only justice will bring peace

carol. xxii. she/her. brazil. "do you really think friendships can last more than one lifetime?"

[avtarkyoshi]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai & Zuko (Avatar), Mai & Suki (Avatar), Mai & Sokka (Avatar), Suki & Zuko (Avatar), Sokka & Suki (Avatar) Characters: Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: minor sokka/zuko, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-War, Past Sokka/Suki (Avatar), Mai (Avatar)-Centric, Badass Mai (Avatar), Lesbian Mai (Avatar), Gay Zuko (Avatar), Bisexual Disaster Sokka (Avatar), lesbian Ty Lee (Avatar), Bisexual Suki (Avatar), Assassination Plot(s), Internalized Homophobia, just a little, Coming of Age, Ambassador Sokka (Avatar), Team as Family, Feelings Realization, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, Letters, Fluff and Humor, Teen Romance

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Summary:

Once, Ty Lee asks her what it’s like to be in love.

From her lips, the words float like pink smoke and Mai lowers her book just to watch the sun set around her shoulders. “What? I don’t know.”

“But,” Ty Lee frowns, dropping from her handstand in one long movement, like water flowing in a river, and sits cross-legged with her serious face on. It’s very rare to see her like this, all wide-eyed and furrowed brow, head tilted just a bit to the side as if she’s listening to a song only she knows. “What about Zuko?”

Mai frowns. What about Zuko? Unnamed dread rises in the pit of her stomach, unnervingly familiar, and she pushes it back into a locked chest just below her sternum, closing the lid tightly to choke the fire. Everyone has a crush on Zuko, she could say, because it’s true, Zuko’s the crown prince and he’s sort of sweet even if he’s a little weird, so Mai figures if she were to like anyone, it would be him, she would like it to be him.

Instead, she glares. “We’re twelve, we’re not in love.”

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or, after the war, Mai stops an assassination plot, makes friends, and comes to terms with her own sexuality. Not necessarily in that order, though.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Man, Anne Rice sure did traumatize whole generations of fanfiction writers.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Also let me throw out there that I don’t want this to seem like it’s punching down on someone who just died and is mourned by her loved ones. Anne Rice’s legacy is complicated, as many older authors are. She could have done better, she could have done far worse, and it’s always okay to feel sad when you like the work of someone who’s just died.

It’s just than, man, I was there Gandalf when this was the biggest threat to fandom. It’s wild, man.

[doebunnybooks]

She had a huge impact on modern vampire fiction as we know it (for better or worse) but its not problematic to point out that she was racist, sometimes cruel to the point of delusional, and a terror to not just fandom but her fandom specifically.

May her memory be a blessing to those who knew and loved her but her death doesn’t absolve her.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Honestly, I think that’s the best take. It’s fair to talk about the complexity of her legacy after her death. It’s also fair to point out her fiction was important to a lot of people, and her family is grieving their loss. Such is the nature of being a polarizing public figure.

[midsummerknife]

cursing my name, wishing i stayed

[616yelena]

steph being an ollie stan i know that’s right!

[janasojka]

Sea Landscape.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“each memory another haunting thing.”

— Felon, ‘Mural for the Heart’ by Reginald Dwayne Betts

[julykings]

wish i could like. forgive myself for being a person

[katara-aang]

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[cucimei]

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[captainkirkk]

Izumi grew up hearing stories of the life-changing field trips Zuko took her Aunts and Uncles on, so when she’s a teenager she demands that she gets her own life-changing field trip

Zuko says sure. And then sends her to Ba Sing Se to work retail for 6 months

[catchymemes]

Ty Lee, Azula and Mai visualized

[sokkasganttchart]

[timeofdeathnote]

this is perfect

[serenne-personal]

Artist credit from the notes:

https://www.reddit.com/user/riverfollower712/

Cause art theft is not cool. They also made the legend of korra team!

[hohfics]

Why would you omit this 😭😭🤩🤩🤩👌👌👌

[kheldara]

Wan Shi Tong vs Jinora: Radio Waves [Legend of Korra: A New Spiritual Age]

[tomoehotarus-deactivated2024081]

mai stan (complimentary)

[light-miracles]

[bymoonandfire-deactivated202104]

[ID: Two edited screenshots from Derry Girls. Suki’s face from Avatar the Last Airbender has been edited over Mary’s face. The caption has been edited so that it says, “Swear. Swear on Kyoshi.”

The next image has Kyoshi’s face edited over a picture of Dolly Parton. A blurry arm is pointing at the picture.

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[incorrectzukka]

Sokka: I was born first, you have to listen to me

Katara: You’ll die first too if you don’t shut up

[geneslovee]

i call this genre of my art "gay people staring at each other"

if you've seen these before on twitter, they're mine! i'm reposting them from my accounts /lizarttt and /zukoslove

[atlasapphics]

fuck monarchies except for whatever lord momo of the momo dynasty got going going on