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[aswilder97]

You pick, I write — this week's oneshot poll 🗳️

Vote for the oneshot you want next. Winner gets written next week. All stories are Jake/Neytiri unless stated otherwise.

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⟡ The Choosing — Before they were leaders, they were young. The night Mo'at chose Eytukan — not as duty, not as the clan's arrangement, but as a person. First tsaheylu, and the terror of being that known. She has to choose him over duty. He has to let himself be chosen by someone the whole clan reveres. Contains: Eytukan/Mo'at pairing, first tsaheylu

⟡ The Shame She Carried Alone — Neytiri & Lo'ak. After a brutal fight with Jake, Neytiri says something about her children she can never take back. No one hears it. Lo'ak never will. But she heard it — and the shame drives her out into the dark to find her son, carrying a guilt she cannot confess, because confessing it would only hand him the wound she's trying to spare him from. So she loves him instead. Contains: mother-son, hurt/comfort, Neteyam grief

⟡ What the People Never Leave Them — Neytiri is pregnant, starving for her mate, and the whole clan has a claim on him. He's Olo'eyktan. He's Toruk Makto. He's everything she helped make him — and she keeps sending him back to them, because she believes in his duty as fiercely as he does. Then Mo'at, who remembers her own hungry years and a husband just as bound, quietly arranges the one thing the People never give them: a night alone. Contains: pregnancy, explicit

⟡ Ugly — To a visiting clan, the Omatikaya's new Olo'eyktan is uncanny. Wide brow. Small eyes. Five fingers. A face that sits just wrong enough that children shy away. Jake stopped caring what his body looks like a long time ago. Neytiri hasn't. Cornered by a woman who cannot fathom how she could possibly want him, Neytiri turns the question over — and answers it for herself, in the quiet, in the body, one loved thing at a time. Contains: devotion, body worship

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This poll ends on Friday and the winner will be announced on Saturday! Get your vote in here or on my Ko-fi and Patreon.

You Pick, I Write!

The Choosing

The Shame She Carried Alone

What the People Never Leave Them

Ugly

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

[aswilder97]

Mated Skies

Of all the creatures of Pandora, only Neytiri's ikran holds her ground before Toruk. She doesn't flee. She moves toward him. A oneshot on two legendaries as a mated pair — a bond in the sky that mirrors the one on the ground.

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One of this week's oneshot poll options — go vote for what I write next.

[aswilder97]

The votes are in — and it's Predator's Patience, by a single vote. 🗳️

Across Tumblr, Ko-fi and Patreon: 9 to 8. That's about as close as it gets.

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So: the bond didn't make him wild. It made him still. All that held leash, all that restraint — until she's the one to pull it loose.

I'll be writing it this week, and it lands at the end of the week. 🕯️

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A genuine thank you to everyone who voted. Ash in the Mouth came within one vote of taking it, so let me say this plainly: none of these are going anywhere. Mangkwan Jake in particular is staying firmly on the list.

Next poll goes up tomorrow — come pick the one after. 💙

[aswilder97]

The votes are in — you chose Mangkwan Neytiri. 🗳️

Mangkwan Neytiri Eywa's most faithful daughter, remade in fire and ash. What does devotion look like when it's forged in the Ash clan instead of the forest — the same fierce heart, the same unbreakable will, turned to a harder faith. She was never going to be gentle. She was only ever going to be fire.

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Thank you to everyone who voted. The other three — Neytiri's rage, a tribute to Sa'ata, and the Wind Traders — aren't going anywhere; I'll make my way to them in time. 💙

In the meantime, follow my Ko-Fi for new polls, you can also download the individual panels there as well!