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The Greatest Dollar Bean's Greatest Hits

It seems like I'll be using this blog to post both well-thought-out metas and rant to my heart's desire, so I decided to make a masterlist of sorts of what I would deem my most important posts plus links to my fics.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

ATLA Rewrite: Aang's Abandoned Character Arc

What Abandoned Character Arc?

What Went Wrong and How to Fix It?

Rewrite: S2E19- S3E13

Rewrite: S3E16-S3E21

ATLA Rewrite: Mai's Love vs Fear

Analysis

Rewrite

Shipping Discourse

My Stance on Zutara vs Kataang

Zutara ≠ Zukka

General

Iroh, Zuko and Breaking the Cycle

Aang and Zuko's Parallels in Season Two

My Opinions

Iroh in Ba Sing Se

Aang's 'Healthy Masculinity'

Aang being the literal last airbender

High School Musical

Fanfics

Stick to the Status Quo

My Hero Academia

My Opinions

Bakugou and Quirk Supremacy

#atla meta #atla #alta rewrite #mha meta #hsm #mha #fanfic

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Guess who posted a surprise chapter and forgot to put it on their Tumblr. Anyway... here's chapter nine! Chapter ten will still come this weekend!

Pairing: Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans

Rating: Explicit

Tags: slow burn, canon compliant, internalized homophobia, underage sex, underage drinking, bisexual Ryan Evans, closeted Chad Danforth, period-typical homophobia, explicit language, minor Chad/Taylor, minor Ryan/Original Male Character, minor Troy/Gabriella

Chapters: 9/20 (currently ongoing, updates every weekend)

Chapter Summary:

The first date is the most important one!

Luckily, Albuquerque offers lots of options for young and in love Wildcats to take their sweethearts to!

We're not so sure if the old diner on Central Avenue counts but... to each their own.

#chyan #hsm #chyan fic #my fic writing #high school musical

apsychedelicacy

Zutara Week 2026 - Day 2

WARMTH ❤️‍🔥

I love headcanoning that ever since Katara taught Zuko how to surf, they are always going on sunset surfing dates! 🏄

For Day 2, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the prompt of "Warmth" from the get-go! It was super fun playing around with the sunset and the lighting on the water! 🌅

🌊🔥 @zutaraweek

thegreatestdollarbean

Ahhh, look what my moot did! Happy Zutara Week, everybody!!!

#zutara week 2026 #pro zutara #zutara fanart #zutara

fanfic-lover-girl

Bryke continues to fail Aang

I have been wondering if I should give the ATLA movie a chance.

But honestly, I am just tired of Bryke and their trash.

Aang was never my fav character in ATLA (Zuko, Azula and Katara my loves), but I liked him enough to know Bryke did him dirty and he deserved better writing.

Then LOK depicted him as a bad father. Which while not great...is understandable and could have been a great character flaw if addressed properly by the show (it wasn't; screw Bryke).

Now, Aang seems even worse in the ATLA movie.

And the comics...sigh. I hate it here.

Why is Aang worse in every single sequel media to ATLA??? Are we sure that Aang is Bryke's favourite character???

#aang critical #anti bryke #bryke failed aang #aang deserved better writing #atla

lilyinthevale

Ok I've been seeing more takes like this, especially on tiktok.

Ka/aang stans: Why is aang out of character in the movie, he would never trust tagah over katara and his friends, it doesn't make sense because he chose katara over cosmic energy in the og series remember.

Me: oh boy....you all did not get why him choosing katara over his duty was detrimental to his growth and it shows. Like you all call us media illiterate and you really cant see why it makes sense for aang to give in to his wants and trust tagah?

His attachment to katara was unhealthy and needed to be let go he wasn't in love with her.... he was in love with the idea of her,, but you all don't wanna hear it because it doesn't serve your ship that aang is a yearner an lover boy and there's nothing wrong with him sacrificing the world to get with katara.

Aang wanted katara

Aang did not WANT to kill ozai

Aang wants to bring air bending back

Aang has always done what he wants, its why he even neglects his two eldest kids and favors the one who airbends of course.

#anti bryke #aang critical #atla meta #atla

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Commissioned Tagaang piece… I was so happy when I received this, I love them <3

This is an au where Aang was born in the same era as Tagah!

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.... I feel like a fold of my brain has just formed.

#Aang x Tagah #tagaang #avatar the last airbender #atla #legend of aang #brb going to look for tagaang fics rn

peiskios

i’ve got everything at my fingertips

edwardashley

what is the funniest fic tag on ao3 and why is it „workplace injuries” for HBO’s Chernobyl

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Disappointed in myself that it never occurred to me that HBO's Chernobyl would have fanfics.

#valoris #chernobyl hbo

supmilger

As if nothing happened

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New chapter!

Pairing: Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans

Rating: Mature

Tags: slow burn, canon compliant, internalized homophobia, underage sex, underage drinking, bisexual Ryan Evans, closeted Chad Danforth, period-typical homophobia, explicit language, minor Chad/Taylor, minor Ryan/Original Male Character, minor Troy/Gabriella

Chapters: 8/20 (currently ongoing, updates every weekend)

Chapter Summary:

Congratulations to 2006's New Mexico State Champions, the East High Wildcats!

Party at Troy's house, and don't even think about missing it, because EVERYONE will be in attendance, even Coach Bolton! See you there and GO WILDCATS!

#chyan #hsm #chyan fic #my fic writing #hsm fics #high school musical

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Pairing: Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans

Rating: Mature

Tags: slow burn, canon compliant, internalized homophobia, underage sex, underage drinking, bisexual Ryan Evans, obliviously gay Chad Danforth, period-typical homophobia, explicit language, minor Chad/Taylor, minor Ryan/Original Male Character, minor Troy/Gabriella

Chapters: 7/20 (currently ongoing, updates every weekend)

Fic Summary:

Troy Bolton is in a musical!

Yeah. You read that right. No one can believe it, least of all his best friend, Chad Danforth, or the go-to East High male lead, Ryan Evans. It's upset the delicate order that East High depends on, and the line separating jocks, theatre nerds, and brainiacs is blurring beyond recognition.

But Chad and Ryan have bigger things to worry about, like their literature partnership, where they can't seem to see eye to eye on, and, most importantly, their first relationships; one stuck in the shadow of a much better one, and the other stuck in the shadows, period.

Or: Basically High School Musical, with some gay additions.

#hsm #hsm fics #chad x ryan #chyan #high school musical #my fic writing

vaeshark

Twin At The Corousel || HP

creativepromptsforwriting

I don't need AI to write. I can create fake scenarios in my head perfectly fine myself.

Heartstopper is like irrefutable evidence that cringe is not synonymous with bad. This show cringes me out so much, but that's never stopped me from loving every single moment of it.

#heartstopper #nick and charlie

humanoctopus

People treat Katara bringing up her mother’s death as if she’s being overly dramatic. Let’s consider the circumstances.

Eight years olds aren’t stupid. Katara knows that her mom lied about being a waterbender to protect her. Thus, Katara knows that her mom took a bullet that was meant for her. Katara and her family had to see her charred corpse in their own house.

“We aren’t taking prisoners today.” He probably was just being sadistic, but if not, if he knew that that terrified little girl was the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, would he have taken her prisoner as an exception? Or would he have been cruel enough to kill her?

I wonder if that thought kept Katara up at night. The survivor’s guilt and the terror knowing that the situation could have easily been reversed with her mother finding her body instead.

thegreatestdollarbean

Mind you, a majority of the time, Katara brings up her mother to empathise with other victims of the war, like Aang, Haru, Jet and Zuko. The same can't be said about Aang and Zuko, who bring up the status as the last airbender or the quest for honour, respectively, nearly as often, but aren't criticised by the fandom nearly as much.

#atla #katara deserved better #katara #fandom misogyny

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When people complain that Katara was acting OOC in The Southern Raiders, I just have to ask … isn’t that kind of the point?

I mean, we never saw Aang as angry as he was in The Desert, but no one complains that he was OOC there. We all understand that loosing Appa was one of the worst things that happened to Aang, and that it most probably also triggered his trauma of being the last of his people.

Even though we don’t approve of his actions, or how he treats the other characters in that episode (especially Katara), we understand and empathize with him. It is a unique situation that has expertly touched on a wound that hasn’t healed, and no one demonizes or expects Aang to act rationally here.

But why is it that when it comes to Katara, we can’t extend her that same treatment?

#atla #katara deserved better #I’m not comparing #Aang losing Appa #to Katara losing her mom #but you have to admit #their reactions are pretty similar #but treated very differently #by the fandom and canon #don’t even get me started #on how the writers use TSR #to have Aang lecture Katara #when all she showed him in The Desert #was empathy and understanding #Bryke salt

This is like the fourth post I'm making that hasn't exactly been Iroh-friendly, but... why would he leave Zuko in the Fire Nation all alone?

I'm rereading The Promise (because I hate myself) and my heart is absolutely aching for Zuko. I know he's supposed to be alone and not in the best mental space but I find it so hard to believe that Iroh, someone who must have been brought up with the idea that he would be Fire Lord, and who knows just how much work the Fire Nation has to do to reintergrate with the rest of the world, would leave all that on his nephew's shoulders. Especially knowing that Zuko would be all alone with no one to fully trust.

#atla #the promise #zuko #iroh #anti yang #anti atla comics #anti gene yang #anti the promise #is that even a tag #doesn't matter #i'm using it

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