Anghraine

Fic title meme, grabbed from glorious_spoon on Dreamwidth!

Look at the most recent 20 fanwork titles on your AO3 account. (I’m assuming this isn’t the most recent begun/completed fics, but the most recently updated for any reason.)

1. How many are you happy with? Twelve-ish.

2. How many are … not great? Five. >_<

3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute? Six. I thought it’d be more, tbh!

4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning? Nine or so, though leaning heavily on “near the beginning.”

5. How many are quotes from songs or poems? Ten!

6. How many are other quotes? Five. I definitely lean on quotes for my titles! (Otherwise titling things is the WORST.)

7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork? Probably the last day, which is about the canonical last day of normal life in Ascalon before a genocidal attack that devastates the people and land.

8. Which best reflects the theme of the story? Oh, it has to be the gift of men, which is about Eldarion and death, known in Middle-earth as “the gift of men.”

9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork? I think this one’s got to be the words are all escaping, an AU where Jyn and Cassian survive and are now together, but struggle to put it into words, instead largely leaving their actions to speak for themselves; when Jyn talks at all, she talks around what’s actually going on and what she really means. (In fairness, this is how I generally write her.)

10. Which is your favourite title? Hmm. It’s probably per ardua ad astra, which is both pretentious Latin and a joke (it means “through adversity to the stars” and Jyn, Cassian, and Bodhi indeed get through the adversity of the RO plot to reach a star—the Death Star).

I'm cross-posting three years later, but feel free to do it if you'd like!

I shocked myself by actually finishing the chapter of per ardua ad astra that's been moldering in GoogleDocs for ~5 years. And revising it! And posting it at AO3! If you're (...still) reading it, the new chapter is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9223013/chapters/119508970

Emphatically, *\0/*

I genuinely have no idea who is going to win my Elizabeth/Darcy vs Jyn/Cassian poll on Tumblr, and I'm kind of gleeful about finding out! ALL GLORY TO POLLS.

...wait, I have polls over here, too! I don't know how many people do them, but for the fun of it, I'll post it in a sec. :D

I kind of want to search for Luke and Anakin or Luke and Leia fic, since it's been a long time since I read any and I love those relationships ... but also, I intensely dislike a lot of takes on them, esp on Luke, who is my #1 SW fave. The other relationship I'm invested in, of course, is Jyn/Cassian, and occasionally I think it'd be cool to find something where those interests intersect ... but even though I like a ton of Jyn/Cassian fic in its own right, I bounced so hard off of the fandom's soft, sunny, pure-of-heart take on Luke that I don't trust many writers from the fandom with him, apart from my friends.

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An anon said:

villain stan here for the jyn/cassian as well! :)

I replied:

Haha, welcome aboard, then!

This has multiple dates because I did a writing meme, and I figured I'd compile the responses into one post.

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A year later (>_>), I made some progress on ad astra!

(though it takes a certain amount of grumping to get there)

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title: whatever we deny or embrace
verse: queer Rogue One/f!Cassian AU (4/6)
characters: Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso; Jyn/Cassian
stuff that happens: For Cassia and Jyn, touch carries a weight of its own.
previous sections: prologue, part one, part two



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