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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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Sokka has a new neighbor.
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Maybe it was because he’d been envisioning a big, big person that the person in front of him was such a shock.
His mouth opened—closed—opened again.
“Yes?” said the decidedly not big person.
Sokka breathed out a gusty breath, and tagging along at the end was a high-pitched, barely audible “Hi.” Embarrassment fought to overpower his absolute surprise. “I, um… it’s—your, uh… it’s really, really…”
He snapped his mouth shut before any more incomprehensible sounds came out. The problem with Sokka was that he was a mess—a stupid, stupid, embarrassing mess—around beautiful women, and the woman in front of him was gorgeous.
Oh, this was bad.
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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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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
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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
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disgustingly (complimentary) sweet wildehopps
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no thing defines a man like love that makes him soft by twinkletoph for fourthtimesthecharm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 May 2026
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“You can be so damn reckless!” he shouted, voice contained, but his anger, not so much.
She shrugged, then immediately regretted it when pain flared along her side. “I’ve been called worse.”
His next step was abrupt, closing some of the distance but not all of it. Still not close enough. “It’s not funny, Toph.”
[or: Toph doesn't consider that maybe Sokka actually loves her too.]
Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
05 May 2026
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for when you want to read about t+s working through their insecurities like adults 🥰 because they love each other!! and in the end that love is worth a little vulnerability!!
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Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
09 Apr 2026
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Zootopia and murder mysteries? What more could a girl ask for!
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“Why do I keep doing this?”
“Doing what, big brother?”
“This,” he said, frustratedly. “With her! It's like, she slaps me, and I turn the other cheek for some more slapping.”
“You know why. But it’s not something that should make you give up. If anything, it should make you love her harder.”
Sokka scoffed. “Why should I? It’s not like she's open to any of it. She never has been. She’d probably hate harder loving and leave me quicker.”
At this, Katara immediately shook her head in disagreement. “Believe it or not, Toph is capable of fear.”
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Bookmarked by fourthtimesthecharm
25 Dec 2025
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If you want to understand how Sokka and Toph share the same deep-seated fear of loving the other too hard and thus are never willing to express that love, this is THE fic to read