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Hey everyone! It's nearly 11 PM on January 31st and I'm sick, but I threw words on the page until I had something to show for it for challenge #11 specifically:

In your own space, create a fanwork. Now, a fanwork is anything that you, a fan, creates. Fic, icons, and filling sparkly requests from your fellow snowflakes’ wishlists absolutely fit the bill. But really, your creation can be anything! Draw something, paint something, compose an ode to your current favorite movie. Whittle something to represent your fandom from a bit of driftwood or model it in clay and matchsticks or legos! Whip up a song about your favorite trope or concoct an interpretive dance number for your OTP. Bake some cupcakes and decorate them in homage to your favorite TV show or author. The possibilities are endless. Whatever means of self-expression tickles your fancy right now, embrace it! But most of all - have fun!

I thought of doing something simpler or easier but ... no, instead I word vomited the entire prologue to the Commander Elizabeth Bennet P&P/Mass Effect AU into a GoogleDoc. It's largely unedited but here it is!

Prologue

Elizabeth Bennet knew what people called her behind her back, whether they were Alliance or not.

The butcher of Torfan.

They didn’t understand. Nobody did, really, not even Captain Gardiner, who’d defended her to the tribunal, or Major Massey, who’d ordered her to take Torfan at any cost and been honorably discharged later.

Elizabeth was resigned to that. When she could do something about a problem, she acted; when she couldn’t, she let it go. And she couldn’t do anything about the past.

Least of all when she didn’t regret it.

Mira Gardiner was a failure.

A failure with a case full of medals, to be sure. She’d served the Alliance—served humanity—for decades, and the Alliance had rewarded her with a stream of commendations and promotions. Nobody talked about her lost chance to do more for their species. Not in her hearing, anyway. Even she hadn’t really thought about it in years. No point in wasting time recollecting the details when there was work to be done.

The more amorphous sense of failure, though: that lingered. Especially on the Normandy.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Here I Go Again (Whitesnake)

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

After the battle of Scarif, some in the Alliance had celebrated. It was proof that the Empire could be challenged on its own territory—outwitted, outmaneuvered, even beaten in some sense. Davits Draven saw no purpose in discouraging the fervor of those who remained.

But the victory, if it could even be called that, had come at a horrifically steep price.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Annie's Song (John Denver)

The Jedi and the Sith Lord, Part 1

I finished recording the opening eight chapters (out of 21) of The Jedi and the Sith Lord, the sequel to my f!Luke AU fics The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker and The Imperial Menace. This part is all uploaded here, and matches the first eight chapters of the AO3 version here.

However, TJATSL is different from the other two; it’s always been the core of the AU in my mind and is the place where it really splits off into its own story. Consequently, if you’re familiar with the two major spoilers from the other fics (posted under the cut), it’s pretty easy to jump right into TJATSL without reading the others.

Some other stuff to know:

It does not run parallel to any of the movies, instead splitting off from the main canon storyline at the end of ESB and covering the next few months.
Where Adventures was about 29k and Imperial about 23k, TJATSL is 70k and covers half of its general storyline.
As with Adventures and Imperial, it assumes that the male domination of the OT exists in-world, with a major effect on the story.
Also like them, it generally ignores the SWEU and non-film/script material, apart from a few names.
Where Han’s and Leia’s chapters were the core of The Imperial Menace, TJATSL focuses tightly on Lucy and Anakin/Vader.
The page can take a few seconds longer than most to load.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Imperial March (John Williams)

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! )

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Imperial March (John Williams)

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.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: A New Hope and End Credits (John Williams)

I’m playing GW: Prophecies and suffering all over again, so I melded my GW2 headcanons and the GW1 ~experience~ into a very upbeat fic.

#hey it broke 1k #it was very short in my head but kept poking at my mind as i was playing #like the prophecies pc goes through SO MUCH #their adventures basically start with a massive atrocity of war committed against their people and never repented ever #and it goes down from there #and after 15 years finally channelled my !!!!!!! into an actual prophecies-era fic #which is even more niche than gw2 fic but /shrug

[ETA 2/14/2022: It is indeed an extremely niche and very unpopular fic, lol, and far from my best, but I don't regret writing it!]

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Moments (Future World Music)

The fic is three pages long and has taken yeaaaars to write. Anyway: some cheerful Eldarion fic!

He did not choose the marriage. He did not choose the bride; he did not even choose the day. He assented to everything, decided nothing. Yet though he wed not of his own desire, he never regretted his marriage, nor his fair and laughing princess.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Always Faithful (Elijah Bossenbroek)

I got tagged by ladytharen (

elperian ) in the top ten additional AO3 tags meme! Mine are:

[From most used to least: canon-compliant, one shot, drabble, alternate universe - always a different sex, prompt fic, sequel, alternate universe, brother-sister relationships, alternate universe - gender changes, alternate universe - canon divergence]

…I am what I am.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Humble Beginnings (Elijah Bossenbroek)

I reblogged this post I made in Nov 2013:

Little Estel growing up in a place where no one dies or ages or changes, ever, except him

Estel is Aragorn and it fills his heart with pride and then he falls madly in love with the most unattainable woman on the planet and it means his own grief or breaking up his family eternally

Young Aragorn returns to his people, who he doesn’t actually know, and has to become a Dúnadan of the North, the Dúnadan, when he’s only ever been a not-quite-Elf. His mother dies.

Aragorn wanders all over the globe. At one point he goes to Gondor, the country of which he has to gain kingship at some undetermined point in the future. The Steward’s heir is one year older than he is, looks as much like an ancient Númenórean as he does—looks like his brother, if he had one—and has ancient Númenórean powers to go with his height and face, just like Aragorn. Denethor hates him and Aragorn has to walk carefully around him. He leaves when Denethor’s son, Boromir, is three.

Boromir shows up out of nowhere while Frodo is recovering in Rivendell. Little Boromir is now forty, a massive and supremely skilled warrior. He’s instantly suspicious of Aragorn. But they forge a relationship of mutual respect and perhaps even friendship through their assorted tribulations, yay!

Boromir, who Aragorn remembers as a toddler, dies in his arms.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: For Unto Us a Child Is Born (George Frideric Handel)

Not a fic of broad appeal, but it's what inspired me! There might be errors, since I wrote it very quickly, but it was fun (in its way).

title: the voices of the sea
verse: Daughters of Númenor; AU where the explicit throwback characters in LOTR (Aragorn, Denethor, Imrahil, and Faramir) are genderbent (as Aranor, Andreth, Imraphel, and Míriel)
characters: Faramir/Míriel; Tar-Míriel, Boromir (in absentia)
stuff that happens: For Míriel, daughter of the Steward of Gondor, the gifts of Númenor can be difficult to receive. AKA a very belated sequel to “cloven shield and broken sword,” in which Aranor found a dying Boromir:

She remembered him tugging at her leggings, demanding to know but what next? And she remembered him in Lothlórien, haughty and suspicious until he began to speak of Míriel, the sister he had loved and protected through all the days of their lives. Boromir the tall, the fair, the bold, had died, and his treasured sister lived on; what was Aranor’s grief to that?

May the news of his loss come to you swiftly and kindly, jewel-maiden!

-

The dream always began the same way.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: What the Water Gave Me (Florence + The Machine)

I reblogged a one-shot that I'd originally posted in Oct 2012.

Second Chance

Tarrlok’s remorse was genuine enough. He’d had days to dwell on his brother’s flaws and then, eventually, his own, to see all the places where they overlapped: the same thirst for power, the same determination to get their way at any cost, the same zealotry that made them more dangerous than mere opportunists could ever have been. Between them they’d wrecked a city.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Fortress of Solitude (Audiomachine)

I reblogged a post I'd made for a Tarrlok Appreciation fest, back in Sep 2012. I still get nice comments on this one!

Ten Facts About Tarrlok

1

Tarrlok left home at seventeen. Although he missed his mother, he was glad to leave his dead-end village behind, and head to his tribe’s great city.

2

When he arrived, he was still more the boy who had begged his brother to stay than the man he would become. Even then, though, he took care to obscure his origins. He invented a completely different obscure village to call home, enough like his real one that any accidental slip would not reveal the truth. He invented completely different parents, but said, truthfully, that his father was a non-bender and his mother a healer.

Tarrlok never thought of himself as a liar, but he was accustomed to surviving in a position of vulnerability. His long years with Yakone and Noatak, learning to talk his away around more dangerous and volatile personalities than his own, had left him more than equipped to manage ordinary people. He knew exactly what to say, and when to say it, and the skill never left him.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Don't Know Much (Linda Ronstadt ft. Aaron Neville)

I reblogged a fic I wrote in April 2013, in response to a prompt from ikkinthekitsune:

AU in which Korra is Noatak and Tarrlok’s younger sister; Yakone finds out his daughter is the Avatar and the consequences thereof?

I meant it to be a drabble, perhaps one or two pages, tops. It grew in the telling, though, so belatedly, here you are!

Tangled State of Mind

Noatak and Tarrlok were almost exactly three years apart, both of them born on frozen, starless nights, blizzards howling around the village as their mother fought to give birth. Korra, though—bright, bold, ferocious little Korra—screamed her way into the world at the height of spring, even as the worst plague in memory crawled across the Earth Kingdom. Tarrlok, the youngest, was already eight, and he remembered it perfectly: he and Noatak, almost sick with fear, running pointless errands that some adult imagined might distract them, Noatak’s fingers digging into his shoulder, painful and reassuring, and then their father ordering them to come inside the tent and see their new baby sister.

To Tarrlok, Korra had been impossibly tiny, her nose and mouth, hands and feet, dwarfed by everyone else’s, even his own. Her eyes, though, wide and blue, seemed to fill up most of her face, and her brown hair poked up in little tufts. He and Noatak stared down at her, fascinated.

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: For Unto Us a Child Is Born (George Frideric Handel)

I reblogged a headcanon ficlet I'd written in Dec 2012 about Noatak in his early Amon days:

Almost Forgotten

It was unsettling, sometimes, to realize that he’d almost forgotten his name, and still more unsettling that he’d never quite managed it. He wasn’t Amon, of course; that was the hooded mask, pure and bloodless, an image his mind projected onto the stage. He was—Noatak of the Water Tribe, his mind answered him back, Yakone’s son, prodigy bender. His fingernails dug into the weak human flesh of his palms. But perhaps there was an advantage in it. He needed information, and the truth could be its own disguise.

So, now and then, Noatak walked down the street in blue-lined grey, his face and hands unpainted. You can trust me, I’m a waterbender, I’m one of you. No more of a lie than any of the others he’d told. Men laughed and joked with him, women flirted with him—that would never be anything but strange—and occasionally, Triad members thought they’d spotted an easy target in his thin, slouching figure. He quickly disabused them of the notion, but fighting them, fighting without restraining any part of himself, slicing and icing, chi-blocking, dodging, bloodbending all at once, brought with it a rush like nothing else. In those earlier days, when he was still restless, his power gnawing at him, he often found excuses to get lost in Red Monsoon territory.

My father’s land, he thought one evening, wandering home, and laughed to himself. He’d already set two groups of bloodbenders running. Noatak straightened up into his usual confident stride; he didn’t need the moon, unlike those others, but it still strengthened him, until he felt invincible under the bright silver moonlight. Yakone was dead, the Avatar was a child, newspaper clips told him his brother was safe and successful in the capital, he was the greatest bloodbender in the world, and his movement gathering supporters more rapidly than he himself had anticipated.

To his right, he cast a crisp, elongated shadow. He was a tall man, but it towered over him, stretching high and featureless along the alley wall. Now that, he thought, was Amon.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Lothlórien (Enya)

I reblogged a fic snippet I wrote in Sep 2012:

I wrote Noarra fluff?

Because … um. Because obviously this pairing is for schmaltzy teenage romance? (Time travel, like threesomes, solves everything! But this is not a threesome, because Tarrlok is eleven.)

Anyway! This takes place somewhere in the iceberg!verse (to sum up, Aang dies in the Air Nomad genocide, Korra is born 100+ years early, seals herself into the iceberg at thirteen, is discovered by Noatak and Tarrlok), so it’s mildly spoilery for the future of that.

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Current Music: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (The Proclaimers)

title: The Jedi and the Sith Lord (21/21)
verse: Lucy Skywalker: my f!Luke AU, following from The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker and The Imperial Menace
characters: Luke/Lucy Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker; [Redacted], Leia Organa, Janos Varti, Palpatine
stuff that happens: Lucy responds to Anakin's offer while Leia plans for the future and Varti reports to Emperor Palpatine.
previous sections: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

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Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Luke and Leia (John Williams)

Speaking of Lucy ... a few people on Tumblr asked where the fics could be found, so I put together an image header thing along with all the links. Ta-da!

And the links:

The first fic, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker (completed 2011), covers most of ANH and is:

at AO3 here
at Dreamwidth here: prologue, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six, chapter seven, chapter eight, chapter nine, and chapter ten
at Tumblr here: prologue, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six, chapter seven, chapter eight, chapter nine, and chapter ten

The second fic, The Imperial Menace (completed 2012), covers the end of ANH and ESB, and is:

at AO3 here
at Dreamwidth here: chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six, chapter seven, and epilogue
at Tumblr here: chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six, chapter seven, and chapter eight

The third fic, The Jedi and the Sith Lord (WIP, updated 2020), covers the period between ESB and ROTJ and some of ROTJ, and is:

There are also two companion fics. The first, Ten Facts About (Everyone Except) Lucy Skywalker (completed before any of the others, in 2011), runs from ROTS through ESB, and is:

at AO3 here
at Dreamwidth here
at Tumblr here

The second, taking place early in the timeline of The Imperial Menace, but written shortly after watching Rogue One in 2016, is until the last chance is spent. It’s:

at AO3 here
at Tumblr here

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Heart of Courage (Two Steps From Hell)

If I had to blast the life out of every Separatist in Ascalon to protect the lives of truehearted Ascalonians, then—then that was what I’d do. It was what Gwen would do.

And I’d waltz with Charr in Ashford before I saw Ebonhawke or Kryta fall.

title: pro patria (113-119/?)
verse: Ascalonian grudgefic
characters/relationships: Althea Fairchild, Vanguard Erod, Vanguard Raquel; Fianna, various Vanguard members
stuff that happens: Althea finds peace.
chapters: 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, 29-35, 36-42, 43-49, 50-56, 57-63, 64-70, 71-77, 78-84, 85-91, 92-98, 99-105, 106-112

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Walls of Ebonhawke (Jeremy Soule)

I inhaled, then strode forwards, catching sight of a couple of tables and banners before my body jerked back, my skin cold and my chest hot. I only just restrained a gasp, my hand instead flying to my sword and nearly unsheathing it.

At the opposite end of the cave stood, unmistakably, a Charr.

title: pro patria (106-112/?)
verse: Ascalonian grudgefic
characters/relationships: Althea Fairchild, Wade Samuelsson, Agent Kaela; Agent Dorian, JoAnna, various unnamed Ebonhawke residents, "Ebon Vanguard Soldier"; Althea & Samuelsson
stuff that happens: Althea is disturbed by the Separatist attack, and even more disturbed by a new acquaintance.
chapters: 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, 29-35, 36-42, 43-49, 50-56, 57-63, 64-70, 71-77, 78-84, 85-91, 92-98, 99-105

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Stronghold (Future World Music)

I couldn’t think, couldn’t afford to think, could only follow the overpowering instinct that said protect Ebonhawke, protect our people.

title: pro patria (99-105)
verse: Ascalonian grudgefic
characters/relationships: Althea Fairchild, Scout Leader Tahiri, Elwin Fairchild, Wade Samuelsson; Commander Varalyn, Fallen Angel Makayla, Trillia Midwell, Sergeant Manthony Porter, Champion Mad Bombardier; Althea and Tahiri, Althea and Elwin, Althea and Samuelsson
stuff that happens: Althea and Calissa practice together, and Althea faces an attack from an unexpected source.
chapters: 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, 29-35, 36-42, 43-49, 50-56, 57-63, 64-70, 71-77, 78-84, 85-91, 92-98

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Requiem For a Tower (Corner Stone Cues)

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Snowflake Challenge #11

Starting with the easiest to update!

The Jedi and the Sith Lord Podfic Post, Part 1

The Imperial Menace Podfic Post

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GW2 fic, 113-119

GW2 fic, 106-112

GW2 fic, 99-105