Anghraine

I reblogged a gifset that paired Leia and Luke's sequence of judging Han, yelling at him, then believing in him (their lines following these really are strikingly similar IMO). I added:

#i'd forgotten this gifset existed but luke-leia parallels are everything!! #i love how their voices ring out together in the garbage chute haha

me: what if I worked in some Tatooine headcanons into the aasimar fic? mAYBE. at least Anakin comes from this enslaved diasporic people and is fiercely proud of them and of being one of them, esp when people reduce him to his aasimarness (which happens. a lot.)

me: part of me wants Anakin to be a woman, though. and maybe more of the Jedi. maybe ALL the Jedi. WARRIOR NUNS IN SPACE

me: and what if it’s like that old AU idea I had where Palpatine subverts the Jedi instead of slaughtering them outright, and the Empire is generally … like, still bad but less obvious about it. it’d have this sort of patina of sunny pseudo-utopia

me: AND what if Padmé actually didn’t die but escaped with Luke, and lived long enough to gently break the truth of Anakin’s fall to him and he knows but doesn’t tell anyone, including Han

me: who is somehow the POV character for everything

me: …this is an original fic, isn’t it

[ETA 9/22/2023: It very much is and grew into this sprawling universe from this point over the last three years.]

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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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 don't think I meant The Imperial Menace to have much in the way of foreshadowing, but ngl, I'd forgotten that there's a part where Han is like "since I'm leaving, Lucy's going to need someone in her life with some blemishes on their soul."

I can only imagine that in the distance, "Enter Lord Vader" starts playing.

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.

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 ... ;_; ;_; ;_;

I reblogged a nice comment on my elaborate Avatar/Star Wars plotbunny + the original (May 2013) post, which is:

I’ve written Avatar in the Star Wars ‘verse in varying ways, but what I really want is Star Wars in the Avatar verse. I mentioned some vague ideas before, but what I’d really to either see or get around to writing someday is this:

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- The Order of the White Lotus is highly visible and active as a body of warriors. Originally, they were neutral peacekeepers from all four nations, and guardians of the Avatar. Now they’ve largely evolved into defenders/diplomats for the Fire Nation. They also take command of all benders they find as young children and train them in the bending arts and traditions of the Order, but plenty are never found and have to make their own way.

- Qui-Gon Jinn is an earthbender and unorthodox Lotus warrior. Through some various adventures involving his apprentice Obi-Wan (an airbender) and the (disguised, non-bender) Southern Water Tribe chieftainess Padmé, he discovers that the Avatar, believed to be vanished from the earth for generations, has reincarnated as a young boy named Anakin Skywalker. Anakin is a suspiciously golden-eyed slave in the Earth Kingdom.

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Leia never once tried to make Han jealous 2k20