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- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Holding Hands by Phoenikoi - I either picked the link for this up off friendsfriends or got the link off memlu's journal itself, but however I came across it, I just... I mean, I... I think I really did do a dorky little happy sigh at the end of this fic. Because it's so cute and charming and makes me want to curl up and go, "Eeeeee!" at how adorable young love is. And I can just picture this immediately after The Cave of Two Lovers, it could have dovetailed just wonderfully if the show was going to go with Aang/Katara at that point. It's just a short, adorable, sweet fic that made me melt. ♥ (Aang/Katara.)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - You would think she is walking upon eggs and green bottles by tin - [Note: The author locks her fics, but friends back anyone who friends the comm, so I'm making an exception.] Tin has this way of writing fables and fairy tales into her writing that make them as fascinating as the fanfic characters themselves that she's writing, strewing the little details and having this moment after the tale is done where... I can just see the characters listening to the story being told within the story, picturing their reactions afterwards perfect. This was just so very pretty, I adored it to pieces. (Aang/Katara.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - Dumb Little Beads by effie's head - I was just randomly surfing around FFNET and happened to stop on this fic and it's a bit like fate that I pretty much tripped over one of the few Aang/Katara fics that really caught me. (I love the pairing, but I'm usually content with canon because fandom is rarely sparkling enough.) It's the little details, the way Katara watches the dress, the way she doesn't quite touch it, the way Aang watches her looking at the dress, the way he thinks to himself about what he would do for her if he could. It's got this great little moment in time feeling to it and the characterization is so spot-on that it's lovely. Wonderful fic. (Aang/Katara.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - untitled by whirleeq - Well, after the last fic, clearly I had to go find more Aang/Katara fic. Randomly poking around the comm, I stumbled over another that I rather liked and this was a lovely piece about the way Aang and Katara's kisses change over time. Going from sweet and something like innocent to the heartbreak they suffer throughout the series to something more intense and deeper. The tone of it is perfect for these two, so much emotion but without overdoing the content so that I'd feel uncomfortable. They're still kids in my mind, but this fic smoothed the way towards progression for them in my mind, just enough. (Aang/Katara.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - untitled by whirleeq - [Note: There will be spoilers for the season two finale in this fic.] This is one of those neat little ideas, Aang unconscious/somewhere else spiritually and facing the spectres of the previous Avatars, having to stand up against their disapproval after what happened in the finale, and the fabulous way he holds his ground and such a great, warm-hearted ending. <3 (Aang/Katara.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - Throne of the Soul by JoJoDancer - I almost sort of passed this fic up for the time being (to get around to later when I had time) because it was sort of billed as Aang and Katara making out on Zuko's throne and the idea didn't really hit anything with me right off the bat. But to read another story I wanted to read, it helped to have read this one, so, what the hell, I gave it a shot. It was better, more genuinely, sweetly humorous than I expected. And then about halfway through, I started LOL'ing and couldn't stop until the end. It's a great comedy of errors fic, the kind where one thing builds on another until it snowballs into a giant mess, beautifully timed by the author. Add to that, the rather hot Aang/Katara kissing and this was a fabulous fic that I loved terribly. (Aang/Katara, nothing else worth mentioning.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Escapades of the Blind Bandit and Meathead: Community Service by ArtemisRae - [Note: It's very beneficial to read the author's notes on this fic.] And I continue to be utterly charmed by this series of oneshots with Sokka and Toph. Again, it could be potentially romantic in the future, but in this story, they're just friends and they're drunk and they're at Zuko's birthday party and they're being the bestest trouble-makers that they so totally are. I just. I FLAIL at the characterization here, the lead-up to why they're stumbling around and over Aang and Katara, I am beyond delighted with the antics they get themselves into, the way the Sokka/Toph friendship plays out here. So, so much fabulousness. Also, the opening scene? With Toph's insults and Mai being threatening? Made of PURE AWESOME. (This is actually more gen than anything, but implications of Aang/Katara and Zuko/Mai.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - Horizons by Aliora - I generally am pretty content with where Aang and Katara are in canon, so I don't have a strong urge to read much fic for them, but when I come across an author I like, I'll usually give it a shot anyway. And I'm glad I did, this was a really fantastic oneshot set someplace during the third season (though, before recent events happened, obviously, just think of it as a slightly deviated timeline) about Aang and the feelings he's had for Katara for so long now. What I like about the fic, other than the characterization being really solid (and Aang is especially fantastic and the whole piece reminds me of why I adore Aang ♥), there's also spiritual world elements and old legends and different cultures and the Avatar world all mixed into the fic. It was easy to picture the story happening, the gang stumbles upon a little fortune-telling shop and can't resist and then what unfolds from there, to hear the character voices. I really liked this fic and I loved how I didn't feel like it was superfluous at all. ♥ (Aang/Katara.)
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