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'tis not so deep as a well ([personal profile] damkianna) wrote2011-01-01 11:26 am

YULETIDE \o/

Okay, so, I am a bit late, because I contradanced for nearly four hours and then had to drive everybody home and then basically passed out and didn't wake up 'til about ten minutes ago. BUT.

The Spiral of Lives (20323 words) by faviconDamkianna
Fandom: Avatar (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jake Sully, Neytiri (Avatar), Grace Augustine, Trudy Chacon
Summary: The last thought he has before everything goes black is, Shit. An AU of the movie, wherein the Avatar Program never existed. [Warning: some in-character ableism.]

There it is, in all its excessive glory. One day, I will write a short, canon-compliant fic in which there are no OCs. But that is not this day. [/Aragorn] Oh, I wibbled so much over this thing - the amount of time I spent on the movie wiki, scrolling up and down through the script draft on IMSDb, and going back to [personal profile] xenakis's Dear Author letter/movie reaction post is truly ridiculous. But I LOVE taking things apart and putting them back together the way I want them to be, no Least Common Skin Tone or What These People Need Is a Honky or any of that bullshit, and, as always, WITH MOAR LADIES. WHO ALL LIVE, by the by.

So I owe [personal profile] xenakis big time for giving me the opportunity to do that in a way that makes it look less selfish. :D I only wish I had procrastinated a bit less when it came time to finish up, so that it could have been a bit longer; and I've already edited it like ten times for formatting, typos, and small mistakes that needed fixing. D: And the response has been just AMAZING - so many absolutely lovely comments, and I just about fainted when I saw it get recced! And now, at last, I can actually reply to the comments! :D I will repost it over here with more extensive notes sometime next week, when I am a little more organized in my brain.

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