Alex’s co-workers will be too horrified to try to prank him again. At least, that’s the plan.
(heed warnings at the beginning of later chapters)
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- Part 1 of NEUD
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11 Apr 2023
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When Katara shows up at her brother's house - which he shares with a pair of roommates - with nothing but her gym bag in tote, it's because her life's just been flipped completely upside down. Her longterm live-in boyfriend cheated on her, her seasonal job has ended, and now she has no where to go. Her brother's boss, Zuko, has a spare room and a job he's willing to give her until she can get back on her feet. Zuko knows Katara's off limits, he knows she's heartbroken and stressed out, but he can only deny the pull he feels in her presence for so long. All it takes is one night and one too many of Sokka's signature Cactus Juice Cocktails to change everything.
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09 Feb 2023
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Katara broke up with Aang, but he won’t let her go. Mai dumped Zuko, and he’d do anything to get her back.
When Katara and Zuko run into each other in the hallway—literally—they quickly bond over their recent breakups. And soon, they stumble into a scheme to help Aang move on and to draw Mai back to Zuko: fake dating. It's a classic! What could go wrong?
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30 Jan 2023
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Public Bookmark 4056
Mystery Work
Part of Halfagone's WIPs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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16 Jan 2023
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The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) by GallusRostromegalus
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
31 Oct 2022
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Honestly, Mokuba deserves to have a gun. And everyone else deserves to go absolutely Off The Fucking Rails.
YuGiOh, but they're all appropriately feral little gremlins. Kind of a Reconciliation of the 4Kids Dub and the Horror-Comedy Manga, but mostly me wildly overthinking the setting and deciding to lean into the weirdness.
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17 Oct 2022
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The frame was made of brightly painted clay, a cheesy souvenir that proclaimed "Ember Island" across the top. Along the bottom in curling script it read, "Discover Your True Self". Back then, she hadn’t paid much attention to remembering things - there had been an abundance of laughter and love in her life, and it had felt as though she could only get endlessly happier. "That", she thought, studying herself again, "is the Katara I miss the most."
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15 Sep 2022
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Thomas and Martha Wayne are Gotham's most famous martyrs. They used to be a wife and a husband, a mother and a father, doting parents. They could also be cunning, wicked, glamorous, decadent; an heir and a gold-digger, beautiful people in a beautiful house. It takes a certain kind of parents to make a man like Bruce Wayne, and Alfred can't take all the blame. He can't even take most of it.
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- Part 2 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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10 Jul 2022
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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10 Jun 2022
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So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.
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03 Jan 2022
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Listen, I didn't want to do this, but it stayed in my mind and now here we are.
Basically, Team 7 vs. Kaguya, final smack down. Then suddenly POOF they’re twelve again and waiting to meet their sensei on team assignment day. With no way to get back they decide to stop the war before it begins, and maybe save some people along the way. But they’re twelve, how are they supposed to do that?
Staring: Naruto Everyone's-My-Friend Uzumaki, Sasuke Maybe-I-Won't-Destroy-Konoha Uchiha, and Sakura Better-Than-This Haruno; with a guest appearance from Kakashi's guilt complex.We'll be in for a ride folks.
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03 Jan 2022
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In theatre, a common turn of phrase wishing one good luck is break a leg. But Zuko is pretty sure that it wasn't meant to be taken literally. But knowing something didn't change the fact that he now found himself traveling with the Avatar and his friends without his fire bending and in the care of Sokka. AKA a snuggle or die fic because if I am going to break Zuko's leg and take away his bending then Sokka has to cuddle Zuko.
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- 5/5
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05 Oct 2021
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The barista at the Jasmine Dragon was an asshole. A grade-A, unbearable, pretentious asshole. So why couldn't she stay away? Oneshot.
The modern coffee-shop au we've all been missing.
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29 Sep 2021