I like it.  I really, really like it.  Korra is a very engaging heroine, I really like the secondary characters introduced so far, and Amon is pretty goddamn scary - in the vein of Azula instead of Zhao or Ozai.  I'm going to cut to rest, since it may be spoilerrific.

( On the characters... )

Ha, so, two days after I wrote my last post lamenting my poor career prospects and trying to look on the bright side (more time to write!  yay!), I was offered a full-time job.  So god knows how much writing I'll get done now.  Sad for anybody who reads this journal and has any investment in me ever finishing my ongoing stories, but good for me ( Read more... )

1.  Her father taught her how to stand.  It sounds unimportant, but it was truly necessary; by the time she was a year old, she was already kicking chunks of rock at  the nursemaid and tunneling her way through the walls.  It's something every parent the world over has to do: He simply held her by her shoulders until she found her feet and ( Read more... )

So, I am a dirty liar, as I always am when I talk about my fandom committments.  So, I have no idea if I'm back or not.  I've spent most of the last four months looking of work, any kind of work, and finding...nothing.  Lemme tell you, this economy is just great, guys.  Fantastic.  But I did just get another part-time, minimum-wage job, and as ( Read more... )

So, I've been gone for the last 18 months because RL is an evil time-sucking whore.  Actually, that's not true - RL (at least, my version of it) is fine, but SCHOOL on the other hand...  well, let's just say, I'm nearly done, and getting ready to jump back into fandom, such as it is.

I have kept up with a few things in that time - and by a few, I ( Read more... )

Title: to be made flesh again
Author: Elena
Fandom: Avatar - the Last Airbender
Timeframe: pre-series
Characters: Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, Yangchen
Summary: To be the Avatar is to be the bridge between this world and the next.  It doesn't mean you don't suffer.

( for how else can one empathize with the people you are meant to protect? )

As usual, Clone 1-1E, otherwise known as Yellow Five, went through the start-up sequence with half an ear to the transmission chatter, otherwise silent himself. As usual, the other clones were going through start-up with what their doctor called “exuberance” and their occasional overseer called “idiocy”. E himself thought it was nervousness. ( Read more... )

Title: of a low dishonest decade
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars EU
Summary: Her aunt is dead and her brother changed, and all the while a ghost she doesn't know is telling her things she doesn't want to know.  [Jaina, post-Sacrifice]
Author's Note: semi-inspired by cenestpasunewok .  This idea has been stuck in my brain in various incarnations for the better part of ( Read more... )

Title: Freed From Death Row
Author: Elena
Fandom: Fairy Tail
Summary:  Flashfic prompt “jailer”.  It’s as much a relief for the jailer as the jailed.
Author’s Note:  So, I read the entire manga in three days, and find myself wondering why I’ve never heard of something this good before.  Also, I need a Fairy Tail icon now.

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Some years before Sasuke killed the Hokage…

“Can someone who can’t save even one of his friends become Hokage?  What do you think, Sakura-chan?”

At this point, Hanabi decides to intervene.  There’s an ugly undercurrent to what Naruto just said, and Sakura is beyond pulling her punches.  One step forward, then three precise chakra-enchanced jabs, ( Read more... )