Tag: midrecs

do you have any ObiWan recs? Because I l’ve read ReEntry and all of akathecentimetre’s but I’m at a loss for other good prequel based ones

gffa:

Oh, dear anon, you don’t know what kind of paralysis this gave me for a good solid minute, because I HAVE SO VERY MANY, HOW CAN I POSSIBLY NOT GIVE YOU LITERALLY 200 RECS?  There are so so many good prequels writers out there LET ME YELL AT YOU ABOUT SOME QUALITY FIC.

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Fire and Ice by Yesac is the fic that really got me into prequels fic and is an incredible story about the duel on Mustafar going differently, where Anakin wins and basically takes Obi-Wan and Padme hostage, while he’s this unstable font of power, who actually has to learn some really hard lessons before he can really start to earn his way back to the side of good.  It has some of the best Obi-Wan characterization in any fic I’ve read, the balance of his care for Anakin versus staying true to his morals and the sheer solidity of who he is is *kisses fingers* perfection.

✦ starbird by imaginarykat is one of the best characterizations for Obi-Wan I’ve ever read.  wicked thing tends to be more popular (and is also wonderful) but for my money, starbird is the one that really helped me get Obi-Wan as a character, in addition to having some of the most sharply hilarious moments ever.  You really feel the weight of Obi-Wan’s presence and character in this one.

✦ Equinox by lilyconrad is gorgeous all the way around!  Even if Sith!Obi-Wan isn’t usually your thing, I would gently encourage giving this one a shot anyway, because it’s not really about Obi-Wan falling into darkness, it’s about Obi-Wan, but it’s not actually Obi-Wan himself, and it’s complicated, but it gets at the heart of the character, while still showing how much of the light he is.  It’s a deliciously lush gothic horror story + his relationship with Anakin that explores who they both are and has some truly stellar smut.  I love all of Lily’s stuff, she writes a lot of Obi-Wan’s character, so you can pick up anything by her!

✦ Cataclasm by dendral is amazing as well, it’s a story where Obi-Wan is whammied with some extra Force visions and so he has to walk away from everything he knows to go do some Force-related shit, but he remains so very much himself (and such a Jedi, in such a beautifully told way) and there’s worldbuilding and plot and it’s just gorgeous. someday when i’m gone away we’ll be all okay is also stellar and made me cry the kind of tears where my throat hurt from the lump in it and yet it’s perfect for the characters.  (It’s deathfic, but worth it, imo!)

✦ I really love panharmonium’s fics as well, who hasn’t written much, but always has such clear affection for the world and the characters!  The Mathematics of Repair is probably my favorite, it’s sparkling and wonderful just-post-TPM early days of Obi-Wan & Anakin’s relationship!

✦ The Living Force; Parables for Padawans by gloriousclio is this really stunning fairy tale-like exploration of Obi-Wan and the Jedi, not just feelings but beautiful wordcraft, too.

✦ Smitty has written three STELLAR fics about Obi-Wan and Anakin’s early days and what’s amazing to me is that they were written in NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE and yet utterly NAILED their dynamic! 

The House That Obi-Wan Built + 

Sofa, So Good + House of Cards.  The hilariously written snark + underlying care is spot on to their dynamic.

✦ In all the World by Ammar is an amazing combination of the early days of Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship, worldbuilding, AND case fic!  I remember thinking that this could have been a novel published by Star Wars itself and I would have still been impressed at all the things it absolutely nailed right and built up!

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Supreme Chancellor Kenobi by stonefreeak is another amazing series where it’s not just about Obi-Wan, but he’s a central figure in it!  And even when she writes other characters she does an incredible job with them, like, the Quinlan piece is one of the best I’ve ever read for him!  Basically it’s exactly what it sounds like–Obi-Wan finds himself suddenly elected to the position of Supreme Chancellor, which means everyone now has breathing room to actually FIX THINGS since Palpatine can’t make them worse, but also it’s HILARIOUS because he kind of really hates it, no matter how good he is at it!

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The Dark Path Lit by Sun and Stars by A_Delicate_Fury is a gorgeous time travel fic that does an amazing job with his character.  There are small moments with Luke that just floored me with how many feelings they gave me, but also the fic just nails everything it wants to do.  Plot!  Characterization!  Keeping me on the edge of my seat!  Action scenes!

✦ Soldier, Poet, King by Glare is a fave because I’m weak for Soft Sith stuff in fandom, especially when there’s such a charm to the writing of his and Anakin’s relationship.  I still remember these great scenes of Anakin’s mental landscape form and how Obi-Wan interacted with him, that sense of all that power and Obi-Wan’s hand metaphorically on the back of his neck, their dynamic is so good.  Plus plot!  :D/

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I love everything by Ripki, but you can start with The Atlas of Our Ruin, which is a time-travel fic that forces Obi-Wan and Anakin to really tear into all the difficult stuff from their pasts and spill everything out everywhere, in an attempt to lance the wounds.  It’s a gorgeous look at both their characters and the relationship between them, it’s SO TASTY to read and ouchy-but-cathartic in the best way.

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The Journey of the Lights by Pandora151 is more time travel fic (this fandom is really good at them) that just consumed me while I was reading it, where Qui-Gon is dumped forward into the future and it winds up forcing some things to come to a head early, and there’s a lot of Obi-Wan having to juggle a lot of different relationships and difficulties, and it’s SO GOOD.

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Remedial Jedi Theology by MarbleGlove is the kind of Legends-based (instead of Canon-based) fic that I love to see, because it’s so THOUGHTFUL about the Jedi and their philosophy/theology, as well as some really stellar Obi-Wan characterization.  He’s going through A Lot in this fic, but he faces all of it and himself and his growing understanding of everything (because we never stop growing and understanding) with such cleverness and skill.  There’s some quality Mace moments in the fic as well and some great Anakin stuff, but it’s at its heart an Obi-Wan fic and it was a joy to read.

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Seed by belldreams is one of my favorites for how much heavy lifting it does with Obi-Wan and balancing his feelings with being a Jedi.  There’s such good, thoughtful characterization here, where he really has to look at himself and he really thinks things through, there’s such a solidity to his character here that is SPOT ON.  Also, FUCK OR DIE FIC, we were blessed by this one.  (Upfall also has some really quality Obi-Wan thoughts, too!)

✦ In All But Name by Mirror and Image is one I read early on in fandom, so I can’t speak to how well it would hold up for me re: the relationship with the Jedi (I suspect not as well as my fond memories would suggest) but that’s a personal quibble and the point is that it’s really good Obi-Wan focus and it’s all about him beginning to train Anakin on Naboo instead of going to the Jedi Temple, there’s a whole lot of focus on children’s education, because that’s what the authors teach as well, so this one totally engrossed me.  I remember Coalesced Matter was a good Dooku & Obi-Wan & Anakin fic, too!

✦ In fairness, I haven’t read Reprise by Elfpen yet (I’m hoarding it) but I’ve enjoyed the other fic I’ve read from this author, so I feel confidence giving this a rec.  Plus, it’s all my favorite things, like TIME TRAVELING OBI-WAN.  😀

✦ The Exchange by MissLearn is another one I loved, where it’s centered on the Obi-Wan & Anakin relationship, as they exchange places in time and that forces a lot of things to come out, but it gives me SUCH FEELINGS and the characters around them were written wonderfully and UGH SO GOOD.

✦ Shadows of the Future by

stormqueen873 is one I haven’t read since the very early days of my reading, so I can’t say how it would hold up, but I remember being utterly IN LOVE with this story and how much it fixed.  One of the things that it really did well was building up to the big reveal of Obi-Wan’s time traveling, that the fic really knew how to ratchet up to that moment so that, when it finally happened, I had SO MANY FEELINGS about it.  Plus, lots and lots of warm-hearted, fluffy slice-of-life moments as everything gets fixed!

✦ I like all of anecdotalist’s fics, but starting with Clarity is probably best, it’s a nice long fic that fixes a lot of what goes wrong during ROTS and just utterly engrossed me.  Plot!  Action scenes!  Anakin being a disaster, but listening to people who actually want to help him!  Though, The Fallout of Anakin Skywalker’s Knighting will always have a special place in my heart for making me cry over feelings about Obi-Wan.

✦ Tano and Kenobi by Fireflyfish is time traveling Ahsoka this time, who becomes Obi-Wan’s Master and everything starts slowly shifting towards the right (or sometimes just straight up blowing over to the right) and it’s a DELIGHT to see their dynamic, to see Ahsoka really growing into the role of being a Master, to see Obi-Wan’s relationship with her grow.

✦ The Hand Dealt by not paranoid enough is one I read awhile back, but it’s a Canon Divergent fic, where things go a little differently on Tatooine and it’s sort of a mix between a slow burn and just being about the early days of his relationship with Anakin, and I remember it being REALLY GOOD.

✦ I like everything of Valairy Scot’s that I’ve read, she’s another Legends writer that really is a lot of fun, and I’d say start with A Good Place To Die.  It’s pretty much an entire novel of Obi-Wan whump + recovery, which it REALLY embraces and is super satisfying if you’re into that sort of thing!  Plus, man, Anakin is SPOT ON in this fic, for how deeply he cares, how brilliant he is, but also what a disaster he is when he can’t get out of his own head.  I also remember really liking Our Honored Dead.

✦ I also like wreckageofstars’ stuff as well!  Echoes of Mortis is an ensemble piece, but it’s satisfying for his character and has great plot and action and things diverging from canon in a fascinating way!  Also a HILARIOUSLY GREAT read is Obi-Wan and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad (Life) Day which is just as funny as promised.

I AM MISSING SO MANY GOOD OBI-WAN FICS, BUT THIS WILL GET YOU STARTED.  I LOVE OBI-WAN KENOBI AND I LOVE THIS FANDOM FOR PROVIDING ME WITH GOOD STUFF.

REPRISE IS SO GOOD i was just flailing about it the other day

that, r-e, and ouroboros by bedlamsbard are the three fic series i will read over and over and over again (there are others of course but those are the main ones)

edit: oh oh oh also davaia’s fics, esp patrician. dogmatix & norcumi…jynx…youre right theres too many

The Clone Wars Timeline Be Like

bluemaskedkarma:

yulerule:

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rusc-of-airgead:

obaewankenope:

rusc-of-airgead:

meggory84:

bluemaskedkarma:

meggory84:

markwatnae:

meggory84:

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you know i’m right

#not even wookiepedia has the same dates for things #so i’m just making shit up at this point #because 20bby-19bby is just a giant shitshow

that’s why i’m just fucking making Lucida’s timeline as vague as possible because god i don’t want to deal with any of that shit

How the fuck could Obi-Wan and Anakin be in all those places if all the battles were so close together chronologically?

Space travel isn’t instantaneous

….would you like to see the current document I have going?

*chinhands* I’m not done with it. I’m still trying to compile all the fucking shit they think went down in 22BBY but 21BBY is done.

And then I have to do 20BBY, and 19BBY. 

@bluemaskedkarma, I would fucking *love* to see your timeline if you want to share it, because I’m trying to figure out how long between Ahsoka leaving the Order and Order 66 and I’m weeping into my Scrivener document

Force induced time loop that everyone was too busy to notice. Only answer. Clearly another of the Sith ploys to keep the Jedi off kilter.

Make them so busy they are too busy even living everyday more than once.

Plus then the Sith know what is coming, and the Jedi’s prescience is gonna be useless. What will you being doing tomorrow? Which version of you and which version of tomorrow?! The Force requires you to be more specific

So Ground Hog day Space Edition but without a happy ending? I can dig that

Nonono, cos someone already did that and MY HEART STILL HASNT RECOVERED

Groundhog Day, but the only person that notices the time loop is the groundhog causing it

Wow, just read it. Star Wars and cycles, it fits so well. I know there’s also at least two Mustafar groundhog days fics.

Oh? What kind of premise? *curious*

Obi-Wan relieves Mustafar, of course. 🙂

I found one of them: The Fires

And the other one: Where Have We Come?

I shall read these later with a bottle of wine after this hellscape of a day

Thank you!!

Before the Fall – arashi_ga_mooi_o_furuu – Star Wars – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

tethys-the-aquatic-sea-godness:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars – All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Arcann & Thexan, Arcann/Thexan
Characters: Thexan (Star Wars), Arcann (Star Wars), Vaylin, Valkorion (Star Wars), Senya Tirall
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Though that may change, Rating May Change, Because of Reasons, Yes I do ship the twins together, bad me, Though in this story they have not entered any kind of relationship, Though they should have because then we would have avoided all this mess, So the incest twincest tag doesn’t seem relevant because they don’t actually do anything, Pre-Relationship, Except being dumb idiots in love, Arcann has anger management issues, This may be the worst or best idea I’ve ever had, Jury’s still out, Multiple Outlanders, though it’s not explicitly stated, Anyway I warned y’all, I said “If nobody does it I will”, WELL I DID, DEAL WITH IT, Loss of Limbs, Loss of Control
Series: Part 1 of An Eternal Alliance
Summary:

The Empire did not fall but his World did.

I’m lost somewhere between ‘I regret nothing’ and ‘This is the worst mistake of my life’.

Before the Fall – arashi_ga_mooi_o_furuu – Star Wars – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Twisted Mirror

eirianerisdar:

For @celebrate-the-clone-wars’s 12/9 Writing Wednesday prompt Mirror, Mirror.

Summary: Plainly put – what if, on Mortis, the Son had temporarily caused Obi-Wan to Fall, instead of Anakin?

Much angst, and then lots of fluff! Enjoy.

Cross-posted to FFN

Some small part of Anakin had never gotten over his childhood fear of perfect mirrors.

An irrational a fear as it seemed, it was a simple thing born of circumstance; slaves could ill afford the expense of a clean mirror, and neither the slime-soaked floors of Gardulla’s halls or the scrap heap of Watto’s shop offered anything that reflected light with such perfection as the pure, priceless water in Gardulla’s crystal glasses, which always promised a beating if handled incorrectly. On Tatooine, anyone who owned anything that was mirror-finished proved they had money and power enough to escape the scouring sands of the desert planet. And for Anakin and his mother, those with money and power usually brought tough work and enduring pain.

Even after he became a padawan, and the word Master became something else (despite the stabbing feeling in his gut the first few years he got used to the new application of the word) there would oftentimes be a moment where he would stare in a mirror and see himself, but not himself; a flicker of yellow eyes where there should be blue, accompanied with a shudder of the Force. But then he would blink, and Obi-Wan’s familiar form would be there, reflected behind him, calling him towards another day and another duty.

It was only when war descended on the galaxy that Anakin began to look at the face that stared back at him in the mirror and see himself; a self he could understand. The Hero With No Fear, Jedi General. It made him almost believe the cocksure grin he would conjure up even when he felt anything but.

And then came Mortis.

And with it, a shattering.

It began with one of Mortis’s inexplicable worlds within worlds; a plain of shallow water stretching to a horizon completely flat in the distance, so still and so dark that the unfamiliar stars above reflected perfectly onto the fluid plane below, a window into another night sky; an unbroken field of stars and nebulae, a galaxy suspended around a single, solitary flame in the Force.

The flame that was Anakin Skywalker.

He stood there, still, and felt no fear; only that he was walking the sky, as he always meant to. The mysteries of Mortis and its three cryptic inhabitants fled from his mind; even the Force, which would shout to him in combat but never spoke to him when he tried to seek it in quiet, seemed to settle calmly on his shoulders.

And between one breath and the next, the illusion shattered.

The Force rent in a keening scream; the air hissed with the sound of an activating lightsaber, and the water shuddered as a blue bar of plasma sliced through the plane of reflected stars.

Anakin spied the reflection – auburn haired, cream-tuniced, blue-lightsabered – the moment before he spun in place and saw properly, but none of these registered except for Obi-Wan’s eyes.

Those narrowed, sulfur-yellow eyes.

That mouth, curl-lipped and dripping with disdain, was what Anakin focused upon next; strangely, even more than the threat of the lightsaber flourished in a Makashi salute of all things – not Soresu, not even Ataru, but Makashi.

“Obi-Wan,” Anakin said, blinking.

Obi-Wan’s sword hand blurred in an impossibly fast flourish, and Anakin leaped back with a yell, the sharp scent of burnt fabric searing his nose.

“Obi-Wan!” he shouted, eyes wide, ducking under another lightning reverse-thrust aimed at his neck, so burningly close that the place where Obi-Wan’s blade would have entered his spine tingled. The stars blurred in a desperate dance of near-death and hopeless incoherence.

Where Obi-Wan was once a nebula in the Force, blazing bright, there is now a neutron star; compressed, dead, and impossibly heavy. Every point of reference skewed towards him, a gaping maw in the Force that threatened to swallow stars and sky and Anakin whole.

Obi-Wan wasn’t-

This wasn’t-

Anakin gasped in a breath of plasma fumes, reeling in the shrieking of the Force. “Master, please, I don’t- what’s happened to you?”

And Obi-Wan spoke.

“I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised,” Obi-Wan said, in a voice like ice-polished steel. “You never were sensitive to the Unifying Force.”

“I don’t-”

“Of course you don’t. You never could, and you never would. But I don’t need you to understand, Anakin. For the galaxy to live, you need to die.”

Anakin stumbled, sending a spray of water from his left boot. Nearly lost his good arm to a shrieking plasma blade that winked scarlet and then azure again the the tilting Force.

“What?” he managed to gasp, blinking the reflection out of his vision – like shadows in a one-way mirror.

“Every minute you live brings the galaxy closer to destruction,” Obi-Wan said, even as his blade snapped towards Anakin’s chest like a striking viper. “It has been made apparent to me that this error – you – must be eliminated.” It was almost worse that Obi-Wan’s voice was so utterly dismissive – not cruel, not harsh, not disappointed, even – simply indifferent. As if Anakin was not worth speaking to at all. Worth less than the breath needed to form words.

Reversing out of a twist, Anakin opened his mouth to reply-

– and Obi-Wan backhanded him viciously across the face with the pommel of his lightsaber.

Anakin spat blood, reeled, felt something in his chest twist and break at the sting on his cheekbone-

-and then, as the nine-year-old child cast adrift in the galaxy rose again within Anakin’s screaming mind, with all the fear and insecurity that a child torn from the only loving arms he could ever remember, Anakin found that a small part of his mind remained logical.

It was something Obi-Wan had tried and failed, many times, to teach him – how to think logically on his feet, without the influence of emotion.

Oh, so much emotion.

Strange, that Anakin only succeeded now, when the rest of him wanted to throw himself onto Obi-Wan’s incoming blade and end it right there and then.

It has been made apparent to me.

Someone had done this to Obi-Wan.

With this abrupt realisation, Anakin found rage.

Oh, rage was good.

His lightsaber slapped into his hand, and his mechanical fingers curled so forcefully around its hilt the ache lanced up to his elbow, flesh and bone. He reached out, grasped the shattered pieces of the Force with an immaterial hand, and coalesced them.

Obi-Wan dropped his lightsaber and screamed, an inhuman sound so unlike him that the Force itself shivered as Obi-Wan clawed at his neck – at an invisible hand there.

Anakin levelled his lightsaber at Obi-Wan’s chin and hissed, “Who are you. And what have you done with him.”

An abyss in the Force. Laughter, beyond, and then a black-clothed figure with a red-marked face emerged.

Anakin growled. The Son.

The Son shrugged as he circled a struggling Obi-Wan. “I showed him a possible future,” he said, smiling predatorily at Anakin. “He was…rather difficult to convince. I had to resort to other methods.”

Other methods. “What future,” Anakin snarled.

“Is it so impossible that you must die, or the galaxy will?”

“You lie,” Anakin hissed, and pushed away the part of his mind that noted how Obi-Wan’s movements were weakening.

“Did I?” the Son replied, gesturing at the ground. “Take a look in the mirror.”

Anakin did.

His reflection stared back at him, eyes bleeding yellow at the edges, seeping blue.

He recoiled.

Obi-Wan dropped, nerveless, onto the shallow water-plain; ripples spread from his still form, breaking up Anakin’s reflection until there was nothing recognisable at all.

The Son laughed.

And Anakin, the Hero With No Fear, found himself terrified of everything here – Obi-Wan, the Son, himself-

-and the Son hissed and flickered out of existence an instant before green and yellow plasma blades passed through the space where his neck had been.

Ahsoka.

Anakin blinked. Watched his reflection on his hands and knees, cool water over his fingers and calves-

His reflection had blue eyes.

And he was Anakin again. Skyguy. Jedi. General.

Ahsoka’s voice: “Anakin, are you alri-”

He scrambled gracelessly over to Obi-Wan’s slumped form, grasped his former master by the shoulders and shook him, harshly, a never-ceasing and half-coherent mutter falling from his lips, “Obi-Wan. Wake up. Please, master. Please wake up, Obi-Wan-”

Obi-Wan stirred. His irises peeked out between fluttering half-lids.

Blue, the colour of a Stewjon sky.

Tears started at the corners of Anakin’s eyes. He dimly registered that Ahsoka was crouching next to them; but in that moment, all he did was curl forward like a child towards warmth and bury his face into Obi-Wan’s shoulder, a soundless howl of relief choked in his throat.

A ‘saber-calloused hand slipped into Anakin’s hair, almost hesitantly. The Force unwound itself, bound back together, and Obi-Wan’s Force-signature glimmered to life like a hearthfire.

Anakin threw himself mentally at it and felt Obi-Wan lower his shields after a moment of surprise. Their bond was the shortest and the brightest it had ever been, even compared to their years as master and padawan.

“Anakin,” Obi-Wan croaked, a hint of fond confusion entering his bruised voice, “What…why are you doing this?”

Anakin shook his head. Bit his lip as the motion aggravated the cut on his cheekbone.

Curled in the Force together as they were, Obi-Wan could not possibly miss it; a gentle finger brushed Anakin’s cheek as Obi-Wan murmured, “How did this happen?”

The older man’s voice was still rough from abused vocal cords, but its tone was clear.

Concern. Chiding worry.

It was too much.

Anakin gave in to the sob in his throat and hugged Obi-Wan tighter, and cared not that Ahsoka knelt beside him in utter confusion as Obi-Wan ran an uncomprehending hand through Anakin’s hair.

Mortis and its mysteries could wait.

END

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The Silent Song Chapter 37: Luminous Beings, a star wars fanfic | FanFiction

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General Summary:

When Qui-Gon Jinn is told to take a new padawan, the Force pushes him towards a certain initiate – but when Qui-Gon is told that Obi-Wan cannot speak, he hesitates. And all the while, Palpatine moves in the shadows… Angst, fluff, adventure, humour. AU JA era. Featuring Mace Windu, Dooku, Tahl, Kit Fisto, and others! Now into Arc 5!

This chapter: Luminous beings are we. Not this gross matter. The Force always surprises.

The lovely art above was drawn by @ithiliel-the-french-tolkiendil! She’s amazingly talented and I absolutely adore her angsty take on the start of this arc (you could interpret this as a missing shadow in what was once a holophoto of friends). Look at Ezhno and Huei, so happy. And Obi-Wan…

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The Silent Song Chapter 36: The Young Man With The Flute, a star wars fanfic | FanFiction

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When Qui-Gon Jinn is told to take a new padawan, the Force pushes him towards a certain initiate – but when Qui-Gon is told that Obi-Wan cannot speak, he hesitates. And all the while, Palpatine moves in the shadows… Angst, fluff, adventure, humour. AU JA era. Featuring Mace Windu, Dooku, Tahl, Kit Fisto, and others! Now into Arc 5!

This chapter: The first chapter of Arc 5. Enslaved at the estate of Gardulla the Hutt, Obi-Wan encounters trials beyond his imagining. But Anakin, still barely older than a baby, smiles.

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ANGEL WINGS FICS PLEASE!!!!! (Anything you’ll write will be great)

capxtony:

Oh, my gorm. thank you. i will try. i really liked that
idea. so, i wanted to write something based on that ‘Avenging angels au’ where
they have angelic wings. And also i wanted to write something in response to
this post of fanart where everyone has wings and the tips of some people’s
wings change colour if they have a soulmate, or if they’ve met them. This is the idea by @mid-nighttiger, which is what this fic is more inspired by:

The idea was, people have wings, and some people have
soulmates. when a person meets their soulmate, the tips of their feathers
change colour and glow (all the better to have a nighttime skydance with) – but
not before, so nobody knows who will have a soulmate until they actually meet
them. i suppose then tony met his soulmate (i wonder who) ‘cause he has glowing
feathertips on one wing, but not on the other ‘cause he lost that one and built
himself a mechanical one. Maybe his soulmate is Steve and steve’ll paint the
tips of his mechanical feathers gold for him.

I’m also gonna put this on AO3. It’s not the best in terms of wing description and structure, but i don’t know, i may do more.                                                           

They say the tips of your feathers changing colour and glowing
is a process. It doesn’t happen right away, but as soon as you meet your
soulmate, the process begins. You may feel a tingle, maybe you won’t feel it at
all. You might only notice it’s happening the next day. They might feel
different. And how do you know who your soulmate is? Well, everybody said,
that’s pretty obvious – it’s whoever you met recently who also has changing
colour tips on their wings. And since not everyone has soulmates, it’s not
likely to happen to more than one pair of soulmates in the same room, at the
same time. But it’s not like that couldn’t
happen. In that case, you would think it might be hard to tell whose your
soulmate is. Maybe somebody has already met their soulmate, but is not with
them, or they’ve died. But everyone is also sure that they usually feel a
certain connection with their soulmate anyway – whether they like it or not –
so you would ‘know’ who your soulmate is.

Steve was looking desperately around the room to see whose
his could be. With limited success.

Keep reading

/s c r e a m s/

oh my?? god??? this is so beautiful thank you so much???

take-my-life-not-my-heart:

mathylibrarian:

i-came-from-the-abarat:

pros of long fics: well thought out, character development, builds relationships

cons of long fics: impending sense that something is going to go wrong at any moment

They’re together and happy, but there’s still ten chapters left.

what goes wrong that needs 10 whole chapters to resolve

ok they werent really ‘together and happy’ in the beginning (quite the contrary actually) but i remember having this thought very explicitly the first time i read @deadcatwithaflamethrower’s ‘in a lonely place’

/gets to the big fight/ okay the good guys are gonna win and those who have been away can finally come home — wait WHY AM I ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIC