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Title: Just Talking
Rating: PG
Characters: Zuko, Toph, Sokka
Word count: ~2400 words, complete
Summary: What if Toph and Zuko actually had a chance to talk during "The Western Air Temple?"

( Story Notes )

( Just Talking )

Tagged by lady_supernova. I'm not tagging anyone, but feel free to do it if you like.

( 7 Facts About Myself )

Fandom Meme

( An Old Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

( A New Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender )

( An Obscure Fandom: The Wire )

My goal for January was to finish or at least make progress on as many WIPs as I could. The results:

One finished (and being beta read as I type).
Two soon to be finished, since I finally figured out how to end the things this past weekend.
Two mostly gutted and being re-written.

These are all longer fics (the shortest is 2400 words), so it's been more work than it looks like from the summary.

Now, in February, my main goal is to get these re-writes done. I also want to get at least one more short piece from my woefully neglected modern AU series done.

Title: Face to Faces
Rating: PG
Characters: Koh, Toph
Word Count: ~1,400, complete
Summary: Koh gets a strange visitor bearing unexpected news.

( Story Notes )

( Face to Faces )

This is mostly a test post, so to provide something for folks to look at while I'm messing around with LJ, here is some Dresden Files fan art that I like.

Harry Dresden, Wizard
Bob
Toot-Toot
Warning: This one's a bit gory Harry v. Bianca
Nicodemus
Harry and Lasciel
Waldo Butters
Harry, Mister, Mouse
Lara Raith
Knights of the Cross

Title: Gossips Are Cowards
Rating: PG
Characters: Zuko, Azula
Word Count: ~1,000, complete
Summary: Zuko and Azula discuss their uncle's homecoming.

( Story Notes )

( Gossips Are Cowards )

This is one of those thinking out loud posts, where I take a few minutes to review what I've been doing lately, try to figure out what I should do next, and then post my goals to my journal so that I won't forget what I'm supposed to be doing. And, you know, slightly increase the odds of me actually achieving my goals.

( Notes for an outline of a plan )

One more set of fan art links, and I'll be done. (Really--I've run out of stuff.) I hope folks have found some new things they like.

( Round 3 )

Last post was for my favorite "serious" fan art, this post is for my favorite funny/strange/whimsical fan art. Yes, I cheated by counting all the parts of a series as one item.

( Links! )

I am jumping on the annual top ten list bandwagon, but instead of movies, TV shows, or books, I'm rounding up links to my favorite Avatar fan art. (These are not ranked--it was hard enough selecting just ten pieces, never mind trying to decide which is my third favorite and which is my fourth and so on.)

( The Links )

The third and final part of my one icon per episode project. Preview:



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And now, a fanmix.



Download album from Mediafire.
Download links for individual songs are with the lyrics.

( Lyrics and Notes. Warning: Sense-Making Optional. )

Title: The Dragon and The Eagle
Rating: PG
Characters: Original dragon characters
Word Count: ~1500, complete
Summary: The origin of fire bending, according to Sun Warrior legend.

( Story Notes )

( The Dragon and The Eagle )

I didn't do NaNoWriMo, but November was a pretty productive month writing wise. I finished the two long fics I wanted to finish. I'm well into revising one, and it's shaping up nicely. The other I'm going to let sit for a while because it's not quite what I want and I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet. I also started another long fic, and am about halfway through a first draft. And I figured out how to salvage a story I wrote a while ago but had given up on. These all look to be at least 3,000 words, and the big one will probably be about 25,000 words. (And is the longest thing I have written in years.)

Since I have all these (plus some shorter projects I'm working on), and December looks like it'll be fairly crazy, I am not going to try to post a fic every week this month. I will probably start posting whichever long project I finish first, but I'm not sure yet when that will be.

The second part of my one icon for each episode project.



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I am going on posting hiatus for the Thanksgiving holiday next week. I'm mostly noting that here so I don't get into the habit of just not posting any new stuff for no reason.

I am on track to achieve my writing goals this month. A rough draft of Long Fic Selected for Completion #1 is finally done, and I'm working on revising it pretty heavily. A rough draft of Long Fic Selected for Completion #2 is about 90% done, and I'm at the point where I actually need to work out the ending. That one is going to be heavily revised before posting too.

Title: Seven Daughters
Rating: G
Characters: Ty Lee and her family
Word Count: 120, complete
Summary: Each daughter in Ty Lee's family has her role.

( Story Notes )

( Seven Daughters )

Inspired by dokusoteki, who set out to make an icon for every episode, here is a batch of Season 1 icons. I tried to make the images reflective of the individual episodes in some way. I enjoyed making these, so I plan to do Seasons 2 and 3.

One bonus crack icon at the end to make the rows even.



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