damkianna: A cap of the Reverend Mother from the Dune miniseries, with accompanying text: "Space cowgirl." (Default)
Long week is long. :P But! My ducks are all finally in enough of a row, so: Yuletide repost, for the sake of consistency and organization!

Title: The Spiral of Lives
Fandom: Avatar (2009 movie)
Rating: Significant swearing, but no sex or especially graphic violence; if you ignore all the cussing, the actual content is probably PGish.
Characters/Pairing: Canon characters who get significant focus include Jake Sully, Grace Augustine, Neytiri, and Trudy Chacon; also includes original characters. There's feeble hints of Jake/Neytiri if you're looking for them, but you can read parts of this as Trudy/Neytiri if you're trying to, so.
Wordcount: Bit over 20,000 words.
Summary: The last thought he has before everything goes black is, Shit. An AU of the movie, wherein the Avatar Program never existed.
Content Notes: Warning for some ableism. Hopefully, it does not exceed the in-character moments requested by the prompt; please do let me know if that does not appear to be the case to you.
Disclaimer: The canon isn't mine. Some of the things that don't appear in the movie are kind of secondary canon from the Survival Guide, the video game, and so on; my source for these things is the Avatar movie wiki. If you have any questions about whether a specific thing is technically canon or just something I made up, do feel free to ask.
Acknowledgements: As always, big thank-you to [personal profile] idriya, for beta and cheerleading and making me actually finish this. And GIANT ♥S to [personal profile] xenakis, for the Yuletide request that started it all.
Alternate Links: The Spiral of Lives @ AO3

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damkianna: A cap of the Reverend Mother from the Dune miniseries, with accompanying text: "Space cowgirl." (Default)
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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