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Yes, that's right, the other Avatar.

Avatar minus Jake Scully
Gen, 3 comic pages with transcripts.

Summary: Before I watched "Avatar" I saw someone saying how much better it would be without the character of Jake Sully. Since the movie was VERY DULL I started imagining how much more awesome that would be and drew this comic when I got home.

Overall my opinion of the movie is that it was pretty (if sometimes garish)... and dumber than a box of rocks. And the "White guy casts off human/white guilt (and also disability) by becoming the bestest most special Native and leading them to victory and marrying the chief's feisty daughter" plot was exactly as terrible as I thought it would be. (You may ask: so why did you watch it? Because it was distantcam's birthday and he really wanted to see it. I did manage to turn my brain off and enjoy the film as cool 3D eyecandy a moderate amount of the time)

EDIT: Wait a tic, I just realised there's a bunch of things I want to mess with.
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Please tell me you're here to kill me, short gen Mai character piece from just before she's introduced in Book 2.

The first story that occurred to me was shippier, but after looking up bunch of fic and art I've decided the last thing this fandom needs is more het :)

I may or may not get it beta-ed etc (when it's not Christmas morning), but I like the idea of letting myself just write and post little snippets when I feel like it or it all gets too fraught.

Man. Avatar: The last Airbender is awesome.

After two seasons of the teenage characters being involved in world changing quests and epic battles, being all serious and determined, it reminds us that they are in fact teenagers by having one of them go undercover at a school..and then sending the villains on a BEACH EPISODE. Where they dress in bikinis! And play beach volleyball! (The net ends up on fire) And talk about their feelings! (It's so hard to get boys to like you when you're a megolamaniac psychopath inclined to set them on fire) And go to parties! (Where..well..)

Plus the plot is fantastic but talking about that is spoilery, so I won't. But..ee! I am VERY invested in the charcaters and their world and the war and EVERYTHING.

I also see why people mocked the shippers who insisted they had deliberate subtextual support (this apparently got so heated the writers noticed and made fun of it). This is not a show that does het subtext. If characters are going to get together there are huge blinking signs saying LOVE INTEREST. And often smooches. Which is not to say you can't ship non-canon ships if you want, but I personally found the canon romance pretty convincing (though heteronormative) and there's more interesting things to speculate about.

For the prompt Zuko back when he was young, angry and had the ponytail. Showing off - juggling fireballs.

This turned out way better than I was expecting. Bits of it are very slapdash but I've spent like a gazillion hours on it so at least for now am done.

Inspired, would you believe, by the amazing thanfiction drama: people kept posting his terrible photoshopped "paintings" and I thought "Wow, I could do better than that" (while I traced/copied a lot of it, the only bit of mine which is just a photo with a filter and a few strokes of "paint" is the flames. Flames are hard!)