Flash fic - Star Wars

Orange Dunes, Blue Waves (1679 words)
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker
Additional Tags: Force Ghost(s), Force Visions, That's Not How The Force Works, That's Not How Time Travel Works Either, Grumpy Old Men
Summary: The Force transports Obi-Wan to a remote world called Ahch-To. He's not the only hermit there.

Tags are fun.


The Orange Crystal (1680 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Galen Erso/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Galen Erso
Additional Tags: Soul Stone, Self-Sacrifice Scheme, Crossover by Osmosis, Extra Treat
Summary: Galen is an engineer, meticulously plotting every stroke of his plan. Bodhi is caught in his gravity.

I've never actually seen MCU (actually I've seen one installment, but not a relevant one). I am, however, a sucker for a good convenient plot-induced sacrifice.

I was also amused that these inadvertently came out so close in word count. (I might even have a bonus fic in the same vicinity.)

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There's a famous quote called the Serenity Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference.
 

But I would add it's not enough to know the difference between things you can and cannot change; there are times when it's important to differentiate how you express them.

I may wish that certain politicians had never been elected. I might also wish that an obnoxious person in my life had never been born. (Let's say for the purposes of this example that I have a nemesis named Abner, this isn't actually the case.) Well, in neither case do I have the ability to retroactively change the past. But in the first case, I can and should take action to oppose incumbents' dangerous policies and work to support the policies I believe in. On the other hand, if I express aloud, "I wish Abner had never been born," I might get some weird looks, and if I say "I wish Abner had never been born, and I'm going to do something about it at 3 pm on Thursday," I might get in trouble.

By the same argument, it's possible that there are people out there who wish I had never been born--and unpleasant as it might be to me, they have the right to that belief.

If, however, they choose to express it repeatedly, in messages to the effect of "gosh, it's a real shame that you exist" or "that the recorded history of events conspired to bring you to birth is an utter travesty" or suchlike, I also have the right to cut ties with them.

Now, it's possible that people who have these sentiments don't recognize the necessary implications of them, but it's also possible that people think longer than two seconds before they let words come out of their mouth, and I prefer to assume that people are thinking.

("But Ember, aren't you terrible at deciphering the obvious consequences of your own communication sometimes too?" Well...if other people are such geniuses, let them. It's sort of a cursed-if-I-do, cursed-if-I-don't.)