Nov. 4th, 2019

anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (6/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone
stuff that happens: Noatak and Taraka go on their solo hunting trip, then face the last test of their bloodbending.
previous sections: one, two, three, four, five

“Tonight, you two are going to prove to me that you have it in you to bloodbend another human—that you’re true bloodbenders.”

His voice had risen to a triumphant pitch. Noatak and Taraka were, briefly, frozen in astonishment. Then they spoke at the same time.

“How’d you get someone for us to practice on?”

“But we can’t bloodbend you, Dad!”

Yakone looked impatient, and addressed Taraka. “No. You will bloodbend each other.”


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anghraine: various thickly-bound books on the shelves of a library (library)
One of the disconcerting things about trawling my old LOK tags—which I'm otherwise having fun with, for an AGHHH MY FEELINGS value of fun—is just how many people are gone. I was a NNF in Avatar fandom, but it's like ... Tumblr will show that something originally had, say, fifteen notes, and now there are two. I'm reblogging almost entirely from my previous reblogs because so many OPs have completely deactivated. I was excited to get two! whole!! asks.

Partly it's people leaving Tumblr, I imagine. But it seems different than a lot of my other fandoms, which I also came to late. I was wondering on Twitter if it's just ... LOK was a fandom that ran on ship wank, pretty much, even though that's not primarily what the show was about (esp later on), and maybe it was just the newest flashy thing for migratory fandom before they moved onto TFA and whatnot. Once the shipping got resolved and the discourse died down, maybe there just wasn't much left for the fandom.

It does seem to be how a lot of modern fandoms are working, though. Of course migratory fandom has always been a thing, and of course I can be pretty migratory myself (not usually in sync with the wider fandom, but in my own way!), but things seem more and more ephemeral. It doesn't help that the platforms are increasingly ephemeral, too.

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