Belated White Lotus Lunar New Year post!

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Just take it for granted that anything I post here for the next few months will have an invisible header containing apologies for late news, busyness, etc. 

Anyway, the white_lotus Lunar New Year Exchange was a thing that happened!  My favourite part of it is surreptitiously refreshing the comm on my phone at work, waiting to see what gets posted next. 

I requested fic about Lin and Tenzin during the years when they had a (mostly) functional established relationship, and if my recipient could throw in some adventures, that would be ace.  In return, I got the wonderful "why live on the edge when you can jump" by dropsofviolet, in which Lin and Tenzin FIGHT CRIME.  And the crime is pretty clever, too, and based on a real one. 

Writing-wise, I produced:

"Joint Operations" for attackfish (Lin/Iroh, PG-13), in which the United Forces have to provide support to the Republic City Police Department in the wake of the revolution, and that means Iroh has to work with Lin Beifong.  I had some trouble with the prompt, and wound up sort of just reducing it down to its bare elements, that is, that Lin and Iroh share a great deal of professional respect, even when that isn't necessarily extended to each other's organisations. 

If I'd had more time and energy, I would have written something longer, in which they actually solved crime and fought bad guys together, but that wasn't to be.  And anyway, why would the Chief of Police and a military general be getting their hands dirty when there are all these highly trained professionals about?  Anyway, for the record, the opening scene was inspired by The Killing III, and the musings on the inappropriateness of using military forces to police a civilian population came via The Wire. 

Secondly, as a pinch hit, I produced "Training" for silly_cleo (Ikki, Jinora, PG-13).  It was really hard to choose between her prompts, because they were all great -- one was for Lin/Pema/Tenzin!  YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT SNUGGGLEBENDING! -- but once again, time was short -- I only had one free afternoon to write this -- and the idea for this small Ikki fic entered my brain and refused to leave.  If I ever have spare time again, I'm totally going to illustrate it. 

And that, for me, was white_lotus done for the year again.  Frustratingly, I've been in a mood to write fic lately, but haven't had time.  Even though I've totally figured out what happens next in the Private Detective AU.