#time to go read some more and eat my supper before the pup steals it

[juuls]

Oh yeah, like, as long as I’m not claiming the fic is mine, pretty much anything works for rec lists. ;)

As far as OT3 goes, this here is my own fic. (Well, one of them, but that’s my main and basically first baby. For SW I also really like JediDarkPilot… which is now apparently known as Preylo which I find hilarious but great. I wrote a oneshot for that called Iris and I think at that time it was only the second or third fic of the ship. That’s why I’m referencing archaic ship names — I’m starting to make myself feel old, heh.)

Despite the dates listed I actually started posting Codega before BP (I remember the date vividly: January 26, 2016! Man!) — got hacked, it was stupid, I kicked his ass to the curb and divorced him, and reposted my stories eventually — but I’m going to start working on finishing Codega now finally! I have so many ideas! I gotta bug @perrydowning about then sometime soon before I burst from excitement or keel over from bouncy exhaustion. All this honestly fills me to the brim with tears of happiness and more emotions than I can name. It was a… complicated situation. That fic meant/means so much to me, and it’s taken me 4 damn years to get over the pain of losing my mental and emotional progress and safety net. But I’m ready now. I think. It’ll be hard, but surprisingly enough I have a fair few reylos who still support me writing and finishing that fic after all this time. We get so much shit as a community, but there are some truly amazing and supportive people out there. ily all. 💜❤️💙

Anyway. I could bitch forever about that but that’s more a private thing (or more like people are probably tired of me mentioning it). At least this is my own post I’m hijacking ahahaha.

But lol, I was more known around Reylo circles for this fic and Reylux in general than I was for any of my Reylo fics. 😂 Probably annoyed a fair few people over it too (but they mostly forgave me because I gave them princess Rey and reylo babies lol). But hey, post-TFA without the other movies or books or tie-ins forcing you into a small canon box…? Anything was possible! It was a magical time!

Think shipping heroine/villain gets you hate? Try two villains! Whoops. Ahahaha. Breaking Point, Codega, and LucidLucy’s Dance of Titans were the main longfics for that ship, and I love them all. Yes, even my own, but both Alania and Lucy are amazing authors and they finished theirs and found great success outside of the main reylux community, whereas I didn’t finish mine, so I definitely admire that they did so. I will always go back to those fics. :)

It used to be painful to read anything SW, let alone things that reminded me of my own/my favourite, but I’ve come a long way in my healing since. It’s so nice to read these things and just be happy again. (Which is a lot of why I was/am asking for recs in the first place! To get that old feeling back; that specific brand of TFA dopamine and serotonin. Heh. (It worked too. Beyond my wildest dreams, at that.))

But yes, in the end, of course, Reylo are the main characters, and that’s the main ship I gravitate towards when picking a main pair for SW. But being poly, I do so love exploring the moresome side of AO3, and delight in it when I find fandoms with some decent representation. :) The MCU is pretty great for that, but it could also just be sheer numbers, because hoo boy…. 😁 Potterverse too.

Really though, I think multishipping, or at least being accepting of others who do, is a really healthy thing for one’s mind. (Ship wars are exhausting. 😪)

…. You also run out of fics to read a lot slower than monoshippers (or as one of my monoshipping friends calls it: jealous shipping). 😋😉 Don’t blame me! She said it first!

But…. More fics? Heck yeah!

Um. Okay that was really rambling. Covid cabin fever for ya, ladies and gents, both and neither! That, and I still get nervous (thus prattle on and on and on and make people dislike me) talking about my fics; but I’m working on that with the therapist bit by bit. ❤️‍🩹☺️ And hey, at least I’m still here.

Thanks for listening! And YES go read Ellie’s fic, and Forms is just great for TFA feels. *sighs happily*

Hey Reylos!

Some of y’all may know me as Juulna from AO3. Hi!

With the help of my bestie @perrydowning (ily babe) I’ve been trying to get back into the TFA mindset of Reylo. For one, I miss it, and TFA also offers me few memories of things I’d rather forget with the ex. I’m also trying to hype myself up for starting Act II of Codega, which is post-TFA to a fault and it’s been so long that I’ve gotten out of practice!

Perry has already given me a handful of great TFA, Alt-TFA, TFA-divergent, and post-TFA fics (some written after the other movies but ignoring them entirely) but I’m not particular to non-SW universe AUs. Canonverse only please. :)

So I ask you! What are some of the fics you love—big or small, known or not, whatever rating—that brings out the absolute love of The Force Awakens, and the glee you felt upon watching that first forest meeting… out in you?

If you lend me some aid, perhaps I’ll spill and reveal the absolute favourites that have stuck with me through the years. ;)

Then I’ll put them all into one of my semi-famous rec lists for everyone to enjoy the TFA celebration!

Help an old 2015 Reylo out! Friends, lend me your TFA recs! Get me HYPED again!!!

Bonus points for the cowl. Lord.