#padme as brutus

[interdimensionalhellscapeportal]

Yesssssssssssssssss was just talking about this

Star Wars Ides of March AU where Padmé gets the Delegation of 2,000 to collectively stab Palpatine in the middle of the Galactic Senate

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may the 4th be with you

[dashedwithromance]

BRUTUS IS AN HONOURABLE MAN — iii

this is where the fun begins (:

The war was, after three long and brutal years, finally over. A small part of her, selfish and scared and a coward deep down, wished it wasn’t.

If it wasn’t, maybe she would still have a home. Anakin would be alive and she could come home to him, be welcomed and loved in return.

[The war ends, not without sacrifice. In the ruins, a terrible secret is revealed that changes everything. How do you reconcile the brother you loved with the man who slaughtered innocents? Does the red on his loving hands rub off? Are you stained forever?]

[masterjedilenawrites]

have any favorite niche background characters?

Hehehe... yes 😈

Baron Valen Rudor, a random Imperial pilot from Rebels that I just think is cute. I will not shut up about him.

Skad from The Book of Boba Fett. I hated most of that show, the biker gang especially, but this guy and his dumb little spin move in the last episode was great. He should be in more things.

A few background zabraks from The Clone Wars that @fallenrepublick gave names and personalities to. I'm partial to Riot and Brutus.

The guy who runs around with an ice cream maker in The Empire Strikes Back.

The shirtless popsicle clone from LEGO Star Wars III.

And then not really background characters in their respective stories, but not everyone's into the books or video games, so I think of Galen/Starkiller, Eli Vanto, Thrass, Padme's handmaidens, and Rael Averross.

Oh, I also made up a character based on the voice of an Imperial officer narrator from the old Star Wars Battlefront game 😂 Which, fun fact, the guy who voiced it plays the doctor in Downton Abbey.

Hbu? Any niche characters you're obsessed with?

[sharkeaten]

bambi’s pjo roundup <3:

minnie — daughter of ares, brutus is a son of mars. identity crisis <3 pandora — daughter of hecate, spends her time with the nemesis kids because she’s revenge fueled gloss & cashmere — aphrodite. obviously. (alternatively zeus, but we’ll see) finnick — poseidon feels like such an obvious choice however my finnick will never feel more at home than he does in the sea. so. triton — man what do you think. but that also feels too obvious so i’ll think about it and will prob change it. hermes perhaps. caspian — personally I think it’d be super funny if he didn’t even get to be a cool demigod and his little brother is just more awesome than him but poseidon probably jackie (taylor) — aphrodite. duh ahsoka — nike ! padme — demeter 🩷

ximena — thanatos

alejandra — zeus <3 my lightning baby

luke (riordan) — zeus

eden — phobos

valentina — aphrodite

julia — hermes

[sgrspiced-a]

silly infodump under the cut until I write their bios today:

d1 - cashmere (rachel mcadams) and gloss (chris hemsworth), cashmere’s kind of terrible on acc of d1 girls definitely getting the brunt of the prostitution stuff, gloss experiences it too but less sometimes. he’s more of a big brother n he’s generally the one that pressures cash to be nice bc god knows she won’t on her own

d2 - minerva (isabela merced), she’s the sister of brutus (@meathungrylamb) who won her games like fifteen years after; generally famous for having to use a hammer to kill in her arena bc the other careers stole her spear (also! dinosaurs) & pandora (bailey bass), who was never supposed to be in the games but became famous/got sent in after her older brother atlas (@meathungrylamb) died saving a girl that reminded him of her

d4 - caspian (maxence danet fauvel), brother oc to my finnick, was 18 when finnick got reaped and acting as the head of household since their father died; worked at the docks to keep finnick in training and often yearns for a better, more successful life. dreamer. awkward, standoffish, kind of fumbling. very smart & loves to read, popular in the capitol because of being an odair so he gets carted out with finnick sometimes. does not know abt finnick’s prostitution because finnick doesn’t want him to be at risk

d7 - padme, youngest víctor ever (if I ever change it for finnick she’ll just have had the title before him), becomes a maternal figure to a lot of victors after her win & built d7’s image from the ground up, also a key rebel leader after. won without a single kill & was popular in the capitol after for her wit (they were practically making fun of her I hate them). was pregnant with twins and lost them some time during her career as a victor, is retraumatized by coin during the rebellion. and sequoia (sophie nelisse specifically as shauna, reaped when she was pregnant, forced to go into labor in the arena and only alive thanks to ximena — if sequoia’s alive ximena is dead n vice versa)

d10 -ximena (nailea devora), eldest of nine siblings, grew up on a ranch and became famous for keeping her district partner (12 year old boy) alive until the top 3, where she ended up having to mercy kill him when he was dying of starvation and infection. she used methods she’d learned from dealing with cattle and sang him to sleep as he died; very much a “could have been a spark of rebellion but it went nowhere”, like padme

[v4mp1rism]

- 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 -

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A collection of my favourite songs, moodboods, outfits, shows, aesthetics, characters, etc to help you (the reader!) get to know me as more of a person! I also can post some of your requests here, to help me get to know you better! This is also where majority of my planning will be, so if you see a new moodboard or character, it’s likely i will be writing something very similar. enjoy!

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playlists

sad indie 🐌

juno and bleaker vibes <3

songs like brutus by the buttress 🏛️

nessa barrett + olivia rodrigo

weirdcore 🆘 (i usually use this when drawing)

girlhood (metal, punk, indie rock)

songs that feel like morning cuddles and slow dances in the rain

golden oldies

artists

nessa barrett,

olivia rodrigo,

lana del rey,

abba,

the cranberries,

ac/dc,

bikini kill,

system of a down,

the lonely island,

characters

anakin skywalker,

andrew neiman,

sirius black,

padme amidala,

marcus lopez,

nico de angelo,

rafe cameron,

selina kyle,

stephanie brown,

jason todd,

rhydian morris,

dean winchester

moodboards

[vict7r-a]

@meathungrylamb : [ dying breath ] sender talks to receiver before dying . - brutus and padme

❛ no — you idiot , i told you to trust me — ❜ he didn't . of course he didn't , why would he ever ? except she had told him to , not in their bugged phone calls , the texts they knew they could never be honest in . not those , but the clandestine meeting in the elevator , in that one spot they knew the cameras didn't reach . when she had leaned in close and told him to trust her , to not be foolish . and yet she should have known that's all brutus could ever be. [ that isn't fair , she hears herself say in her mind . he didn't know , because you couldn't trust him enough to tell him . ]

and now she doesn't have time [ when does she ever ? ] , trying in vain to haul a body twice her size closer to the hovercraft she can't reach , not if she's slowed down [ you need to train , brutus's deep voice rings through her mind , no use if you stay weak forever ] . ignoring the loud yelling that she needs to get back , now , padme , or you're going wherever they'll take him . she feels fourteen again , stuck between the reaping stage and the soft dirt of her home , between the cornucopia and a familiar forest ; except now it's between dying love and freedom , which seems to haunt her so often padme would laugh as she could . it's happening too fast , her hair is whipping in the wind and — she needs to go , because the capitol waits for no one and the rebellion doesn't either . a quick lean forward , lips pressing to his forehead in a move so tender she'd never let herself before this . a promise . of what ? she doesn't know .

❛ i'll see you again — i promise . ❜ defiant and determined in the way brutus would always laugh at her for . but now there's no laughing , just the sound of gargled blood and the light leaving his eyes . her head feels heavy as she gets up , her heart even worse . padme amidala , in her haste for revolution , is , once again , the loneliest girl in the world .

[themuggymuggingmug]

Maybe if the Galactic senate took a lesson from Ceaser's pals then the Galactic empire wouldn't have happened.

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1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

[screams in exchange fic]

So my biggest projects right now I'm not allowed to talk about for a while, but I'm looking forward to when I can. Otherwise... I've got way too many projects going on to give a succinct account of, but my most recent project that isn't pornography is some nice angsty accidental child acquisition set during Thrawn: Alliances where Che'ri loses her more recent memories during the mission to Mokivj and thus Thrawn, Anakin, and Padme are all freaking the fuck out about it for different reasons. Everything to do with Che'ri gets me really emotional and I'm hoping to deal with more of the clash of values that book touches on with the use of child navigators within the Ascendancy and the fact that both Padme and Anakin have had their own super painful age-inappropriate experiences within their own societies. And also just to write about Che'ri, who I love a lot but is the kind of character I seldom get to write.

4: Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

Oh my god, I went to AO3 to pull a snippet of a Caesar/Brutus fic I thought for sure I'd posted only to realize it exists only in my WIPs folder. So that's another current project, I guess, since I refuse to resign anything to the permanently unfinished category and this one is actually most of the way there if not for running aground on a different way to write the aftermath of the battle of Pharsalus. This part is from ~9 years before Pharsalus though.

When Brutus turns back, the slave who led him in has made himself scarce, and so the path of retreat is barred to him. At night all the halls and doorways look the same, all curtained up against the damp. One cannot even surprise Caesar by night without finding him at work on some new mischief. A stylus rests against its tablet as if interrupted mid-line. Caesar’s secretary, a tall and nervous fellow, stands waiting for dismissal with his back to the wall. Caesar gestures for him to go, and to take his case of documents with him.

Brutus has never penetrated so far into Caesar’s private residence — past the tastefully furnished atrium and the family shrine, here to this inner place where the consul deliberates with his intimate friends. He half expects to turn around and find Pompey himself there with a winecup in hand, looking disapproving. Outside, the rainstorm continues — lashing down to rinse the streets in muddy torrents. The muffled sound of it carries even here, to this comfortable chamber with its writing-desks and its maps and tokens spread out for review.

Caesar is in the middle of reckoning his household accounts — no doubt he is taking stock of what Publius Vatinius has given him. On the table in the corner is a water-clock, running away, and the remnants of a light supper. You’d think all this sordid business would give a man indigestion. It occurs to Brutus that this is no doubt where Caesar sleeps, whenever he sleeps alone.

motherfucking ancient roman domestic interiors

5: What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?

Man idk, maybe Holland March. Sad clown hive rise.

I feel like I so seldom get to write goofy disasters but I really love it when I do and I miss writing for The Nice Guys something fierce.

11: What do you envy in other writers?

Many many things, but especially the ability to plot and pace a story out in a longer format. I'm working on building up the skills to make that easier for me but I'm friends with some incredibly talented and prolific writers and I live in a state of perpetual agony.

[shadowsong26fic]

Coming Attractions!

Because it is the first Monday of the month and also I think I skipped last month, whoops.

Because I think I haven’t done it in a while, I’m gonna take this opportunity to plug my writing discord--it’s not super active, but I sometimes ramble about various projects and I usually post updates there, too, if you miss things here or on AO3.

Also, Open Question Night because why not--if you’re new here (or have forgotten), while my askbox is always open, I’m actually hanging out and around to answer tonight. Anything I’ve talked about either here or Ao3 is fair game; questions about writing in general, etc. While I do accept prompt, I do not promise to fill them in a timely fashion, lol.

What’s on your minds?

In general, I’m a little bit behind on where I wanted to be on most things--I didn’t get quite as much done as I’d hoped in February, and then work got super busy in March, so I was scrambling to finish my BB draft, and things just sort of dominoed.

Star Wars Projects

Big Bang:

Still untitled, but I have...most of it written now! (Which. Like. Deadline for a more or less complete draft was April 1 so, lol.) There are a couple of bridging/character-building scenes I might want to add, maybe a couple additional flashbacks, plus I need to smooth out some transitions/starts and ends to scenes/I think I’m missing a fight scene or two, etc.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited! There are a couple scenes I’m really looking forward to sharing--some of the stuff with Bo and Padme’s relationship arc; a couple things with Anakin; that one part my notes subtitled ‘But Brutus Is An Honorable Man...’

That’ll go up in May--starting on the 4th, but I probably won’t post it all at once. The schedule will probably materialize once I’ve figured out exactly how I want to format it (since my original plan for how the flashbacks would be seeded through doesn’t quite work as the project stands...)

Precipice!Verse:

Still on hiatus/don’t have a start date for the next part. But my plan right now is to start posting once I have five chapters more or less ready to go. I’m hoping for either later this month or May, depending on how much BB edits/other projects/work eats my brain. I’ll probably put up another teaser this month. Hoping to get the first Preludes story out in the next few weeks as well, but I’m behind on that...

Other SW Projects:

OFLAM, Distaff, Auxiliaries, Devoted!verse, Jedi of Valdemar, etc. ...I don’t have any concrete updates on these but they are still in the pipeline. Just a little bit back-burnered at the moment. Though given how heavily Bo is featured in my BB project, that’ll probably kickstart OFLAM a little bit.

AtLA Projects

There are two I’m working on, and I’m hoping to start posting at least one this summer. I’ve talked about them in a little more detail in previous Coming Attractions posts, so I don’t have any real Updates, but just figured I’d put them here as a placeholder XD

BSG Projects

There is actually at least one thing solidly in the pipeline in this fandom for once! AKA my roommate has been watching SG-1, I’ve been in the room as she does, it woke up a crossover I had going back when I was actively in this fandom like seven years ago...anyway, that crossover’s gonna end up as an AU outline in the not too distant future. Which may or may not lead to more fic in this fandom, because it is a fun one to come back to.

Original Fiction

I keep meaning to get back into the groove of writing more original stuff and it keeps not quite happening, lol. I also really need to finish updating the Lux and Farglass Cycle archives...

I also really need to read more Arthuriana, because that Lady Mordred idea nibbling at the back of my mind is still present enough that I kind of want to actively work on it, at least in a backburnered sort of way. So, yeah, if you have recommendations for particular novels/resources, I’d appreciate it!

There are a few others that aren’t ones I post on rainbowfic (first contact novel, another traditional fantasy, the institute files, the judas epic, etc.) but the Mordred one is the one that’s uppermost in my head lately.

Anyway, no real active plans here except ‘try to post more to RF’ ‘update those archives already’ ‘maybe start working on the Mordred thing,’ but that’s where we are.

We’ll see how it goes!

...I think that just about covers it! Like I said earlier, this is an Open Question Night--I’d love to hear what’s on your mind/chat about my projects or whatever it is your working on!

[wearesuchstuff1]

Star Crossed

What happens when you take a Star Wars obsessed nerd who is getting a graduate degree in Shakespeare Studies and you put her in quarantine with three essays to write for almost two months?

A Star Wars/Shakespeare AU for every one of Shakespeare's plays!

Read on AO3.

     All's Well That Ends Well  

Kylo as the King and Rey as Helena.  Kylo has been stabbed by a lightsaber.  Who stabbed him?  Totally not Rey, what are you talking about??  Rey offers to heal Kylo with the Force (because that’s apparently a thing you can do?).  Kylo doubts she can do it, but Rey offers to make him a deal - either she fails, in which case Kylo can kill her, or she succeeds, in which case she gets to choose her husband.  Kylo agrees to this, secretly hoping that if she does manage to cure him that she will choose him as husband and not that annoying Rebel pilot or that ex- Storm Trooper.  Rey does manage to heal Kylo, but instead of throwing herself at Kylo, Poe, or Finn, Rey decides she’s a strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man and this way none of them can push the issue because she gets to be the one who ultimately chooses who, or if, she marries.  Sorry Shakespeare, this play’s super annoying and I am not inflicting most of this plot on my Star Wars babies.  

     Antony and Cleopatra  

Leia as Mark Anthony, Han as Cleopatra.  Leia is a very busy, powerful, accomplished leader of the Resistance.  Everyone looks up to her and she has lots to do as her Rebel forces battle the Empire.  If only Han Solo weren't so damn sexy and distracting…

     As You Like It  

Ray as Rosiland and Finn as Orlando.  After escaping from Jakku, Ray must seek her family in the Forest of D'Qar.  Finn, in love with Ray and fleeing the wrath of the new, hostile government, also ends up in the Forest.  There, Ray finds her family, learning that family does not begin or end with blood, and learns to find “tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything.”  

     Comedy of Errors  

Anakin managed to avoid the temptations of Palpatine but when Palpatine discovers that Padme is pregnant they, with Obi Wan’s help, agree that the children must be kept safe from the Sith Lord.  In the wake of Order 66 Padme takes Leia and C-3PO on one ship and Anakin takes Luke and R2-D2 on another.  The twins are raised apart but when Luke comes of age, he sets out with R2-D2 to find his twin.  Hijinks and hilarity ensue, but in the end Luke and Leia, R2 and 3PO, and Anakin and Padme are all reunited.  

      Coriolanus  

Obi Wan as Ophidius, Palpatine as Menennius, and Anakin as Coriolanus.  Palpatine is intent on shaping the warrior Anakin in his political image.  Anakin would much rather stab things with his lightsaber and rail against the establishment than put up with politics.  Obi Wan and Anakin are gay for eachother.    

     Cymbeline  

Leia is Imogen, Anakin is Cymbeline, Palpatine is Anakin’s evil lover, Palpatine's clone son is Cloten, Han is Posthumus.  Leia married Han but Anakin doesn’t approve because Anakin and Palpatine want Leia to marry Palpatine’s clone son.  After Han has been kicked out he goes to Jabba’s palace and sends Jabba the Hutt to try to seduce Leia because Jabba tricks Han into betting that Leia won’t betray him.  Jabba brings “proof” to Han of Leia’s supposed infidelity and Han sends Chewie as Pisonio to lead Leia to the deserted deserts of Tatooine to kill her.   However instead Chewie brings a disguise for Leia to dress up as a boy to keep her safe from Han.  Dressed as a boy, Leia gets separated from Chewie and meets Obi Wan (as Belarius) and Luke (as Guiderius/Arviragus).  Leia doesn’t know that Luke is her brother and after she falls ill she takes a potion given to Chewie by Palpatine that ends up making her fall into a dead sleep.  I can’t be bothered to explain why.  Thinking her dead, Obi Wan and Luke plan to bury her until Palpatine’s clone son, dressed as Han and looking for Leia, arrives and, because he is rude, gets his head cut off by Luke, who lays him (headless) next to Leia.  When Leia wakes up she thinks that Han is dead and, in great despair, Leia goes off and pledges herself as a page to Tarkin, who is leading the Empire’s fleet against the Hutts.  There is a big battle where Luke, Obi Wan, and Han kick ass, and at the end all mistaken identities are revealed, Palpatine dies and confesses his sins (not in that order), Han and Leia discover they were only tricked into thinking they didn’t love each other, and Leia still gets to strangle Jabba.  In conclusion, this is a batshit play.  Thanks Shakespeare.    

     Hamlet  

Well it’s not Anakin because he doesn’t take any time to ponder anything before killing the people who killed his parent.  He just kills them.  And not just the men, but the women, and the children too…

Ben Kenobi tells Luke that Vader killed his father.  Horrified by this information, Luke sets out across to Galaxy to confront Vader.  By act five Luke has stabbed the Emperor through a curtain (thinking him to be Vader), Vader and Luke have both been stabbed with a poisoned lightsaber, General Tarkin has drunk poison intended for Luke, and Princess Leia is knocking on the doors of the death star.  With his dying breath Luke tells his school friend Biggs (who Luke is not-so-secretly gay for) that he gives his vote for Leia to run the Galexy after he is dead.  At this point Ben Kenobi is beginning to wonder if maybe he shouldn't have lied to Luke about his father after all.  Also, R2 and 3PO are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.  

     Henry IV, Parts I and II  

Han as Hal and Jabba the Hutt as Falstaff.  Hanging out with Jabba and his other lowlife friends has given Han a bad reputation.   Despite Jabba's insistence that they be partners in petty crime and enjoy all the entertainment and Corilian Rum the credits from their crimes can buy, Han must grow to realize that his friend is holding him back from his true place in the Galaxy and that he ultimately must turn away from his old (large) friend in order to become a General in the Rebel Alliance and to stand by its Princess's side.    

     Henry V  

Jyn and Cassian know, as their small band of brothers lands on the beaches of Scarif, that they are outnumbered ten to one.   Nevertheless, as they prepare to head once more unto the breach they are determined to make ten men feel like a hundred.  They know that if they are mark’d to die, they are enough to do the Rebellion loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honour.  They fight valiantly and are able to bring the Rebellion hope by sending the plans for the Death Star to Princess Leia, but in the end none of them outlive that day, nor come safe home.  

     Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III  

Despite the threats posed by the Clone Wars, the Jedi look above all else to their religion, leaving the path open for their enemies to take from them their power and, ultimately, their lives.

     Henry VIII  

Obi Wan is Anakin’s first wife and Padme is Ann Bolyn.  Anakin cheats on Obi Wan and the Jedi Order with Padem.  When the world finds out (youngings’) heads will roll.

     Julius Caesar  

Snoke, Kylo, and Hux as Caesar, Brutus, and Mark Anthony.   Despite his pledged allegiance to Emperor Snok, Kylo turns against his master and stabs him with his lightsaber, inciting a power struggle between Kylo and Hux and some impassioned speeches to the gathered Storm Troopers.

     King John  

Palpatine as King John, Mace Windu as the Pope, and Anakin as the archbishop (and Hubert).  Palpatine, in order to assert his influence over the Jedi and to continue to bring Anakin under his power, insists that Anakin be appointed to the Jedi Council.  Mace Windu is furious that Palpatine would interfere in this way and attempts to “excommunicate” him from the Republic.  Anakin turns on Mace Windu and the Jedi Order, and Palpatine sends him to the Jedi Temple to kill the younglings (specifically a youngling named Arthur).  However, when actually faced with the task Anakin is unable to do so.  Instead he lies to Palpatine and tells him the younglings have been killed.

     King Lear  

Lear/Cordelia as Vader/Luke.  Vader is slightly (maybe a lot) crazy and angry and he tries to give his son, Luke, part of the Galaxy, providing Luke pledges his allegiance to Vader and the Dark Side of the Force.  Luke is not having it so Vader cuts Luke’s hand off.  In the end, after some battles, Vader realizes Luke is in the right just in time to die.

     Love's Labour's Lost  

By swearing off attachments and secluding themselves in their Temple, the Jedi believe they will better be able to learn from and serve the Force.  But then Qui-Gon Jinn meets Shmi Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi meets Satine Kryze, Ahsoka Tano meets Lux Bonteri, and Anakin Skywalker meets Padme Amidala.  Together they learn that attachments are not so easily avoided.

     Macbeth  

The Nightsisters, led by Mother Talzin, predict greatness for Darth Maul.  In fact, when he is apprenticed to Sidious, Talzin predicts that Maul will become the most powerful Sith Lord and that he will soon become the master, no longer the apprentice.  Fueled by this promised power, Maul, encouraged by his wife Lady Ventress, plans to kill Sidious.  However, he is disturbed by Talzin's predictions that while he may become more powerful than even Sidious, it is Sidious's future apprentice, Darth Vader, who’s children will defeat the power of the Dark Side.  Thinking himself invincible thanks to Mother Talzin's predictions he sees no reason to fear the two Jedi who arrive at the Naboo palace of Dunsinane in a ship called the Birnam Wood.

     Measure for Measure  

With the Empire not giving a fuck about the Outer Rims, Jabba is left to his own devices on Tatooine.  When Jabba captures Luke and tries to feed him to his pet Rancor, Jabba proposes a deal with Leia that if she stays with him he will let Luke go.  Already feeling that she is married to the Rebellion, Leia is torn between her love for the Alliance and her love for Luke.  Ultimately Leia decides she’s better off strangling Jabba while Luke blows up his ship.  Even though this isn’t what Mariana actuall does in the script it’s what she should do becasue fuck the patriarchy.    

     Merchant of Venice  

In a last-ditch attempt to save the Republic she loves, Padme comes before the senate and reminds them that 'the quality of mercy is not strained'.  She advises them that mercy 'is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned Emperor better than his robe: his lightsaber shows the force of temporal power, but mercy is above the lightsaber's sway".  Her impassioned speech reminds the senate to see past the blood lust fueled by Palpatine and the Clone Wars and Padme single handedly manages to avoid the death of democracy to thunderous applause.    

     Merry Wives of Windsor  

Jabba the Hutt is Falstaff.  That’s all.

     Midsummer Night's Dream  

Finn and Poe, both thinking they are in love with Ray, follow Ray to a forest planet.  Rose, in love with Poe, follows him.  In the forest R2-D2 and his young companion BB8 use trickery and (Force) magic to help the humans sort out this love triangle mess (yes, this does make C-3PO Titania). Finn and Poe realize that they are actually in love with each other and Ray reaffirms that she is a strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man.  Rose gets left in the woods because J.J. Abrams forgets about her.  

     Much Ado about Nothing  

Leia/Han as Beatrice/Benedict.  Despite the seemingly daily war of words between Princess Leia and Han Solo in the hallways of Hoth’s Echo Base, it seems every Alliance member except the Princess and the smuggler knows that the two are in love.  While the verbal battles continue (some more sophisticated than others - Han’s only available comeback to Leia’s rather weak “scruffy looking nerf herder” jab being “who’s scruffy looking?”) Chewbacca, Luke, R2-D2 and a relatively confused and unwilling C-3PO ‘undertake one of Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Han and the Princess Leia into a mountain of affection the one with the other’.  By the end both Han and Leia are separately convinced the other is madly in love with them and relent (purely out of the goodness of their own hearts and not at all because of any feelings they might have) to save the other from their suffering and agree to marry them.  Also Jar Jar Binks is Dogberry - do not question it.    

     Othello  

In order to serve his own purposes, Palpatine manages to turn the righteous and lauded warrior Anakin Skywalker against his wife, Padmé Amidala, with whispered lies and deceits, resulting in Anakin choking and, ultimately, killing the woman he loves.  That’s it.  That’s the film.

     Pericles  

Anakin as Pericles, Padme as Thaisa, and Leia as Marina.  After fleeing from Mustafar with Padme, Obi Wan and Bail Organa watch helplessly as Padme gives birth to twins then, seemingly, dies.  Afraid to bring more attention on themselves from Sidious and his new apprentice, the men place Padme’s body in an escape pod and eject it near Jedha.  What they don’t know is that Padme is only mostly dead (which means she is a little bit alive).  When her escape pod is found by a young local force user named Chirrut Imwe he brings Padme back from the brink.  Knowing that her husband is dead to her and with no way to contact her children, Padme decides to dedicate herself to the Force at the ancient Jedi temple Chirrut and his husband Baze Malbus brought her to.  Meanwhile, Leia is raised by Bail and, when she is old enough, dedicates herself to the Rebellion (sorry guys, I just can’t bring myself to have Bail try to kill Leia).  However, when Leia is captured by the Empire she is brought before Vader.  They talk and compare stories, and through their connection in the Force they realize that they are father and daughter.  At the descovery of his daughter Vader decides ‘you know what, fuck the Emperer’ and casually destroies the Empire.  Then the Force leads Anakin and Leia to Jedha (which hasn’t been destroyed because of reasons).  There they discover Padme living in the temple of the Jedi.  After a tearful family reunion with Anakin, Padme, and Leia, the three eventually decide they had better go save Luke from spending the rest of his life as a moisture farmer on Tatooine.  

     Richard II  

Ben Solo as Bolingbrooke and Luke as Richard II.  Luke, hoping to raise Ben Solo in his image, is heartbroken when he senses the dark side in his nephew.  In a sudden and desperate attempt to keep the dark side from the world Luke banishes Ben (with his lightsaber).  Furious at Luke’s betrayal Ben turns to the dark side and destroys everything Luke has sought to build.

     Richard III  

Turning against his own family, Kylo Ren murders and betrays in order to obtain the position in the First Order he believes his lineage affords him.  Hux is Ann.

     Romeo and Juliet  

Finn has been raised to be a Storm Trooper since before he can remember.  All his life he has been taught to hate the Resistance.   Poe’s parents were Alliance members during the time of the Empire.  They raised him to stand against the First Order.  Finn and Poe thought they knew their beliefs, until the two meet and, despite all they have been taught to believe, fall desperately in love.  They are, quite literally, star crossed.  BB8 gets drunk off fermented oil and delivers a Queen Mab speech in exclusively beeps and whistles.

     Taming of the Shrew  

The Alderaanian Princess is a bit of a firecracker and has no time for anything in her life but the Rebellion.  So when a smuggler shows up and decides to try to win her over Anakin, who did not turn to the Dark Side, laughs and says he’s welcome to try.  Meanwhile, Bodhi Rook, Wedge Antilles, and Biggs Darklighter (yes, this IS his last name…) are all vying for Luke Skywalker’s attention.  When Luke goes to Anakin and wines ‘but daddy, I want to get married’ Anakin makes a new rule: “YOU’RE NOT GETTING MARRIED UNTIL LEIA GETS MARRIED!”.  In order to have a chance at marriage Luke must team up with Chewbacca to help Han tame Leia.  It doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone except Han that it is actually Leia who ends up doing the timing.  

     Tempest  

In (self-imposed) exile a grumpy, gray haired Luke hangs out on an island strong with the magic of the Force.  Ariel is a Porg.  

     Timon of Athens  

Despite the Clone Wars, Obi Wan Kenobi is glad to be well liked and surrounded by friends he trusts.  Then one day his friends (specifically his best friend and a bunch of clones) betray his ass.  So what does he do?  He runs off to the Outer Rim to the sandiest fucking planet he can find (because his ex-best friend hates sand) and spends the next 19 years being poor and grumpy.

     Titus Andronicus  

Seriously, the only story I know with more severed limbs that Titus Andronicus is Star Wars…

     Troilus and Cressida  

When Padme married Anakin Skywalker they exchanged vows, of course, but they also exchanged pieces of clothing.  It’s an old Naboo tradition that Padme’s mother loved and Anakin found cute, so why not?   It was a silly thing, but the sleeve Anakin gives her stays with Padme, folded neatly in a small box, as Anakin fights the Clone Wars throughout the Galaxy and Padme fights them in the Senate.  But then Anakin falls to Darth Sidious’s powers and when Padme confronts him he almost chokes her to death.  Almost.  After giving birth to two healthy children Padme, Obi Wan, and Yoda agree that it will be safest for the twins to be raised apart in order to better hide them from the Dark Side.  Obi Wan takes the boy to Tatooien and Padme’s friend Bail Organa takes the girl to be his adopted daughter.  Padme, seperated from her children, spends the next several years traveling the Galaxy, doing good where she can and keeping herself away from her children, afraid that her presence will endanger them.  But Darth Vader finally catches up with her.  She is captured by the Sith Lord and taken prisoner and her already shattered heart breaks once again when she is brought before him.  Her captor demands that she be his, insisting that she love him and give up her foolish affection for the foolish boy she met on Tatooine all those standard years ago.  To prove her new supposed devotion to Vader, the Empire, and the Dark Side of the Force, Vader demands Padme supply him with a token of her affection.  From her small pack Padme draws out a box with an old but neatly folded sleeve within. She hands it to the Sith Lord, a token of her love, in the hopes that it might remind Vader of the love Padme bears for another man.    

     Twelfth Night  

After escaping Darth Vader with the plans to the Death Star, Luke and Leia, twins raised together as royals on Alderaan, crash in their escape pod on Tatooine.  Believing her twin brother to be dead, Leia dresses as a man to better hide from the Empire.  She is hired by a handsome smuggler named Han Solo, who sends her as an envoy to the palace of Jabba the Hutt, hoping Leia can gain information about Han’s lost love Qi’ra.  Han is intrigued by his new hire and his apparent aversion to the Empire while under her disguise Leia finds she is falling in love with Han.  Jabba is confused about why this petite boy Solo keeps sending wants to know about someone named Obi Wan Kanobi, Chewie is considering changing up his single munitions belt style with some fancy cross-gartering, and somehow Luke ends up at Jabba’s in a slave bikini.

     Two Gentlemen of Verona  

Lance and Crab - Ray and BB8 on Jakku.  Ray, having no family to speak of, designates her left shoe to be her mother, her right shoe to be her father, her staff to be her sister, her hat to be their maid and she is the droid.  No, the droid is herself, and she is the droid - O, the droid is her, and she is herself.  Ay, so, so.  She plays out her imagined family life with shoes and staff, bringing herself to lonely tears. Now the droid all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word; but see how she lays Jakku’s dust with her tears.

     Winter's Tale  

Abandoned after his family exited pursued by a (space) bear, Baby Yoda finds a new protector and adopted father in Din Djarin, the Mandalorian.    

     Cardenio and Love’s Labour’s Won  

These two are the 6 hour uncut Phantom Menace because they are lost and I would give my first born child to see them.

     Sir Thomas More, The Spanish Tragedy, and Edward III  

All the books/legends - not because of the plot, but because although George Lucas had very little to do with them they are really only known, by those who know them, in association with him and his works.  There is a large debate by ‘scholars’ as to whether they should be accepted as canon or not.

     Bonus  

Chewbacca is ecstatic when he hears that an Alderaanian princess has taken up residence in the detention block of a nearby moon space station.  He hopes that this princess might be the perfect match for his handsome yet headstrong smuggler friend.  After all, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Alderaanian princess in possession of a good fortune of Credits, must be in want of a husband.

I must give a huge thank you to my friends who put up with me while I did this and contributed fabulous ideas!  Vaxildamn, Dazingparadise, Kaethe, and Eric, I couldn't have done this without you!

[gingerftmnerd]

Characters (Pt.1)

So I have a lot of story arches and details jumbled in my mind for my Hermes graphic novel idea thingy, but it’s so hard to get it written down properly, let alone have it be 85% dialogue and work?  I’ve had writers block but I have many things to say about the individual characters themselves, I.e all of them occasionally break the 4th wall throughout. Hermes:

Looks - Medium short dark purple curly hair - icy blue eyes - tattooed all over - Goes back and forth from colourful yet gothic styles in attire to casual nerd chic (likes to wear his plaid onesie at home) - Full and big hipster beard (also purple) Personality - Flirtatious - Queer AF - Has a history of depression, anxiety and PTSD from the Titan wars - Always expresses himself and is honest about what he’s thinking,                    even if it ends up insulting someone - Is a cat person - Loves to sing - Has a thing for curves in men and women (but still likes muscles and such as well, just doesn’t make him drool as much) - Sarcasm is a second language - Usually the first to point out dumb ideas/plans - Takes his job seriously even though he doesn’t come across as such  - Is a switch but loves to Power Bottom   Occupation - Messenger of the gods and guider of souls to the afterlife and so on - Co-Owns a burlesque variety show in an old opera house in Paris with Aphrodite Extra Facts: - Owns 3 cats that happen to be the fates trapped in feline form - Is the only person who knows where the Golden Fleece is currently - Face times with Pan a lot            Ares: Looks - Silver Daddy vibes - Scars strewn along his body - Amber coloured eyes - White short tossled hair  - Always clean shaven - Likes to wear shirts with puns and Dad jokes on them under his array of          leather jackets (one for each day of the week) Personality - Jumpy at anything that sounds like gun fire or swords clashing, etc - Would never fight an unarmed individual - Secretly loves Beyonce - Can’t talk to women to save his life - Reads romance novels - Short tempered (but is working on changing that) - Puts anyone who works out with him through hell - Chokes people first asks questions later - Has fatherly instincts (sometimes) Extra Facts :

- Has a dog named Brutus (breed tbd) - Owns a lot of motorcycles and muscle cars and essentially lives like a gay sugar daddy - Has a daughter no one knows about Zeus: Looks - Always in his armored form  - Pink coloured eyes - Braided Grey hair and long beard - Lightening scar patterns over the course of his body - Doesn’t believe in too many rings on his fingers - Only takes his crown off for showers and sleep Personality  - Dramatic - Treated Hera like the Queen that she is (before her disappearance) - Blasts Folk Metal to help him feel better - Mopey/Broody - Bit of a dick 90% of the time - Peeping tom from Olympus on more than one occasion - Knows he is a minor character  - Loves to guilt trip  - Recovering addict from dark magic Extra Facts : - Sleeps with a plush Pegasus - Air guitars in private (and he’s pretty good at it) Aphrodite (new one, old one is happily retired long before the start of the story) : Looks - Flowing chocolate brown hair down to her knees (has it in different styles; Padme Amidalla inspo) - Eye colour changes frequently - Usually in some form of lingerie or kimono - Power woman suits during business meetings - Curvy/Voluptuous   - (Latina or black mixed race) Personality - Sex positive - Embraces all bodies and it shows - First person to a cycles class and to free doughnut day at Krispy Kream - Will squeeze anything too cute to handle (includes humans) - Loves to Cosplay (and roleplay) - Rape survivor - Breast cancer survivor - Loves gardening  - Will beat you at almost any fighter versus video game - Won’t hesitate to cut a b**** if needed; lover and a fighter Extra Facts  : - Afraid to fall in love - Finds Eros irritating (original son of OG Aphro) - Keeps a magic diary More parts to come but didn’t want to make this too big of a post.

[shadowsong26fic]

Coming Attractions

Yes, I know it’s technically not the first Monday of the month, but the first Monday is the seventh and that just feels weirdly late to do this, haha.

So, a few more general announcements, if you don’t want to go through my rambly notes beneath the cut!

First, as always, my writing discord is open--it’s a pretty quiet place, and more or less designed to be a slightly-more-interactive extension of this blog.

Second, I’ll be around for another Open Question Night tonight because why not! Anything I’ve posted about here or on AO3 is open for questioning--fic projects, original fiction, general writing, whatever’s on your mind!

Third, I’ve been promising a Precipice announcement for a while, and here it is!

The current plan is to post one Preludes segment (i.e., seven short stories that will take place during the timeskip between Precipice and Protectors) every month for the remainder of the year. So, the first one, featuring Kallus, Lavinia, and Mara Jade and set just before Kallus gets reassigned to the Lothal system, will be out sometime this month!

As for the main body of Protectors, my plan is to get at least the first chapter out this month as well, ideally before or around the same time as the first Preludes story, and then post between one and three chapters a month. I haven’t yet finalized an official posting date or schedule, but I will make an Official Announcement post in the next couple of weeks.

Okay! That all out of the way, keep on reading behind the cut if you’re interested in a more detailed ramble/updates on other projects!

SWBB

I was right down to the wire but I did manage to finish posting by the deadline, go me! Even if the update schedule Did Not Happen. Part of that was because the first chapter that was due to go up was Bo-Katan III, aka her duel with Viszla, which I think I rewrote a bunch of times, even through the weeks when I was delaying posting it. It was. Difficult.

It’s not quite what I wanted to be--I think the last section feels a little bit rushed, and there was more detail about the different backstories/etc. For example, what went down with Shmi. I wanted to get out, but I think it turned out pretty good in the end. I might return to this AU at some point to flesh some of those bits out.

One thing that surprised me, though, was that it ended up being mostly about Padme and Bo-Katan, and how they relate to one another? I was expecting Anakin to be a bit more of a focus, in part because he has the most interesting and complicated relationship to being a dragon, and in part because by the time I figured out what the Actual Story was going to be, I knew it was going to end with the confrontation with Palpatine. Instead, Anakin was basically there to push the plot forward and uncover the necessary information, and the real meat of the story was Bo and Padme learning about each other and coming to an understanding/becoming friends; and Bo in particular softening a little bit. Which was kind of cool, if not what I expected.

(Also, the last Padme POV chapter before the Coda was subtitled ‘But Brutus Is An Honorable Man’ XD Which may or may not mean much to anyone, but I amuse myself.)

Anyway, I’ve already started thinking through what I might want to do for next year--hopefully, if I start early enough, I won’t end up in quite as much Crunch Time and will actually be able to keep to some kind of update schedule once I start. One option is to use our faces like a mirror; there are a couple miscellaneous AU prompts I have floating around in my head, such as a Bail time-travel AU, a couple of crossovers, one where ROTS happens with Anakin presumed dead (though I haven’t quite ironed out where that one would go, and it’s kind of similar to my project from last year...) We’ll see. I’ve got some time to sort through it, but that’s in the back of my head already lol.

AtLA Fics:

Later this summer (though I don’t have a specific date yet), I’ll start posting the still-untitled Avatar Zuko AU fic. I’m still working on how I want to structure it, and exactly how much of the first two years of the altered timeline I want to show directly (the first year is basically him and my OC Kirana hanging out at the Western Air Temple while he tries to figure out how the hell airbending works from. Like. Mosaics and stuff. And on the one hand, that’s important world- and character-building stuff, and while he starts that year sort of intending to come back with the comet and Prove Himself to his father/etc., he’s definitely less sure of that after spending a year in the temple. And then the second year, the two of them go up to the North Pole and he starts on waterbending, which also involves a lot of OCs since he doesn’t learn directly from Pakku. But, on the other hand, more worldbuilding/character stuff, so...who knows. ...the third year, they’re hanging out with Toph).

I’m also sort of...poking in my brain how to handle the endgame in terms of the Fire Nation throne. Zuko can’t be both Avatar and Fire Lord, obviously; Iroh might work, but there are some other issues with that; Azula taking it immediately post-war has its own set of problems, depending on exactly where she ends up going over the course of the story. So, I need to turn elsewhere.

I’ve got a couple options I’m thinking through? The first few involve resurrecting/rebuilding some old OCs of mine--one of Azulon’s bastards or if Ozai had a bastard child; the third one involves completely ignoring The Search, and giving Zuko and Azula a full sister (Ursa was pregnant when she left but not yet aware. ...funnily enough, this OC was named Izumi XD).

The other option would be for Iroh to step in as regent for Zuko or Azula’s future children, or Azula herself, or some kind of weird setup like that. Most other alternate heirs I have floating around in the back of my head involve much more significant changes to the timeline, and/or are the subject of another unrelated fic.

...anyway, the point is, once I figure out some of those questionable bits, that story should debut sometime this summer! I’ll make an official announcement when I have more details.

(The other main fic I have planned is...may more back-burnered, lol. Lu Ten and an Earth Kingdom Princess who snuck out of the palace; canon-compliant; fun times with Long Feng and figuring out what kind of man he is; Iroh has an unknown granddaughter; etc. I do plan to write it at some point, but who knows when that’ll actually happen XD)

Other Fanfic Projects:

I do have a BSG/SG-1 crossover outline in the works. I’ve written...all of the BSG backstory and the first chunk of the first connection between the two worlds/cultures. But I have a lot more to go before I can post it. I might actually end up doing it in two or three chunks, since there’s a couple natural arcs (the initial connection and dealing with the ~2k people left behind on New Caprica when the Fleet and the Cylons leave; reconnecting on the algae planet and figuring out how the Fleet and Earth and the Haven settlement are going to relate to one another; and then sneaking onto a Resurrection ship because the Cylons have encountered at least one goa’uld and it. Did Not Go Well. side note i really should figure out if i’m supposed to capitalize that or not XD

Anyway, goals is to post at least the first chunk of that this month, and maybe more.

I don’t have anything else specific planned at the moment, but I might drift into more BSG content, because that’s one of my forever fandoms (a couple possible crossovers with SW are in fact among my potential plots for next year’s SWBB...but we’ll see how it goes.)

Original Projects:

I didn’t get anything done last month/in May, but I’m hoping to write at least one short story this month. Maybe return to my Regency/Bridgerton AU, because that was a lot of fun. But we’ll see.

I also want/plan to do some work on non-RF stuff. Even if it’s just plunging into the bonkersness that is Arthuriana so I can start actively working on the Lady Mordred story that wants to be written?

Also a couple of old stories I’d like to return to, and a culture I’ve done most of the worldbuilding for that has yet to find a storyline to exist in it. Anyway, I’m hoping/planning to get at least a little bit of non-fanfic writing done this month. And/or research/pre-writing/etc.

...I think that about covers it, for the next month! We’ll see how much I actually accomplish. But I’m looking forward to trying!