loopy777

You can find all my existing fan-fiction on my ff.net account, my deviantArt profile, or my Avatar Spirit fanfic thread. Additionally, I've mirrored some of my better fics to the avatar_fans  community, and posted others to various exchanges, so you can read and/or comment on them right here on LiveJournal:

Lioness
The Chosen
Seeking the Why
Lady on Fire
Foresight
Working It Off
Nemesis
Dawning
The Magnificent Two
Levers & Journeys

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Title: The Contract
Rating: K+ (contains a little unexplained crude humor)
Characters: Mai, Ursa, Zuko
Notes: I wanted to do my take on the idea of a formal betrothal between Mai and Zuko as kids. Somehow, I wound up with a comedic satire of Fire Nation culture as seen through the eyes of Mai and Ursa. Weird, right?
Warning: Contains allusions to Ursa's backstory as presented in 'The Search - Part 1'

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Last time, we got into heavy details about what Sokka's team would look like. I still had one slot to fill with a couple more that weren't yet completely certain, and people gave me some great suggestions to work with. However, I'd like to step away from that now without finalizing the team. I do have an idea of what I think the final team will look like, but I'd rather not set it into stone until I flesh out more of the plot and The Plot. So let's get started with that by looking at the foundation of the story- the setting.

Ideally, the setting of a story is a good reflection of its themes while also providing lots of elements that can be used and abused by the plot. I've written stories that basically just inherited a setting from some element of canon, and also stories where I had to create my own setting but basically did just a new take on a something known like "Earth Kingdom city." For this story, though, I'm going to be diving into something completely new. That is, of course, the steampunk casino.

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So, I was reading Star Wars: Scoundrels this weekend, a story that could have been retitled "Han Solo's Eleven" and it wouldn't be any less apt. I personally recommend the book to people who like Star Wars, Han Solo, or complicated capers, but that's not what this post is about. I enjoyed the book so much that it revived my enthusiasm for an old fanfic idea that I shelved in favor of other projects:

Sokka's Eleven.

One of the reasons I put it on the back burner was the announcement of The Promise, because my vision of Sokka's Eleven would deal with how the various characters adapt to adult life in the post-war world, and I didn't want the comic stepping on my toes. (It already ruined Last Stand of the Freedom Fighters forever. No need to repeat it.) However, since the comics have turned out to be a blight on everything that was ever good about ATLA, I'm thinking maybe I don't care about writing a story that one-ups the comics. After all, I can't do any worse than Gene Yang. Besides, Legend of Korra gives end-points for the main cast's lives that go far beyond the circumstances of the comics, so I can use work based off that information and perhaps accidentally wind up more or less compatible with what gets filled in later as "canon."

However, I'm writing Retroactive now. (Hey, maybe one or two of you haven't heard yet. Doesn't hurt to get that fact established.) I'm too dedicated to that to shelve it in favor of another novel-sized project, but I figured out the next best thing...

I'll just plan out Sokka's Eleven in public, via a series of blog posts, and see how people respond to my ideas and process.

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I don't know how many of you do this, but I like to check TVTropes' ATLA Fanfic Recommendations page for new entries every so often. It's probably the least reliable of all the things I use to find new things to read (which are mostly various respected people's Favorite Stories list on FanFiction.net, so keep adding to them), but it has the benefit of pointing me to stuff I would never normally encounter, like quirky Zutara rom-com or interesting-but-not-really-interesting AU's.

In the past, back when the list was more exclusive, I used to hope to get my own stuff on there. I did indeed eventually see two of my pieces added (Mai's Ramblings even has a TVTropes page, but I'll cop to creating it myself purely for the fun of troping one of my own works, and a rather bizarre work at that), but as the list of recommendations grew, more and more of the list failed to impress me in any way, while my longer and more impactful stories failed to get added. That's, like, double Fail. (I would like to clarify that I wasn't upset, or jealous, or bitter or anything. My thoughts could pretty much be summarized as, "Well, I guess my readers aren't avid tropers, but I rather like most of my readers. It's cool.")

So imagine my surprise when I fired up the "History" tab for the page today during my lunch hour and found that the following had been added under the "Authors and Websites" heading:

    Loopy777 is a fanfic author famed for the series [1].

• Recommended by [[Tropers/Agogobell]]
• Additional Info: An excellent fanfiction writer with a rather caustic sense of humor, she mainly writes stories for ATLA and Korra, though many are AU-ey. Heavily recommended are "Retroactive", "Lady on Fire", and "The Ember Island Lighthouse". Read any and all of her stuff!

That's (sic), by the way.

So, huzzah! I'm one of the premiere writers of ATLA fanfic. I've joined the exclusive ranks of Wren Sharpbeak, Lyralocke, Alabaster86, and Lady Azar de Tameran as the greatest Authors (Auteurs?) who have ever labored to put pen (quill, of course) to paper for the sake of the Avatar franchise. We need a team name, like "The Big Five" or "Team Boomerang" (because it has... um... I'll get back to you on that) or "Voltron Force" or something equally awesome and awe-inspiring. Maybe we could call ourselves the "Dangerous Ladies," except one of us hasn't been heard from in years, one of us is deceased, and one of us is... well, me, so maybe the name wouldn't really apply at all.

Although I didn't feel this way yesterday, I would just like to affirm my deep, deep belief that anyone who hasn't been added the TVTropes fanfic page is a lesser writer of fanfic. You know who you are. Which is all of you. Ha! Well, I'll make a generous exception for the ones who have at least had a story added to the page. Those peeps are allowed to eat the crumbs that fall from my dinner table. (Except for the bacon crumbs. Those are still mine, dog.)

Of course, don't take my word for it, just look at the recommendation of my Troper fan, who, despite having spotty knowledge both of the website's tagging system and my most famous work as cited by the entry itself, is a gentleperson of taste and discretion. Keep working, and maybe someday you, too, can be a Quasi-Dangerous Quasi-Lady.

Thank you all for indulging me in this moment of inspired silliness and caustic humor. In case any of Avatar Spirit's staff is reading this, I Am Joking. And remember, your ad could be here; ask about my low rates.

My normal internet hangout is down, so I thought I'd come hang here on LJ. However, because there is nothing interesting about my life (and if there was, I probably wouldn't tell *you* about it anyway), all I have for you is fanfic. As I've randomly mentioned before in various private communications, I'm working on a multi-chapter depiction of Piandao's life story up to the point where he definitively secures his freedom from service to the Fire Nation. I've actually been working on it for several years now, not counting all the time I take off to pursue other projects or because I feel like it.

Recently, I've been pushing to finish the first complete draft, and in doing so, wound up having to go back to make some changes to previously completed chapters.

That's when I realized that my entire Chapter 2 was complete trash and needed to be re-written. Yay.

I'm still not done with it, as the rewrite effort has expanded things to the point where I'm going to have to cut Chapter 2 in half, and then if I do that I'll need to completely reshuffle things because at some (very stupid) point I thought it would be clever to have Chapter 1 set in the story's present, Chapter 2 in the past, Chapter 3 in the present, Chapter 4 in the past, etc (and if you don't get the pattern, no wonder math is considered an arcane art these days). Still, I just completed what can be considered a story arc within Chapter 2 (see, this is why it needs to be chopped up) that I submitted by itself as an entry for Avatar Spirit's unofficial short story contest. It actually won (thanks to the judge specifically not giving a word limit this time), so I figure it might be worth sharing in a more public venue. Note that this is the first draft of this particular segment, so any constructive criticism would be especially appreciated.

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The Challenge: To produce good fanfic for the increasingly popular Korra/Yue romantic pairing, despite Korra herself being a mystery.

Prompt 2: lavanyasix  asked for the following:
"In the future, the isolationist Northern Water Tribe has fallen on hard time. The flower of its youth it drawn away to far-away ports like Whale Tail Island and Republic City, or rides the rails of the Earth Kingdom's Transcontinental Monorail working as traveling healers and ice-makers. Places where there's easy money for benders and more social freedoms. Poor and with an aging population, history is leaving the North behind.

But it still has the best ancient masters, especially when it comes to healing, so Korra travels there to train. And when she wonders if the city's past was really as glorious as the old folks claim it was, she decides to talk with someone who had been there at its so-called "golden age" -- the Moon Spirit herself. So the two agree to trade tales of the World As It Was and the World As It Now Is, sharing their lives with one another."


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So! I'm on LJ now! Woo!



Anyway, my first attempt at leveraging this powerful tool will be to join the following community and participate in its latest exchange. I have high hopes.


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