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[inapixelbloom]

My Archive of Our Own Wrap-up

I wanted to put together a thank you to all the fanfic writers who have gotten me through this year.

This wrap-up is me going through my history month by month to see which fics I’d visited the most (because you can be damn sure I read through them over several days, again and again).

So this is a celebration of the wide variety of fics I’ve read and/or bookmarked and/or subscribed to. Thank you to every writer on this list for keeping me entertained.

To every fanfic writer I've had the pleasure of reading the words of, and there are so many more of you than just this list of people, I want to thank you so very much of trusting your creativity to us readers. You are my rock, my joy, my comfort, and so many other supporting adjectives that I just want to give you all hugs and money for the holidays.

My first fic of 2024: dismantle the sun by StarryCleric

Summary:

Beau shudders and holds Caleb's hand, which he squeezes back tentatively. She can feel how it shakes in her grip. She does her best to steady him, despite the fact that she wants to shake apart herself and completely fall to pieces. “I am going to hazard a guess here,” Caleb says softly, “that we may have been drugged.” --- Tonight was supposed to be a fun night off. Unfortunately for Beau and Caleb, the universe has other plans.

2024 fics I kept returning to

January

Winter Song by @proantagonista

Yuri!!! on Ice, rated E. Completed 2018-03-25.

The set of Yuuri’s mouth softened into a private smile as Victor squeezed his knee beneath the table. His hands were bare, free from the gloves he so often wore when they were together on the rink, and the heat of his palm burned straight through the denim of Yuuri’s jeans. He slipped his own hand beneath the table and found Victor’s. Hidden from sight, their fingers began to flirt and play. A secret conversation all their own that needed no words. Yuuri was aware that at some point—a moment in time he couldn’t quite place—Victor had become his boyfriend. There wasn’t a single instant when it happened. It was a slow awareness, as if Victor had silently been asking the question for months now, and Yuuri had been giving him the answer a little more with each passing day.

February

blink by @frockbot

Persona 5, rated M. Completed 2020-11-13.

Summary:

Do you want kids? Ren asked Akechi two years ago, the night they decided to get married. Yes. He did. They do. So when they’re given the chance to adopt a pair of sisters, ten-year-old Maya and two-year-old Sai, they take it. They’re prepared for a rough transition: for arguments, and upset, and struggle. That, they can handle, or find ways to handle. They are not prepared for the resurgence of an old and familiar evil that threatens to destroy the tenuous family they’ve built. They probably should have expected it, though. After all, this always happens to them. [Takes place 17 years post-game and 16 years post-Doomsday. You don't have to have read my other fics to start here, but maybe you should?]

March

In Calm Waters by @dracosollicitus

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, rated E. Completed 2024-03-04.

Summary:

Rey Smith, an Omega who presented late, meets Poe Dameron, an Alpha unlike anyone she's ever met. Sparks fly, they fall in love — and fight against societal expectations. The two work together to build a relationship built on mutual trust and respect in a world that claims they should be nothing more than their biologies.

April

Investigation Check by @percivalium

Critical Role (Vox Machina), rated E. Completed 2022-10-09.

Summary:

She’s hot. She’s not usually hot. Blankets can be kicked off, but not this time. She’s also sore. She’s not usually sore, either. Muscles can be tender after battle, but not this time. Vex prys one bleary eye open, attempting to take in her surroundings. It’s her bed: check. Her room: check. Her blanket: check. A warm body next to her: check? A heavy arm draped over her belly: check?! Both eyes open now (literally and figuratively), she slowly rotates her head on the pillow to look at the foreign body next to her, smiling when she sees a floof of light-colored hair tucked carefully next to her shoulder. She can’t help herself and sighs contently, making some strands of his unruly tufts wave and ruffle. Her Percy: BIG check with a heart drawn around it.

May

Nightmares by @roninreverie

Star Wars Rebels, rated G. Completed 2016-01-01.

Summary:

After the events of the planet Gorse, Kanan and Hera adapt to living together as a crew, but things get off to a bumpy start.

June

three years, three rules by @akihmorn

Persona 5, rated E. Completed 2020-11-18.

“The truth is, I hate all alphas,” he stares at Akira coldly. “And that includes you.” Three years after getting married, Akira and Goro face an unexpected challenge. shuake week day 3: comfort

July

The Mind and The Maladay by @saltytothecore

Critical Role (The Mighty Nein), rated T. Completed 2022-04-06.

Of all the ways Essek thought he might find himself staring down mortality, his magic making a cancer of his lonely heart never even entered his consideration. But then, his calculus has never been able to account for the Mighty Nein. There is a remedy for his illness, of course. There is always a way to unwind magic, but there is always a price. The cost of Essek’s life, now that he’s contracted Hanahaki’s disease, can be paid two ways—one is higher than Essek can bear and the other, well. The other can only be paid by someone else. And if Essek could ask that, then he wouldn’t be sick at all, would he?

August

Witch Ways by @aliquistis

Baldur's Gate, rated M. Last Updated 2024-02-16.

Echo has lived her life tucked away in the forests of Tethir, learning magic through the pulse of nature and the songs of creation. She's good with magic, but not people, which isn't really a problem until she's scooped up by mind flayers and has to get along with six strangers lest they all share a tentacle-y doom. And she manages to get along with most of them -- but then there's Gale of Waterdeep. Despite a terrible first impression, she finds he is actually much kinder than all the mansplaining would suggest. This is a series of relationship scenes about my weird little mushroom hermit, a wizard who shows compassion and arrogance really can coexist, and how academic rivalry is like first base for wizards. Spoilers up to Act 2 for main plot and Gale's romance.

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September

Pacts and Bargains at Night by @feynwiddershins

Critical Role (Vox Machina), rated E. Completed 2023-03-04.

What passes while the sun is set is often the most revealing.

October

Filling the Hourglass by makkachincrossing

Critical Role (Mighty Nein), rated E. Last Updated 2021-10-27.

Every 25 years, omega Drows enter their period of fertility. The time is rapidly approaching for Essek as summer only grows hotter, and his husband grows older with no way to stop it. But he hopes Caleb can leave a piece of himself behind.

November

Learning to Listen by @fivedayslater

One Piece, rated T. Completed 2018-08-14.

For as long as Zoro's felt his soulmate echoes he's hated them. He doesn't know why Sanji, or the rest of his crew mates, care so damn much.

I'm finishing the year with

and on toward the edge of night by @j-plash

Critical Role (Bells Hells), rated E. Last Updated 2024-11-26.

Ashton would love every fucking alpha in Jrusar to take a long walk off a fucking cliff. Orym just knows it's not right that Dorian has to be so careful walking down the street at night. ("There you go, sweetheart, keep breathing for me.” Ashton doesn’t think he could stop breathing that in if he tried.)

Bookmarks (and notes) of 2024

These are the fics I've bookmarked (saved), and the summaries I add for my own understanding of what each one is, so I can come back it it faster.

even darkness must pass by dare_to_do_our_duty

The one where Caleb has a fever and Caduceus is tired.

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) by @notaficwriter

The one where Vex and Percy don't start of as soulmates.

come morning light (you and i'll be safe and sound) by @chaseyesterdays

The one where Percy is a dad. Good wholesome cure for depression.

the mist upon the hill by BucketofWater

The one where Mollymauk's blood hunter skills are actively harming his soulmate, but Caleb is too frightened to admit it to him.

The Courage Or The Fall by Rowyndodendron

The one where Caleb should huddle with Mollymauk for warmth.

feverish, burning up inside by @ivelostmyspectacles

The one where Caleb goes into heat in the back of their wagon and Mollymauk assists.

burning out, helpless by @ivelostmyspectacles

The one where Mollymauk is forced into a heat and Caleb does his best to assist.

Ship to Wreck by Snailsnol

The one where Gale courts a prickly Drow.

The Wonderful Life of Caleb de Rolo by @historia-gloria

The one where Percy and Vex adopt the kid tortured with Whitestone residuum.

Strong Enough to Bend by @catgirlthecrazy

The one where Essek doesn't really have the drive for sex he expects himself to.

Blackbird by @okadiah

The one where Kanan's weapon possesses him in an AU where he's not exactly a Jedi.

Exit Wounds by @seti-fan

The one where Percy has bullets left over under the skin.

Feathers and Smoke by @feynwiddershins

The one where it's a canon character study of Percy and Vex and it's fucking amazing how detailed it is.

From a Swell in the Ocean by @goose-smoothie

The one where Vox Machina is a pirate ship and Percy was rescued by "privateer" Captain Vex'ahlia.

In Bloom, With You by @nekosd43

The one where Caduceus has a season and Fjord offers to assist.

Perceived Impressions by @acinonyx1

The one where Astarion shares a cell with a bear and angst happens.

As I end 2024, thank you again to the writers who've provided me with much comfort in a ridiculously tumultuous year.

It would have been a very low year without each and every one of you.

[kanerallels]

Bad news guys I miiiight be obsessed with this new Star Wars game

[jessicas-pi]

MORE LIFESWAP AU INCORRECT QUOTES! CAUSE I'M UNSTOPPABLE!

Sabine: Fight me! Ezra, standing behind her with a knife, a blaster, and a flamethrower: *whispers* Do not. [or, conversely] Ezra: Fight me! Sabine, standing behind him with two lightsabers: *whispers* Do not.

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Ezra: Thought I was meowing back at my Loth-cat for the past hour, but it was just me, Kanan, and Sabine meowing at each other from different rooms in the Ghost.

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[at the beginning] Sabine: Are we really going to let Hera keep Ezra? Kanan: We kept you.

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Sabine, eyes glowing: With great power comes a ton of weird crap you are not prepared to deal with.

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The Armorer: So, how long have you and that girl been together? Ezra: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Sabine and I are not together. No. No. The Armorer:  The Armorer: Really? Sixteen ‘nos’? Really?

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Sabine: You’re my best friend, I would do anything for you. Ezra: I want you to eat 3 meals a day and have a decent sleep schedule. Sabine: Absolutely not.

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Ezra, to Sabine: If you don't want me to follow you into fire then DON'T RUN INTO FIRE!

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Vader: You have made a grave mistake, Jedi. Sabine: I make grave mistakes all the time. Everything seems to work out...

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Hera: Is something burning? Kanan, leaning on the counter: Just my love for you. Hera: Kanan, the toaster is literally on fire.

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Ezra: I came out here to attack people and I'm honestly having such a good time right now.

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Ezra: What would your Jedi Master think of me helping you do this? Sabine: Ok, that’s an interesting thought, but hear me out: what if… we ran an experiment where we spent the rest of our lives finding out what happened if we never told her?

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Hera: If the thought of something makes any of you giggle for longer than 15 seconds, you are to assume you’re not allowed to do it.

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Sabine, writing in her diary with a glitter gel pen: I'm losing my sense of humanity. Nothing matters. God is dead. There's blood on my hands.

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Hera: Are you trying to give me an aneurysm? Ezra: Pretty sure we all are. Kanan: I wasn't. Sabine: I was. Okadiah: I was trying to stop them, for your consideration. Chopper: I just cause aneurysms naturally.

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Sabine: You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your clan, your heritage, your status as a Mandalorian... Ezra: Thank you for summing that up.

[magical-gifts]

some of my favourite excerpts from A New Dawn so far

[singswan-springswan]

*giggles*

[bberry005]

star wars modern college au where hera, omega, and kanan are a little trio going to university except omega was raised by a bunch of former spec ops soliders, hera's life was lowkey all over the place, and kanan was raised in a cult and there is not one normal childhood experience between the three of them so none of them know what the fuck they're doing and they're kind of just faking it until they make it. notable side characters include hera's ancient cat named chopper that omega and hera are trying to hide from the RA on their floor, a very strange man named okadiah who got kanan out of the cult but he only shows up like once every five months at like 10 AM on a wednesday so it's inconvenient for everyone, and omega's "aunt" ventress who shows up and threatens them to take care of themselves, steals food from their fridge, and leaves. their second year the three of them move into a house that's basically falling apart and despite the fact kanan pays rent omega still calls him "hera's annoying boyfriend who's always around and doesn't pay for anything". one day some random man named zeb shows up at their door while running from the cops and he kind of just lives with them now. the ghost is this barely functioning car hera bought for $50 off the side of the road and she fixed it up and turned it back into a functioning vehicle and you can't even recognize it as the same car from the beginning anymore. the phantom is hera's motorcycle that omega drives illegally. they're in a constant fued with a guy named alexsandr kallus who lives next door to them. when they're done with college they all still live together and somehow kallus once again moves into the apartment next to them next door to them. ezra and sabine end up there god knows how. hera's an aerospace engineering professor, kanan's a middle school teacher, and tbh no one knows what omega does but it cannot be legal. its chaos and i love it.

[laughingphoenixleader]

this one fanfic I read (shoutout to @okadiah for writing it and @kanerallels for recommending it) made a bunch of memories I’d suppressed come rushing back and convinced me to go to therapy.

so I’d say yes lol.

Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.

[kibbondraws]

too late again

[lessattitudemorealtitude]

Speaking of Okadiah, I find it sad that hardly no one talks about him. I mean I know why, half the reason is because they don’t know he exists because they don’t like Rebels while the other half likes Rebels but never reads A New Dawn because they don’t even know it exists. It’s sad because Okadiah is a great character. His time was short but he impacted Kanan in a big way.

This line from the book always gets me:

Parents taught too, but without all the judging. Good parents anyway. And on that score, Okadiah had probably been more of father like than any of the other patrons Kanan had found in his travels.

Okadiah shows Kanan what is would have been like to have a father of his own and Kanan carried those skills when he took in Ezra. And did what Okadiah did and never judged Ezra, never pushed him, never tried to control Ezra’s attitude like the Council had with Anakin. And the idea that Okadiah taught Kanan all that without knowing a single scrap of Kanan’s history other then knowing he was a man in a lot of pain and shouldn’t be alone, is magnificent.

Okadiah was a great character. His death was so heartbreaking in the book. Even with his dying breath, he was looking out for Kanan, trying to convince Hera that Kanan was worth keeping around. Not wanting Kanan to be alone...

[kanerallels]

Last chapter of this fic is up! Hope you guys had as much fun as I did. I'm gonna try something different this time and put the taglist under the cut, here are the first lines:

The first part of the trip through hyperspace was quiet, which Hera had expected. It was an hour or two before they dropped out at the Sereeda Waypoint, and Hera quickly began the calculations to make their secondary jump.

“Hera,” Kanan said quietly. It wasn’t the first time he’d spoken—Hera had explained exactly what Ezra had gotten himself into this time, and they’d talked about that a little—but it still surprised her. “We should talk.”

Oh. Well, that’s new. Hera sent a quick glance at him, trying to read what she could see of his face. His mouth was set, his jaw tight in the way that meant he was upset about something. Less than promising.

But they did need to talk, and if Kanan was finally initiating things, that was hopefully a good thing. “Okay,” she said. “Let me make the jump to Yarma before the Mining Guild shows up, and then we’ll talk.”

Taglist: @accidental-spice @day-to-day-thots @auroramagpie @heckin-music-dork @opalknight

@seleneisrising @cassie-fanfics @ana-cantskywalker @lothalnyx (DM me if you want to be added or removed from the tag list!)

[jessicas-pi]

So This Was A Little More Angsty Than I Recalled...

We’re probably both going to be bruised black and blue by the time this is over, Ezra thinks, blocking a hard swing and throwing it right back. The sun was setting when they started, and it’s nearly dark now.

Sabine’s eyes glow too gold for comfort in the dusky night. Just like he has every day for the last month, he bites his tongue and holds back his questions.

Hera and Zeb won’t tell him about whatever happened to Sabine on Malachor, Kanan and Okadiah are as lost as Ezra is, and if Ahsoka knows anything, she’s not telling. When Ezra brought it up to Mom and Dad, they just told him to be there for Sabine.

He’s been trying.

Sabine has not been cooperating.

So after a month of being there with no success, Ezra gave up and decided that it was time for some non-optional friendship bonding time, but even his best efforts at finding a so-bad-it’s-good holofilm like they used to watch together, even after making some really good movie snacks, all for her, she sulked and complained the whole time, being so—so—infuriating that before he knew it, they were yelling in each others’ faces about tropes.

Ezra stopped yelling, stopped the film, took her by the arm, dragged her outside into the Atollon landscape, and said that they were going to beat the crap out of each other.

(For Mandalorians, sparring is training, recreation, and even courtship. He figured… maybe it would work as therapy, too?)

He doesn’t feel bad about throwing the first punch, because she hit back twice as hard. Ezra thinks his lip is split from a hard hit to the front of his helmet, and Sabine’s knuckles are scraped raw and bloody. They circle each other, slower now than when they started. Her hair has blown out of her braid and sticks to her face in the heat.

It’s a little bit pretty, but now definitely isn’t the right time to think about that.

Sabine rolls one shoulder—he thinks it’s where he landed a decent punch.

“Had enough, tin can?” she demands, but the tension has started to drain from her body and she sounds a little closer to playful than he thought she could ever be again.

“Not if you’ve still got that attitude, wizard girl.”

“You’re gonna regret that,” Sabine warns. She settles into a stance, rocking a little, coiled like a spring.

“Probably,” Ezra agrees.

She draws a breath, and Ezra must have blinked or something, because in the space of an instant, she’s flown at him. He can barely see her in the dark and even the night vision in his helmet doesn’t help.

But he has a split second of advantage. In pure chance, she overextends, and he slams into her, sending them both tumbling through the Atollon dust.

She’s up on her feet again right away—or at least she would be, but Ezra snags her wrist, and drags her back down, flipping over so she’s neatly pinned beneath him.

All he needs is a knife to hold to her throat and it would be a near-perfect replica of the scene in the holofilm that started their stupid fight in the first place.

Sabine doesn’t say anything. She just lies on her back in the dust, looking up at him with the eyes that always seemed to see through his mask, but now they don’t look like they’re seeing anything. He hopes she’s processing her emotions and not disassociating.

Ezra is about to move off of her when something catches his eye, and he brushes some of her hair away from her face. It clings—not with sweat, but with blood. There’s a cut on her cheek.

“Did I hurt you?” he breathes, not sure what he’s even saying, and he draws away.

Flying up, her hand seizes his wrist, gripping painfully tight, even as her sharpening gaze fixes right where his eyes would be.

Ezra swallows dryly. The look she gives him is making him feel a thousand things that he doesn’t really want to sort out, now or ever.

“Sabine?” he asks. “What…”

He trails off. Her thumb slides to the little space between his glove and his sleeve, pulling the cloth back. Never looking away from his face, she pulls his arm up and softly kisses the pulse of his wrist.

“You’re dangerous, Ezra,” she smiles, breath on his skin.

Then, like the Spectre she is, Sabine is gone.

[pilotinthestars]

11 and 13 for the ask :]

Thank you so much for the ask @okadiah! <3

11. Who or what do you find yourself writing about most?

I really, really love character driven stuff and I think a lot of my writing, especially with fic, comes down to me wanting to understand a character more. I think I write a lot of things that could be considered mostly backstory and a lot of somewhat introspective stuff. In terms of who I write the most about, Kanan and Hera have to take the top spot, though Scott and Hope from the Ant-Man movies have recently found a sentimental spot in my heart if my AO3 page is any suggestion. Oh, and Jacen! I love that boy. 

13. First fandom you ever wrote for?

Rebels! At the very least, it’s the first one I remember writing for and the first fandom I actually posted fic for. I’m pretty sure when I was much younger and just getting into creative writing I wrote what was technically fanfic for a few other things, but I can’t seem to remember what they were now, nor do I know where those stories are now. Probably in a notebook buried somewhere. 

Thank you again for the ask!

[minnarr]

18 and 30 for the ask?

18. Wildest fic you’ve ever written?

I really like a prompt that is actually a dare, so there’s a few that I would never have written if a friend hadn’t challenged me to. Maybe the Hermes/Hedwig one? There’s nothing actually wild in it, but the fact that I was writing basically sad never-quite-got-it-together doomed romance but for owls was new. Alternately the crack fics about Scabior and Greyback having to rough it in Muggle Florida. (I spent...several years in HP fic-writing circles so I just have a wide variety of material for that fandom).

30. Tooth-rotting fluff or merciless angst?

Tooth-rotting fluff. I try to write angst, and I read a fair amount of it, but I am so bad at letting characters really let go and be openly miserable because I myself am bad at this. Also, sometimes? You just want characters who’ve experienced honestly a lot of heartbreak to be happy.

Thanks for the ask, okadiah!

[mslanna]

okadiah

  accidentally ‘won’ NaNo just now because I cannot...

Lol CONGRATULATIONS

Not funny 😭 😭 😭 

well, maybe next month XD

[rainglazedpaint]

Wanted to practice concept art and ended up doing these sketches of Reaper!Kanan and Rider!Ezra from @okadiah‘s fic Blackbird.  

[superherotigerarchives]

'When we are Kings' from The Count of Monte Cristo - Musical is Kanan Jarrus and Okadiah when he's dying in the mines on Cynda, and no one can tell me otherwise