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Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato, Bolin/Opal (Avatar), Asami Sato & Yasuko Sato, Bolin & Korra & Mako (Avatar), Opal & Asami Sato, Pema/Tenzin (Avatar), Lin Beifong/Kya (Avatar), Lin Beifong/Kya II, Korra/Mako (Avatar), Ikki & Jinora & Meelo & Rohan (Avatar) Characters: Asami Sato, Opal (Avatar), Korra (Avatar), Bolin (Avatar), Mako (Avatar), Yasuko Sato, Lin Beifong, Pabu (Avatar), Pema (Avatar), Meelo (Avatar), Tenzin (Avatar), Kya II (Avatar), Bumi II (Avatar) Additional Tags: Korrasami is Canon, Korrasami Anniversary, Slow Burn, Eventual Korra/Asami Sato, POV Multiple, Alternate Universe, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Christmas Fluff, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Mental Health Issues, How Do I Tag, Help, Korrasami Week 2023 (Avatar), Korrasami Week 2022 (Avatar), Snow Day, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Mutual Pining Summary:

***UPDATED SUMMARY***

'If Only In My Dreams' is coming out of hibernation, kids. Stay tuned!

A Christmas time meet-cute, centred around a magical night of first encounters for Asami, Opal, Korra, Bolin, and Mako, as they settle into an evening of carol singing on a snowy night at RCU.

TW: mention of mental health struggles throughout

#legend of korra #korra x asami #korrasami #korra #TLOK #TLOK Fanfic #fanfic #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 korrasami #asami #Lin Beifong #kya #kyalin

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Because the “shrodinger’s queerbait” nonsense will never go away, indulge me an analogy (and a long post).

wlw ships are the “made from scratch” cake in a world where we only ever expect cake mix from the box.

Say you have a show where, in the first interaction between a male and female character, there is a red box. It could be a Betty Crocker box of cake mix. Because all it takes is just one smile — one wink — one raised eyebrow— and the fans don’t question it. We’re clearly making a cake here. The box is red.

Meanwhile, you have two female characters building their own relationship that have elements that could build to romance. There are eggs in the fridge. A few more episodes, there’s flour in the pantry. Sugar. Baking powder. Queer fans start whispering…we could be making a cake here. Other fans scoff “you will read into anything. They’re just eggs! Everyone has eggs in their fridge!” Maybe so, maybe not. They are written off as discrete ingredients, nothing to see here.

That red box is still sitting in the pantry. Obviously we’re going with that one, and it’s definitely cake mix. That guy and girl stood next to each other again.

The wlw relationship is now full-on batter. It was a cake recipe all along, but it’s not baked yet. The crowd that wrote off every ingredient is now saying the writers are just going to “squander” that box that could be ready-made cake mix or that they’re being “forced” to bake a cake with the very ingredients the writers deliberately bought and put in their pantry.

Now it’s in the oven, the cake is baking. That crowd will still insist it’s forced, or maybe its actually something else, or it’s rushed, or it’s pandering. Whether the writers painstakingly built a pantry to make the cake they truly wanted or they were cultivating good ingredients and realized they had the fixings for a more decadent cake and went there, it doesn’t matter. It’s still a recipe. One that fans who always have to piece together ingredients had hoped for or saw from the get-go, despite being scoffed at and disparaged. Just because that crowd didn’t see (or refused to see) those ingredients as part of a whole, doesn’t make it any less of a recipe.

And wlw fans shouldn’t have to keep writing essays to demonstrate that the wlw “cake” has all the ingredients every cake mix does, or keep pointing out that fans were ready to believe a cake was being baked when they saw a nondescript box, but that they’ll do anything to discredit or doubt the cake from scratch that’s now cooling off on the counter.

It is partly a function of heteronormativity from the audience in immediately seeing romance in any whisper of interaction between m/f characters and passing off all charged interactions between female characters are sisterly or platonic. And it also comes from writers, who are either being cautious so as not to spook corporate overlords or audiences, or who are preserving plausible deniability.

To take the analogy further, box cake mix is fine! It works! It is, practically speaking, what a lot of folks know by default. I thought I was a Duncan Hines girl once myself. Vanilla cake mix has the ingredients measured out, it’s a safe bet, it tastes like cake.

But it doesn’t mean every red box is cake mix. And it doesn’t make the cake that had to be pieced together from scratch due to censorship, caution, time, narrative build-up, what-have-you, any less of a cake.

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CHAPTER 6

Korrasami & Bopal in the SAME CHAPTER…enjoy kiddos

#korrasami #ao3 #asami sato #korra #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #lin beifong #atla #wlw #avatar #bolin #mako #naga #opal beifong #relatable #ao3 korrasami

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CHAPTER 5 - If Only In My Dreams

A Korrasami Romance (with heavy dollops of Bopal)

#korrasami #ao3 #asami sato #korra #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #lin beifong #atla #wlw #avatar #bolin #mako #naga #opal beifong #relatable #bopal #ao3 korrasami

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Welding Lessons

#ooft

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😍❤

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Feeling the January blues? Give this wintery, snowy, Korrasami meet cute a read and let it warm your chilly cockles xo

#korrasami #ao3 #asami sato #korra #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #lin beifong #atla #wlw #naga #opal beifong

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CHAPTER 4 - ‘If Only In My Dreams’ by star_crossedLoKer on Ao3

#korrasami #ao3 #asami sato #korra #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #lin beifong #atla #wlw #opal beifong #bolin #mako #pema #tenzin

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Here’s chapter 3 again kids to refresh before chapter 4 hits next!

#korrasami #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #korra #asami sato #ao3 #lin beifong #wlw #avatar #atla

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Asami: I need you

Korra: For?

Asami: Ever

Korra: *voice breaking* Oh, okay

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Finally done! 🥲

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I have been inspired by “Adrift” by @beifongnation to draw some Vacation Lin. Trying out new styles. There will be more.

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#korrasami #lok #tlok #ao3 fanfic #korra #asami sato #ao3 #lin beifong #wlw #avatar #atla

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato, Korra & Asami Sato, Korra & Naga (Avatar), Naga & Asami Sato Characters: Korra (Avatar), Asami Sato, Naga (Avatar), Opal (Avatar) Additional Tags: Meet-Cute, Korrasami is Canon, Alternate Universe, Non Benders (Avatar), Fluff, Light Angst, Comfort, First Meetings, POV Multiple, Snow Day, Awkward Flirting, One Shot, Slow Burn, How Do I Tag, Minor Bolin/Opal, Swearing Summary:

Two strangers - one holding charcuterie, the other a Samoyed, walk down the same street. Wait, isn’t this the start of a joke or something?

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato, Bolin/Opal (Avatar), Opal/Asami Sato, Asami Sato & Yasuko Sato Characters: Asami Sato, Opal (Avatar), Korra (Avatar), Bolin (Avatar), Mako (Avatar), Hiroshi Sato, Yasuko Sato, Lin Beifong Additional Tags: Korrasami is Canon, Korrasami Anniversary, Slow Burn, Friendship, Eventual Korra/Asami Sato, POV Multiple, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - College/University, Grief/Mourning, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Christmas Fluff, Christmas, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Family Dynamics Summary:

A Christmas Korrasami Meet-Cute, centred around a magical night of first encounters and carol singing (with a healthy dollop of Bublé on the side).

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato, Bolin/Opal (Avatar), Opal/Asami Sato, Asami Sato & Yasuko Sato, Korra/Mako (Avatar), Bolin/Korra/Mako (Avatar) Characters: Asami Sato, Opal (Avatar), Korra (Avatar), Bolin (Avatar), Mako (Avatar), Hiroshi Sato, Yasuko Sato, Lin Beifong Additional Tags: Korrasami is Canon, Korrasami Anniversary, Slow Burn, Friendship, Eventual Korra/Asami Sato, POV Multiple, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - College/University, Grief/Mourning, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Christmas Fluff, Christmas, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Family Dynamics, Past Relationship(s) Summary:

A Christmas Korrasami Meet-Cute, centred around a magical night of first encounters and carol singing (with a healthy dollop of Bublé on the side).

#korrasami #legend of korra #asami x korra #ao3 #ao3 korrasami #lok #tlok korra #tlok #lin beifong #asami sato #korra #tlok fanfic #korrasami fanfic