Thanks To That Anon Too Because I Absolutely Love This Fic. Also The Snippets Are So Good I Love Toph

Thanks to that anon too because I absolutely love this fic. Also the snippets are so good I love toph and her badgermole family!

Hello! I’m the person who left a comment of your fic “Avatar: Journey of the Blind Bandit” under the name annabel and I wanted to first of all thank you for that awesome au and ask for maybe a snippet or an update?? The ending was such a cliffhanger it’s been driving me insane.

This……is the nicest thing I’ve ever seen—

Thank you so much, Anon!!

Truth be told, I haven’t thought about this fic seriously for a while. And whenever I did, I just wanted to dig a hole for myself to hide in. I started plotting out and writing a new version—which is the reason why the summary of the fic says it’s being rewritten—of this, and I haven’t had the grit to continue but you might have just given me that hah!!

I can offer you a snippet of the newly-created prologue of the new version of Journey—which I will probably retitle if I’m being honest LOL—and I really hope you like it. I want to fix the fic in a way that it reflects my improvement in writing throughout the years. What you’ve read in the published version will likely change quite a bit, but the skeleton of the story itself will remain, so I’m very nervous and excited about the new version.

Hope you enjoy and thank you SO much for reading and being so nice 😭

On a particularly dull day, Toph waited for her parents to fall asleep after they had their nightly tea, and she took off to the only place she knew was her sanctuary.

In her cave that evening, she beat on a rock that deserved none of her anger to make herself feel better. It wasn’t working as well as she’d hoped, judging by the burning-hot resentment she was feeling in her chest.

Toph had discovered the cave around three years ago, after a particularly painful fight with her parents. She’d found a way to slip out of the house’s basement, aimlessly stumble out of the estate, and notice a cave she never had after some time walking. She’d counted thirty-six paces from the Beifong estate.

Then, she met three monstrosities she now called friends.

Friends, in fact, who were judging her harshly at this very moment in time as she beat the pulp out of an innocent rock.

“Shut up,” she muttered breathlessly at the scrutinizing snort of one of them. She looped off the side of the boulder and sent it flying who knew where. “I wouldn’t know how to do this if it weren’t for you, so you don’t get to talk.”

The badgermole snorted again and bent the rock she was working on into the ground as if to tell her that it was enough.

Grumbling unhappily, she wiped her dirty hands off her silk nightgown. “You’d want to hit something, too, if you weren’t allowed to live.”

Thanks again, seriously. I don’t think people understand what it means to fic authors to get feedback and commentary on their works, and for me, this came at a time when I’ve been doubting everything I write or put out lol. Imposter syndrome for the win 😔✊🏻

I’m going to get going on this fic, I promise!!

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