terajk

Title: I Was Here
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Toph Bei Fong, Teo
Complement to: The Road to Yu Dao by chordatesrock
For: cripbigbang round 1
Music: "I Was Here," by Beyoncé
Length: 3:57
Summary: I will leave my mark.
Also at AO3

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I signed up as an artist for cripbigbang, a Big Bang featuring characters with canonical/semi-canonical disabilities. And the fic I claimed is about Toph and Teo having adventures and rebuilding the world, while making it more accessible for everybody. (Yeah, I snapped it up in, like, five seconds. Obviously.)

Back when I'd originally signed up, I was thinking of writing meta. But I really, really like making vids! And, bonus, I don't have the hangups about it that I have about writing things. (Also, double bonus, there's no Kyuubey this time around, who is a huge pain to vid because they almost never move.)

But! Fanvids need to be at least three minutes long! Also I haven't found a song yet, although I'm getting closer. (I started with members of Krip Hop Nation--a collective of hip-hop artists with disabilities--and so far I've found songs with awesome lyrics that are slower/gentler than I want and songs with excellent beats/pacing and lyrics that aren't very useful. BUT I WILL GET THERE.)

I mean, a song appropriate for adventuring/rebuilding/breaking stuff and deconstructing the Inspirational Cripple(tm) and Disability Superpower tropes isn't too much to ask for, is it?

This started as a comment on sholio's post about part 3 of The Promise. (spoilers). It ended up...this.

( Spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender )

Man, I wrote a lot of words about this. I'd better stop now.

Signups are open for femslash12, operation: Azula, Katara and Toph get all the babes the multifandom femslash fic exchange/athon! I'm still fiddling with my signup. Come play!

I've never done this exchange before, and am really super nervous, as my sexual orientation is "asexual with a romantic preference for ladies that I have limited experience with in real life." The kinds of things I have strong feelings for aren't necessarily romantic (hand-holding! sharing a bed! sharing food! cuddles!--*will edit signup to offer Aoi Hana after posting this, as I can't believe I FORGOT*), and in my writing I never know if I've shipped people or not. Also, while I write all kinds of kinky fic, I write porn only slightly better than I write maps. D:

After a re-read of Azumanga Daioh I find myself craving (Kagura)&/Osaka&/Tomo. Or Tomo roleplaying as Fujiko Mine. Which is kind of silly, as my memories of Lupin III are vague as hell and almost none of them involve Fujiko except as a name Lupin mentioned a lot. (Luckily, Fujiko has her own anime now!)

Also, for anyone so inclined, my AIM chat name is terajk (boring, I know)

....Maka and Katara would have a really fun....interaction, I guess? (Okay, okay, I would ship them.*)

They're both badass! They're both insecure about their own abilities at some point in time and work through it! (Katara being jealous/frustrated that Aang learns waterbending moves so easily; Maka feeling like she's not as strong as Black*Star or Kid) and angry with their fathers! They both get a lot of fandom hate/dislike for being female protagonists teenage girls angry sometimes as imperfect as the fandom darlings bitches! I am insecure about writing them both!

Actually, one reason I have trouble writing them both is because of the hate they get. Because I love that they get angry and frustrated and make mistakes! (And tbh, I can't think of any characters who never make mistakes, ever--hell, even local Joan Watson ( Elementary spoilers ) And I'm like: "But how do I write them doing these things--which darling dudes do, too, btw--without them looking like Bad People? And then I chicken out.


*And I would ship them with/have them talk to Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.

glass_icarus made, like, 339 icons for the Avatar: The Last Airbender season 3 finale and they are AMAZEFACE. (So, SPOILERS.)

A.MAZE.FACE.

Writing the story of the friendship between a sexy cat-monster and an asexual* god of death is actually really hard. (I mean, they have SO MANY COMMON INTERESTS.) I can't imagine it working without some degree of snark on both sides; the cat-monster's snark is gentler/ more playful than anyone else's in the cast would be, but I keep being afraid of breaking her.

ETA: While I usually don't associate songs with specific characters, their friendship has a song!



(Lyrics)

( This snippet took me an hour to write and IDEK where she's taking him )

In lieu of actual content, I wrote this for femslash100 a while back and never posted it here.

Title: Dare
For: femslash100, challenge #305--"strange"
Rating: G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ship: Azula/Toph
Word count: 100
Summary: Azula hates not being sure.

( The Drabble )

*While my theory is canon implies the "reproduction" definition, I'm extrapolating the "sexual orientation" definition for id-tastic reasons.