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“How obvious?”
“Let’s say… the snowball became an avalanche.”
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Mike Wheeler had always known he loved Will Byers. It was a fact of life. The sky was blue. The sun would rise in the morning. Empire Strikes Back was the best Star Wars movie. Lucas’s favorite soda was Dr. Pepper. Mike loved Will.
He also knew that “love” had never been quite the right word, but it was the only one Mike could use to describe the feeling, the title of a much longer book.
When he looked at Will now, it was like someone had flipped the page to a new chapter and shoved it in his face. In big, bold letters, there were seven earthshattering words that Mike had never considered. Had maybe always felt but never considered.
Mike Wheeler thought Will Byers was attractive.
It didn’t mean anything. It didn’t mean Mike was…it didn’t. Everything was fine.
This was cool. Everything was cool.Mike felt like something inside him was about to explode like a dying star.
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Heartlines (Zutara Week 2018) by trojantoast
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Zutara Week Submissions from 2018.
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The Love, The Dark, The Light, The Flame (Zutara Week 2019) by trojantoast
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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"Tell me if, somehow, some of it remains
How long you would wait for me and how long I've been away
The shape that I'm in now, your shape in the doorway
Make your good love known to me or just tell me 'bout your day"
- As It Was (Hozier)The Gaang returns to Ember Island.
Loosely connected Zutara Week Submissions from 2019.
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Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 by trojantoast for J_man
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Dec 2025
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My Submission for the 2025 Zutara Gift Exchange!!
Part One "Behind Closed Doors": A moment of peace after a long day.
Part Two "Solstice Surprise": Katara, Zuko, and their kids take a trip to the South Pole for the Winter Solstice. Under the aurora, a new light shines.
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"Steady is the hand that's come to terms
With the lessons it has had to learn
I've seen the things that I must do
But Lord, this road is meant for two
So I am waiting here for you"
- Cold is the Night (The Oh Hellos)My submissions for Zutara Week (2020). Prompts are independent, but are part of the same narrative.
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He doesn't say anything. Then again, he doesn't really need to. She knows exactly how he feels – it isn't just hers, this tangle of confusion and longing, this strange, disorientating sting of clarity that somehow has only made everything else seem even more complicated.
The Hundred Year War is at its peak. The Fire Prince has defected. Sozin’s comet is weeks away. And two teenagers struggle to make sense of themselves, their roles, and each other in a world that’s in the throes of change.
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Mike Wheeler has never been lucky. So, when he finally finds an affordable house near campus for his last year of university—one that isn’t outrageously expensive—he briefly entertains the idea that maybe the universe has finally decided to leave him alone for once.
It hasn’t.
Because, of course, the landlord conveniently “forgot” to mention that Mike would be living right next door to a frat house.
A goddamn frat house. A loud, obnoxious, party-every-night frat house.
Yeah. The universe hates Mike Wheeler.
Or: Mike just wants his final year at university to be quiet. Normal. Uneventful. Which is, apparently, too much to ask for. Instead, the Sigma Chis move in, ruin his peace, and prove once and for all that the universe is, in fact, still out to get him.
Especially when one of the frat brothers is infuriatingly way too attractive and won’t stop existing within Mike’s line of sight—or his goddamn mind.
Mike blames the universe.
Again.
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11 Jan 2026
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"You see me."
And somehow, that makes all the difference.
(Podfic version now available!)
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- Part 1 of a moment to be real
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24 Jul 2020
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“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” ― Confucius
One moment changes the course of history. Katara and Zuko are imprisoned by the Fire Nation Army during the Day of Black Sun, and when they escape, they find themselves adrift in the Fire Nation with no one to rely on but each other. With only six weeks before Sozin’s Comet arrives and four nations to cross, the pair must track down Katara’s allies, save the world—and learn to trust each other.
Canon divergent from Part 2 of 'Day of Black Sun.'
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- Part 1 of The Color of the Stars
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22 Jul 2020
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Every little thing he clings to, every moment he’s stolen of her, are accidents.
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- Part 1 of Zutara Week 2015
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27 May 2020