#tlwh

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Aang/Katara (Avatar), Aang & Katara & Sokka & Toph Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Zhao (Avatar), Suki (Avatar) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Road Trips, Cop Zuko, POV Sokka (Avatar), POV Zuko (Avatar), alternating povs, Slow Burn, Bisexual Sokka (Avatar), Gay Zuko (Avatar), more tags to be added later for sure, longfic, book 1 rewrite in a modern au, except i like jumping around canon a lot, Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, Past Child Abuse, some tags to be referenced in the notes, hop in losers were going on a roadtrip, appa is a car, momo is a cat

Chapter Summary:

One Happy Family, 1795, colorized.

@sofipitch and I present this art to accompany Ch. 8 of TLWH. We felt like they deserved a family portrait.

THE LAST WAY HOME

OH GOD

XDD Noooo. The LONGEST Way Home.

The full idiom is "The longest way round is the shortest way home". It basically means that if you take your time and do something the way you need to, you'll actually be saving time instead of trying to take shortcuts and taking longer.

(Sneak peek)

A/N: I know I promised this fic a while ago but life fot in the way. Here is a sneak peek for the start and the whole prologue is coming to a Tumblr accout near you soon.

This is my first attempt at fic writing so please excuse me if I still need some time to ease into this.

Enjoy and please leave a comment or a question if you have one!

Pairing: Din Djarin x fem!reader who’s from earth (like our earth...y’know the one we’re on rn)

Warnings: None except for my terrible summary. I need to come up with a better way to phrase this!

Word count:

Summary: The thought of being alone in the galaxy is not just selfish, it is also wrong. You are part of a small team that has set off space to prove to the rest of the world that there might just be a whole universe of different worlds to see. Unfortunately, the mission does not go as planned and you end up in the middle of space. Alone. With only minutes of oxygen left to breathe. But with the view of a million stars.

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“Din”, he says. “D-D-Din”, it is fruitless. Other than small little coos or an “Ooh” or a “Gaah” nothing is coming out of the little green creature on his lap. He sighs shaking his head. “I am starting to get the feeling you don’t want to learn this”, in response the child dips his head to the side and releases an amused giggle. “You can understand me, can’t you? Know exactly what I’m saying all the time and yet you choose to not listen”. Setting the child down on the chair behind him, he takes the small metal ball from the kid’s three fingers and screws it back to the control panel, which earns him a sad whine. “You need food”, the Mandalorian reasons, pulls the little bundle into his arms and climbs down the stairs from the cockpit.

Din watches the kid eat in silence. He had decided to give himself the day off and initially wanted to stay on Sorgan for a bit longer but the interest from others in the child grew and he deemed it too dangerous. He instead put the Razor Crest into hyperspace. It is the kid’s pulling at his trouser-leg that pulls him out of his thoughts. The alarm in the cockpit is sounding. A distress call, he quickly notes. Din rushes up the steps and immediately accepts the incoming message. The voice on the other side is tiny, barely audible through shaking and sobs. Your voice.

* = contains smut

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Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine

Part Ten

Part Eleven 

Part Twelve 

The Secret of Moonacre Week! Nov 19-25

Day 1: Modern day/futuristic 

Day 2: Disney movie/fairy tale 

Day 3: Role Reversal

Day 4: Stargazing

Day 5: Coffee Shop/bookstore AU (or really anything similar to a hallmark movie)

Day 6: Theme park AU

Day 7: Free day

@sofipitch and I put together a list of "suggested reading" to supplement The Long Way Home. These are works that we read and drew upon for research and reference for the fic, and we thought others might be interested in checking them out too. If you've read any of these and want to discuss them, feel free to let us know!

Fiction books:

James Baldwin, Another Country

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

Nella Larsen, Passing

Nella Larsen, Quicksand

Mildred Taylor, The Land

Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea

Nonfiction books:

James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Frederick Douglass, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

Martin Hintz, Ethnic New Orleans

Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans

Dianne Guenin-Lelle, The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City

Julius Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

Essays:

Audre Lorde, ‘There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions’

I'm not quite sure yet.

So, some minimal spoilers here. Or sort of spoilers here, but it is very likely that the events/adaptation of Ruin (if there is one) will not appear in GHIAB, but in the sequel. Which is actually a good thing since Ruin isn't due until 2023 and GHIAB wraps up towards the end of 2023. (If my math is right, which it has been wrong before.)

The long and short being that I would have to probably see and hear her before I made a call like that. See if she's given a name, see if she gets a personality, all of that before I make the call.