And now for something completely different

[resonance_and_d]

So I've been working on this fic, with the premise that it was much more than 100 years between the time Aang was frozen and the time Katara and Sokka found him. So we have the same characters, and there's still bending, but the level of technology is at the level of present-day Earth.

And... I was doing it because I was procrastinating on my other stuff, but now it's 12000 words long and I think I'd better start posting it or I'll start losing momentum.

BUT: It is written in totally random snippets, which are not in chronological order. I'm talking 25 separate drabbles or oneshots so far. I don't think I want to post them together, but posting them all separately would result in massive spamming.

Thus... I am going to follow the format of some memes I've seen, and put the drabble-length snippets in the comments of this post. Then I'll make another post where I figure out what order everything should go in and archive it.

Confused? So am I. But I'm going to try it anyway.

Comments

Sweet things

[resonance-and-d.livejournal.com]

Mai was the first one who never seemed to care about Zuko's scar. Most people cringed, or gave him a look of pity. Some very carefully didn't look at it, looking only at the other half of his face, which was worse. But Mai seemed not to care. She looked at him, and said: “Give me a small coffee. Black.” Her expression was totally dead.

(Later, he would realize that she treated the whole world that way. He wasn't special. But when he first met her, that look of total indifference was magical.)

“Er,” he said. “We only have tea here. Uncle- the owner- thinks the smell of coffee overpowers the tea and ruins it.”

“Of course.” She sighed.

“We do have a blend of tea that has as much caffeine as tea. If that's what you're after.”

“How does it taste?”

“Too mild for me,” he admitted. “It's sweet even without any sugar.”

“I don't like sweet things. Too boring,” she told him, and she walked out without buying anything, giving him a blank look out of the corner of her eye as she went out the door.

“Yeah,” he said, though she couldn't hear him. “Neither do I.”

Re: Sweet things

[zephyras13.livejournal.com]

“We do have a blend of tea that has as much caffeine as tea. If that's what you're after.”

I think this is supposed to be "has as much caffeine as coffee" not tea. Did you just write this one recently? I don't remember reading it on your laptop before. Post the Ty Lee one!

Re: Sweet things

[resonance-and-d.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that should be coffee. Whoops.

This was in the file of doom. You must have missed it. :)