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Feb. 3rd, 2007 11:58 amI need a new all-of-the-Gaang-icon.
But this...
This fic is my season three.
and now I am going to gush about it, because it makes me so happy.
I just left one of the gushiest reviews I think I've ever written for a fanfic. EVER. And it's not even romantic! I mean, I made a frickin' numbered list. This is bad. I am so terribly, terribly afraid that the end is approaching, and then where shall I be?
But seriously, I am convinced that this author (ignore the fact that her pen name is xcgirl08) has an inside link to the Nick studios and is secretly novelizing the plot for season 3.
The real thing about this fic is that it has what movies and shows inherently cannot have: a real inside look into all of the characters' heads. And she uses this ability masterfully, creating circles and flashbacks and foreshadowings and character development and...I mean, there's really...no. This is it. This is what Avatar is all about.
She switches effortlessly from incredibly visual (through sparing but precise use of language) fight scenes to giggly fluff scenes to emotional struggle scenes to flashbacks to witty banter to fights again. The characters are all IC--they grow, of course, according to what happens throughout the fic, but it's completely in keeping with the basic characters themselves. She also brings back minor characters and puts them to good use, giving resolution with them that's totally satisfying. Her few side OCs are also fantastic. I mean, she has a masterful knowledge of the show itself, and everyone and everything that's shown up in it, even if she doesn't know all the names.
It's not overtly shippy, but there are ships, but they're so subtly done it really doesn't detract from what's going on in the fic at all--very realistically done. (And, just a fair warning, completely in keeping with my own shipping lines. But even with that, people who don't support the ships are still reading anyway, because it's Just That Good)
Yep. This fic is why I didn't get any homework done on Thursday.
I think I'll just go lay down my pen now.
Did I mention it's going to be over 35 chapters long, and that the chapters get progressively longer, but no slower?
Why are you still sitting here, reading my livejournal? Go READ IT NOW.
But this...
This fic is my season three.
and now I am going to gush about it, because it makes me so happy.
I just left one of the gushiest reviews I think I've ever written for a fanfic. EVER. And it's not even romantic! I mean, I made a frickin' numbered list. This is bad. I am so terribly, terribly afraid that the end is approaching, and then where shall I be?
But seriously, I am convinced that this author (ignore the fact that her pen name is xcgirl08) has an inside link to the Nick studios and is secretly novelizing the plot for season 3.
The real thing about this fic is that it has what movies and shows inherently cannot have: a real inside look into all of the characters' heads. And she uses this ability masterfully, creating circles and flashbacks and foreshadowings and character development and...I mean, there's really...no. This is it. This is what Avatar is all about.
She switches effortlessly from incredibly visual (through sparing but precise use of language) fight scenes to giggly fluff scenes to emotional struggle scenes to flashbacks to witty banter to fights again. The characters are all IC--they grow, of course, according to what happens throughout the fic, but it's completely in keeping with the basic characters themselves. She also brings back minor characters and puts them to good use, giving resolution with them that's totally satisfying. Her few side OCs are also fantastic. I mean, she has a masterful knowledge of the show itself, and everyone and everything that's shown up in it, even if she doesn't know all the names.
It's not overtly shippy, but there are ships, but they're so subtly done it really doesn't detract from what's going on in the fic at all--very realistically done. (And, just a fair warning, completely in keeping with my own shipping lines. But even with that, people who don't support the ships are still reading anyway, because it's Just That Good)
Yep. This fic is why I didn't get any homework done on Thursday.
I think I'll just go lay down my pen now.
Did I mention it's going to be over 35 chapters long, and that the chapters get progressively longer, but no slower?
Why are you still sitting here, reading my livejournal? Go READ IT NOW.
