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Title: the height my soul can reach
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 87 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Legend of Korra, Asami Sato/Korra, darling
Pairing: Asami/Korra
Other: Set directly post S4.

Excerpt: They had a whole new language to learn after they began dating, endearments and affection and the meaning of each new look.

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Title: open the door and fly on your heavy feet
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 3113 words
Prompt: Written for galentinesday 2015 for Elleth.
Pairing: minor Lin/Tenzin and Suyin/Bataar Sr.; mostly Suyin and Lin gen
Other: Also at AO3.

Summary/Excerpt: Suyin, Lin, and Toph fell apart as a family when Su left for Gaoling. It took a long time for them to come back together.
Tenzin bit his lip. "Your mom isn't very good with feelings," he said. "You know that."

Lin drummed her feet on the ground in frustration. "I know," Lin said. "I know. I'm not -- well, you know. Not great at talking about them either. But she just pretends that nothing ever happened. My sister is halfway across the Earth Kingdom over nothing and I am never going to be able to hide this after that nothing."

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Title: where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown?
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 614 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for starlit_purple
Pairing: Lin and Suyin gen
Other: Set at the end of S4.

Excerpt: When Suyin walked into the police station, a hush fell over the assembled officers. She had not been inside even once since her exile, but there was no doubting who she was, with the family resemblance. She kept walking, her feet clicking on the tiled floor, until she reached Lin's office, and she opened the door without knocking. She shut it behind her.

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Title: we show off our different scarlet letters
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 664 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Legend of Korra, Lin /& Pema, "You gonna try to arrest me again or do you want something to eat?"
Pairing: Lin and Pema gen
Other: Set mid S4.

Excerpt: Pema laughed. "I said, are you going to try to arrest me again, or do you want something to eat?"

"Arrest you?" For a moment Lin was confused, and then she flushed with embarrassment. "I'm not -- I'm just here to get the news on Korra and Kuvira."

"And I said, do you want something to eat? I know how you are, you probably didn't take a dinner break."

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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: after that we need some other excuse
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 306 words
Prompt: Old Zuko and Toph for Katie's birthday.
Pairing: Zuko/Toph
Other: Set in some nebulous Korra AU, mid season 4.

Excerpt: "Who has invaded the territory of the MELON LORD?" Toph bellows, moments after he stepped onto a fairly sturdy branch.

"It's just me, Toph," Zuko says.

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Title: where the fruit is
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 2001 words
Prompt: shipswap 2013 for Themistoklis.
Pairing: Asami/Korra
Other: Also at AO3. This fic is set directly post S1 and is not canon compliant past that point.

Summary/Excerpt: Korra needs to learn to be vulnerable. Asami can help. Asami drove like she had a grudge against the world. Korra loved it. She hadn't at first, but she was used to it by now. The rush of the air through her hair made her feel more alive. And Asami always sparkled when she took the curves hard. Korra could hardly take her eyes off her. So the drive was pretty short.

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Title: possible's slow fuse
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation/Legend of Korra
Length: 560 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Trek: The Next Gen, Geordi La Forge/Data, Avatar (Tla/Korra) AU
Pairing: slight Geordi/Data
Other: Fusion fic, Geordi and Data in the Korra universe.

Excerpt: It makes Geordi want to laugh, when he thinks about it. When he thought he'd move to Republic City and get away from his small village and all the people who only knew him as that blind earthbender, he never anticipated making even stranger friends here. He didn't know there were any spirits who wanted to be human but he met Data after having been here a week, primarily because, as Data told him, he hadn't run away immediately.

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Title: the soul seeks faintly for its shore
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 3786 words
Pairing: Lin/Kya II
Prompt: Written for Aiffe for femslashex; also archived here
Other: Written post S3, AU to S4.

Excerpt: It's been a long time since Lin has spent time with Kya, and she didn't realize how much she missed it. Lin meets with Kya for dinner a couple times a week. It's just a small addition to her comfortable routine. They walk through the streets together afterwards, most days. Kya notices things that Lin has never seen. Lin sees her past here, the criminal enterprises she has raided and the citizens she has helped. Kya buys flowers at a ridiculous mark-up from the street children and makes Lin take them home, telling her that she got her sense of style from her mother and needs more greenery in her house, less rock and metal. Sometimes Lin remembers to water them.

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Title: what her heart sounds like
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
Length: 361 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Avatar: The Last Airbender. Toph Bei Fong, "That looks more like a potato."
Pairing: Toph gen with Katara/Aang
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "A potato, though?" Aang is saying in that wheedling voice he uses when Toph isn't appreciating something as much as he thinks she should be. Fortunately Zuko interrupts the probable lecture on the beauty of human life.

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