Some fics you should not miss.
First from the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender-
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pikabot has started posting an incredible story focusing on one of my favorite characters, the evil spirit Koh. It's called
Great Spirit of the Dark and is not only a fantastic read right off the bat, but fleshes out a coherent and lush cosmology for the series:
Back and forth the argument went, and as it did the other siblings began to take sides. Tui immediately rushed to La's aid, as she always did. Ilza fell in with Gan, perhaps less out of agreement with Gan than out of disagreement with Tui. Basha, who found land far too restrictive, agreed with La, while Ashin supported Gan, fearing for the fate of his own area of dominion, should the world be covered in water.
Tysha, whose domain was being co-opted as figureheads by both sides of the argument, declared the whole issue silly and said she wanted nothing to do with it.
Wan Shi Tong said nothing, and recorded everything.And there are two drabbles from
moonlightnrain on today's rec's that shouldn't be missed-
Sokka Adrift (Sokka missing Yue)
and
Bitterness (Uncle Iroh tries to teach his nephew an important lesson via his favorite medium, tea)
Switching over to XFiles fandom I highly, highly recommend the following stories-
PARABIOSIS
by Penumbra
He stole a look at her as she pressed open her book and touched a passage with her finger. Lately there was a little curl at the tips of her hair that was driving him quietly mad. After their time apart her Hibernian features pierced him anew. And among her many glints of sagacity, she could now read Ancient Navajo.and
Contact High (a follow up to the episode "Field Trip"
Scully tries to pinpoint the biggest thrill of her life. A veteran of great dry spells of sexual somnambulism, she is periodically plunged into a vortex of erotic preoccupation by seemingly random strangers. Ed. Padgett. But, ultimately, it is Mulder who has cornered the market on stroking her libido to a jagged edge, who prompts cardiac gyrations, breathlessness, and impromptu daydreams; and it is Mulder who holds the record for the longest starring run in her late-night fantasy theater, playing a secret agent man
with all the right moves. Typecasting, she suspects.
And a story that reached out and grabbed me from the start was
Things that Lie Outside by
jetfic (a follow up to the episode "Paper Hearts")-
Went down into the pine, into the thick and green. Sharp needled and sandy, swollen with mud and moss,slicked with ice, sweating under beams of sun fallen like swords. Went down the warped stairs, over the smoothed skipping stones, rock with devil horns and a
rise of razor teeth, streams that rushed, late, late, over the incline. Went down into the wiry feathers, the nests of brush and thorn, the pockets of rancid rats, acorn, eggs, crisp hollow cicada. Weeds threaded through, worms came with small mouths, leaves floated and warped and froze.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
