Anghraine

I was just looking over my tags and realized that the only things I haven't actually posted in my lj (and dw) are the three things I wrote expressly for a livejournal challenge: First Impressions, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, and Revenge of the Jedi. So, here we go -- backwards, of course, because I feel like it. Also, I just remembered -- with the latter two, I amused myself by alluding to as many other fandoms as I could possibly manage without derailing the story. I'll list the references later, but feel free to look for them, if you want. ;)

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Title: Revenge of the Jedi (Prologue)

Fanverse: Revenge of the Jedi, obviously

Blurb: After the escape from Cloud City, Vader keeps plotting against the Emperor and trying to get Luke to help him, Leia gets drawn into the plight of the surviving Alderaanians, Han hangs on Jabba's wall, and Luke leaves the squadron to be a full-time Jedi.

Pairings/warnings/assorted notes: various alternate pairings; references to genocide and murder; while the story occasionally draws on material from ROTJ, the PT, and even (gasp!) the EU, it isn't compliant with the canon of anything except the film versions of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Also, there is a shiny fanmix here. <3

Length: 58,773 words (prologue + seventeen chapters; finished)

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So, au_bigbang season is nearly over, and my fics are just about done. Naturally, this means it's time to come to the crushing realization that they're both awful and I should have done everything different and if only I had procrastinated less, or ... gone to school less ... I could figure out how to make them not-awful.

( the panic stage (spoilers for Revenge and Lucy, though light ones) )

( letter meme )

( asexuality meme )

( fanfic meme )

I'm way behind on my replies, but eh, whatever. At least I'm nearly done with 10, which has been a sloooow chapter. Though it sped up about the time that that Luke saved himself from the flesh-eating beetles. (It makes sense in context.)

(Maybe.)

So, a bunch of memes before I finish up 10 and head straight into 11, which I probably won't have cause to answer, but ... meh. (At the moment, that's rather my response to anything. *eyes posting date*)

( Fanfic interview meme )
( WIP meme )

( Asexuality meme )

( Fanfic meme )

Fanwank of the day:

When Luke decides to abandon his training and run off to Cloud City, Yoda famously warns him that if he goes, he will end up destroying all for which they have fought and suffered.  This is one of the fandom's Great Conundrums, since -- as we all know -- Leia & Co were only able to escape because R2-D2 fixed the hyperdrive, and Artoo was only there because Luke brought him along.  So Luke going to Cloud City indirectly saved his friends. 

Moreover, Luke's confrontation with Vader (however psychologically scarring!) is what gives him the opportunity to sense the good in him, and Vader's "if you don't join me, I'll have to destroy you ... in a minute ... another minute ... wait, come back!" makes it KIND OF SUPER OBVIOUS.  So if you think about it, Luke going to Cloud City led to his determination to save his father which led to the Emperor's death and the downfall of the Empire.

... Um.  That leaves us with the immortal question of Yoda, what were you thinking?

( This is what. )

( The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker...the series! )

I signed up for au_bb.

Twice.

Yes:  I'm going to be writing two completely different stories, in the same fandom, dealing with the same characters, at the same time.  The last time I did this, it was The Rich Are Always Respectable and Season of Courtship -- which, as some of you can attest, are very, very, very different. 

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I have Spanish homework. Awesome Spanish homework, but after I'd spent an hour trying to come up with a way to use parecerse, I decided it was probably time to stop.

So instead, I have this. Which also doesn't use parecerse, but it might if it weren't in English.

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Title: Flashback

Fanverse: canon-compliant or Revenge

Blurb: That's what you said last year!

Pairings/warnings: none

Length: double drabble (203 words)

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I hope you all had a merry Christmas, f-list, and that there's a decent probability of us all having a good year in 2011.

So!

I used to wonder why Leia is always Princess Leia.  I mean, of course there's Everything's Better With Princesses (TV Tropes!), but it seemed a little odd that she'd be continually identified by that persona.  Naturally she would in ANH, and I can even see why she'd want to retain her Alderaanian title -- as a way of honouring her parents and Alderaan and so on.  No, it's simpler than that:

Why is she a princess at all?  A princess and not a queen?

( why this perplexed me... )

( BUT MAMA WHY?! )

As in, "I'm going to Bechdel this canon."  (For which genius idea I must credit hele.)

Towards the end of October, I decided to write a deliberately Bechdel-passing SW fic.  ( read the largely unnecessary introduction here ... )

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Title: Distaff Lines (1/3)

Fanverse: This one doesn't actively contradict canon ... but I definitely had my headcanon in mind when I wrote it, Discontinuity Bin and all.

Blurb:  The petulance is strong in their family.

Pairings/Warnings: Force-sensitive!Shmi, OFCs, elaborate personal canon, NO MEN AT ALL

Length: 867 words

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Technically, I suppose this is wildly AU fic of the prequel trilogy.  Technically.  However, I actually wrote it as part of my OT headcanon.  So it's more ... the lovechild of the PT and my personal interpretation of the OT.  (In this metaphor, the OT's genes are dominant, obviously.  [And now I'm thinking of OT/PT meta-fic, so I'll stop now.])

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Title: Unlikely Alliances (1/3)

Fanverse: Elizabeth's headcanon

Blurb:  “The Emperor is dead,” said Palpatine.

Pairings/Warnings: Anakin/Padmé; politics, politicians, and one very screwed-up relationship

Length: 412 words

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