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to touch the earth I wasn’t part of by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2026
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Azula is returned to the palace two years and a half to the day that she left it. The Sages escort her to the steps as if she’s a child in need of hand-holding, and then leave her there as if an idiot has told them that she can be trusted alone.
She’s left waiting only a moment before the doors open, and there’s the idiot himself.
“Azula,” says Zuzu. Ridiculously, he’s smiling.
More ridiculously, she feels her mouth nearly pull into its mirror. It doesn’t, of course. She has far too much self-control for such a display.
But it is an almost-thing.
or: azula and zuko, and how to live when the war is over and the shadows in your home have gone.
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you could write me someday, and I hope you will by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
22 Feb 2026
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Granddad’s hands had always been leather, worn thick with lines. They’d held a callousness that had somehow never touched River when they held him.
[ or: river, and grief, and home. ]
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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the sun is only a God if you learn to starve by tenderhooked for altschmerzes
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
17 Aug 2024
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’Cause, see, it’s been nearly a month since Wembley and no one’s said a word about it. They were all there in that room with him, weren’t they; they witnessed what happened with their own eyes. The horrible words, jagged and serrated like a knife’s edge. The prowling, commanding grace of a predator that’s caught its prey between its teeth but hasn’t bitten yet. And then—
Then Jamie, knuckles bruised before he even realized he’d thrown a punch. Jamie, standing there in his socks. Jamie, looming above his Da as his Da skittered back across the tile, fingers to his jaw, curled protectively around the soft parts of his stomach. Jamie, the monster. The one that nobody can get close to. The one that destroys everything it touches.
He can’t sleep. When he tries, that’s the only thing he sees, in the dark behind his eyelids: Ruin.
[ post-wembley, jamie is drowning and terrified of asking for help he doesn't believe he deserves. cue a fretful team, a lot of well-meaning but fumbling attempts at connection, one thousand bajillion hugs, a few homemade brownies, and a jamie tartt on his way to something like healing. ]
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to your joy I tether (not a lot, just forever) by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Aug 2024
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“I’m not in love with you.”
“Ah,” says Edwin, succeeding a pause that goes on longer than he plans it to. “I see.”
“Shit, no, sorry, that’s not what I—”
“Charles, you mustn’t apologize—”
“No, Eds, wait, wait. That came out all wrong.” And Charles clutches Edwin’s hand tighter, so Edwin clutches back, taking strange comfort in the curve of Charles’s fingers, the ridge of his knuckles. Terrain that is somehow more familiar to Edwin than the paths he’s carved through Hell. “What I meant is, I’m not ever gonna be, like, in love with you. Romantically. I just—” His inhale is a juttering scrape of breath excavated from deep inside, and Edwin feels it as though it is his lungs that draw it in. “I love you, Edwin. I’ve always loved you. And after you confessed in Hell, I thought—well, I thought what I felt for you had to change. But it didn’t, and it won’t. I’m never gonna have a romantic notion towards anyone in the entire world, and I love you, and it’d be aces to kiss you.”
[ or: an aromantic awakening, a kiss, several bouts of crying, and a long cuddle on the couch. more or less in that order. ]
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when she sings, she sings (come home) by tenderhooked
Fandom Loki (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
10 Nov 2023
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Vignettes from Zuko's life dealing with his hair. That's it.
The graphic depiction section is the aftermath of the Agni Kai, so if you won't want to read about poor little burn-victim Zuko dealing with burn trauma, I've set that section apart with a row of hashes: ##### because yeaaah I got a little gross in there.
Healing from trauma as depicted by hairstyle choice! And maybe a tiny hint of Zukka there at the end, if you squint. At the very least, Zukka friendship.
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19 Jul 2026
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In the weeks following the war, Zuko faces a gauntlet of Agni Kai challengers. Sokka worries.
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05 Jun 2026
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After running from Lee’s village, Zuko is back on the road, where he meets Shin, a farmer in need of a helping hand so his wooly pigs won’t escape.
There are things to do, talks to have, pigs falling in love, and Zuko’s Pavlovian reaction to a very specific word.Bookmarked by tenderhooked
23 Mar 2026
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"I think," the Fire Lord starts saying, "that the palace is haunted."
"Huh," the Avatar, who is lounging on the couch in the Fire Lord's study, is the one who responds. He pauses twirling marbles with his airbending to look at the man behind the desk. "Okay?" he says, with the question mark audible.
Several palace staff witness the Fire Lord and the Avatar do a little ghost investigation.
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21 Mar 2026
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Darkness Exists To Make Light Truly Count by LPCollins for BlackGlowstick
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Mar 2025
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After their return from the Boiling Rock, Hakoda comes to find Zuko to thank him for his help. The conversation leads to some dark memories, and to the conclusion that Zuko is in desperate need of another father figure.
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21 Mar 2026