in-progress meme

[beboots]

 In a continuing effort to procrastinate on my homework (my thesis draft is staring as balefully as a pile of papers can at me from the corner of my desk), and, encouraged by the AWESOMENESS of everyone who seems to read this journal and their participation in that let-me-tell-you-a-history-story meme I held a few days ago... (People can still post prompts, by the way! It is by no means closed! You may even post a second prompt if you wish!) I've decided to participate in another meme that's been making the rounds of my f-list... 

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

I'm not sure if very many people know, but I do write quite a bit of random bits and pieces of fanfic. My problem is that they're generally just snippets of scenes and dialogue at best... although I have a LOT of sometimes incredibly long outlines. So my WIP folder is actually quite large. My problem is that they always seem to STAY as WIPs, and never, well, progress to completion. In any case, I will post bits (or even more than bits!) for those curious. 

On a completely separate note, I'm also planning on making a picture post to go with all of the responses to the history meme, possibly tomorrow or maybe later today. You shall get a historical image to go along with the story, so that you can put names to faces! :) 

Anyway, here is the list of documents in my bulky "My fanfic" folder... Some of the titles you may recognize from pieces I have posted before, but others, not so much... I also tend to have rather descriptive titles (some with fandoms, some mysteriously without!), so hopefully some will strike your fancy! Feel free to request up to three at a time. :)

A Night Fury in the King's Service - Temeraire HTTYD cross
A Traitor Redeemed - Avatar(2009)
Against Thy Own Kind
An Extension of Trust
Avatar(2009) - Time travel
Aziraphale & the Werewolf - Crossover GO & HP
Azula's Revenge - timetravel
Blue Spirit Joins the Gaang, more or less
Carlisle & House 
Chid on the Dragon Throne
Childhood Friends - Toph in the Fire Nation
Chinese Formation - Temeraire
Crowley the Familiar
Dr. Horrible, turning on the League
Draco Timetravel actual fic
Dragon!Zuko fic idea
Fangs and Flamethrowers
Far Removed - hetalia idea
Fire Lord Iroh AU
For the Greater Good - Good Omens
Forgotten
Genderswitch Temeraire idea
Good Omens - HP crossover Idea
Good Omens X House crossover idea
Guillaume Laurent - Temeraire idea
Hallucination - a temeraire fic
Hikago - ghost busters
In a Land Without Technology
Invader Dib
Language barrier - hetalia idea
Laurence's privateers - Temeraire AU
Left for Dead - temeraire fic idea
Lieutenant Laurence - Temeraire idea
Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel
Nunavut Ascendancy - hetalia fanfic
Phenix!Zuko
Possession - Hikago
Professor Fell crossover idea
Reincarnation - Temeraire idea
Sasori Sensei of Suna
Star Command Zim idea
Strange, Norrell and Potter
Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh
The Betrothed - Mulan
The Tides of War - Temeraire
Tumnus in Spare Oom - Narnia HP crossover

Um... yeah. I get distracted easily...? Some of these fic bits have been sitting there untouched for several years... 

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh

I keep looking at this meme, thinking it looks like fun, maybe I should do it, and then I look at my file names which are all the actual title of the fic, or something like "Avatar 500 drabbles". Plus, my WIP fics are as follows: Children of Mars, "Mercies" (the next installment of Good People and Death Eaters) "Untimely" (Another installment of Good People and Deatheaters with a thousand word scene I just had to write out right then) "Threshold" (a short companion to "Between") Ice Flows Through, two A:tLA shortfics, That one where Yue and Zuko's roles are flipped, tentatively titled Zenith and Nadir and Xenolith. Other than Xenolith amd Zenith and Nadir, and the two A:tLA shortfics, I'm not hiding anything under my hat.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

This one was just a scribbled down idea because I love the image of Iroh and Zuko travelling around the Earth Kingdom, incognito, as roving tea salesmen. This is all that I have written in that file:

Ozai tells Iroh to relay the banishment terms to Zuko after the face burning because Zuko is inconveniently unconscious. But when Iroh is told “Zuko can only get his honour back if he captures the Avatar and bring him back to the Fire Nation in chains”, Iroh hears “ZUKO IS BANISHED FOREVER” because the Avatar has been gone for a century, right? And Iroh is probably right about Ozai’s terms for Zuko’s banishment; Ozai clearly doesn’t want his son returning.

So Iroh tells his nephew so.

“Banished… forever?” Zuko repeated, voice raspy, a look of lost confusion on his face.

Iroh winced. “I am paraphrasing. But yes.” Zuko flinched.

And essentially they travel the Earth Kingdom as peasants – earning their way with a tea cart! Iroh makes tea, Zuko makes the cakes. Iroh tries to teach his nephew how to enjoy life. Zuko still sucks at brewing tea for years, but he’s getting better. He can still make it better than the general public, but not by much.

Later on, while selling tea and food to a certain disguised Avatar and his friends… they are attacked by the Rough Rhinos! Iroh and Zuko assume that they’re after THEM, and the Gaang assume that these Fire Nation baddies are after THEM, so they end up teaming up and being awesome, defeating the Rough Rhinos in no time flat. Because they’re awesome. Scalding hot tea being bended into someone’s face is a must, because teabending rules.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, all I can hear is "Iroh takes Katara on as his disciple in the noble art of tea bending".

This is kind of an adorable idea.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

"Iroh takes Katara on as his disciple in the noble art of tea bending".
YES OMG. I mean, the first time it happens simply because Katara needed convenient liquid to fight with in a pinch... but then Iroh starts thinking about all of the wonderful possible applications of waterbending and tea making... :3