The Avatar_500 Jump Start Posting And Comments Meme

[attackfish]

Alright, I'm unwilling to let avatar_500 go without a fight, so I am going to incentivize participation.  Write and post a fic for Round 65 - Air, and I'll fill a drabble request of yours.  Comment on all of the fics in the round (everybody said they wanted more comments), and at the end of the round, link me to all of the comments and I'll fill a request for you.  Do both, and I will fulfill three requests for commentfic.

The rules for posting to avatar_500 can be found here.

You don't have to belong to avatar_500 or have ever participated in it before to earn a request for commenting, and if you do want to join to post a fic for the round, all you have to do is click the "join the community" button, and you're in, easy.

About which I will not write (so don't request):

Ty Zula
NC-17
Incest
Ships where one party is much older or younger than the other(s)
Rape
Other people's OCs

Other than that, everything is fair game.

The deadline to post fic is Saturday December 1st at 11:00 PM EST.  The deadline to post comments is  Saturday December 8th at 11:00 PM EST.

Fics in The Round So Far:

Marking Boundaries by attackfish
The Need to be Seen by lalunatique
Playtime at Air Temple Island by wolfs_lament 
What Are the Odds? by c3childs
Wrong by chordatesrock
Four Element - Air- Third Stanza byclockwerkchaos
How Tenzin Met Pema by lavanyasix


Fills:

Forwolfs_lament:
   For a story: Hufflepuff Zuko, Secret Tunnel

For chordatesrock:
   For a story: Holding This Breath: the Aftermath of Kidnapping Aang
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Quiet Shadowed Places: the Cooler
   Bonus: Zuko/Toph, all grown up and surviving state dinners

For lalunatique:
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Ty Lee and Suki - Sake

For somariel:
   For commenting on everyone's fics: The Grand Lotus puts out a call

For: c3childs:
   For a story: Hama - Katara wasn't her first pupil  *Warning for violence and death*
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Amon - the vigilante of Republic City
   Bonus:  Yakone - he owns Republic City

For lavanyasix:
   For a story: Lin Realizes Toph is a dirty cop
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Pre-series - Korra encounters prejudice due to being half Northern and half Southern
   Bonus:  Ozai marries his son off into an insultingly low-ranked colonial noble family. Zuko/Kori

Comments

Re: For Stories

[wolfs-lament.livejournal.com]

Playtime at Air Temple Island (http://avatar-500.livejournal.com/225470.html)

Can I request Hufflepuff Zuko? Toph and Zuko in an unintentional adventure, or coming back to the house dorm after Toph has lost a bunch of points and Zuko getting caught up in it.

Secret Tunnel!

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Hufflepuff Zuko is always request-able! This takes place in their fourth year.

~*~

"Well I didn't know they kept an army of animated suits of armor down there." Toph folded her arms and smirked. "Not my fault."

Zuko scowled back at her which she was totally oblivious to. "I don't think anybody else knew either, but most people know better than to go of running down every secret tunnel they come across!"

Toph set her jaw and sat down on the bench, arms still folded. "You didn't have to come."

"Yes I did, you dragged me in with you."

"You could have climbed out again." She shrugged, grinning and spreading her arms wide. "It was only a few feet."

Zuko had seen the look on her face, when the stairstep had vanished, and she had stepped down onto thin air, when she had grabbed his arm reflexively and held onto him as she fell. "Just help me get these seedbeds manured."

She grabbed the spare trowel and pulled it out of the manure with a nice, heavy load. "Admit it, you had fun."

Zuko's good eye bulged. "No I didn't, we had to run for our lives!"

"See?" said Toph triumphantly. "Fun."

"Ugh," Zuko replied. He was on his hands and knees, spreading manure in a greenhouse on a Saturday morning. He didn't want to deal with it.

"Personally, I don't know why they gave us detention," Toph said innocently, blinking her eyes. "They shouldn't leave vanishing staircases like that over tunnels that poor helpless little blind girls like me could have fallen into."

"Give it a rest," he groaned. "Nobody buys that anymore." Except for Zuko, especially when he knew he shouldn't. And there she was, saying the same thing Longbottom and Smith had said to him, about how he didn't have to go with her, and he stood there, unable to tell them yes, yes he did, because Toph was going down that tunnel, and what would she do without him if there was something in the tunnel with her. And she had, needed him, hadn't she? "You lost us a hundred points."

"Hey, I lost us fifty. You lost us the other fifty." She grinned again, wild, and carefree, and unafraid. "Anyway, they should be glad we found those suits of armor before some first year did."

Zuko picked up another trowel full of manure and spread it over the bed. "Most first years aren't stupid enough to poke something they find down a dark corridor with their wand."

The manure hit him right between the shoulder blades.

"You've got to be kidding me," he yelped, grabbing a handful of manure to throw back at her.

Now I have that song stuck in my head...

[wolfs-lament.livejournal.com]

Yay, Toph and Zuko antics! Thank you!

Hope they don't lose extra points for throwing manure around. Why do I have a feeling Hufflepuff don't do very well in the inter-house competition (I've forgotten what the overall competition is called)?

So is Smith their house master, or does he just take perverse pleasure in dealing out negative house points to Zuko?

Zuko had seen the look on her face, when the stairstep had vanished, and she had stepped down onto thin air, when she had grabbed his arm reflexively and held onto him as she fell. I love this bit so much! Toph's talking tough after the fact and Zuko's not going to call her out on it.

I think this has been addressed before, but are all the Gaang and the Dangerous Ladies in the same year?

Through the mountains, secret secret secret tunnel!

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

They do. And they have led every house but their own to victory at least once.

Smith is their head of house, but he doesn't really take perverse pleasure in taking points from Zuko, so much as he bullies everybody except his favorites, and he's convinced Zuko's no good.

Part of what I love so much about writing this verse is just Toph and Zuko as besties. The dynamics there are wonderful.

Yes, the Gaang and the Dangerous Ladies are all in the same year, just to make things easier on me. The crew of war orphans, however, are more spread out.

Re: Through the mountains, secret secret secret tunnel!

[wolfs-lament.livejournal.com]

Wow, Hufflepuff must love them, then.

Ok that makes more sense. I imagine many of the other Hogwarts' teachers treat Zuko in a similar manner (well, less bullying and more lack-of-trust).

Part of what I love so much about writing this verse is just Toph and Zuko as besties. This is mostly why I love reading it so much.

Re: Through the mountains, secret secret secret tunnel!

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the other reason Smith doesn't like Zuko. Hufflepuff losing every time due to a pair of troublemakers doesn't make their head of house look too good, does it? Yeah, his housemates kind of resent them.

The only two teachers who like Zuko are McGonagall, and Longbottom, and both are fairly distant in their regard. Being in Hufflepuff helped reassure some people, but not many.

They're such great besties.