Avatar: why can't it be seven books, each thicker and longer than the last?

[lizbee]

When I finished season two (this afternoon), I swore I'd pace myself through season 3. I mean, yes, it's one episode longer -- YES, THAT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE! -- but I don't want to suddenly find myself in a world without Avatar. Five-year arcs followed by increasingly dodgy TV movies and a short-lived spin-off: people should look into them. NOT THAT I WANT THE LEGEND OF KORRA TO BE SHORT-LIVED. I'm already freaking out at the promise threat that it will be shorter and more contained than The Last Airbender.

Where was I? Oh yes, pacing myself. Which I am totally doing, which is why I'm only six episodes into season 3.

*eyedart*

If anyone can rec me some fic for when I'm finished watching, I'd be grateful, because I'm really not sure I can face a world without Avatar. Any pairing; I don't know yet whether I'd revolt at the notion of Aang/Ty Lee (for example). I think sohotrightnow was only joking when she mentioned Azula/Zhao babyfic, but I'd be totally down with it. Okay, Fire Nation fic particularly well-received. I ... feel like I should draw the line at Zuko/Azula? Only it seems weirdly plausible, in a sick, twisted and horrible way. Um. Yeah.

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[fahye]

Fucked-up Fire Nation fic, you say?

This is my eternal favourite of that genre, and I'm not just saying that because I remixed it :)

[weaver]

http://noselfcontrol.deviantart.com/gallery/72695 Rufftoon's Water Tribe Zhao epic comic. It is lovely. Possibly someone's already linked it, idk.

I love the Water Tribe the most. I don't think I've saved many fic recs, though. Oh oh, um, rawles did some amazing Gaang and Fire Nation stuff!

What do you mean I'm too lazy to remember how to do user tags on dw. You have no proof.

[sqbr]

My avatar recs.

There's also a bunch of recent rec posts on white_lotus.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

You're the second person who's discovered Avatar this summer and gone apeshit over it; I'll have to check it out. (Eventually...)

I'm usually pretty good with pacing myself when it comes to a show I love, even holding off on episodes for a long time when I reach the end. I watched seasons three and four of B5 in eight days. I was...kinda glad I was unemployed.

[weaver]

Oh, that reminds me: there's a comic that takes place between season 2 and season 3 that explains some of the changes. I spent a couple hours tracking it down for someone else. Do you have it already? If not, I can share!


I can't decide if I'm jealous of you actually having all of Avatar to watch at your fingertips or not. I mean, the ridiculous four-month waits between episodes and the will-it-ever-run-ever-again? was awful at the time, but it also raised excitement for new episodes to slavering frothy-mouthed heights. It is true: a world with no new Avatar is very, very sad.

I am definitely jealous of you being asleep right now, though. I should get on that myself.

[lizbee]

"Oh, that reminds me: there's a comic that takes place between season 2 and season 3 that explains some of the changes. I spent a couple hours tracking it down for someone else. Do you have it already? If not, I can share!"

I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT'S A YES!

[weaver]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5675645/Avatar-The_Last_Airbender_02__2007_.cbr -- the important one!

Also: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5675645/Avatar-The_Last_Airbender_01__2006___Steam-DCP_.cbr -- an amusing one from the previous year.

:D

[rydra_wong]

I am also in mid-season 3, but I know that sholio and stultiloquentia have both recently done recs posts:

http://stultiloquentia.dreamwidth.org/137141.html
http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/270554.html
http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/271558.html

They've also got juicy ep response posts, and I suspect would definitely be up for shared babbling meta discussions.

[sohotrightnow]

I WANT AZULA/ZHAO BABYFIC SO MUCH. They would get super into it, and insist that they were the GREATEST PARENTS IN THE WORLD and that this is the GREATEST CHILD IN THE WORLD and then as soon as the kid was, like, eleven, it would rebel by running off to join up with the Earth Kingdom hippies, and Zhao and Azula would believe that SOMEONE MUST HAVE KIDNAPPED THEIR CHILD!!!!! and set off to FIND THEIR CHILD AT ALL COSTS!!!!! It would be comedy GOLD. Also Zhao and Azula would be devastatingly hot -- pun intended -- together. WHATEVER.

[lizbee]

And the fire spawn would be like, "Mommy, Uncle Zuko says--"

"What did I tell you about talking to your Uncle Zuko?"

"That he's a sad, strange man who prefers moping about his honour in his rooms than actually doing anything that would expose his incompetence to the world?"

"Exactly. That's why Mommy had to depose him. Like Granddaddy and Great Uncle Iroh. That's why you're an only child."

[deralte]

Here are my Avatar recs.