Once Upon a Golden Sunset
Prompt: No real prompt. I just got inspired while listening to “Once Upon a December” and then my inner fanfic writer was like “HUZZAH! INSPIRATION!”
Rating: K
Summary: In order to connect more with her spiritual self, Korra delves into the Spirit World and contacts Aang. Together, they delve into Aang’s life, reliving one of the most memorable moments of the previous Avatar’s life in the legendary city of Ba Sing Se…
Word Count: 1,269
Author’s Note:So this is my first fanfic after not writing for a few months…let’s see how this turns out. *Crosses fingers*
The Tale of the Moon Princess and the Southern Warrior
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Prompt: A special something for my followers after surpassing 400 followers. :3
Rating: K
Summary: Katara calls Sokka over to the Air Temple one night to help her with her kids while Aang is away helping Toph with police work. Kya, her oldest child and only daughter, is having an especially hard time getting to sleep without her father home. Sokka decides to tell her a bedtime story: The Tale of the Moon Princess and the Southern Warrior.
Author’s Note: I actually teared up a few times while writing this. I kid you not, so expect plenty of water works.
Word Count: 2,333
A Mentor’s Pride
Prompt: My own imagination~
Rating: K
Summary: At the Air Temple, Tenzin is teaching Korra how to use the Air Scooter, an Airbending technique his father developed in his lifetime. Will seeing Korra perform the Air Scooter move bring back fond memories in the old Airbending master’s mind?
Word Count: 689
Confession
Prompt: People wanting a new chapter to accompany this Bolin drabble
Rating: K (Borra, implied Makorra)
Author’s Note: A warning now to all Bolin lovers: This might make you cry. Also, this story is a continuation of the Bolin drabble I wrote up about a week ago called “Alone”, which can be found here.
Word Count: 2,155
Alone
Prompt: A sad Bolin fic I found here on tumblr. T_T
Rating: K (Makorra, One-sided Borra)
Preview: “I just don’t get it, Pabu,” mumbled Bolin into his pillow as he heard Korra giggle from down below again. “How is it that a nice guy like me, despite being nothing but charming and pleasant, always ends up alone while she ends up with someone else?” He buried his face deeper into his pillow, trying to shut out his sadness. “It hurts, Pabu…it hurts a lot.”
Author’s Note: A warning now to all Bolin lovers: This might make you cry.
Word Count: 660
Safe In Your Arms
Prompt: Because I wanted to write up a post-Yakone-battle Kataang fic. :3
Rating: T (Kataang)
Summary: After his battle with Yakone, Aang is shaken up at the fact he was nearly killed by Yakone’s Bloodbending. Toph suggests that he should go home & spend time with Katara and his children. Taking his friend’s advice, Aang returns home to find his wife resting outside. After waking her, he tells her about what happened with Yakone. How will she react to what has recently happened?
Word Count: 3,737
Celebrating One Year of Fanfiction Writing
That’s right, my lovely followers. On June 6 of last year, I posted my first ever Avatar fanfiction story, “Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 4: Air”, over on fanfiction.net, launching my career as a fanfiction writer for the Avatar fanchise.
And here I sit, one year later, with 50 stories to my name.
I gotta tell ya, folks, I never thought I’d get this far as a writer. Writing fanfiction for both Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra has been an absolute blast for me, and I enjoyed every single minute of it.
I’d like to give everyone out there who has ever read and loved my stories a huge “Thank you” from the bottom of my heart. :) The praise I’ve gotten from so many wonderful people in this fandom has kept me going as a writer, aspiring to write the best fanfiction I can for arguably two of the greatest shows to ever air on television.
Stay flamin’, everyone. ;D
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again:
You are supposed to use “said” consistently. It is one of those words you are allowed (and encouraged) to repeat.
Why, you ask? Because your dialogue is supposed to speak for itself. What your character says should tell us the tone of the words, rendering most of the words listed above unnecessary.
Flipping through a copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman: most dialogue is tagged with “said” or its interrogatory counterpart, “asked.”
What happens when you consistently avoid using the word “said” is that your readers will be focusing on the dialogue’s tags rather than the dialogue itself, which kinda defeats the purpose of dialogue. Seriously, imagine reading a book, and you’re reading an exchange of dialogue, and words like “upbraided” and “opined” kept cropping up.
Get my meaning?
There are exceptions, there always are, but I just hate that people feel like it’s some great sin to use the word “said.” No, it’s not, so stop it.
Failure
Prompt: Because Episode 8 left me emotionally vulnerable because of its insanity and because of the massive amount of feels that I have about Korra. T_T
Rating: T
Summary: Even with all her powers as the Avatar, Korra felt weak and useless. Her defeat at the hands of the corrupted Councilman Tarrlok was proof of her shameful failure. Now she sits in her lonely prison cell, scarred and injured, cold and alone. Korra contemplates on her failure as the Avatar she was supposed to be, shedding tears that no one will ever see.
Word Count: 1,717
A/N: Be warned: this will most likely make you cry. Also, Korra crying is the number one way of breaking my heart and making me sob on the floor like a huge baby. Prepare thy Tearbending skills, for they shall be needed.
Nearly Losing You
Prompt: This lovely picture
Rating: T (Violence, Borra)
Summary: In the midst of a battle with the Equalists, one of Korra’s friends become severly injured. Can she save him in time, or will she be forced to watch as the life lives his emerald eyes?
Word Count: 1,537
A/N: This is actually the first part of a collab fic I worked on with a KataangForever member named Kataangled. She and I were so in-sync with each other on this fic, and it was an absolute blast working with her. :3
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I'm firebenderfanatic, a huge fan of the shows "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra" and of Firebending, one of the bending styles in the show.
