the original beifong

twinkletoph | regalsonly | sundaenights on AO3 fanfiction & mindless rambles permanently fixated on atla and tokka but also pjo, thg, soc, lockwood & co. she/her | 20s | latina

[twinkle-toph]

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

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

Reminder: I only have THIS tumblr account (twinkle-toph) and no side blogs in use; my main AO3 pseuds is twinkletoph. Any questions, raise them with either of these accounts (ie: me, myself, and I—twinkles the first).

Writing fanfic keeps me going! So do give the little link a look-see :)

I take fic requests if you're craving something that you're missing about a character or given ship. Drop me a line if that sounds like you! And please don’t hesitate—writing up prompts motivates me something fierce.

Also, send asks! I love to chat about ATLA whenever I get the chance, just as well as headcanons or anything else you might want to chat about!

Find some of my favorite fics I've written and my main ships under the cut <3

- Twinkles ✨

Personal Favorite Fics

To Be So Fond

Relationships: Toph Beifong/Sokka, Katara/Zuko, Aang/Azula

Spirits, Are You There? It’s Me, Sokka 

Relationships: Toph Beifong/Sokka, Katara/Zuko, Aang/Azula

‘Cause the Truth is Out

Relationships: Toph Beifong/Sokka, Minor or Background Relationship(s): Aang/Katara, Suki/Zuko

Unboxing Desires and Other Miscellanies

Relationships: Toph Beifong/Sokka

The Ways Of Beifong

Relationships: Toph Beifong & Sokka

In The Balance

Relationships: Lin Beifong & Sokka, Toph Beifong/Sokka

Main Ships/Relationships

Toph Beifong/Sokka

Toph Beifong/Kanto

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[twinkle-toph]

Day 10093829 of me wishing to see people appreciate Toph and Sokka’s friendship and dynamic

[tenderhooked]

sokka is so brave. i love him.

[yum-nyang]

[refrigeratedwater]

Can it be normal to say I love you to your friends please

[amandasketchbook]

My toxic trait is that I ship Sukka AND Tokka…

[pugcrumbs]

I think the whole ‘Uncle Sokka’ aspect of any Katara ship is great. But baby jerkbenders.

[pugcrumbs]

Pug’s ATLA/ZK Recaps | A guide for new folks on Ye Olde PugCanon

This one is really self explanatory. After Zuko married his little sister, he adopted the term ‘Jerkbender’ as a term of endearment that was then slid along to his niece and nephew shortly after they were born. Much to Katara’s dismay, it stuck around longer than she would have liked.

[wells-hannah]

NEW GIRL ( 2011 - 2018 ) ↳ season 1 episode 3

[amandasketchbook]

Some Tokka, as a treat 

[clingyduoapologist]

The lesson of avatar was never “killing bad people makes you just as bad as them” it was “you cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or loss” guys like come on it’s been 20 years

[clingyduoapologist]

Katara doesn’t forgive Yon Rha and hug him and dry him off and walk him home she leaves him scared and sniveling and crying in the mud but she leaves him alive because she realized in that moment that she was only doing this because she felt like she had to. She hates this man, therefore she should want to kill him, right? The narrative isn’t saying wow Katara killing a mass murdering fascist dickwad is just as bad as said dickwad killing an innocent wife and mother during a raid on her home, it’s saying wow isn’t it fucked up that this little girl has been forced to carry this deep seated anger in her for most of her life to the point where the only outlet she believes she has for it is killing a man in cold blood? And like… yeah! That is pretty fucked!

[icannotweave]

#katara realizing that the man who killed her mother #who has been the face of evil and the war for most of her life (prior to aang's bullshit) #is just a pathetic loser #and by extension that most soldiers who commit hideous crimes of imperialist violence are just Some Guy #god that's really something #like he's Not a monster he's Not uniquely evil he has NO particular grudge against her or kya #the most traumatic event of katara's life was just a day at work for him #and less than a decade later he's nothing. he's retired and miserable and PATHETIC and he's not worth her time #she's better than him in every way #brave and powerful and generous and about all PRINCIPLED in a way he could never be. she's exceptional #she doesn't need to kill him she's already beaten him in every way that matters #and killing him will not create any positive change in the world #katara doesn't show mercy for his sake she does it for hers #god I love you katara ( @batmanisagatewaydrug )

[lujinarchive]

Baby monk

[mmmdraws]

love the atla girlies

[c4pt41nxoxo]

thinking about her

i wish she was a waterbender and taught katara and also lesbian kissed her.

[sokkas1mp]

ahhahaha tokkaaaaaaa all of this is so them and i like to sit down and just think about it

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[luna-azzurra]

Tips for Writing Injuries! (AGAIN)

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.

⊹ Pain also affects personality in ways writers skip. chronic pain makes people short-tempered and then guilty about being short-tempered. it makes concentration difficult. it makes intimacy complicated, both emotional and physical. a character who was patient and warm before their injury and is now snappy and withdrawn is not a character regression. they're in pain. pain is exhausting in ways that don't show on the outside. the people around them noticing and not knowing how to help is a whole story in itself.

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959