#garlympics verse

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last line challenge

rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

tagged by @ominouspuff so uhhh sorry xoxo

“Eventually, Gilamar had convinced the longnecks that minor variations in product wouldn’t affect military outcomes, but that ‘eventually’ rested uneasily on uncounted piles of slag with familiar faces.”

me: *writes a cracky story about clones doing sports* haha this is so much fun!

me: *follows it up with a bleak kamino piece* ha. ha. do not DARE observe me--

tagging if you want to play! @varpusvaras @gutterandthestars @amberskyyking

[gutterandthestars]

Last Line Challenge

rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

Tagged by @rooksunday the ratbag

This is the Trooper Loops Makes Unsettling Art fic for their GARlympics ‘verse. It’s a handful of lines, for context.

“So, corporal,” asks Rex, in his Voice of Hearty Encouragement, “What’s it called?”

“I think it’s called acrylic, captain”, answers Corporal Topo, nose inches away from his canvas. His tongue is poking out from the side of his mouth as he dabs with the brush, and his hand is wobbling a little.

“I mean, what is the title of the painting?”

Topo recoils. “Paintings have to have titles?” he squeaks, nearly distraught. “I didn’t know!”

Tagging @emjee who’s recently joined us in the deep nuclear waste repository that is Stucky

Muahahahahahaha…

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i really didn’t intend these fics to be The Ballad Of Fox And Thorn but here we are

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i can't believe i’m making a pinned post for fic

ao3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/jsunday/pseuds/rook

star wars ✨

> localised gravity aka soft din and grogu feelings: tumblr masterpost | ao3

> the GARlympics (citius, altius, ridiculous) verse aka clones do snark, sports, and self-expression

all of life is but a game (and i'm winning) | ao3 free free money | ao3 a blade in the hand (two in the face) | ao3 eleven ways to lose a war | ao3

> coruscant's haunted (a monster bingo) aka drabbles about the coruscant guard encountering monster tropes | ao3

>a clone trooper told me nonsense for 45 minutes and then i tipped them | originally here | ao3

> username: honk! honk!'s best friend is username: ten-ten | ao3

> it's only a target if you miss fox doesn't like sweet things. he only ever eats half (winter soldier thorn) | ao3

> changing of the guard (and repercussions thereof) fox acquires three eldritch children. other things happen too | ao3 | corrie week series

> survival as a habit | clonebang 2024 | link to come!

the witcher ⚔️

> Practicum in Advanced Alchemy (Revisited) aka what if druid geralt in skellige | ao3

i also made a monster bingo card if you're into that kind of thing

also also i tag a lot of nonsense as putting my blorbo in situations

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!!! @gutterandthestars made a RELATED WORK for the garlympics verse! i am delighted!! and concerned about loops (babyyyy), and as always, petitioning for rex to get a single break (i’m so sorry about your entire deal, rex). but LOOK AT THIS 😭

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Chapters: 1/15 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: CC-1010 | Fox, CC-2224 | Cody, CC-5052 | Bly, CC-6454 | Ponds, CC-3636 | Wolffe, Alpha-17 (Star Wars), Clone Commander Thorn (Star Wars), Obi-Wan Kenobi, Aayla Secura, CT-7567 | Rex, Boba Fett, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), Original Clone Character(s), Plo Koon Additional Tags: Clone Troopers Deserve Better (Star Wars), Clone Troopers Speak Mando'a (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Inhibitor Chips (Star Wars), Order 66 Didn't Happen (Star Wars), Coruscant Guard (Star Wars), GARlympics, Accidental Planet Acquisition, author will leave no trope unturned, author didn't check the timeline and is now too frightened to do so, just this once everybody lives (apart from that guy) Series: Part 4 of GARlympics Summary:

After the discovery of the control chips, life didn't change for the clones. How could it change? They were soldiers and they were at war. They'd work quietly free themselves of the chips - whatever the chips were for - and then return to the front to die the way they'd been made to do.

Yet the events of the GARlympics had prompted the vode to wonder what more they were or could be, and slowly the conversation changes from 'what more?' to 'what instead?'. Now they're asking far more loudly and soon they'll get an answer.

Meanwhile, on a planet at the edge of the rim, Rex is regretting ever accepting his commission.

In which we find our way Home.

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eleven ways to lose a war | two chapter friday! more questions about tea (then) and EYES ONLY (3) - we finally meet some jedi, and rex continues to have simply the most amazingest time ✨

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MISSION REPORT

EYES ONLY: MARSHAL COMMANDER CODY (CC-2224), 7TH SKY CORPS

IN TRANSIT TO [LOCATION REDACTED]

eleven ways to lose a war | chapter three

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i just want you to know one of my “i’m writing this fic for an audience of me” bits in eleven ways is the implication that seventeen and fordo find spider-legged maul on lotho minor

things that happen after this:

* fordo installs kiddy latches on everything in the ship

* he also had a constant stream of chats with tech about mechanic repair (tech started by using Let Me Space Google That For You but eventually caved to scientific curiosity)

* late one night seventeen hears his internal voice clearly say ‘i can fix him’ and that’s how they all end up farming krill on sorgan for a season

* maul is a dreadful farmer but manages to make lilac spotchka; after consultation with the trade corps at Home, fordo agrees to forgo the bounty on maul, and they enter trade agreements with sorgan (fordo doesn’t consult with seventeen, as seventeen is still pretending not to have feelings)

* they’re attacked by pirates on the way to their next destination and maul saves seventeen’s life. twice.

* fordo installs kiddy latches on seventeen’s armour

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I am bound to ask about “A not unreasonable amount of blasters”, if no one else has already

ahahah finding a collection of lines from this chapter that weren't spoilers was... challenging. i should write longer chapters.

therefore you get an out of context flashback!

Rain pelted against the windows. It hadn't rained on Geonosis. Red dust and red blood and eyes stung red by squinting at it all. When he'd boarded the transport and watched Kamino vanish, Crackle had thought that Geonosis would be either the first of many new planets, or the last he'd ever see, and either way he'd been grateful to get away from the interminable rain. When Fordo had found him in the desert, half-buried beneath the corpses of a spider droid and the troopers who'd marched ahead, Crackle had waited for the mercy shot that would leave him as more red in the sands. He hadn't had a weapon—his holdout DC-15 had been jammed in the spider droid's chassis where he'd emptied the cartridge in a scream of undisciplined desperation—and he hadn't had the will to use one. Fordo had blotted out the glare of the Geonosian sun for a long minute. Then he'd snagged Crackle by his unbroken ankle and dragged him in a pitiless march toward a waiting ship.

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MISSION REPORT

EYES ONLY: If you're receiving this, you can read it, what do I care

CORUSCANT, FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO SEND THIS COMM

eleven ways to lose a war | completed!

in which we find out what can, exactly, go wrong (thanks, Rex) and the clones go Home

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a two chapter day for eleven ways to lose a war! a not unreasonable amount of blasters and EYES ONLY (2)

i like to imagine crackle wandering around this fic in stealth mode while fordo is watching him through cctv. this is totally irrelevant to the story but their frenemyship snuck up on me and i am delighted by it

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O: I'm gonna have to steal your brain for title ideas lmao

Could I ask about 'secret handshakes'?

SECRET HANDSHAKES 👀 this snippet has no handshakes in it. ponds has been trying to figure out thorn. it hasn't been working.

Ponds tucked his hands more tightly against his chest and shifted his weight. He didn't know what to say. "I don't know what to say," he said. Thorn slid his gaze toward Ponds. His lopsided grin looked like Fox's. "I don't know what I want you to say." Ponds scratched his nose and cast his gaze to the ceiling. He found himself unsurprised to see a crocheted blanket somehow affixed there. "Who made that one?" he asked, pointing. "Delta Squad. Grizzer wanted it for her nest so we had to put it up there for safety." "What about—" "You don't need to talk me down, Ponds. I'm fine," Thorn interrupted. He rubbed his thumbs over the curved cheeks of his bucket. "Why did you come here, Commander?"

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because it is that time of (four) years: did YOU wonder about clones and the olympics? well i did the wondering for you already! like 45k of it.

now featuring: ponds being the brains of the operation! bly resenting his own involvement! cody having too many thoughts about teapot placement! fox and a carefully formed breakdown! more ocs than i had planned (i had planned zero)! literally no olympic sport!

also somehow this all ends up thwarting order 66 xoxo

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CC-1010 | Fox, CC-6454 | Ponds, Original Clone Character(s), Clone Commander Thorn (Star Wars), CC-5052 | Bly, CC-3636 | Wolffe, CT-6922 | Dogma, CT-5385 | Tup, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Commander Mayday (Star Wars), CC-4477 | Thire, Alpha-17 (Star Wars) Additional Tags: GARlympics, Coruscant Guard (Star Wars), Clone Troopers Deserve Better (Star Wars), Clone Troopers Need Hugs (Star Wars), Engineers, and that is a WARNING Series: Part 1 of GARlympics Summary:

It had started, as these things tended to do, with a bad idea at 79’s. When it came to the telling, there were as many variations of who was there as there were batches on Kamino, but most clones generally agreed on a core group: Quorum, an engineer with the 212th, with ideas bigger than the GAR budget allowed; Harris, logistics officer in the Coruscant Guard, who had more contacts than the city planet had levels; and Ponds, commander of the 91st, who had never met a bad idea he couldn’t make worse, and held the power to sign forms permitting it.

In which an idea is had, and two million clones run with it. So much bangcorn is eaten.

[rooksunday]

Surprise self-rec time! Pick 3 of your favorite things you’ve written and share them here, then put this in the inbox (anonymously or not) of your fellow writers to spread the positivity and help celebrate already written fics 💞

aaah this is fun! tysm ✨

localised gravity (ch 21: love) | din and grogu and memory

i had a very specific image in mind for this that i’m not sure i conveyed. the notion of memory, and din’s hope to be remembered in turn— i know i make myself cry when i read this one ahahah.

it’s only a target if you miss | fox and the ghost of thorn

transformation and reclamation of self and one’s narrative is, essentially, everything to me. now with flat pack furniture and plants! rightly, this should’ve been 100k.

a blade in the hand (two in the face) | crackle permits himself to care

the most self indulgent part of the garlympics verse. more subversion of destiny: kamino says you’re a shell, but inside you lives an ocean. crackle came from nowhere and captured me.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: CC-1010 | Fox, Clone Commander Thorn (Star Wars), CC-4477 | Thire, Coruscant Guard Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Coruscant Guard Trooper Hound (Star Wars), Grizzer the Massiff (Star Wars), Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), Original Clone Character(s) Additional Tags: Coruscant Guard (Star Wars), Coruscant Guard Troopers Deserve Better (Star Wars), GARlympics, Clone Troopers Deserve Better (Star Wars), Massiff Species (Star Wars), Crack Treated Seriously Series: Part 2 of GARlympics Summary:

The Coruscant Guard finds themselves under-equipped on an indifferent planet and quickly learns that, while natborns won't pay for the Guard's much-needed basic resources, they will pay for almost anything else. Frequently. Generously. And leave positive reviews about it.

In which Commander Fox has a series of conversations, one minor breakdown, and a makeover.