#of oaths and promises

[noturusualpotato]

Chapters: 49/49 Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett & Jango Fett, Boba Fett & Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dooku & Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jango Fett, Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett, Rako Hardeen, Dooku | Darth Tyranus, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Satine Kryze, Shmi Skywalker, Bib Fortuna, Hondo Ohnaka, Quinlan Vos, Mij Gilamar, CC-2224 | Cody, A myriad of other characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Enemies to Lovers, or like One - Night - Stand to Enemies to Lovers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Depression, Self-Destructive Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi Needs Therapy, Hurt Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bad Parent Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi Leaves the Jedi Order, Jango Fett has Issues, Jango Fett Being an Asshole, but an asshole who needs a hug, Young Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker Has Issues, they all be a bit dysfunctional and in need of a hug basically, apart from Boba, Boba is a cute toddler so, Single Parent Jango Fett, Jango Fett is a Sore Looser, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, kind of a, Kid Fic, i guess?, Torture, Aftermath of Torture, Slavery, Shmi Skywalker Lives, Families of Choice, Past Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Past Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos, Dooku Redemption (Star Wars), Gray Jedi (Star Wars), I guess he does a few decent things if you can call that redemption, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Obi-Wan Kenobi Needs a Hug, Obi-Wan Kenobi Has Self-Esteem Issues, Suicidal Thoughts, Baby Clones (Star Wars), Clone Troopers Deserve Better (Star Wars), Somehow this still ended up being slow burny, Slow Burn, Panic Attacks, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse Summary:

After the Council refuses to train Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi leaves the Jedi Order and everything he ever wanted to follow his Master’s dying wishes. Together, Obi-Wan and his new… student? brother? son? friend? (He still hasn’t quite figured that one yet), return to Tatooine to free Shmi Skywalker (because what else could they do?). It… Doesn’t go exactly to plan (per usual). Things escalate quickly and, well, Jabba the Hutt is dead and Obi-Wan is now the most wanted man in the Hutt-controlled part of the Galaxy.

[...]

Jango Fett didn’t really need money, so exorbitant and rising price on the Jabba murderer’s head was not what drawn him to the contract. It was the rumours that the rouge Jetti was responsible and if Jango hated anything, it was the Jetisse. If he was getting payed to drag one to the Hutts, to die a slow, honorouless death on the top of a generous payment, even better. In hindsight though, he probably should have left Boba on Kamino. In hindsight, he should have thought twice before having one night stands with hot, red-headed strangers right before the start of a hunt. His life would have been much easier that way.

[midorikawawas]

Zosan was such a hard sell for me even when I agree it has mad chemistry but y'know what just did it for me??? Their Oath in Wano.

Like I get it already, I did get the hints since Thriller Bark but this just cemented it.

[raayllum]

It's about keeping your promises.

[victorie552]

Kind of a weird AU but hear me out:

Finwe marries Indis, right? Most controversial thing Finwe ever done and that includes leading elves from their ancestral home to a new continent to live with gods. Silmarillion says that it happened because he fell in love and I believe it BUT what Silmarillion doesn't tell you is WHEN Finwe marries Indis. I saw posts that say the canon is inconclusive and Tolkien probably changed his mind a lot, and half of what of what Tolkien wrote is thrown from the window by fandom, so.

Anyway, one of the versions said Feanor was at least a teenager when Finwe/Indis happens (I think). What Silmarillion states is that Feanor married VERY young by elven standards, and that Nerdanel was below his station (classism? in elven society? apparently!).

Last thing before I get to the main point: Fingolfin marries Anaire, a Noldo lady, who I saw often enough written as a noble or a court lady, perfectly fine that, no idea if that's canon. And Finarfin very much marries Teleri princess.

...I don't know guys, it feels very convienient. For princes to fall in love with exactly the kind of women who would be approved by royal court and strenghten political ties with other elven factions. If it was anything else than silm, I would call political marriages.

Time for crack: based on what I wrote above I propose an AU where it was FEANOR who was supposed to marry Indis. For politics! Vanyar are the most important faction in Aman! Let's marry into that!

But the MOMENT Feanor became an adult and they could process with courting without making it creppier than it already is, Feanor runs off to elope with his coworker and there's nothing they can do. Well, that's what Finwe tells Ingwe when Ingwe rages about it to him.

Finwe loves Feanor, he wants him to marry for love, and that's exactly what happens. But, uh, all Vanyar are pissed that there's no political marriage when they were promised one (they mad cause they look stupid now), and, well. Finwe decides to bite the bullet. For his son.

It's not true of course. But imagine family dinners after that.

[wardensantoineandevka]

I should get an award for my restraint in not automatically blocking people who say things like "I hate paladins, they suck so much, they're the worst class bc their vibes are so bad" on my posts that even just mention paladins.

RIP that you and most people do not understand paladins as a class and do not understand that their narrative is not just "stick in the mud who loves being a cop", but I'm different and I think they're incredible and they're one of the classes with the best inherent narrative

[angevinyaoiz]

Glad it's the season where everyone gets to experience The Lion in Winter (1968) and lose their minds at the tapestry scene and the Richard/Philip + Henry stuff but what I love to tell the movie onlies is that All That stuff happens, and then

They're literally back in bed together 4 years later (famous anecdote that started the whole assumption lmfao)

And then they go to war again

Richard dramatically leaves Henry to do a public homage to Philip

Henry dies and they fall out again

And THEN get back together to go on crusade

Fall out finally and for real during the crusade

this but like for 15 years.

i think TLIW is great bc it doesn't rely on all this later knowledge of the characters to tell the story, and while the relationship details are invented for the drama I think it still reflects the whiplash u get when reading about the source and events pretty well

[chironshorseass]

a secret, an oath, and a promise

an AU where Annabeth runs away with Luke, like he asked her to before the events of BOTL.

slowly, percy’s heart went back to its steady, rhythmic beating. 

rachel straightened, looking at him. “gods, percy, i’m sorry—” 

“sorry for what? i’m the one who got you into this mess in the first place.”

she shook her head. “but i’m the one who led you to that arena.” she blinked rapidly, as if fighting back tears. “i really thought you were about to die.”

“we were going to find the titan army one way or another, hey”—he placed his hand on her shoulder, giving it a squeeze; he tried for a smile—“don’t feel bad. i’m usually about to die.”

rachel returned his smile, until she seemed to remember their newest company; she glanced over at the aphrodite girl, who was still lounging against the wall, but now her eyes were open, regarding them. aphrodite girl. percy didn’t even know her name. he felt guilty, for some reason. he hadn’t thought to ask.

rachel seemed to be thinking the same exact thing, because she said, “hey, i’m rachel. what’s your name?”

“piper.” she held her hand out, and rachel shook it. 

read chapter 5 here.

read from the beggining

[zukkacore]

Not to be cringe but I reread If You Want Divinity bc I wanted to see if it was any good and ngl I still think most of it is like, decent and competent for it being me but the problem is that it just doesn’t hit the same way it did when I was in the middle of the sb hyper fixation. Like I think if I cared the same way it would be effective but I was like oh this is fine I guess.

But you know what? I will give myself this. The flashback scenes? They still rule. I’ll be cringe and give myself the props for that. The fight in the garden and the flashback at Aguefort still work at least for me but I was feeling very little until I got to the memory of them on the bed together. “I promise I’ll never let anything happen to you ever again”? “Are you saying that as a paladin or barbarian” “both” I was such a sicko for that one.

Also the detect thoughts + teleport trick? That was a good one. Sometimes I have good ideas

[swordmaid]

thinking more about the partial illithid state I think the illithid powers would come innate to shri’iia after she transforms. it’s like she’s been casting them all her life, and she just simply needs to do them instead being taught. same with the telepathy and flying and everything the partial illithid state entails, the skillset just feels innate to her - as easy as breathing - despite her not even being a spell caster beforehand. she would not have any issues with the language anymore as well, that thing seems so trivial since she can now just understand and speak it as if it was her own mother tongue. like the illithid tadpole opening her mind to virtually everything that all of the things she struggled before just seems so insignificant. in this state she’s a more powerful and a much better version of herself, and wouldn’t she want to keep that? and this is just grazing the surface of her potential too, if she evolves further she can be so much more.

but at the same time, i also think she feels so out of place in her own body because she’s able to perform these amazing feats but it doesn’t feel natural to her. she’s a spectator inside her own body - she’s seeing herself become more powerful and all that but she feels more and more detached to her own self. there’s also a voice in the back of her mind - not the emperor’s - that’s tempting her to evolve all the way. look at how wonderful this is, and how powerful she is. this is who she really is - she never needed lolth, or her oaths, or anyone - this is what she can be and she can be so much more if she lets the tadpole to fully consume her - but then shri’iia has to remind herself that she only took this power out of necessity, and she does regret this transformation, and she’s only recently managed to reclaim her own independence outside of lolth she can’t bear to lose it again.

[deadsince1973]

Poll Below

So, I saw someone say yesterday that "most people skim watch Chinese dramas", and that honestly blew my mind. If it has subtitles, I have to watch it and focus on it.

But then several thoughts occurred to me. You see, right now, my friend and I are watching The Longest Promise and The Screen Foxes. To us, The Longest Promise is painfully slow. We thought it was a little slower than most Chinese dramas, but most Chinese dramas are a little bit slow, and The Longest Promise actually feels much slower to us because we hate the main character and, like, half the story decisions so much, we thought. (Sorry, no offense to Longest Promise fans.) We thought that if we actually liked the main character and were invested in her story, the way the show dilly-dallied on every one of her scenes - having her say the same things over and over again, showing a dozen different angles on some magical moment in her life, having her express feelings about something that happened in a previous episode that she had made very clear at the time - would be enjoyable. Meanwhile, before we started The Screen Foxes, I read three different reviews that said the plot moved lightning-fast, bounced all over the place, and didn't make any sense. And ... none of that is true (so far). The plot moves at a normal pace. A thing happens, and then, something else happens as a consequence. There ARE several different interconnected story threads, and we do bounce back and forth between them, but it all makes sense. And last night, it hit me that maybe The Longest Promise is so slow because you're supposed to "skim watch" it. Certainly, if you dip in and out, you can follow the plot very easily. Scenes are long enough that it's hard to miss a whole one if you're checking back in frequently, repetitive enough that you can understand the point of the scene even if you miss three-quarters of it, and the same points are repeated in multiple scenes, so there are very few details you can miss even if you don't watch it too closely. (Plus, the plot is predictable enough that it's easy to follow.) Meanwhile, because The Screen Foxes doesn't dawdle on any points, if you're not actually sitting down and watching, it must seem chaotic and nonsensical. Why are they fighting this green monster now? Wasn't the show about painting a minute ago? The green monster is being used by a Taoist to body-guard a rich family. The Taoist is actually the one who made the family rich. Why? That's the mystery we need to find out. In the meantime, this family used its wealth to cheat in the painting contest from the last episode, so fighting their body guard is advancing that painting plotline too. But if you looked away from the screen during the two minutes where they were explaining all that, then yeah, it would be super confusing why this show just went from a painting contest to a demon fight.

If Chinese dramas are MEANT to be watched in the background, and that's the reason so many of them are so long and slow, then, honestly, my whole worldview has been changed.

So, TLDR: I have to know now: DO most people actually "skim watch" Chinese dramas????

[teabutmakeitazure]

as someone who was doing a countdown for next year and the next year is tomorrow, this is not very cash money

[baejax-the-great]

Hello! For Patrochilles please?

Favorite line/scene you wrote this year

And

Most memorable comment/review

Most memorable comment:

I'm not going to say which fic because it's still a WIP, but I had one comment guess pretty accurately exactly how a fic was going to end, and I had no idea how to reply. Can't just tell someone "yep, you're right," because that's spoilers, but couldn't lie to them and imply that wasn't going to happen... And generally it's good if some people can feel where the fic is heading, because it means you are setting it up correctly, but still really struggled to find a response, lmao.

And favorite scene is from Our Numbered Days:

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

Achilles can feel a dull, thudding headache coming on. “About what?”

“You know what. You sleep with guys now?”

He doesn’t know what to say. He wasn’t keeping it from him. He never had to make some big declaration about fucking girls back in high school when he started dating Deidamia. Patroclus has never once asked what he got up to with his partners. Why the fuck should he care now? Why has this part of their lives been off-limits until right this minute?

“Are you planning on living with Iphis after graduation?” he asks, more venom in his voice than he meant.

Patroclus freezes. “What does that have to do with anything?”

“Were you planning on ever telling me? Or was I just going to come home one day to find your stuff gone?”

“You know I would never do that.”

He doesn’t know that. He doesn’t know anything. “I started sleeping with guys three years ago. That meet in California. I slept with the number three seed. I didn’t really think it mattered.”

Judging by Patroclus’s face, it matters a lot. “I don’t even fucking know you right now.”

He’s ready for the stupid door slam this time, jumping up and following Patroclus, bracing his hand on the door so he can’t.

“What’s there to know?” Achilles demands. “I sleep with people. You knew that. If you wanted me to document their names and genders and favorite positions, you should have told me. I would have kept a journal.”

Patroclus shoves uselessly at his door before giving up and throwing his hands in the air. “Yeah, well, Iphis doesn’t want me to move in with her after graduation; she wants me to move in with her next semester, and given everything maybe I should. That way you can fuck every guy in school in privacy instead of having to do it in the library.”

Achilles thinks he might throw up. “Great. Do it. Then I won’t have to worry about hearing you two going at it all the time.”

He turns away from Patroclus’s open-mouth expression and closes the door behind him.

He tries to push the tears out of his eyes with the heels of his hands, but he can see in startling clarity the future he’s been avoiding for months. He fails his classes, he joins the tour whether or not he’s even bothered with his finals, Patroclus moves out, and that’s it. That’s the end of “them.” And then, because Briseis was right about everything, Achilles never rises in the rankings. He hangs around the four hundreds for years never breaking through until he realizes everyone around him is younger and more talented than he is, and with no savings, no degree, and nobody back home waiting for him, he gives up. Maybe he’ll coach kids. Maybe he’ll be found dead in a ditch.

He reaches into his pocket, thinking he’ll call Briseis. Might as well tell her how right she was. His hand is shaking. Before he can pull up her number, his phone slips out of his hand, thumping to the carpeted floor.

Patroclus’s door swings open again. He glares down at the fallen phone, as if the noise had offended him, then back up at Achilles.

Achilles wipes the tears from his face, but it’s no good. Even standing there, furious at him for reasons that are unfair, threatening to end their friendship over sex and a girl or a guy or Achilles doesn’t even know what, Patroclus is the most important thing in the world to him, the only thing that matters, and Achilles would remake himself to keep him in his life.

“I’ll, um—” The words stick in his throat, coming out garbled, and he sniffs and tries again. “I’ll stop. I don’t need to…” He shrugs. “I won’t sleep with guys, I won’t sleep with anyone—”

Patroclus cuts him off. “God, that’s not—you don’t get it. You just… don’t fucking get it.”

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[little1005village]

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[chironshorseass]

a secret, an oath, and a promise

an AU where Annabeth runs away with Luke, like he asked her to before the events of BOTL.

“bet annabeth’s the one behind all these attacks,” tyler, a son of ares, said to his buddies. percy was walking out of the arena, after his first encounter with quintus and mrs. o’leary, when he heard. “she knows the camp best, even better than luke. knows our strengths, our weaknesses…”

“makes sense,” another said. this guy was relatively new; percy only knew two things about him: one, he was a child of apollo, and two, percy had the strongest urge to beat the shit out of him. “from what you told me, she was really close to him, right?”

“yeah, she was. wouldn’t be surprised that when their forces attack, she’ll be at the front lines.”

the other two guys nodded in agreement.

percy couldn’t take it anymore. his hands formed into fists, nails digging into the skin of his palm. he walked up to the group, heart about to burst.

“hey, tyler?” he called.

tyler turned—just in time to receive percy’s punch to the face.

read chapter 4 here.

read from the beggining

[sleepless-crows]

I PROMISE ????????? NO MATTER WHAT ???????? SURELY. ALWAYS. I WILL BE BY YOUR SIDE ?????????? AND WHAT IF I CRY ??????????

[ladysnows]

@draecaris said: "I love you, and I want to marry you, scandal or not." :|

what  scandal  could  there  be  for  prince's?  who  would  speak  an  ill  word  towards  rhaenyra  targaryen's  heir?  not  any  milk-faced  pretender  buried  to  the  nose  in  wine  and  whores  —  tis  her  own  name  which  will  tarnish  tongues  of  those  who  speak  it,  in  high  garden,  the  riverlands,  and  beyond.  winterfell  was  steadfast,  made  from  ancestral  granite  not  even  most  bitter  winter  could  shift,  a  marriage  solidified  in  godswood  would  honor  her  bloodline.  she  seeks  the  comfort  of  belief  even  now,  stares  into  crimson  face  carved  into  bark  and  sees  nothing  save  her  own  wanting.     ❝     do  not  say  such  things  in  front  of  the  weirwood  —     ❞     to  make  such  declaration  .  .  .  earnest  with  a  promise  she  can  feel  brushing  along  nape,  words  sending an  enlightening  flush  bursting  onto  cheeks.  even  the  tips  of  ears  are  not  spared,  he  is  incapable  of  guile.  not  here.  not  when  they  are  together.

❝      no  matter  where  my  heart  may  lie,  you  are  to  be  wed  to  baela.  i  would  not  see  you  spurn  her  or  your  queen  mother.      ❞      such  actions  have  consequences,  the  princess  would  be  made  a  mockery  of  .  .  .  how  could  he  want  that  for  her?  they  had  grown  together,  known  nothing  but  one  another  for  years   —   turns,  fingers  reaching  to  glide  along  the  sharp  plane  of  his  jaw.  they  were  oft  more  familiar  than  need  be,  but  she  buried  her  hunger  for  firmer  touch  elsewhere.  her  maidenhead  would  belong  to  her  husband.      ❝      �� and for  a  bastard  northerner  of  all  people.      ❞