Avatar season 2 episode 6: The Blind Bandit

Still watching Avatar! Here are some thoughts on season 2 episode 6:

( The Blind Bandit )

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Overall, a very good episode, and a great introduction of a new main character. She has an immediately obvious role to play, she's cool, she has an interesting personality, and she's not perfect. What's even better is that her weaknesses and strengths are logical extensions of each other.

Yeah, I see why people love Toph. She is pure concentrated awesome. :-)

(This episode also has an optional audio commentary on the DVD, which I listened to after watching it. So that's where the backstory about Toph and the badger-moles comes from! Also, it's interesting that they had originally intended Toph to be male. I think that would have been unfortunate. Yeah, there are the Dangerous Ladies -- Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee -- and there's Katara, of course, but that would have left the Gaang very unbalanced. As it is, up 'til now Katara has sometimes been playing 'generic token and/or kickass girl' rather than specifically Katara, which may be why I tend to prefer Sokka to her, despite her frequent moments of awesome and his frequent moments of lameness.)

Next up, "Zuko Alone." *anticipates*

[Fic] "The Transient and the Eternal: Tattoo" -- Angel Sanctuary

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some strange and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #29 - Tattoo
Warnings: spoilers!
Notes: This ficlet is set way, way post-manga, well after Setsuna and Sara eventually die, with all attendant spoilers. (Randomly, this is both theme #29 and the twenty-ninth story in my chronological sequence. So by this point, the threesome-of-sorts is pretty well established.)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Tattoo )

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That was kind of fun to write. I'd had the basic idea set for a few years, but it never really clicked to life in my mind until this afternoon, whereupon I wrote the ficlet in about an hour. *shrug* Inspiration is weird.

In unrelated real life news, today it snowed in Ithaca! So I took my winter coat out of storage... and discovered that the zipper had broken. Last year, the pull tab fell off the part that slides up and down and locks or unlocks the teeth, but that was easy to fix; I just stuck a key-ring through the little hole. This year, the whole locking apparatus fell off, so I am left with nothing but two rows of naked zipper teeth.

Bah.

Fortunately, the coat also has snaps, so I was able to brave the snow and buy groceries, but I have called a tailor and plan to take my coat in to get the zipper replaced on Monday morning, because the snaps alone will not keep out the winter wind.