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Title: waiting for a wandering poem
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 594 words
Prompt:comment_fic: Avatar TLA. Sokka (and/or Katara). The first time they see the forest
Pairing: Sokka gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Katara says, "How long do you think it took for all these trees to grow?" There's wonder in her eyes. Aang has gotten her positively starry-eyed and he's not sure how to feel about it. He agreed to come with them, but he's not sure what they can really do against the Fire Nation, even with the Avatar. But she has always been the optimistic one.

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Title: echoes from the life behind
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
Length: 396 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: A:TLA, Katara, a new generation of waterbenders
Pairing: Katara gen with implied Katara/Aang
Other: Set post ATLA, pre Korra.

Excerpt: Katara collected the kids and they walked down to the beach, where she could put her feet in the water and read the letter again. That always made her feel closer to home, knowing that she was touching the same water that eventually wound its way south.

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Title: alas for those that never sing
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 354 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: A:TLA, Monk Gyatso, last stand
Pairing: Gyatso gen
Other: Themes of genocide and death.

Excerpt: A few monks are trying to organize a resistance and others have gone back to their cells to meditate and wait. There would be hours of arguments about the differing approaches, if there had been time for them, but all of them know that the time is precious.

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Title: I know how to rule myself
Fandom: A:TLA/Elementary
Length: 572 words
Prompt: intoabar: Toph Bei Fong goes into a bar and meets... Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)!
Pairing: Toph and Sherlock gen
Other: Fusion fic: Sherlock in Toph's world.

Excerpt: Toph isn't sure who let the skinny guy into her office, but she makes a mental note to put that officer on desk duty for the next year. She does not have time to deal with another admirer, merchant, or any civilian personnel. Don't they realize she's trying to run a police force?

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Title: all traces of reality
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 981 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh and Toph, painting by feel
Pairing: Iroh and Toph gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I'll think about it," Toph says. They move on to talking about other things, but the next time she comes to visit she brings her own canvas, newly purchased in the market. From the way she purses her lips, he thinks the seller might have been a bit rude when selling a canvas to a blind woman, but he is sure the merchant learned an important lesson that day about judging others.

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Title: a better fate than wisdom
Fandom: A:TLA/Legend of Korra
Length: 1991 words
Prompt: Let's Make Out: atla, zuko/everyone. five times someone in the gaang kissed zuko
Pairing: Zuko/everyone + canon pairings
Other: This got waaaay more serious than I expected. (But some of it is still fun.) Warnings for mentioned character death and violence. Various Korra spoilers as well.

Excerpt: Five times that someone in Zuko's found family kissed him -- or he kissed one of them. Zuko was Toph's first kiss, not that he had much of a say in the matter. They were sitting around one day on a rare break from Zuko's official duties and Toph's rigorous training sessions when she leaned over and kissed him, mouth hard as a punch.

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Title: 5 Worlds in Which Toph Bei Fong Is the Avatar, and the One in Which She Isn't
Fandom: Avatar
Length: 2259 words
Pairing: Toph gen
Other: 5 AUs (all separate universes) as per the title, and one set in the canon universe. Implied genocide.

Excerpt: She had to master airbending, and every lesson was like straining against -- well, against the sky. It didn't care what you did to it. It just stayed there, empty and waiting.

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Title: clad with radiance
Fandom: Avatar
Length: 508 words
Prompt: Christmas card fic!
Pairing: Ty Lee gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Ty Lee decided that snow was definitely her new favorite thing. Kittens had been her favorite for a whole week this spring, after Meimei's litter started to wobble around on their little furry paws, but snow might last even longer as a favorite.

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Title: small children and large nations
Fandom: Avatar
Length: 312 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Avatar: The Last Airbender, always-a-boy!Azula & Zuko, first son & second son
Pairing: gen
Other: Azula was born male, as per prompt. AU.

Excerpt: No one even pretended otherwise: Azulon II should have been Ozai's first son.

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A collection of short promptfic for my plurk flisters.

Title: for that face
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 132 words
Prompt: For Kristi - Nine/Rose
Pairing: Nine and Rose gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He'd never think to ask her, but later, after he's become this stranger with too many words and smaller ears, Rose thinks about the places they've been, the people they've seen, and she tries to pick a favorite adventure.

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Title: kindled
Fandom: Polychromatic-verse: Avatar/Firestarter - Stephen King
Length: 143 words
Prompt: For Mouse - Charlie/Toph
Pairing: Charlie and Toph gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Toph knows Charlie's heartbeat, knows the extra warmth that burns beneath Charlie's skin, and she finds it reassuring in so many ways.

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Title: starfire
Fandom: Polychromatic-verse: Doctor Who/Firestarter - Stephen King
Length: 121 words
Prompt: For Mouse: Charlie/Nine
Pairing: Charlie & Nine gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He could have crossed the universe with her, never popping her home to see her mum for tea.

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Title: with 'em or without 'em
Fandom: Avatar
Length: 103 words
Prompt: For Lila: Lila - Mai & Tom Tom
Pairing: Mai and Tom Tom gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: It irritates Mai sometimes, the easy way the baby takes to her.

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