MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
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[In another life, Zuko finds a poster for a missing bison outside Pao’s teashop, dresses himself in black, and resumes his mission with the kind of single-minded focus he hadn’t been able to muster for months.
In this life, Zuko finds a poster for a missing bison, stares at it for a bit with his insides roiling around his heart like a ship caught in a storm, and crumples it up in one hand before tossing it into the trash and going back inside.]
Sometime during late spring in the city of Ba Sing Se, Zuko serves tea (badly), falls in love (maybe), and deals with a chronic illness of the soul.
AU continuation of "Let the City Pull You Under".
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>Dave: survive three years on this rock by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandoms: Homestuck
18 Aug 2020
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Growing up on a flying meteor is hard work. You know this from experience.
TG: dude what is this piece of shit you just sent me
CG: TO PUT IT IN YOUR HUMAN TERMS:
CG: IT’S A FUCKING LOVE STORY, DAVE.Well, it's a bit more than that.
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Let the City Pull You Under by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Aug 2020
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[He’ll wonder all that, later; but in this moment he kisses a boy who thinks he’s something other than he is, and clings to the bolt of revelation that strikes him in the dark: maybe nothing in life matters except grabbing onto whatever brief moments you have to feel good.]
Before joining the Avatar, before choosing his path on the crossroads of destiny, and before he finds a poster for a missing bison, Crown Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation has a teenage affair in Ba Sing Se.
Featuring wheat crime boy Jet and horrifically understanding parent man Uncle Iroh.
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Reclaim Your Scattered Pieces by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Jul 2020
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[When Zuko is sixteen, he takes a false name and becomes a refugee. Lots of other things happen when he is sixteen, as well, but one of them is becoming a refugee. He develops a hunger that won’t abate. His anger fizzles out and leaves something like ashes under his skin.]
Or, six times Zuko is kissed, and one time he isn't.
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A Long-Awaited Exhale by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
09 Jul 2019
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“What’s wrong?” Crowley asks, turning, and his face looks nearly impassive but Aziraphale can see the concern there, the concern that surely must have been there for years and years and years, deserved or not.
“I know what you were asking,” Aziraphale says, and oh, that’s not quite it, is it, it’s not what he means at all.
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up in the city (until the stars lost the war) by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Jul 2023
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[In another life, Jet sees Uncle Iroh firebend his tea at the dock, and he and Zuko don’t speak again until they’re fighting in an alleyway with Zuko clutching swords that aren’t his. In another life, Zuko watches him get dragged away by the Dai Li and feels justified, and then a surge of rage and shame and fear that he can’t quite place, and then he moves on.
In this life, Jet doesn’t see a thing, and Zuko drop-kicks most of his own pride into the gutter in a fit of customer-service-based despair. In this life, Jet keeps calling Zuko “Li” and slinks around the tea shop in the lower ring where Zuko has started working, like he’s a customer.]
Zuko and Jet find themselves meeting more often than not.
Featuring Zuko's multiple morality crises, Jet's unacknowledged trauma, Iroh's devotion to his nephew, and Aang's unfortunate desire to see the good in people.
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The reality of things happening in order, one after another after another, is not at all like the Doctor imagined it would be.
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12 Dec 2023
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“For better or for worse,” Donna promised the Doctor, the day she met him. The day he met her. She could have chosen any number of lines to make the joke, but she’d missed her own wedding, been kidnapped by flippin’ robot Santas, and jumped out of a taxi because this Martian without a name promised he would catch her.
A leap of faith.
Donna Noble didn’t believe in faith, or destiny. At least, not for people like her. But she’d jumped anyway because, because, because –
Because there was a robot Santa driving the taxi.
(She jumped. Time held them in balance. The Doctor caught her. He always would: for better or for worse.)
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Or, a character study of Donna Noble, with the Doctor.
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12 Dec 2023
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Crowley folded his newspaper and accepted, with grim resignation, that he would have to try and save the world. It wasn’t that he particularly wanted to do it again; the first time had been bad enough and he’d needed an eleven-year-old to do the hard bit. He didn’t feel any kind of great love towards all living things at the moment, or have any heroic feelings. He simply knew that nobody else would do it.
And Aziraphale, who had stumbled his way into the centre of it all, would be trying desperately not to let it happen and failing, because Heaven wouldn’t let him succeed. One more time, and he resolved that it would be the very last time, Crowley would have to fix things for him.
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Crowley goes on a road trip across America to delay the Second Coming. Aziraphale tries to teach angels about humanity. In between, they talk.Bookmarked by MadSeason (naive_wanderer)
09 Dec 2023
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Ut It Tempus (Or: Muriel's Wet, Wild, and Very Hot Summer Weekend) by OatmealAddiction
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
28 Nov 2023
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The tale of a plucky scrivener, their new demonic companion, and a quest to rescue a bookshop from Climate Change.
Warning: Contains multiple instances of hair-brained schemes, two instances of ugly crying, a partial sonnet about a crab-cake, Carly Rae Jepsen, bad art, bad jokes, slugs, depression, spontaneous combustion, heartbreak, friendship, and brief but disturbing mentions of cryptocurrency.
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- Part 1 of The Book of Muriel
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07 Dec 2023
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Aziraphale ascends to the highest level of the Archangels. And he remembers—well. It’s not important what he remembers.
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