#learning to make fire

[ok-boomerang]

learning to make fire: fic complete! 🎉🎉

read on ao3🔥🌊

chapters: 15/15

rating: T

Brief Fic Summary: Katara broke up with Aang, but he won’t let her go. Mai dumped Zuko, and he’d do anything to get her back. Surely fake dating will solve their problems.

[solardrake]

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

[krazieka2]

Blions first kill

[beaulesbian]

Dragon Age The Veilguard + text posts [1/?]

[wasyago]

day 16482 of trying to figure out what color jay's magic is

[epicfirestormer]

(holds all three in my hands) I just think they're neat

[demaparbat-hp]

Your zutara fanfics honestly give me life, they’re so beautiful!!!

I see posts where ppl often criticise zutara, as they can’t see katara wanting to leave her tribe and becoming Fire Lady, and I was curious how you interpret this scenario? No hate just genuinely curious 😊���

Hello, and thank you!

I'm a firm believer that you can make a character do anything without it feeling OoC as long as you've got a solid base. Basically—anything is possible as long as it feels natural in the story.

I never felt like Katara becoming Fire Lady (or Queen Consort, or Lady of the Two Lands, or whatever you wish to call her) would mean leaving her Tribe behind. Her roots are strong and alive in everything she does. She's Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe, and she'll remain as such no matter who she marries or what title she carries.

I'm not saying it would be easy. I'm saying Katara's stubborn and isn't willing to give up when she's fighting for something she wants. If she truly wishes to stand by Zuko's side, then woe betide whoever dares say she can't do it.

Being in a relationship is hard. Ruling over a broken nation you were once targeted by is even harder. But I can't really see anyone else taking up the challenge and doing a better job of it than Katara.

Why would making a home of the Fire Nation (or anywhere else, for that matter!) mean forsaking her culture? Wouldn't Katara take the South with her everywhere she goes? Wouldn't Zuko love her culture and make it part of who he is?

Katara has never let anyone else walk over her. She has never shied away from breaking tradition and building her own path over it. Why should this be any different?

[baejax-the-great]

If I were a writer at a big game company working on a sequel to a beloved series and the higher ups kept telling me to make the game shittier and kept sending my work back to me to be dumbed down even further somehow, and then once most of the writing was done they laid me and my coworkers off illegally without severance, I'd probably gleefully watch as people trashed the shitty game that shipped.

[sosphyr]

close ups of the funny little guys:

[dragonscinders]

Thinking sooo hard about my tlt wof au…… they NEED to be dragons

[deoidesign]

Time and Time Again comes back tonight!

Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know it was a long hiatus.

My health was struggling, my arm was (is) hurting, and I decided it wasn't worth it. I'd rather be slow!

So thank you for giving me that grace, and I hope you'll be there with me for the rest of the series.

[ok-boomerang]

learning to make fire: new chapter!

read chapter 7/15 on ao3

Chapter 7 Summary: Katara and Zuko debut their relationship. Some things get harder than expected.

Brief Fic Summary: Katara broke up with Aang, but he won’t let her go. Mai dumped Zuko, and he’d do anything to get her back. Surely fake dating will solve their problems, right?

[sgt-tombstone]

Soap knows how to load and fire a flintlock but won’t tell anyone how or why

it’s his favorite party trick and he loves to gloat that he knows how to operate one weapon that Ghost doesn’t (he could probably figure it out but doesn’t want to risk sacrificing his fingers or face in a firearm explosion to test that theory)

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[farshootergotme]

Batman 'firing' Robin will never sit well with me because having the authority to fire someone implies they applied for a job, and a job includes payment.

So, Batman firing Robin is like saying he's paying Robin for doing his job. Except, is he paying? The simple answer would be no, but then the next logical option is assuming that the payment comes with everything he does for a Robin.

Since Batman provides the equipment he has the right to take it back and that's not the part that bothers me. What bothers me is that there's another crucial thing that Batman does for Robin: provide a home.

And while, yes, Batman's intention isn't to take away the safe space of Robin or to make him believe he's making him leave his house, intentions don't matter in miscommunication.

Firing Robin means not 'paying' him anymore. It means taking away what he's giving him because he isn't doing his job correctly.

For Robin, it means losing his home.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

the way the music died at just the right moment made this so perfect