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My Fanfiction can be found here:

Link to my Ao3

I am currently working on Family Trust, Business Meeting and Way to go, Tiger

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Hiiii!! hehe for the fanfic asks, can I ask 23, 25, and 3??🥹💖

Of course!

Fic I wanted to write but didn't -

I shamefully didn't finish my ATLA fic once again. (Worst Prisoner readers - I am sorry. The K-Pop Demon Hunters universe is inspiring me too much right now).

Fic I read that I think everyone should read -

I haven't had as much time to read for leisure this year, so this answer isn't a fic exactly, but the style guides for how to create skins so you can use different fonts and colours on Ao3 were actually great. I tried experimenting with skins with Way To Go Tiger, and I am so pleased with the results. I never gave making skins a go previously because I thought it was too tricky - but its actually super easy.

Favourite scene to write this year -

So many parts of Tax Evasion were so fun to write that I chuckled to myself while typing. Zoey's mafia slang and operations, everything about Baby's "experiment" and Jinu singing songs in the demon world just to annoy evil CEO demons like Hawaiian shirt guy demon, and Sussy having to be bribed not to ruin moments between Rumi and Jinu all cracked me up while writing.

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New chapter of the worst prisoner is up. The headband part 2 finished!

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Worst prisoner, book 3: Fire is life.

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The first chapter is up!

Enormous and gigantic thanks to the fabulous @botherkupo Aka boogum for the incredible beta! She makes everything better!

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Worst prisoner update!

The ocean spirit is now up. The new chapter can be found here:

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Worst prisoner new chapter is up!

There are several miscommunications.

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New worst prisoner chapter

All about the dangerous

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Rambly notes: The Guru

I’ll ramble about Zuko and Katara’s love languages and why Kataang does such a disservice to poor Aang under the cut.

So there seems to be a misunderstanding in certain sectors of the ATLA fandom who seem to think that Zuko and Katara would be all rah-rah-rah, drama-drama-drama and non-stop fighting then making up. I see it differently. Look at how they both are in interpersonal relationships. They both value harmony in relationships and spend a good deal of their energy trying to please and take care of others. While Katara shows this to most other people, we get to see how Zuko is with girls when he is with Mai and Jin. In both cases, he really tries to make the girls happy (with varying degrees of success).  

 I think they both have acts of service as their pre-dominant love language, which is nice because then they can give to each other and life each other up. We often receive/accept love best when it is in our dominant love language.  (I think Zuko’s secondary love language would be quality time and Katara’s would either be words of affirmation or touch, but I am open to everyone else’s thoughts on this.)

 I also think both of them clearly value domesticity and simple things.  I honestly think simple things like being able to hold hands and have dinner together would be amazing for these two. I couldn’t see them actively seeking out endless drama for themselves. Drama is already thrust upon them enough. I actually see them as both perceiving the relationship as a sort of refuge from their troubles. The other person is their ‘safe space’, so to speak. When left to their own devices, they’d just mostly want to snuggle and be together simply.

But they are still young, and one of them is Zuko, so obviously when they try and become more intimate, it gets awkward. Zuko was suggesting sleep and then rolling over and pretending to sleep as his way of escaping the awkward as well as out of genuine tiredness. 

Ah, Zuko. Maybe one day he’ll be less awkward, eh?

 Katara and Hakoda both push away an opportunity to have an important, but very difficult/awkward conversation in this chapter. Like father, like daughter!

Iroh, however, seizes the opportunity with both hands!

Aang, ah Aang.  He is trying his hardest to work through his chakras. He’s a good boy, who wants to save the world. But he has been through so much. I wanted him to start to come to terms with his grief, rather than slap a katara-band-aid on it. It’s hard and sad, but it will lead him to a healthier place. 

He’s got to grown, so he doesn’t deal with all challenging situations like this: 

At its core, Aang’s unhealthy jealous and entitlement with regard to Katara is because the story frames it as “Katara’s love is enough to replace an entire people – and Aang needs love.”  I agree that Aang needs love, but there is no way one girl can love him enough to make up for the loss of his whole people.  She is his family, his mother figure, not his lover. However, Aang clings to his crush on her because he associates care with love. He doesn’t differentiate between a maternal and a romantic bond – and that tells us everything.  Before he opens the fourth chakra, he has another little jealous moment, because these are all new emotions for him.

I will always have a huge issue with how the show handled Katara and Aang– not only for what was done to Katara’s character but for the damage done to Aang. Why does Aang never get to grieve and heal? Oh, you lost all your people. never mind, here’s this girl to magically make it all better. How is that remotely healthy for either of them? So while the show only had the Air Nomad’s love turning into Katara’s face, I wanted to show that Aang has a much bigger support network than just one girl.  So Zuko and Sokka and Toph appear to him as well as an assortment of others.  

 Azula enters from stage left in part two. Til then lovelies.