#troped: atla

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

[Image ID: Troped Mini Events Avatar: The Last Airbender /.End ID]

TROPED: ATLA — Round One!

Welcome to the First Round of our TROPED Mini Event! We are so excited to host a two-round event for Avatar: The Last Airbender!!! If you’re new to TROPED, you can find a little more info on how our events work here! We have hosted multiple events, and we’re so excited to break into another new fandom with you! The mods for this challenge are @thelittlefanpire and @dylanobrienisbatman, and our personal DM’s as well as the ask box on this blog are always open to questions, comments, or concerns!

For Round 1, please write us a fic that includes:

Theme: Modernized Canon

Trope 1: Found Family

Trope 2: Fugitive AU

Trope 3: Handcuffed together

Trope 4: Countdown/Deadline

More in depth definitions of the theme and tropes can be found here! Please take a look at this document, as there will be extra information you NEED to know regarding how to use the tropes, plus all the rules, and if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask!

HOW IT WORKS:

TROPED is pretty simple! This is a fully anonymous fanfic event where anyone can join at any time! We have provided the prompt above (four tropes + a theme) and you have a 7 day writing period to write the fics! All fics are submitted to our AO3 collections, which are specific to each event! After the writing period has ended, we host a community voting period where anyone can vote, based on a few categories that are announced at the beginning of each event (we generally include Best Use of Tropes, Best Use of Theme, Best Overall (Tropes + Theme), and then some bonus polls!) Once the voting has ended, we reveal the authors of the fics and announce the winners!

For these events, there will be two rounds each, which are separate from one another. You do not need to write in the first round to write for the second, and you are not obligated to write for the second round if you write for the first! We will reveal the authors at the end of each individual round!

A more detailed explanation of how our events work can be found on our FAQs page!

For this event, all fics are to be submitted to this AO3 Collection!

A tutorial on how to submit your fics can be found in the first three steps of this post! You do not need to input multiple chapters for this event, but follow the general steps on how to include a fic in our collections! For this event, the collection name is 'TROPED_AtLA'!! If you have any questions, or would like a tutorial specific to this event, let us know, we'd be happy to make one!

TIMELINE

ROUND ONE

R1 Writing Period: September 4th (12:00am EST) - September 10th (03:00am PST / 06:00am EST)

R1 Voting Period: September 11th (12:00am EST) - September 13th (11:59pm EST)

R1 Winners: September 14th!

ROUND TWO

R2 Writing Period: September 15th (12:00am EST) - September 21st (03:00am PST / 06:00am EST)

R2 Voting Period: September 22nd (12:00am EST) - September 24th (11:59pm EST)

R2 Winners: September 25th!

*All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless otherwise specified! Times are subject to change due to potential writing extensions.

RULES:

Don’t forget the rules! Please keep to the chosen fandom (Avatar: The Last Airbender), include ALL the tropes, and follow the theme! You will be disqualified if you don’t! 10k word count max! Also, no smut. no incest. no underage. no negativity.

The General Rules for all TROEPD events can be found here and more event-specific rules in the Google Doc can be found here.

LINKS:

The AO3 collection can be found here, and the name of the collection that should be entered when submit your fic is ‘TROPED_AtLA’ !!

AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TROPED_AtLA

Trope/Theme Explanations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRJN5GnEg8CFWbHpF13WKAElb-pOJZEucsEIkwKMRjY/edit

No sign-ups necessary! Follow along here on Tumblr, the TROPED Twitter, or our Discord Server for more information on the event! We will release the prompts in those places and then everyone is free to start writing!!! We are super excited to see what you guys create!

Remember that if you have any questions at all, including whether something would fit our trope requirements, would violate one of the rules, or anything at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us at @dylanobrienisbatman or @thelittlefanpire we are here to help!

#troped: atla #troped minis: atla #avatar: the last airbender #atla fanfiction #round 1: modernized Canon #troped minis #a:tla

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

#writing #writing prompt #tropes #reading #books #book tropes #angst prompt #angst #booklr #writeblr #writers on tumblr #percy jackson #the poppy war #mythology #chosen one #atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #bungou stray dogs #yosano akiko #anime #my hero academia #todoroki shoto #neon genesis evangelion #the hunger games #10k #20k #30k #50k #100k

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

#tumblr #politics #media #fiction #tropes #social justice #like soooooo much of the popular media I see big on this website does this. like #marvel #mcu #atla #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar #rwby #bioshock #the clone wars #dc #dc comics #<- just to name a few #this might get me harassed by a certain fandom but you know what they already harassed me 2 times before third times the charm!

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #my art #book 2 au #book 2 aus have been done before but i wanted to try my own take with tropes i personally enjoy akdjslkdks #also had the urge to draw zutara arguing and just not getting along in general qldjkakslsk #i recently finished natla and also just rewatched book 1 so zutara book 1 dynamic where they're quite hostile with each other is on my mind #they decide to travel together but obviously they don't get along at all at the start #they find each other annoying but that annoyance slowly turns into affection #also alsooo #short hair zuko enjoyers hello #i have switched over to the side of short hair zuko ajrskakdlksjd #also thinking about how to put short hair katara into this akdjaljdlskf #i just think short hair zutara neat :>>

[longing-for-rain]

Look I know people love to act like Zuko is the most dangerous, toxic, and temperamental character… but there is exactly one (1) male character Katara was canonically responsible for calming down from violent, destructive tantrums at risk to herself and it wasn’t Zuko… 🐸☕️

#another overlooked toxic trope tbh #zutara #atla #zuko #katara #aang critical #anti kataang #canon critical

[andhumanslovedstories]

Love the commonness of the ao3 tag “obligatory gaang finds out about zuko’s scar” and its variants. You can basically hear the writer sitting down and saying, “I KNOW I KNOW BUT LISTEN, I simply had to. This path is well trod because it’s a dope fucking path to tread. Sunsets happen daily and we’re still wild about them. The sunset in this case is the baring of emotional trauma from one teen to a handful of others. Rated T because Toph says fuck”

#atla #it’s actually a super hard scene for me to be like ‘hell yeah you nailed it’ #more than some other tropes it runs the particular risk of making all the characters who aren’t Zuko sound like therapists #but when it’s good!

[ofswordsandpens]

wait one more thing about Ember Island Players that's so funny is like... imagine creating a show and then becoming either frustrated/annoyed/bemused that a sizable part of your fandom ships two characters that you don't want them to. And instead of ignoring it or letting it lie, they decide to use this episode as a moment to show these fans how silly that ship is. And sure, maybe its all supposed to be in good fun but like if the goal, in-part, was to discourage people shipping them, I cannot emphasize enough how acknowledging the pairing in-universe, having people consistently mistake them for a couple, and having said characters constantly over-react to the very notion and get belligerently defensive because they are very much not dating why would you say that is extremely antithetical to that goal.

#as if those aren't common tropes that shippers love. #lmao its comedy #atla #zutara #like having zuko and katara get SO defensive when June thinks that they're dating (again) ... its not doing what bryke thinks it is #especially when you contrast katara's reaction when Toph thought she had a fling with Haru which was like an apathetic/confused no

[evilkitten3]

was fucking around on google images and i ended up stumbling on a reddit post from three yrs ago with a picture of iroh grabbing azula during a fight scene...

this is the only time i can think of when azula seems completely terrified.

he grabs her and she's scared shitless

but he just redirects her lightning and she's just bewildered.

i wonder what she was thinking there

#atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #azulaposting #iroh #like my first instinct is to read into her relationship with iroh and/or ozai #but if we're being real it could just be a ''wtf is that allowed????'' moment #iroh may have fucked up ba sing se but like. he killed a dragon #or. pretended to have #people thought he did anyway #i just think it's interesting #trope-wise azula is ''the dragon'' of the cast #and iroh is a helluva lot kinder to the real dragons than he is to her #did she think he was going to kill her? or just seriously kick the shit out of her #idk it just looks like azula was expecting something significantly worse to happen

[turtlesmog]

rewatching atla rn and discovered something

#atla #avatar the last airbender #how to train your dragon #httyd #tropes

[8thmuse]

i think a lot of people miss the part where zutara is not enemies to lovers

its an enemies to friends to lovers, which is just such a better trope, and it highlights their friendship while not denying the fact that they definitely had some romantic feelings for eachother

#enemies to friends to lovers is the superior trope #enemies to friends to idiots to lovers actually #enemies to friends to lovers #zutara #atla zuko #zuko #katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #how do i use tumblr #chronically online #im never shutting up about zutara

[ayowotsdis]

There is a bitch inside me, who finds it thoroughly fascinating when unhinged women have soft husbands. Yes, like "I can't fix her so I will love her with all my heart" and "i can make him worse by loving him with all my heart". Like YES give me that comfort. They balance each other out so well.

#azulaang #azula x aang #nedsei #ned x cersei #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #writing trope #tropes #ned stark #cersei lannister #avatar aang #aang #atla #princess azula #writing #unhinged woman and her gentle husband

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

[IMAGE ID: TROPED Mini Events Avatar: The Last Airbender]

TROPED: ATLA — ROUND TWO

Welcome to the Final Round of our TROPED Mini Event for AtLA! We are so excited to host a two-round event for the anime-influenced Nickelodeon show, Avatar: The Last Airbender!

For Round 2, please write us a fic that includes:

Theme: Dystopia

Trope 1: Reincarnation

Trope 2: Road Trip AU

Trope 3: Hurt/Comfort

Trope 4: Big Damn Kiss

More in depth definitions of the theme and tropes can be found here! Please take a look at this document, as there will be extra information you NEED to know regarding how to use the tropes, plus all the rules, and if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask!

HOW IT WORKS:

TROPED is pretty simple! This is a fully anonymous fanfic event where anyone can join at any time! We have provided the prompt above (four tropes + a theme) and you have a 7 day writing period to write the fics! All fics are submitted to our AO3 collections, which are specific to each event! After the writing period has ended, we host a community voting period where anyone can vote, based on a few categories that are announced at the beginning of each event (we generally include Best Use of Tropes, Best Use of Theme, Best Overall (Tropes + Theme), and then some bonus polls!) Once the voting has ended, we reveal the authors of the fics and announce the winners!

For these events, there will be two rounds each, which are separate from one another. You do not need to write in the first round to write for the second, and you are not obligated to write for the second round if you write for the first! We will reveal the authors at the end of each individual round!

A more detailed explanation of how our events work can be found on our FAQs page!

For this event, all fics are to be submitted to this AO3 Collection!

A tutorial on how to submit your fics can be found in the first three steps of this post! You do not need to input multiple chapters for this event, but follow the general steps on how to include a fic in our collections! For this event, the collection name is 'TROPED_AtLA'!! If you have any questions, or would like a tutorial specific to this event, let us know, we'd be happy to make one!

TIMELINE

ROUND TWO

R2 Writing Period: September 15th (12:00am EST) - September 21st (03:00am PST / 06:00am EST)

R2 Voting Period: September 22nd (12:00am EST) - September 24th (11:59pm EST)

R2 Winners: September 25th!

*All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless otherwise specified! Times are subject to change due to potential writing extensions.

RULES:

Don’t forget the rules! Please keep to the chosen fandom (Avatar: The Last Airbender), include ALL the tropes, and follow the theme! You will be disqualified if you don’t! 15k word count max! Also, no smut. no incest. no underage. no negativity.

The General Rules for all TROEPD events can be found here and more event-specific rules in the Google Doc can be found here.

LINKS:

The AO3 collection can be found here, and the name of the collection that should be entered when submit your fic is ‘TROPED_AtLA’ !!

AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TROPED_AtLA

Trope/Theme Explanations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRJN5GnEg8CFWbHpF13WKAElb-pOJZEucsEIkwKMRjY/edit

No sign-ups necessary! Follow along here on Tumblr, the TROPED Twitter, or our Discord Server for more information on the event! We will release the prompts in those places and then everyone is free to start writing!!! We are super excited to see what you guys create!

Remember that if you have any questions at all, including whether something would fit our trope requirements, would violate one of the rules, or anything at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us at @dylanobrienisbatman or @thelittlefanpire we are here to help!

#troped: atla #troped minis: atla #troped minis #avatar: the last airbender #avatar: tla #a:tla #atla fanfiction #atla fic #round 2: dystopia

[autumnmobile12]

7 Ways to Introduce the Villain.

1. The Shadow

A lot of series go with the classic 'ominous shadowy figure in the background.' Here's Silco in Arcane. Sinister voice, sinister dude, sinister intent. Boom, you have your villain.

2. The Slow Reveal

Other variations of the 'shadowy figure' in which the series draws out the reveal of the villain. Avatar: The Last Airbender doesn't reveal the Firelord until the final season, but his presence is felt throughout the series. He's always this looming threat whose will is carried out by his underlings. (General Zhao, Azula, etc.)

3. The Fabulous Entrance!

Okay, so we do hear Ragyo on the phone a couple times before they actually show her face, but goddamn, this entrance. It is impressive and terrifying and, it perfectly suits the utter psycho that she is.

There is no normal expression this woman makes when she's 'happy.' She's always smug or angry or annoyed, but this face with her staring, manic eyes and smile still haunts me. Send help.

4. The Sudden Entrance

Shigaraki kinda comes out of nowhere in My Hero Academia. For the first few episodes, its all lighthearted and fun and dealing with Bakugo's BS and then the class heads off on a field trip and suddenly,

"Oh, shit! Plot is happening!"

This series started off with kids learning to be heroes, and now its tragedy and social upheaval and people's lives are in danger.

5. The Incognito Entrance

This is when some random nonthreatening dude/lady just kinda sidles into the plot the be the butt of a joke and later turns out to have been one of the villains.

This scene was so weird. Tyki is just minding his own business, scamming people at cards. Then Allen and Lavi show up looking for their friend (the guy currently being scammed), and even though he recognizes them as exorcists and his enemies, Tyki has to sit there and play it off like he doesn't know jack cause if he does anything, he's gonna blow his cover in front of his human buddies. And then he suffers the indignation of being stripped in a poker game in broad daylight because the main protagonist is absolutely evil with a card deck. And then he just walks away from this like it's a totally normal thing, not even really taking vengeance for it. (He went after Allen, sure, but that was more of a job than any personal vendetta.) He's not the main villain, but I couldn't resist pointing out how bizarre this is.

For those who haven't seen D. Gray Man, the guy in the center is one of the main antagonists, and though this is technically the second time you see him, the first encounter was so short it was practically a cameo and he was a Victorian-era, Dorian Gray dandy gentleman, not this hobo riding a train.

6. The Traitor

Since the Undertaker was more of a neutral party in Black Butler, I don't think he really counts as a traitor. Still, I don't think too many of us were suspecting the morbid jokester Grim Reaper was going to turn out to be a major antagonist later on.

7. The Protagonist

And sometimes the protagonist is the villain!

#villain #arcane netflix #avatar the last airbender #kill la kill #my hero academia #d gray man #black butler #death note #villain trope #silco #ragyo kiryuin #firelord ozai #atla #light yagami #tyki mikk #the undertaker #kuroshitsuji #shigaraki tomura #boku no hero academia #bnha #shitpost #this is an imcomplete list #who'd i miss?

[sapphicyanli]

truly rare netflix w for casting the gayest person in the natla cast as zuko. literally couldnt get any better than this

#BEFORE ANYONE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY I VERY MUCH ACKNOWLEDGE DALLAS LIU IS INDEED IS A GREAT AND HARDWORKING ACTOR THIS IS A JOKE #that being said #THE WAY HE SAID “come slide through the fire nation” ?!?!?!? INSANE FELLA BEHAVIOR RIGHT THERE #ian was SWEATING #the rest of natla cast seeing them flirting in every chance they get: imagine how tired we are🙄😒 #dallas liu #ian ousley #tagging this as #zukka #as well because maybe it will inspire more ppl to eventually write that actors!zukka au we all need😷 #zuko confident gay-sokka panicked gay is also kind of an underrated ish trope #mine #natla #atla #interview #🤨🏳️‍🌈❓

[catgirl-catboy]

Zuko redemption arc this and Zuko redemption arc that,

can we fucking talk about how Sokka handled the sexist character archetype better than 99% of characters wrote a decade later?

His sexism is explained, but never excused. Katara calls him out for his sexism the very first time it is mentioned, which sets the tone for it really well. It was never treated as a fun character quirk.

When he encountered the Kyoshi Warriors, who did his job of defending the homeland but better, he was initially insecure but then decided to learn from them. Only then does he get bitches.

He wears Kyoshi makeup with honor after only a few hangups, and it is treated with respect (for the most part.)

He's contrasted with more sexist characters like Pakku in later episodes.

After his character development, he's shown having not traditionally masculine interests, like shopping and art. Its never made a big deal, but its important to me. :)

The only thing I would change about this arc is to not have Aang make the obligatory 2000s "haha! Guy in makeup and a dress" remark and maybe have Suki wait to kiss him in her second episode.

Sokka is a sexist character done right.

#avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #sokka avatar the last airbender #trope talk

[fossilfan39]

Mangy stray cat routinely shows up at my doorstep. Because he’s attention seeking.

#jetko #well maybe I just enjoy coloring injury #how long before I work my way through all the tropes and start hsving to use my own imagination #scaryyyy #atla #zuko #jet atla #avatar the last airbender #fabi art