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attackfish ([personal profile] attackfish) wrote2010-10-01 08:46 pm

Birthday AU Commentfic Meme!

It’s my birth month, and to celebrate, I’m hosting a commentfic meme!  I’m in the mood to write some AU fics, so that’s the theme of the meme.  I’m open to both Avatar: the Last Airbender and Harry Potter requests, and I’m also taking requests in any of my existing AUs (Except Children of Mars), including the ones I established im my last commentfic meme, as well as new ones.  Comment with up to five requests, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic.  I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me.  [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet , [livejournal.com profile] beboots , and [livejournal.com profile] floranna  get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because [livejournal.com profile] beboots  and [livejournal.com profile] floranna  are the best betas ever, and [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet  has a truly bizarre AU I inflicted on her rattling around in her head.  Also, anyone who wants me to write anything from my AU of Sun Child needs to ask [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet  and [livejournal.com profile] floranna , because it’s theirs.

*Closed and Finished*

Given that this meme has spawned a fair few universes, sorting the fics by requester would be clunky, so instead, I'm sorting them by universe this time.

One Shot Universes:

Another Wacky Day: Sokka3PO and KataraD2 (Star Wars/A:tLA fusion)
  requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 
Oh Come On, Of Course Zuko’s a HufflePuff (Harry Potter/A:tLA crossover) requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 
Zuko muses on his fellow ruler, his sister, and the big universal questions of morality NOTE-not actually AU, requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots
Dwarf!Toph (D&D fusion, sort of) requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Don’t even ask- I don’t even- What is wrong with you, woman? (Kyoshi Warrior Ozai) NOTE- Not AU, just crack, requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Suki's a Firebender requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Toph is the one who finds Aang requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 
Ozai doesn’t allow the Dragon of the West to join Zuko in exile: Parts One, Two, and Three requested by [livejournal.com profile] lavanyasix 

Mirrorverse (The Avatar is an evil spirit):


Meetings requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Aang's Little Crush requested by [livejournal.com profile] gamiel 
In This Verse, Azula Totes Rescues Puppies requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 

Lightning Strike (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Sneaking out of Bed requested by [livejournal.com profile] lavanyasix 
Zuko and Kuei, chillin’ together requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

AU of Ice Flows Through:

Mai, taking Azula's plan down from the inside: Parts One, Two, Three, and Four requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Quiet Shadowed Places verse (from this shortfic):

Zuko Finds Out He’s Blind requested by [livejournal.com profile] floranna 
Zuko Can’t Get Any Respect requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
Fire Bending Masters requested by Hillary (anonymous user)
Agni Kai During Sozin’s Comet requested by Hillary
Toph and Zuko bonding NOTE- crack, and absolutely not universe canon, requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Iroh Dies in S2 (from these three commentfics in a previous meme):

Crossroads of Destiny Parts One, Two Three, Four, and Five requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
The Throne Room requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
Royalty Lessons requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Fail!Incubus Zuko:

Attempted Seduction *warning for sexual coercion and slavery* requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Courting Mai requested by [livejournal.com profile] gamiel 

Life Spirit:

Toph Bei Fong requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Winter When He Goes requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Zuko and Iroh requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Sokka and Katara requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 

Koizilla Destroys the Fire Nation (from this commentfic from a previous meme):

Song requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 

Modern Day:


Toph and Aang Meet requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 
Sleepover requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 

AU of Sun Child:

NOTE- Sun Child belongs to [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet and an index of fics in that verse can be found here.  This AU of the Sun Child AU began in these two commentfics from a previous meme *Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue*

Zhao and Zura's Child is Born requested by [livejournal.com profile] floranna 

Zuko Hurt His Leg on the Run and it Won’t Heal (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Teo and Zuko Bonding Parts One and Two requested by Hillary
Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing requested by Hillary

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] water-soter.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
My problem stems more from cultural (since I grew up watching US television and adapted a lot of their customs to my own) and religion. My family was the only protestant with my aunts and uncles and grandmother catholic.

Sigh, I haven't had that problem, quite the opposite. I have dark brown wavy hair, white, and green eyes. I'm also very tall. Most people thought I was Russian or German because I have a mild speech problem which gave me an accent even in spanish. Let me give you a little background so you can understand the mexican culture in Mexico. Way back when the spanish colonized Mexico, the had to deal with the natives. So they adapted the Catholic religion to fit their own. It was also a matter of race that mattered and color of skin. If you were spanish that came over, you were practically royalty, born in the colony, still high up but snubbed by other spanish born in spain, mixed race still had rights but were considered at the low end. Native, you were a slave. So even now lighter skin is treated better, though it's not as bad as it was in the US. Mostly, though, it's about money and social status.

For me the main problem was my ideology. I thought differently than most of my peers. My interests were different and thus I was different. I didn't treat people like they were lower than me because of the color of their skin or social economic background. That set me apart. We lived in a nice neighborhood but weren't rich or anything like that. But here in Mexico, it would be upper middle class or lower upper class. People expect things from you. How you are, your interests. It may not seem like much, but we were social outcasts and they let us know it. People were nice enough, but when the teacher has to threaten the class with doing a lottery for who got to take me in their group, well . . . you can imagine.

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm from New Mexico, where the Mexican and Spanish history has left very similar marks. Old Spanish families still try to lord it over, and part of the reason why the old New Mexican Hispanics and recent Mexican immigrants come into conflict is that usually the Mexican immigrants are definite peasant class, and darker skinned. Hell, we still have a functioning Patron system in the North and the Llano. The Pueblo Indians were actually treated pretty well here, because they were seen as almost civilized and were amenable to being ruled by the Spanish, certainly better than American Indians were treated in the rest of the Spanish Americas, and we have a truly huge population of crypto-Jews, and of course, there was the influx of Anglos, but other than that, we have a lot of the same dynamics up here.

I had the last part, but that was for my disability. My small town treated me like a pariah for it. Really big on the victim blaming there.

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] water-soter.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sigh, yeah. I spent most of my life trying to figure out what was wrong with me that made me an outcast. A lot of it had to do with my disability, though mine is not physical but rather mental and not as obvious. But yeah. Sometimes people make me want to bang my head against it wall. It makes me so angry because the mexican's that move over there get this sense of entitlement and that they are better than those in Mexico. And those that are born over there turn up their noses at the illegal immigrants when in most cases, that's how their parents got there. Sigh.

Hey cool, you live in NM, I go to school there. :-P

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
If it makes you feel better, a lot of them are smug in self defense for the crap they get put through by old New Mexican Hispanics and Anglos. Which is always the way, it seems with that kind of thing.

Really? where? I go to UNM.

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] water-soter.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly you're absolutely right. Doesn't make it right, though, but I get it. There's so much I want to do for them, all them.

I go to NMSU. :-P

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Go Aggies!

Re: Continuation: Azula’s lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences

[identity profile] water-soter.livejournal.com 2011-01-11 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
;-P