#ilcuoreardendo-fic

[ilcuoreardendo-fic]

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Lins. She/Her. Taciturn, introverted, word lover. Annoyed atheist. Jaded feminist. Pramgatist.

Been in fandom since I was a wee teen in the late 90s.

I have a low tolerance for BS. (Like ship shaming, fandom policing and fandom purity culture - just to name a few things.)

I tag liberally, so if you have a problem with something (kink, ship, whatever), you can block the tag. Curate your experience.

I’m currently living in the Star Wars fandoms, bouncing between the Prequels, Clone Wars and the Bad Batch. (Love the entirety of TBB, but I definitely have a huge soft spot for Tech, Echo, Crosshair. Especially Echo, my cyber cinnamon roll.) But I moonlight in others.

In addition to Tumblr, you can find me at: Archive Of Our Own | ilcuoreardendo Dreamwidth | raptureofthemoon (largely just a backup space)

I'm all over the place and not consistent on any one project (and I’m slow AF when it comes to creating new fic lately). 

But here are a few things I’m working on (and a few highlights for flavor). I’ll try keeping this up to date.

The Bad Batch

Most of my images/edits and gifs: TBB Media

One Shots

The Fall (AO3) S2. Tech, in that moment. And the moments that come after.

A Hole in the Universe (Tumblr) S3. Crosshair mourning Tech.

Nights Like This (Tumblr) S3, Post Series Finale. Some nights, they can’t sleep.

One Shot Reader Fics

Staring Contest (Tumblr; Crosshair x Jedi!Reader)

From Here On Out (Tumblr; Echo x Reader; post series finale)

Series

Written in the Dust (AO3)  [In progress] A fix-it series branching off of Season 1. Echo’s past finds him. Echo x F!Jedi. Maybe...some other TBB x F!Jedi...we go where the wind takes us.)

A Place Called Home (Part 1 of Written in the Dust) Meaningful moments Echo shares with his new squad as he thinks about his past and finds his place in the present. (Complete)

Rescue on Bernilla [Working Title] (Upcoming; Echo/Female Character/Fives)

Series extras

Untitled (Upcoming; Crosshair/Female Character/Tech) Crosshair and Tech’s shore leave on Chandrila.

TBB Headcanony Stuff

Gifset: “Care to introduce your new friends, Caleb?”

Mood Boards

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Codywan

A Clone and His Jedi (AO3) [One-shot] Cody. Obi-Wan. A moment alone, waiting for rescue.

Star Wars Prequel Era (Samples)

QuiObi

And the Force Will Lead Them (AO3) [Complete; Zine fic] After Obi-Wan's actions on Naboo, he and Qui-Gon drifted from one another. A rare disease and a mysterious Jedi master draw them back together and lead them to discover the depth of their bond.

QuiObiKin

The Sacrifice (AO3) [Complete] It's been a year since Qui-Gon Jinn and his padawan, Anakin Skywalker, fell to the dark side. It's been nine months since the gifts started showing up at the Temple, addressed to Obi-Wan.

Vaderwan

Acquisition (AO3) [In progress] Wherever he went, Vader seemed to follow. And it became much too frequent an occurrence to just be coincidence.

[thedwarventradesman]

Hollow — Tech x GN!Reader Batcher

Description: Tech x GN!Reader Batcher, established relationship; POV is 1st person so there's no use of gendered pronouns (: Warnings: Angst, major character death, grief, very vague allusion to suicidal thoughts and self-destructive tendencies Word Count: 916

A/N: This is the first time I've really written any fandom content since high school. Or at least, with the intention of letting others read it. Tried to balance the mix of recounting the past while also shifting to how reader/oc is in the present which can be tricky so I hope it reads well.

Image Credit: @ilcuoreardendo-fic

Everything happened so fast.

It was like any other mission gone bad — shots from grounded enemies, shots from the sky, and having to problem-solve on the fly amidst the chaos. Then… it was very different.

There was a violent shake as the rail cars were hit and then I was looking down at my husband hanging far below the car. Momentarily, all sound became an indistinguishable noise, garbled voices of distress mixed with ringing and roaring in my ears, as you struggled to climb up to the car.

As I moved to help you, the car creaked and, snapping back to reality, I heard you shout up, “Whoa! Don't! Any shift in weight could send both of these cars over. You must sever the connection hinge. Now!” Wrecker and I immediately exclaimed our rejection of that idea. I could feel my panic rising, my desperation increasing. There must be something. There HAS to be something. Anything to fix this mess and save you.

Your next words, spoken so calmly and matter-of-fact, slammed into me. “There is no time, cyare. Plan 99.” “Don’t. You. Dare, Tech.” My voice cracked on your name. Gently, desperately, I repeated my words, punctuating them with “please”. Your eyes locked with mine — soft, sad, and full of love. “I love you, cyar’ika, but when have we ever followed orders?”

When you shot the connection and began to fall, a deafening scream ripped out of me. “NO!” My body automatically lunged for the side with my hand outstretched before Wrecker grabbed me and held me firmly. Thrashing to escape his grasp as the car began to move, I screamed, “TECH! No! No no no! Go back!”

As the car got further and further away, the shock of the situation overtook me — numb, unseeing, unmoving with that same mix of indistinguishable sounds in my ears. My body went into a survival autopilot – moving as prompted but I wasn’t there – and the team had to help drag me back to the Marauder through the attacks.

Once aboard the Marauder, standing in the middle of our quarters, my knees gave out as I crumbled. Ripping off my helmet and goggles, my agonized sobs finally broke free and echoed through the ship. So full of grief, my body shaking, I leaned forward on my hands for support, fingers digging into the metal floor. One hand reached up, taking my chained wedding ring from underneath my undershirt and I clutched it so hard a mark was left in my hand.

At some point, I had stopped crying and left my body. I didn’t even know the ship stopped. Feeling a gentle hand on my shoulder, the only acknowledgment of awareness I could give was a hoarse, emotionless mumble, “You should have let me go with him.” 

From there, I don’t truly remember much of anything. There’s a blur of being dragged to my feet and out of the ship, and of having wet hair and clean clothes while AZ checked me over with no memory of cleaning up or changing. I’m ashamed to say that I don’t even truly remember Omega being taken. All I truly remember from the past month and a half is waves of soul-crushing pain surrounded by numbness as I attempted to lose myself in my work. I keep crying and feeling flashes of disbelief and anger. I’ve lost my appetite… and my desire for self-preservation. All this while moving on autopilot to complete my tasks and finish the mission. Find and save Omega. That is all that matters right now.

Hunter, Wrecker, and Echo are concerned for me, often pushing food on me and otherwise fussing. Up until now, there were eyes on me almost all the time, it felt like, and I hated it, but I understood why they hovered. Echo left a couple of weeks after the events to rejoin Rex, but I still hear him comm Hunter every so often to check in on me and find out how the search for Omega is going.

The days are often easier than the nights since I’ve taken on most of Tech’s tasks alongside my own. Hunter and Wrecker have tried to take some of them, wishing to lighten my load, but I adamantly refuse. I need them. I need the memory of helping with and hearing about them from him by doing them. They’ve let the situation be, but still intervene to make me sleep.

That’s when it gets unbearable.

The emptiness beside me screams, his scent got fainter with each passing day until it disappeared, remembering the quiet moments we shared in this space, and hearing his final words on a loop in the silence. Once the exhaustion finally takes me… I often watch Tech fall and wake with tears streaming down my face or stinging eyes and a heavy heart. Some nights, I think Hunter has been slipping me medicine in my food ‘cause those are the only nights I get any decent sleep.

Despite all this, I have, believe it or not, been getting better. Slowly, I began to reengage with the boys and be open with them. They stopped having to watch me as close or force me to take care of myself. Now, it’s reminders and intervention as necessary along with occasional check-ins when I seem particularly off one day. I’m still far from okay and I won’t ever be the same but, thanks to our brothers, I become a little less hollow each day.

[spacemagicandlaserswords]

Tech Lives Reason #2

Humans have survived long falls before.

I don't care how clutching at straws (toothpicks?) this is, there are numerous recorded examples from history of humans surviving long falls. @ilcuoreardendo-fic wrote the wonderful ficlet The Fall (don't worry it's a fix-it where Tech lives), which was one of the first pieces of fanfic that I could manage to read after the season 2 finale. In the notes they mention an example that I've since seen cited in other posts about this topic.

Alan Magee

He was an USAAF airman in World War II who survived a fall of 6,700m/22,000ft from his B-17 Flying Fortress after it was shot down.

That is a fall of 6.7 kilometers. He fell over 4 miles.

How did he survive?

He fell through the glass roof of the Saint-Nazaire railway station in France.

That's not to say that he wasn't injured. Magee suffered serious injuries including a broken right leg and ankle, almost severed right arm, 28 shrapnel wounds, punctured lung and kidney, severely damaged eye and nose, partially crushed lungs and other internal organs, along with injuries to his teeth, knee, leg and ankle.

But he survived. He lived.

Interestingly, Magee was treated by a doctor in the German military, who said to him "we are enemies, but I am first a doctor and I will do my best to save your arm." Parallels to Tech being captured and kept alive by Dr Hemlock? Hmmm?! Coincidence? I think not!

There are numerous other examples of humans surviving long falls as well.

Vesna Vulović, who holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute, a distance of 10,160m/33,000ft. She was trapped in the fuselage of the DC-9 that she was a flight attendant on after it exploded mid-air in an attack in 1972. The fuselage, with Vulović inside, crashed at an angle and then slid down the snow-covered and heavily wooded mountainside near the village of Srbská Kamenice in the Czech Republic.

Ivan Chisov, a Soviet Air Force lieutenant in World War II who survived a fall of around 7,000m/23,000ft after he had to bail out of his plane that was attacked in 1942. He hit the edge of a snowy ravine and then tumbled down the rest of the way. Severely injured (spinal injuries and a broken pelvis) and was in a critical condition for a month after surgery but was back flying 3 months later.

Nicholas Alkemade, a Flight Sergeant in the RAF who survived a fall of 5,500m/18,000ft after leaping from his burning plane upon discovering that his parachute had been destroyed in the fire. He landed in a deep snow drift in a pine forest outside Berlin. Astoundingly, his only injury from the fall was a sprained knee. His other injuries (burns, cuts and shrapnel wounds) were from when his plane was attacked and was literally burning and crashing around him. Interestingly, both of his flying boots were missing when he landed, which may be because they were ripped off as he crashed into tree branches on the way down.

Christine McKenzie, a South African skydiver who survived a fall of 3,400m/11,000ft in 2004 after both her main and emergency parachute failed. Despite this, she survived with only a broken pelvis and bruising as she fell into power lines before hitting the ground. These were key to her survival as they appear to have absorbed a lot of the energy from her fall.

James Boole, another skydiver who survived a fall of 1,829m/6,000ft in the Kamchatka Peninsula in 2009 after only opening his parachute 20m from the ground. He left a 1 meter crater in the snow where he landed. Despite this, he survived, even with a lung full of blood, internal bleeding and a broken back and rib.

Juliane Koepcke, who survived a fall of 3,200m/10,000ft in 1971 after the plane she was flying in disintegrated mid-air after being struck by lightning. She survived and managed to walk away from the crash with a broken collarbone, deep cut in her right arm and cuts on her legs, along with an injured eye, ruptured knee ligament and concussion. After all of this, she then managed to survive for 11 days alone in the Peruvian rainforest before finding people to help her. She has a number of ideas as to why she survived, including that the bench seat she was strapped to slowed her fall and that it also helped to cushion her fall when it struck the trees in the dense rain forest on her way down.

So there is precedence and there is hope. Tech can survive that fall. The chances of him surviving are admittedly not great. Very slim in fact. Though I'm sure Tech has already calculated the odds of survival and also knows exactly what he needs to do in order to give himself the best chance of surviving. This is Tech we're talking about. The man's a genius.

Tech has his vast brainpower to his advantage but he's going to need a lot of other things to go right for him. Fortunately, the survival examples I listed, and others that I've read, all have a consistent theme.

Every person had their fall broken by something.

The common one seems to be snow and tree branches from a tree dense environment, such as forests or jungles.

Now, the Batch were on Eriadu to try and sneak into Empire Con (thank you to for @feltpool who came up with this, it continues to amuse me far too much).

And what does Wookieepedia list as the primary terrain on Eriadu?

Mountains and jungles.

So we're at least in an environment where tree branches and densely populated trees could break Tech's fall. One of the examples I listed above even survived their fall in a jungle.

However, due to the clouds, we aren't able to see what sort of environment is beneath Tech when he falls. From a narrative and storytelling perspective, that is definitely deliberate. There isn't even any mention of what sort of environment is below the rail car line in any of the dialogue either. I think Omega refers to it as 'down there' or 'that' at one point but there's no way I'm going through the emotional destruction of watching that finale again so I'm just going to have to go with my memory for now. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, you brave souls that can rewatch something like that. Basically, we get very little to almost no information on what the terrain is below the rail car line, but we do see what the environment is like near by.

After landing on Eriadu, the Batch creep through what appears to be a wooded forest-like environment, complete with trees that look suspiciously like pine trees. Take a look at this gif from @barissoffee (who continues to do just amazing work with their gifsets).

Gif from this gifset by @barissoffee

Look at the branches and leaves in the background. That's a pine tree. You can see the trunk of a big pine tree behind Tech and Echo in this gif and there are two pine trees fairly close to each other behind Wrecker and Omega in this gif. Add in the dappled sunlight breaking through the shade and what looks like moss covering the rocks on the ground in this hilarious gif (poor Wrecker) and they are definitely in a pine tree forest.

So we have an entirely probable likelihood of the terrain on Eriadu, and thus the terrain below the rail car, being an environment that is suited to breaking a fall. All we need now is some snow. However, I don't think that's going to be the case. We don't see any snow on the top of the mountain where Tarkin's compound is, which appears to be the highest peak. From a narrative perspective, I don't think snow is likely to appear either. Crosshair's episode 'The Outpost' was still fairly recent and that was a completely snow covered shitstorm of emotional devastation for everyone involved. (Someone please just give Crosshair a hug. @crosshairs-wife are you able to come and get your man and wrap him up in a blankie?)

So Eriadu probably doesn't have snow but it does have mountains, which may aid in breaking and slowing down Tech's fall and reducing the distance he has to fall as well. The clouds cover the (likely) pine tree forest below the rail car line and given that Eriadu is mountainous, it is entirely possible that there are smaller mountains below the clouds. Rather than falling straight from the rail car to ground level, Tech may hit the side of a smaller mountain below the cloud line and then continue to tumble down the side of said mountain before eventually coming to a stop. @heyclickadee made an excellent post about this, which even includes diagrams!

Image from this post by @heyclickadee

This lines up with what some people have been able to get from screenshots and gifs. Here's a screenshot from @ellie-the-oracle that shows Wrecker's perspective looking down from the rail car.

Image from this post by @ellie-the-oracle

This is the clearest shot I've seen of the terrain below the rail car line. It's still partially obscured by the clouds but what we can see looks an awful lot like the steep side of a mountain peak surrounded by forest.

The next two examples include gifs from Tech's death scene so consider yourself warned and feel free to skip ahead if it's too much. The first gif does include Tech Thighs and Crotch, if that would help ease your pain.

This gif from @dreamswithghosts shows what looks like the lower peaks of a mountain range behind Tech as he's up on the top of the rail car line in the clouds.

Gif from this gifset by @dreamswithghosts

It also gives us a medium shot of Tech Thighs and Crotch walking straight at the camera. Feel free to walk straight towards me with those anytime sir.

And in a completely record scratching change of tone, this gif from @barissoffee of Tech dangling below the rail car (*sobs*) shows what looks like the side of a mountain peak in the background, just above the blaster in his holster on his left thigh.

Gif from this heartbreaking gifset by @barissoffee

In fact, one might say that is looks intriguingly similar to the steep side of a mountain peak we saw in the first screenshot.

Basically, there's mountains and a pine tree forest below the rail car line. I think I've made my point. Tech is falling into terrain that is advantageous to breaking his fall and helping him survive. If he was falling straight to sea-level with nothing in-between then he'd be toast.

Which reminds me of a quote from a trauma surgeon I found while researching whatever this giant ramble has turned into. Dr Izenberg states that "Anything above 10 or 12 stories and you've reached terminal velocity. So a fall from 20,000 feet sounds dramatic, but there's really no difference from a 500-foot fall." So it really doesn't matter how far Tech is falling, once he's reached terminal velocity then he can't fall any faster. I think this contradicts one of my earlier points but who said this was going to be in any way coherent. It's also important to remember that terminal velocity is not the point at which falling speed becomes deadly. It is the maximum speed an object can obtain when falling through a fluid, usually air. So basically, the fastest speed that humans can fall, which is about 200km/h (120mph) in a stable, belly to earth position.

Dr Izenberg also gives us another other small crumb of comfort. Regarding the skydiver Christine McKenzie, who crashed into power lines that broke her fall, Izenberg states that "By the time she hit the ground she had already used up and transferred the energy when she hit the power lines". This emphasizes again the importance of having something, or even multiple somethings, break Tech's fall. What a good thing that there's mountain slopes for him to tumble down and the branches of pine trees for him crash through. I going to turn into a pine tree after this with the amount of times I've typed those words. Pine trees pine trees pine trees.

There's one final point about the quote "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop." from Douglas Adams. Izenberg emphasizes "that's really true, whether you're talking about a fall or an automobile accident. You have a rapid deceleration, a sudden transfer of energy."

TL;DR Tech needs to break his fall and slow his descent to survive and the mountain slopes and pine tree forest below the rail car line are very well suited to doing just that.

It's probably worth mentioning at this point that water isn't the best surface to fall onto. While it sounds like a good idea, there are a number of problems with falling into water. Firstly, liquid doesn't compress, which means that hitting water is basically like smacking straight into the pavement. The other problems are that hitting water tends to knock people unconscious and as you can't swim when you've passed out, you're then more likely to drown. As counter intuitive as it sounds, Tech will actually want to avoid falling into a river or lake, but I'm sure he already knew that.

So what does this all mean for Tech. Can he survive that fall? Yes. Are the odds of him surviving that sort of fall good? Not particularly but it has been done in the past. Is Tech going to be ok after the fall. Probably not. In all likelihood, he will be very badly injured. This is going to pose more problems for what happens to Tech after his fall but that point is for another post.

Is Tech still alive? Yes.

I am still firmly in camp Tech Lives and for a whole multitude of reasons but the rest of those are going to have to wait for subsequent posts because I've already rambled on for far too long and this post has turned into an unwieldy monster. Well done to you if you made it through this entire thing. Go reward yourself with some excellent fix-it Tech Lives fanfic. There's even a tag.

I'll be interested to see if they actually show how Tech survives the fall or if we get any kind of explanation, maybe Hemlock monologuing or Emerie briefly mentioning it when she's alone with Crosshair. Or will it's just be sort of alluded to or implied that Tech survived somehow and then hand waved off and narrative focus brought back to the current problem of Tech's injuries and his situation (probably captured by Hemlock) and we all focus on that and forget to question how he actually survived the fall.

But for now, take comfort in the fact that Tech can survive that fall and for a multitude of reasons, I still firmly believe that Tech is alive.

[mesdea]

I was tagged by @ilcuoreardendo-fic

Tag 9 people I would like to get to know better

Relationship status: I don’t remember what single is like anymore and hope I never have to find out. Been married 18 years to a man who forgives my Liam Neeson obsession and even enables it.

Favourite colour: Purple and Gold (LSU Colors)

Top 3 Ships: Quiobi will always be my first, followed by Hartwin and then it’s a tie between Spirit Assasin or Skysolo

Lipstick or chapstick: Honestly, I don’t use either. There is much need for it in Florida.

Last Song: It was probably some sort of Ed Sheeran song, my daughter listens on repeat.

Last movie: The King’s Speech

Current read: Hmm, i’m not really reading anything concrete. I mostly just browse through AO3 on the Quiobi, Hartwin and other tags.

Hm. I’ll tag @skyywalkerfen @antheiasilva @wish-i-had-robin-wings @wrennette   and anyone else that wants to post. I always feel silly tagging people, but I always want to know more about my followers. 

Or anyone else who wants to do it. (And if you’re tagged and you don’t want to participate, no worries.)

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[sanerontheinside]

Do you have any Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fic recs? I have ready many of your fics several times over and figure I will like whatever fics you like. 😀

You are most kind! Though, I will warn you that it is not necessarily true that you will like what I like 😅 for various reasons! 

1) I ran out of deadcat’s ReEntry series and then tore through the Q/O tag in search of more content. and then MA Archive, somewhat. 

2) there were misadventures 

3) I have many, many recs. there is, if nothing else, certainly variety here

Also, you reminded me that I haven’t updated my stash of pdfs and live links in a while, so I got lost in the sauce for a bit there. 

h’okay, so—here’s the rules: 

in some cases I will only list a username, because I have lived in the author’s works and well and truly recommend all of them. 

this means also that it is entirely up to you to mind the tags and ratings. 

I may highlight some favourite works. I will try not to highlight more than 4. or 5. 

Some works are viewable to registered users only, and I am sure they were marked that way for a reason, so I have some slight reservations about publicly recommending them?

ETA: I forgot to add the things that only exist as tumblr snippets, so we’ll be coming back to this conversation at some later date

ETA2: I will probably end up making a whole page on my blog for recs, the way I keep forgetting and adding stuff after the fact 🙈 and anyway, the formatting is.. painful

Authors: 

3jane/Jane St. Clair - poetry. in prose, but pure poetry. classic. 

Darkisrising, @darkisrising - everything. you will not regret. 

davaia, @davaia​ - everyone deserves to experience reading all of davaia’s work for the first time. 

Flamethrower , also @deadcatwithaflamethrower​ (whose fic got me into this ship to begin with) Some special highlights: - Both the Re-Entry series and Re-Entry: Journey of the Whills are viewable by registered ao3 users only, atm. This is what brought me to this ship, so there we go. - In a Lonely Place is a particular highlight for me, and inspired the frankenfic (my series, Silent enim leges inter arma) - Speaker of Valaeanath - Letters to Qui-Gon Jinn - everything there is. 

Firondoiel , @firondoiel - Recovery, a special highlight for our collaborative work with @happygiraffe and @luvvewan - everything. I live here now. It is truly impossible to believe that I met Firo and first read their work only about a year ago. 

DraloreShimare, @hobbitystmarymorstan​ - Waiting at Thresholds (😭 )

elayna - particular favourites include: - Love Me Do - The Hunter and the Rose - Thief of My Heart - The Big Deception

extraneous_accessories,  @extraneousaccessories

- The Wind in the In Between

handhellbasket

ilcuoreardendo , @ilcuoreardendo-fic

- particular favourites include Joy and Solace - A Matter of Positioning - and check out these series: Another Space and Time and Fantasy Verse

Kototyph - Through Night Forests

kettish, @kettish​

Lady_Saddlebred

Littlelynn - Lessons in Translation 

LuvEwan, @luvvewan​ everything. however, special highlights for: - Deserts and Trees - Sacred Things - What Else - rainwater - We Will Always Know - you asked for slash fic recs, but I will say that if you are comfortable reading both gen and slash for this pairing, I would very much recommend reading luvvewan’s gen Q&O works. 

meggory, @meggory84​ all works. you will not regret. 

Mrs. Hamill , @mrshamill many works here. particular favourites include: - The Senator and the Jedi - Son of the Empire - The Ghost and Mr. Kenobi (😭  my god, this one) - The Jinn Identity (aaaaaa ❤️ ) - The Seduction of Obi-Wan Kenobi

oddlyexquisite, @oddlyexquisite​ - I have discovered that some of the most powerful quotes have come to me from oe - the one that came to me at the right time, in the right place, came from Once More, Plainly - but I am in love with all of oe’s works (aaaa the lighthouse fic—!!!) - oe is responsible for the appearance of poetry in my own work, so there is that

outpastthemoat, @outpastthemoat​ - everything - Prisms - Detours - Arrivals - and again: if you are comfortable reading both gen and slash for this pairing, I would very much recommend reading outpastthemoat’s gen Q&O works. 

psocoptera - A Duel With Fate

punsbulletsandpointythings, @punsbulletsandpointythings​ - special highlights: The One That Got Away

Randomalia look here for the poignant and the bittersweet. - Currents is a true classic - Apogee (randomalia is also the one to go to if you are in the mood to shred your heart with unrequited pining) 

Salmon_Pink - To Bend - Sized Up

scarletjedi, @scarletjedi - The Rules omigod - and Pineapple, of course 😏 

jessebee, @skyywalkerfen​ - just. everything 

torch - Gardening at Night - Crystallize - Whispers, Remains 

Tohje , @tohje  - Litanies - hold life like a face - momentary lights - Malalignment - say them very quietly - and another time I will add, the gen works are a wonder 

treescapes, @treescape​

wrennette, @wrennette - a very special shoutout to utterly ensnared

writestufflee, @masterwritestuff​ - Ever Since Happiness Heard Your Name - The Rewards of Patience - Creature Comforts - A Distant Refuge 

Single works, assorted:  

Akathecentimetre ( @akathecentimetre ), agarthanguide ( @agarthanguide ), and TheCrackedKatana - Counterpoint a Scordatura

canis_m - desert bloom 

FayJay - Free

Nimori - Lacuna is absolutely haunting in the best way. 

Ruslight - A Matter of Perspective 

Valmouth - Backwards

wickedwords - Waiting Place - (it’s not that I don’t recommend Cutwork, but that’s up to you.) 

Yahtzee - Surfacing (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

I will add, though, that if you are willing to explore the MA Archive, that’s a task you will now only be able to carry out with the Wayback Machine, and it’s a bit spotty. That’s a project for a later me, too. 

[quiobizine]

Passion and Serenity Stories

There are 19 brand new Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan stories in Passion and Serenity, and we have been sharing story summaries today. See the other summary post here. 

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happygiraffe -  All the little things—the forgotten dishes, neglected laundry, and cluttered workspace—were each trivial in isolation, but together they painted a picture of a padawan who was earnestly struggling. A soft fluff & hurt/comfort Padawan Obi-Wan fic. 

LuvEwan -  Qui-Gon survives Naboo but feels like a different person. He wonders why Obi-Wan rejected the Council’s offer of Knighthood and on their first post-recovery mission, Qui-Gon finds himself seeing his student as a different person too. 

ilcuoreardendo -  Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan drifted from one another after Naboo. A rare disease and a mysterious Jedi master draw them back together and lead them to discover the depth of their bond. 

Wolfiefics -  The Jedi show their love language by wearing brightly colored beads that signify their feelings. When Qui-Gon begins wearing a yellow bead for unrequited love, Obi-Wan becomes deeply jealous. 

Firondoiel -  Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fell in love after Obi-Wan’s knighting, but ended their secret relationship in the name of duty. Two years later, they are both unknowingly assigned to the same mission. 

Tohje -  Obi-Wan killed Anakin on Mustafar. He has disappeared. Qui-Gon, injured both physically and in his connection with the Force after Naboo, intends to bring him home, even though he isn’t sure himself anymore where it is. 

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[ilcuoreardendo-fic]

Staring Contest

When you walk into the barracks to ask sergeant Hunter about some requisitions to transfer gear from the flagship Phalanx to the Marauder, the room, which had been eerily quiet, erupts in a raucous mixture of jeers and cheers, the sound practically vibrating the walls.

All in good fun. You can feel that in the Force. The battle had gone well and the troops were taking a moment to wind down from the adrenaline. Though through what means, you weren't entirely sure.

Looking toward the center of the room, you watch Deck shake his head and push away from a stack of crates set between him and the Bad Batch's sniper, introduced to you as Crosshair, who smirks like a tooka who's just gotten into the cream.

Next to you, Cerrix passes a couple of cred chips to Tech, who slips them into one of the many pouches on his belt, touches a forefinger to the bridge of his goggles, then swipes something on his datapad.

"That's five, zero," Tech says. "Who's next?"

From somewhere in the crowd of 7th Legion troopers, you hear an eager shout of "The commander!" followed by a wave of murmured agreement.

Every face in the room turns to you and if you were any less sure of yourself, you might find that intimidating.

Instead, you glance at Cerrix for an explanation. "What's going on?"

Cerrix rolls his eyes. "One di'kut bet another di'kut he couldn't out stare Crosshair and it's become a whole thing. You could win us back some money, commander..." Cerrix tone turns hopeful.

"Ha! These guys need all the help they can get." The boisterous voice you recognize as Wrecker's.

You look to Crosshair, who stands, arms crossed, rolling a toothpick slowly between his lips, sizing you up. His eyes are narrowed, calculating and you can practically feel the weight of his gaze on your skin. Something in it tweaks your competitive side.

"Hm." You hand your datapad to a grinning Cerrix. "Okay. I can do that," you say, as you head toward Crosshair, your men parting around you like water as you step up to the crates.

You take a cleansing breathe, letting it out in a soft chuckle as A'den, who you're half surprised to see in the crowd, leans close, whispers in your ear, "Get him, commander," before moving to hold up a wall, letting the rest of his brothers crowd in around you.

"Right," says Cerrix, "I've got eyes on Crosshair. Who's got the commander?"

"I do," the voice is warm and smokey. Sergeant Hunter; after your first meeting, you'd recognize his voice anywhere. He comes into view, standing just behind Crosshair, where he can watch your face throughout the contest. He gives the tiniest nod of his head.

"Okay," Cerrix continues, "first one to blink or look away loses. Draw is at four minutes on the timer." Cerrix motions to Tech, who taps his datapad and gives a thumbs up.

"No Force tricks," rasps Crosshair.

You smile. "I don't need Force tricks. Tech, start the clock."

And so it begins.

The weight you felt from his gaze when you were across the room is nothing compared to what you feel now, staring directly into Crosshair's eyes. His focus is pointed. When he's not tense or scowling, Crosshair's eyes take on a heavy lidded quality that seem to make the color of them darker, deeper.

All the clones have brown eyes.

And you've stared into many sets of them in many different contexts. Issuing orders before leaving for battle. Listening to stories in the mess or at 79's when you've been invited along. Sitting at bedsides in Med Bay. In dark corners of the ship, telling someone their brother didn't make it back. In the middle of firefights, choking on dust and wrapping the Force around you and the clones, who you can do nothing for except hold their hands...

But this is new. Different.

The last time you stared into someone's eyes this closely, for this long, they had been a lover.

With a soft sigh, you keep eye contact but let your vision take in the full, slightly out of focus, expanse of Crosshair's face.

He has the high cheekbones that all clones share, but they're more pronounced on his lean face. His jawline is narrow, chin strong. His lips are thin and between them he holds the ever captive toothpick.

You catch a teasing flash of his tongue as the toothpick rolls from one side of his mouth to the other.

It gives you an idea. You said you didn't need Force tricks. You never said you'd play fair.

You bring your full attention back to his eyes, notice one of his eyebrows has drawn up; it doesn't take the Force to know he's been examining you in much the same way.

Making sure to keep eye contact, you lean forward, place your left elbow on the stack of crates and rest your chin on your curled knuckles.

Curiosity flares in Crosshair's eyes, but he stays focused. Sharp. Assessing.

Until you slowly part your lips, as if you're about the speak. Instead of words, you let the tip of your tongue play along the inside edge of your lower lip and watch the subtle widening of his eyes. You can feel the control he exerts over himself to not break eye contact to look fully at your mouth.

You reach out with your free hand — slowly; he could stop you if he wanted to — and pluck the toothpick from his mouth. His lips part, you hear the slightest uptick of his breathing.

There's a low rumble throughout the room. Hushed conversation. Maybe constrained laughter.

You flip the toothpick, bring the end of it that had been between Crosshair's lips to the center of your own.

Your tongue slips out, curls around it and you tuck it up against the corner of your mouth with a sly smile that you know reaches your eyes.

Crosshair blinks.

Cerrix cry is instantaneous. "The commander wins!"

"Secret weapon?" Hunter says to him.

"We do tend to bring her out when we really need the win, on the battlefield or off."

You cast a sidelong look at Cerrix, one eyebrow raised. He doesn't even have the decency to look cowed.

You turn back Crosshair, who's arms remain crossed over his chest. His chin is tucked. He's still watching you.

You lean in close, balanced against the crates. "I told you I didn't need Force tricks."

"Perhaps," he reaches out, forefinger under your chin, thumb pressing into the sensitive skin just below your lip where his toothpick still sits, "we need a rematch. Without an audience."

I...haven't done a reader insert ficlet in a long time and never for Star Wars.

But I just had this idea bubble up at random. It was an okay word workout and it let me think more about Crosshair's face. So, win.

[meantforinfinitesadness]

Do you... do you have any maceobi fics? Not many people ship them, so I can’t find that many :(

I have a few! Though, I’m sure if I’ve read them, you probably have as well lol. There aren’t very many on ao3 and that makes me sad.

Also, all of these are NOT spicy...except for the first one which is actually a series and does contain fics in the series that are spicy. (I have a fair amount of spicy fics though if you want those as well...)

ANYWAY

sithnip (series) by @wrennette

What to Do With Master Jinn by @igaveyoufairwarning

In the Light of Morning by @ilcuoreardendo-fic

Jedi Kisses by @thekinkawakens

The Necessity of Selfishness by @swbumblebee

Mace Windu’s Emotional Support Zillo Beast by @babzilla

let me lay down beside you by @wrennette

live a long life by @blackkatmagic

Want fic recs?? Hit me up!

[treescape]

is it horrible that i kind of want to have and to hold to end with Anakin finding out about the kids and making Obi-Wan help him raise them. idk why but reluctant consort obi-wan who can't fight his attachment hits so many of my terrible buttons lol.

Ahh, not horrible at all, I love Vaderwan dads!  ilcuoreardendo’s fic Precipice lives pretty much rent free in my brain. I feel like the dynamic offers so many delicious possibilities for exploring the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin|Vader, and I’m always here for Obi-Wan & Luke & Leia content. I am right there with you on reluctant consort Obi-Wan.

I’ll say that it’s not quite the direction I’m going in for to have and to hold, but the constant threat of Anakin finding out and the different possible futures this could entail are pretty much always on Obi-Wan’s brain. I think this is the kind of possible future that he both would dread, because it means he’s failed, but that would also hold a seductive kind of lure to him in a way. It’s the kind of future he could potentially lose himself in, and that’s really scary.

[firondoiel]

Thank you to @luvvewan for the tag.

Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words. 

The customers just tend to be thirsty for something other than alcohol.

Lol, what could it be? 12 words. Eh, likely am not gonna tag that many folks, but here goes.

@sanerontheinside @wolfiefics @mahalblackteapot @deuxsabres @outpastthemoat @riley1cannon @ilcuoreardendo-fic @jswander @tree-scapes @eva-damngoodcoffee

[bellemeri]

Writing Meme

Tagged by @ilcuoreardendo-fic

Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

I don’t think I have any followers to tag, but this was the last sentence I wrote today:

His invisible glare following them around until, unnerved or frightened, they leave the cemetery.

[ao3feed-obikin]

Lessons

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38H5RTW

by ilcuoreardendo

The soul bond comes with great benefits and also great risks. Lessons have to be taught and learned.

Words: 523, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 31 of Another Space and Time (Star Wars fics)

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Romantic Soulmates, Intimacy, Qui-Gon Jinn Lives, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padawan Anakin Skywalker, Polyamory

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38H5RTW

[luvvewan]

Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan Fic Recs

Just a few story recs in celebration of the ship reaching 2500 stories on AO3!

Qui-Gon Lives

Currents by randomalia: Do you remember that mission? he wanted to say to Qui-Gon. But Qui-Gon had a new padawan to train. Obi-Wan hadn't seen him in a long time. 

Gone in the Wake by davaia:  He knew a day like this might come, but had still managed to cling to the hope that it wouldn’t. To the hope that he’d be left to his peace and solitude in this place, that the quarterly reports would be enough. That the Order and the galaxy at large might forget him beneath a pile of blue dust.  Apparently not.

First Time

Litanies by Tohje: He has a list of things the Code asks him not to keep.He doesn’t keep the things themselves, of course. He would never harm his master, or his master’s reputation like that. Others - younger ones - look to him, a padawan to imitate. He keeps the memories of them, those moments. A trained Jedi knows many mnemonics. He takes them out sometimes, only sometimes, examines them from every angle, reaches for detachment. Who knows, he might even achieve it one day.

Ceremonial Sacrifice by wrennette: On many worlds the ritual loss of virginity is a sacred rite. All Jedi Padawans are raised with the expectation that they will serve as virgin sacrifices when they come of age.  Usually a local official does the deed. Obi-Wan counts himself lucky that his beloved Master is the one to deflower him because of genital incompatibility with the natives. (author warning for somewhat dubious consent)

Minds and Matter by Jessie0378: Obi-Wan must cope with his Master in a coma, and Qui-Gon has an unanticipated reaction to Obi-Wan after he wakes up. Takes up where TPM leaves off...with a certain someone surviving (as he should have). Thoroughly screws with canon thereafter.

Sexxxxy

Good Work by scarletjedi: It started innocently enough.

Three’s a Fantasy by ilcuoreardendo: Qui-Gon. Obi-Wan. A fantasy brought to life.

What’s Mine is Yours by handhellbasket: The trouble with everything a Jedi owns being stock-standard Jedi issue is that, well, everything a Jedi owns is stock-standard Jedi issue and there's not much to differentiate one Jedi's belongings from any other's.Obi-Wan picks up the wrong bag at the end of a mission. It's one thing to use your Master's toothbrush, a whole other to use his vibrator.

Gen

Reputations. by outpastthemoat: Defeating a Sith Lord before losing your Padawan braid, that’s a difficult reputation to live up to. 

Invitation by antheiasilva: Dooku traps Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in a dinner invitation when Obi-Wan meets his grandmaster for the first time.Qui-Gon fumes and loses teacups.

Inching by Tohje: They build a unit, brick by brick and, of course, with some severe setbacks.

[subobi]

SubObi Week #1 Masterpost

If you don’t see any of your submissions listed here, please tell me and I’ll add it!

SubObi Week AO3 Collection *Please note that warnings and ratings are not included on this list. please take time to read tags n the fics itself.

Day 1: Collar/Leash

Scene from a Senatorial Gathering by @ilcuoreardendo-fic  - Vaderwan fic

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold by @wrennette - Codywan fic

Collar & Leash by @obi-kenobi-wan - Codywan fic

Mine by @kinky-space-nerd - Obitine art

A Little Bit Green by @padawansuggest - BailObi / Rexobi fic 

Day 2: Sex Toys

Sex Toys by @obi-kenobi-wan - Bailwan fic

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 2) by @wrennette - Codywan fic

An Ordinary Night by @ilcuoreardendo-fic - Quiobi fic

Welcome home gift by @gabriel4sam - Quinobi fic

Wretched by @kinky-space-nerd - Obimaul fic 

Day 3: Sith AU

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 3) by @wrennette - Obidala fic

Sith AU by @obi-kenobi-wan - Jangobi fic

Live to Serve by @ilcuoreardendo-fic - Quiobi fic

Cracked by @commandergen-mach - Vaderwan fic

Day 4: Double Penetration

The Crime Lord’s Slut by @obi-kenobi-wan - SavageObiMaul fic

Four men in a desert by @gabriel4sam - GregorWolffeRexObi fic

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 4) by @wrennette - CodyObiBoil fic

Two for One by @ilcuoreardendo-fic - QuiObiAnakin fic

Day 5: Cock Warming

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 5) by @wrennette - Codywan fic 

Afternoon meeting by  @gabriel4sam - Bailobi fic

Cock Warming by @obi-kenobi-wan - Rexobi fic

The Repercussions of Impertinence by @ilcuoreardendo-fic - QuiObiMace fic

Day 6: Gangbang/Moresome

Triumvirate by @gabriel4sam - BrehaSatinePadmeObi fic

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 6) by @wrennette - Codywan+Clones fic

Day 7: Aftercare

The end is only a new beginning by @gabriel4sam - Maceobi fic

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 7) by @wrennette - Codywan fic

Aftercare by @obi-kenobi-wan - Obikin fic

Bonus: Free Day

Thy Neck with Chains of Gold (part 8) by @wrennette - Codywan fic 

Kneel, pet by @kinky-space-nerd - Obitine art

Let's Break Those Chains  by @nawpitynopenope - Obimaul fic