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[Time passes oddly. Between one second and the next, Sokka has the Fire Lord pinned to the wall with his hands around the bastard’s throat. Golden eyes (one gold eye, his mind whispers) widen in shock.
“Sokka?” he chokes out. And then he smiles.
What the fuck?
“Sokka, I—”
Sokka slams his head against the wall, once, twice, and the smile wipes off his face. Good.
“What,” Sokka bites out, “have you done to my sister?”]
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An injury leaves Sokka with amnesia. His last memory is of the failed invasion, of leaving his father behind in enemy territory on the Day of Black Sun. Of hopelessness. Rage.
But then he wakes up, and the war is over. Suddenly, he must come to terms with the fact that years have passed, and that he's somehow the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the Fire Nation. He is also supposedly friends with banished-Prince-turned-Fire-Lord Zuko, of all people. Close friends.
Yeah, nah.
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quick chapter note summary of Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
(rough, will be edited as the story moves along)
currently up to date as of chapter 24
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the louder i call, the faster it runs by oldpotatoe
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Dec 2021
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[“—because then you’ll never actually be disappointed?”
MJ wonders, briefly, if the tap-dancers prancing about her grave are doing so in lead shoes, and whether they'll end up wearing through the dirt and squelching across her corpse. At this rate, seems likely.
Do I know you, she wants to ask.
She’s sure the answer is no. What else can it be, right? She’s sure she’d have remembered him. There’s something about this boy—about Peter Parker—that feels different than the average customer, the average classmate, the average New Yorker. There’s something in his eyes that speaks of knowing. She’d have remembered that.
They can’t have met before. She’s sure. She’s sure.]
Two ships in the night. How long, before they collide?
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[“Morning, sweetheart.”
Sokka’s gaze stays clouded, like he hasn’t even heard. Zuko sighs, gently running his hand along Sokka’s temple.
So, it’s going to be one of those days, then.]
or: "forever" is a pretty word. it was never theirs to keep
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crowned by an overture bold by oldpotatoe for agentcalliope
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Nov 2020
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The crack echoes through the room. His knees hit the ground in prostration, in penance.
(His mouth runs with warm iron. It will soon become a familiar taste.)
“Pathetic,” says his father from high on above. “I should have drowned you at birth.”
I’m sorry, he thinks, but doesn’t dare say.
He knows it would only come out wrong.
The first time he tastes the back of his father’s hand, he is five. It is not the last.
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Ship's Night, or, The Five Spocks by branwyn
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series
10 Sep 2023
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Ten months into their first mission, an unknown force kidnaps Captain Kirk from the bridge of his ship in full view of his crew.
He's returned to the ship five hours later, visibly worse for wear, having aged three months.
He won't tell Spock what happened while he was away.
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Zuko only barely resists flinching again when Sokka grabs his frozen hand in his broader, warmer one and presses the binoculars into his palm. “Come on, dude. You wanted to see them. I’ve seen them plenty. Have a look.”
Tentatively, Zuko peers through the lenses. At his first clear glimpse of the tiny seabirds, he sucks in a cold breath.
“I thought they’d be bigger,” he whispers, following one bird with his eyes until it flits away faster than he can track, then choosing another one.
“They’re each only about a pound or less,” Sokka says. “Hardy little guys, though. They live at sea for two years as fledglings before ever setting foot on land.”
Sokka must have already said all this on the ride, and he’s repeating it for Zuko’s benefit. It doesn’t have the air of a rehearsed speech, though. Sokka sounds genuinely impressed.
Zuko is foolishly, recklessly, a little bit in love.
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- Part 1 of Predictably As
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Sokka takes a job washing dishes at the new tea shop in town. It's a great gig, until he finds out his only coworker is his old high school bully. Sokka really should quit, but he also really needs to afford rent.
Also, Zuko is kind of hot now.
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- Part 1 of the greatest illusion
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Best of Both Worlds by Stuck_Y_OnYou (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek
16 Oct 2020
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When James Kirk was five, his mother gave him a pack of coloured pens. She explained what they were for, and how he shouldn’t get his hopes up too much for a reply. After all, he was only a little boy...
Every human being experiences the Echoes - images that appear on your skin when your soul-mate chooses to draw or write on themselves. Everyone, that is, except James Kirk. Gone his whole life without a single Echo, Jim cannot stop wondering what might have become of his soul-mate. And why they never wrote back to him...
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Two months into his captaincy, Jim comes to a startling realization: he's deathly afraid of his first officer. Spock, meanwhile, starts to develop a crush.
"Jim's afraid of Spock" sounds terribly angsty, but this is mostly rom com with hints of angst and horror. Updates every Tuesday.