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Spectral Bodies in Orbit, by Orockthro

“Did you even read the brief I sent you yesterday?”

Is there a right answer here? “... No."

from mortalityplays on tumblr:

btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.

This led me to look back at posts I wrote five years ago, in January 2020 (the before times!). I WENT TO A MOVIE THEATER* IN JANUARY 2020! I believe this answers the question 'what's the last thing I saw in a theater?' because I'm pretty sure I haven't been back since the pandemic, and have not felt the lack. (IDK, if they rebooted Star Trek again, maybe???)

(*We saw Rise of Skywalker, a movie I had pretty much forgotten about entirely, but which raised a very important question I was reminded of by comments. DOES the Force work like that???)

It's Honest Work, by BoliTheSenate

Now Master Sif- Master Sy blinked as well. “Who else? You’re telling me that you suddenly ceasing any and all contact, disappearing from the face of the galaxy and not answering my comms wasn’t you going rogue and dipping out?”

“Hm,” Dooku hummed, “If you look at it like that…”

eleven stars, by qigiined

If the squirrel no longer fears Yan, then he must find something that she does fear, and that is this. And this needs to be implemented in the garden immediately, if Yan hopes to protect any more tomatoes.

aka:
(Dooku joined the darkside because he thought it would take him away from a life tied up in red tape and, finding that what was awaiting for him on the other side of the Force was just more goddamn red tape, he moves out to the country to an old cottage and demands that his grandkids come help him set up a pig pen.)

I would like to read WAY MORE Star Wars fics based on the premise 'the Clone Wars ended better; now it's the future; no explanations will be given.' YES, EXCELLENT!

staring down the barrel of the hot sun, by magneticwave

“We’re sending you to Mandalore,” Master Tano clarifies. “To broker a peaceful transition of power.”

“Me?” Luke echoes, looking across the weathered, troubled faces of the Council. “Uh,” he continues, when all he gets back a narrow-eyed stare from the Grand Master, “that is--brokering negotiations isn’t really my, uh--” and then he trails off, because what Luke’s inability to conduct basic diplomacy is is a personal failing that has haunted him since he first became a padawan, nearly twenty years ago.

This is also not the fic I was looking for! But I did remember this one fondly, with a sort of vague 'isn't that the one where Obi-Wan and Maul are domestic together?' recollection. (I remembered almost none of the actual plot, but I *did* recognize this fantastic tag: "gratuitous in text excuses for maul’s lack of proper upper body garments")

paths diverging, by seven_khepri_beetles

His shirt still had a few buttons left to go, and Maul peered down at them, trying to fathom why anyone would willingly spend all that time buttoning and unbuttoning them.

I've been reading a lot ::cough:: A LOT ::cough:: of Star Wars fic recently, and there are a few that I've been trying (somewhat haphazardly) to find again, because of specific scenes that stuck in my head without any context.

Over the weekend I got the brilliant(???) idea of looking back through my own AO3 history -- SURELY, I thought, that would be much easier than trying to guess my way through recreating my tag searches to find things. And it probably is? But it's still FIFTY-EIGHT pages of fics, which -- what? How did that happen?

(Plus side: it's all fics I already thought would be interesting! I've had a great time so far looking back and going 'ooh, yes, I want to re-read that one.')

Happy Star Wars day! Looks like there are some fics relevant to my interests in this collection, so I've got my celebratory plans all set!

I think this fic takes the prize for 'longest a time traveling character goes without figuring out that they're in a different time.'

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, by K_R_Closson

Ahsoka Tano told Din to bring Grogu to the Seeing Stone on Tython, and Grogu would be able to call out to other Jedi. Ahsoka Tano did not say that other Jedi might call out to him or that the pillar of blue light was actually a type of planetary transportation.

So it turns out Star Wars fandom is, at the very least, ready to fight for the title of PEAK time travel fix-it fandom. And the fics are SO LONG!

At the very-very least, they may win the title of most content available in english, though to be fair, I've spent a certain amount of time trying to figure out if words actually are in english, or maybe are typos, or possibly they're just Like That in the SW universe.

(I assume part of this largesse is because, um, there are so many things to fix? And also there is a lot of time to choose from?)

Me, with five separate tabs of series pages or bookmarks lists open at once: I swear I don't even go here! ::shakes fist in a begrudgingly impressed way at the SW universe in general::