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Three shots ring out.
Steve hears them before he feels them; a warm, wet pain burning in his torso, intolerably excruciating.
There’s a bundle of squawks and screams, outbursts of panic and anger, and it’s only when Hopper falls forwards to take Steve up into a slightly rough, protective hold, does he realize that two of those shots have lodged themselves in his own flesh and bone. (Realizes that he’d moved, instinctively, to shield El, despite never having spoken to her, who’d the gun had been so precisely pointed at, aimed for.)
Steve Harrington watches his own blood pool and trickle over a series of hands pressed against him, small and large, soft and rugged, and for a moment, wants to stay like this. He can’t.
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05 Jan 2026
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“Three Shots” by steveharringtoned
Stranger Things, Steve gets shot protecting El, lovely character study, Steddie
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smoking guns (hot to the touch) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2022
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Sure, they've saved the world, but the best part of that really is that it doesn't end there and in a town where everyone thinks he murdered a girl, he's at least got Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley. It's really not his fault he accidentally starts living at Steve's house, he was invited, after all. There's a mystery too, about Barbara Holland and Steve's pool.
“Your boner is digging into me,” says Robin, and Steve snorts a tired sort of laugh.
“I don’t have a —”
“You do, I can feel it. Gross.”
“Okay, but it’s only a little one,” he says in a small voice which sounds like he’s impersonating someone.
“Are you ever going to let that go? I peed a little bit when the Russians got the torture devices out, okay?” She sounds amused, though.
Eddie jolts. “Russian torture devices?”
Robin carries on like she didn’t hear him but Steve catches his eye and he’s grinning. “How do you even have a boner dude? You were definitely having a nightmare I know your twitching means a nightmare… Did you have a boner over Vecna?”
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28 Nov 2025
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“smoking guns (hot to the touch)” by fivecenturiesverse
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Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)
Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.
And they argue.
A lot.
Podfic of War Crimes by Lovely_Elbow_Leech.
Podficcers note:
I'm sorry, I do not intend to record war games. I am not in the avatar the last Airbender fandom anymore, and the story would currently be an almost 60 hour podfic and it isn't even done. I don't undertake things that long.
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- Part 41 of Avatar: The last Airbender podfic
- Part 6 of podficcer's favorites
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21 May 2025
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Incredible podfic, just re-listened after a few years to catch up to the series and 👌🏻 still amazing
All’s Fair - War Crimes - LovelyElbowLeech - Dr_Fumbles_McStupid
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Sokka takes a strategic step back, but he also smiles: triumphant, like he baited Zuko into exactly what he wanted. Like it’s a challenge. It’s the same way he looked when they sized each other up at the prison, with Sokka in chains that left red marks around his wrist, in tattered prison garb, malnourished and angry. Back then, that was Sokka saying: I see your power. I see you. Now, see me.
Zuko saw him then. And he sees him now; different, but the same. I see you.
Zuko lights his daos in flame. Sokka grins, back to gravel and heat. “Come on, Fire Lord. Impress me.”
Zuko burns. His vision flickers with fire. His heart races. His blood sings. His body is like a magnet, pulling ever onward to meet Sokka’s. He advances.
He pins Sokka to the wall, blades against his throat.
Or, Zuko found Aang first, Sokka and Katara were imprisoned in Boiling Rock for trying to rescue their dad, and all Sokka knows is he's pretty sure he's not supposed to think the Fire Lord is attractive but he's never let things like rules stop him before.
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05 Oct 2023
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“Yesterday is Ashes” by alivingfire
Zukka, both POVs, Ambassador Sokka, post-canon, but alternate canon of if Zuko found Aang first (and much of the Water Tribe were imprisoned in the Boiling Rock), stellar Katara, incredible getting-together fic -
little echoes [podfic and text] by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid, sulkybender (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11 Sep 2023
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“I think,” Zuko says slowly, “we may have angered the spirits.”
Sokka scoffs.
“Spirits are bullshit,” he says.
“Okay,” Zuko says, “so what do you call this?”
He waves his hand generally at them both, the state of them. Zuko is still on his back, half-incapacitated; Sokka is sitting up, but hardly better off.
“There’s a rational explanation,” Sokka says.
Zuko arches his eyebrow.
“There is,” Sokka insists. “Stop that. Don’t smirk at me.”
“So what is it,” Zuko says, smirking.
Sokka thinks for a moment, wildly.
“Static… electricity,” he says.
Zuko bursts out laughing.
“Okay, okay, I get it,” Sokka says, ears burning. “It’s a working theory.”
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- Part 3 of myths, fairytales, and spirit mischief
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Bookmarked by adleki
12 Sep 2023
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“little echoes” [podfic and text] by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid and sulkybender
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Sokka, with newly discovered Avatar powers, is separated from his mother and Katara, leaving them imprisoned on a Fire Nation ship. Stranded and out of options, he takes a leap of faith, making a deal with the most powerful Firebender in known history, the Phoenix, the prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko. The deal is this: They don't kill each other, Zuko helps Sokka save his family, and in return the Avatar will give himself over to the Firelord.
Turns out, travelling with a murderous firebender with anger issues comes with more problems than Sokka was prepared for. Together, they traverse dangerous haunted waters, sea monsters,spirit mumbo jumbo, and angry mobs. Things get complicated when an old enemy rises from the ashes and Zuko is forced to choose between what he's lost, and what he wants to hold onto.
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29 Aug 2023
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“The Phoenix and The Fool” by DeathandSprinkles
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came in first (and I'm the last one leaving) by andrealyn
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Aug 2023
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It's a classic plan -- if Sokka and Zuko aren't married by the time they both turn thirty, they'll marry each other. It's one of Sokka's best plans, even if it's only meant to be a back-up.
Most people don't spend their time making sure that the other person doesn't get married until the plan comes due, but most people are not Fire Lord Zuko.
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28 Aug 2023
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The gears are turning in his head as he’s noodling over the problem, and for once in his life, the solution is actually so simple. So blindingly obvious that he feels pretty ingenious for coming up with it, actually. Ian’s beaming with pride when he says it:
“Move into my compound, Pop.”
She stares.
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08 Aug 2023
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“lockdown: the sequel” by quadrille
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02 Aug 2023
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“I see.” Zuko closes the scroll. “Is the Water Tribe sending a replacement?”
“Uh yeah,” Sokka gestures to himself dramatically. “You’re looking at him.”
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16 Jul 2023
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“Real Slow” by surveycorpsjean
Finally read this masterpiece, post-canon Zukka, firelord Zuko & ambassador Sokka, great characterization and little moments with the gaang, get the fire lord some work-life balance baby! -
Darling You Will Bury Me (Before I Bury You) by lenaballena
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 May 2023
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“Your most exalted highness, it is an honour to be able to represent my nation and family by serving a son of the Water Tribe chiefdom. I hope to prove myself equal to the task, and worthy of the trust this great, distinguished nation has placed in me.”
Zuko bows again, lower this time, clearly subservient. It’s like the weight of the moment is physically bearing down on his shoulders; Zuko, the son of a genocidal tyrant, bowing to a man from a race his father tried to annihilate. A prince of the Fire Nation willingly submitting, volunteering to devote his life to the protection of a future chief of the Water Tribes. This is the kind of moment that echoes throughout history.
“…dude.” Sokka’s eyebrow, if possible, jumps higher. “Anyone ever tell you you come on a little strong?”
After an attempt on the future chief’s life by those who oppose the unification of the Water Tribes, it is decided that he, as a non-bender, requires a bodyguard to ensure his safety. A young prince of the Fire Nation is granted the privilege and honour of the task.
Zuko, after about a day and a half spent with Sokka, privately thinks it’s a fucking miracle no one’s tried to murder him before.
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30 May 2023
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You, Synovus, are a respectably terrifying supervillain. Your main rivals, a pair of superheroes named Legionnaire and Athena, are actually respectable as heroes. You hate having to stoop to kidnapping their child - but you hate more what the kid's behavior implies.
Inspired by a prompt from writing-prompt-s on tumblr, and originally posted there!Series
- Part 1 of Synoverse
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29 May 2023
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“Call Me Menace” by wingedcat13
Original work - second person, supervillain befriending their nemeses’ daughter
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Roy thinks he could get used to this. Smiling and laughing and spending time with Keeley and Jamie and being fucking happy- letting himself be fucking happy.
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28 May 2023
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Steve leans against the side of the boathouse and lets Eddie fumble with the cheap Bic lighter for a minute before he clears his throat and says, “You want a light?”
It's hard to read his tone. There's a bitter, suspicious, self-defensive part of Eddie that wants to lash out, but instead he grips the lighter until the plastic creaks and says, “Sure. If you have one.”
“Yeah.” Steve digs in his pocket and comes up with a nice Zippo. He doesn't hand it to Eddie; instead, he flicks the flame on and holds it out for him to lean down, and there's an intimacy to it that Eddie wasn't quite expecting. Like one of those old Leyendecker paintings. He imagines this tableau sketched out in clean art deco lines: the prom king and the freak. A study in contrasts.
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Or: In which Eddie survives the Upside Down, and Steve Harrington turns out to be nothing like he expects.
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- Part 1 of dance in the dark of night
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17 May 2023
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“Rich From Tender Care” by glorious_spoon, S3anchaidh
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““You think Harrington and the kids are wrapped up in some kind of crazy conspiracy that's eating them all alive and because you have a compulsive desire to solve every mystery put in front of you, you can’t leave it alone. This is starting to become something you should really like, work on man.”
“You need to drop out of that AP psychology class.” Eddie demands with a sniff. “It’s rotting your brain.”
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15 days before Christmas, Steve Harrington flinches when the lights strung along the arcade flicker.
20 days after New Years, he almost takes Eddie's head off with a frying pan.
In-between, they start becoming friends.
(And after, they become something more.)
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Dyslexia friendly Site Skin by ElectricAlice
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own, Fandom - Fandom
21 Feb 2022
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A clean dyslexia skin for Ao3.
I made this following the British Dyslexia Association Style Guide and then tweaked with requests and ideas dyslexic readers brought forth.
There's a guide inside on how to further tweak everything from font to size to color so that you can customize it for your needs.Dark mode available in chapter 3!
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- Part 5 of CSS code scripts for Ao3
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27 Apr 2023
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In which the Fire Lord is a competent and compassionate leader trying to head a successful international peace summit, but he is also a seventeen-year-old boy.
And the Avatar won't stop calling him his great-grandson, and thus is in sore need of a beatdown.
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22 Apr 2023
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She’s noticing, for the first time, just how beautiful Suki is. Her eyes are a deep, warm, brown, adorned with golden eyeliner. This close, Katara can see each and every freckle dotted across Suki’s skin, many of them too faint to make out from a distance. Her lip gloss shimmers under the kitchen fluorescents, and Katara wonders what flavor it is - wonders if she could tell from a k—
She swallows too hard, fighting against her throat closing in on itself because oh.
That’s— new.
or, suki is katara's bi awakening: the fic
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- Part 1 of misc fanweek fics (2023)
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18 Apr 2023
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Fanart for "War Games" (Lovely_Elbow_Leech) by palette_town
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 May 2024
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A collection of silly comics based on scenes from "War Games" by Lovely_Elbow_Leech.
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10 Apr 2023
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An old enemy putting footage of some of the nastier things Eliot's done up on the screen for his whole team to see might not be the absolute worst thing that could happen to him, but it's up there.
Harry Wilson felt in absolutely no way prepared to deal with that part of Eliot's life, but he's dealt with a lot of things he felt in no way prepared for over the past year or so, and sometimes you just need to roll with the punches.