#double agent vader - fialleril

[fundraising-with-audiobooks]

This is @dyspunktional-leviathan, and this is a new project for helping to fundraise for Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, possibly more in future. Send me proof of your donations, and I will make audiobooks.

If anyone wants to join the project, you're incredibly welcome! Please message this blog for that.

My current plan is $30 per chapter, but I am not familiar with that currency and this is my first time making audiobooks too, so that might change.

Example recording — Canticle of the Dragon, the first prologue of Dragons of Autumn Twilight (CW for mentions of war, mass death and displacement, gods turning against their subjects):

The further recordings will be posted on AO3, with links on this blog. This chapter on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58599967/chapters/149305654

For every $30 of donations for vetted Gaza evacuation fundraisers (get them here: @vetted-gaza-funds), I will record a chapter of Dragonlance, starting with Dragons of Autumn Twilight and going in release order.

For every $30 of donations for Crips4Esims4Gaza (https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza), I will record a chapter of The Locked Tomb, starting with Gideon the Ninth.

For every $30 of donations for the Mutual Aim campaign (https://www.tumblr.com/ana-bananya/753577456030679040/here-is-an-update-on-the-mutual-aim-campaign-for) that fundraises for the charities helping Sudan, Congo and Tigray, I will record a chapter of Fialleril's Double Agent Vader (https://archiveofourown.org/series/286908).

If/when I'm done with one of these, I will choose a new thing to audiobook for each branch of the project.

@ficsforgaza could I get a promo?

[sparksinthenight]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Clone Trooper Slick, Anakin Skywalker & Asajj Ventress Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Asajj Ventress, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Clone Trooper Slick (Star Wars), CT-7567 | Rex, CC-2224 | Cody Additional Tags: Fiallerils AU, Double Agent Vader, AU of an AU, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Battle of Christophsis, very oblique references to sexual assault/coercion, Implied/Referenced Sex Series: Part 1 of Biting His Own Tale Summary:

On Christophsis, Asajj Ventress follows her master's orders, Obiwan Kenobi has a knee injury, and Sargent Slick awaits execution. None of this is precisely Anakin Skywalker's problem.

But long ago,

Ekkreth was going along, not looking for trouble, and they met a woman who had forgotten where she came from. Her name was Keekta Du.

[phantomchick]

"Scorn become him well, and appetite and defiance becomes him well The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him."

"Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition... And wonders within there yet."

"He is action and power, The flush of the known universe is in him,"

"A vessel of pure Force the Chosen One will be, more powerful than any Jedi in history."

"The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion."

"Trust in the force, do you?"

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”

"Hallelujah to the grace, and the body, and every cell of us all"

"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."

"…And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF THE SUNS." ―Journal of the Whills, 3:127

"Dukkra ba Dukkra"

"The energy between all things. A tension, a balance that binds the universe together."

"Stars, galaxies, how are things from within Infinitely, Infinitely."

"Ekkreth, the slave who makes free"

"May the force be with you"

Anakin's pupil is scratched by a lightsaber, and he starts to see the force 👀

gift for @vandervoiz as part of the Vaderkin Creative Exchange, organised by @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod!

[solisreading]

things I should be (re)reading right now: Iron Widow for book club

things I'm reading right now: Star Wars fanfiction

[lilolilyr]

~ Lilo's 2024 Star Wars recs ~ (another Ao3 year in review)

This is specifically the star wars edition of my reader year in review, the rest & more info can be found here!

Descriptions/summaries by me, click the links for the ones from the authors.

The Good Sith by sonnyrain - Obi-Wan Kenobi and all of the Vod'e time travel and end up on a Sith planet. Obi-Wan, now 'Aranar', turns to the dark side, swearing to protect his men no matter the cost. Over a million words, lots of plot and character developments, fix-everything, still ongoing as of mid last year but you can read the first part(s) on their own.

I love this fic a ridiculous amount, I read several parts at least twice, and I'm thinking about it constantly. Like, when I think up my plotless little fluff piece fix everything bedtime stories I think up to fall asleep (and sometimes when something's good have to forego sleep to write down immediately because I know I won't remember fuckall come morning), I think of the versions of the characters from that 'verse just as often as I think of canon star wars characters or ones from any other fics. It fits into my headcanon 'verse really well because I always work with multiverse settings, and I love the kid characters especially little Sithling Aurek and his twin Soul.

Knives and Spices by argentee, mikaiyawa and others: A whole group of humans from earth is kidnapped into the Star Wars world, and separate fics follow separate characters. One becomes Mandalorian, one a pop star, yet another befriends some pirates and travels to lands we've never seen in canon. 280k, ratings and warnings vary, series still ongoing, parts can be read separately

I love and adore all kinds of self insert stories but this one is just extra levels of amazing - it's basically humans are space orcs meets Star Wars, and humans are all a bit force sensitive - the ending of the series summary describes it perfectly: "how much trouble can a few humans cause? All of it. All the trouble." and I love it all to bits!

Like a Tree by the River by @bairnsidhe - at Galidraan, Komari has a vision of the canon future and decides that she'd rather leave the Jedi behind than be a part of that massacre. Somehow, this ends with her and Dooku being adopted by mandalorians, and her in turn kind of adopting teenaged Obi-Wan at Melida/Daan? 20k T

Idk, this isn't even such a long one and I mean all of BairnSidhe's works I've read are great but somehow specifically this one with Dooku being the 'a bit old' ad and Komari therefore the bu'ad of a random coruscanti Mandalorian just stuck with me and I sometimes randomly think of Dooku being all confused and have to smile xD the plot&writing is also really good!

How a Romance Novel Saved the Galaxy by @arianaderalte: The mandos get their hands on a novel that describes a romance between mandalorians and jedi, and just how perfect jedi really are as partners for mandalorians... This changes things when both groups interact irl. 200k, rated T, Violence

This series has Everything. Jedi, Mandalorians, action, relationships, all kinds of queerness, and excerpts from a romance novel about the ancient Sith wars. Honestly, this fic just couldn't be better! I binge-read through it in one go even though I should have done a million other things at the time and I didn't regret it one bit xD

All the Amavikka stories: the slaves on Tatooine have a separate secret culture with language, myths and names, and Anakin, coming from this culture, reacts to Palpatine being his newest slave master

I think this idea of Tatooine slave culture and of Anakin's characterization is so interesting and I love reading it, from long Double Agent Vader by @fialleril, which I think is the original fic creating the Ekkreth lore, over the ongoing series Biting His Own Tale by @adragonsfriend, to the short story I can't find anymore about depur erecting a tower, a song-fic to Babylon by Dirt Poor Robin and the reason for my obsession with that band - please, if anyone has a link, send it my way! - and all other fics, I love this trope so much!

I think Ekkreth Skywalker was one of the first trope rabbit holes I stumbled into when I got really into Star Wars longfics in the middle of 2024, and I'm always excited to see references to it in fics mainly about other characters as well, like Breaking Chains by @jehanneargentee, and I went back to (re)reading fics about the trope on purpose several times as well :)

The last fic leads neatly into the next trope I really loved this year, Time Travel stories, more specifically Obi-Wan Kenobi time travelling and meeting mandalorians :D

I don't really have more specific stories for this one, I read so so so many of them that they just blur together in my mind. I marked a couple with the Ao3 rec function so I assume I liked those especially much, but going through them now I still don't really remember much, but I do recognize a couple fic author names as authors I read many good fics from, Ariel_Sojourner AppoApples @batshieroglyphics @roosjem LeeTheHobbit @triscribe cjwritesfanficnow @laurabwrites y'all's are awesome! Everyone, go check out all their fics!

I do also read and enjoy stories where people other than Obi-Wan travel through time, one that really stuck with me is In Good Time by morwen_of_gondor, about the Mandalorian trainers Kal Skirata and Walon Vau time travelling back to their time on Kamino.

All the fluffy h/c, fix-it, everyone lives, no order 66 Clone Wars fics! Pro-jedi, pro-clones, anti-sith (which sometimes includes Anakin, sometimes not), usually focusing on the 212th.

I never watched the series and it's been ages since I watched Attack of the Clones, but somehow, probably on the time travel -> Obi-Wan fics -> General Kenobi pipeline, I ended up reading a loooot of clone wars (fix it) fic, specifically lots and lots of Codywan!

You know that lovely feeling of getting into a new fandom without having any preconceived notions or otps or anything, so you can read All The Fic without any ships or bashing squicking you out? Yeah, that was me in Star Wars several months ago, cursed be the Codywan that got to me xD I can barely read time travel fics anymore without mourning the existence of the Vod'e because changing the past usually means they won't be created (unless they're the ones time travelling of course. Love those fics) and where I used to read just about anyone x Obi-Wan (and also anyone x anybody else lmao), I'm not pretty exclusively into Codywan... That being said, there's a reason for that, and that's the amount of amazing fics for that ship that I came across!

Again, I don't have specific fics that I remember because I just read so many one after the other... I guess I'll have to re-read them all. Which is great actually because me not remembering them much means I can reread them basically for the first time! I did mark some as rec but looking through them now I think they're not mainly recced for the codywan... My shippy bookmark tag might give a better overview.

Another ship I got into was clone troopers Waxer x Boil, I like the thought of the Vod'e being a society of to outsiders identical looking but to each other separate people who only see their immediate batchmates as siblings (which would also psychologically make a lot more sense), and these two are just super cute.

One of the first Waxer/Boil fics I read is also Codywan and it's one of these clones&Obi-Wan time travel fics I like so much :D The 212th Attack Battalion's Guide to Saving the Galaxy by Accident by @antigrav-vector and @quarra, it also has some Dooku/Sifo-Dyas which is another ship I really like.

Another one I still want to continue reading is RCAU: Open Skies mainly by @cacodaemonia, what I've seen of it so far is great and the story is So Long (almost 900k, a honestly daunting wordcount and probably what made me procrastinate continuing it, but also Awesome because So Much Fic), it's cute and shippy and no order 66 but also has plot and interesting characters and ocs and I just love it <3

Also similar but less ship centric, I absolutely love all the fics where Fox gets to kill Palpatine. Just, best trope ever. The Corrie Guard deserves a little Sith Murder. As a treat.

Jaster Mereel and his haat'ade (True Mandalorians), there are a bunch of really good ones where they rescue Obi-Wan and the Young from Melidaan, but also in general all the Jaster fics are great!

While I'm very anti guns irl I just love the fictional Mandalorian culture xD with their cool armor and their codex and the language (per my last count I know 90 words of Mando'a just from fic reading osmosis, send me an ask if you want a list lmao), the vibrant culture created by it being a creed, not one species... and Jaster is just my favorite Mando'ad ever, maybe because he doesn't have much canon attached so fanon just went wild? xD there are also a bunch of jedi shippy fics with him and Dooku sometimes in ot3 with Sifo-Dyas, or him and Jon Antilles like the wonderful 100k wip trade your heart for bones to know by @blackkatmagic, and I think there was one with time travelling adult Obi-Wan as well - edit: yes several, by @roosjem @cjwritesfanficnow @batshieroglyphics <3

Skywalker Family Values by Ariel_Sojourner: Sith-son Luke and senator daughter Leia end up in the same summer camp, it ends in a destruction of the speciist camp, a rebellious theatre performance and the reintroduction of their parents... Aka the parent trap/ Doppelte Lottchen AU that is still somehow perfectly in tune with the Star Wars world! 55k, T for violence.

Can't forget the fic that actually got me into Star Wars! At least I'm pretty sure this is the one? I think there was a tumblr post talking about crackfic ideas for a parent trap AU, and I went looking and found this one, which is actually 100% serious and such a good read. I actually made my mom read it as well xD Das Doppelte Lottchen (German original parent trap book from 1949) was one of our favs for her to read to me when I was a kid, and my mom is always looking for new reading material and as I'm mainly reading fanfic, I'm always happy to find fic she'll also like.

And, because I turn everything into a tag meme, maybe some of you also want to show your appreciation for the writers who got us through the last year - everyone who sees this, feel free to make your own post (if it's just Star wars fic I guess you can reblog-add to this one, but otherwise seriously make your own post)! and remember to leave your authors some comments especially if they can't be @-ed on tumblr :) tagging all the authors already tagged above and everyone else who sees this!

here's my 2024 rec list for other fandoms

more of my fic recs • my writing • my Star Wars • Star Wars fic recs

[megamindsupremacy]

Omg hi I saw you liked desert storm by blue_sunshine, I was obsessed with that fic before gravity falls took over my brain. Have you ever read double agent vader by fialleril on ao3? I believe blue took a lot of their worldbuilding inspiration from that fic and it’s one of my favorites of all time

Yes I have!!!! Fialleri’s world building impact on the star wars fandom is insane. I actually read a bunch of fics that linked back to the DAV series for worldbuilding/conlang references before finally folding and reading the series myself. It was very worth it, their fics are so good

[muse-write]

One of these days I absolutely need to finish reading fialleril’s Double Agent Vader series and adjacent works. I think I’ve had it in the back of my head nagging at me for ten years.

[kitsune024]

Star Wars||Fics I Love||pt4

Anakin||Vader

One with the Force by @shaleenstark  I Chapters: 18/? I

Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo by AkumaKami64 | Chapters 41/41 | FFN has a sequel

Along a Different Path by DragonflyonBreak I Part 1-2 I

Better Choices (Vader Lives AU) by @spyrothefox I Part 1-11 I

Well It Goes Like This by orphan_account I Chapters: 15/15 I

The Exiled by DarthNickels I Chapters: 4/4 I

Double Agent Vader by @fialleril I Part 1 - 20 I

Force of Many Sights by DAsObiQuiet I Part 1 - 6 I

Cal Kestis

Star Wars: Aberration by @siege-gunn I Part 1-12 |

The Mandalorian

The Mand’alor and the Jedi by theunacknowledged I Part 1-5 I

[manifestosimaginarios]

I was wondering if there are any fics out there that address the topic of Leia as a slave and the tatooine slave culture from fialleril of the double agent vader series. I feel it would be so interesting, Leia is an outsider and doesn't really have a claim on that culture, and yet her name is Leia and the enslaved people at Jabba's think it a weird coincidence, but she does ends up killing Jabba with her own chains.

[anidala-for-ever]

That's such an interesting take. I never contemplated the philosophy behind Leia's existence because I grew up with all kinds of mythology where the all powerful people still have restrictions placed on them. I'm just here to cheer for when Leia eats Depur at Bentu Depuraak.

Leia in Amavikka Culture

This is coming from writing Elder Sisters.

To my reading of Fialleril’s stories, in Amavikka culture, Ekkreth represents the idea that the masters may control a lot, but they cannot stop all of the clever little rebellions. That’s what it means when Ekkreth says, “the chain has not been forged that can hold me.” Leia says the same thing in The Slave Who Makes Free, but it means something different when she says it.

First encountering Leia's character, my brain immediately asked, "why doesn't this massive powerful dragon just go step on Depur? we don't need no stinking Ekkreth stories, we just need the story of how Leia stepped on Depur one time." But that's not how mythology works. It's the wrong question entirely, because mythology is about representing and understanding the real life situations of an entire people. A better question is what does it mean that Leia doesn't just eat Depur?

Leia is strong, strong enough to endure anything, and to break any chain. Eventually. Leia is not about the ability of the people to go on a rampage and destroy Depur’s palace or rip all his chains like tissue paper, because they don’t have that ability, and destruction is the work of Depur. Leia represents the ability of the people to endure hardship until every chain is broken, because one day they will be. Together, Ekkreth and Leia are opposing forces—rebellion and endurance—that each make the other stronger. In fact—little rebellions (Ekkreth the parent) are what make the long-term endurance (Leia the daughter) possible. Writing this story was a discovery of that subtlety in Leia’s purpose for me, which is part of why it came out as a coming-of-age story for her, and why it fell into place with Anakin beginning to settle into the past for the long-haul. 

[somefanficrecomendations]

Summer Monthly Roundup

Heyyyyyyy, so it’s been a hot minute since we last spoke. This roundup will have the highlights from May, June, July, and August so buckle up ‘cause we have a lot of fics to get through!

DC

Homecoming as Labyrinthian by cabezas_de_vaca Batman, (gen), 25k, Case Fic, Birds of Prey In which Barbara returns home, starts a girl gang, goes toe-to-toe with a serial killer, and figures out what she wants from life.

yourself or someone like you by suzukiblu My Adventures with Superman, (multi), 9k, Kon-El "Crap!" the food truck worker shrieks in alarm. "Don't hurt him, Superman, he's just a kid!" Clark . . . pauses, then looks up from the kid that he is currently pinning into the street as said kid struggles underneath him. "'Hurt him'?" he asks in reflexive confusion, and then realizes how batting a teenager around like a person-shaped cat toy and pinning him to the street hard enough to crack it probably actually looks to an outside observer. . . . um. Whoops. "Um," he starts awkwardly, and then the kid slips his pin while he's distracted and throws his arms around his neck with a gleeful laugh and a bright grin. "Dad!" he crows triumphantly, and hugs Clark harder than literally anyone has ever hugged him before.

Foreign Counsel by icarus_chained Batman, (Clark Kent/Lois Lane), 34k, ID reveal, A/B/O If Clark thought that Lois Lane would be content to sit back in Metropolis while he fell on his sword like she hadn't kept the exact same secret for the exact same reason ... well. His head hadn't exactly been in the game the past week or so. She'd probably forgive him. But what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him, and she had her own appointment with Gotham City. With ... Leslie Thompkins, in particular. But more than that. Because Gotham had an entire alien invasion happen, and nobody seemed to give a shit, and Lois hadn't written some of the best pieces of her life trying to bring attention to this city only to let it slide into the sea unremarked now. She had a meeting, and a job to do, and ... maybe more of both than she'd planned for going in.

MISC

Triangulating Nothing by cabezas_de_vaca Harry Potter (gen), 84k, Genre tag, Genre tag Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff-- houses have never mattered, not for the Trio. And now there's a war on. What would it look like to build a side of their own for a change? And Justin's careful and best friends with all the ghosts and the portraits, and Neville's coming into his own, and Ginny won't even hesitate to punch you in the face if you bad mouth her crew. And why exactly does Voldemort care so much about some vague prophecy? Or: fifth year means Umbridge, the DA, and learning how to fight a war.

To Know My Enemy by Menel X-Men (Logan/Scott Sumers), 36k What if Scott and Logan once struck a deal in order to better facilitate their working relationship? What if that deal grew more complicated over time?

Double Agent Vader by Fialleril (multi), 90k, AU-Canon Divergence The one where Vader turned double agent for the Rebellion about three years after ROTS, and Leia is now his primary contact with the Rebellion. This is a collection of oneshots that all fit into the same universe, but posted in no particular order. Updated when the muse strikes me. Alternate summary, according to TV Tropes: A man attempts to escape slavery by turning into one of his culture heroes, teaching his daughter how to do magic, killing people, and flower arranging.

CROSSOVERS

This Bitter Earth by art_savage Supernatural x Criminal Minds, (gen), 12k, Case Fic  The Winchesters and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit investigate the same case, a series of mysterious deaths on the grounds of a South Carolina plantation. 

It's a Weird New World by Rhino (RhinoMouse), RhinoMouse Criminal Minds x Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (Jennifer “JJ” Jareau/Daisy Johnson), 51k, Time Travel, BAMF Daisy The BAU has a new agent assigned to them against their wishes. After-all they don't need a new agent, especially one with a file so classified they can't see anything but the agent's name in it. But Strauss's orders are Strauss's orders. It would help if this Daisy would stop taking stupid risks and acting like she's bored. Of course Daisy really is bored and isn't exactly allowed to mention that after fighting aliens, Inhumans, and Hydra, dealing with regular serial killers is kind of low stakes.

While You Were Missing by basil_coffee_and (Roy Harper/Jason Todd) 85k, Accidental Baby Acquisition A familiar redheaded child darts across the bullpen with a shout of “PAPA!” and barrels into Jason’s arms. “Lian–” He breathes. Jason's undercover work as Neal Caffrey is difficult for several reasons. He didn't anticipate that single parenting would be one of them, though.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: His Master liked to say that Vader was born in fire on Mustafar. But Ekkreth was born in the desert.

Author: @fialleril

Note from submitter: The first in their very good Double Agent Vader series

[wibzenadarksiderwithasoftheart]

i love this game :D

🍄 - pls share a hc for any pairing you like, i love reading them <3 🦋 - share anything that has been on your heart or your mind lately 🪲 - add 50 words to a wip (optional) and share the paragraph

Hi, well I like it too, even though it challenges me.

(I will cheat if I find it necessary)

🍄 - feel free to share a hc for any pairing you like, I love reading them <3

Hmm, an hc that I haven't already shared with you… tough.🤔 Ohh now I know!

These are a couple of sentences that I never got to use in 'Com'Passion, but which were actually part of the original idea.

Anakin rested against Mace's chest asking,"When do I get the chance to kriff you?"

Mace chuckled. "The day you can defeat me in a duel or help me put an end to this hidden Sith Master."

Guess when Anakin got to kriff Mace…

And two bonus hc that aren't linked to a pairing.

Quinlan speaks Amatakka (the secret language of the slaves, originating from Fialleril's Double Agent Vader series).

Quin and Aayla practice Jedi terrain running (imagine parkour with force abilities), and they teach Anakin who later teaches Ahsoka.

🦋 - share something on your mind or in your heart recently.

Hehe my brain is a busy place, often trying to think of several things at once. Currently, I'm thinking a lot about what to do with my family in the upcoming days off before Easter. There are several minor plot bunnies jumping around seemingly only to create chaos. I'm wondering if I should consider listening to Dune on audiobook. Also, I'm planning all the things I need to do in my garden, and last but not least, the rewrite of Nanika is always simmering in the background of my brain.

🪲 - add 50 words to a wip (optional) and share the paragraph

This isn't really from a wip, and yet it is. I am doing some writing exercises, writing from a list of smutty prompts from this post.

"I think you lost your underwear somewhere, Darling."

He could not formulate a response, his voice betraying him, as only incoherent sounds escaped his throat, embarrassing sounds more akin to shrieks and whimpers. His senses was totally overstimulated by the feeling of a hot wicked tongue mercilessly licking across his overheated sensitive flesh.

The Sith's golden eyes sparked at him in mocking amusement.

"Sith got your tongue?"

[astudyinimagination]

Okay, okay, so what I'm hoping in the future is to return to my Star Wars AUs, and these are all going to take a lot of planning, but I'd like to continue them and actually finish them. Because, looking back at them, there's some good stuff in there! I want these finished just for me! :D

But if you guys want them, too, here's what I hope to get back to:

Legacy of Thrawn: AU to the Hand of Thrawn duology, wherein Thrawn's clone wakes up before Luke and Mara can kill him, and convinces them to let him help them restore order to the galaxy. This one is VERY old — I dropped it in 2010 and never finished it. It's so old that I am a significantly different person with significantly better writing skills, and I have a desperate need not just to finish the thing but rewrite it. I just... I know so much more than I did when I was twenty. xD

The Gentleness That Comes not from the Absence of Violence: My "Padmé Lives" AU. Padmé survives childbirth and takes her twins, Obi-Wan, and several of her handmaidens with her into hiding. This was my last NaNoWriMo project, and I think it's one of the best things I've ever written. The story isn't just about how Padmé's survival changes events, but how she copes with everything that's happened to her. She and Obi-Wan and the handmaidens... and eventually Ahsoka. (It was also written before the Padmé novels, so it's not rooted in the novels E.K. Johnston wrote, with all due respect to her.)

The Hermit and the Orphan: The "Obi-Wan adopts Mara" AU. Nine-year-old Mara Jade discovers that her beloved Emperor murdered her parents, and runs away... and right into Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine. They proceed to adopt each other, and Mara becomes best friends with Biggs Darklighter and Luke Skywalker.

Where Light Can Be: The "Mara joins the Rebellion" AU. Same starting point, different age — Mara makes her life-changing discovery a year after the destruction of the first Death Star, and defects to the Rebellion. She ends up joining Rogue Squadron, and joins Luke on his quest to learn more about the Jedi, hoping to learn how to use her abilities in ways that don't remind her of Palpatine. Of course, she and Luke fall in love, which will have a significant impact on the aftermath of Bespin...

Star-Crossed: The hardest of all of these. Sherlock Holmes in the Star Wars universe fusion. What do an orphan-turned-Jedi, a Chiss healer, a Queen, and a Senator-turned-Chancellor have in common? Oh, that they're a private consulting detective, a former army doctor, the doctor's wife, and a mathematics professor in another universe...

Unnamed Leia time-travel AU: Double Agent Vader AU, never started. Sometime before the Battle of Hoth, Leia falls back in time to the Clone Wars, to meet General Kenobi and his former apprentice who seems eerily familiar. When she finally meets Padmé Amidala, the mysteries of her biological family and her mentor Ekkreth finally start to fall into place. Permission to write the AU given by Fialleril years ago, and I had forgotten that until recently! And now that I have some pieces of the story in my head, I am not letting this one go again!

So that's... it, I'm pretty sure. That's the stuff that I've started, mostly within the past decade, that I really want to continue. And I'm hoping to have time this coming winter to do it. (I have... other commitments plus family stuff that is definitely going to keep me from fic writing until then.)

But in the meantime, if you want to come chat with me about stuff, ask me questions... I would be so happy to talk about all the ideas I've got that are hopefully going to all make it onto AO3 someday!

[lapseinrecs]

Double Agent Vader

By Fialleril @fialleril

Archives of Our Own and Fanfiction.net

Status: Dead Collection — last updated 2017; 90,991 words

Summary: The one where Vader turned double agent for the Rebellion about three years after ROTS, and Leia is now his primary contact with the Rebellion.

My thoughts: Hands down, one of my favorite fics ever. Fialleril’s Tatooine Slave Culture provides a beautiful framing for the themes of freedom and self-determination.

[snickerdoodlles]

R and S for the author ask game <3

>:O you're breaking out the big boy asks, oh man

R. link your favourite fic of all-time.

i am wringing my hands over this, there's so many great fics to pick from! 😂 forcing myself to just pick one from the list i have going in the other window lol:

Close to the Chest (and companion fic Beat of Your Drum): you know that feeling when you have a rarepair with not many fics to your taste but you have one really good one you can read over and over without getting bored? if you're like me, the answer is not many, but this one is one of them!

it's a Haikyuu!! coming of age story that focuses on Yahaba. a lot of great humor and excellent friendship. i love how she builds her Yahaba/Kyoutani, they never lose their sharpness with each other while also still being really good friends who support each other and inspire each other to grow. and if you like Close to the Chest, then you get to enjoy the story all over again with Kyoutani's POV in Beat of Your Drum, which is also great ❤

S. link your favourite author.

Fialleril (@fialleril)

fia hasn't been online for several years so uh, heads up if that matters to you? anyways, i first followed them for Star Wars -- found them first thru a series they've since orphaned, stayed for their Double Agent Vader AU which is so good, but also all of their stories are in some way one of my favorites. fia put tatooine in the center of the universe for all their sw fic and it's fantastic, i esp adore the folkloric vibes of what they wrote <33 talking with them is where i feel like i first really figured out how to worldbuild for stories-- if i ever finish my wuju bakery fic before the show airs, you will probably see their stories' influence on my worldbuilding for it XD

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