A sweet little character piece. There's always something adorable about Toph wintering with her friends, especially when everyone tries not to make a big deal out of the fact that frostbite is pretty much Toph's worst nightmare. Her being sensitive to the heartbeat of Suki's baby was a nice touch.
(I guess Gaoling never got especially cold?)
( Asymmetrical: Safe Inside - Toph and Zuko )
Piggyback rides from Zuko: now my head!canon.
( Pai Sho: Liar's Game -Toph and Iroh )
While he would never live long enough to know the true horror of that day, the "Bei Fong Variation" as it came to be known would largely displace the popularity of Traditional Pai-Sho within Aang's lifetime.
( Wartime: A Cup of Tea - Pai Sho: Liar's Game -Toph and Iroh )
Ninja!badass!Ursa seems to be pretty common these days, so it's weird to see the older (?) variation where Ursa is more of a steel needle wrapped in cotton. Good fic, though.
( Spirit World: Watersblood - Yue and La )
Good. Sad.
Not a lot to say here, sorry.
( Air Ship: Flotsam on the Wind - Jet, Smellerbee, and Longshot )
I hear ya, Jet. This is one of the things about the finale that has always bugged me, and seems like a major hazard for future resentments between the nations. And now we know that the Earth Kingdom isn't even going to get back most of the land that the Fire Nation carved out of it with steel and fire. Unless they get a hell of a compensation deal, the Earth Kingdom's leadership is going to have a bloody shirt to wave for generations to come.
Jet's also got a good point about the Firelord. It's kind of insidious how fantasy gets you to cheer for Our Heroes installing a dependable strongman to run the resident quasi-fascist dictatorship.
( Tom-Tom: Uncle - Tom-Tom, OCs )
Nice character piece for Tom-Tom.
It always strikes me as a little odd to see Maiko-spawn named for Roku. I get that he's the Avatar and Zuko's great-grandfather and everything, but he was also a complete screw-up when it came the most important decisions of his tenure. I'd say it's like naming your kid after Neville Chamberlain but I don't think that goes far enough.
( Hubris: Quiet Please - Wan Shi Tong and Zhao )
Deft little flclet of backstory on Zhao.
( Alternate Universe: Bow Your Head - Iroh and Zuko )
This world is totally boned. Even if they kill Azula, then what? The lack of an Avatar will really screw them up in the long-run. We know from canon that the Fire Nation just doesn't have enough manpower to control the rest of the world, so One World Government is out. If they're very lucky, the FN and EK become peaceful counterweights to each other and the two relatively small WTs end up either Finlandized or polar Switzerlands. And that's not even getting in Spirit World business.
So yeah. Totally boned.
( Greed: On his Children - Zuko and OCs )
Love this AU series. Also, ouch. Poor Zuko.
( Ruination: She's Within - Zuko and Azula )
On the plus side, this AU's Korra won't grow up to be an eldritch abomination. So that's something.
( Metal: Keeping Time - Sozin, Azulon, Zuko, Iroh, and OCs )
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Date: 2011-12-20 04:50 am (UTC)A sweet little character piece. There's always something adorable about Toph wintering with her friends, especially when everyone tries not to make a big deal out of the fact that frostbite is pretty much Toph's worst nightmare. Her being sensitive to the heartbeat of Suki's baby was a nice touch.
(I guess Gaoling never got especially cold?)
( Asymmetrical: Safe Inside - Toph and Zuko )
Piggyback rides from Zuko: now my head!canon.
( Pai Sho: Liar's Game -Toph and Iroh )
While he would never live long enough to know the true horror of that day, the "Bei Fong Variation" as it came to be known would largely displace the popularity of Traditional Pai-Sho within Aang's lifetime.
( Wartime: A Cup of Tea - Pai Sho: Liar's Game -Toph and Iroh )
Ninja!badass!Ursa seems to be pretty common these days, so it's weird to see the older (?) variation where Ursa is more of a steel needle wrapped in cotton. Good fic, though.
( Spirit World: Watersblood - Yue and La )
Good. Sad.
Not a lot to say here, sorry.
( Air Ship: Flotsam on the Wind - Jet, Smellerbee, and Longshot )
I hear ya, Jet. This is one of the things about the finale that has always bugged me, and seems like a major hazard for future resentments between the nations. And now we know that the Earth Kingdom isn't even going to get back most of the land that the Fire Nation carved out of it with steel and fire. Unless they get a hell of a compensation deal, the Earth Kingdom's leadership is going to have a bloody shirt to wave for generations to come.
Jet's also got a good point about the Firelord. It's kind of insidious how fantasy gets you to cheer for Our Heroes installing a dependable strongman to run the resident quasi-fascist dictatorship.
( Tom-Tom: Uncle - Tom-Tom, OCs )
Nice character piece for Tom-Tom.
It always strikes me as a little odd to see Maiko-spawn named for Roku. I get that he's the Avatar and Zuko's great-grandfather and everything, but he was also a complete screw-up when it came the most important decisions of his tenure. I'd say it's like naming your kid after Neville Chamberlain but I don't think that goes far enough.
( Hubris: Quiet Please - Wan Shi Tong and Zhao )
Deft little flclet of backstory on Zhao.
( Alternate Universe: Bow Your Head - Iroh and Zuko )
This world is totally boned. Even if they kill Azula, then what? The lack of an Avatar will really screw them up in the long-run. We know from canon that the Fire Nation just doesn't have enough manpower to control the rest of the world, so One World Government is out. If they're very lucky, the FN and EK become peaceful counterweights to each other and the two relatively small WTs end up either Finlandized or polar Switzerlands. And that's not even getting in Spirit World business.
So yeah. Totally boned.
( Greed: On his Children - Zuko and OCs )
Love this AU series. Also, ouch. Poor Zuko.
( Ruination: She's Within - Zuko and Azula )
On the plus side, this AU's Korra won't grow up to be an eldritch abomination. So that's something.
( Metal: Keeping Time - Sozin, Azulon, Zuko, Iroh, and OCs )
Nice arc.