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- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Fidelity by Rawles - Oh, man. See, I can never decide which Sokka ship is my OTP, because I adore so many of them. So a fic like this comes along, five times Sokka fell in love, especially when it's fabulous and has this brilliant theme of what makes each of these girls unique and filled with what makes each of the relationships shine, I fall in love with all of the relationships all over again. I also delight that one of them was Sokka/Ty Lee, because I loved their brief interactions and wished for more fic for them and this one was brilliant and totally perfect for how they would go. The Yue one was lovely, the Toph one cute, and the Suki ones nice. I just... I love. (Sokka/girls.)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Shopping by sadieko - [Note: There might be a spoiler for a moment in 3x10, so if you're allergic to spoilers, give this one a pass for a bit.] The further season three gets along, the more I find myself really wanting to get on the Sokka/Toph ship. This fic is fantastic at showing why, because Toph obviously cares and likes him, but she shows it by being gruff and stomping around and/or hitting things. Plus, it gives some really fantastic depth to Sokka's character (which he has always had, but sometimes it's easy to lose sight of that a little) and has a great sense of humor the whole way through. *thumbs up* I mean, I read this for the potential ship, but I think this actually works better on just a pure character level. (Sokka/Suki, implications of Sokka/Toph.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - Let them be Hard-Headed by whiteshark - I was journalhopping again and happened to stumble over a link to this fic and I'm often times hit-or-miss with the single sentence style of fic, but I think this author made it work pretty well. She gets across a lot of what makes Sokka and Toph's relationship what it is--at times simple and hilarious, at other times it's complicated and not exactly happy. There's a lot said with little gestures and Sokka is such a sweet-hearted guy even when he's a dumb boy and Toph is still a badass even when she's still kind of a girl sometimes. And there were totally some perfect lines in this fic. (Sokka/Toph implied, some Sokka/other implied.) - Avatar: The Last Airbender - Spoils of War by velvet_mace - [ part 01 - part 02 ] - Note: This is going to get tl;dr and soapboxy from me, I apologize for that in advance. I am one of those people who has a very tough time seperating the fic from the autho'rs opinions on a series, because that's so much of what shapes their writing in their stories. This does lead to me missing out on some really good fic, but I'm okay with that. The reason I mention this is because I disagree very strongly with some of the comments the author makes in the comments on the second post and it did boggle me that someone could write a fic I thought was so spot on and then disagree with so strongly two minutes later. And I mention this because others may feel the same way as me (and I would assume so if you find my recs to be of any use) and I want to point out that this is one of the rare fics that I'm going to make the effort to overlook that. (This is not an insult on the author's beliefs, we all have our opinions, no matter how strongly others may or may not agree, right?) Because, so far in these first two chapters (I will admit to a lot of trepidation to read future chapters now, but I'm focusing on these two chapters at the moment), the story is some serious awesome. I've always liked the idea of Sokka/Ty Lee, but I wouldn't know how you'd be able to fit it into the timeline, it would take too much building in time that they didn't have. What this story is branch off from a point in season three, takes some of the darker themes from the series (like some of the creepier things the Dai Li were capable of) and spins off this amazing story from it. The characterization so far is spot on, I have no trouble putting this together with the canon series or even just picturing the entire thing in my head. Sokka's voice is fantastic in that first chapter, it's hilarious and sarcastic and amazingly well-done; there were so many points I laughed out loud when I was supposed to. The author's Azula is just pretty much perfect (like, seriously perfect, she is conniving and smooth and I can just hear her voice), her take on the Sokka/Ty Lee dynamic after Sokka's been brainwashed, and Ty Lee's friendship with/being scared of Azula are all just. This is the kind of fic that I've been wanting from Avatar fandom and that it's a pairing I've been waiting ages for only makes it better. It sucks to be wary of this fic, because it's goddamned awesome so far. (Sokka/Ty Lee.)
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