ATLA fans in the Stranger Things fandom, send me your prompts!
I have a very robust AU percolating in my mind, but I'm having trouble going from sweeping world building to a more bite-size plot. Like, knowing Sauron's motivations doesn't matter if the heroes never step out of the Shire, right? (shh, let me mix my metaphors)
So! I'm trying to kickstart my brain. Send me a character, a plot beat, a location, or even a snippet of dialogue you'd like to see! And I'll respond with anything from a single sentence to a oneshot as the muse wills
Want to see more, but don't have specifics in mind? Send me an emoji and whatever words or characters come to mind
🪨 earth benders
🌊water benders
🔥fire benders
💨air benders
⚔️non-benders
It's going to be Steddie endgame with Buckingham as the plot wills. Everything else is subject to change
Snippet under the cut
Eddie never imagined he could charm Lady Luck. Ladies in particular are not his area of expertise, and he still owes her for convincing Uncle Wayne that he was pathetic and stubborn and secretly lovable enough to take in. That’s a debt he’ll be paying with interest until the day he dies.
So he doesn’t blame her, necessarily, when his entire life goes to shit.
And not abandoning his dreams to work the mines level shit. Or scrabbling up a cliff to escape a sabertooth-moose lion shit. Full on, soldiers closing in, “take our life savings, you’ll need them”, “and here! have some earth shattering family revelations while we’re at it” piles of steaming camelephant dung.
But when it comes to luck and bending, persistence is key, and Eddie is nothing if not a stubborn ass.
Granted, “lucky” isn’t the first word that comes to mind when an ominous snuffle-crunch emanates from the trees, stopping him in his tracks. But he’s self-aware enough to own his desperation, and — lo and behold! — it’s not an open-mawed monster salivating to make a meal of him, but a rideable beast, saddled and grazing in a small patch of brush as if hand-delivered by the Spirits to carry Eddie to the nearest village.
Wherever that is.
And hey, Eddie might not believe in the Spirits, but he does believe in opportunism. And this right here? This is an opportunity so blessed by circumstance that he’ll have to renounce the Munson Doctrine in its entirety if he keeps walking.
Eddie slips off his rucksack, tucking it against the base of a tree where it can’t trip him up if the animal turns aggressive. He creeps forward, staying low to the scraggly brush, eyes trained on his prize. It’s not an animal he knows — large and docile with shaggy brown fur, ears like wolfbat wings, and pale, curved horns — but he’s been walking for days and, at this point? He’s not picky about his beasts of burden.
He eases along the brush until the brush runs out then, with a deep breath and a mental reminder to, “Think of your feet, man,” he steps out into the open.
The animal snorts and looks up, catfish-like whiskers swinging in the breeze. And yeah, okay, it might have big brown eyes and a sweet, dumb expression, but this thing is massive. Like distantly-related-to-a-shirshu massive. Trample-Eddie-before-he-can-bend-himself-to-safety massive.
His heart thunders as he considers that, actually, he’s not cut out for petty theft when the target could render his whole escape plan moot via a gruesome and untimely death.
He’s considering the pros of bending its feet into the earth — less trampling, more teeth — versus fleeing back the way he came when the thing lets out a bored huff and goes back to grazing.
Eddie straightens with a grin.
“Hey there, sweetheart,” he says softly. A little cocky, because he’s not Eddie goop right now and that’s the biggest win he’s had all week. “Looking for someone special to take you for a ride?”
“That depends,” comes a wry voice from behind him. “Are broken ribs a deal-breaker for you?”
he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.
Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”
Unless you speak whatever the language in this is (maybe Russian? It sounds at least related to Russian), you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying
You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video
And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter
going to attempt a rough translation because this is so funny to me
it’s not going to be very literal because trying to translate every mumbled phrase and conversational word will be Very Annoying
“So here’s your–here’s our hotel room. The door to the bathroom is clear, so you enter the bathroom, and everything’s normal, you look at yourself, and everyone who’s in the hallway can see you. And over here’s the shower, it’s relatively private. You enter the shower, and like wash yourself– *breaks down laughing* Well okay okay, you decide to wash your hands, or sit down on the toilet and– *another fit of laughter* Fine, fine, it’s actually all okay because you grab this and you…uh, and you’re like ‘I want some privacy’”, and you close–you close the curtain, and then you close this curtain– *laughs* And you close that curtain too, and now you want to sit on the toilet and you’re like ‘Okay everything’s closed, you can’t see in", and so you sit down on the toilet– *intense laughter*“
I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide
Imagine you’re sitting with two of your bros and they’ve both just given you deer-in the-headlights looks when you pointed out that it was brave of the obviously gay figure skater to come to Sochi, and the only reason they could be giving you those looks of course is because they just aren’t as up on social issues like this as you are, so because you’re a nice guy and a good ally you explain to them btw Russia is not safe for queer people to help them out so they don’t embarrass themselves in front of actual queer people some day. Then imagine a few years later one of them comes out as gay on the ice right in front of you and the world and you have to sit with the knowledge that you once straight-splained queerphobia to a gay man. You summon the courage to apologize to him for it and have a laugh over it and you walk away thinking phew that was embarrassing but at least I did what I had to do and he was cool about it and now I never have to retroactively cringe at myself about this again. Then imagine a few more years later the same thing happens with the OTHER guy 😭
grigori rozanov is such a character man just impossible to please and hellbent on making ilya miserable whenever possible. in ep2 he personally pours ilya a drink hands him a drink and then says “i can’t believe you’re drinking at a time like this” like there’s just no way ilya can win. walked right into that one and got snatched up
Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights
guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home
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