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Happy belated Guy Fawkes and/or Diwali, to those who are celebrating!

Though, heh, one of those festivals is SO MUCH MORE PROBLEMATIC than the other. I mean:

We have therefore well done and upon good warrant, to tread in the same stepps, and by law to provide, that this Day should not die, nor the memoriall thereof perish, from our selves, or from our seed; but be consecrated to perpetuall memorie, by a yearly acknowledgement to be made of it, throughout all generations.

Thanks, Lancelot Andrewes! There is a reason why you were James I and VI's most favourite of preachers! But I'm not sure how great it is that England's big autumn festival of bright lights and blowing shit up is founded on Jacobean luxuriating in memorialisation and unseemly fondling of the skull beneath the skin. Not to mention religious intolerance, though that really goes as read in this (particular, sixteenth-century) context.

... Doubtless I will feel better once I've actually had the chance to set off some fireworks.

Talking of which, apparently I have made it my fannish business to perpetrate ANGSTY TY LEE? Whhhhy, I do not know! Here she is, however, assisting in a jailbreak (more or less).

( someone whom you could not catch up )

If, however, you prefer your Ty Lee non-angsty and sometimes upside-down (you know, the canon-approved flavour), I would recommend the fic

lizbee posted this morning (as far as my timezone goes, anyway): the very excellent Escapee.

Two more prompt fills for the Bechdel test comment fic meme, both Azula/Ty Lee (this seems to be a popular request, and I am not really complaining. Although it is surprisingly difficult), both G or PG depending on your feelings on kissing.

One for

myfloralbonnet, for prompt 'Found people to love, left people to drown / I'm not scared to jump, I'm not scared to fall / If there was nowhere to land I wouldn't be scared at all':

( A Reverence of the Feet )

And one for

branded_irony: 'Azula/Ty Lee - I love a girl, but the girl loves royalty':

( Keep Order Among Them By Ritual )

Man, I remember when I read Ted Hughes' translation of (some of) the Metamorphoses and then went to a Chinese circus straight afterwards. Say what you will about Hughes himself, those were good times. (What? Ty Lee - circus - Ovid. Clear progression).

I jumped on an open prompt (theme: 'dinner party') at

fic_promptly. Series: Avatar, naturally. Characters: Iroh, Zuko, Azula.

The theme of the day was 'food', so how could I resist?

(currently eating: 'Supreme Preserved Plum': not as all round awesome as wah plums, but less tooth-achingly sweet than the poignantly-named 'Seedless Lover's Plum').

TEA SALT SUMMER

Series: Avatar
Characters/pairings: canon characters, mention of Mai/Zuko
Ratings/warnings: G

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Being a notation made at the foot of a wall

In the lower passage of the eastern apartments

By the children of the second prince

In the year of the sand leopard

At the close of the evening

In the electrical air before thunder

When they should have been in bed.

( below the cut )

Written for prompt ‘almost gold, almost amber, almost light’ at 31_days
Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Mai/girl!Zuko
Rating/Warnings: T
A/N: an attempt at genderswap.

Wow, about a month after I write my first fic and I’m already managing to combine genderswap and femslash. I AM BRITISH, OK. I HAVE TO WORK MY WAY UP TO THESE THINGS. Whatever, I am proud! I feel I have truly penetrated fandom! *wipes away single manly tear* Ok, uh, sorry, I should stop now. I don't mean to be flippant about the performance of gender. Especially as to my shame this is entirely work-safe. Well, there is kissing, does that count?

And seriously, please tell me if I’m showing my working too much or not enough or doing anything dumb/offensive in general here. I aim to genderswap responsibly, even if I do make it mostly all about the semiotics of hair. Oops.

( The sun shone, of course )

Written for the prompt 'all this foolishness about moons and blossoms' at 31_days.
Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara, Zuko
Rating/Warnings: G. Poetry!fic.

( Katara and Zuko in the Fire Nation )

Written for the prompt 'portrait of a family’ at

31_days.
Series: Avatar.
Characters: Ursa, Azula.
Rating/Warnings: G.

ALL exercises were first deuised, and so in deede serued, either for games and pastime, for warre and seruice, or for suretie of health & length of life, though somtime all the three endes did concurre in one, sometimes they could not.
Richard Mulcaster, Positions (London: 1581), sig. Gii^r.

( either for games and pastime )

Series: Avatar
Characters: Ursa
Rating/Warnings: G. Poetry!fic.

( ... Ursa, now starring in The Song of a Shirt. )

Written for the prompt 'courage is morally neutral’ at 31_days.
Series: Avatar.
Characters: Ursa; OC.
Rating/Warnings: T. Description of violence, character death, dead body.
... Apparently I can write firebending!Ursa. Sort of.

... ou en bas, cette indécente amazone dans son petit désert privé ...

Max Ernst, A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, trans Dorothea Tanning (New York: George Braziller, 1982), p. 27.

( ... or, down there, that indecent Amazon in her little private desert ... )

Both written for

31_days . First one Fire Nation; second one Air Nomads.

THE BORDER BETWEEN RISING AND FALLING

Day/Theme: September 9: 'The border between rising and falling'
Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko, Azula
Rating/Warnings: PG; vaaague sexual tension between siblings.

Two objective points are relevant: it reflects light efficiently; that is, it is bright, indeed dazzling; moreover, it does not tarnish (oxidize); it is unchanging through time, incorruptible.

Colin Renfrew, ‘Varna and the Emergence of Wealth in Prehistoric Europe’, in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp.141-69, (p. 149).

( Two objective points )

Being the sobering tale of a newbie's adventures in Avatar fandom (or at least some corners of its original incarnation), with accompanying thoughts on going off on a quest and getting handed the key to the kingdom by a giant turtle.

( Here be dragons )

Series: Avatar
Characters: Master Pakku, Sokka
Rating: G
Written for prompt 'A man is sufficient' at

31_days

( PURE CRACK! )

In all things for the emperor’s use plainness is desirable.
Kenko, Essays in Idleness

Series: Avatar
Characters: Mai, Ty Lee, Azula
Rating: G

( Cut. )

Moon-bitten Woman

Written for the 31_days prompt "then, tell me what you'll do to me."
Series: Avatar
Characters: Katara, Hama
Rating: G

So although I'm extremely dubious about the woman-taught, moon-powered, eeevil waterbending of 'The Puppetmaster', I apparently buy into it here. Well, it was an excellent episode.

( Moon-bitten woman )

MAI

50 sentences on Mai for theme set delta at 1character; I hope it's ok to put them up here before they go up over there.

( 50 sentences )

In ten years the world will have changed

Written for the

31_days prompt "in ten years, the world will have changed."
Series: Avatar
Character: Avatar Kyoshi
Rating: G

Written almost solely because I hate it when immortal or miraculously long-lived women are randomly infertile in fiction. And the only books I can think of which buck this trend are Steph Swainson's 'The Year of our War' series. Depressing.

ETA: though apparently Kyoshi at least has one daughter in canon! So although that does not make for the kind of confusing generational shenanigans I'm envisaging here, still, ilu Avatar!

( Paint your face )

Old Stone

Written for the

31_days prompt 'can you hear the distance'.
Series: Avatar
Character: Toph
Rating: G

( Old stone )

White Bone Nights

Written for the 31_days prompt 'Call of the seas, stars, and sky'.
Series: Avatar
Character: Yue
Rating: G

( White bone nights )

Chase scene!

Series: Avatar
Characters: Mai, Zuko, Katara, Aang
Rating: G

Mai allows herself a moment of inattention.

( Chase scene )

A selection of ficlets, ranging from sad to silly.

( Avataaaar )

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Learn As If You Were Following

Promote those who are worthy

TEA SALT SUMMER

Fire Nation Graffiti (and other primary sources)

Four Bright Girls

NOT ENTIRELY CANON COMPLIANT

THE GAME

THE HOUSE OF THE SUMMER

LET’S GO. LET’S DANCE THE TÉNÉBREUSE.

It does not tarnish (oxidize): Two Avatar Fics

On Avatar, Genre, and Fandom Expectations

A Man is Sufficient

In all things for the emperor’s use plainness is desirable

Moon-bitten Woman

MAI