#linzin fics

[khrystia]

god damn so hot and they don’t even get laid here

[linnorabeifong]

Mama’s Boy by Dominic Fike as the background music to a Linzin childhood/ teenage story… Tenzin quietly pining. Him being attached to his mother and her culture and reconciling that with his duty (“mama’s boy”). He’s anxious about embarking on his travels and living the nomadic life expected of him as an air-bender, “I’d go see Italy”. He’s anxious about leaving Lin “I’d go see Tuscany, if you could come with me.”

“Half of my heart is in your chest”- is so Linzin

[yell0wsalt]

Do you have a favorite linzin fic ever

Oooh I have several! I had to think about this one, so I’m gonna drop some of my favorite Linzin writers and their fics:

Metope0: Tethered. A story where Lin and Tenzin had a night together that shouldn’t have happened and she leaves the city on a journey of soul-searching. While it is Lin-centric, her relationship with Tenzin is intertwined with the story and her growth

@risingsoleil: Choices, Chances, Changes. Lin is transported via the spirit portal to an AU where she and Tenzin never broke up and had kids. At the same time, that AU Lin is transported to the world of the canon Lin we all know

@chiefbeifongcanrailme: Second First Date or Something Spicy. SS is a mix of Linzin and Linumi NSFW one shots and I loved them all 

Hope this answered your question!

[nyamadermont]

While I was Gone

Tenzin sighed in relief as his key turned the lock to Lin’s apartment, letting his travel bag slide down to hold the door open. He adjusted the bag of groceries in his other arm and shouldered his way inside.

He slid his shoes off and set the food down while he shrugged off his outer robe. He saw that all of Lin’s warmer clothes were boxed and labeled, waiting for the return of fall.

With a small smile, he rummaged through his travel bag to find the desert scarf he had brought home for her. She wouldn’t find it for months, but she would know that he had been thinking about her, even at the beginning of his six weeks away. Kicking himself, just a little, he placed a gentle kiss on the scarf before tucking it inside the box marked “Winter.”

With a happy sigh, he padded over to pick up the groceries.

Once in the kitchen, he opened all of her cupboards, and saw they were just as bare as he’d anticipated. Her rice jar was nearly full, though, so he put the extra bag he’d brought in her pantry.

The “ice” box was warm enough not to have had ice for days. Fastidious as Lin was, the food cabinet was clean. The smell of vinegar had faded enough for it not to gag him.

The weight of her settled on his shoulders. So little care she gave herself, he knew she would be running on little but spite by now. Without him around to make her think about eating, never mind taking her mind off work for more than an hour, he feared that she would be consumed by her ideas of what Toph’s approval would take.

His smile fell, and he wondered if he would even see her before he went back to the island. He had watched her, more than once, spend less than an hour cleaning herself and dumping her clothes off before rushing back to the station. If he could put food directly in her hand, he figured she would finish it.

She always stopped long enough to thank him for just being there. That seeing his face gave her strength. That his touch kept her warm.

But somehow, she never thanked him for cooking, cleaning, or organizing her bills.

He closed the empty icebox and opened the window above the sink. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and cupped his hand in front of his face. His father’s voice swelled inside him.

Let the air enter you. Let it find the tension in you.

Blow it away from yourself. Allow it to dissipate like a cloud. Release it.

Tenzin blew across his palm and his fingers, imagining his worries flying away from him like dust motes in a sunbeam.

***

Her startled grunt woke him.

Her hungry mouth stirred him.

Her sleepy hum soothed him.

***

When he woke the next morning, she was already gone.

The sweet note she left for him was longer than usual, and included very specific thanks for the food, the fresh ice, the clean dishes, and the empty trash cans.

He frowned.

I wonder what happened while I was gone.

But the broken mirror told him only so much.

[risingsoleil]

Tagged by the wonderful @yell0wsalt! Thank you girlie ^^;;;

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

(I have too many WIPs lol) The numbers represents the chapter for that fic.

Fall Before We Rise - 13

moon phases - 3

A Lion's Mane - 2

Summer Baby

A Lifetime of Love

Another One

Tagging: @chiefbeifongcanrailme @linnorabeifong @oldandirrelevant @weirfan22 @vr-tb and anyone else who would like to join!

[rageofthemuffin]

Little different than my usual! Inevitable though, I've been deep in the Avatar brainrot for months.

Little bit of Kataang, Linzin except the whole thing is a discussion between Aang and Tenzin, so Lin isn't here.

Rating: G

Summary:

After a fight with Lin, Aang talks to Tenzin about the future.

[chiefbeifongcanrailme]

hey what about linzin here https://archiveofourown.org/works/33848260

i really like the idea of young linzin being on cruise with all gaang and their siblings. but they’re also old enough so their parents accept that they have their own cabin.

P.S. if you’re not planning to write this or you’ve decided to end this fic please tell me about it 💚

Hi there!

So for the fic you're referring to: Something Spicy, it's just a compilation of some NSFW prompts I'd received for both Linzin and Linumi back when I didn't write anything rated M or even E. I believe these were the prompts I was using at the time. If you'd like, you could send me one of these (since that's the series I was doing lol) and I can try and make it happen on a cruise in their cabin. What do you think? I can't promise how soon I'll be able to write it- but I'd be happy to revisit those prompts! I kinda miss them.

[superliz6]

4, 15, 17, 23 for fic writers meme

Hiiii. Remember when I reblogged this post and then promptly did not reply to any of the asks I got? Sorry about that- definitely miscalculated my internet access. ANYWAY

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Oh gosh. I have a few I'm chipping away at- Spirit of Change is the main one, but I also work on one where Toph and Kaz meet, as well as a flashback fic set around the time Lin was promoted to Chief of Police. The least structured fic I have in mind is only a few disjointed pages about Lin going to mandatory therapy in order to be cleared to return to work after an injury she suffered on the job.

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Ah, that's the dream. Probably Adrift or Push & Pull.

17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

Generally I work start to finish. I used to go out of order but I realized that set me up for so much extra editing lol. Now, if I have a scene I want to incorporate later I'll write it out in short hand as a note. Very very occasionally if the words themselves are in my head I'll write them down, but that's rare.

23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?

How The Heart Behaves could use some updating based on knowing more about the characters overall. I wrote a lot of fic during the time Book One of LOK was airing and the characterizations for everyone have evolved since then.

[roseeycreates-blog]

We know, Mako. We know~

That's literally me whenever I read an awesome LinZin fic. I love them so much~ LinZin forever! My Roman Empire~

Good morning~ 😊

[hummingintheback]

Another Fic Idea that I will never write

I saw this fan art of Lin in Pinterest and it sparked yet another stupid fic idea. I have read this LB fanfic on FF.net that basically has a plot of Lin rumored to being dead or dissappeared since discovering a shocking subending of the Earth Element (so she is the not the chief of police and basically dissappeared around 2 and a half decades. So this lin is a little bit younger than canon lin). And here's where the story comes in, what if after avatar korra arrives at RC is also the time the rumors about Lin Beifong ressurfaced, it would start as hushed whispers on the alleyways until media would be involved. The blue spirit would make itself known, hiding from the shadows and all that stuff. Instead of two swords, this version of blue spirit would use Sai as its weapon of choice.

It would help people during the equalization of Amon but of course other people would misinterpret the idea, assuming the blue spirit is helping Amon. After Amon's death, the blue spirit made itself known again, causing fear to RC's citizen.

Zuko would definitely hear about this. He would send fire nation agents to investigate this "person" behind the mask. And Izumi? What if Izumi knows who could be the person behind that mask but unsure if its really her👀.

I think the conflict would evolve around the Beifongs of course and the Gaang's. I feel like Toph would be the main reason of this two decade dissappearance of her daughter. It would be a similar scenario of Suyin scarring Lin, where Su was sent to Goaling. But instead Lin just decided to vanish from the surface or that's what they think👀

In this story Lin would still have her scars (thanks to su) and it would happen way back than the canon time. This is where the story of how Lin discovered the new subbending and also a forbidden type of bending before the 100 year war.

Might include Yun as the founder of this bending and Kyoshi was the one who had to forbid this type of bending before it goes out of her hand as the avatar and also to stop Yun

Mstery, Angst, Drama, Violence name it this fic will have it all🙃.

Anyway, I feel like just like Zuko's arc this Lin would definitely start as a bad guy after what happened to her face, having blamed by her bending that she cannot control, why not add the break-up of Linzin for more drama and of course the constant deterioration of her self confidence when it comes to being a great earthbender and an heiress.

But one thing is for sure, the blue spirit is there to seek justice and also like grew to help the avatar along the way.

Why justice? That is unsure but I have this idea that after Lin was cast away, after she went through a lot of stuff (i know white lotus would try to imprison her just like what they did to the red lotus), someone would definitely help her. Probably taught her how to control this forbidden bending and that someone was killed by either Yakone, Red Lotus member or the white lotus themself. But what if it was the Gaang?(the mysterious sifu of lin, contributed to the death of Avatar Aang😉)

Credits to the artist of the art: @aleesatana

Thank you for this wonderful fan art🫶 and thank you to @dont-blame-it-on-the-kids for finding the artist❣️.

[desidarling123]

linzin wip

enjoy a short snippet of some 19-20ish yr old linzin deciding to have sex for the first time lol. full fic coming eventually I hope.

“Is this the moment?” she says weakly. “Are you absolutely sure?”

“I almost lost you,” he whispers, and there's that desperate edge in his voice, again. “I've never been more sure.”

Her thoughts are all scrambled now, some complicated fever-rush of exhaustion and desire, but she tries desperately to hold it together.

“Your parents…?”

“Know I'm here waiting for you,” he confirms. “Won't notice I'm gone.”

“Are you ready?” she presses again. A deeply unsexy question, perhaps, but she knows him well enough to know she should ask.

“I…” and she swears he blushes, the idiot, “… may have read some scrolls on the subject.”

“Oh,” she says. “Did you, now?”

Teasing him is so easy. Lin steps closer, feeling bolder, lighter than before.

Tenzin, for his part, looks down at her in that incredibly specific way of his. That dark, intense gaze, saved for her and her alone, that leaves her heart stuttering in her chest.

The air that separates them -- the paltry space between their bodies -- feels electric. Like it’s just waiting to catch aflame.

So she lifts her chin oh-so-slightly in challenge. Meets his gaze with her own.

“Show me, then.”

In response, he -- well, he lifts her clear off the ground.

She yelps in surprise, but only for a moment, and then he's kissing her again, her back against the wall, legs firmly wrapped around him.

She comes back to herself and finds her bearings just long enough to wrap her fist in his robes and kiss him back, her movements hungry and frantic and desperate.

Tenzin groans at her ministrations, the rough sound sending heat right to her core, before he greedily parts her lips. He deepens the kiss, then, all while moving his hips against hers in a steady rhythm that leaves her moaning into his mouth.

[linnorabeifong]

Crack Fic idea Matchmaker Wu

Lin for whatever reason has to baby sit Wu or else deal with Reiko’s wrath. She doesn’t want to deal with a whiny Wu (who does) so she ends up giving in to his demands to go to the spa. Then he decides he’s going to give her a makeover and she is very defensive but gives up after a while… After Lin is all dolled up he demands to go to a very nice restaurant. When they get there she sees ( insert person you ship Lin with ) and realizes it was a set up all along. Wu put her on a blind date. The guy she thought was a fumbling idiot was a mastermind all along and now she’s on the most awkward date of her life while this man is grinning like there’s no tomorrow behind her. Wu stops third wheeling and disappears.

…And operation Beifong was a great success Wu would like to report. The lady was a little less grumpy than usual the next day. According to the tabloids and staff at the four elements she may or may not have made a reservation at midnight after the date he set her on. Ah, all in a day’s work for Wu matchmaker extraordinaire. The only question: who should he set up next ?

[yell0wsalt]

Obligatory OTP Asks!

Linzin: 7, 29, 42

Irosami: 30, 44, 57

Ryuvira: 3, 14, 28

...may have gone a little overboard, have fun 😛

Linzin:

7. Would they build a pillow fort together just because?

Absolutely. They’ve had a series of icky rainy days and neither of them are in the mood to get out and do anything. Cue gathering as many pillows around as possible and building a fort in the living room.

If following elements from canon, Lin has hated the rain ever since. Tenzin first brought up t it as a subtle way to distract her.

29 Who is more likely to jump in an elevator? Who freaks out?

Lin is definitely jumping in the elevator and Tenzin is freaking out. She may or may not be using her metal bending to mess with the cable pulley system of the elevator...

It’s adds to the thrill.

And Tenzin’s stress.

42. What's their favorite type of weather to enjoy together? (getting snowed in together, watching thunderstorms, etc.)

Fall. Lin loves the coziness of the fall season. Leaves changing, seasonal treats, etc. Tenzin has fun with the weather: cool breeze, leaves falling, etc.

Irosami:

30. Your OTP gets to pick out each other's outfits; what is each wearing?

Of course it depends on the occasion: what they’re doing, if anything. If they’re lying around in the house Iroh finds it very attractive when she wears his clothing. So he’ll pick out something of his for her to wear: part of his uniform such as his jacket, a casual shirt of his, things like that.

Asami while she does love a man in uniform, adores it when he is dressed casually yet nice. Preferably with his sleeves rolled up. See them forearms.

44. Who would dance in the kitchen making dinner? Would the other join in or watch from the doorway?

Asami is the one dancing in the kitchen while making dinner. She’ll sing along and dance to what’s playing on the station.

Iroh may walk into the kitchen to see how the food was coming along and catch her in the act. Silently he’d watch from the doorway and break out a laugh when she’d get distracted and nearly mess up the food.

Iroh’s not very comfortable with dancing, so he wouldn’t do much of it on his own. Asami would have to be persuasive to get him to join on her little dance party.

57. Who’s the serious one when grocery shopping and who likes to toss random things in the cart?

So when it’s just the two of them, Iroh is the stickler for the grocery list. Meticulous in planning out the best time to go, which grocer would be best for the items they want that week, and the optimal travel plan throughout the grocery store aisles.

Meanwhile Asami is grabbing what looks good.

When they have kids though Iroh is more lax and indulges in what his kids want to get.

Ryuvira:

3. Do they wear the other’s clothes? (sweatshirt, bandana, necklace, etc.)

Yes! Kuvira is a freaking thief for taking his clothes. Half of his shirts are hers now. He doesn’t mind it in the slightest.

14. How do their personalities compliment each other? How do they clash?

With Ryu’s ambivalent nature, one of the biggest things about him is how he doesn’t care. That sounds crazy, but that also makes him someone who doesn’t really judge, depending on who the person is.

Kuvira is very self driven. Being with her pushes him and inspires him to grow, do and be better. It opens up a world for him to learn how to care about those around him.

While Kuvira is a very driven person, she’s also insecure, and really hard on herself. He balances that out to tell her in one way or another, “It doesn’t matter. None of it does. I’ll still be there for you.”

28 What are there thoughts on pet names? Do they have any?

They keep it pretty simple with pet names. Anything super fluffy or ooey-gooey for Ryu makes his skin crawl and also sounds weird coming from Kuvira.

Ryu tried it out for Kuvira early on in their relationship since he thought that was something couples were “supposed to do.” It made him physically ill

They’ve settled on playing around with their names (‘Vira, Vee) but also use common terms of endearment (darling, babe)

Obligatory OTP asks

[btheleaf]

What made you like Pema? :3 Just out of curiosity, I feel like she's a character many people tend to kind of ignore or dislike.

Short answer: Spite

(Very) Long answer under the cut:

Tenzin was my first love and obsession when I got back into LOK. I went to AO3 to read about him and his wife! and found the attitudes towards Pemzin... odd? The ship is way less popular than Linzin, which was strange to me at the time, considering Pema/Tenzin are literally married in canon. But hey, whatever, to each their own. Maybe people just like Linzin more. Lin is a sexy badass, so I get it. Maybe people don't wanna write about the air babies. Maybe the age gap or any other countless things were giving people the ick about pemzin. Fine. It's all good to me. I began to look for pemzin fics to enjoy and found 🥲 strange things.

Pema was usually written as some kind of man-stealing demon with a magic coochie that could make Tenzin bend to her will and stay with her despite the fact that he loved Lin more, but at the same time she was a dumb and useless broodmare? More often than not, the Pema/Tenzin fics seemed to be written by people who didn't actually care for the ship and had Linzin endgame in mind.

I thought, "Okay, I'll check out Linzin, surely with way more fics to pick from, I'll find something that focuses on Lin/Tenzin and not Bad and Evil Pema."

I was disappointed to say the least.

So much cheating and lying, so many secret babies. SO MUCH Pema v. Lin, which doesn't do anything for me. I could understand it if there were Actual Reasons, but it was like Pema was showing up to be an emotional homewrecker despite her being IN HER OWN HOUSE. I just... like what the fuck is going on there?

Why does Pema hate Lin SO MUCH? Did the stories ever touch upon that? No. She just hates Lin. Obviously. Lin dated her husband 20 years ago, so she hates her. Logical. Much logic. No explanation. Look no further. Your bad guy is here. Bye-bye interesting concepts. Pema is a bitch and a snake and a man-trap and she never loved Tenzin anyway. She just wanted to be a trophy wife who ushered in a new generation of airbenders. No explanation. Don't question it. She's one-dimensional in a 3D world.

Pema is everyone's favorite bad guy in Linzin fics all because of that one line from Book one that is honestly super fucking cringe about her "seeing her soul mate with someone else." Linzin shippers asked if anyone was going to demonize this mother of four and didn't wait for an answer.

Both Pemzin and Linzin shippers need to learn how to tag their fics for both "emotional cheating" and just straight up "cheating." Navigating this shit is terrible. I once read 50k of a very interesting concept, and then all of a sudden Pema came out of nowhere and just started acting like a jealous 13 year old for no reason and Tenzin QUICKLY left her and the kids to go be with Lin. Like?? I do not understand what the fuck is going on in some people's minds.

WHERE WERE THE FICS THAT PAINTED PEMA AS A WHOLE HUMAN PERSON WITH FLAWS AND WANTS AND DESIRES??? I think most of my comments started having "thank you for writing Pema like a person" somewhere in them.

When I first made this blog and Let It Be Known that I ship pemzin, I got a looooooot of weird anons asking me stuff about like, if I support cheating and shit? I realized that these attitudes towards Pema were not Old Beliefs. These were very real people in the year of 2024 still unable to conceptualize an interesting idea for a character that has SO MUCH room to play with.

We know jack shit about her. We know just enough that makes her entire character like candy to me. She's not around a lot in the show, but also somehow is always still right there? She goes through Some Very Real Shit in every season, and her absence from screen time is like free real estate to fic writers. I literally don't understand how so many people manage to summarize her entire being into the word "snake" and move on. The potential for expanding on her character is limitless because of how little we know. The more people try to stuff her into a box, the more I'll pull her out of it.

I didn't really care about Pema until it became clear that everyone else disliked her. The more people hate her, the more I love her and the more powerful I become.

I'm like this because of how the fandom treats her.

[risingsoleil]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Such an interesting request! I love it, thanks so much for sharing!

Here are my recommendations:

Choices, Chances, Changes - (This one is a special work to me)

You Are My Life - Exploration of a Linzin AU + family moments

The Only Light We'll See

Come As You Are - (def plan on going back to this at some point in my life lol)

Talking to the Moon - (wrote this in like 3 days and cried the entire time)

[local-enby]

Kyalin x Original NB Character

What if a polyamorous, non-binary Firebender moving to Republic City was all it took for Kya & Lin to get back together? (cuz I refuse to live in a world where only Linzin is canon)

Check out my fic on ao3 - AND there's already 15 chapters out omg!!!!

The Eternal Dance of Push & Pull