Avatar: TLAB, post-ep fanfic

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Now that the season finale has aired, I want to dip my toe into some Z/K shipper fanfic. Oh, the potential! So much potential to make of these new events. So much dark stuff in the finale; I'm dying to read some good reaction fic. From a ship POV, especially.

However, I'm kind of afraid. I'm afraid because most of my ship fandom doesn't seem to be reacting to the episode the same way that I am. I fear the reaction fic as much as I desire it.

I kind of want someone of like mind to go find all the good fic and point me to it. Unfortunately I am usually that person. ::sigh::

I'll just have to wait and see. Pay a lot of attention to summaries and author's notes before reading, that sort of thing.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I would write you a rec list, but by your comment it almost seems as if it'd be a waste of my energy if you've decided to hate it from the outset.

But if you are genuinely interested, there's lots of good fic out there. It's burie but it's definitely there. I've been in the fandom for about a year now, and I wouldn't still be here if there wasn't good stuff to be found.

My highest recs are at my favorites list at my fanfiction.net account, linked at the top of my livejournal. The best is probably akavertigo's AU fic Tempest In A Teacup, though all the ones on my fav list are there because they are great. I'm quite picky, though I read a lot of fanfic so there's a lot listed there.

I also have some recs listed under my LJ memories, in the category of "Avatar fic recs". There are some gen fics listed there, but most are Zutara.


You probably picked the worst week to join the fandom, being season finale week. The Zutara ship fandom is kind of epileptic at the moment, trying to figure out how the new canon fits with various theories. Nevertheless, there's a lot of fun to be had here, if you don't scare too easily.

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

I would write you a rec list, but by your comment it almost seems as if it'd be a waste of my energy if you've decided to hate it from the outset.

Hate the fic or hate the 'ship? Because I was a Zutara 'shipper before ever setting foot in the fandom. I just don't usually get exhausted this soon. It usually takes me at least a couple of months to start relying solely on recs for fics.

Nevertheless, there's a lot of fun to be had here, if you don't scare too easily.

HA. I have survived HP fandom since before GoF was published. Bring it. :D

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I was a Zutara shipper before joining the fandom, too. Like a week before, but still before. After the fortune teller ep I was like "Huh. I wonder..." But I didn't really start until the season 1 finale turned my head.

It usually takes me at least a couple of months to start relying solely on recs for fics.

Fandom in general is so huge now, that's all I go on when I start in a new place.

I have survived HP fandom since before GoF was published.

Oh it's nothing that bad. Seriously-- as far as livejournal fandom goes, avatar fandom is a cakewalk. All talk and no action. The slightest tremor is treated like a potential WWIII of kerfluffles. I came from Jossverse fandoms and small doses of HP fandom, so most of this stuff doesn't make me blink an eye.

The fanfic tends to have a lot of immature stuff given that Avatar fandom is both young in age (many are 14-17) and new to online fandom or shipper fandom as a whole. And the show's fandom itself is only a year and a half old.

The most annoying thing you'll find in Avatar fandom is the tendency to spoil each other (why avatar_fans is no longer on my flist) and just general whining if the show isn't catering to your ship at the moment. Avatar fans are not what I'd call scary or crazy, as compared to other fandoms I've been in. They do exaggerate though.

There's a lot of badfic on ff.net that suffers from the same problem that all fandoms suffer from; browsing ff.net isn't going to reflect good on a fandom no matter which fandom or shipdom it is.

[hex-the-ex.livejournal.com]

Oh it's nothing that bad. Seriously-- as far as livejournal fandom goes, avatar fandom is a cakewalk. All talk and no action. The slightest tremor is treated like a potential WWIII of kerfluffles. I came from Jossverse fandoms and small doses of HP fandom, so most of this stuff doesn't make me blink an eye.

The fanfic tends to have a lot of immature stuff given that Avatar fandom is both young in age (many are 14-17) and new to online fandom or shipper fandom as a whole. And the show's fandom itself is only a year and a half old.

The most annoying thing you'll find in Avatar fandom is the tendency to spoil each other (why avatar_fans is no longer on my flist) and just general whining if the show isn't catering to your ship at the moment. Avatar fans are not what I'd call scary or crazy, as compared to other fandoms I've been in. They do exaggerate though.

There's a lot of badfic on ff.net that suffers from the same problem that all fandoms suffer from; browsing ff.net isn't going to reflect good on a fandom no matter which fandom or shipdom it is.

As a Jossverser, I complete agree. There were literal shipper wars there, which actual battles fought and generals and armies and everything.

Although as you've mentioned before being I Spuffy shipper, I'll admit I come from the other side of the track. I fell in love with B/A as a very small child, and never truely recovered. Talk about megaAngst. (Now I just watch David on Bones and laugh) Plus I have this personal prejudice on blondes with blondes, visual awkwardness; although I think we must expand our gene pool through the rest of the population *blonde power!*.

Also just wanted to say, I've lurked occasionally on your lj via FF.net for intelligent and thought-provoking episode responses which I can't get locally. As your being gone soon, plus with the drama and need to expound resulting from the finale, I felt a bit of motivation to comment. Hope you don't mind.