#this is my first damerey fic

[virtie333]

Hey, everyone. I never thought I would have to write this, but here we are.

Those of you who have been reading my stuff for a while know that I’ve been through the ringer these last several years. Three personal losses combined with simple bad luck created clinical depression (on top of a lifetime of anxiety) and suicidal ideology. I discovered that I am mostly likely high-functioning autistic and now I’m dealing with age-related health issues. Writing, especially Damerey, has been my escape, but it hasn’t been easy. Dealing with chronic pain and chronic fatigue takes its toll.

Recently, my boss decided that everyone must be independently wealthy like she is and reduced my hours significantly. I have a horse and a cat that need their teeth worked on, another cat and a dog that need vaccinations, a car that needs repair, a house mortgage, car payments, debt from a previous vehicle, and now medical bills. So, for the first time in my life, I had to get a second job just to make ends meet. With my health issues, this is going to make life rough, and I don’t foresee having the time or energy to write anytime soon. I have the outline for a new long-fic, but the odds of me actually getting it written are slim to none right now, which is why The New Recruit may be my last one. I gotta admit, I’m so damn tired of keeping this ship afloat.

Last week on my birthday, I was reading through several old Damerey fics, stories written during the height of the ship. As someone who came into it late, I often wonder how my stories would have fared if I had written and posted them back then. Would they have gotten 500+ kudos? Would they have 20+ comments per chapter? I’ll never know. I struggled to complete The New Recruit. I love it and I’m proud of it, but it kills me seeing it struggle. The kudo count is respectable, but the feedback is… well, I rarely get a lot of comments. Those that do so regularly have become friends, and I am grateful for that, at least. But feedback literally feeds a writer, and not having much leaves me feeling starved and unable to write, especially when I’m already physically and emotionally exhausted. (If anyone is really, super shy, you can send an anonymous Ask!)

I love this ship and I am not leaving it, so anyone else who posts Damerey stories or artwork, I WILL BE THERE!!! I will support it with everything in me. I still have stories galore in my head, including that one that I’ve never had the guts to write, but they are going to have to stay there for a while.

Maybe something wonderful will happen in the next year and things will get better. In the meantime, I hope you continue to enjoy this story, and if you’ve just started reading this one, I’ve got over four years of stories for you to read! And if I do come back, I hope that my regulars will still be around, ready to join me on a new adventure with Rey and Poe.

Thank you all so much for reading!

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[tfa-archived]

Top 5 songs you associate with Poe and top 5 songs you associate with Marc 😊

Oh bless, I love me some music themed questions, thanks Chrissie! As we go into this I would like to state that I......do not control the music associations my brain makes lol.

Songs I Associate With Poe:

Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler. Yes...I am a gayass. This has been well established, but it really does fit him imo. I mean... it just does. One day maybe I'll get up the nerve to finally edit him to it. gif or otherwise.

Come and Get Your Love by Redbone (the album version). This one's entirely @leiakenobi's fault with her delightful Damerey fic, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy. The association of Poe dorkily dancing to it with Rey is forever going to be in my brain.

Kerosene Dreams by X Ambassadors. This one's @hermitmoss's doing, but it's one of my favorite songs, and it just...sounds like Poe. Specifically, it's a Poe and the Resistance song, as much as it is just a Poe song to me. I feel like it fits his relationship with the Resistance extremely well.

Children of the Sky by Imagine Dragons. Speaking of songs that just sound like Poe to me...when I first heard this song boy did I get hit with emotions, both for me and then later for Poe because...yeah. Yeah that's him alright.

About Love by Marina. I almost went with Little Black Submarines for this, but I wanted something a little lighter. I associate About Love with Poe mostly because it was one of the first songs I began associating with my canon/oc pairing for him, and some of the lyrics wound up being the title for the first ever fic I published of them. So, it just gives me soft and fuzzy feelings.

Songs I Associate With Marc:

Style by Taylor Swift. No, I do not know why. Well actually, that's a lie - I do know why. I saw a tiktok vid of him and Layla to this song, right around the time Moon Knight was first airing and....well now the association is stuck in my brain? So. Yee.

Cairo by San Fermin. I mean...yeah.

Night Crawling by Miley Cyrus and Billy Idol. Honestly, I associated this one so hard with Marc, that I ended up making a little vidlet of him to it.

Dreams by the Cranberries. There's this ambience thing on Spotify for Marc that I listened to a couple of times, and this song plays in the bg, so now it's a Marc song to me. [smacks the top of the song] this bad boy can fit so many of my blorbos in it (went from being an 11 song to a Poe song to a Marc song).

......Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) by Abba. Look... I said I don't control the brain associations, and I meant it. I legitimately have no good reason for it!!! No vids no memes, nothing. But at some point, I started associating it with him, I'm guessing because of the whole midnight thing? Marc would absolutely hate that I associate it with him, probably, which...makes it so much funnier than it already is.

Ask me my top five anything!

[sperastella]

I am trying to write again with all the new excitement around the recent Star Wars announcements and so I figured I'd put up a quick poll asking which of my fics and/or AUs would you like to see me focus on?

[leiakenobi]

10, 20, 23 for the fic asks!

thank u my friend 💜 (from these fic writer asks)

10. what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

It must be my Damerey musicology AU? I never really considered it abandoned, per se, but I returned to it nearly a year and a half after I'd last updated so that I could complete it. It was a case where I had an outline in mind and then realized that it actually needed to be a chapter shorter than I initially intended, and once I sorted that out I finished it in the span of a day or two.

20. in what year did you publish your first fic?

Probably 2006 or 2007? On either FF.net or a boy wizard fandom-specific forum.

23. pick three keywords that describe your writing

When I tell you that I saw this question and knew that someone would ask it but also knew that I would have no clue how to answer.......

First thought is definitely character-driven. Sentimental. And then a lot of my fics have a pretty dry sense of humor—I know that's more than just one word but.

[virtie333]

Reblogging again as I psych myself up to start posting my first damerey long-fic since September!

Another drawing completed :D

This time I drew Rey and Poe as requested by @virtie333 I tried to draw them as if Rey was using her force abilities to make Poe levitate. I think it turned out really cute. I’m getting better at drawing Poe which is so exciting!! I’ve never drawn Rey before so she might look a little wonky but with more practice, I’m sure I’ll get better at drawing her too.

I added some lyrics from Cass Elliot’s Ain’t nobody else but you because it felt fitting.

[msfangirlgonewild]

This is my first Damerey fanfic, and there’s more to come (but the problem I’ve needed someone to Beta’d my work: loopholes and grammar slightly). One-shot/short Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive 
Warnings

Relationships: Poe Dameron/Rey

Additional Tags: DameRey, JediPilot, after the war, Post-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Funeral, Coruscant (Star Wars), Ajan Kloss, Healing Powers, Romantic Fluff, POV Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron Needs A Hug, Rey Needs A Hug, Implied Sexual Content, Hosnian Prime, Kijimi, Force-Sensitive, Force Healing, Romance, Exegol, Pasaana (Star Wars), Kef Bir

Summary: Poe Dameron’s spark has been burning when he was healed by a Jedi and grasps their brief moment together.

[caspasta]

a force that brightens

rating: everyone

pairing: poe/rey 

summary: "It's too dangerous. I'm going alone." "We're going together." (or, rey tries her kriffin' hardest to shut her boys down when they try to join her on a very dangerous mission.) // based on that snippet of dialogue b/n our favorite pilots // ao3

disclaimer: i do not own anything from star wars 

dedicated to @dracosollicitus! ♥

Rey can’t remember how many times she’s clenched her fists in the past 5 minutes. 

She’s angry. She’s angry that she’s angry.

Kriff. 

But this kind of anger was still new to her - some protective kind of anger she never had to know on Jakku. 

By herself - before BB-8, before Finn, before the Resistance, before it all - there was no looking after someone else, being worried about someone else. It was just her and her staff, scavenging the desert corners for scraps and crumbs.

Now, it’s Finn. It’s Chewbacca. It’s Poe. And they’re all being kriffing mad, trying to follow her into the fire. 

A fire she feels might be too wild to put out by herself. A black fire, one she doesn’t want to risk anyone she loves getting too close to.

She’s already lost too many people. (Her parents, Han, Luke). She can’t lose anyone else. She can’t, not if she has anything to say about it. 

She saw them head in the direction of the Falcon earlier after the debriefing, and they only managed to slip past her because she was running through the details of the mission with Leia to make sure everything would run smoothly. 

Sweeping through the corridors (with her still clenched fists), she nearly trips over someone’s pack as she enters the cockpit. 

“Okay, first: whose pack is this?” She pushes a stray hair out of her face and kicks at the rucksack.

Poe turns from flipping through a few buttons on the control panel to the left of the pilot’s seat. He wasn’t sitting there, just standing next to it, and she feels a brief bout of affection for him, knowing that he’s leaving it open for her, though she’s let him fly in it many times before in the past. 

Then, she remembers she’s angry. 

His eyes widen a fraction and pulls an amused frown, reaching over with his foot and tugging the pack closer to him. “Whoops, my bad, sunshine.”

“Hush with the nicknames,” she says, pointing a very unthreatening finger at him before turning her glare to the co-pilot’s chair, where Chewie tilts his head at her. “What are you all doing? This is my mission.”

A garbled grumble answers her. So? 

She furrows her eyebrows at him.

Poe jerks his thumb at the Wookie. “What he said.” He goes back to messing with a rogue wire she remembered Rose mentioning needed fixing, before angling his head to Rey. “What did he say exactly?”

Before she can lie and say something very not nice to him, a voice behind her says, “Beats me." Finn steps around Rey and hands a janky piece of electrical tape to Poe. "BB-8's tangled in the cables again.”

She throws her hands up. The whole gang’s here. “What the kriff are you lot doing?”

Poe lets out a squeak as he finishes wrapping the wires, pulling back quickly with a red finger. Finn chuckles next to him.

“Apparently, we’re painting the walls.”

“Not a bad idea. Needs a paint job,” Poe looks around and then sticks his bleeding finger to his mouth in a distracting way that makes her blush and Rey refuses to think about it. 

She turns away and catches Chewie’s amused face. She blows the strand of hair from her eyes that won’t stay back, narrowing her eyes, daring him to comment. 

He sniffs a quiet laugh and turns back to the console. 

She sighs and gestures in a way to mean all this, “What I mean is - what are you doing here? I need to leave.”

Finn shrugs. “We know that.”

“So, here we are,” Poe says, running his hand through his hair before leaning on the wall he was tinkering with. The lights flicker.

Rolling her eyes, Rey grabs his shoulder and props him back upright. 

She steps back and crosses her arms, “Listen, guys, I appreciate it, but I’m going alone this time. It’s my mission. I don’t need any help.”

Poe tilts his head, catching her eye. “We know you can handle yourself.”

Finn nods, “Yeah, you’ve proved that to us plenty of times before, and not just when sparring.”

Chewie growls in agreement. You’re tough stuff, little one.

Her heart lights up at their words like an old power converter, momentarily forgetting her anger. 

Her boys. Their support and belief in her feel like the Jakku sun - warm and still a little jarring at times. They beam brighter than any words Kylo Ren could throw at her. 

Her breath catches all the same, knowing that they could get hurt on this mission (or worse). Leia didn’t specifically tell her to go alone or that she couldn’t or shouldn’t bring others, but she didn’t plan on asking anyone to come with her. 

Shaking her head, she states, “You’re not coming with, any of you.”

Three red bursts of anger that could rival her own jump at her through the force, all in different intensities. 

Poe and Finn exchange a glance, their faces starting to mirror that anger.

“It’s not up for debate, Rey. We’re all coming with,” Finn says gently, shifting the blaster strapped to his back.

She grits her teeth, starting to feel warring jumble of panic and gratitude. She wants them by her side, she does, but…

The bright saber striking through Han’s back, the anger and shame that she couldn’t do anything as she fired at his son hopelessly, helplessly, trying not to think about Han falling, falling, falling -

“Rey.” 

Poe’s voice cuts through the memory, sure and strong despite its softness. His voice is always doing that - contradicting itself around her name. 

She looks to the pilot, feeling that last bit of anger wash out at the surety in her friends. His face is soft, too. 

Trying one last time, she says to the room, looking to him, to Finn, to Chewie, “It’s too dangerous. I’m going alone.” 

Please, I can’t watch anyone else leave. 

In her periphery, she sees Poe edge closer. He doesn’t touch her, but he doesn’t have to. His presence, no longer red, is shining with something bright. Bright like summer sand and  cool as Ahch-To’s rainfalls. 

He smiles his half-smile, “We’re going together.”

She closes her eyes, breathes, feels that bright signature like a breeze. 

When she opens her eyes again, Rey quirks her mouth. 

“Okay."

[damereycreations]

Hi Everybody!!

Omg it feels like we just wrapped up last year’s event and already it’s time for another DamereyCreations Week! 

It will take place October 23rd-29th and we hope you all can participate either by writing, drawing, creating, or simply showing support and having a fun time with the Damerey family!

Every day of the week will have three prompts.

An AU

A Trope

Challenge Prompt

The Challenge Prompts this year are various movie quotes you can incorporate into your work, whether it’s the main inspiration for the fic or something one of the characters says in the fic is up to you! There’s no limit to how you use them.

There will be one a day, and you are more than welcome to use them however you like. You are not required to do the Challenge Prompts to participate in DamereyCreations Week, I just thought it would be a fun way to change it up a bit.

Feel free to take these prompts and run with them - write a fanfic, design a gifset, draw fanart, create a mixtape, make a fan vid - the only limit is your imagination!

Schedule:

Day 1 - Oct 23

Royal AU

Rivals to Lovers

“I'm the king of the world!” -Titanic, 1997

Day 2 - Oct 24

Pirate AU

Marriage of Convenience

“But you have heard of me” - Pirates of the Caribbean, 2003

Day 3 - Oct 25

Canon AU

Confessions

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this” - Star Wars, 1977

Day 4 - Oct 26

Dystopian AU

Amnesia

“Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear” - The Hunger Games, 2012

Day 5 - Oct 27

Superhero AU

Presumed Dead

“We all wish we had superpowers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.” - Stan Lee

Day 6 - Oct 28

Soulmate AU

Oblivious Pining

“Take it with you so you’ll always have a way to look back… and remember me.” - Beauty and the Beast, 1992

Day 7 - Oct 29

Halloween Town AU  

Porcelain Dolls

“Tell me my dear, Can a heart still breaks when it’s stopped beating?” - The Corpse Bride, 2005

And since the week ends on a Saturday, feel free to use these for a Sinful Sunday if you feel so inclined 😉

Day 8 - Oct 30 - Bonus Day

Sinful Sunday or Crack AU

Free Day

“He Touched the Butt” - Finding Nemo, 2003

While we have a pretty good idea of what we would like to do on each day, the final decision is with the creators. If you have another idea for a prompt, then feel free to send it in! This is a week for you to celebrate, not for us to control your art.

Please don’t feel limited by the prompts! The entire purpose of DamereyCreations Week is to generate as much Force-Positive content as is possible!

How it works:

Reblog this post so everyone can see it!

Tag your posts #damereycreationsweek in one of the first five tags so that we can find it. (you can use the same tag on Ao3 but we will only be reblogging posts on Tumblr)

We will reblog (and tag) everything posted in that tag on Tumblr

Search through this blog, following the tags, to find all of the damerey content from that week

If you have any comments, concerns, or questions, please just ask!

Credit to @damnitdameron​ for the banner artwork!

[dameronalone]

mav's fanfiction 2022 year in review

HI EVERYONE ITS A NEW DAWN ITS A NEW DAY ITS A NEW LIFE. This post is gonna have a second part. the first part (this post) is twelve fics from twelve months of 2022.

2022 had a pretty rough start for me but I've grown a lot and learned a lot AND I've written more this year than any other year, I think. It feels like it at least, between everything I've posted on my ao3, to wips still baking, to several rps I've done with my friends. I've grown not only as a person but as a writer and I think it shows. I decided I wanted to pick out my favorite fic from each month this year that I posted to share here :)

therefore, without further ado, mav's fanfiction 2022 year in review:

JANUARY

holy moly, me oh my | star wars, rated g - poe dameron centric, post-canon

FEBRUARY

samt ar'ras | star wars, rated t - damerey centric

MARCH

(one more and then) I'll say goodbye | the batman, rated t, twobats centric, harvey dent pov

APRIL

planetarium | marvel (mcu), rated g, canon compliant, bucky barnes & yelena belova

MAY

one eye broken and one eye bruised | moon knight, rated m, marc spector centric, mentions of past abuse

JUNE

the sun it rises slowly as you walk | star wars, rated t, canon compliant, poe dameron pov, major character death

JULY

I want us to eat well (I love you) | star wars, rated g, canon compliant, jedistormpilot, food as metaphor for love

AUGUST

the dust cloud has settled and my eyes are clear | star wars, poe dameron pov, post canon, damebliss

SEPTEMBER

jake lockley's girl | moon knight, rated t, jake lockley x f!reader, protective jake lockley

OCTOBER

common tongue | star wars, rated e, poe dameron x gn!reader, kinktober fic

NOVEMBER

supercollide | star wars, chapter ond rated t, chapter two rated e, poe dameron x oc, hallway arguments

DECEMBER

family | star wars, rated g, poe dameron x oc x oc, poe dameron pov, kidfic

tomorrow or whenever I have the time, I'll be collecting twelve of my favorite fics from this year that other writers have written, to share the love <3

xoxo have a good one

[damereyficchallenge]

Damerey Fic Challenge: Wave 5

For those of you who have participated before, welcome back! And for those of you just joining us, welcome, we’re so glad to have you here!

Tomorrow night I’ll be posting the first challenge in wave 5. But first, for those of you who are new here and are curious about the particulars, I wanted to go over the specifics, as well as post the new prompt list. And as a note, although this is a Damerey related challenge, my Obi-Wan fandom stretches back to the prequel era when I first got into Star Wars, and boy, has that obsession come back with a vengeance. The Obi-Wan Kenobi show has inspired this new prompt list, and I hope it inspires you too.

Now the details of the challenge: every Thursday, there will be a prompt issued along with that week’s technical challenge. The challenge—if you choose to accept it—is to incorporate the prompt into a fic that meets the technical specifications, and then post the fic on the following Wednesday.

In short, if that week’s technical challenge is “100-word drabble” and the prompt is “cupcake,” you have exactly 100 words to write a fic that somehow incorporates the idea of that cupcake! Note: the fic does not need to be entirely about a cupcake, nor even directly reference it. Just let the word(s) inspire you, wherever that may take you.

Now, the technical portion. Each week will have a different technical challenge and they are listed below:

Week 1: drabble: exactly 100 words long

Week 2: double drabble: exactly 200 words long

Week 3: pentadrabble: exactly 500 words long

Week 4: short short: between 500 and 1000 words

Week 5: ficlet, snippet: no exact word count needed, but generally 1K or shorter

As to the prompt, which the first of this wave will be posted tomorrow night around 8:00 PM Eastern, the prompt will be chosen using a random number generator. Click on the “Read More” below to view the Obi-Wan inspired prompt list we will be using.

Completed fics should be posted the following Wednesday, so you’ll have just under a week to meet the challenge. Fics that are tagged #damereyficchallenge will be reblogged here, and fics posted on Ao3 can be added to the Damerey Fic Challenge collection!

Complete one or all five or any number in between, there is no pressure here to participate each week. And if the creative urge doesn’t strike you either, don’t worry, we love our readers too! And as always, feel free to message me any questions you may have!

Obi-Wan Inspired Prompt List:

1)     Guiding Light

2)     Knight

3)     Warrior

4)     Negotiator/Negotiation  

5)     The Oil-Bringer

6)     From a certain point of view

7)     Exile

8)     Mentor

9)   Skywalker

10)  Temple

11)  Master

12)  Clones

13)  Galactic Republic

14)  Duchess

15)  Grievous

16)  Tatooine

17)  Hermit

18)  Luke and Leia

19)  Sacrifice

20)  Eopie

21)  “Look what I’ve risen above.”

22)  Jedi Council

23)  Beard

24)  Trauma

25)  Hello there

[virtie333]

WIP Wednesday

Well, I finished my current Damerey WIP last night. The editing may start tonight, but since I have tomorrow off, I may take it easy and watch a movie instead. Or both. You never know.

Anyway, instead of offering you a snippet of the new fic, which I hope to start posting on AO3 on May 9, I'm going to direct you to part of a chapter from one of my first Damerey fics. It was the inspiration for this new fic, and as you can probably guess, it's why this ended up being a rewrite of the sequel trilogy. Because, what if it started like this..?

Another day. Another ration pack. Or two. Rey’s haul that day hadn’t been big, but it would be enough for a meal, however small. She stopped her speeder just outside the limits of Niima Outpost, the sun low in the sky, and carried her load to the cleaning station. As she did so, she noticed three unique shapes off to the south, where visiting ships usually landed. She stopped and stared. X-Wings?

She had seen X-Wing fighters before, on the rare occasion some mercenary or outrider who happened to have one stopped on Jakku. However, it was obvious those models were old junkers, damaged during battle and disposed of by their owners as not being worth the money to fix, and then being taken on by someone who had the time to repair them enough to be travel worthy if not battle ready. These three ships were far from junkers. Sleek, well-cared for, and ready for combat, they had no insignia on them to identify who they belonged to, but there was only one group in the galaxy that used X-Wings effectively these days: The Resistance. Two of the ships were steel grey with blue and red marks on them to individualize them. The third was painted a very distinctive black with orange marks.

Rey continued on to the cleaning station. While she hadn’t found much in today’s scavenging, what she had was unique enough to warrant decent ‘pay,’ and after cleaning the old compressor engine, she was pleased to have earned one full portion for it. Putting the ration packs in her bag, she headed for her speeder, but a small group of humans caught her eye. There were three of them, and though they were dressed casually, she knew immediately they were the pilots of the three X-Wings she had seen. They stood out like a sore thumb amongst the rag-tag throng of Niima.

There were two men and one woman. The woman was young, less than a decade older than Rey herself, and though she was attractive, Rey recognized a hardness in the woman’s attitude; she was no pushover. Which made sense, since flying an X-Wing was not for the faint of heart. The man she was talking to was older, a bit thick around the middle, with a beard and a jovial expression. He did not look like a fighter pilot at first glance, but the way he looked about him with wariness spoke of someone who had been there and done that in his lifetime.

The third member of the group, who was talking to one of the merchants, was probably a bit younger than the other male pilot, shorter but fit, and his demeanor spoke of confidence and leadership. Something told her the black X-Wing belonged to this man. As she watched, the vendor said something that apparently amused the pilot and he laughed. Something inside Rey clenched, and she was immediately confused. Why did this stranger affect her this way? Suddenly, she realized the dealer was pointing at her, and all three pilots turned to look at her.

Panicked, Rey turned and started walking away, trying to be casual about it. She had no clue what they wanted with her or why the merchant had pointed her out to them; she had never had dealings with the man. She turned her head a bit and was dismayed to see the woman and the bearded man following her in her peripheral. They seemed to be in no rush, but their focus was undeniably on her. She was so intent on them she didn’t see the third pilot until she almost ran smack into him. Somehow, he had gotten in front of her and was now blocking her way.

He gave her a disarming smile, his brown eyes warm. “Hey, it’s okay,” he told her. “We just want to ask you a question.” When she stopped and gave him a brief nod, he held out his hand. “I’m Poe,” he told her. “Poe Dameron.”

She looked down at his hand and then back up at him, taking it cautiously. People rarely shook hands here on Jakku. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch was comforting. She bit her lip and pulled her hand back, more than a little confused by her reaction.

She saw his gaze drop to her lips, then he looked up and behind her, motioning to his companions. “This is Snap and Jess,” he told her.

Rey glanced back at them as they nodded, then she faced Dameron again. “Rey,” she said softly.

“I know.”

For some reason, his simple response made her heart beat harder and faster. Why did he seem so familiar? And why was she acting this way around him? Plenty of hot-shot pilots had come and gone from Niima outpost, and several of them had been handsome as sin. None had affected her like this man.

“We’re here looking for pilots to recruit into the Resistance,” he continued. “More than one person pointed out you as the best pilot in Niima, maybe even all of Jakku.” The corner of his mouth tilted up. “Do you have any interest in learning to fly combat spacecraft?”

Rey was stunned. Who had told him she was a pilot? It wasn’t something she broadcasted, and she sure as heck never thought anyone in Niima cared anyway. “Fly combat? Like an X-Wing?” she asked.

“Yep,” Dameron said with a smile. “X-Wings. A-Wings. Bombers. Whatever your talents fit with best.”

Rey was starting to get excited. To be able to travel around the galaxy and fly those amazing ships would be a dream come true. “That would be wonderful!” she exclaimed, but then reality hit her.

Poe had grinned at her reaction, but when her face fell, his did too. “What’s wrong?” he asked.

She blinked and looked at him. “I’m flattered by your offer, but I… I can’t leave Jakku.”

“Seriously?” he said, his expression disbelieving. “Why can’t you leave this dustball?”

Rey hesitated. How to explain something she had a hard time explaining to herself? “I’m waiting for someone,” she said, keeping it simple.

Poe looked disconcerted. “That’s too bad,” he told her. “We really need good pilots.” He shifted his weight from one foot to the other. “Whoever you’re waiting for is very fortunate to have someone so loyal on their side.”

Rey felt her face heat.

He held out his hand again and she took hold of it more willingly this time. “If you change your mind,” he told her softly, “look me up.” He held onto her hand much longer than a simple handshake warranted, and she didn’t mind at all. With a sad nod, he let her go and turned away. Rey was barely aware of the other two pilots passing her and following him. Slowly, she made her way out of town and toward her speeder. She had mounted it and was getting ready to start it when the roar of engines caught her attention. She looked up to see the three X-Wings lifting off and heading upward toward space. She watched them until they disappeared in the dusky sky, then put her head down on the steering column and cried.

[gingerteaonthetardis]

ok heres one for u! can u give us some examples of when you read a fanfic and thought the descriptions of kisses were *chefs kiss*?

hey, nonny! thanks for this ask! it really got me thinking about what's important to me in fics, and what i really like, which is emotional weight. i think that'll come through in some of my selections, which come from multiple fandoms and multiple authors.

this is, by the way, by no means a comprehensive list:

megabadbunny always does it for me; the way she writes kisses is so emotional, so wonderfully tied into the scene and characterization. big fan. here's a bit of a kiss from her fic minuet (tenrose, explicit):

A strange buzzing fills Rose’s head and her mind goes completely blank.

For a moment that stretches into eternity, she can’t hear anything but her pulse rushing and roaring in her ears, can’t feel anything but the cool pressure of the Doctor’s hands framing her face and the warmth of his breath on her lips.

please consider the genre of kisses-to-make-them-shut-up. it's a favorite genre of mine. starring another favorite fic, my guy (jacob x bella, teen):

His grumbling was suddenly cut short by her lips on his. So soft, so delicate, with the scent of vanilla and woodsmoke still clinging to her hair. Change of plans: neither of them were going home. They were just going to have to stay here forever.

The kiss was short and sweet and left him feeling lightheaded when she pulled away.

"What was that for?" he murmured, their noses still touching. She smirked.

"To shut you up."

it was hard to choose just one of draco_sollicitus's fics—seriously, oh my god—but take what the water gave me has just... the loveliest build-up and eventual release (damerey, explicit):

—he kissed his wife as though it were holy, as though this were a church and he were binding himself to her; he kissed her with no audience but the sea meeting the land in a distant echo that made promises that resembled forever.

every kiss lostinfic writes is absolutely killer, tbh. here's a lovely, seasonal one from meet me on the equinox (hannah x hardy, explicit):

A deep breath, and he dipped his head to kiss her. Just a brush of lips at first, enough to send sparks through her blood. The day’s energy finally released. His fingers carded through her hair, her arms wrapped around his waist. The kiss deepened, and she felt it to her toes. People walked around them and leaves twirled in the wind, and they kept kissing. It was a day for gluttony.

to me, the best kisses are the ones that blend seamlessly into the stories they come from, a piece of a larger, more beautiful puzzle. the kisses in don't you know you've got the best of me? by raquians—yes, another all time fave that i will rec until the sun expands and kills us all—are like that (fremione, teen):

After they pass the initial hesitation of wondering whether the other is going to pull away in regret or not, it's all… completely fitting. It's not cautious or learned, and it sure as hell isn't timid. It's something that sparks with life and is intrinsic. Like they were always, always meant to come to this point, and now that they've made it, it's welcoming them home.

aaaand it is not a list of abbey's favorite things without some stuck with you in there. here's a snippet from one of the many amazing kisses in this fic (tucker x rose, explicit):

—and then she suddenly realizes that yes, his hands are on her hips and that is his mouth pressed against hers, and her heart feels like it’s about to burst and oh, she should probably kiss back.

and like, there are truly so many more—some from fics and ships too embarrassing to admit i've read—but these are just a few!!

[fortysevenswrites]

Tagged by my numero uno enabler, @myletternevercame

First fic. So we won’t talk about my first ever fics from high school (which no longer exist on the internet, and even if they did I wouldn’t know where to find them, but I digress), but my first AO3 fic was This Is For, way back in October of 2014. To say the Avengers movie got me back into fic and writing is a bit of an understatement and a half. This Is For was my attempt at an A to Z one-shot collection focused on Darcy Lewis, either paired with Clint Barton or Bucky Barnes. I got through 11 of the 26, and probably won’t ever finish it, but there are some fun ones in that 11, including the 2 fics based on Darcy being a fairy, the one where Darcy is friends with a grim reaper for cats, yes you read that correctly (H Is For Harvest), and the one that fuses the MCU with the Lizzie Bennett Diaries universe, because Darcy and Darcy and I couldn’t resist.

Softest Fic. I think one of my softest is probably Going Through The Unimaginable, a post TLJ Damerey fic for the five minutes that I could stand being even on the fringes of the SW Sequel Trilogy fandom. Also Boundary and like that for Kastle and the short Innumerable Classics for SethKate. I also feel like most of my SOFT also include a good helping of drama/angst, so like…there’s not much that is straight up s o f t.

Fic I’m Most Proud Of. Oh it’s GOT to be we don’t make the future, we just know it, because I wrote that in like AN HOUR and even I’m impressed with how I made it actually connect to the canon of the show because let me tell you, that was NOT in the original plan. And also because it’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever written and I just love it so much. Also shoutout to Instead Of One Day Of Presents (We Have Eight Crazy Nights), which has turned into a lot of peoples’ favorite Hanukkah fics, and was a huge indulgence for me and reminded me that fic is FOR indulgences and that you should write whatever you want because it’s fun.

Fic That Shows My Progress. I think it’s a tie between merry band of creepily religious teenage vampires, because that was the first time I can really think that I actually finished a fic in the POV of the male character of one of my ships. And also you squeeze my hand three times, because not only did I finish it in two and a half days, but the fact that I wrote THREE separate outsider POVs is something I haven’t done before.

Favorite Wip. I….love all of my 800 WIPs equally? Right now I have a few front of mind: The one I WILL finish this week because it’s SHORT I SWEAR, the TouchTunes Incident fic (which has evolved a bit, but like in a good way that is also going to push me out of my writing comfort zone and I just need to DO IT (which yes, is a double entendre, so take that as you will)), and the Coffee Shop AU Sequel that was supposed to be short but of course not. After that I think I want to dive back into one of the FDTD/Punisher crossovers, but I’ve said that before so we’ll see what my brain actually lets me do.

Tagging: @tuntematonkorppi, @onebatch2batch, @chronic-ghost, @carry-the-sky, @152glasslippers, @alwaysupatnight, @justjstuff and anyone else who wants to partake! Consider yourselves tagged!

[leiakenobi]

Title: clipped wings, broken thing [6/18] Fandom: Star Wars Pairing: Poe Dameron/Rey Summary: Cursed with the need to obey any order – even those issued to her unintentionally – Rey has spent the majority of her life on Ahch-To with only Luke Skywalker for company. When Leia sends her best pilot to ask Luke to help the Resistance, their quiet life is disrupted, and Rey must confront her place in the galaxy for the first time.

Read chapter 6 here!

(Or read from the beginning here.)

[userpoe]

for the characters ask game: each of jedistormpilot? 🥺

You coming in with all three of my babes, bless

Rey:

First impression: I thought she was incredible, relatable, and a complete sweetheart.

Impression now: can you please be a little less relatable hon??? can you bls do that? I love her lots and I love the emphasis she has on found family because that's everything to me

Favorite moment: mhm that's a toughie. She's got a lot of great scenes! But I think it's actually the sequence when they meet Zorii, cos that scene just...showcases all the reasons I love Rey? She hangs back, observant and inquisitive at first (ignoring Zorii and instead asking Poe for more information), then immediately leaping into action once her friends are put into danger, and once the threat is dealt with, offering her hand to Zorii and showing her compassion and gentleness. It's just 😘👌 fantastic

Idea for a story: I'm not sure tbh! I'd really like to see her struggles with connecting to the spiritual side of the Force explored though.

Unpopular opinion: I like her arc in TROS, but I especially love that Leia trained her...I also like her dynamic with Kylo because *munches popcorn* villain/heroes having complex dynamics and having to work together is my bread and butter even if I do spend an inordinate amount of time watching the sequels cheering "WRECK EM BB" when they fight

Favorite relationship: jedistormpilot babey

Favorite headcanon: I like to think that Rey's mom was a pilot in the original Rebellion, who knew Dosmit Raeh - the pilot Rey's helmet once belonged to - and Rey was actually named after her.

Finn:

First impression: I loved Finn so goddamned much you guys. I thought he was incredible and sweet and so fucking funny, he was one of my favorite parts of the Force Awakens.

Impression now: MY BOY. MY GENERAL. I still love him so fucking much??? He's literally the best okay.

Favorite moment: when he fights Phasma, because "rebel scum" has lived rent free in my head since 2017.

Idea for a story: canonically Finn goes undercover aboard the Finalizer (which. Damn. The big dick energy), and I like the idea of him nearly getting caught but a handful of stormtroopers help him and then in return, Finn breaks them out and brings them to the Resistance. Cos you know... rescuing people aboard the Finalizer's kinda his thing.

Unpopular opinion: I have no idea if this is unpopular or not but watching Pacific Rim Uprising last night really made me wish John got to keep his English accent for Finn instead of them going for an American one.

Favorite relationship: again I'm saying jedistormpilot because I literally cannot and will not choose between his dynamics with Poe or Rey because they're both seratonin rushes.

Favorite headcanon: I really really love the thought that Finn might be from Corellia. Don't ask me why, but I just think it'd be so fucking good.

Poe:

First impression: In the theaters it was a very eloquently thought "oh no, he's hot" followed by a "I'm in love" about five minutes later. I really liked that he was sarcastic but wasn't an asshole, because I honestly just....from what we knew about Poe before the film dropped, I was expecting that? So Poe being this very confident, sarcastic, gentle and encouraging man was a big surprise and an even bigger reason I fell as hard as I did.

Impression now: this character...means so damn much to me. The only other character that ever really meant this much to me was the Doctor when I was a kid (I say that like he still doesn't). Poe is a huge, huge comfort character for me and I just. Love him a lot. In ways my neurodivergent ass can't fucking put into words.

Favorite moment: *wants to cheat and include the ending of issue 13* okay from the movies? Probably the TIE Fighter escape or the rooftop scene in TROS with Zorii. I love the escape sequence just cos of how Star Warsy and fun it is - and it's a great example of Poe's personality? The rooftop scene I love because it's just...a really great moment of vulnerability from him. OH GOD AND THE HANDTOUCH? When he's trying to decide what to do with Finn and Rose's plan and goes to Leia to gather his courage and resolve and he puts his hand on hers I just. gOD.

Idea for a story: I really want to write a fic based off a dream I had last November where I was on a mission with him, Finn, Rey, Kaydel, Rose and Beaumont...but I don't know if I'd want to write it as a reader fic or damerey fic (I think it'd be appropriate for a reader fic, since it prompted me into getting back into reader fic).

Unpopular opinion: I don't! Think! He's arrogant!! This comes up a lot in some canon novels and it drives me batty everytime because like... he's confident yes he can be smug sometimes yes, but he doesn't try to be impressive (most of the time) he just says the truth that he has the experience to back him on. The fact that "vainglorious" "self-involved" and "narcissistic" are all terms that have been canonically used abt him annoys me to no end. He's cocksure, yes, but for every positive thing he has to say about himself, he's got even more praise and encouragement for the people around him.

Favorite relationship: Poe and Leia. Like. God. They're everything to me.

Favorite headcanon: I like the idea that when he was seventeen after he left Zorii (and toppled a criminal empire good for him), he stayed with Yegar on the Colossus for some time before he got the courage to see Kes again. I also headcanon that Poe is kind of....an amplifier for the Force.

send me a character!

[tell-that-to-kanjiklub]

Exchange Of Heart

Pairing: Rey/ Poe Dameron

Words: 13k (complete)

Rating: T

Tags: Modern AU- Workplace, POV Alternating, Rivals to Lovers, Realization of Feelings, First Kiss, Christmas RomCom, The Power of Wham!

Summary:

From the moment Rey Kenobi pulls his name for the company holiday Secret Santa exchange, she can't wait to cook up the most diabolical, horrible gift. Poe Dameron has been her antagonist since Day One at Resistance Inc. and this could be the revenge her (somewhat petty) heart craves.

Little does she know that to his chagrin, Poe also drew HER name for Secret Santa.

Pressure mounts as the party draws closer, with Poe and Rey growing tentatively closer as they decide what to give each other. Will the warmth of Christmas generosity thaw their icy rivalry?

Note: For my sweet friend @virtie333 for the Discord Damerey Holiday Fic Exchange

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