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Chapters: 19/30 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & the Fire Sages, Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Yue & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Zuko (Avatar), The Gaang (Avatar), Yue (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Zuko's Hat Additional Tags: Funny Hat Zuko AU, Fire Sage Zuko AU, Ozai (Avatar) Being a Terrible Parent, Found Family, Fire Hazard Siblings, canon-typical child abuse, Zuko is the Temple's Baby Nerd, Worldbuilding, Zuko Joins The Gaang Early (Avatar), Zuko has never met a hill he wasn't ready to die on, Autism Summary:

High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel. 

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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.

This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.

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i LOVED the autistic Representation in the form of Zuko in ur Funny Hat au!!! it didn’t feel forced, or like what a nt person thinks an autistic person is like (only making me think they’ve never even met one…)- it just was so refreshing to not have it feel like ‘Autistic character- who’s name is zuko’ but instead ‘Zuko- cool fire sage who’s super smart and funny and interesting and also autistic and-‘!!!

And i KNOW that one scene where Azula tells Zuko ‘something’s wrong with him’ and he says ‘what if there’s something wrong with you too but you’re just better at hiding it?’ was supposed to be super dramatic and everything- IT WAS!! it literally had me open mouthed gaping… AND all i could think when he said that was ‘Autism sees Autism’ LMAOO

Feel free to ignore this if it makes u uncomfortable tho!! i myself am not Autistic, just your regular neurodivergent, but a lot of people in my life and a lot of my loved ones are on the spectrum, so i really appreciate and love good representation (and good characterization in general!!!) like what i saw in this fic. just, thank you so much for writing this wonderful story, i can’t wait to check out your other fics!!!!!

I'm really happy you liked the representation! Thank you for your lovely note. :)

That Azula scene was a favourite of mine to write!

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New MO chapter is on its way in the next 24 hours or so (I just need to double-check that it makes sense). I've had to split the Ba Sing Se narrative into 3 chapters instead of 2. Why am I unable to predict how much I will write???

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hey fun fact a lot of Sephardim don't have a kos shel Eliyahu! some do (iirc Moroccans) but some don't (iirc Spanish & Portuguese)!

This IS a fun fact! Do y'all fulfil the "is it four or five cups" makhloket in a different way, or is it just not considered an issue?

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Wow, I am not sure I have ever sounded more antisemitic. But Jewish math is saying "40 minus 1" instead of 39 categories of forbidden labour. It's having four cups of wine at the Seder, but really five, but you can't drink the fifth so uhhh that's for Elijah. It's having a set calendar with a leap year every 7/19 years, but not really! Also, we have an extra month in a leap year, but does it have another name? Of course not, it's also just called Adar. Oh, yeah, the extra month is Adar I and the regular month is Adar II!

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

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Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

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The only thing I hate more than math is Jewish math

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

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Bosco is the physical representation of the Earth Kingdom spirit which has been keeping the Earth King alive for so long, despite repeated (increasingly unsubtle) assassination attempts.

So while rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender recently, I noticed a trend

A number of spirits we see have an animal form, specifically animals we recognize as "normal" for us. For example:

- Wan Shi Tong is an owl and his knowledge seekers are foxes

- Tui and La are koi fish

- Hei Bai is a panda

-The guardian of the mother of faces is a wolf (The Search)

Heck there's even the talking Baboon spirit and the monkey missing its face that we see in the Spirit World at the end of Season 1.

Basically every time we've seen a "normal" animal, they've been a spirit.

My point? I argue that Bosco is a spirit bear that's chilling and living the good life in the mortal world just because he can.

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oh……..oh i’m light headed

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it is not on you to complete the dishes; neither are you free to desist from them.

- the talmud, probably

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Every time I reread Mighty Oaks, I revisit the temptation of law school. Obviously MO isn't what modern legal practice looks like, but Zuko's legal analysis and defense of people's rights is really encouraging to read.

Sokka and Zuko are, of course, always entertaining.

On my most recent reread (as of today, when I really should have been working 😩), the scene that I really loved was the process of getting Pakku to listen to Katara and teach her. Katara's such a good character and your depiction of her is so enjoyable - I'll be making time this weekend to reread the rest of your ATLA fics!

I initially misread this (on my phone, early in the morning) as: "Every time I reread Mighty Oaks, I revisit the temptation of law."

Thank you for a lovely comment and a slightly less lovely (albeit likely healthy) minor existential crisis!

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I recently read one of your ATLA fics and enjoyed it immensely. Sad to come here and see you defend Israel, especially in light of the genocide they’ve been committing. It’s astounding to me how some people can know what’s right in fiction but not in real life. You can shout “antisemitism” but that won’t justify the Palestinian lives taken because of that excuse to defend zionism. Disappointed in you.

It's astounding to me that turning off anon didn't stop people deciding "being Jewish" means "defending Israel".

(FYI for anyone reading who doesn't know: literally the only things I have posted about Israel are that I knew a hostage, on Oct 8, and was upset about it, and that I am not interested in defending Israel's actions. Your guess is as good as mine which of those has piqued edensguard's righteous anger.)

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Weird news: I am over 10k into this MO chapter and the end is not near.

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Tuktukpodfics once again narrates my fic and makes it SO MUCH BETTER. <3

Featuring: snow leopard caribou my beloved

“You’re cheating!” “No I’m not, you’re just bad at it.”

Podfic of @a-witch-in-endor's Fire Sage Zuko AU: Chapter 10

In which Zuko and Sokka bond in a Northern Water Tribe prison.

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"“Military occupation,” he says, “is by definition temporary. The Fire Nation cannot take land, because the world was divided by the spirits, not by the nations. This is Earth Kingdom land, even if the village decided to share it and create a mixed village. The spirits saw fit that this land should belong to the people of Earth, not Fire. So our presence here can only be temporary, as a means of war. Do you understand the problem?”

Sergeant Kichiro is frowning, but he doesn’t seem angry. Zuko takes this as a win.

“You think we’ve set this outpost up as if we’re planning to stay, and you think that’s illegal?” 

Zuko nods. “That’s part of your problem. That’s the structural issue.” He lifts a hand. “The other issue is… Sergeant, when one nation occupies the land of another in war, that first nation takes total responsibility for the people on the land that is being occupied.” The sergeant’s eyes grow a little wide. “They are, temporarily, our citizens. Not when it comes to our rights over them, but when it comes to our responsibilities. We are interfering with their ability to be homed, to be fed.” 

“Are you being serious?” Sergeant Kichiro asks. 

Zuko holds his head high. “If we are unable to take that responsibility, then we have no place in occupying a settled area for a military outpost.” The sergeant’s eyes appear to be unblinking as he watches Zuko. “Do you understand, Sergeant? The fact that the people for whom you are responsible do not think it appropriate to come to me with their complaints is concerning.” " - appalling that you could write this and still side with zionism. please stay educated and apply the empathy you have to the victims of the oct 7 attack to the people of palestine who have suffered and are suffering under israel’s enthusiastic tyranny for decades. you can apply reason to fiction so do it in real life.

You know, I usually don't bother posting antisemitic asks, because the one time I did that just led to a slew of new ones.

But this one really took my breath away with the sheer stupidity of it.

For a start, I've never ID'd as a Zionist or engaged with political discussions here. So either this is based entirely on the fact that I'm Jewish, or based on the fact that I knew a victim of Oct 7th and was upset by it. I'm not sure which is worse, anon.

But the thing that really blew me away is that you read that metaphor, saw a connection with the military occupation of Israel, and didn't think it might be deliberate.

Just... Wow. Either your distaste for Jews is so strong that it affects your cognition, or you're actually that poor at deciphering metaphor, even when you saw the connection itself. Yikes, anon. Whichever it is, I hope it improves for you.

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Well, I came online after the festive period and have seen where the tides are on Tumblr about the massacres in Israel, so...

I will keep this page open for fanart/"new chapter" posts only and won't be engaging otherwise. I will only post asks if they are fanart (I can respond to questions about fics on ao3).

Private messaging will stay open, but if we are not friends who would otherwise talk about things like this, then please do not send me anything about Israel, Zionism, or antisemitism. I will not respond and I will block you.

אבל ישראלים, זה בסדר, אנחנו יכולים לדבר על ישראל. אני רק לא רוצה לשמוע מאף אחד אחר. אני מקווה שאתה בטוח. הלב שלי שבור.

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Sokka learns how to spit fire with lamp oil specifically to scare the shit out of Zuko

zuko: you can't challenge me to an agni kai because you can't firebend

sokka: wanna bet? [id in alt]