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thistlechaserI need to be more organized about this, I had three different recs I want to post, and I misplaced two of them. :( Well, here's one!
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avocado_love has written a bunch of stuff, both Avatar and otherwise (HP). That's her fic LJ, so you can find a list of all her stuff in the top post.
Another Brother is my favorite of her work. Would you believe a story about Zuko joining the Water Tribe could actually be believable? It totally and 100% works here. And as an added bonus, Zuko as a little kid is the cutest thing ever. (I had mentioned togmth in a comment that I remember almost none of the HP fics I had read, but there is one story I do recall: Harry and Snape becoming little kids together (somehow Dumbledore did it from the afterlife). Another Brother reminds me a lot of that: Zuko is given a second chance to have his life come out differently. He's still 100% IC, but because his environment is different, things develop in a different way.)
Ah ha! I found one of the two lost ones.foxysquidalso (another fic-only LJ) writes some really good stuff, too. If asked, I would have said I don't like AUs, but apparently I do since I keep falling in love with them and recommending them! Opposite of avocado_love, foxysquidalso writes the characters as much older (40s in most of the fics I read, but series-aged in some of the others). In her fics, Jet never saw Uncle firebend his tea warm, so the Jet/Lee (or Li) stuff goes differently. :D
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The Lee/Li thing kills me. So many people spell Zuko's alias as "Li" when it's pronounced "Lee". I read Li as Lie, not Lee. :/
avocado_love has written a bunch of stuff, both Avatar and otherwise (HP). That's her fic LJ, so you can find a list of all her stuff in the top post. Another Brother is my favorite of her work. Would you believe a story about Zuko joining the Water Tribe could actually be believable? It totally and 100% works here. And as an added bonus, Zuko as a little kid is the cutest thing ever. (I had mentioned to
gmth in a comment that I remember almost none of the HP fics I had read, but there is one story I do recall: Harry and Snape becoming little kids together (somehow Dumbledore did it from the afterlife). Another Brother reminds me a lot of that: Zuko is given a second chance to have his life come out differently. He's still 100% IC, but because his environment is different, things develop in a different way.)Ah ha! I found one of the two lost ones.
foxysquidalso (another fic-only LJ) writes some really good stuff, too. If asked, I would have said I don't like AUs, but apparently I do since I keep falling in love with them and recommending them! Opposite of avocado_love, foxysquidalso writes the characters as much older (40s in most of the fics I read, but series-aged in some of the others). In her fics, Jet never saw Uncle firebend his tea warm, so the Jet/Lee (or Li) stuff goes differently. :D---
The Lee/Li thing kills me. So many people spell Zuko's alias as "Li" when it's pronounced "Lee". I read Li as Lie, not Lee. :/
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Date: 2008-08-21 08:49 am (UTC)I personally like it spelled Li, just because it always seems so Chinese. I've used the spelling of Lee in my fics, though, because it is confusing to the eye.
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Date: 2008-08-23 03:15 am (UTC)I personally like it spelled Li, just because it always seems so Chinese. I've used the spelling of Lee in my fics, though, because it is confusing to the eye.
Agreed. Li has more character and is both prettier and more Chinese, but to me Lee just reads easier for me. Hopefully in time I can get used to Li, since people spell it both ways. :}