Finally! The next chapter of Dear Fellow Traveller is out!

Depression has been kicking my ass and it's made creating really difficult but I managed to somehow get through this chapter. 😭😭😭

“Happy New Year To Me…I Guess”

“He returned back to the precinct out of pure habit. As he mounted the stairs all he could think of was how this past year had been truly the worst he’d ever had. His exes getting together, having to escort that bratty prince, Beifong breathing down his neck,  the battle with Kuvira, months of physical therapy after the burns he endured. Now here he was on New Year's Eve alone, at work, single.”

This image sums up the fic pretty well

My mildly nsfw Linzolt, Weilin, Mako torture fic to start 2024 on the right note, enjoy. Love y’all. This is a late Christmas gift for @wilcze-kudly

Here have some “Art”

home is wherever i’m with you 

Bolin's dropping in to Zaofu long with Mako, and it awakens something in him with Wei that he thought he would never have.

There’s this moment and it isn’t like on the screens where everything stops and slows, time is still going and Bolin’s eyes go over Wei’s deep green eyes, transforming into ivy green in the darkness. The crook of his shoulder. His messy hair. The muscles in his biceps, Bolin swears that a sculpture made them. This man is such a work of art, transforming into soft marble under the moon.

My grandmother said be the change you want to see in the world. I'm not sure if she was talking about writing fanfiction for my new favourite rare pair but I have to assume she was.

Tw for mention of injury

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It had been years since Bolins last attempt at metalbending. Sure, in his younger years he desperately wanted to be able to bend metal, but after discovering his lavabending developing that had been his primary focus for three years, and afterwards there never seemed to be much point with Wei nearly always by his side ready for any metalbending tasks they came across. Now, with his hands cuffed behind his back and Wei drifting in and out of consciousness he was cursing that decision.

Wei gave a grumble of pain from where his head rested in Bolins lap. "Hey" Bolin gave a weak smile. "How are you feeling?"

Wei slowly looked around thier small cell with unfocused eyes "How did we get here?"

"We were jumped." Bolin explained for the third time in what felt like days, but was probably only an hour or two.

"Oh." Wei slowly laid back down on Bolins lap. Bolin gently rubbed his arm as best he could with his hands behind him, trying not to show how worried he was. Head injuries varied in severity from "eh, you'll be fine" to "get medical attention NOW" and he knew that memory issues and difficulty staying awake were symptoms of the latter category. He really needed to get Wei out of here.

Bolin dipped his head and closed his eyes. He rested the tips of his fingers against the metal of his cuffs and focused. He knew that metalbenders didn't really bend metal, but instead the tiny impurities within the metal. Theoretically he should be able to do this. Theoretically.

Bolin thought of Suyin and what she had told him when teaching him seismic sense, that the first earthbenders, the badgermoles were blind and navigated by hearing and feeling and that sight was the least important sense in earthbending. He blocked out everything but him and the cuffs, feeling for the earth.

Bolin thought of Lin who so fully embodied the spirit of earthbending. To be stubborn and unmoving. To know that the earth would move because I told it to move. He pushed all other possibilities out of his mind. This metal was going to bend and he was the one who was going to bend it.

Bolin thought of Toph, without sight, but able to see so much more than anyone else. How she saw only the truth because your eyes can lie to you, but the earth will never lie. Bolin slowly began to tap on the cuffs with his finger tips.

Finally, Bolin thought of Wei. His boyfriend. The man he wanted to spend his life with. The first person he had ever loved like this. He thought of every moment they had ever spent together, from that first attempt at metalbending in zaofu, to rescuing him from kuvira, bringing down kuviras enormous mecha suit together, confessing thier love to each other and all of thier travels together for the past few years. He thought of Weis laugh, the way he always jumped to protect the ones he loved, his fearlessness in almost any situation.

Bolin focused as hard as he could on finding the impurities within the cuffs as he tapped on them. Tap. Tap. Tap. There! Slightly below his left pinky finger was a nugget of earth. It was tiny, a quarter of a grain of sand but it was earth. Just below it was another chunk, half the size again, and then another, and another. Bolin reached for every one of the pieces of earth and, pouring all of his love for Wei into his strength he pulled.

The cuffs dropped with a clatter. Bolin stared at them, dumbfounded for a few seconds before shaking himself out of it and moving to gather Wei in his arms.

"Guess what." he whispered into his boyfriends ear as he stood "I can metalbend."

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This fic has been kicking my butt so I gave one of my characters a head injury as punishment (plus I hate writing dialogue so...)

It was supposed to be a cute story of Bolin bending metal for the first time and getting happy and excited about it. Somehow it turned into a study of his relationship with various members of the Beifong family. Honestly no idea how that happened

Why must I watch a show and end up shipping the most obscure shit??? They were together for 3 fucking seconds

So, I'm Weilin trash now. And I low key want more Ao3 fanfics specifically wei just amazed over bolin lava bending :I *squints at the 28 fanfics*

Why is that anon coming after you 😭 you don’t head canon every queer ship in LOK having kids! Hell sometimes your hc aren’t even about canonical queer characters. Just bc you said korrasami, wuko, or Mako would want kids in your head canon doesn’t make it heteronormative. A single adoptive parent and same sex couples actively go AGAINST traditional heteronormative family structure. You literally addressed that you know not every queer person wants kids and it’s just your interpretation of what the characters might want. Jesus Christ… sorry you have to deal with this. People on the internet see 2+2 and get 5. Stay safe out there and just to let you know your hc are much appreciated.

No every queer ship now has children. Kyalin? Adopting 60 children now. Makroh raise kids from on street, like they just stand there and the kids come out of the sewers and they scoop them up. Weilin go pray with the spirits and Bolin gets pregnant. Yep all are getting kids.

Like I’ve never liked ‘Lin gets pregnant with Tenzin’s children’ or ‘Lin adopts a child’ or ideas like that. I don’t like forcing children on someone who doesn’t want children. I like her becoming a mentor figure or maybe fostering teen Mako and Bolin in a modern AU as an unexpected happenstance but like, I don’t like the whole ‘she needs to be a MOTHER’ thing that often comes up in fanfics or AUs or whatever.

Like you said, a queer family adopting and fostering children or having a biological child raised by two same sex parents is pretty queer. That child’s life will be shaped by having two queer parents. Not heteronormative.

Thanks for your words anon, everyone else has been supportive, I think it’s one anon projecting.

Weilin fanfic is coming soon on Ao3...

A Fateful Encounter - a Weilin fic

Decided I’d take on a fun little project during spring break. This is gonna be a three part fic showcasing some fluff and shameless smut. Hope you guys enjoy it!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3538232/chapters/7786739

This is how gay ppl flirt right

Wei balked. - Absolutely not. I sound like a screeching dodo when I sing. - he protested, slightly exaggerating with the hope Bolin would just drop it. - Not that you're much better. - he couldn't help slyly squeezing in an inflammatory cheap shot. Hearing Bolin heave a flabbergasted gasp was rewarding in and of itself, but Wei found himself utterly thrilled when the lavabender actually rose to the bait. Leaning a little closer, practically looming over Wei, a few glistening droplets of sweat clinging to his right temple. But Wei was hardly intimidated, anticipation and thrill swirling inside his stomach. He gulped down the hot air inside the car through an entranced smile, a foretaste of the coming flare-up. - Excuse you, my singing voice is absolutely fine! Varrick says that I have a solid tenor!- - Uhuh. - Wei crammed as much condescension into his voice as humanly possible, leaning back in his seat, delighted to see Bolin squirming. The heat clung to their faces like thick red paint or candle wax. - And Varrick is, of course, known worldwide for his honesty. - - Hey! - Bolin's elbow gently thumped against Wei's ribcage as the lavabender staggered out a disbelieving laugh. The jarringly bright sun was so much more bearable when reflected in Bolin's verdant eyes. -I don't think you're exactly an expert.- - Neither is Varrick, doofus. - - Varrick can recognise TALENT.- - So can I. I just don't see any here.-

Every day I scour the entirety of the internet for more Weilin content and every day I am severely disappointed. I am pretty sure I have written the longest fanfic for this pairing on the internet, which isn't saying much though, because there are only like 40 but I still feel very pathetic. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DEEP THIS SHIP HAS SUNK ITS CLAWS INTO ME!

It has SO MUCH POTENTIAL but goddammit I hate being so attached to it, because thwre are barely any people out there actually interested in it. There is no ship, there are only loose planks of wood floating in the ocean.

Weilin Sports!AU. Chapter 1 is up!

Hope you guys will check out the first installment of my newest fic. 

Play Hard! by wei-is-bae(TheRenegadeAuthor)

Some Weilin Fluff...

In the spirit of the holiday season, I wrote a little holiday themed fluff for my fellow Weilin shippers. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Gift Giving by wei-is-bae(TheRenegadeAuthor)