![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have noticed this, but for some reason the Avatar fandom seems to have a lack of love for the ladylove. By which I mean that there's basically no femslash content. At all. Despite the canon practically feeding it to us on a silver platter, with a cherry on top.
What's the deal, fandom?
So, in an attempt to counteract this, I am starting up the one, the only...
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER FEMSLASH MEME
How does it work? Well, it works like this:
--> People post requests. These requests should be posted in the following format:
Pairing/Threesome/Moresome: (The characters and relationships involved. Must be femslash, obviously. Which means any two ladies from Avatar. Katara/Toph, Ty Lee/Azula, Jun/Lily, it's all good)
Prompt: (A sentence, word, phrase, whatever. Something for the writer to go on. Be as specific or vague as you'd like, but vague is generally better)
Porn: Yes/No/Fishstick (If you specifically want porn, put Yes in this field. If you specifically do NOT want porn, put No in this field. If you don't care and will take either, put Fishstick)
Other: (Any other relevant information goes here)
Requests can be anonymous, or they can be signed. IP logging is off.
--> People fulfill requests. That means they reply to the request with a fanwork for the pairing that matches the prompt and any other information given. Fic, art, whatever, it's all good. Again, these can be posted anonymously or signed, and IP Logging is off. It's better if it's signed, though, so we can tell who to thank.
--> We have a never-ending circle of femslash content. Well, ideally.
A few things to remember:
1. Please fill at least as many requests as you make. I hope I don't need to explain why this is necessary. If everybody's requesting and nobody's filling, the meme dies.
2. Please prioritize older requests over new ones. I'm not telling you which ones to fill, but if there's an unfilled request on page one, and an unfilled request on page five, and you're equally inspired by both...please fill the old one first. That requester's been waiting around for longer.
3. Please prioritized unfilled requests over filled ones. If there's a prompt in there that really gets your creative juices flowing, but someone else has already filled it...well, then go ahead, man! Fill it anyway! The requester'll be overjoyed to get two pieces for it. But if there's an unfilled request that you could also be doing...please do that one. Remember, we're trying to share the love as widely as possible.
4. ??????
5. PROFIT!
I'm pimping this out everywhere I can think of, so I'm sorry if your flist gets spammed. I encourage you to do that same. Even a link on your personal journal will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
What's the deal, fandom?
So, in an attempt to counteract this, I am starting up the one, the only...
How does it work? Well, it works like this:
--> People post requests. These requests should be posted in the following format:
Pairing/Threesome/Moresome: (The characters and relationships involved. Must be femslash, obviously. Which means any two ladies from Avatar. Katara/Toph, Ty Lee/Azula, Jun/Lily, it's all good)
Prompt: (A sentence, word, phrase, whatever. Something for the writer to go on. Be as specific or vague as you'd like, but vague is generally better)
Porn: Yes/No/Fishstick (If you specifically want porn, put Yes in this field. If you specifically do NOT want porn, put No in this field. If you don't care and will take either, put Fishstick)
Other: (Any other relevant information goes here)
Requests can be anonymous, or they can be signed. IP logging is off.
--> People fulfill requests. That means they reply to the request with a fanwork for the pairing that matches the prompt and any other information given. Fic, art, whatever, it's all good. Again, these can be posted anonymously or signed, and IP Logging is off. It's better if it's signed, though, so we can tell who to thank.
--> We have a never-ending circle of femslash content. Well, ideally.
A few things to remember:
1. Please fill at least as many requests as you make. I hope I don't need to explain why this is necessary. If everybody's requesting and nobody's filling, the meme dies.
2. Please prioritize older requests over new ones. I'm not telling you which ones to fill, but if there's an unfilled request on page one, and an unfilled request on page five, and you're equally inspired by both...please fill the old one first. That requester's been waiting around for longer.
3. Please prioritized unfilled requests over filled ones. If there's a prompt in there that really gets your creative juices flowing, but someone else has already filled it...well, then go ahead, man! Fill it anyway! The requester'll be overjoyed to get two pieces for it. But if there's an unfilled request that you could also be doing...please do that one. Remember, we're trying to share the love as widely as possible.
4. ??????
5. PROFIT!
I'm pimping this out everywhere I can think of, so I'm sorry if your flist gets spammed. I encourage you to do that same. Even a link on your personal journal will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
no subject
Prompt: Ty-Lee knows better than to say "no" to Princess Azula. (At any point within the series.)
Porn: Yes
Other: I dare you to make this completely believable. Canon.
Loyalty
(Anonymous) 2008-04-24 09:45 am (UTC)(link)The one thing Ty Lee had grown up knowing was being given the illusion of choice. When the Fire Nation gives you options you can mislead yourself to believe that they are truly different when they all serve the same ends. Power, wealth, influence, prestige. Ty Lee never really cared for any of them, except prestige because then it meant people knew her, and in knowing her they could not mistake her. Ty Lee thought if she couldn’t guide the universe to give her a sporting chance at being whatever she wanted she could at least be assured in aligning herself properly.
When she ran away to join the circus she forgot, however briefly, this fact of life. Then Azula came to set her back on the course. And at first Ty Lee foolishly, foolishly thought she could refuse. After all, Azula had let her go once before. As they grew up the princess pushed her, manipulated her, undermined her, and seduced her. But if Ty Lee said ‘no’ then Azula never forced her.
After all, they were friends.
Azula stood in her quarters, stripped of the new armor they had given her for the coronation. Neither Ty Lee nor Mai were invited to the ceremony. As of late, Azula had been even more closed off than usual. Ty Lee assumed it was her way of punishing them for their failure to stop the Avatar at the Boiling Rock prison. Or Mai’s growing displeasure at being used in this war, to the point where even her careful mask of boredom could not disguise it. Then Ty Lee realized that Mai had not been called tonight.
Careful to divert her eyes, Ty Lee gave a low bow so that her forehead was touching the ground. “May you live long and burn brightly, Fire Lord Azula.”
It was so formal to say it that way. Especially to Azula, even if she was the Fire Lord now and some part of her, the part that noticed her eyes when she stared at Zuko too long, knew she would always become. But it still felt stilted, and Ty Lee was not used to being so still when a thin wire wasn’t stretched out before her with no where to turn to.
“Please, get up,” Azula said. It was stately, more like a command than a request from a childhood friend. Yet when Ty Lee flipped up into a handstand to meet her, Azula took both her arms in hers in a familiar greeting. “I would have asked for you but Father did not want such a public display when the war depends on his ascending to Phoenix Lord. No one but the highest generals and priests were allowed to come. You understand.”
“Of course, Pr—Fire Lord Azula.”
Azula withdrew her hands. “Good. Do you know why I’ve called you here?”
Ty Lee frowned, nervous that she had overlooked something. “Was there something you wanted me to do?”
“No. Nothing like that,” Azula dismissed with a wave of her hand. It looked like something she had seen Ozai do, years ago when Azula’s parents got into a discussion before Azula pulled her away. “But now that I am Fire Lord I will not need you.”
Re: Loyalty
Loyalty 2
(Anonymous) 2008-04-24 09:46 am (UTC)(link)“Yes. Your initial purpose, helping me track down my traitorous brother and uncle has become irrelevant after all. And with the escape of that Kiyoshi warrior—” Ty Lee flushed hot with shame. She was the one who was sent to stop her. “I realize that you don’t need to continue when you’ve already served me so faithfully. If you want, you may go back to the circus whenever you please. With my blessing. With the Fire Lord’s blessing.”
It was too good to be true that Ty Lee couldn’t keep herself from breaking out into a wide grin. “Azula? Really? I can!”
“Of course,” Azula smiled sadly, something uncontrolled flickering beneath the surface. “But you’re more than welcome to stay, if you prefer. I don’t want to make it sound like I’m sending you away. That’s not my intention at all.”
Suddenly the wire upon Ty Lee imagined herself on was looking incredibly frayed. “But...you just said you didn’t need me.”
“That doesn’t mean you can’t stay.”
There was an edge in it that frightened Ty Lee to the center of her being. How strange that now she noticed the full length mirror was missing from Azula’s room, and the family portrait was also mysteriously absent. She must have removed it when Zuko betrayed them. Even for Azula, to have her brother betray her it would be expected to get rid of such things. Indeed she was so busy searching for whatever else was gone that she did not feel Azula move up in front of her.
“...Azula.”
“You are the only one I am offering this to.”
“I. I’m not sure right now...” Ty Lee murmured, trying to smile. “It’s really flattering! But kind of a big decision to make.”
Azula’s hands were on Ty Lee’s waist, in what at first seemed like a way to steady her, but as a long nail flicked against the bareness of her stomach she couldn’t be sure anymore.
“You’ve been with me before even my father was Fire Lord.” And the way Azula whispered ‘been with’ made it sound so natural as she pressed herself closer to Ty Lee. “My good friend. I know in the end it will be betrayal. Zuko is just the most obvious about it. My father fears me, Mai is wary, the generals wait to see who will triumph. Everything waits for who will strike first.”
Ty Lee turned against her friend’s hand, but it only seemed to have another part of her draw closer. “I would never...”
“I know,” Azula breathed. “That is why I am giving you the chance to walk away. For you, it was never about power, or calculation. I’m sure if I had not asked you to come back you would be content to have spent the rest of your days as a circus performer.”
Azula smelled like she had been fighting. The sweat of the ceremonial flames must have been very hot for her to bear her first time but she didn’t look flush at all. Ty Lee could practically taste the heady bitter scent from Azula’s proximity. Her throat felt dry and she swallowed.
“So, I had to wonder how I could reward you. If you did not want the influence or riches of a Fire Lord, what could I give you...”
‘Oh,’ thought Ty Lee in a dim, resigned sort of way. Before Azula’s fingers slipped under her shirt to rub against her skin. Then it was not dim at all as Ty Lee gasped and arched into her touch like a trained acrobat does. So this was what they offer someone who doesn’t care for riches, influence or power.
Choice.
Loyalty 3
(Anonymous) 2008-04-24 09:47 am (UTC)(link)She was lying. Ty Lee knew it even as she bit back another shuddering gasp. This was not a decision. Azula had planned it all along. Her gift to Ty Lee, the words and her mouth now at the bareness of her throat were just distractions for the. If she had said ‘no’ then Azula would halt and go no further, yes. But not when she had already made Ty Lee move into her grasp, finding and manipulating every part of her with an expertise that made the chi reader marvel.
Ty Lee thought she heard Azula speak her name, prompting her to open her eyes and found her already with the top part of her outfit up it bunched her arms and Ty Lee obediently lifted them so Azula pulled it clean off. It was cold in her room, and she couldn’t help but shiver.
“Come then,” Azula said, coaxing. It was perhaps the gentlest Ty Lee had ever heard her, which made it all the more perplexing when Azula pulled her forward and savagely kissed her. That same uncontrolled flicker seemed to expose itself in spasms from otherwise calculated movements. Moments when in the midst of clothes falling and a stumble to the bed that Ty Lee could feel Azula against her, wanting and possibly desperate.
Another act, she wondered in a haze as her body twisted and squirmed instinctively against the heat of Azula’s actions. No longer weighed down by the belief that she had another option, Ty Lee wrapped her arms around Azula’s shoulders, pulling down the topknot that held her hair back and letting it spill over their shoulders. And if Ty Lee could have said anything at the time she would have remarked that Azula looked beautiful, in a fierce and terrifying way.
Moving along with her her, Ty Lee could feel the sharp angles of her body. The muscle and fat that had been stripped away from harsh conditions and felt even more severe in comparison, as it grinded against the softness of Ty Lee’s. And even when Ty Lee moved with her, legs wrapping against the hip and her own hands fluttering along her back, Azula kept all signs of pleasure hidden. Apart from the faint hiss she made against Ty Lee’s jaw, her breath hot from exertion.
At first it felt as if Azula were simply using her to get off, but as Ty Lee leaned back into the mattress she realized that she was simply not paying attention to how the princess turned Fire Lord was manipulating her, where she did not even realize the extend of her own arousal until she was bucking against Azula’s hand, whimpering for release.
“Please...” Ty Lee begged hoarsely as Azula dragged her fingernails against the bare expanse of thigh. She desperately tried to press against Azula’s warm hands but each time she came close Azula withdrew until they were merely brushing against each other. It was torture.
“Does this mean you’ll stay?”
All hesitancy was gone from her, and Ty Lee was quite literally naked and exposed in front of her. Her chest red with welts from where Azula had licked and bitten, her braid half undone in a tangle and legs still spread and curved against Azula’s own. “Yes, o-oh please yeesssss...”
The second coming out as Azula slipped a finger in her, pushing with calculated grace that made Ty Lee bite back a scream as she raked her nails within her and found no resistance. Then as suddenly as the pain bit through Ty Lee it was replace with an ebbing wave of pleasure, Azula bringing her to the brink and over until all she could do was cling to the sheets and scream her name.
Azula laid down with her, while Ty Lee was still catching her breath. The other girl had not made such a display, and as she pressed up against her Ty Lee could still feel her wet with desire. But she looked quite satisfied as she draped one arm over her possessively.
“I knew you wouldn’t refuse me,” she murmured with half-slitted eyes.
Ty Lee shifted onto her side, one arm curling around Azula’s waist and then laying her head near her friend’s shoulder. She could hear the steady thrum of Azula’s heartbeat through the pillow, sounding so different from her erratic one.
“No,” Ty Lee said and the word sounded foreign and hollow in her mouth. All that felt real was Azula’s teeth and tongue that still claimed her. “I never could.”
Re: Loyalty 3
I have to say also I really love the portrait you paint of Azula here-- despite being involved in the Machiavellian power struggle that is her family she's still undeniably human and needs to know that there's someone, at least, who still cares about her. Her approach to Ty Lee is both characteristically manipulative and in another way almost loving and desperate. Ty Lee will stay by her side to the end, and even Azula can acknowledge the importance of this.
Re: Loyalty 2