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Title: earthbenders have their faults
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 500 words
Prompt: Christmas cards: Old Toph trolling either Zuko or Izumi or both!
Pairing: Zuko and Toph gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Finally, he turned it over and wrote, "I don't know. Where do rocks sleep?"

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Title: we who are left
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 439 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: A:TLA, any, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Pairing: Toph gen
Other: Themes of war.

Excerpt: "Mom?" Lin said over dinner, in that careful tone of voice that meant she was about to ask for something, "you don't ever talk about the war."

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Title: the missionaries of crime
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 569 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Any Crime Fandom, Any, the cops are the criminals
Pairing: Mako and Toph gen
Other: AU as per prompt.

Excerpt: "So," Toph said. She didn't look at him, and she didn't say anything else. Her expression was hidden by her messy bangs.

Mako coughed. "I want to, to join up with you guys," he said.

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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: affects eternity
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 147 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Avatar:The Legend of Korra: Aang, trying to get through Korra's spiritual block
Pairing: Aang gen
Other:

Excerpt: He hadn't expected her to realize her spiritual side so late, but then again, it had been so easy for him -- he realizes this now, that he struggled with the physical in the same way she fights with the metaphysical.

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Title: justice may be blind
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 482 words
Prompt: Older!Toph and youngish!Lin: "You hit 'em high, I'll hit 'em low." for Joys
Pairing: Toph & Lin gen
Other: "Okay, go!" Toph said, pushing her forward, and Lin vaulted over the balcony railing, hooking her metal cords into the wall to ease her fall. The fight was over in seconds.

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