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House of Stone: the Journey by fourthtimesthecharm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Jul 2026
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For the first time in Toph's life, she finds herself free: free from her parents' expectations, free from the stifling rules of noble society, free from the relationships which bound her to her home.
But with that freedom comes complications she never could have anticipated.
Now Toph must set out on the journey that will change everything, from the path of her future to the people she calls friends. And maybe, in the process, she can even find a place to call home.
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- Part 2 of House of Stone
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House of Stone: the Legend by fourthtimesthecharm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 May 2026
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Ten years ago, the Avatar asked Toph Beifong to run away from home to become his earthbending teacher: she said no.
Now, at the age of twenty-two, Toph has carefully crafted her life into the best she can make it under the suffocating watch and heavy-handed input of her parents. It's not ideal, engaging in the subterfuge that makes her desires attainable, but it works.
Or rather, it works until—after the past and the present collide in a chance meeting that tips the scales on Toph's artfully balanced life—it suddenly doesn't.
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- Part 1 of House of Stone
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Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe Sokka just has a new obsession. Maybe he’s just an idiot.
Or maybe… maybe there’s more to this thing than meets the eye. Especially for Toph.
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Transparencies by fourthtimesthecharm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jan 2026
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love is never lost, it just changes: Hakoda sees it again, and again, and again—parallels across time.
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A Prologue (of Sorts) by fourthtimesthecharm for twinkletoph
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
06 Dec 2025
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Could she do this again? The long months, the recovery, the exhaustion. The never-ending days, from one thankless job to another. The last of her scarce free time sucked away.
A crack appeared in the shock, wide enough to let a glimpse of despair peek through, a moment small and sharp that gave way to the more even keel of resignation.
It didn’t matter.
What would he say?
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Toph has some news for Sokka.
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Unmoored by fourthtimesthecharm
Fandom Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Sep 2024
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Life goes on, even as the world ends and begins again.
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Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
30 Jun 2026
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I’ll never get enough of post-astrophage earth, especially epistolary. A beautiful, hopeful read as Grace’s students learn about their saving grace.
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"I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."
"Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"
"Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.
"Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."
"Let's not joke."
or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller
Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
26 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
grace and stratt needed to be best friends forever
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
25 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
is Andy Weir ghostwriting this? everything I’ve ever needed and more in a PHM follow-up, including: social media, eridians on earth, a host of amazing original characters, and plenty of Grace & Rocky trauma
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She falls asleep on him, nose twitching as she snores, clutching his tail to her chest like he’s the small, fuzzy, huggable thing. He doesn’t dare put his arm around her. He’s not dense— he knows what this would be if this were anyone else, if this were a cute girl he’d picked up at a bar that he’d wined and dined and cuddled with all night on the couch. He’d wake her with a kiss and see where things take them, if this were some girl.
But it’s Judy, and Nick’s just happy she’s here, so he doesn’t wake her at all.
(Nick thinks he's writing down observations about the most interesting mammal in his life. What he's really doing is falling head over tail in love.
And he's going to be annoying about it, because he's a bastard.)
Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
13 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
truly the sweetest, most in-character wildehopps with the perfect level of devious, thinks-he’s-cool-but-he’s-actually-a-big-dork Nick. ugh, my HEART
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"This isn’t—it’s not a date," Judy argued. "Nick’s not flirting with me. Buying a drink doesn’t mean anything.”
“Maybe once means nonsense. Maybe even twice.” Nibbles tipped her drink back toward the bar, where Nick waited for her drink. “But no beaver ever brought me wood unless she intended to bring me home that night. And that fox spoils you daily.”
or, nick makes a habit of spoiling judy (it takes her a few tries to figure out why)
Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
13 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
disgustingly (complimentary) sweet wildehopps