Katara is not the or even a connection between Zuko and Aang. Zuko and Aang have their own relationship, which revolves heavily around Aang's status and his past as well as Zuko's past and family. It's all very mytho-historical except that this is Aang, so it's also very personal and vulnerable and silly. Zuko gets to be both around Aang ( Read more... )

Having had time to study my au_bingo card, I'm mostly wondering what possessed me not to strike "Western". Arrrrrgh. What do I do with that? Do I give in and write Sam the Freedman's Bureau employee/counselor and falconer on the side, and Steve, his quiet, charismatic artist friend who came west/south because he's dying of tuberculosis and this is an ( Read more... )

Recently I finally found a fanfiction.net review from several months ago that made me want to clarify a few things.

I didn't invent anything in One Kind of Good-bye. Burial by exposure is still practiced in our modern world, despite it having been banned in a lot of places because of increasing populations, hygiene concerns, and cultural ( Read more... )

Meme from etrangere:

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them ( Read more... )

Okay! I have finished all the requests, go me!

A Fullmetal Alchemist AU focusing on Winry and Izumi for apintrix can be found HERE.

A Cyteen AU focusing on Ariane Emory II for petronelle can be found HERE. (There are two snippets!)

A Journey to the West AU for darkfire_blade can be found HERE.

And then I wrote two Arthurian AUs focusing on the Orkney clan for mhari, because the ( Read more... )

I am, for reasons which are too stupid to go into, in need of cheering up ( Read more... )

Title: The Stars Make No Noise
Author: tiamatschild
Rating: PG
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/s: Iroh, OC
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: None.
Summary: Iroh has connections everywhere, even in Ba Sing Se.
Notes: I wrote the first draft of this before season three aired, and miraculously, it’s never been strictly contradicted by canon.

( The Stars Make No Noise )

Title: One Kind of Good-bye
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Word Count: 250
Warning: Spoilers for “The Southern Air Temple”.
Summary: How we comfort each other, how we comfort the dead.
Note: For Challenge #131: “Tradition” at theavatar100.

One Kind of Good-bye

ilyena_sylph gave me "T". ( So, here are Teal'c, Tripitaka, Thorn, Thomas Cardiel, and Toph Bei Fong... )

Title: One More Revelation
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Word Count: 100
Warning: Spoilers for the Season 2 finale
Summary: In which Aang stops resisting and learns something important.
A/N: For challenge #130: "finesse" at theavatar100. It is, to be honest, a sort of strange interpretation of the prompt, and I'm not sure where I'm coming from comes across well once ( Read more... )