Friday The 13th.... Okay Not

[redbrunja]

As per usual for me, Friday the 13th was a good day, but as I worked, went to dinner, and got home fairly late, plus I have to open in about fifteen minutes, I didn't get to post this yesterday.

So, please tell me about your favorite spooky fic idea - what you wish someone would write, or would like to write yourself, if time permitted.

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I think there are the INGREDIENTS for horror in Avatar, but there isn't... it doesn't have the same sense of the unknown as there are shows that don't deal with the spiritual in the same way. But you're right, there are a lot of possibilities with abandonded temples. I remember reading one fic that had a snippet of Zuko wandering through the WAT and hearing the echoes of all the dead airbenders.

Oh, that sounds like a fun fic idea! And yeah, I like to play with the 'fanfiction is pain' as well. I usually have at least one happy everybody lives! future for an OTP and then one tragic ending.

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I like to play with the 'fanfiction is pain' as well. I usually have at least one happy everybody lives! future for an OTP and then one tragic ending.

I adopted that motto in Buffy fandom, to account for the massive angst and potential pain of characters, the torture characters went through, and the meta fact that writers block sucks ass and being a devoted enough fan to write fic means you have to be somewhat masochistic. "Torture the characters and yourself in pursuit of The Story [Bunny], and then you'll begin to appreciate what fanficcing is all about."

Hmmmm... I need to remember my own motto. I've been skating by lately. It was good to write "I Love You Like A Ruin" though, even if it was only 300 words, because I think it's the best thing I've written in months.

but there isn't... it doesn't have the same sense of the unknown as there are shows that don't deal with the spiritual in the same way.

Yes. I can see that. I almost wish there was more spirit stuff, though. The only times we've seen villagers deal with non-Avatar "spirits" since The Swamp were in season 3, in the Fire Nation villages, with the Painted Lady and Hama. Before that it was The Swamp, and before that it was the bear-like forest spirit in season 1 and the ocean spirit.

There's these "big" spirits like the ocean spirit, and there's spirits like the librarian that only the Avatar is likely to meet in his lifetime, but the regular people don't seem to interact with spirits at all, or think about them much. I wish the divide between the regular and spirit world was a little thinner... not that there be more "spirity" episodes, but just that it would creep through in little ways. Spirits in ATLA are like a natural disasters. Sucks when they happen, and when they're gone you put them out of your mind. It'd be cool if they were a little more present, in shrines or in colloquial language or in little habits and things the characters did.

I guess I'm trying to say that I wish there was more magic in the ATLA world. All the magic it has, though, has to do with bending.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I adopted that motto in Buffy fandom, to account for the massive angst and potential pain of characters, the torture characters went through, and the meta fact that writers block sucks ass and being a devoted enough fan to write fic means you have to be somewhat masochistic.

Well said. And I really enjoyed 'love like a ruin', by the way.

More spirit stuff would be good. And you're right, it's not totally integrated into the regular world (I bet is was more so in Aang's day).

I guess I'm trying to say that I wish there was more magic in the ATLA world. All the magic it has, though, has to do with bending.

*nods* And I think that somehow, having the it's magic/bending makes it harder to get successfully worked up about randomly banging doors and cold spots - you have to make sure you've got bodies killed messily in a locked room.