[Avatar] Flint and Spark, part 1

[gaisce]

Another unspoken resolution I have this year is to stop being an over-analytical whiner and just write. Which primarily focuses on how I have no pacing for longer stories to save my life and thus don't attempt them. TIMELY EXPOSITION IS MY NEMESIS. I have probably written this chapter over twenty times, posted and deleted it twice, and will likely

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[starsofnite]

I DON'T KNOW I WOULD READ ANYTHING AVATAR BY YOU AND LOVE IT

♥!!!!

[gaisce]

What if I wrote Zutara vampires/werewolves AU. Would you love me then?

[inverts]

This premise is so great and I am seriously intrigued. What could a threat possibly be that they'd need Azula to help? Sure she brings a lot of power but you'd have to unshackle her to get it; she also could contribute a whole lot to strategy & tactics if you could trust her not to play you false. But Toph's comment about Aang wanting to give her another chance catches my attention; if there were alternatives to Azula's help then Aang probably leaned toward Azula because he is a silly thing like that...

ANYWAY I seriously liked this and it got me thinking, so! Awesome.

[gaisce]

Aha thank you so much. You have no idea how grateful I am that you found it interesting because I have been writing this like one giant gratuitous post of self-indulgence.

I might throw up the exposition chapter I cut just for reference, but it was five thousand words of people setting up the situation and I think anything with Toph in it should immediately start with fighting.

[grimorie]

Wow. I hope you don't mind feedbacks from strangers but I was looking around for anything Avatar related and somehow stumbled into your LJ and I'm very glad I did because I love this story! This is very well written and you really have Toph and Azula down, especially Azula all the things she says and the things that's left unsaid and her thoughts about the time she's lost and her inability to pinpoint it. Is just... and I love how circumstances are forcing Toph and Azula to work together, especially on Toph's part. I don't envy her her job it's difficult to know what to make of Azula's 90% of the time.

“It’s a disgusting custom to throw dirt over a body and simply leave it to rot...”

I do find that statement interesting both as an insight to Fire Nation and to Azula herself and her dislike for being caught underground. I hope there would be more of this story because it has such a promising beginning!

[gaisce]

Oh no it's always a wonderful and unexpected surprise if other people comment on my stuff. This comment has left me grinning like an idiot for the last hour.

I am still writing more of this story, I just happen to be an exceptionally slow writer and currently have put it on hold to finish avatarbigbang but I really do have more written. It just may take me months to work it into something coherent.

Thank you so much for your comment!

[grimorie]

Well, then I shall be looking forward to your entry in avatarbigbang! And, don't worry, I know what you mean, I'm also an exceptionally glacially slow writer so I know what you mean!

Also, again, putting Toph and Azula together? It's kind of genius!

[alice_and_lain]

I KNOW IT'S BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS but I really hope you finish this at some point. I love the Toph and Azula snark.

*Why yes, I've been rewatching Avatar and remembered you've got a lot of fic on your journal.*

[sharpasfire]

IT'S STILL ON MY LIST OF THINGS, maybe fourth or so, so it's not hopeless but I haven't been writing as much as I needed. Anyway, thank you for the encouragement. I figure I could at least show you a snippet to prove it's not dead forever and I have at least two parts mostly written:

Not to be deterred, Azula adjusted her boots before taking her first steps onto the rocky terrain. Toph followed at a leisurely pace, which only served to make the exile more determined to continue up the hillside and keep ahead of her. “It depends on where you’ve seen fit to take us. You do have a plan, I hope