#star wars au no 39

[colleybri]

AO3 Writing Review... from an Andor Nut

After a gap of over twenty years I started writing fanfics again in March last year - entirely after getting completely and almost embarrassingly obsessed with Star Wars: Andor. That is my only fandom and I can’t see that changing anytime soon (obviously overlapping into Rogue One).  I’m a multishipper but have also written gen. 

The boring stats are that I published 39 works, totalling 94,519 words. 481 kudos. (I've lost the original prompt with whoever tagged me so forgive me - this a bit free-form.)

The work I’m most proud of is Dawn Chorus and that’s my only completed multi-chapter fic to date too. Not surprisingly perhaps, it’s also the one that’s had the most hits as it’s the oldest from the most popular ship I’ve written for (“Rebelcaptain”: Cassian Andor x Jyn Erso)  But I’m also really proud of the work with the least hits which is a poem: a sonnet based on Luthen Rael’s Andor monologue. 

Favourite Title: The Hardest Wall, which is that of my favourite of my Bix x Cassian fics. It’s very multi-meaning and I am a bit of a sucker for that kind of thing. 

Favourite ship: Bix x Cassian is my current favourite pairing and the one I’ve written for the most (there's a series dealing with their early checkered history... and because it's a relatively unpopular ship at the moment I've enjoyed somewhat cornering the market), but I’ve also really enjoyed writing several other ships including Luthen/Cassian, which I would not have expected at all when I first started. This is because of reading other people's wonderful fics - I’m always amazed about how great writers can make the unexpected work. Thanks to a chat with a couple of mutuals whose Brassian fics I’ve really admired ( @distressednoise and @notasapleasure ) I’m underway with having a go with that ship too.

My favourite gen fic is the series of strictly 100 word drabbles I did for each episode of Andor season 1. I’m really pleased with how those turned out, and as with writing sonnets and villanelles it seems that I really like the challenge of a strict form or structure. I really struggled at times to hit the 100 spot on but it feels so good to get the rules right. Favourite standalone gen fic is probably Making a Mark which is set in Cassian's time in youth custody.

The quickest work to write was the rebelcaptain fic Vision which I did in just a few hours. Kind of ironic that it got more hits and kudos than some works I struggled more with and probably prefer, but - again - it’s a popular ship. It’s nice to have an easy Hit on your hands sometimes though and I do enjoy writing RC - it's a way to give Cassian and Jyn the happy ending the film denied them.

The longest to write were the drabbles, simply because I didn’t have the energy or time to do more than one episode at a time. It also involved rewatching each episode first. 

The character I had the most trouble writing is Dedra Meero, who I’ve attempted a few times in the first person, as it’s so hard to capture the voice of someone who gives so little away. I also struggled a bit with Cinta, though I’m quite pleased with the couple of Velcinta works (story and poem) I have tackled. It helps to develop a headcanon about a character and be consistent with it, and I do return to the ‘text’ of the show itself to check for canon compliance. I’m pretty obsessed with not treading on the toes of canon (blame my teacherlyness!) , except where it’s an obvious AU.. but even then I want to the keep the characters recognisably themselves. 

Favourite line or passage? Probably the section with an extended metaphor involving Bix’s heart in The Hardest Wall, which is a fictionalised analysis of the angsty argument scene between Cassian and Bix in Episode 7. I really like the third person limited - it’s by far my favourite perspective, and you can have a lot of fun with it when a character is avoiding being completely honest (with themselves or others). 

But I won’t quote it here as it’s hard to give a passage from the middle as an example. Instead here’s one from the Cassian/Luthen Rael fic Small Kindnesses which is from the perspective of Luthen, and is basically an internal monologue about Cassian. 

Has anyone ever made a weapon that wasn’t used? I didn’t make this one, at least. He has forged himself, from the devastation of Kenari and the salyards of Ferrix. But I helped steer him in the right direction, at least. Well, the right direction for the cause, anyway. For him, as a person… not so much.

Nonetheless. Here he is. With his skin. Bruised and battered, scarred, marked, ready to bleed again at the gentlest knock against the scabs. Battle hardened. Primed and ready soon enough – with further training. Further guidance. He has proved himself more than worthy: slipping unseen, liquid shadow in the periphery of vision. Catlike soft footfalls, easing through undetected, walking in like he belongs, landing on his feet, learning to swim despite hating the water.

I’ve gifted four works this year, including for @jake-and-amy-are-married as they were so instrumental in encouraging me to start writing again, and a couple for my Andor bestie @adeptnenyim - who I was lucky enough to meet in person so we could Andor-Nut together at one of the series' locations. I’ve also been befriended and encouraged by various folks across a couple of Discord servers and by DMs on here. It’s lovely to have new friends from all over the world who share my un/healthy obsessions!

Have a Happy 2025 everyone. Enjoy writing… it’s for yourself, remember! You can be your own worst critic but also your own biggest fan. Write with that in mind. Write to please yourself, in the best sense. 

[callmearcturus]

okay someone asked for my PT AU playlist and I realized it was MESS so i just cleaned it up and rearranged the songs for chronological order

"The Rifle's Spiral" The Shins STOPGAP. OXFORD. CIRCUMVENT.

"Move" Saint Hotel MISSTEP. RUSSIAN BLUE. PRECARIOUS.

"Mind Over Matter (Reprise)" Young the Giant BERGAMOT. WINTERDYE. OVERCOME.

"Send Them Off!" Bastille TESTRUN. CARMINE. UNDERTOW.

"Weird Goodbyes" The National, Bon Iver UNMOORED. FIX. GHOST.

"Obsessions" Marina and the Diamonds PILE. POSTCARD. APOLOGY.

"You've Haunted Me All My Life" Death Cab For Cutie TIME-SERVED. SOUVENIR. APOLOGY.

"Call Me In the Afternoon" Half Moon Run COWLICK. LIBRARY. OVERWATCH.

"Crown of Love" Arcade Fire TRESPASS. CAMPHOR. COMMITMENT.

"How Much More" Stars WINGMAN. CROSSHATCH. FAREWELL.

"Flower Drum Song" Cold War Kids HUNTED. SHADOW. ROGUE.

"Silver Platters" Les Gold RICOCHET. STRUNG-OUT. VIVERE PERICOLOSO. (Benji)

"The Ghost Of You Lingers" Spoon RICOCHET. STRUNG-OUT. VIVERE PERICOLOSO. (Ethan)

"Opalite" Martin Luke Brown SAFE. DELILAH. INJECTION.

"Run Run Blood" Phantogram SCIF. RENDEZVOUS. TORUS.

"Where Is Her Head" The National OXYGENATION. GAIT. CONTINGENCY.

"Holy Rider" Rock Plaza Central DROWN. ENOUGH. RED-BOX.

"Uptight (Everything's Alright) Stevie Wonder METAMORPHOSIS. VULNERABILITY. JOYRIDE.

"The Silence" Bastille [REDACTED, Chapter 36]

"Goliath" Kithkin [REDACTED, Chapter 37]

"The Changing Lights" Broken Bells [REDACTED, Chapter 39]

"Pompeii MMXXIII" Bastille, Hans Zimmer [REDACTED, Chapter 40]

"WhisperI'lllistentohearit" Spoon [REDACTED, Chapter 41]

"Do I Have To Talk You Into It?" Spoon [REDACTED, The End]

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E Rated Fics Masterlist (47)

Part 1 -Part 38/  Part 39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 /

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All's Fair-katnissdoesnotfollowback (ao3) Summary: They say that all's fair in love and war, but Katniss isn't in a war yet. She's in college. And college is stressful enough when you don't have to worry about impressing your cadet corps or pulling off a flawless prank. But Katniss is determined to succeed, willing to go to great lengths to get what she wants. A Simple Plan-JLaLa (ao3) Summary: Peeta had a plan. He didn’t realize that simple plans often go awry. The sequel to “A Simple Favor”. Blazing Free-LemonLuvGirl (ao3) Summary: Catching Fire reimagined. Canon Divergent. Katniss Everdeen & her co-victor Peeta Mellark have spent every waking moment since they won the 74th Hunger Games trying to appease President Snow and keep their loved ones safe from the Capitol's wrath. They have played their parts to perfection as star-crossed lovers, and mentors. But when Snow puts a new inconceivably sadistic demand on Peeta and Katniss, they have to decide whether they will continue to used as pieces in the game, or whether to change the rules all together. (Mature themes, mentions of depression, allusions to non-consentual sex, underage drinking and drug use, violence, cursing, Everlark smut, some Everthorne drama, minor character death, etc.) Christmas For 3-LemonLuvGirl (ao3) Summary: Katniss Everdeen is looking at spending her first Christmas as a 32 year old divorcee alone and miserable. She doesn't want to feel like a total failure at Christmas time, but will she get more than she bargained for in the form of two handsome identical twin brothers? Christmas TV-Lbug84 (ao3) Summary: When two people meet online, how can they hope to separate what's real from the fantasy? Both burned and scarred in their pasts, Katniss and Peeta develop an unconventional relationship in this modern day everlark AU Cold Embers-lieselmemingers (ao3) Summary: Katniss and Peeta discover that their post-war medication has numbed their desire for intimacy. Coxa-JennaGill (ao3) Summary: Peeta’s subconscious is trying to tell him something, twenty years after the Games ended. Everlark. In Panem continuation to Mockingjay.  Delicious-LemonLuvGirl (ao3) Summary: Peeta is a professional chef that Katniss hires to teach her how to cook. Even though Katniss is terrible at cooking Peeta refuses to give up on her. When things begin to heat up between them in the kitchen they both realize they want to be more than just friends. There's only one problem, Peeta's got a girlfriend half a world away, and he never told Katniss. Started as a tumblr ask for a smut drabble featuring: "Please don't stop." & "Yeah, you like that?" G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time)-JHsgf82 (ao3) Summary: Katniss Everdeen is a waitress at the G.O.A.T. Sports Bar and Grille, and she's also a huge football fan. Her team: The Panem U Mutts. Her favorite player: Peeta Mellark. Katniss always wears Peeta Mellark's jersey at work, and even to bed. How will he react to seeing her in it? And how will she react to meeting him? Golden Cages-LemonLuvGirl (ao3) Summary: Mockingjay reimagined. (Sequel to Burning Bright & Blazing Free.) There's a rebellion stirring, President Snow is out for blood, and everyone wants our heroes to choose sides. Katniss and a number of other victors are captives in the Captiol while Peeta & co. work to free them from District 13. Tough decisions lie ahead.

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Shadowgast Space-AUs I love

I read a LOT of Shadowgast fics, and one genre that has my heart in the best of ways are the Space AU's and Space-Opera AU's!

Here are some of the ones that I just love (not all of them are complete, there is one WIP that I am following).

1.Icarus to your certainty

Icarus to your certainty (11429 words) by @essektheylyss Chapters: 1/1 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Summary: Essek Thelyss is an arrogant researcher trying to reach a black hole on the edge of known space when his mistakes and intellectual zealotry result in the deaths of the rest of the crew and leave him stranded with nothing but a short-range radio. After seven months alone on his space station, the black hole spits out a shuttle, as lost as he is.

Why I loved it: I read a lot of sad/sappy/and poetic genres and this one was just that. The way it was written was so intentional and so to the point, every phrase just added to the development of the story. The writing style, the character development, and the raw emotional processing of survivors guilt was just so beautiful to read through.

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2.The wine dark sky (series)

**I went with the second fic in this series because it was much more Essek/Caleb centric but honestly ALL of them were fantastic to read.

The Schwarzschild Solution (13650 words) by dawl_and_dapple (if you know their tumblr, let me know and I will tag them here!). Chapters: 1/1 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Series: Part 2 of the wine dark sky Summary: Caleb pressed his palm into his chest. The weight of this affection grew and waned in intensity while Essek drifted in and out of his life, like a moon and her tides, but they never showed signs of withering in spite of the uncertainty of their relationship. As it stood, Essek was a satellite. He seemed happy enough to remain as such, as far as Caleb could tell, and Caleb was more than happy to be blessed by the tides of his love. A series of meetings between Caleb and Essek across the Wynandir galaxy. Written for Shadowgast Week 2021 - Day 1: Gravity/Attraction

why I loved it: The writing style of the entire series is just gorgeous. I love when the chronology of a story is played with and the story is told almost like each segment is a short scene in a movie. This story in particular was just beautiful in the way that it shared moments between Essek and Caleb- it really felt like the ebb and flow of a tide (also I am such a sap for happenstance meetings and two souls connecting so naturally). Anyways lots of space and space travel and I totally recommend for a shorter read.

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3.A Tapestry of Stars

*Currently a WIP but it has been wonderful so far.

A Tapestry of Stars (100725 words) by cinderstorm (if you know them her eon tumblr, let me know and I will tag them!). Chapters: 39/50 Rating: Explicit Summary: “This is not a negotiation.” Deirta Thelyss’s voice cracked the air like a thunderclap, sharp enough that even her ever-bustling flock of attendants twitched. “You will agree to this marriage, or I will have you cast from Den Thelyss for dereliction of duty. Is that clear?” Essek held himself stiffly, his shoulders rising in affront. A dangerous lapse of control, considering the woman standing before him, and one he would berate himself for later in the privacy of his tower, but he couldn’t help it. To be bartered off as—as a diplomatic representative of all things. It was absurd, insulting. Was the prestige his accomplishments brought to the den not enough? The Bright Queen herself had awarded him the title of Shadowhand for the advancements he’d made to the field of dunamancy, advancements that had secured countless victories in the war. Why should he have to upend his entire life to accommodate some human he’d never even met? Or: A Shadowgast Arranged Marriage AU in Space~

Why I love it: I adore the arranged marriage but they fall for eachother slow burn happy ending AU's (I don't know if this will be a happy ending but I am hoping for it very much so). Put that arranged marriage au in SPACE with a looming war, secrets, and blackmail and well- I will take that space opera. This AU is so well written, my heart goes out to both Caleb and Essek and I am just happy to be here on the journey while the plot unfolds.

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4. Among the Nein

Among the Nein (124172 words) by @nellasbookplanet Chapters: 14/14 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Summary: Beau only needed someplace to hide for five minutes; she never intended to stow away on a glorified research vessel headed for Ruidus. Caleb only wanted a chance to get at the arcane knowledge surrounding the further moon; he never meant to get involved with the foreign spy hiding among the crew. Both of them were making do with the situation at hand. And then someone murdered the captain. AKA the Among Us-inspired AU no one asked for (no prior knowledge of the game required; if you like space and murder you'll be fine).

Why I loved it: The space opera-au/Among Us fic I didn't know I needed. I fully admit I had no knowledge of Among Us going into this fic (it is not at all needed) but I am so happy I decided to read it anyways! It was such a good story! A happy ending after a path of secrets, trust issues, and loads of self-loathing. It is a multi ship fic so you get shadowgast but also lots of beauyasha as well. I did not sob, but I did tear up- so you know this story is a good one.

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One more: Special shout out to one of my absolute favourite shadowgast fics and an absolute space opera (I wanted to mention it here but I have already mentioned it in my "Shadowgast that Made me Ugly Cry" list) it get's an honourable mention

5. what luminous worlds await another fantastic piece by @essektheylyss . This fic has my entire heart. I was destroyed and rebuilt in this Space Opera-AU.

[pepperf]

Star Wars AU. Lila was raised by the Sith, but she's beginning to have her doubts. Diego is a Jedi who is very, very definitely about to fail at the whole "no attachments" biz.

By sheer coincidence, the colouring on these shots was perfect, no editing required!

(Previous AUs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9a, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (now with fic), 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 ,40, 41, 42

Tag to follow/block: tua diego/lila au inspo

Feel free to use any of these as jumping-off points for fic etc, if any of them grab you.)

[gaddaboutgriffon]

Going to work on turning this into a master post of prompts I’ve made. Prompts I like, and things I alike and would be willing to write things on.

My own Posts. Superwoman AU

Super Phantom DCxDP

Future Son?! DCxDP

Super X-man

DND Young Justice

DPxDC A Tale of Two Jacks

Age Reversal

Teenage Mutant Ninja Wizard

Alien PETA

Young Justice Spider

The Year of the Dragon

Superwoman Kara

Spleen Surprise DCxDP

Benders in DC (ATLA x justice league)

Random OC Villain Character not connected to any existing media

Not mine but I am invested in.

Time Winder. Connected to Time Travel Teen Parents

Re-alive ray superson

Pack less misunderstandings

Thermon aka Ghost Pokémon

Red Arrow’s Ghost

Halfa universal clone donor

Snookums the kryptonian guard dog!

Niche unheard of crossover ideas. (Some not even a one shot on ao3🥲

Wild Kratts x How to Train Your Dragon

Series and media I like or liked and enjoy fan discussion and fics on (may include Cartoons, Books, Movies or Games.)1 How to train your dragon2 Transformers Prime (cartoons, NOT the movies)3 Avatar the last air-bender. (Not including Korra)4 Teenage mutant ninja turtles (cartoon series)5 Spectacular Spider-man (cartoon Series)6 Redwall (cartoon and book series)7 Pokemon (cartoon and game)8 Sonic the hedgehog (cartoons, and comics.)9 Justice league (the 1990 animated series. NOT the live action movies) And batman animated. 10 My Little pony FIM (G4 cartoon) 11 Marvel Cinematic Universe (before Disney bought it)12 Wings of Fire (books)13 Ben 10 (cartoon)14 Star wars (past liked not present)15 Star trek original series (past liked not present)16 Neo-pets ( Toys. great concept but not the best executed game)17 Kungfu Panda (cartoons)18 Teen titans (original Cartoon, not go)19 Rangers apprentice (books)20 Kim possible (cartoon)21 Lilo and stitch (cartoon)22 American Dragon (Cartoon)23 Big Hero 6 (cartoon) 24 Guardians of Ga’Hoole (books. don’t bother with the movie)25 Epic (animated movie by Blue Sky studios)26 Atlantis the lost Empire (Disney cartoon)27 Big bang theory (TV)28 Lord of the Rings (movies and books.)29 Dragon Quest (games)30 Wild Krats (cartoon)31 The Fluppy Dogs (cartoon)32 Zootopia (cartoon)33 Nelvana Care bears (cartoon specifically the 1985 to 1988 series)34 Last man standing (what can I say he reminds me of my dad)35 Bones (TV)36 Warrior cats. (books only read up until power of three arc)37 Flash (TV)38 Home improvement (TV)39 Steven Universe (cartoon. concept was good but poorly executed story)40 Phineas and Ferb (cartoons)41 Milo Murphy’s law (cartoon)42 Amphibia (cartoon)43 Emperors new groove. (cartoon)44 Harry Potter (books)45 Chronicles of Narnia (books)46 Dinotopia (TV movie, and books)47 Encanto (cartoon)48 Jane and the dragon. (cartoon)49 Gravity falls (cartoon)50 Swat Kats (cartoon)51 Chip and Dale rescue rangers (cartoon) 52 Ducktales (cartoon) 53 Prince of Egypt. (Animated movie) 54 Danny Phantom. (Cartoon) 55 Puss in Boots (dreamworks movies)56 Young Justice (cartoon have not read the comics) 57 Batman Wayne family adventures (web comic. 58 Tower dungeon farmer (web comic)

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Full Voting Form

We got some requests to include the full list of ships that had been voted on for people to mine for ideas/see who didn't make it, so we are providing!

Additionally, we wanted to include a shout out to the ships that were nominated but did not advance to the voting round due to having too many fics! This implies a perception they should be more popular? So while they didn't count for this event, maybe it will still get some folk's brains turning.

Crosshair/Howzer (33) Boost/Sinker: What's not to love about this pair? They survive the Malevolence, their banter is pretty silly, they have each other's backs fighting off droids (with their General) that plan to off them in space and plus their names match (Boost being the opposite of Sinker). (39) Fives/Fox: So much angst potential, as tragedy or fix-it (39) Echo/Fives/Tup (42) Dogma/Fox (43) Echo/Fives/FoxI know technically there's 43 fics on Ao3, but half of those are just podfics of the other half. Regardless, Fox deserves to be sandwiched between a pair of beefy ARCs who will lovingly bully him into taking care of himself! (43) Fox/Wolffe (116) Crosshair/Mayday (137)

Below the cut is the ships as they were displayed on the voting form including pitches:

Commander Fox

Alpha-17/Cody/Fox

Alpha-17/Fox

Appo/Fox: Being the clone commander working for an active Sith Lord isn't fun, it'd be nice to have someone who can sympathize

Bacara/Fox

Bacara/Fox/Neyo/Wolffe

Boba/Fox: I'm haunted by the human/elf dynamic, the childhood friend who was your age and is suddenly very much not. First he's younger, just a little baby, then he's your age and you're friends, then he's your big brother, then your babysitter...then he's an adult, somehow going grey even faster than all the rest. soon enough he'll look like your father, just like he's meant to. (plot ideas range from canon compliant with complicated age issues to time travel AUs)

Cards/Fox: Commander Cards was a canon commander in the Star Wars Adventures minigame Card Commander (in which he taught the player how to play the game) and was stationed within the Temple, and separate from the Guard. As such, I truly think he and Fox are each others gossip buddies, with good natured rivalries between the temple troopers and the Corrie guard. If some of those bets result in them falling into bed and “blowing off steam”, can you really blame them?

Cody/Fox/Rex: i just think they can make each other worse. ya know. they are compelling both for the canon angst aspects but also because i think the three of them together would create a perfect storm of fucking with each other. u know that post thats like "i'll take care of u" "like hell u will" thats these three 2 me. like they make each other a little bit miserable but also if they could they'd live in each others skin.

Cody/Fox/Wolffe

Fox(Commander)/Fox (Sergeant): just the name shenanigans alone make this one worthwhile

Fox/Hound: I'll be honest I don't have much to say other than they compel me

Fox/Hound/Stone/Thire/Thorn

Fox/Hound/Wolffe: The canids! aka the three clones most likely to be turned into werewolves without anyone else noticing any difference

Fox/Jesse

Fox/Kix: Fixkox

Fox/Mayday

Fox/Neyo

Fox/Stone/Thire/Thorn

Commander Cody

Bacara/Cody

Boil/Cody/Waxer

Boil/Cody/Waxer/Wooley

Cards/Cody

Cody/Crosshair: There aren't many regs Crosshair respects, but Cody might be the first, because he believed that Crosshair and his brothers could be more than just defective product. And after O66, he believed Crosshair could be more than just a tool of the empire, too./They are so competent together

Cody/Crosshair/Hunter

Cody/Echo

Cody/Echo/Fives

Cody/Echo/Fives/Rex

Cody/Echo/Rex

Cody/Fives

Cody/Fives/Rex

Cody/Hevy

Cody/Howzer

Cody/Kix

Cody/Longshot: "Cody is a pivotal and well known trooper, sometimes having a lover that fades into the background of the wash of faces keeps them safe, and keeps people out of their business. Longshot didn’t stand out initially, to the Commander, but he was always there. Always taking down the droid in his blind spot seconds before disaster. Always attentive, and Cody appreciated it. Then came the Citadel raid, and Cody knew he should have kept him closer, but he didn’t. And now he won’t be able to ever again. Great Angst prompt, opportunity for “am I good enough” and “I should have been better” thoughts. 10/10 def recommend "

Cody/Mayday: they are both CCs and quite as likely to have grown up together as any of Cody’s fanon batchmates.

Cody/Mayday/Oddball

Cody/Mayday/Rex

Cody/Ordo

Cody/Rex/Wolffe

Cody/Tech

Alpha-17/Cody: I think this ship is a special case in terms of cloneshipping because of the wildly changing potential dynamic between them.

Meeting in Alpha-17's ARC training program, where Cody's individuality is encouraged for the first time, and the usual hangups of standard issued Clones are thrown out the window, a certain cruel favoritism is born that is just barely hidden behind this instructor/instructee dynamic. Cody and Alpha 17 are toe to toe in terms of stubbornness, which is a bit of an issue considering their borderline diametrically opposed views of their world up until that point./ Alpha 17 has his ruthless realism and willingness to sacrifice anything and everything for the mission, not because of some grand moral reason or care for the good or the Republic, but because those were his orders, alongside a deep seeded belief that he really is not much more than a product (with all the detachment and self denial that brings). And Cody who deep down does everything he does out of a strong belief in justice and the value of sentient life (as long as that life is mostly aligned with the ideals of the Republic, the indoctrination is not easy to escape), truly believing that if he's just competent enough he'll manage to minimize death and destruction and actually secure a future for his brothers.

Cody becomes a better version of himself in many ways during ARC training, and is thrilled despite it all by Alpha 17's honesty, competence and ability to give him a challenge (in more ways than he can imagine), while Alpha 17 physically feels weaker as a result of Rattatak, and also troubled by his new fascination with this specific cadet that feels like he was just sent to make his life more complicated than it needed to be (His attraction to him serves as one more thing he can't control that forces him to come to terms with his own needs and desires. Whether he actually does something about it or just lets it boil beneath the surface is another thing).

It's not quite that healthy of a dynamic, there's a lot of assuming what is best for the other without taking their input into consideration and pushing the wrong buttons at the worst possible times, but they're also operating in a wavelength that the rest of the ARC cadets haven't caught onto yet.

Alpha 17 is simultaneously trying to shape the "perfect" commander to ensure that Cody will survive (He can't begin to imagine a future where Cody dies because of his personal incompetence as a trainer), but also fighting against his own personal desire to keep the flame that makes him Cody intact, both because of fascination and hope./ After Cody graduates the program, he rapidly rises to his status of Marshal Commander and actually has the chance to put his beliefs to the test, letting his work almost completely envelop his time in the process. Alpha 17 feels Cody's absence hit him like a truck and finds himself unable to pretend than he can go back to the way he operated before, he starts preparing to go back into action, because he is at his most certain when he is in a fight.

They barely meet. Cody is too busy, Alpha 17 wouldn't be caught dead asking to talk for non work related reasons, but he at least checks up on battle reports all the time. Eventually he gets back into action, but not tied to any one specific battalion./ Their dynamic at this point has reversed, with Cody being the one giving out orders and expecting perfection from Alpha 17, having a lot of things on the line and balancing lives like they're pieces on a chessboard, and Alpha 17 being the one who has his previous way of operating challenged constantly and learning new things about himself every day (against his will)./ Them butting heads is something that doesn't change, except the stakes are way higher, so the fallout is usual much harsher between them. However the sheer thrill and adrenaline of working beside someone who is so certain in your skills and competence that they would trust you to order them to hell and be back by sunset, and follow through with it, is enough to keep things even a little at bay. In the rare times where they fight together their minds miraculously sync up flawlessly, only until the adrenaline wears off.

(This ended up being a bit long and a bit specific, so trim and edit freely! Thank you for taking the prompt into consideration!!!)

501st

Alpha-17/Echo/Fives

Alpha-17/Fives: Fives would be all over that in arc training

Blackout/Hardcase

Boil/Rex/Waxer: So much angst potential with Umbara, whether as tragedy or fix-it

Cut/Slick

Cutup/Droidbait/Echo/Fives/Hevy

Dogma/Echo

Dogma/Echo/Fives/Slick/Tup: A terrible horrible polycule (derogatory)(affectionate)

Dogma/Fives

Dogma/Fives/Tup

Dogma/Fox (Sgt)

Dogma/Glitch

Dogma/Glitch/Sev

Dogma/Jesse/Kix

Dogma/Rex

Dogma/Sev

Echo/Fixer: Echo and Fixer are so similar in the beginning. Both fixated so much on the regulations and doing everything by the books. But Echo evolves from that, he grows and learns and finds a way to exist after and outside of those and Fixer could lern so much from him, find a way to live outside of the Empire as well. I just think they could be really good for each other.

Echo/Kix: Echo and Kix caring for each other and helping each other. They being there for each other and trying to figute out how to be one of the few clones who survived the Clone Wars and the aftermath of order 66 and the slow decline of the importance of the clones. And Kix helping Echo through the trauma and the aftermath of the torture he endured is just something that captures my imagination and wont let it go./Look, I read this fic one time and it stuck with me, okay?

Echo/Mayday

Echo/Mayday/Rex

Gregor/Rex

Hardcase/Jesse/Kix

Howzer/Rex: Your honor, hot plus hot equals OH HOTT. and I really like the idea of them getting involved amid all the drama and tragedy of running the clone resistance.

Jesse/Kix/Rex

Jesse/Kix/Sister: Bc Sister needs two amazing supportive boyfriends <3

Mayday/Rex

Rex/Stone: Rex, after all the 501 chaos, might develop a taste for something steady and stable, and Stone is steady enough to put up even with Jar-Jar, so why not?

Rex/Tup

Tup/Wolffe

Vaughn/Sterling: There are two fics, and only one features Sterling/Vaughn as the main couple.

The Clone Wars (Other than already listed)

Alpha-17/Wolffe

Bacara/Neyo: theyre both misunderstood loners who only like each other. what more could you want?

Bacara/Ponds: They're both underrated badasses, Neyo's two big brothers. But most importantly they complete each other's perfectly. They're just as competended and strong as the other, but Ponds is someone with who Bacara can be soft. And Bacara is someone Ponds can rely on freely without feeling like he should be the protector. (And Ponds's paint look a bit like a mix of the 91st with Bacara's)

Bacara/Wolffe

Blackout/Hevy

Blackout/Spark

Bly/Doom: They're both the sweetest and kindest CCs but in opposite ways and would just be adorable together

Bly/Keeli: "This ship resulted somewhat out of my own headcanons, in which Cody & Bly are batchmates and childhood best friends, and Rex & Keeli are the same. Codex is my favorite ship, and I've always liked the idea of them falling in love during command/ARC training on Kamino. And, well, Bly and Keeli have pauldrons like Rex, so it would make sense if they were there too. I like to think they met through their best friends and fell in love from there, but they're a sweet pair no matter the circumstances of their relationship. This ship has the opportunity for a lot of fluff in the sweet moments, and plenty of angst about being separated, since they probably don't get to see each other even as often as Cody and Rex do."

Boil/Howzer

Boil/Waxer/Wooley

Boost/Comet/Sinker/Wolffe

Boost/Sinker/Wolffe: They're all that's left of the first wolfpack, and no one else can fully understand what they went through together

Colt/Wolffe

Comet/Gregor: there are only 9 works and all of them are mine ?

Comet/Wooley: there are 4 works and half of them are mine. furthermore, they're both so vod'ika ?

Cutup/Droidbait/Hevy

Doom/Thorn: Because Marvel, that's why

Fireball/Gregor

Fireball/Howzer

Fireball/Howzer/Nemec

Fireball/Nemec

Gregor/Wolffe: Very fun pairing with like 16 fics. Energetic fun boy x grumpy serious boy. Couldn’t get better than this

Hevy/Nub

Hevy/Slick

Hound/Stone: There are so many possibilities that can happen between them as they both have so little screen time and 0 together. Plus, who doesn't like a corrie pair that comes with a cute lizard dog?

Hound/Thire

Howzer/Keeli: They were both deployed on Ryloth and quite possibly knew each other because of it. They also both understood laying down their life to what’s right and to protect the people of Ryloth. I’ve always called this ship KeelHowz (KillHouse) in my head, and isn’t that badass?

Howzer/Mayday

Jek/Rhys

Jester/Slick

Mayday/Wolffe

Neyo/Ponds

Punch/Sketch

Sandwich Clone/Soup Clone

Bad Batch

Boba/Omega: the two unaltered clones (and imo, prime folgers commercial material)

Crosshair/CX-2 (Not Tech): There was something decidedly charged about CX-2's obsession with Cross. There's history there, I know it.

Crosshair/Echo/Emerie/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Crosshair/Echo/Fives/Hunter

Crosshair/Echo/Fives/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Crosshair/Echo/Hunter: Listen, all dynamics within this ship are impeccable: Crosshair and Hunter are soulmates since childhood, Echo and Hunter are squad co-parents, and Crosshair and Echo are trauma buddies who could sass the CIS into surrender. There's so much potential here.

Crosshair/Echo/Hunter/Rex/Tech/Wrecker

Crosshair/Emerie

Crosshair/Emerie/Hunter

Crosshair/Emerie/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Crosshair/Fives

Crosshair/Fives/Hunter

Crosshair/Fives/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Crosshair/Fox: I read in a post that Fox had sniper training or listed sniper as one of his main skills, and since then I've wanted to see what would either be the best or the worst relationship dynamic ever.

Crosshair/Hunter/Mayday

Crosshair/Hunter/Tech

Crosshair/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker: holds out hand. you too can join me in increasing the number of og bad batch poly fics. together we can right this egregious wrong that has been done.

Crosshair/Hunter/Wrecker

Crosshair/Howzer/Mayday: They all deserve to live and Crosshair deserves two boyfriends who will both challenge him and dote on him.

Echo/Emerie

Echo/Emerie/Fives

Echo/Emerie/Rex

Echo/Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Emerie/Fives

Emerie/Hunter

Emerie/Rex

Emerie/Tech

Fireball/Wrecker: height/size difference and cooking for each other :D what's not to love?!

Fives/Hunter

Gree/Tech: It's nerd4nerd. AND height difference (if you consider that Tech is a lot taller than regular clones)! What's not to ship?

Gregor/Wrecker

Hunter/Jesse/Rex

Hunter/Mayday

Hunter/Tech/Wrecker

Hunter/Wrecker: Wrecker is overall an underrated character in shipping. Him and Hunter have a very nice dynamic of sunshine x broody. Around ish 25 fics on ao3 (some of them being mistaken tags)

Legends/Republic Commando

A'den/Sull: A’den helped Sull desert the GAR

Boil/Horns: because they both have Death Watch insignia in their armor paint (Horns throws away his DW-painted helmet by the end of the comic he is in) but I think it would be cool to explore if they got that way of thinking from a common source.

Boss/Fi

Boss/Niner: Their ship has so much potential but what really got me hooked on them is Boss constantly surprising Niner with how blunt and open he is with everything, even his affection and love for Niner and Niner being one of the few people that manage to calm Boss down enough so that he doesn't run himself into the ground and yet there is so much more for them that I didn't even think of. I think I'd just love to see more of them than just as a background ship.

Boss/Sev

Corr/Fi

Corr/Mereel: There's no way the only thing Mereel taught Corr was just how to be a commando/they just make my brain go brrrr

Corr/Stone

Darman Skirata/Niner Skirata: Those two just deverse more love. They've such an interesting dynamic that could go either supportive, codependent, possessive and I'd love to see what people could come up with for them

Darman/Fi

Fi/Ordo: For my pitch, I humbly submit this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Triple Zero: “Ordo’s always on time,” Fi said, trying to take his mind off his churning stomach. “Don’t fret, Sarge.” “Your buddy …,” Darman teased. “Rather have him for a friend than an enemy.” “Ooh, he likes you. Hobnobbing with ARC officers from the Bonkers Squad, eh?” “We have an understanding,” Fi said. “I don’t laugh at his skirt, and he doesn’t rip my head off.” Yes, Ordo had taken a shine to him. Fi hadn’t fully understood it until Skirata had taken him to one side and explained just what had happened to Ordo and his batch on Kamino as kids. So when Fi had thrown himself on a grenade during an anti-terrorist op to smother the detonation, Ordo had marked him out as someone who’d take an awfully big risk to save comrades. Null ARCs were psychotic—bonkers, as Skirata put it—but they were unshakably loyal when the mood struck them.”

Glitch/Hevy

Glitch/Horns

Glitch/Sev

Hevy/Spar

Maze/Niner

Maze/Ordo: they're worsties (affectionate)

Mereel/Rede

Ordo/Spar

Spar/Sull

Sull/Tavo

[fandomtrumpshate]

By the Numbers update!!

With just over a day left to sign up as a creator for Fandom Trumps Hate 2023, here's a quick roundup of all of the numbers:

We have 705 offers by 527 creators (I've had to update this three times while writing this post!). Of those, 97 are offering to work in ANY fandom! The rest have signed up offering fanworks in 273 fandoms, including 177 write-in fandoms! (To compare that with roughly the same time last year, as we approached 24 hours left to sign up for FTH2022 we had 680 offers from 525 creators in 257 fandoms including 153 write-ins … meaning we have 23 more offers in 16 more fandoms by the same number of creators for 2023 … SO FAR.)

A look at the offers, broken down by type (with last year's numbers in italics for comparison purposes) -

458 Written fanwork (fic, fan poetry, etc) (457) 107 Fan art (103) 63 Fan labor (beta services, translation, Brit-picking, etc) (70) 59 Podfic (39) 13 Other Digital Fanwork (7) 5 Video (4)

Nearly 65% of creators are opting to let their bidders choose which org to support with their donation. The orgs most often chosen by those who wish to direct donations to a particular nonprofit remain the Transgender Legal and Education Defense Fund, any/all abortion fund, Rainbow Railroad, and the Navajo Water Project. The orgs selected least often are The Appeal, Razom, and Violence Policy Center.

In our listed fandoms Good Omens has increased its lead and its lock on the top spot. MCU caught up with Sherlock and Teen Wolf for a brief 3-way tie for 4th place behind HP and K-pop, but has since gained an additional signup to claim that spot, leaving Sherlock and Teen Wolf tied for fifth ahead of Star Wars, Stranger things, SVSSS, The Untamed, and The Sandman.

A handful of signups could still shake things up here, or over in the unlisted fandoms, where the Young Royals lead has been cut in half … see the full list of all 177 write-in fandoms under the cut. Sign up to create fanworks to push your fandom up in the rankings! Reblog FTH posts so your fandom friends can do the same! Sign ups are open until Sunday Feb 19 at 11:59 PM Pacific.

8 Young Royals 7 Malevolent (Podcast) 5 The Queen's Thief 4 911 Lone Star 4 Homestuck 4 Overwatch 4 Red White & Royal Blue 4 The Owl House 3 Alex Rider 3 Attack on Titan 3 Between Us 3 Chainsaw Man 3 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 3 Disney's Descendants 3 Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (The Husky & His White Cat Shizun) 3 Justified 3 Lout of the Count's Family / Trash of the Count's Family 3 Love in the Air 3 Miraculous Ladybug 3 Not Me 3 Pokemon 3 The Legend of Zelda 3 Top Gun Movies 3 Witch Hat Atelier 3 X-men 2 Aphmau MyStreet 2 Bungou Stray Dogs 2 Carmen Sandiego 2 Danganronpa 2 Destiny 2 2 Digimon 2 Escaflowne 2 Gravity Falls 2 Hollow Knight 2 Howl's Moving Castle 2 Kingsman 2 NU: Carnival 2 Professional Wrestling 2 Scholomance 2 Stargate: Atlantis 2 Stephen King's IT 2 Suits 2 Supergirl 2 The Song of Achilles 2 Twilight 2 Video Blogging RPF 2 Warrior Nun (TV Show) 2 What We Do in the Shadows 2 YuYu Hakusho 1 A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 A Voice from Darkness (Podcast) 1 Ace Attorney 1 Alex Stern series - Leigh Bardugo 1 All The Wrong Questions 1 Animorphs 1 Be Kind My Neighbor 1 Bioshock 1&2 (only) 1 Blood of Youth 1 Blue Exorcist 1 Blue Lock 1 Bug Fables 1 Cabin Pressure 1 Call the Midwife 1 Cats the Musical 1 Cherry Magic 1 Citizen Sleeper 1 Cobra Kai 1 Coco Pixar 1 Cosmere (Brandon Sanderson) 1 Crossover Chaos AU (multifandom crossover AU) 1 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 1 Dead by Daylight 1 Dead Poets Society 1 Derry Girls 1 Dice Punks (podcast) 1 Divergent (Movies) 1 DMBJ/Grave Robber's Chronicles 1 Downton Abbey 1 Dr. STONE (anime/manga) 1 Dragon Ball Z 1 Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey 1 Dungeons and Daddies 1 Eerie Indiana 1 Elder Scrolls 1 Emma - Jane Austen 1 Fire Country 1 Firefly 1 For All Mankind 1 Glee 1 Grace and Frankie 1 Greys Anatomy 1 Grimm 1 Guardian/Zhen Hun 1 Gundam 1 Half-Life 1 Hello From The Hallowoods 1 Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni / Higurashi When They Cry 1 Hit the floor 1 House of the Dragon 1 Hudson & Rex 1 IDOLiSH7 1 Ikemen Vampire 1 Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie 1 Infinity Train 1 Jane Austen (any novel any pairing) 1 Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse 1 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 1 Jurassic Park 1 King of Scars Duology 1 Les Misérables 1 Los Simuladores 1 Love Between Fairy and Devil 1 Madre Solo Hay Dos 1 Miss Scarlet and The Duke 1 Mob Psycho 100 1 Monochrome Factor 1 Motorcity 1 Obey Me! 1 One Last Stop 1 Outlast 1 Paper Girls (TV) 1 Parasol Protectorate 1 Peacemaker 1 Persuasion - Jane Austen 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1 Psych 1 Qi Ye 1 Ranger's Apprentice 1 Ranma 1/2 1 RPF 1 Sable 1 Sanders Sides 1 Scooby Doo 1 Shadow and Bone 1 Shameless (US) 1 Sidemen 1 Silicon Valley (TV) 1 Skins (UK) 1 Tamora Pierce works 1 Tangled the Series 1 Ted Lasso 1 Teen Titans (Animated Series) 1 Temple of the White Rat series by T. Kingfisher 1 The Ancient Magus Bride 1 The Boys 1 The Daevabad Trilogy 1 The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes 1 The Diviners (Libba Bray) 1 The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison 1 The King: Eternal Monarch 1 The L Word: Generation Q 1 The Legend of Drizzt 1 The Lion Hunters Series - Elizabeth Wein 1 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) 1 The Man From UNCLE (TV) 1 The Princess Weiyoung (Jinxiu Weiyang) 1 The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards 1 The Terror (TV 2018) 1 The Vampire Diaries (TV) 1 The Wilds (TV 2020) 1 This Way Up 1 Tortall - Tamora Pierce 1 Tower of God 1 Transformers 1 True Blood (TV) 1 Until We Meet Again 1 UuultraC 1 Valorant 1 Velvet Goldmine (1998) 1 Vikings (TV) 1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold 1 Warframe 1 White Collar 1 Whiteley Foster's Mansong 1 Xena: Warrior Princess 1 Yellowjackets (TV) 1 Yu-Gi-Oh!

[kefalion]

My AO3 2023 Wrapped

The post with the questions is here

Follow me below the cut to see my answers

Not all questions are relevant to my AO3 year, so some will be skipped

Fic you clicked on the most times this year (shows in History)

I went throguh 40 pages of history, so I'm not only sharing my top 1 clicked. You're getting a top 4 because the gap between nr 4 and nr 5 was huge. All top 4 have one thing in common. They're massive multichapter stories (or collections) that I began reading pre 2023. They're also all Star Wars

Number 4: edge of providence by adiduck (book_people), whimsicalimages. Visited 86 times

Status: Complete Words: 328,498 Chapters: 38/38

Anakin and Obi-Wan discover Kaminoo a few years earlier. It changes the course of the Galaxy. The main relationships is Obi-Wan & Anakin as well as Obi-Wan/Jango.

My favourite things about this story is seeing Obi-Wan be an excellent mentor to Anakin, the Sith plot unravel, and that the romantic relationship happens slowly, which to me makes it plausible

Number 3: The protégé by @spell-cleaver Visited 89 times

Status: Complete Words: 224,549 Chapters: 39/39

Sets up an alternative universe where Padmé joins Anakin when he turns on the Order and the Republic, Palpatine dies soon after, and Padmé becomes Empress Amidala. Follows Luke's journy in finding his family and finding himself.

What I like best about this story is that it's sprawling. The world feels huge and lived in. Naboo culture is explored beautifully. The relationships in the Skywalker family is another strong point. It's messy and real, but the love is always apperant.

Number 2: all the echoes fade by @reedroad Visited 93 times

Status: In progress. Words: 453,728 Chapters: 43/?

What if while searching for answers post the fall of the Empire, Luke fell into a parallel dimension where he and his sisters were raised by their Father? What if all the major characters from the films and animated shows were given room to shine? That's what this story does.

I love how big this story is and how at the same times, there is room for intimacy in how the relationships are shown. For example, the way Vader and Padmé's relationship is shown awed me time and again.

Numer 1: Prompted | Obikin by @intermundia. Visited 103 times

Status: "Complete" Words: 127,374 Chapters: 24/24

This is a compilation of short stories. Various AUs. From Modern. To various movie AUs. To Sith!Obi-Wan. All of them about Obi-Wan/Anakin. Maybe it's complete. Maybe more will be added.

To say why I like this is a bit tricker than the others. There are so many different things to be had here. All of it captures the essence of the relationship it is about, however, and to do it in so many packages is amazing.

2. First fic you clicked on this year

According to the History, I started the year with more of @spell-cleaver Fixing Your (Relation)Ship Since 5 AFE by SpellCleaver

3. First fic you Bookmarked this year

The Face of Antiquity by Lemon (lemon_sprinkles) for Cam_Watson

I have it marked as TBR. I've apparently not read it all year. Maybe this is how I should start my 2024

4. First fic you posted this year

A Roll of Destiny 

Status: Complete Words: 21,803  Chapters: 19/19

This is an RPG sheet story. I rolled out prompts and built a story about Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Set after the Kenobi series. It was a very different writing expereince. Not knowing what was going to happen next made it more akin to reading. I could only plan out short chapters at a time.

5. Your most read Fandom this year

Star Wars. Hands down. I barely read anything else.

6. Your most written for Fandom this year

Same. Hard same. Star Wars.

7. Your most read pairing this year

Obi-Wan/Anakin

8. Your most written for pairing this year

Obi-Wan/Anakin

9. Most popular fic by hits you read this year

Oh dear. I need to go through all 40 pages again. Let me quickly see how many more questions are about my reading History. Oh. Read. I just checked if it was in my history. I'm not going through all those pages again. Most hits in my history of 2023 goes to

Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc Hits: 1,726,530

Going by the fics that were grouped with it, I was checking what was popular. I have not read this.

10. Most popular fic by hits you posted this year

Visualising Our Fantasies [Explicit Obikin Art] by Kefalion, SageGarnish Hits: 43,352 This is a landslide victory. My post with the second most hits has just over 2000. I guess people are starved for explicit art.

11. Most popular fic by kudos you posted this year

Same. But by a smaller margin. 1st place 410. 2nd place 200

12. Most popular fic by comment threads you posted this year

Same again. 29 for Visualising Our Fantasies [Explicit Obikin Art] and 10 for the second highest number of comment threads

13. Your personal favorite fic you read this year

Difficult. I've read a lot of good fic. One series that stands out to me is

Star Wars: Aberration by SiegeGunn

The main character is Cal Kesits, and it explores how things could go of it was converted to the dark side and became an Inquisitor.

By being a series, it explores widely varying povs and characters, though the larger stories in the series focus on Cal. Really cool.

14. Your personal favorite fic you posted this year

Another very difficult question. Let's go with this

Complete Your Training by Kefalion

While watching the Ahsoka Series, and before it too, I had theories. And right before the way they decided to take the story was revealed, I wrote this in a frenzy. It came together over a long time and was written down in hours. Really cool experience. And I think the story turned out great too. It's also the first time I've posted a podfic

15. Most recent fic you clicked on

Aside from the ones I've clicked on to answer these questions, it's

Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Polite to Tell You About His Huge Penis by kingdomvel The title alone is art

16. Most recent fic you Bookmarked

Forget Me Not by AFishNamedSushi

Summary: 5 years into Obi-Wan’s exile on Tatooine, a man calling himself Anakin Skywalker comes to call upon the old Lars homestead. This man certainly looks like Obi-Wan’s old Padawan, but he has no memory of the Clone Wars, his life with the Jedi, or Obi-Wan.

Status: Complete Words: 48,050  Chapters: 12/12

17. Most recent fic you posted

I added a chapter to the explicit art collection. Prior to that it's Complete your training from question 14

18. Highest word count fic you read this year

skip

19. Highest word count fic you posted this year

A Roll of Destiny  That's the RPG fic I mentioned in question 4. A bit over 20k words.

20. Your total word count posted this year (shows in Statistics)

34,662

21. Your total hits this year (shows in Statistics)

51,654

22. Your total kudos this year (shows in Statistics)

915

23. Your total comment threads this year (shows in Statistics)

54

24. Least popular fic by hits you read this year

thy fearful symmetry @ossidae-passeridae Only 144 hits atm! Go give it some love! But mind the tags! Dae doesn't write for the faint of heart. It's star wars. It's a reaction to the Mandalorian season 3. It's just over 2k words. And it's clever and unsettling.

25. Least popular fic by hits you posted this year

Complete Your Training makes another apperance. Hits: 1,074

26. Least popular fic by kudos you posted this year

Complete Your Training again. Kudos: 71

27. Least popular fic by comment threads you posted this year

Not a tripple whammy for Complete your training. Story with the least comment threads goes to Take Care of Yourself, I Wish I Could 

It's the first story I've written with explicit sexual content, and it's more of that than plot. I see why people hold off commenting. But that trend was more obvious than I expected at the time of posting.

Status: complete Words: 7,095  Chapters: 1/1 Star Wars - Obi-Wan/Anakin

28. Number of fics you clicked on this year (20 per page)

I've gone on and on about my fourty pages. 39x20 + 11 makes it 791 fics I've clicked from January to the start of December

29. Number of Bookmarks you made this year (20 per page)

222 - What a nice number!

30 - 45 skip

It's mainly about popular fandoms and ships. I've already answered that. It's Star Wars and Obi-Wan/Anakin

46. A playlist of all the songs you used lyrics from to title fics this year

I've not used any songs for titles. I have so many WIPs of this variety though. Next year maybe!

47. Shout out an incomplete fic you read this year

See you around, Jedi by PaperCraneCastles

Let's go with this. It's Cal Kestis/Boba Fett.

This is what I wrote when I bookmarked it: delightful. The characterisations are so fun. Boba is more than hot. He wears his competency well.

Words: 7,602 Chapters: 3/4

48. Oldest fic you read this year

Every so often I visit my old fandoms. This is from such a time. Updated Okt 2012 we have a Mass Effect fic THE STEPS AND THE SHORE by spicyshimmy

But holy wow did I almost only read fics from 2023 and 2022. Seeing 201x was frighteningly rare. I think it's because I've read so much Star Wars fic over three years. Only new things are new to me.

49. Your most posted Additional Tag this year

eh... There's no most. Got a lot of 2s

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics (2)

POV Third Person Limited (2)

Scenting (2)

Animated GIFs (2)

POV Anakin Skywalker (2)

50. Your favorite comment you left or received this year

How do I pick one???

This one was fun.

I’m crying? WHY AM I CRYING???

To get people to experience emotions is always the goal

[bluecichlid]

Fanfic ask game from the lovely and brilliant @ravencromwell! I am afraid I accidentally deleted

 5, 39, and 43

5. How many wips do you have?  What fandoms/pairings are they for?

If you mean vague ideas that will likely never see the light of day, an infinite number!  

Counting just things I have at least something written for, for Shades of Magic, after I finish Nothing Alike (which is proceeding at a glacial pace), I have a multichapter Kelillia fic planned (working title, A Midsummer Night’s Madness) which will have visits to all three worlds and pretty much the full cast of characters, including Holland and the Dane twins.  I also have a first draft of a one shot that is the origin of the Kell/Alucard feud (working title, A Five Lin Bet).

I’ve also got very rough drafts of a few fics for a “sliding-doors” AU series, of which Love and Loss is one. The one I've developed the most is pretty out there, but it is a retelling of DSOM where Kell is female (trans, but the distinction between trans and cis is meaningless for an Antari: she chooses to live as a woman).  She was adopted out to the Emerys and she's engaged to Rhy.  

Other than those ones for Shades of Magic, I do have my Game of Thrones fics, but that is a sad story.  Among other things, I found that as the show progressed, I discovered that neither the show nor the books were the story I had fallen in love with.  I keep thinking about finishing them off, but I just can’t muster the enthusiasm and by now I think I never will.  

39. What’s your most self-indulgent wip?

LOL - something that I’m not sure I can even explain, and have no intention of it seeing the light of day!  Basically a zany take off on a tolkien-style fantasy adventure with all the tropes, except my MC is just along for the ride and has no fucks to give.  She’s the old trope of the ageless immortal sorceress, except she’s fully occupied with building something called the worldshield (much more important).  She got dragged into this (dramatic music) epic war for a fate of a kingdom because she’s banging this (SUPER hot) guy who fell over on her doorstep, who turns out to be the prince, and since they don’t speak the same language, he thinks he’s protecting her by taking her along with him.  It’s all fine, she likes him, the sex is great, he means well, she can keep ‘working from home’ on the worldshield, and she has a strict policy of noninvolvement in the fantasy-trope plot.  (“You’re doing great, honey!”)  She drinks a lot of coffee. 

43. Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?

Probably true love/star-crossed lovers.  I don’t even know what’s holding me back.  Maybe I’m too cynical, or too into dark humour and quips, but I’ve never managed to write people who totally love each other and have a happy ending.  But someday!

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

Mature Rated Fics Masterlist (46)

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Created: March 14th, 2024

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Basorexia-Xerxia (ao3) Summary: Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss. Behind the Veil, Beneath the Shroud-Ghtlovesthg (ao3) Summary: She's an escape artist and he's a master of disguise. Having convinced Snow and Panem during the Victory Tour, the star-crossed lovers find themselves the darlings of the Capitol. And all that entails. AU following the Victory Tour. Blue-hutchabelle (ao3) Summary: Katniss gets more than she bargained for during the Christmas season when she and Peeta, her roommate, team up to give her sister a break. Both Sides Now-thesweetnessofspring (ao3) Summary: Katniss's best friend Gale may want to fight the system, but Katniss just wants to earn enough money for her little brother to go to college and avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. Then she and Peeta Mellark become partners in a school project, and feelings begin to develop that she doesn't quite understand, feelings that she never wanted when the world is such an unforgiving place. The times they are a-changin'. Breaking Up is Easy to Do-glintwarsgreatest (ao3) Summary: Katniss, Finnick, Cato and Johanna go out after Katniss has a bad break up. Shenanigans follow. Bric-a-Brac-flythroughflames (ff) Summary: A collection of unrelated drabbles. Various ratings. Bright and Beautiful Outtakes-endlessnightlock (ao3) Summary: Drabbles from Bright and Beautiful universe Build a Bridge-everydayescapeartist (ao3) Summary: In a blink, Katniss Everdeen's life is about to change. She finds herself caught up in a new Capitol program and if that in itself isn't awful enough, the fact that she is caught up directly in Peeta Mellark's life certainly is. Written for Prompts in Panem Farewell Tour Day 5 Prompt Peach Blossom - "I am your captive." Captured and unable or unwilling to escape, held in the grip of a strong emotion By The Moonlight Side On A Daytime Picnic-endlessnightlock (ao3) Summary: A drabble I wrote on Tumblr forever ago but forgot to cross-post until now. By Your Side-geekymoviemom (ao3) Summary: After the 74th Games Katniss lets Peeta walk away, thinking it was all an act. But what if she hadn't? This is an AU Catching Fire story where Katniss allows herself to love Peeta from the start. This will follow book two with a few major twists.

[kittonafoxgirl]

[Podfic] parachute your way into my heart (AO3 Link)

Fandom: Star Wars Modern AU

Writer: ricelife

Text: parachute your way into my heart

Reader: Kittona

Rating: G

Length: 00:39:56

Summary:  

When Quinlan forces Obi-Wan to go skydiving with him, he expects the worst. It's a good thing his skydiving instructor is so handsome though...

[xslytherclawx-writes]

20 Questions For Fic Writers

stolen from @thebreakfastgenie - if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged!

How many works do you have on Ao3?

508, not including anon works

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

1,779,933

3. What fandoms do you write for?

uh... lots? i think i've written in upwards of 70 fandoms. mostly currently Harry Potter and Star Trek (Voyager & Lower Decks). Occasionally I'll toss in a Miraculous fic. My top 6 by works are: Harry Potter (187), Yuri!!! on ICE (62), Chronicles of Narnia (39), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn (18), The Umbrella Academy (TV) (12) - tied with Original Work (12)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

The Total Agony of Being in Love (Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston)  Two of A Kind (Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones) La Magique étude du Bonheur (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)  i bloom just for you (Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston) enough contrition to spare (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! but i do have over 100 comments in my inbox so perhaps i am not like... the best at it haha

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I think maybe either: (for you) i would ruin myself (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling) or: Death Date (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)  OR: like my parents never did (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)  but like i write a LOT of angst lol

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I've written so much fluff so I'm just going to plug relationship advice (Miraculous Ladybug) (written for @nemaliwrites actually haha) because I think it has enough stakes for the ending to count as truly happy instead of just. fluff all the way through. (though it is pretty fluffy)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

yeah. i wrote aged up characters once and got called disgusting like ok thanks you're the one who took the time to click on it and leave a comment. but ok. i also was told very rudely that sirius was ooc in a fic for not being fanon sirius. again: ok. read the books.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do, pretty often, actually. I've written F/M, F/F, M/M, F/M/M. I'll be posting some F/F/M soonish too.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not often? I think the craziest one I've written was Star Wars PT / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: friends in highly low places 

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not just that, but I had a fic ripped off for a professionally published novel. not that i'm still bitter, or anything.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Введение в дипломатию by lyomna, translation of an introduction to diplomacy (Narnia) From English to Русский

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Sure have! Mostly in Yuri!!! on ICE

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

don't do this to me. I genuinely don't know. all-time?? Jill/Eustace and Polly/Digory have stood the test of time better than anything for any of my other fandoms tbh. But like favorite???? I can't pick. Some evergreen ships: Katniss/Peeta (THG), Remus/Lily (HP), Drarry (HP), Hyacinth/Gareth (Bridgerton).

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i mean the entirety of the cat café universe is probably not being touched again. uh. beyond that? not one for being let down (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling) - I should probably just put an epilogue on it and call it done a matter of diplomacy (Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis) - I really do like this one, but my brain is just not giving me many more ideas for it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

dialogue and character voice!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

detailed description

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I did it before bc I was a pretentious ass and continue it in Ravenclaw AU for consistency's sake, but I probably wouldn't do it again, unless it was a language I spoke fluently (so French or German) and didn't want my POV character to understand, and even then... eh.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter, officially, but I wrote out some Halloweentown fanfiction in 3rd grade and submitted it for an assignment, so does that count?

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

making me choose a favorite child. jk it's probably Lost Causes (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling) or, in a completely different vein, the proof is in the pudding (literally. no one tested the pudding.) (Succession (TV 2018)) 

[in-flvx]

20 questions for fic writers

I've been tagged by a few people, I think @heartofspells @strugglequill @lovelymasks and finally did it

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

39

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

114,493

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently Harry Potter, but I have also written for A Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes, and most of my fics are Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1 - Oh, deer

2 - 31 days of huxloween

3 - Secrets and Honey

4 - In a dark alley

5 - Well past Midnight

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

In principle, though I have neglected that for a while now :/ I do love and appreciate every single comment I get and at one point I'll get back to replying to them. They've been so lovely, and I love going back just to read them

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Pretty sure that would be test drive. It's about the grooming of a teenager, and it does not have a happy ending. Written from the POV of the groomer too, so the tone isn't all that angsty - he succeeded and got what he wanted, which I hope makes the entire thing all the more horrifying

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

That's hard to say. I write a lot of getting together fics, which I'd say all have a pretty happy ending

8. Do you get hate on fics?

None so far, fingers crossed

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do write smut. So far mostly with some light dom/sub stuff going on

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I haven't so far. But I like to make them up in my mind. At some point I hope to write a wolfstar hunger games au

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

None that made it to Ao3. I've done a lot of cooperative writing on twit-fics, and a few on tumblr with @strugglequill (padfoot-soap anyone?)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Wolfstar for sure - its the fic that got me reading on Ao3 in the first place

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I have a few, sadly. The spider and the carpenter is the first thing I ever put on Ao3 and that'll never be more than the first chapter;  Feel lucky has two chapters and I physically made up a dance routine for it, but it'll probably stay that while longer. And of course 31 days of huxloween. Thats my fic with the highest word count, and I only got through nearly half of the chapters I have planned. These are all star wars fics, and kind of the reason why I now want to have my fic finished in its entirety before I post. Which also means I get cranky bc I want to post things but won't let myself. It's not ideal

16. What are your writing strengths?

I get frequent compliments on my characterizations, so I'll go wiith that

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I always struggle with scenes in which more than two people talk to each other. There is always one person just T-posing in the background. And I'm very insecure about the themes I introduce into my fics, and if I miss some that totally change the fic without my knowledge

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I don't do it often, but tried doing so in current wips. I do like it when it's not in dialogue style for a longer conversation but instead just the gist of it explained. It can be fun though to get a little easter egg of knowledge the POV character isn't getting when you're able to translate the dialogue and they don't speak the language

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Turns out this is impossible for me to answer

I have no idea who hasn't been tagged yet, so I'll just open it up

[jensyao]

Nas - Nthology mixtape

100 physical copies were passed out outside at Nas' Madison Square Garden concert Digital download here: https://mtafz.bandcamp.com/album/the-nthology 0:00 Nthology Ntro (locomotive on you da man, the season on disciple, stillmatic freestyle on street's disciple, you gotta love it on nastradamus, make the world go round on it ain't hard to tell, book of rhymes on daughters, affirmative action on life's a bitch, if i ruled the world) 0:52 Re-Genesis (queens get the money and talk of new york on genesis) 1:50 NY State Of Mind (Hennessy X Nas: The Ride and project windows on NY state of mind) 3:05 World Is Yours (firm biz remix on world is yours) 4:23 One Love (AZ's unreleased verse to foxy on one love and cormega's one love, drink champs interview, and dirty game on cormega's one love) 6:38 I Gave You Shine (Shine on 'em on I gave you power) 8:43 Take It In Blood (Regis recites Nas lyrics on take it in blood) 9:09 Watch Dem Shootouts (shootouts on watch dem) 10:50 MC Serch Skit (mc serch on surviving the times) 11:51 Surviving Rise and Fall (surviving the times on rise and fall) 13:12 Journey Thru The Hate (everything i love on hate me now and diddy's Journey Through The Life) 16:25 Behind Bars (Tragedy Khadafi's Stay Free and last words on slick rick's behind bars) 18:58 The Hood (drake introduction, god love us on Tales From The Hood) 20:21 My Way (project windows on my way) 21:32 New World Can't Forget (new world on can't forget about you) 24:17 Hold Down The Block (god love us and Quiet Niggas with jungle on hold down the block) 26:33 Project's Two Hot (50's I'll Still Kill, nature's fire, jermaine dupri's turn it out on too hot, 50 and nas on summer jam) 29:14 Brother's Stillmatic (kanye's we major and purple on rakim's paid in full/stillmatic freestyle) 30:08 Who Shot Ya (ether on biggie's who shot ya) 33:43 KRS Tribute (KRS-One's Nas tribute on KRS-One's Step Into A World) 34:11 The Flyest (wu-tang's harbor masters and AZ's Everything is Everything (Remix) on the flyest) 37:06 Up 'Em Shoot (shoot em up on rewind) 38:10 Esco Vs The State (be a n too on and courthouse/like me on revolutionary warfare) 39:51 Books Of Rhymes (proclamation on book of rhymes) 41:30 Star Chizzled (stay chiseled with large professor on star wars) 44:03 Queens Where Y'all At (where y'all at queens story) 46:12 Enter Zion (as we enter with damian marley on road to zion) 48:47 Let's Go Hero (esco let's go on hero) 50:32 The Scientist (queens get the money, styles p's unreleased verse for nas, saigon's Greatest Story Never Told on scientist) 53:57 You Wouldn't Understand (remix) (You Wouldn't Understand on rakim's eric b is president) 56:50 Port Au Prince (promise land with damian marley and joell ortiz's Exhibit H on be a n too) 59:21 What's Love (life we chose on where's the love with cocaine 80s) 1:00:58 Music (get down/james brown intro, hi-tek's music for life on marvin gaye's i want you) 1:02:35 The N (the n/don't hate me now on no introduction)