I thought it'd been awhile since I did one of these, so I glanced back and...over six months. WTF, Elizabeth. In my defense, my DVD was non-functioning for most of that time and only got repaired about two weeks ago. But I'm still side-eyeing myself over my own comment from last time: I'm just hoping I actually finish them -- for ANH anyway -- before I turn twenty-six, heh.

My twenty-sixth birthday is on Thursday. ...Heh.

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So The Phantom Menace is out again, this time in 3-D, with a less bizarre-looking Yoda. I keep telling myself to go and see it, but haven't worked myself up to it. But after having just written nine posts about my multitude of issues with Padmé Amidala, and remembering that hey, I don't like TPM but I do like Padmé in it, it seemed a good time to picspam her.

I had a great time digging the pictures up, too, whether off of tumblr or deviantart or the depths of my hard drive. Padmé Amidala = most fabulously costumed character to exist. And not in Star Wars - in anything, ever.

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Well, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker is, anyway. I stumbled across it the other day, and it was ... um, okay, kind of weird, because a good portion of the review is the reviewer just reading and occasionally interspersing commentary, and the way she reads it sounds nothing like how it does in my head (it’s awful, but I kept wanting to say ‘um, I put those stops there for a reason’). It's not the accent, either, just ... I don't know. The rest is a brief sum-up of her opinions that seemed mostly about some other fic she disliked, but she concluded that mine is more than adequate, which was nice? You can try to watch/listen to it here, if you want.

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In happy-making news, the ace bigbang is going to happen for reals, only it's going to be BETTER -- a full-blown people-who-aren't-straight-or-cis bigbang. I already babbled at tulina and hl and biichan about it, but it's so awesome that I had to share with EVERYONE. Hmm, maybe somebody will put it on fandomcalendar and there'll be participants on the dw side? That would be cool! Anyway, that's a thing (an awesome thing!!).

Speaking of which, I was just glancing at the most recent ... events, and found something beautiful. OMG. I love OT3s and ship them across all my fandoms, and somebody's already volunteered for my very favourite one. Maybe I could get up the nerve to suggest a prompt? ...eh, probably not. (I get ridiculously nervous about these things! But still, a OT3 prompt is a thing of beauty.)

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I meant to do the Austen one, really, but most of those who'd be interested have seen most of them already anyway, and ... I'll try and do a double Austen-Tolkien one Friday or Saturday, maybe. In the meanwhile, I've been wandering around tumblr and found a bunch of awesome Star Wars things (too many for this post!), mostly from one shiny tumblr -- though, to be honest, I don't perfectly remember everything I've posted before. Here's to hoping for very little overlap!

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Behold my mad Paint skillz.

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Title: The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker (6/10, 7/10, 8/10)

Fanverse: The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker

Blurb: Lucy begins her lightsaber training and the Death Star isn't a moon; the gang makes their way towards Leia's cell, the Skywalker twins meet and dive into the garbage compactor, accompanied by Han and Chewie; after a few near-death experiences, the four of them escape the Death Star, Han and Lucy fight off TIE fighters, and they head to Yavin IV.

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Guys, guys (er, the two of you that are probably reading this), I just got Lucy fanart! Not for the au_bb -- just because! And it's gorgeous and shiny and everything is wonderful and maybe there will be more OMG this is one the most exciting things that has ever happened to me in fandom (any fandom) and my face has been frozen in :D for the last hour. Feel free to shower her with praise! Because art for me and it's good.

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Title: The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker (Prologue, 1/10, 2/10)

Fanverse: The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker

Blurb: Luke is a girl. (I tried to polish it up for the au_bigbang, but really, that's it.)

Pairings/warnings/assorted notes: No official pairings; no warnings for anything that isn't in the OT already; as always, I consider the films alone to be canon, so there's little if anything from the EU. I relied a bit on the screenplays for things like ages, but didn't treat those as hard-and-fast canon either.

Length: 28,978 words (prologue + ten chapters; finished)

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I have a hilariously clumsy troll over at ff.net. I was just kind of 'lolwut,' but one of my anons flipped out (and called me honey, which was somewhere between cute and inappropriate). C'est la vie.

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Title: Revenge of the Jedi (10/17)

Fanverse: Revenge of the Jedi

Blurb: Luke reports to his mentors and sets out on his penultimate trial.

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Title: Revenge of the Jedi (5/17)

Fanverse: Revenge of the Jedi

Blurb: Luke discovers how he called to Leia on Bespin (maybe), comes to an uncomfortable realization, and meets a long-lost relative.

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