Anghraine

title: per ardua ad astra (23/?)
verse: Death Star
characters: Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Luke Skywalker, Davits Draven, Leia Organa, Han Solo; Bodhi Rook, Commander Willard, OCs—Lieutenant Graves and an operator; Jyn/Cassian, implied Han/Leia
stuff that happens: I return to this fic after five years The Falcon reaches its destination!
previous chapters: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two


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The classic D&D alignments can be silly and reductive ... but they're also genuinely useful in some ways? Like, if I say "Darcy has Lawful Good energy, but is actually Neutral Good," you don't have to agree, but it gets across what I mean to people at all familiar with alignment without a long explanation. "I think some people see Cassian as X Neutral, but I think he's Lawful Good all the way through" is comprehensible in a concise way. So is "I think Leia is trying to stifle herself into living a Lawful Good life, but at heart is Neutral Good." I think that's also true of Éowyn, btw, while Jyn comes at it from the other side: living a Chaotic life, but also Neutral Good at her core (certainly not Chaotic Neutral or True Neutral).

And of course, the divisions aren't hard lines. I think Luke is probably not far from the Lawful/Neutral boundary, though still on the Neutral Good side, whereas Anakin has some of that Neutral or even Chaotic energy, but is ultimately Lawful Good -> Lawful Evil -> Lawful Good. 

(I am also Very Offended by bad alignment assignments, like the gifset that assigned Darcy to Lawful Neutral. WTF, seriously.)

I finished recording The Imperial Menace, the sequel to my f!Luke AU, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker. It’s all uploaded here. The recording matches the AO3 version here, also slightly cleaned up from the original.

Again, I don’t expect most people to be into this, but stuff to know if you are:

• It resolves the cliffhanger at the end of Adventures, then ends on another one.
• It runs parallel to the end of ANH and most of ESB.
• It was first written in 2012 on a schedule, and ran into some difficulties, which is why it’s shorter and more erratic than Adventures.
• As with Adventures, it’s based on the films and (where possible) the scripts, but not expanded universes past or present, official statements, etc.
• Also as with Adventures, it assumes that the extreme male domination of the OT reflects in-world misogyny and patriarchy.
• The page can take a few seconds longer than most to load.

Also, if you want to read this without reading The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, that's mostly doable, but there is one major consequence in Adventures you'll need to know about. Cutting for the spoiler:

( Ten-year-old spoiler within! )

I finished recording The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, the first of the main fics in my ongoing f!Luke AU. It’s all uploaded at my other corner of the Internet (thanks to tree) here. The recording matches the AO3 version here, which I slightly cleaned up for this.

I know it’s not most people’s thing, but stuff to know if it does sound relevant to your interests:

• It was first posted in 2011(!), is 29k long, and runs parallel to most of ANH.
• It’s based on the films and (where possible) the scripts, but not expanded universes past or present, official statements, etc.
• On that note (because I get asked about it), Lucy and Leia’s age is based on the ANH script, which states that Luke is 18 and Leia is about 16. I averaged it out to 17.
• It does end on a cliffhanger, which has long been resolved in the AO3 version, but not recorded yet.
• I don’t do accents etc apart from my own, though I try to differentiate the voices slightly.
• The page can take a few seconds longer than most pages to load.

In response to this, icamelatetothenewsiesparty said:

*quiet whining noises at the idea of a new chapter of per ardua ad astra* ♥️

I replied:

Heh, thank you! I have … four pages of one. Here’s a little bit:

Female character meme!

I was tagged by cinefantastiquemitho and princesssarisa.

RULES: name 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

1. I was just thinking about her, so Mary Crawford for Austen fandom


2. Aravis of Calormen for Narnia fandom


3. Tar-Ancalimë for Tolkien fandom


4. Annabella from ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (which doesn’t have a fandom per se but shhhh she’s great)


5. Avatar Korra for Avatar fandom


6. Leia Organa for SW fandom


7. Lucrezia Borgia for Borgias fandom


8. Lessa for Pern fandom


9. Moiraine Damodred for Wheel of Time fandom


10. Sandrilene fa Toren for Tamora Pierce fandom

I reblogged a gifset of the death scenes of the entire Skywalker family (from Shmi to Ben), and added:

...fuck. Their story always had Greek tragedy vibes, but now it's just ... ;_; ;_; ;_;