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    Breathe Through It by

    Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), avatar aang - Fandom  

    04 May 2026

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    He loved her because it was just that simple. It made sense. He had no questions, no doubts, no need for explanations. He knew, spiritually, that they were written in the cosmos, that their love was predestined. He knew that he was supposed to love her, and will love her, for the rest of time. It's the only thing that he truly understood in this world.

    Inspired by the new ATLA movie, Aang and Katara finally reunite after Aang spends days away from home. Flirty smut :)

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    birds of a feather by

    Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

    10 Aug 2024

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    Overall, she’s had a wonderful experience so far; full of light, learning, and friendship. Katara is positive she wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, especially because of how it brought Aang into her life. But still—

    She whirls, too fast, and a gate catches the curve of her shoulder blade. Katara trips over her own foot, crying out in pain, and falls off of the platform, landing solidly onto her back with an oomph!

    “Ow,” she whines, unwittingly, as Aang dashes to her in a panic.

    It’d be nice to be good at this— actual airbending.

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    Avatar Katara is struggling with the Airbending gates. Aang comes up with a plan to help her.

    Role Swap AU

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    22 Jul 2026

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    when you know, you know by

    Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

    09 May 2024

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    Aang grits his teeth at his cowardice and pushes his foot forward, ignoring the frantic drumming of his heart. He tells himself that he has no reason to be nervous, that he’s good at this. At bending. At people. He tells himself that he will have fun here, that he will make himself. That he will ride penguins, and laugh, and study, and be diligent, and accept the albatross around his neck. He tells himself that—

    Nothing.

    He steps around Hakoda, putting on his brave face, and looks down at her— Katara— and feels everything solid in him melt.

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    Avatar Aang meets his Waterbending Master.

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    in another world by

    Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

    01 Aug 2024

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    The thought occurs to her randomly, while she’s at work. She’s assisting a young woman who had just been in a car accident— a teenager, really— with her pregnancy. Katara has her sitting on an examination table, her round belly exposed, water-covered fingers hovering above her skin. There’s a small mass, a heartbeat and a whorl of chi that she can feel, pressing back against her. Katara describes the entire process, and the girl smiles at her uncertainly throughout, a look of wonderment on her face. “And to think,” she whispers. “In the beginning, I’d been praying to get my period. Now, I feel so relieved.”

    The distant part of her that can still feel wants to commiserate. She wants to laugh, pat her shoulder, and say, “A baby can change everything, huh? Isn’t life so ironic?”

    And then it hits her, like a bolt of lightning down her spine— I can’t remember the last time I had mine.

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    Love is a form of energy that swirls all around us, and is reborn.

    Kataang Week Submission: Parenthood/First-time Parents.

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    Vital Signs by

    Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

    16 Jul 2026

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    “And here I thought you were just a handsome face.” It took Aang a moment to realise that Katara was talking to Appa and not to him. It took significantly longer for his heart to understand the same thing, and it hammered against his chest with a rapid rhythm. “Such a brave boy.” She looked up at Aang again and added, somewhat shyly, “You’re very brave, too.”

    “Oh, I—thank you. So are you.”

    He had no idea why he’d said that.

    When volunteer search and rescue handler Aang takes Appa to the new vet in town, he doesn't anticipate coming face-to-face with the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. It starts with an awkward appointment and, somewhere along the way, turns into coffee dates and late-night calls.

    Then a callout goes wrong. Suddenly, it's not just his heart on the line.

    [Reader Request: Kataang Vet AU]

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    16 Jul 2026