Katara pulled the red cape over herself like a blanket and got as close to Aang as she could, so she wouldn’t fall over the narrow edge of the bed he’d left her, in case she turned around through her sleep. But it had to do. She let her hand run down his cheek one last time before she rested it above his heart. He was back. After weeks of care and observing him breathe and lie completely still, he was finally awake and moving about. She still couldn’t believe it. Katara thanked the spirits for bringing him back to her, to all of them, to the rest of the world. She didn’t know how much longer they.. Correction, how much longer she would’ve survived without him. As the corners of her eyes became misty, she no longer had to hold back her emotions. She wept silently, without him or anyone else seeing or hearing. The only proof being the small damp spot on the pillow, where her teardrops ended up by rolling down the side of her cheek or dripping over the crook of her nose… (cont.)

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I did a quick drawing of my favourite scene from “Awakening and healing”, my latest fanfic (please read it, it’s full of tender moments like this one). 🥺 💞

I really should do more drawings like this one, since I find that when I sketch and colour things in the heat of the moment and my perfectionism doesn’t get in the way (i.e. I don’t take like 3-4 hours to draw neat lineart or proper shadows), the end result looks a whole lot better and much less.. forced, I’d say. I often like these pieces more than the ones I’ve spent countless hours working on.

I’d like to dedicate this one to @thecaroliner, because she was tired of crying a little while ago (2 Tuesdays, to be exact, I can probably imagine why) and I took a note in capital letters:

DRAW KATARA AND AANG SLEEPING NEXT TO EACH OTHER FROM LATEST FANFIC KATARA IS CRYING BUT SHE’S SMILING

So I wouldn’t forget and do this asap when I was in the right mood (because I knew I wanted to illustrate this bittersweet moment, where Katara isn’t afraid to show her vulnerable side after everything they’d been through). But I had to finish another beautiful masterpiece for a competition before I could do that, so I finally got around to drawing it this weekend. Well.. I hope you all like it.

Twitter | my art / sketches

Thought I’d post Fleabag AU Kataang here too from @littlerosette’s AMAZING fanfic that will rip you to shreds 😭

Ok serious question, what are the best Kataang fan fictions you have ever read? Like I’m talking about stuff that wowed on depth it had, made you think “these guys literally invented love”, made you fell in love with their dynamic, or made you FEEL THE EMOTIONS.

Reunion by SweetAvidyaJones: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4300749/chapters/9746826

Summary: Katara and Aang have not seen each other for more than four years. Because reunion stories are fun. And they are even more fun when they are smutty.

Genuinely one of my favorite fics of all time. The smut is fantastic but the story itself and the emotion and tenderness is ........ ultimate chef's kiss

I read like. A novel-length fic on DeviantArt a couple years ago that was fantastic but I cannot for the life of me remember the title and all I remember about the story is the plot twist so💀 it was set in the immediate-ish aftermath of the show tho with the whole gaang living together in ba sing se

Have to plug @dukeofdelirium's recent kataang fic, it was so emotional and it handled the airbender genocide so beautifully. Honestly required reading for any Aang fan in general.

Also @littlerosette is churning out some phenomenal kataang fics rn, I'm not caught up but I need to be soon bc she is one of the most phenomenal fic writers ever. her eremika enemies to lovers witch/witchhunter fic is the best e2l I've ever read, and that includes like, outside of fanfic

🥺👉🏻👈🏻 thank you for recommending my fic bestie!

Ok serious question, what are the best Kataang fan fictions you have ever read? Like I’m talking about stuff that wowed on depth it had, made you think “these guys literally invented love”, made you fell in love with their dynamic, or made you FEEL THE EMOTIONS.

strangers by sycamore17 on ao3:

To Build A New Silhouette by accomontater on ao3:

you cut through all the noise by wanderinghooves on ao3:

Different by odae on ao3:

all of these fics changed the trajectory of my life, and i still think about each one to this day. i don’t read a lot of kataang-centric fanfic; my personal preference is gen fics focusing on the found family with a side of the canon pairings. so these are the kataang-centric fics that have stuck by me over the years. @thekataang-fanfiction-archive is also a great resource!

as always, everyone please feel free to reblog this with your additions!

Without Water, Midnight Meditations and Drag You Down all by chocomd on AO3

Exchange of Wrath by ArmageddonGeneration on AO3

and I will shamelessly plug my own kataang one shot that I spent multiple days writing lmfao

say a solemn prayer

pairing: Aang x Katara

word count: 7,365

A/N: so I haven't written a kataang fanfic in about 13 years, now, but with ATLA's continued renaissance, I felt compelled to write this. I did do a lot of research into different cultural burials, but I only took inspirations to write this. the idea behind this one shot was that I've always been so sad thinking about how Aang never gets to perform a burial for his people given he doesn't have the time in the canon show, so that was why I wanted to write this. also, I love kataang and they were legitimately the first pairing I ever actively shipped so writing this was so fun (and sad) for me.

summary: As a little girl, she had believed in the Avatar as one believed in a deity. Something not of this world, able to quake the fabric of the earth with a single step. The Avatar existed in her mind as something abstract and removed, cold like the moonlight that gave her bending its power and blinding like the tundra that stretched endlessly beyond the walls of their village.

It hadn’t been until Aang had crumpled at her feet, body crinkling like a leaf against flame and wailing over his people that she had truly thought otherwise.

OR

Katara and Aang travel to the Southern Air Temple after the war to perform a funeral for his deceased people.

Can't wait to read this later!!!!!!!

hope you enjoy bestie 🙏🏻