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Following Roku’s death, he’d known that the Air Nomads would have to find their Avatar. Thinking of Roku - his spirit, rather - being born among the children in the Eastern and Western temples, a cycle beginning again, ever-new, ever turning, was beautiful.
Really, it was.
Truly.
Gyatso sighed.
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Four years after Avatar Roku's death, the monks of the Southern Air Temple search for the Avatar, and Gyatso finds himself contending with the strangeness of trying to find an old friend who is lost but not gone.
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“Aang? I’m not going to let them take you away from me,” Gyatso said without preamble, walking into the room.
He watched as Gyatso took in the scene: the note on his bed, Aang fully dressed and standing at the window with his glider clutched tight, ready to leave. Gyatso’s eyes widened with the realization, and the look he shot Aang, so full of heartbreak, made his cheeks burn with shame.
“Aang?”
Aang’s shoulders sagged. Of course Gyatso wouldn’t let them send him away. For a moment, all he felt was relief. And then he dropped his glider with a clatter on the ground and rushed towards Gyatso, still standing in the doorway with his hand resting on the post. He wrapped his arms tight around his teacher’s waist and pressed his face into the warm woolen robes.
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Aang stays. The world changes.
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even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
31 Oct 2025
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Zuko walked up to the Water Tribe boy and squared his shoulders.
“Hi?” said the Water Tribe boy, clearly unsettled.
“Hi.”
“Can I ask you a question?” Zuko said. The Water Tribe boy smirked at him.
“You just did,” he said sarcastically. Zuko didn’t bother giving that a response, just staring at the boy. He unsettled the members of this group, he knew that. Hopefully, it’d keep them from messing with him too much.
It worked on the boy, who cleared his throat, uncomfortable at the silence. “Sure. What’s your question?”
“Why is the Avatar doing dishes?”
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After joining the Gaang, Zuko learns a few things. Principal among them being that he's allowed to ask questions.
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the bougainvillea by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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She skips all her afternoon classes and sits in the grass by the baseball field watching dragonflies bump into each other. When school lets out, she camps at the library and flips through the cooking magazines and looks at glossy photos of cakes and pies and the happy families being fed them by happy mothers.
When she goes home, May eats quietly while her mother rants about the other secretary at her job at the steel mill, and wonders if everyone’s parents are like this.
After dinner, May cleans up and washes the dishes. Dries them. Folds the laundry that her mother started but didn’t finish, and goes to bed. Every so often, it hits her. The idea of forever going through each day, almost exactly like this. Sometimes better, sometimes much worse.
She goes to bed and wakes up the next day and does it again.
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May, and the understanding that abundance takes many forms.
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- Part 1 of the river
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if you live, your day will come by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
04 Aug 2024
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In February, six months before his birthday, Peter tells Rhodey. It’s vindicating that he tells him and Rhodey doesn’t suggest talking to Tony about it. He knows. He’s done that same song and dance where they beg and plead and pretend it’s not falling on deaf ears.
Together they gather. Social security card. Birth certificate. Rhodey shows him how to open a bank account, and then tells him about interest and loans and everything that matters when you have a little bit of money but doesn’t mean much when you’ve got a lot.
It’s a hard letter to write. It spans the front and back, and he pours into it. And then he leaves.
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On Peter’s eighteenth birthday, Tony heads into his room in the morning around ten and finds a neatly made bed and a letter sitting on the pillow.
Tony recalls reading the letter, stomach sinking lower and lower with each word, each anecdote of times Peter has begged him to sober up or to keep him out of the spotlight, or to stop destroying himself and asking Peter to watch. Peter wants a life of his own making, an iota of privacy. Tony lays on his son’s bed and cries until he’s nauseous, clutching the letter in a crumple against his heart.
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the river by ZucchiniBread
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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Peter is fine, anyways. His boss might fire him soon, the Avengers might arrest him soon, the principal might expel him soon, but none of it has happened yet. And his dad—
“You didn’t get my coffee,” his dad says, halfway through his burrito. He has been in a state of low, simmering irritation all evening, and apparently this is how long it took for him to find a reason to blame Peter for it.
“You didn’t tell me to get coffee.”
“Do you have eyes?”
“Yes,” Peter says. “I have eyes.”
“So you could have checked if we needed coffee without me telling you every little thing, Jesus Christ.”
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Peter just wants to make it to sixteen so he can escape this life and strike out on his own. He has a plan and nothing will ruin it.
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17 Apr 2026
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The day Dolma felt her womb quicken was both unexpected and wonderful. She hadn’t planned on becoming a mother, but pregnancy was a welcome surprise, and she delighted in the idea of bringing new life into the world.
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A series of vignettes following the life of Aang's mother.
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One Taste Short of Home by radiashen
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
16 Aug 2020
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Air Nomads were supposed to be free. He was not. Air Nomads were supposed to be unattached to mortal connections. Yet Aang clung to what little consolation hanging out with Gyatso gave him.
Aang, the journey of understanding home, and the food that helped him along the way.
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a cloaking robe of elvenkind by jediknight, jediwill (jediknight)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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In the summer of 1989, a knight in shining armor drops out of Will’s ceiling in the middle of the night. He looks startlingly like Mike, except he’s…different.
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17 Feb 2026
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Spring Break, 1986. Will has been missing for six months, and his family and friends are running out of ideas. So, when three new leads develop, there’s no choice but to take them, despite the host of known and unknown dangers. From Hawkins to New York, Nevada, New Mexico, and across an entire ocean, nothing is going to stop them from finding Will and bringing him back home, least of all Will himself.
or: a season 4 rewrite featuring even more survivor’s guilt, a host of shiny new powers, and the road trip to end all road trips, perhaps literally.
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- Part 3 of california show your teeth