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Tell me about stories you think I should write. I mean, if you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "Ok, I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?
I'm not actually promising to *write* any of these, mind you, but it's fun anyway. And who knows if I'll be inspired!
white_lotus members page.Tell me about stories you think I should write. I mean, if you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "Ok, I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?
I'm not actually promising to *write* any of these, mind you, but it's fun anyway. And who knows if I'll be inspired!
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Date: 2013-02-28 02:08 am (UTC)Toph and Teo starting a disability rights movement, Zuko being a confused would-be ally, erasure of cognitive disability, paying it forward, Aang taking a little convincing before becoming the ideal ally and maybe intersectionality and the same cultural arguments Pakku makes for sexism.
More AUs, more of Toph and Azula, a Zuko<>Toph swap. Quiet Shadowed Places: The Crossroads of Destiny. Holding This Breath: something going right for someone at some point, or the aftermath of the war, or Aang needing to learn firebending.
Zuko<>Yue characterswap.
More of the world where Toph finds Aang (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/65620.html?thread=653908#t653908)-- where do they look for a waterbending teacher, among other questions?
More of the Lightning Strike verse (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=250212#t250212)-- seeing old friends, and being bored by disability, and the things Zuko does to accommodate his new needs.
So, when I see memes like this, can I copy them to my own journal? Is that how these things work?
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Date: 2013-02-28 03:15 am (UTC)#2 sounds hella ambitious, and like it would leave me huddled under the covers ranting to myself about how I was doing it all wrong.
I don't even know how a Zuko<>Toph switch would even work, given that one of Toph's defining characteristics is her incredible self-confidence, which I don't think would have survived a childhood wit Azula and Ozai. I do have a drabble I'm playing with for Avatar 500 about Toph and Azula, but I keep putting it off because Writing Azula is always a little intense for me.
I keep saying every time I hold a meme where it isn't expressly forbidden like Kindle the Wind or something, anybody asks for QSP: the Crossroads of Destiny, they'll get it, but nobody actually asks. Not sure why.
Holding This Breath will never be happy, Muahahahaha! Also, HTB Zuko would be a very bad choice to learn firebending from as his training stopped at thirteen, and he hasn't really practiced in years.
You know about my Banished Princess, Suntouched Prince )more formally known as Zenith and Nadir) verse? That's a Zuko<>Yue swap, and as soon as Kindle the Wind wraps up, that's the next meme.
I have no idea what happens in the world where Toph finds Aang, no idea at all.
I pick away at the lightning strike AU every time I get a prompt for it.
Yes, when you see memes like this, you can steal. I generally wait until other people have stolen it first though...
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Date: 2013-02-28 04:45 am (UTC)I did ask for QSP: Crossroads of Destiny, and did not get it. I believe you chose The Cooler instead. I will ask again, whenever you hold another meme.
Who besides Zuko or Iroh could teach him, then? There's only Jeong Jeong, and that worked out very badly in canon. Perhaps he could find the Sun Warriors, but wouldn't he need the basic firebending to hold the flame to impress the dragons?
Do you have a link to Zenith and Nadir?
Do you mind if I play around with that verse, then, since you have no ideas for it?
Thank you.
Oh, and on another note, I'd also like to see more of this darkfic where Aang is not rescued. (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=312164#t312164)
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Date: 2013-02-28 04:04 pm (UTC)I didn't write CoD for that meme because I figured it would be rotten to make you wait for me to fill it. That's a several thousand word project and I don't like to do those for reward memes. In the memes I do for fun, I'm more willing to do that kind of thing.
Nothing happy or good ever happens in the Holding This Breath verse. Once you understand this, all the secrets of the world will be open to you. Aang doesn't learn firebending until after the war. He and the gaang are hanging out incognito in the conquered Earth Kingdom after Azula chased them out of the Western Air Temple, and when Ozai starts burning down the whole Earth Kingdom with the power of the comet, all four of them take him on. Aang goes into the avatar state, Ozai dies, Aang angsts, somehow they all deal with Azula, and then later, Aang and puppet Firelord Zuko bond over their shared lessons with their harsh and very reluctant firebending teacher. In an effort to connect with his uncle's memory, Zuko takes Aang on an adventure to the "ruins" of the Sun Warriors, and they dance with the dragons. Aang and the Southern Water Tribe help Zuko disentangle himself from the Northern Water Tribe, and Zuko becomes a full monarch.
The universe notes for Zenith and Nadir are here: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/65620.html?thread=735316#t735316 and the Zenith and Nadir tag with its one and only drabble is here: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/tag/zenith%20and%20nadir I'll get cracking on Z&N once I've wraped up Kindle the Wind.
I love that fic, as much for the idea of Zuko working For Toph for years as for the hell I get to put everybody else through.
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Date: 2013-02-28 06:41 pm (UTC)That sounds like a lovely happy ending and I would love to see it.
Thanks for the link!
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Date: 2013-02-28 07:03 pm (UTC)Keep in mind, this is all after I break Zuko's heart into little tiny pieces over and over and over again, finally things level out.
You're welcome!
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Date: 2013-03-01 05:22 pm (UTC)Additionally, cPTSD is its own thing. Zuko had something awful happen, but it was over fast. Same with Aang. I might buy long-term trauma for Mai and Ty Lee butTL would have to care about right and wrong first.
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Date: 2013-03-01 05:54 pm (UTC)Aang I'm less sure about, but Mai and Ty Lee both read to me as people who are dealing with long term trauma. Mai's blankness is one way to deal with someone like Azula who thrives on emotional manipulation. It was a coping mechanism that came naturally to her perhaps because of her parents, but Azula probably did a lot so cement it. In their first meeting, we see Azula threaten Mai's little brother, and other than Mai's flat affect, we have no reason to think she doesn't care. Mai shows Azula no emotion. She gives her no break in her facade. And when she does show emotion, I bet she feels weak. She gave anyone she saw the tools to hurt her. Several of my first stalker's victims exhibited this behavior. Ty Lee exhibits the same behavior I did. Like Mai, she masks her emotions, but she masks them behind a smile. She is always smiling, and when Azula asks, she always complements her to the nth degree. She easily gives Azula her unhappiness and the bounces back. If Azula enjoys her unhappiness the way my stalker did mine, giving it to her easily prevents her from doing worse, and then bouncing back to "happy" ensures she'll ignore you until she wants something from you.
I'm unsure what you meant about the last sentence. Ty Lee was threatened into going back to Azula in the first scene they're in, and specifically, Azula threatens others. She threatens the circus and circus patrons to force Ty Lee's compliance. Speaking as someone with a lot of experience with an Azula type girl, you become very quickly accustomed to doing morally questionable, hurtful things to gain the approval of your tormentor to keep yourself safe. My first stalker used her current "favorite" to help her in torturing any "friend" of hers who was on the outs. This helped her foster intense competition between her small inner circle, and also left her victims with a great deal of guilt after they broke away. While you're doing something for a girl like Azula, you might have a perfectly well developed sense of conscience, and you might even know as you're doing it that it's wrong, but it stops mattering to you, because you do it to survive. Keep in mind, we don't meet Mai and Ty Lee until after Azula has had the chance to work on them for years. To me, the fact that Ty Lee ran from her before canon began and Azula yanked her back says it all.
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Date: 2013-03-02 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-02 02:52 am (UTC)Mai, Ty Lee, and Azula are kind of a touchy subject for me, because I see so much of my first stalker in Azula and Mai and Ty Lee act so much like my first stalker's real life victims, that when I first saw the show, I was like "They get it, they get it! Somebody finally gets it!" (Try telling somebody you're in therapy because you were stalked by a ten-year-old girl and see how well that goes over. Seriously. Well, ten to fourteen year old, she kept it up for four years.) And then there are huge swaths of fandom who want to woobify Azula, and are under the impression that if Mai and Ty Lee were just better friends to Azula, she never would have started hallucinating, and would have become magically nice, and it's like NOOOOO! Why fandom, why?
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Date: 2013-03-02 03:36 am (UTC)Ten-year-olds can be monsters. I was never in that dynamic, though, so I didn't recognize it in Azula and her friends. As far as Mai and Ty Lee being at fault for everything,
1. I don't think they could have caused psychosis.
2. I used to blame myself for not having made my "friend" a nicer person. I couldn't have done anything.
3. Even if they could have, why should they have been obliged to take care of Azula while she wrought havoc upon the world?
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Date: 2013-03-02 04:23 am (UTC)Unfortunately, the whole "If you were just a better friend" thing hits a little too close to what in my darkest moments used to run through my mind. People like Azula and my first stalker convince you to blame yourself and that you're a coward for leaving, and that you're the real bad guy, and then fandom goes with that same logic, and it's like, wow, way to miss the point, folks.
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Date: 2013-03-02 04:56 am (UTC)If I were you-- and if I were very strong-- I would show that last part through a story about how this has affected Mai and Ty Lee. Of course, it's up to you how you use your energy and sanity.
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Date: 2013-03-02 03:17 pm (UTC)Ty Lee and Suki - Sake was written for lalunatique on a meme, Ty Lee in the Kyoshi Warriors hides her scars: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/113196.html?thread=1384492#t1384492
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Date: 2013-03-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(Would Suki really do that? I'm having a hard time believing the leader of the Kyoshi warriors would do that, especially after having gone off to war.)
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