#rebelcaptain may 4 exchange

[therebelcaptainnetwork]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, RebelCaptain shippers!

We’re very excited to start the sixth Secret Santa exchange for this wonderful ship and hope that you’ll all take part in the fun--it’s a great way to get to know more people in the fandom. Each year we welcome both new and returning participants, so come on and join us!

What is this?

RebelCaptain Secret Santa is an opportunity for you to create a gift for a fellow shipper and receive one in return. It’s a way for the fandom to come together and show each other lots of love and appreciation, as well as get all your feels out about Jyn and Cassian!

We’ll be using the tag #rebelcaptainsecretsanta for all posts related to this exchange – info posts, reminders, updates, etc. (This will be the tag for posting your gifts as well.)

The Schedule:

Sign ups are open from now until midnight (PST) of October 28 

Assignments will be sent out by midnight (PST) of November 4

The first day of gifts will be December 26, with staggered posting over the course of the following week. This gives you more than six weeks to work on your gift!

December 26 was chosen so that everyone can enjoy their winter break and appreciate their gifts afterward. Sign-ups for a posting date will come in mid-December.

Please see below the cut for details on how to enter and participate!

To Enter:

Please send an email with the subject “RebelCaptain Secret Santa - [YOUR TUMBLR URL]” and the following sign up form in the body to the network email: therebelcaptainnetwork@gmail.com

Username(s): (your username on Tumblr, and AO3 if different)

Your prompt: (just a few sentences, please - give your partner some freedom in creating your gift!)

What your fanwork talents are: (do you write fic, make gifs, graphics, vids? are you multi-talented?)

Would you like your gift to have smut? (please note a rating, if applicable, e.g. I’m okay with smut, but wouldn’t want it to be above M)

Would you be willing to gift smut? (please note a rating, if applicable)

Please note anything else that you don’t want to receive or gift: (please mention any triggers, issues, tropes or types of works you wouldn’t want as a gift, etc.)

Are you willing to work as a pinch hitter? (to create a second gift, in case someone else can’t finish theirs on time - no worries if you can’t!)

The Rules of Participation:

Send in your entry email.

Reblog this post so more people can join you in the fun!

Send your giftee anonymous kindness at least once per week :)

Your gift must be at least 1,000 words or an equivalent amount of effort in another medium.

Your askbox must be opened with anon enabled. (It causes too many problems otherwise, sorry.)

You do not have to be a TRCN member to join.

Finally, if you cannot finish your gift in time, please email the mods ASAP! The sooner we know, the sooner we can work out a pinch hitter so your giftee still gets something.

There is an EXCHANGE FAQ, so look there for further explanations on anything you may be confused by. If you don’t see the answer to your question there, please send a message, so that we can clear up the issue right away.

Good luck, have fun, and Happy Holidays!

[jedites]

hi, i'm moth / twenty-six / central / they. this is my muse and roleplay finder account, so please read my brief rules and muse list before reaching out! i can write on jcink, tumblr or discord. my preference is in that order but please never hesitate to ask for any of them! the answer will always be yes. message if interested!

wanted opposites ➤ wanted characters & faces to write against. my muses ➤ who i want to write. wanted faces ➤ faces i want to use. plots. ➤ plot ideas.

01. my roleplay style: third person only, past tense, multi paragraph, advanced lit. i primarily enjoy writing about 3-4 paragraphs per reply, and love long term writing goals. i am a big fan of pinterest boards, graphic making, playlists and headcanon exchanges! i do work a lot so i am not always active ooc, but i always reply! i prefer my partners to enjoy the same. if you are looking for a partner that is chill ic / ooc activity wise, won't demand replies in any time frame, and who just enjoys screaming about fave characters - we are the perfect match! i tend to get replies out within 2-14 days, depending on how much we are writing, our schedules and the plot! i tend to prefer male muses, and lean m/m or f/m! adults only. 02. my favorite tropes and plots: first, i enjoy all content, ranging from fluff to the occasional darker themes. we can discuss triggers privately and i'm happy to accommodate to someone's comfort level. i love slow burn, angst, hurt/comfort, found family, wound patching, dyads in the force, post-66 aus, modern aus, secret relationships, age gaps, dark academia themes, and enemies to lovers! i love plots revolving around confined shared spaces, queer themes, undercover missions, and anything adjacent to these. i'm pretty flexible. 03. my fandoms: primarily star wars (i write anakin skywalker, jyn erso and cal kestis. i enjoy anidala, obikin, rebelcaptain, calmerrin and calbode as ships.) i am also not opposed to writing in any apocalypse verse (tlou, walking dead, fallout) with characters such as glenn rhee and will graham for hannibal ! i write list: anakin skywalker, jyn erso, cal kestis, glenn rhee, will graham. other fandoms open upon request: harry potter (anti jkr), mythology, the secret history, dead poets society, game of thrones.

04. current most wanted (updated may 10th): star wars muses to play against my anakin skywalker, jyn erso and cal kestis: obi-wan kenobi, padme amidala, ahsoka tano, cassian andor, night sister merrin, bode, saw gerrera, cere. i am also happy to double up (ie: you play anakin, i play another. just ask!) 05. hard no’s: grooming, underage, alcoholism.

[koltarmi]

worlds away (but we’ll meet again someday) ch. 1 - a Rebelcaptain soulmate au

This is my May the 4th exchange gift that I am posting late and it is for @early-sunsets . Thank you so much for your patience and understanding, there are going to be more installments, but I thought I would let you read what I have for you so far. I hope you enjoy! 

Read it on AO3. (x)

For all her life, Jyn Erso has only ever known the universe to be cruel and indifferent.

It had taken everyone and everything she had ever loved or cared about. The universe spat on her and ground her into the dirt. It fought to take everything she was, so she fought back.

Scarif burns around them as the man in white aims his blaster at her. Just this once, however, the universe is kind enough to send the person she needs the most in that moment.

The plasma bolt that she expects never hits her. Instead, the man in front of her crumples onto the ground.

Behind him, Cassian leans heavily against one of the support pillars of the satellite, his hands tightly gripping his blaster. His eyes met hers and he flashes her a brief grin.  

Do you think anybody is listening?

I do.

When they arrive on the beach, Cassian’s legs give out and they fall onto the sand below them. The bright light bringing their deaths creeps closer to them. The two take a moment to listen to the quiet rush of water lapping against the sand.

They don't say anything for awhile. They don't have to; they know their companion's thoughts.

No one had responded on the comm links, all of Rogue One was dead.

The plans were sent and the Death Star would be destroyed. The Rebellion would see to it. Their deaths… All of their deaths wouldn't be in vain.

And when they hold each other as the world burns, they both think:

If only we had more time…

The thing about the universe is that there's more than one. A multitude of universes that are unimaginably vast.

And with enough time, two souls are bound to meet each other again.

He passed by her quickly. The only indication that he ever existed was the draft that shifted her tunic.

Something in her subconscious urges her to follow the man, but before she can move forward, he disappears in the sea of people, as if he had never been there to begin with.

She doesn't see him again.

She doesn't see anything else as Mount Vesuvius erupts, covering the world in fire and ash.

His drawn sword and armour glinted in the sunlight. King Arthur's coat of arms was emblazoned on his scarlet cape.

The moment she sees him, everything comes rushing back.

Scarif. Pompeii. Two lives that couldn't be any more different from each other.

She looked up at Cassian, but noticed there wasn't a single hint of recognition in his face.

“What exactly happened here?” he asked.

Jyn took in the scene around her, having forgotten about the dozen knocked out bandits lying on the forest floor. She ripped her mother's necklace from the grasp of one of the bandit’s. She held the warm crystal in her hand.

‘Kyber crystal,’ her memory reminds her.

“I was just taking back what was mine,” she said, gesturing at the bandits.

Cassian took that as a valid answer and sheathed his sword. “Sir Andrew, at your service,” he said bowing.

Jyn’s name in this world finally made sense to her: Lyra. But with her memories, it didn't feel right to bear her mother's name.

“My name is Ginnifer, but you can just call me Jyn.”

He nodded. “These bandits have been harassing local merchants. On behalf of Camelot, we would like to thank you,” he said, gesturing to the bandits with a wry smile. “For your kind service.”

“Actually, I was on my way to Camelot,” she added.

“Would you mind if I accompanied you?”

“Not at all,” she replied.

Jyn learned that Sir Andrew of Embia was a knight of the Round Table, a role he was justly proud of.

In turn, she told him about her life. Her mother died when she was young. She was raised by her father, who had passed away a year ago. Since then, she had traveled from kingdom to kingdom to find work.

“Camelot is a place of opportunity. You are more than welcome to stay, of course.”

As they approached the gates of Camelot, Jyn put on her mother's kyber crystal necklace and she gazed at Cassian. She wasn't foolish enough to spend yet another lifetime being cautious.

“I think I will,” Jyn said.

Jyn ran her hand through the straw covering the cold dungeon floor. She looked up when a pair of boots stopped in front of her cell.

“I am not apologising,” she said, fiddling with the straw.

“I never said anything about an apology,” Cassian sighed. “You can't keep punching people.”

“In my defense, he was an idiot and tried to rob a man in broad daylight.”

“You can't go around and deliver justice with your fists.”

Jyn stood up and dusted the straw off her skirt. She leaned on the cell door and wrapped her hands around the cold metal bars. “Says who?”

Cassian gave her an exasperated look, but a grin made its way to his face. One of the many things Jyn liked about this universe was that Cassian smiled quite often.

“The king,” he said bluntly. “It is also part of our duties as knights of the Round Table and Camelot to protect its citizens.”

Jyn shrugged. “It’s not my fault that you're not very good at your job.”

Cassian was silent. He clasped his hands behind his back, the sly grin still on his face. “Is that so?”

She nodded and wondered what he was thinking about.

“Would you like to join us and become a knight of the Round Table?”

Jyn blinked. “What?”

He turned to face her. “Jyn, you have a strong sense of justice and a willingness to fight for what you believe in. You would be a great asset to the kingdom and it is better paying than the job you currently have.”

“You’re asking me to join the Round Table? Do you even have the power to do that?” she asked.

“No,” he replied. “But King Arthur himself has requested me to personally extend this offer to you.”

Cassian motioned for a nearby guard to open the door to Jyn’s cell. “So, what do you say?”

She stepped out of the cell and smiled. “When do I start?”

Jyn woke up to the taste of blood in her mouth and the smell of smoke in the air. She yanked at her helmet and tossed it to the ground to find her surroundings. Her armour-clad body felt heavier than usual as she tried to remember what had happened to her before she blacked out.

Camlann. Cassian was in his suit of armour, ready to fight by her side. Swords clanged as the ground around them caught on fire.

Cassian. Where was he?

As Jyn stood up an intense pain ripped through her left leg, forcing her onto her knees. She looked down and found a small dagger that had been wedged in between the knee joint of armour.

Taking a deep breath, she grabbed the hilt of the dagger and pulled it out, a stream of curses leaving her mouth. Jyn took the offending blade and examined it.

The damn blade had been laced with poison hemlock.

“Jyn,” a weak voice called out. She noticed a knight not too far from her bearing the same insignia of a dragon that she wore.  Shuffling over to the body, Jyn carefully took off the knight’s helmet.

A breath of relief escaped from her lips as she carefully attempted to wipe the dirt and ash off of Cassian’s face.

“You’re going to be okay,” she reassured him.

He shook his head furiously before Jyn finally noticed that his leg was bent at an odd angle. The burned off flesh revealed the bone underneath his skin.

“We’ll get you some help. They can fix it,” Jyn said, not sure if she was trying to comfort Cassian or herself.

He shook his head and groaned, but Jyn ignored it as she tried to figure a way to move him that would not aggravate his injury.

Suddenly, Cassian tightly gripped one of her arms, forcing her to look at him.

“Jyn,” he rasped. He had an almost blissful expression as his hand drifted towards her face.

“Andrew, you’ll be okay. We’ll get you help.”

He shook his head. “Not Andrew,” he said.

Jyn felt her body freeze as she looked into his eyes. Hesitantly, she leaned forward as her heart lifted with an inkling of hope. “Cassian?”

He smiled and nodded.  

“Oh, god. Cassian,” Jyn said, her eyes welling up with tears. “We have to get you back. Maybe they ca-”

Cassian weakly shook his head, taking her hand in his. “Just stay with me, please.”

As his eyes slowly fluttered shut, Jyn begged him to stay awake. Her every breath became shallower before Jyn finally collapsed, her hand tightly gripping Cassian’s.

They had burned on Scarif and in Pompeii; it was only fitting that the same happened to them on the battlefield of Camlann.

The scattered universes hold nothing but time.

There is enough time for civilizations to rise and fall. There is enough time for society to succumb to its worst form and destroy everything it was given. There is enough time to rebuild.

So there certainly must be more time for two souls to be reunited.

[fukamidori-chan]

Rebelcaptain may the 4th gift for @doptimous!

I'm so sorry it's not a full finished fanart but I've been really, really, really busy 🙏

I just hope you like it!

This is like the after traning kiss. Or almost kiss.

Please click on the pic if it is blurry!

[brynnmclean]

Hi @ladytharen!  I’m your RCM4 person for the May 4th fic exchange!  I hope you enjoy this little slice of life fic I came up with based around your prompts.

late night arrival [AO3 - rated T]

Back from a Pathfinder mission, the first person Jyn looks for is Cassian.

She missed him.

An excerpt:

It’s late on base, sometime around midnight, if her internal clock isn’t too scrambled by travel. The halls are quiet, not a lot of people around and those that are thankfully aren’t interested in chatting.

Tomorrow she’ll have more energy for other people. She’ll see if Bodhi is around to grab breakfast, if Baze wants to laugh at her and Chirrut sparring, if Kaytoo is around to terrorize some new recruits with her since she might have to lead a training lesson… but that’s all tomorrow. It can wait.

She can’t wait to see Cassian.

[callioope]

Learning Curve: Complete

The last chapter of my in-canon-universe college AU, Learning Curve, has now been posted! @watson-emma​, thank you for your patience, and I’m sorry this took so long! I hope you enjoy it!

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Chapter Synopsis: In which Krennic threatens to ruin everything, as he is wont to do, and Jyn worries about the future.

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Excerpt:

“I have twenty minutes. Tell me what you did, and I’ll tell you how to fix it.”

Cassian looks up from the food he’s spent the last five minutes pushing around his tray.

The straight-to-business, run-people-over look on Leia’s face would quell most of their peers in SGA, but Cassian prefers to think himself immune to her tactics.

“Welcome back,” he says. “Did you enjoy your long weekend?”

“Not remotely, thanks for asking,” Leia says sharply. “Your girlfriend neglected to do so this morning, a fact I found quite puzzling considering your mutual delight in my romantic humiliations.”

He ought to chastise her for calling Han a humiliation (a rather cruel hyperbole), but instead his curiosity overtakes his self-control. “You saw Jyn this morning?”

Smirking, Leia leans back in her chair, like a tooka-cat who’s caught her prey. “We had breakfast with her mother. I was surprised you weren’t there.”

It takes all his restraint not to blurt out How was she? But this time he manages to cover. “Different schedules today.”

“Right,” Leia says, eyebrows raised skeptically. “Which is why she’s not here now, I assume.”

He nods and goes back to looking at the food on his tray.

“It doesn’t explain her behavior at breakfast—” Cassian’s fork slips on the tray and makes an awful screeching sound. “—or yours now.”

He finally takes a bite of the cafeteria’s mystery meat, just so he can have something to chew and a reason not to talk. It’s amateur, but he’s—well, he’s tired and strung-out, and it’s the only way to prevent himself from asking Leia just what exactly she means by “it doesn’t explain her behavior at breakfast.” 

(Don’t be stupid, says some inner voice that sounds suspiciously like Kay, if you want to know how Jyn is doing—if you want to make sure she’s okay—go find her and ask her yourself.

But first, evade Leia.)

“Don’t waste our time on the oblivious act,” Leia says. “Like I said—twenty minutes. What happened?”

“Leia…”

“I did not get dragged through an asteroid field with Han Solo just for you to blow things with Jyn.”

Dragged through an asteroid field? He thinks of the piece of junk Han Solo landed in four days ago. Considering that Leia did make it back just fine, there must be an amusing story there—and perhaps a chance to distract Leia from her prodding. 

“Couldn’t have been that bad, with the greatest pilot in the galaxy at the controls,” he quips. Leia opens her mouth to protest the obvious deflection, so he adds, “Bodhi seemed under the impression it went well.”

“‘Well’?” Leia says incredulously. “I don’t know what your friend’s idea of a good date is, but I would hardly consider fleeing criminals with a broken hyperdrive, hiding in the belly of a giant space slug, and party-crashing my father’s business dinner with the mayor of Bespin as going well.”

Read on AO3

[andorerso]

A YEAR IN FICS - 2021

It’s time for my favorite yearly tradition: taking stock of all the fics I’ve written this past year.

That one brooding rebel: Pre-relationship, drunk Jyn remarks to someone that Cassian is hot. The rebels she's with all just laugh and go "good luck with that he's impossible to seduce some of us have tried" and drunk Jyn takes this as a challenge (1/1) Co-written with @fulcrumstardust and @briamarie38

secret love song: Princess of Lah'mu, Jyn Erso, is sick of pining after her royal bodyguard. So there's only one solution, really. Thrust into him into the arms of another. (Certainly, she's had better ideas.) (1/1) Written back in 2017 but edited and posted in 2021.

small rebellions: Imperial Jyn Erso finally seizes her freedom and escapes with undercover agent Cassian Andor. But the Krennics catch up to her. (1/1)

Blood Red Rose: 1920, London. An unknown creature dubbed 'the Beast' is terrorizing the streets at night. Vampire hunter Jyn Erso and recently turned vampire Cassian Andor might just be the city's only hope to catch the monster... (17/24)

my sun in the night: Recently turned vampire Cassian has figured out how to transform into a bat and wants to test if he'll still burn up in the sun. His girlfriend isn't so sure it's a good idea. (1/1) AU for my vampire AU

damno te ad infernum: Jyn and Cassian move into their new apartment. Something is not quite right about it... (4/4) Haunted house AU for Halloween, co-written with @moonprincess92​

go tomorrow: “He’s already failed her, and he doesn’t want to again. He doesn’t want to be another name on her long list of people who left. He doesn’t want to belong to her past. He wants to be in her life, wants to be her present. Maybe even her future. If she’d let him.” OR, things go wrong on a mission when Cassian isn't honest about an injury... (1/1) Written for the Rebelcaptain Secret Santa exchange

Prompts and requests:

I wish I never met you

don’t tell me what to do

you’re not as smart as you think you are

Total works: 10

Total wordcount: 99 742

There weren’t as many new stories as in the past year but that’s mostly due to the fact that 90% of my writing energy went into Blood Red Rose. And wordcount wise, it’s literally the most I’ve ever written in one year so... wow. I’m also really proud of myself for finally writing a multichapter story, so overall, this was a pretty good year for me when it comes to writing. May 2022 be even better.

[literatiruinedme]

'till the stars fall from the sky for you and I (I'm gonna love you)

Lazy Saturday mornings on campus are spent through teasing and cuddling. || G || 637 words || ao3

So, since I'm a little late on my May the fourth anon exchange, @ssimpleandclean, I figured you'd appreciate something of a placeholder until I'm finally able to finish your gift. May the fourth be with you, darling ❤︎

((Thanks @happilyswanjones for being the best beta in the world))

“What're you doing?” Leia whispered, peeking down from the top bunk.

Cassian shushed her, reaching forward to poke a sleeping Jyn on the tip of her nose. She swiped at his hand in her sleep, nuzzling into the pillow. “I've been doing this for fifteen minutes,” he said in a hushed voice, trying to hold back chuckles.

“She's going to-” he lightly traced his index finger along her neck, making her shiver. She turned away from him, towards the wall the bunk was pressed against.

“She's out,” he said a moment later. He traced along her exposed side, his sweatpants riding low on her hips. She pushed his hand away again, covering her side.

“Her stomach is the worst,” Leia grinned.

Cassian bit his lip, turning back to her with a smirk. “Really now?” Jyn knew he was ticklish and frequently abused that knowledge, but he never really had the chance to learn those weak spots on her- even if he'd definitely found some spots that made her weak. He carefully slid the arm he'd been laying on underneath her, maneuvering his arm to pin her wrists. He could hear Leia holding back her chuckles behind him as he slowly started tracing his fingers back and forth along Jyn's stomach. He bit back his own laughter as she wriggled this way and that trying to move out of his hold. When he moved his fingers faster, moving along all of her uncovered skin, her sports bra doing nothing to help give her any cover, she finally woke.

“Wha-” she cut herself off with a laugh, pressing herself away from his fingers and unthinkingly, moving further into his grasp. He smiled, her laugh music to his ears. She was a thing of beauty, whether she was scowling- as she so often did -or laughing. He occasionally joked he was unsure if she was even able to laugh, but he counted each amused huff he could draw from her as a personal victory. “Cassian, you're dead!”

“That sounds so much less threatening when you can't stop laughing,” he teased, watching as she attempted to free herself, her movements spastic but weak. He'd end up with a few bruises on his shins for sure, but it'd be worth it.

“Cassian,” she laughed, desperately trying to spin in his arms.

“What was that?” he asked, mimicking her usual teasing. “I can't hear you over your laughter.”

“Please,” she begged breathlessly, desperately attempting to pull her hands free.

“No, no,” he taunted, not stopping the movement of his fingers. “There will be none of that,” he teased, quickly grabbing her wrists. He pulled her hands up and out of the way to pin them to her chest.

“You're evil,” she jabbed between gulps for air, attempting to twist her hips for leverage. He stilled her, draping his thigh over hers. “Please,” she continued. “I'll do anything!”

“Anything, really?”

“Cassian, please!”

“Fine, fine,” he sighed, resting the hand dancing over her skin onto her hip. The hand holding her wrists to her chest fell back to the bed, freeing her. “I'll cash in on that later.”

“Whatever,” she panted. She let out a shaky breath of relief, inching away from him and closer to the wall.

“No,” he whined, pulling her back against his chest.

“Only if you're not going to do that again,” she pouted, already melting back into him despite her threat.

“Of course,” he smiled, leaning forward to press a kiss to the shell of her ear. She pulled the blankets up over them, her breaths evening out as she easily fell back asleep after mere moments of quiet.

“Pushover,” Leia huffed, leaning back onto her bed properly.

Cassian shushed her again, closing his eyes and curling closer to Jyn, smiling against her neck as he slowly drifted off himself.

[cassandras-nest]

Cassandra’s edits/aesthetic masterlist

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(support me on ko-fi) - i take aesthetics/moodboards requests

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Star Wars/The Clone Wars :

- Republic Propaganda series -

Captain Rex - Marshal Commander Cody - Marshal Commander Bly - Commander Wolffe - ARC troopers Fives and Echo - Commander Doom - Commander Fox - Commander Thorn - Marshal Commander Bacara - Marshal Commander Neyo - Commander Gree - work in progress

+ bonus Kix

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Tup AU aesthetic - (song inspired)

Ghosts from the past/New nightmares (Echo aesthetic)

Project sad (dead Clones)

Poe/Cassian/Rex inspired aesthetics

ARC-5555 -Fives inspired aesthetic

Cassian insp edit fanfic / RebelCaptain exchange

World in my eyes - Poe/Oscar Isaac insp.

Sith! Obi - Wan (unholy fanfic inspired)

Maul flithy aesthetic (fanfic inspired)

Kylo/Ben TROS

Born for this - (modern Clone Army au)

Order 66 - (told by a clone mind’s side)

Vader’s fist (the 501st after order 66)

I am one with the force and the force is with me - (spoiler tcw s7)

Star-Crossed lovers - (fanfic inspired moodboard)

Codywan inspired moodboard

We’re all just stars - (Jesse drabble insp.)

Fives - Rex - Rise

Loving a soldier

Ready set, Let’s go (Ahsoka/Rex bounty hunters AU + small drabble)

CHILD SOLDIERS SERIES by @morganas-pendragons​ (inspired moodboards)

intro - Wolffe - Rex - Cody - Tup - Dogma -

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Misc - rebel in me never dies - your comfort zone will kill you

BoRhap :

Joe Mazzello

requests  

aesthetic

Gwilym Lee  

happy birthday

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Queen :

songs misc

killer queen+liar+good old fashioned lover boy/bonus

party

don’t try so hard insp

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John Deacon

obsession 

soft daddy

sub-John 

preview Deaky’s bday 

Deaky’s bday post

Japan aesthetic

naughty dreams 

i’m going slightly mad 

angsty boy 

dancing queen

young 70! John - escort au

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misc

soulmates edits 

ANATF exchange 

you are the champion campaign 

oracle au

carvinal row insp.

jogerweek 1 jogerweek 2 jogerweek 3 jogerweek 4 jogerweek 5 jogerweek 6 

BreakyWeek 3

 Deacury edit 1

Froger ko fi requests

Froger titanic au ko fi request 

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genderbent! Queen/King week

god is a woman 

renaissance au

innocent au 

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Brian May

birthday moodboard gift

cozy days with Brian (ig inspired)

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Roger Taylor

birthday moodboard gift

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Freddie Mercury

birthday

don’t stop me now my words my heart

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Fanfic inspired

MOTH

preview 

chapters 1-2-3

Forbidden

fred’s tale 

Deazzello first time

Invisible Man

Teaser moodboard

 my baby does me

[leaiorganas]

I want to wish everyone a wonderful New Year! 

Thank you for the past year of friendship, fandom, lovely art, wonderful stories, thought provoking discussions and interesting ideas. Here is to a hopeful start to a new decade.

I hope to engage more in 2020 so I want to list my fandom goals for my own record keeping (and I will update my to do list to keep me honest):

Rebelcaptain:

Write more than two stories in 2020 lol

Finish post-ROTJ fic

Finish Cassian POV on a little too much

Finish co workers enemies to lovers

Go through prompt list  in my inbox and start on those

Start a Rebelcaptain Appreciation Project 2.0 (I need ideas!!)

Enter the May 4 Exchange

Enter the Holiday Exchange

Whouffaldi//TenxRose

Write a ficlet every single month

Do one graphic every month

Misc

Leave kudos

Comment more

Reblog all the fics that I love

Do a birthday giveaway

Do a 12 days of Xmas giveaway

Restart my birthday tracker to leave birthday announcements like I have in the past

Happy New Year!!

[therebelcaptainnetwork]

Hello RebelCaptain shippers!

It’s almost that time of year again—May the Fourth Be With You time!  To celebrate, we will be hosting the third TRCN May the Fourth exchange!

What is this?

The RebelCaptain ‘May the Fourth’ exchange is an exchange event (like Secret Santa) where you get a prompt and create a gift fanwork for a fellow shipper, and receive one in return! This is yet another chance to show love within the fandom, meet other shippers, and get some more Jyn/Cassian feels out. Although we’re announcing the exchange now, posting won’t happen until May 4, so you’ll have plenty of time to participate.

We’ll be using the tag #rebelcaptainmay4 (note the lack of spaces!) for all new posts related to this exchange—info posts, updates, etc. This is the tag for posting your gifts as well as for replying to anon messages from your gifter!

The Dates:

Sign ups are open from now until midnight of March 16th, PST

Assignments will be given out by the end of March 23rd, PST

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[imgoingtocrash]

I was tagged by @blondsak to do this and I LOVE IT, thank you sm, let’s go!!

1. What’s your favorite genre to write?

I don’t know if angst is technically a genre, but yeah. Angst.

2. Do you pull inspiration from real life, or do you pull things from other books/fanfiction you’ve read?

Mostly from other media and fanfiction. While some minor details do end up coming from my real life (references to things I like, the I Got Hit By A Car incident in Invulnerable, a lot of little family Christmas tradition references in we’ll welcome december with tireless hope), a lot of inspirations definitely come from fandom tropes I’ve seen and liked in other fic, episodes of TV, etc.

3. Do you tend to write one-shots, short stories, or longer things?

One-shots are my norm. Even when I write multi-chapter stories, I often pre-write before posting (EX: My 12 Monkeys prompt fic i swear that i’ve known you all along, where I did almost all of the prompts in advance and then just updated over a few weeks.) Invulnerable is the first time I haven’t pre-written in a long time, and you can see that means I kind of only update when the inspiration hits. 😅

4. Do you prefer to write description or dialogue?

It depends on the mood, but I find that a lot of the time, I start with dialogue so that I can build description/action around it. Especially when I’m trying to be funny. I get my jollies out and THEN focus on what the hell is going on.

5. Favorite fic/book of all time?

Oh my god that’s so hard! I’m a multi-fandom person that’s been reading fic since I was like 10, this could go on forever! 

I guess I’ll force it down to Marvel/IronDad and Star Wars since they’re the last two things I wrote for.

Marvel/IronDad - For IronDad, either built from scraps by peterstank or what if there is no tomorrow? by iron_spider. Longform Endgame AU + BioDad and a hilarious and also angsty exploration of the Time Loop trope. Can’t go wrong for me either way. For general Marvel, the Responsible Science series by lettered took up my brain/soul/etc. for a few weeks, and I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to know what kind of awesome fic was being churned out in the post-The Avengers 2012 MCU era.

Star Wars - I could pick a lot of roads for Star Wars bc there’s SO MUCH but I’ll say gray areas by theputterer (that whole series, tbh) for Rogue One. For Rebelcaptain in particular, Color My Cheeks by Copper_Nails (Her_Madjesty), because it was one of the first fics I ever read in the fandom, and it’s stuck with me since. And I NEED more people to love the Identity series by madame_alexandra the way that I do. It’s...iconic, amazing, perfect Han/Leia and just generally good Star Wars fic that explores a lot of great stuff. I enjoyed the new trilogy but sometimes you just want a happy ending where it all works out and boys this is IT.

6. Favorite trope?

I have a lot of favorites, but I keep asking for Amnesia in gift exchanges because I think it’s under appreciated. There was this one Doctor Who fic back in the day that did it PERFECTLY and I don’t think I’ve found another fic in any other fandom that’s been able to rival it since.

7. Are you the kind of person to work on more than one wip?

haha. hahaha. No, seriously, the PILE of ideas for the made of iron, born of fire series that Savannah and I have is fucking ridiculous. And I have, what, 2 other unrelated WIPs on top of that right now? Who knows what else on my phone notes? My brain churns out shit constantly, it’s writing them all into fully functioning fics that’s the problem.

8. How long have you been writing?

Oh, God. Since I was 10, so...over a decade now. Almost 15 years. I used to write really bad self-insert fanfiction with my friends and I just for our enjoyment, and then I moved on to posting fanfic on ffnet pretty quickly after that. I even read a little on livejournal pre-Tumblr/AO3 migration.

9. Do you tend to write more in the morning, afternoon, or evening?

Evening to super early morning. My most creative hours are when it’s like 2 AM and I’m on a roll, or I’m just about to go to sleep and have an idea that I have to slap into the notes on my phone before I forget it.

10. Do you prefer to post and update your WIP chapter by chapter or wait until it’s 100% complete before sharing it?

Like I said before, I like to pre-complete. I takes away the pressure of making it have a deadline. I just write as I want to, as the inspiration comes, and then post it when I’m ready. It keeps my writing as a fun activity rather than a responsibility.

Thanks for the tag!! You may have already been tagged but @heartofcathedrals @itsybitsyspiderling @baloobird @spider-beep ​@savvysass and anyone else who wants at it!!!

[ao3feed-rebelcaptain2]

Learning Curve

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2rmjEdc

by Callioope

When Jyn transfers to the newly founded Yavin College, she never expects to fall in love with the campus and its ancient ruins or to befriend the daughter of the most famous and accomplished couple in the galaxy, and she certainly doesn’t expect to run into her brother’s childhood best friend.

Cassian has attended Yavin College since the beginning—which, technically, has only been two semesters, but that’s more than enough time to learn to lay low during new student orientation week. And yet somehow, he runs into his best friend’s sister anyways.

They haven’t seen each other in five years, not since that joint family vacation on Jedha that definitely does not warrant mentioning. As they pursue their studies, literally living in and surrounded by history, can they learn to put their history behind them?

(Written for the Rebelcaptain May 4 Exchange, for tumblr user careforbes)

Words: 4647, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Leia Organa, Bodhi Rook, K-2SO (Star Wars), Background & Cameo Characters, Luke Skywalker, Saw Gerrera, Chirrut Îmwe, Han Solo, Lyra Erso, Galen Erso, (Lyra & Galen aren't in chapter 1 but they'll show up later!)

Relationships: Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso, Jyn Erso & Leia Organa, Cassian Andor & K-2SO, Jyn Erso & Bodhi Rook, Cassian Andor & Bodhi Rook, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Bodhi Rook/Luke Skywalker, Jyn Erso & Lyra Erso

Additional Tags: College AU, but it's set in-universe!!, Yavin College, RebelCaptain May the Fourth Exchange, Fix-It, Everybody Lives, even the moms, especially the moms, let the moms live, That's right, Padme lives (though she doesn't actually show up in this), Lyra Erso Lives, Imperial era never happens, Alternate Universe - Anakin Skywalker Doesn't Turn to the Dark Side, Childhood Friends

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2rmjEdc

[imsfire2]

five favorite last lines

Tagged by @jenniferjuni-per - thank you for the tag and I’m sorry to be so slow in reacting!

Rules: Cite the final line of five of your fics – your favorites, or the most recent ones. Tag five writers who should do this next.

1)  Maybe she does have some luck, after all.

(”Simple luxuries”)

2)  They sleep again, tangled together, limb upon limb and breast against breast.  This night and all the many nights to come.

(“The wedding”)

3)  K-2 stands in the balcony door for a moment.  Makes a grinding noise Jyn has come to know as his equivalent of a sigh. “I’ll just let myself out, then.”

“Unless you want a kiss as well?” she suggests.

“I’ll let myself out.”

(“Paraesthesia”)

4)  In the end, the technician powers the body down and removes the personality chip; reports K-2SO’s back-up programme as degraded beyond use, and moves on to the next damaged droid in the hangar.  Everything that can be salvaged will be, but her time needs to be focussed on the most useful cases.  To do otherwise when resources are so scarce is unacceptable.

(“Unacceptable”)

5)  Perhaps now at last, here in the sunset in Cassian’s home, he can stop running, and rest.

(“Running”)

I tag @badcircuit, @ladyk23, @stardustandstrawberries, @hanorganaas, and @disneybrony

More notes below the cut.

Like a lot of people I fumble with writing endings.  It can be tricky knowing when the right stopping point is, and how to wrap something up in a way that doesn’t just tail off feebly but equally doesn’t sound as artificial as a tv script one-liner.  So this has been an interesting exercise, trying to think if I have any endings I’m genuinely satisfied with.  I’m not really happy with any of them, but these are some I feel went OK.

I’ve chosen five of my more recent fics for this, so these are all Rogue One stories.

Simple luxuries is the most recent one-shot I’ve done; it was written for #jynweek, but because I was on holiday with very erratic internet access it didn’t get posted then.  It was for the prompt “Luxury” and was initially intended to be about the idea that thinking about others is a luxury to someone who’s had to be utterly self-sufficient for most of their life.  But it went sideways and ended up being more about friendship.  And nicknames.  And food.

The wedding was written for the May the Fourth exchange.  It was a pleasure to write something so purely fluffy and happy as by then I was deep in the agonies of In a dark time, the eye begins to see... It did me good to imagine a day of unalloyed happiness, and I had fun inventing wedding customs for various canon and non-canon worlds.

Paraesthesia is part of a series called “Family holiday” which is also all pretty fluffy; imagining the Rogue One team going on shore leave together, towards the end of the war.  Some of the stories are pure fluff, some are a little more emotional; this one is bordering on funny.

Unacceptable is a complete contrast, one of the “Paths of hurt and darkness” series; these are as angsty as the previous pieces are fluffy.  Seriously, if you don’t like angst, don’t read this series.  They are horribly dark.  It’s most unusual for me as normally I try to have at least a semi-happy ending; I think real life is quite dark enough anyway.

Running is a Bodhi-centric mid-length chapter fic, and one of the first bits of Star Wars fic I did, back in January.  I also think it’s one of the best things I’ve done; but it seems to get fewer readers, perhaps because it isn’t about a ship, although there are some minor rebelcaptain touches.  Bodhi survives the battle of Scarif and has to build a new life for himself in the Alliance.

[brynnmclean]

Hi @imsfire2!!!  I’m your RCM4 person for the exchange!  I hope you like your fic even though I didn’t get the chance (YET... I wanna write a bonus fic!) to use ~The Tag~

I used to be a king alone [AO3 - rated T]

“Six hours gives us plenty of time to go sight-seeing,” Jyn threw out into the quiet space between her and Cassian, keeping her voice light.

Cassian snorted. “I wonder what odds Kay would give for us getting into trouble.”

Jyn grinned. “Probably high. Very high.” But he’s not always right, she wanted to say, it could go well for once.

Or, the one where they're sent on a mission that is not a holiday or a date. Really.

An excerpt:

“You can never have too many knives,” he told her when they stepped back onto the path, shooting for a quiet joke to break tension. “And that one suited you. Beautiful and razor sharp.”

Jyn stopped so abruptly that Cassian stumbled when he turned back to face her. She was smiling, but there was still something in her gaze when she studied him, searching. Cassian stilled, waiting for her to find what she was looking for, unsure if he should double-down on the cover or do something to convey what was beneath it—it’s true, it suits you, you’re beautiful and you can cut me like no one else can, and I know you wanted it though you’d never say so—but Jyn spoke before he found anything that felt right.

“Flatterer,” Jyn said, reaching up and curving her palm around the nape of his neck. She pulled him down as she pushed up onto her tiptoes and brushed her lips against his cheekbone, soft but searing.

The cover or the truth, was a distant thought in Cassian’s short-circuiting brain, or a cover for the truth. He wanted to turn his head and catch her mouth against his, but she rocked back on her heels and slipped out of his grasp.

“Thank you.”

[callioope]

Hello, you have been identified as An Awesome Fic Writer™. Congrats, you rock! So that all of your readers can shower you with some extra love today, please tell us your favourite five stories of yours and why you like them and then send this to another five fic authors you think deserve this title!

Thank you for this ask!!!! It is a million years old and I’m sorry for taking forever to respond. I actually did this back in January, apparently, and since I’ve barely posted anything since then, the list hasn’t changed, with maybe one exception:

Learning Curve

Excerpt: But when she settles down into the shade and catches just a glimpse of the clear sky and the jungle trees—well, she has to. She pulls out her cam. Mama would want to see this. Anyone should want to see this. She sets the text down, places her half-eaten ghibli on top of it, and stands up to pan across the jungle forest. The other temple peaks gleam in the sun, some kind of bird swoops between them, a monkey hoots. Wild, she thinks, and just as she’s wondering if there are any kind of expeditions or excursions into the surrounding jungle, she hears a scratch on the stone to her left. From the way she came. Reflexively, she swings the cam over to the sound of the noise, and through the lens she sees—The very surprised face of Cassian Andor.

Summary: When Jyn transfers to the newly founded Yavin College, she never expects to fall in love with the campus and its ancient ruins or to befriend the daughter of the most famous and accomplished couple in the galaxy, and she certainly doesn’t expect to run into her brother’s childhood best friend. 

Cassian has attended Yavin College since the beginning—which, technically, has only been two semesters, but that’s more than enough time to learn to lay low during new student orientation week. And yet somehow, he runs into his best friend’s sister anyways.

They haven’t seen each other in five years, not since that joint family vacation on Jedha that definitely does not warrant mentioning. As they pursue their studies, literally living in and surrounded by history, can they learn to put their history behind them? (Written for the Rebelcaptain May 4 Exchange, for tumblr user careforbes)

Notes: Ever since I started watching The Clone Wars, I keep thinking about what the galaxy could have been like if Anakin hadn’t fallen to the dark side, specifically what would Cassian and Jyn’s lives have been like without the shadow of the Empire? The prompt called for a college AU and I did try to do a modern one at first, but it’s been awhile since I’ve been to college and in general I find the SW universe more fascinating and fun to play in. Once I started over and set the story in-universe, it came much easier (though I have drawn inspiration from some of my own college study abroad experience). Special thanks to @allatariel & @theputterer for their limitless gffa knowledge that has allowed me to flesh out this what-if scenario in so much detail. I’m loving writing in this AU and if time and inspiration are nice to me, I really want to write Bodhi & Luke’s story in it, too. But first I’ll have to finish this one! Almost there.