16 Bookmarked Items in fics that are so beautiful they make me cry
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Aang’s foolproof guide to starting drama in your friend group. (Or: Who is Zuko dating?)
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Smiled so hard and loved every second of it <3
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Prince Zuko is the son of Fire Lord Sozin. His older brother Azulon is destined to be the Fire Lord. Little does he know that he himself has a destiny of his own. After all, he never put it together that he was born just after the death of Avatar Kyoshi.
Throw out everything you think you know about the war and the characters involved. A lot can happen in a hundred years, and you'd be surprised how much one minor change can have ripple effects. This is tagged canon divergence for a reason.
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perfection. like, absolute perfection. i'm completely immersed and in love with the writing style and plot. simply divine
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Zuko abandons his quest to find the Avatar and takes up piracy (and selling tea) in an effort to never see anything Avatar-related again. It does not work.
On hiatus
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- Part 5 of Many, Many, Many Worlds
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oh gosh perfection. i laughed so much. it's not healthy to be so invested in fictional characters and yet, here i am.
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hotel sheets, brimming with finery by ofherlionheart
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Mar 2021
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On a whim, Sokka types out: ‘hey. would u be my fake boyf plus-one for a wedding in two weeks?’ He hits send and doesn’t really regret it because (1) it’s 3am on a Tuesday morning so he doesn’t really have the bandwidth to care (2) he’s actually thought this thing out and (3) he’s armed with arguments.
‘what?’
He’s too tired to text out a full explanation, so he dials Zuko’s number. The call picks up on the second ring, and Sokka says, “You would be the ultimate flex of a significant other on an ex. You’re, like, the most thoughtful, big-hearted person I know, and you’re beautiful and fashionable and accomplished. You’re going to be world-renowned famous in, like, two years.”
Silence stretches for so long Sokka wonders if he misheard the call picking up; then Zuko’s rasp, lifted from a baritone to a tenor by the electronic filter of a phone call, says, “Okay.”
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A sleep-deprived Sokka caves to the impulse to ask Zuko, his close friend of seven years, to be his pretend boyfriend for his ex’s wedding; Zuko is too ride-or-die to consider this a bad idea.
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- Part 1 of the boo chronicles
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if a fic was ambrosia this would be it
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Sokka had somehow managed to go over half a semester without having to email Professor Zhao personally. And this one time he had to email him, he somehow got the wrong email.
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Sokka keeps accidentally emailing some guy named Zuko. Oh, and there's also the matter of trying to ask out Lee, the cute barista at the Jasmine Dragon.
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<33333
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Sokka and Zuko are both professors and every year their students are more focused on figuring out if they’re dating than on their actual assignments.
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- Part 1 of academia
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I love, love, LOVE this
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silence is the best tactic (for him who distrusts himself) by technicallyataurus
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Jul 2020
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five times Sokka interrupts Zuko's zoom meetings (and one time he interrupts Sokka).
or, Zuko tries to do his research project. Sokka wreaks havoc.
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- Part 1 of that sitcom type beat
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If Perfection was a piece of literature
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Baby Hotline, please hold (me close to you) by crosspin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Jul 2020
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“And could you please verify your current relationship status? We need it for, um…” Zuko scrambled for an explanation and, unable to come up with anything halfway convincing, finished weakly, “tax purposes.”
“Oh, me? I’m single. Very single. Single as a Pringle. But not like a Pringle in a thing full of other Pringles. I’m like, the last lonely Pringle at the bottom of the can.”
Zuko is just a simple FBI agent trying to run a background check on Sokka, an engineer who's applied to work for the government, but Sokka's chaotic past is making the process...complicated. Still, Zuko doesn't mind too much as long as it means he can talk to the weirdly charming stranger at the other end of the line for as long as it takes for him to sort all those complications out.
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Wowohwow
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to profess(or) to deny my love by aiyah
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
11 Sep 2020
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
(But most will agree that it happens
during Bolin's office hour demise.)
- Robert Frost, probably[alternatively: the students at Boiling Rock University find out that their beloved engineering professor is married to the formidable literature professor.]
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*applauds*
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it’s the lack of creativity for me by glowingshadows
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 Sep 2020
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The point is, the concept was simple on the surface, but the people in Sokka’s life all had special and unique stories surrounding soulmates.
So of course Sokka would be the one stuck with only the word “Hi” tattooed on his arm.
In which Sokka overcompensates for his soulmate’s limited imagination in the greetings department (seriously? “Hi”?).
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Literally so gooodddd
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[Time passes oddly. Between one second and the next, Sokka has the Fire Lord pinned to the wall with his hands around the bastard’s throat. Golden eyes (one gold eye, his mind whispers) widen in shock.
“Sokka?” he chokes out. And then he smiles.
What the fuck?
“Sokka, I—”
Sokka slams his head against the wall, once, twice, and the smile wipes off his face. Good.
“What,” Sokka bites out, “have you done to my sister?”]
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An injury leaves Sokka with amnesia. His last memory is of the failed invasion, of leaving his father behind in enemy territory on the Day of Black Sun. Of hopelessness. Rage.
But then he wakes up, and the war is over. Suddenly, he must come to terms with the fact that years have passed, and that he's somehow the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the Fire Nation. He is also supposedly friends with banished-Prince-turned-Fire-Lord Zuko, of all people. Close friends.
Yeah, nah.
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yes yes yes beautiful, exquisite masterpiece
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what can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around? by sunsailrr
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Jun 2023
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It starts like this: Zuko’s head is fucking pounding like it’s the morning after the Sun Festival, except he doesn’t open his eyes to find his friends in various piles around him, as tragically hungover as him. Instead, his eyelashes unstick slowly and painfully, and with the sunlight and the shock of green above him before he snaps his eyes shut again comes a young, mournful voice.
“—we knew each other back then,” Aang is saying, from somewhere high and to Zuko’s left, “do you think we could’ve been friends?”
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Zuko stages a coup, finds his soulmates, goes to the past, and discovers that happiness isn’t unattainable— not necessarily in that order.- Language:
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Actual perfection
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How Zuko Kind of Maybe Starts Accidentally Dating the Water Tribe Peasant by All_About_That_Ace
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Jul 2016
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If Uncle hadn't insisted on making Zuko wait tables filled with giggling girls, this wouldn't have happened. If the damn Water Tribe peasant hadn't heard about the amazing new tea shop, this wouldn't have happened. If Zuko didn't come up with such terrible ideas while panicking, this wouldn't have happened. Though honestly, Zuko probably would've fucked up somehow anyway, so what was the point in griping?
Now available in EPUB format by the delightful dstrt1xn!
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- Part 3 of Ace’s Avatar Archive
- Part 1 of The Shame Basement
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Absolute perfection, hilarious and beautifully written
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Sokka knows that he can very easily head to the nearest department store, or if he’s feeling a little extravagant, the nearest furniture store. But he absolutely needs to buy this desk he found online.
Sokka is going to have the gamer desk of his dreams, so help everything. And he can only do that with the customizations he’s done to this desk through the website. At the end of the process, it asks Sokka if he wants reminders and updates via email, text, or both, and Sokka’s no fool so of course he signs up for both. Except maybe Sokka is a fool because sure as the sky is blue, he’s put the wrong number for his reminders and updates.
Or; When buying a desk online, Sokka signs up for reminders with the wrong number. He texts the number he put down instead to establish contact and you can guess what happens next.
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- Part 1 of Streamer Sokka AU
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absolute perfection, totally hilarious and completely adorable
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Post-Canon Fire Lord Zuko (and his staff) by RejectsCanon
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Aug 2024
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A few people have asked if I would make a series for my Fire Lord Zuko fics so they’re easier to read, so here we are! The fics aren’t linear, or necessarily connected (though I do recycle original characters, and occasionally reference an event mentioned in another fic) but you don’t need to read all of them in order to understand one of them, so you’re free to read whichever ones you want. Enjoy!!
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love, love, love these! <3333
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The Fire Nation's royal accountant lunges towards Zuko, brandishing a stack of receipts like a shield. “I’m referring to the flowers you bought him.”
“That was a matter of cultural exchange."
“What about the jewelry?”
“That wasn’t jewelry, it was just gem-enhanced accessories!”
"But you ordered him five sets of custom nightclothes!”
(For some reason, the whole world's convinced that Zuko is Sokka's sugar daddy.)
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oh my god this is comfort. this is love. this is beauty. this is funny. this is everything.