8 Works by oldpotatoe
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[Time passes oddly. Between one second and the next, Sokka has the Fire Lord pinned to the wall with his hands around the bastard’s throat. Golden eyes (one gold eye, his mind whispers) widen in shock.
“Sokka?” he chokes out. And then he smiles.
What the fuck?
“Sokka, I—”
Sokka slams his head against the wall, once, twice, and the smile wipes off his face. Good.
“What,” Sokka bites out, “have you done to my sister?”]
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An injury leaves Sokka with amnesia. His last memory is of the failed invasion, of leaving his father behind in enemy territory on the Day of Black Sun. Of hopelessness. Rage.
But then he wakes up, and the war is over. Suddenly, he must come to terms with the fact that years have passed, and that he's somehow the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the Fire Nation. He is also supposedly friends with banished-Prince-turned-Fire-Lord Zuko, of all people. Close friends.
Yeah, nah.
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quick chapter note summary of Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
(rough, will be edited as the story moves along)
currently up to date as of chapter 24
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the louder i call, the faster it runs by oldpotatoe
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Dec 2021
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[“—because then you’ll never actually be disappointed?”
MJ wonders, briefly, if the tap-dancers prancing about her grave are doing so in lead shoes, and whether they'll end up wearing through the dirt and squelching across her corpse. At this rate, seems likely.
Do I know you, she wants to ask.
She’s sure the answer is no. What else can it be, right? She’s sure she’d have remembered him. There’s something about this boy—about Peter Parker—that feels different than the average customer, the average classmate, the average New Yorker. There’s something in his eyes that speaks of knowing. She’d have remembered that.
They can’t have met before. She’s sure. She’s sure.]
Two ships in the night. How long, before they collide?
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[“Morning, sweetheart.”
Sokka’s gaze stays clouded, like he hasn’t even heard. Zuko sighs, gently running his hand along Sokka’s temple.
So, it’s going to be one of those days, then.]
or: "forever" is a pretty word. it was never theirs to keep
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crowned by an overture bold by oldpotatoe for agentcalliope
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Nov 2020
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The crack echoes through the room. His knees hit the ground in prostration, in penance.
(His mouth runs with warm iron. It will soon become a familiar taste.)
“Pathetic,” says his father from high on above. “I should have drowned you at birth.”
I’m sorry, he thinks, but doesn’t dare say.
He knows it would only come out wrong.
The first time he tastes the back of his father’s hand, he is five. It is not the last.
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Katara raised an eyebrow as she too stood up, brushing sand off her tunic.
“Zuko? Voluntarily feeding Appa? This I gotta see.”
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how the Gaang accidentally eavesdrops on Zuko’s therapy session with Appa (this goes about as well as expected) -
not the most ideal situation by oldpotatoe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Jun 2018
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Peter feels like he's finally got a grasp on this whole superhero shebang. He'd almost forgotten what life had been like before he'd been bitten by that Oscorpian spider.
Until a seemingly run-of-the-mill battle goes wrong, stripping Peter of all his powers and making him...normal. Well, as normal as he'd ever been. But it's not all clumsy feet and general un-stickiness ("Where'd my abs go!" he sob-screamed, poking his bellybutton despairingly), as more danger looms on the horizon.
For now, it'll honestly be a God-danged miracle if he can remember where he stashed his old glasses.
[Abandoned WIP.]
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anything for a klondike by oldpotatoe
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe
15 Jul 2017
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mj will literally fight you over ice cream. peter learns this the hard way.