primeideal: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader duelling (luke)
Any Star Wars people who'd be willing to look over a short fic in the next couple days? It's a bit outside my wheelhouse so I want to make sure it's a good fit for the request. No archive warnings apply. Comment or PM if you have questions. 
primeideal: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader duelling (vader)
So, I'd heard things about how legendarily awful the Star Wars Holiday Special was. It's not as obscure as it used to be; this year, for May the 4th my dad dug up a YouTube link. And I figured I'd give it a try so you don't have to.

Text displays "The Star Wars Holiday Special." Voiceover: "The Star Wars Holiday special!" Thank you, that was helpful. Good start.

Chewbacca's dad carves mini X-wings for his grandwookiee :)

The external view of the treehouses, establishing that they're actually high up in the trees, looks like it's literally just concept art.

There's an oboe remix of the Force theme just idly playing in the background while the Wookiees are talking.

Grandpa plays a hologram for the kid, I'm assuming this is the in-universe equivalent of The Nutcracker or something. Like, it's almost Life Day, so we watch the traditional ballet.

"You have reached traffic control, no starships in area" - text on the computer screen. There's lots of references to the canonicity of Aurabesh, does this mean the English alphabet is also canon?

Luke and R2 Skype with the Wookiees.

Nervous trader trying to make small talk with the Imperial officer, babbling about the allure of his mini-aquarium. Officer (curtly): "I hate fish."

Trader continues talking about all the things this super-toothbrush cleaning device can do, finishes with "I use it regularly." Officer (looking him up and down, skeptical): "Really." Points for deadpan-ness.
 
Cooking show lady: "we cut into bite-size morsels, but only you know the size of a bite in your family." Dramatically winks at camera.

Cooking show lady has surprise extra limbs so it's easy to prepare the recipe.
 
Grandpa's present from his human friend is a trippy animated lights video which resolves into Wookiee porn. Maybe the computer is sophisticated and creates his fantasy woman.

"Bend this minute"/"infinitely extend this minute" honestly this isn't the worst-rhyming cheesy love song I've ever heard.

These (music video) special effects were probably good for 1978.

"Friend of the rebellion and of the alliance" pretty bold to identify himself like that on screen, but I guess maybe they all know who Leia is.

The Wookiees open up the door...and there are Stormtroopers! Surprise commercial break.
 
This trader comes from the Han Solo school of bluffing. Just keeps rambling.

What's the officer's porn fantasy going to be? (Apparently, a rock concert. Or maybe that was just Malla's gift.)

The little kid is watching an animation about the rebellion on his TV. Is this an in-universe fictional work? Are the rebellion that famous? What is this.

Is this Ackbar with Leia?

The first canonical appearance of Boba Fett is...riding Nessie and saving Luke's life? And he calls them friend. What in the absolute bleep.
 
"I have no love of the Empire." What happened here. Money?
 
"Don't you think it might be imprudent to trust him so quickly, sir?" C-3PO.

"Friend is a term that is often misused."
 
Oh lol, Fett is working for Vader (at least in the animation).

Boba: "We'll meet again, 'friend.'" *jet-packs into space without even trying to capture them*. Lol.
 
I think I missed something here with the "instruction video," are these "amorphous" beings who can only take 3D form with difficulty and keep "glitching"?

Maybe they're just showing off their 1978 special effects again.
 
"Life on Tatooine, required viewing for imperial citizens--just be glad you don't live in a hellhole like this." The cantina band is performing again and there's more random wretched hive of scum and villainy stuff.

"You only said six words" *counts on the six fingers of his glove*

The Empire imposes curfew on Tatooine because of sketchy figures causing trouble. A little late for that, guys.

The bartender shares Boba Fett's overuse of "friend."

Hahahahaha the kid is using his hacker machine to tell them to return to base.

Han (to the Wookiees) - "you're like family" aww, he's probably never had this.

The Life Day celebration consists of holding snowglobes for some kind of candlelight ritual.
 
The rest of the rebellion being on Kashyyyk makes no darn sense so I'm going to assume it's some kind of dream sequence.

"R2 and I wish we were more than just mechanical beings and we could share our feelings with you." Oh no, robots are valid and have complex emotions just as they are!

I'm assuming that Life Day is some kind of old Wookiee tradition that's become more a symbol of freedom/hope/peace under the Empire.

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And that was...stupid, yes. But more so in a "wow, those 1978 special effects" way than "retroactively ruined Star Wars" way. I mean, this decade has Matt the Radar Technician and Palpatine's return appearing in Fortnite, that's a pretty low bar to clear.
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So there's been some amusing Wheel of Time fic posted recently, some about Lan giving Thom the "if you hurt Moiraine you will regret it" talk and some where Mat misunderstands some things and assumes Lan and Moiraine are a romantic ship. And it's made me think about the Warder bond. How many platonic examples of the Moiraine+Lan type relationship do we have by the end of the series?

spoilers ) Edit: I just asked Reddit for their opinions. I may regret this.
primeideal: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader duelling (vader)
Sometimes (often) I'm migrainy and self-indulgently wallow in darkfic brainstorming without actually looking at a screen to type any, there have been some good prompts floating around. And then today it was like...

Vader: Tell me what you did with the Death Star plans.
Leia: Never, you'll have to kill me first.
Imperial mooks: Sir, we've searched the whole ship and the computers, we found no trace of the plans.
Vader: this ship is the only one to have made contact with the Scarif fleet who I killed, I know they're here.
Mooks: Well, they did send an escape pod down to the planet.
Vader: What planet?
Mooks: We're in orbit above Tatooine, sir.
Vader: ...Get me Tarkin.
Tarkin (on the phone): What now.
Vader: I found a planet for you to test the full-powered planet-killer on.
Tarkin: yessssssssssss.

Directed by George Lucas.
primeideal: Text: "Right, the colors. Whoa! Go away! We're trying to figure out the space-time continuum here." on Ravenclaw banner (animorphs)
...or, Gafinilan/Mertil are weird even when they're not Gafinilan and Mertil.

For the flash exchange:

Red Letter News (695 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad/Mertil-Iscar-Elmand
Characters: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
Additional Tags: Advice Columns, Character Writes Advice Column Despite Being Ludicrously Unqualified To Dispense Advice
Summary: The anonymous aristh can't tell you his name. Or where he lives. But he can tell you how to live your life.
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I used that exact same freeform when it was nominated in Galavant, no regrets at being slightly identifiable. (It's a good tag.)

Mark As Red (354 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Lando Calrissian
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Cassian Andor, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Chatting & Messaging, Cast Has Groupchat For Complimenting Each Other's Attractiveness in Increasingly Aggressive Ways, Post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Extra Treat
Summary: Even my autocorrect doesn't think ur dustball is a real planet lol

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Okay, so Cassian survives Rogue One, and then Leia adopts him into the Falcon's groupchat because, uh, he needs a social life. I don't know. Then ESB happens.

The Guide (7013 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Characters: Baze Malbus, Chirrut Îmwe, Wicket (Star Wars), Yoda (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Book 13: The Change, Animorphs-typical speciesism, Animorphs-typical weirdness about disability, Ensemble Cast
Series: Part 3 of Changelings
Summary: With his health fading and his shorm annoyingly faithful to the Force, the last thing Baze needs is to be saddled with a pair of fugitive Hork-Bajir. The galaxy, or at least Yoda, has a weird sense of humor.

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As with my Les Mis/Animorphs crossover, the characters aren't completely one-to-one. Like, Leia is kind of Jake, but she's also a little Rachel at times. Both Han and Lando take on the Marco role. Etc.

Baze/Chirrut aren't identically Gafinilan/Mertil, but they're pretty darn close--in particular, I've co-opted the latter's disability/stigmatized statuses, rather than Chirrut's blindness.

I kind of understand why book 40 had to end how it did from the perspective of "you can't disturb the status quo;" if you suddenly introduce two new Andalites who survived the Dome Ship and have never been heard from until now, they can't actually join the long-term fight. But from an in-universe perspective, the taboos around the morphing technology don't make a lot of sense--we see in book 8 that Andalites are shocked by the scale of human technology progression. The Escafil device shouldn't have even been around long enough to have taboos!

(Of course, with that kind of slow-timeframe in mind, the real tragedy of the series is that morphing technology it came just a blink after Seerow's Kindness, albeit precipitated by the war. If Seerow had just shown up with an Escafil device we could have saved a whole lot of trouble.)

Anyway, that's why I had Baze monologue to Lando in the previous installment about where his aversions might have come from, and why I took the route I did here. (Which is also kind of paralleled with Mertil's "come onnnnn" attitude in the flash fic.)
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The age to come would say "this poet lies" (1443 words)
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Colin Templer, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Time Travel for Historical Research, One-Sided Attraction
Summary: Colin has an admirer. A not-very-secret one.
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Shakespeare crushes on Colin. That's it.

Stranger Times (1396 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Refugees from Multiple Doomed Dimensions Flee to the Same Sheltered Timeline
Summary:

El made it almost two weeks through the third timeline before the demodogs showed up.
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This isn't strictly time travel so much as "parallel universes gone wrong," but close enough. My recip had a lot of cool prompts for who El might run into so I tried to combine some of those.



Yellow, or, Your Skin and (Undead) Bones (430 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Poe Dameron, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Sort Of, Crack Treated Seriously
Summary:

Luke Skywalker has reappeared.

Almost everyone is happy about this.

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Don't think I ever crossposted this one, it's some post-TLJ crack.
primeideal: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader duelling (luke)
Me: I'm moving and getting a full-time job, I should not sign up for any more exchanges before Yuletide
Also me: but these format prompts though

Private Bookmarks for User TonyGwynn19
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: In-Universe RPF, Documentation
Summary:

San Diego Padres RPF is the next big thing in the fanfiction world.
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My recip prompted "what would be the most popular ship? ...it's Mike/Livan, isn't it." And I was like "yep, it sure would be."


Blame It On My Juice(d Balls) (387 words)
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:

#InspectTheBall2K19, and other hashtags

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If Ginny was still pitching in 2019 she'd absolutely be angry about the home run totals and sense a conspiracy theory.

Also, sometimes I feel like I'm the only gen writer in this fandom. Welp.

The Force of Others (856 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lor San Tekka
Additional Tags: reddit, Documentation, Extra Treat
Summary: My name is Lor San Tekka, ask me anything!
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Lor does an AMA, pre-The Force Awakens.

In Praise of Poland (1878 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Ship Manifesto, Format: Meta, Extra Treat, Embedded Images
Summary:

An exploration of the Star Wars ship Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron.
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Me rambling about why I ship it. This was probably not very anonymous. Oh well.

Guardian of the Wills (702 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Mon Mothma, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Wills, Extra Treat
Summary: Cassian and K-2 left an intangible legacy behind. They also left a literal one.
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One of those silly and usually morbid "lateral thinking puzzles" is like "A woman killed her husband, the authorities knew about it, but they never did anything. Why?" And the convoluted answer is "they both had children from previous relationships and both hated their stepkids. Then they were in a fatal car accident together. By making sure he died ever so slightly 'before' her, she inherited all his money, and then passed all of hers and his down to her own kids." Which might not actually happen IRL but that's how these puzzles are. And then I was like "...would anyone have even known what order Rogue One died in??"

I was on the fence about making an entire fic out of this idea but then I came up with the title and I figured I had to do it.

Wikipedia: Guidelines for Covering Extraterrestrial Topics (1501 words) 
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: wikipedia - Freeform, Documentation, Post-Canon, Extra Treat
Summary:

From Wikipedia, the free intergalactic encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia editors arguing over notability guidelines and capitalization standards after the Animorphs' history gets revealed.

primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
Do you love Admiral Ackbar, have ambivalent feelings about the sequel trilogy, and/or want to support clean water around the world? Check this out.
primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
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.)

primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
So I'm brainstorming a project that may or may not come to pass. And the question arises, who are the most popular characters to romantically ship a given Character A with?

One way you can find this out is go to their Ao3 tag, and then pop open the "relationships" filter--that will give you a top 10. But it's possible that some of those are B/C, or A&D, so you can try exclude, exclude, exclude, and iterate until you get only A/B or A/B/C. Even then the relative order might be imprecise because some of the A/B fics will also be tagged with A&D, so they'd get excluded, but at least this gives you a more complete list. (You can also go to Character A's tag page without the "works" selection, which will pop up every single A/B, A/Z, A/B/C/Q that have been wrangled but then you have to individually click on those to get counts.)

Anyway, for Lando Calrissian, the top 10 is something like:

-Han
-Luke
-L3
-Leia
-Poe
-Bodhi
-Leia/Han
-Wedge Antilles
-Leia/Luke
-Boba Fett

and I'm not sure whether to be more surprised that my tiny pool noodle is at #5, or that L3 is so low in overall terms.

I mean, in part Solo was just...not a good movie, but L3 won a place in my heart despite that.
primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
Rank and File (3279 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks
Summary: Lando wears as many layers as ever. Some of his old uniforms and capes no longer fit, but the same bright colors are always in fashion, stark blues and resplendent yellows. There is always more than enough to cover up the text on his wrist.

Aristocrats in Foxholes (1288 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bail Organa/Breha Organa
Characters: Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Han Solo
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alderaan lives, Secret Test of Character, MayThe4th Treat
Summary: Bail and Breha live to see the destruction of the Death Star--and their daughter's unusual choice of companions.

Lullaby (1432 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: discussion of suicide, Interspecies Awkwardness, Trust Goes Both Ways, MayThe4th Treat
Summary: There are a lot of contingencies Cassian has prepared for, but K-2 can still catch him off-guard.

The General's New Planet (7395 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Poe Dameron/Armitage Hux
Characters: Poe Dameron, Armitage Hux, Finn (Star Wars), Kylo Ren
Additional Tags: MayThe4th Treat, Crack Treated Seriously, Tauntauns, Fusion, Alternate Universe - The Emperor's New Groove
Summary: Infiltrate a secret First Order base, destroy their plans, save the galaxy, find true love. All in a day's work for Poe Dameron.

He just hadn't figured on the tauntauns.

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I haven't consumed any of the secondary canon featuring Kes Dameron so I'm wary of making him too prominent a character at the risk of getting him OOC. But he popped up for cameos in both of my Poe fics. :)

Apparently the Rogue One visual dictionary mentions that Cassian and the other agents carry suicide "lullaby" pills in their uniforms and there is not enough fic for my angst-loving self??

My recip also prompted Disney fusions and Emperor's New Groove is one of my favorites, so I gave it a try. I figured it would either be very funny or ripped to shreds, thankfully it's been received well (so far). I guess shred-rippers aren't into Poe/Hux anyway (which was a surprisingly large ship, over 400 works on Ao3! Though apparently a lot of those are multi-ships, it's still eligible for the "rare male slash" exchange which is starting up.)
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I wrote two fics for the time travel exchange Past Imperfect, Future Unknown!

The Manipulation (3210 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rachel (Animorphs), Marco (Animorphs)
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Non-Time Traveller POV, Iskoort
Summary: All the Animorphs have secrets to keep. But Marco seems even more secretive than normal, and his secrets hold promise--or peril.

Grave Accents (1540 words) 
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mace Windu, Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Extra Treat
Summary:

In retrospect, Mace decided, it had mostly been Qui-Gon’s fault. He was measured enough not to blame the master for the entire state of affairs; after all, it was not Qui-Gon but chance or the will of the Force that had brought young Leia to Jedha.

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Post-canon Marco goes back to his younger self (and body) to diverge the Animorphs' future; young Leia accidentally goes back to the PT era and becomes Mace's Padawan.

I feel like a lot of time travel stories (including these!) can find themselves wanting to be epics, and explain every divergence and the ripple effects...and that's not the kind of story I can write as an exchange gift with a fixed timeframe. (Or possibly ever, given my energy levels. :p ) So it winds up being like just a few "snippets from this universe," which I hope doesn't leave with a "but it ended just when it was getting good! :(" feeling. If so, sorry!

(I have a few self-indulgent and poorly thought out headcanons from down the line of "Grave Accents," but no idea how to explain what happens in the immediate aftermath.)
primeideal: Wooden chessboard. Text: "You may see all kinds of human emotion here. I see nothing other than a simple board game." (chess musical)
 The mayor of Merano says "come to us and feel the force." Star Wars crossover confirmed. 
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Stars Keep The Watch (5117 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 16/16
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Ficlet Collection
Summary:

Ficlets for Star Wars Advent Calendar prompts.

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Basically what it says on the tin, mishmash of many characters and eras!

I'll be going out of town with my family soon, may check in, but in case I don't get to it for a while--assortment of Yuletide fics (and one non-Yuletide mystery one) should be revealed soon. Several new fandoms and styles for me. Stay tuned! :)

primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
Posting here to get back into the groove, and because it's easier to post links :p

The Noble Tale of the Force Tree (4866 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars), Enfys Nest
Additional Tags: Fusion, Alternate Universe - Arthurian Setting
Summary:

When the soldiers of the Rebel Alliance embark on a quest, Cassian called Andor grapples with moral dilemmas and daring marauders alike.

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Cassian/Enfys was the ship I came out of Rogue One wanting--child soldiers! Sad parallels!--and I'm glad I got a chance to write for it here! My recip suggested Arthurian settings as a general like so I riffed (very indirectly) on the tale of the Grail quest (Vagon, the name of one of the moons, is a castle in the Malory source). K-2 almost wound up taking over the fic, I had to work to get to the shippy part.



Where We Want To Care (2404 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest, K-2SO/L3-37
Characters: K-2SO (Star Wars), L3-37 (Star Wars), Enfys Nest, Cassian Andor
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Matchmaking
Summary: When Cassian is too busy with the Rebellion to admit his feelings, K-2SO takes matters into his own hands. Or tries to.
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Epistolary shenanigans with droids!

Maelstroms (3110 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Autistic Bodhi Rook
Summary: Surviving the Death Star (or two) is one challenge. Figuring out how to live in the galaxy is another.
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Bodhi character study and eventual Bodhi/Lando. I'm autistic so it was an interesting challenge to try to imagine some of Bodhi's canon traits in that light, while (hopefully) not being too issue-ficcy. I think I struck a balance?

Fortunate Harvest (3779 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rey (Star Wars)/Original Character(s)
Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Caretaker(s) (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Lanai - Freeform, Ahch-To, Alien Culture, Extra Treat
Summary:

Luke wasn't the only one Rey met on Ahch-To.


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Rey/OC Caretaker. Even though Luke isn't really "on-screen" in this fic it sort of turned into an outsider POV on him, and how the Lanai might see him, which also pushes back a little at some of the TLJ parts that didn't really appeal to me.

I didn't think it would be a good idea to go into it but I now headcanon the Lanai as speaking an "ergative-absolutative language" (like Basque) so their ideas about agency and taking action are a little off-kilter. ;)

primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
Thank you very much for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on ao3. I love all these ships and am excited for whatever you write (requesting fic for all), feel free to use as little or as much as this as is helpful, and/or mix and match prompts.
 
Things that would be fun to see for any ship: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama--I'm fine with character death), nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, "Backstroke of the West," "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" verse), time travel, five things, canon-divergence AUs
 
General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, underage sex, rape/non-con. If something relies on knowledge of secondary canon (except the Rogue One novelization), I'm afraid I probably won't understand the allusions. I prefer no AUs that are mundane in the sense of humdrum, but if you have an idea for these ships that brings out the fantastic and hopeful themes of Star Wars in somewhere equally dramatic but a different setting, feel free to go crazy. And while I like most unconventional fic formats I'm not a big fan of plain second-person prose.
 
Cassian/Tivik
-They had a long and complicated history together that came to a head on Kafrene.
-Tivik joins the organized rebellion (or Cassian joins the Partisans?) so they can be together, but their conflicting ideologies take a toll.
-Tivik survives but is captured by the Imperials, and thinks back on his relationship with Cassian.
 
Lando/Poe
-They don't understand how each other could be so incredibly wrong about some subjective point of spacecraft comparison and get into stupidly petty arguments about it.
-BB-8 decides that if Poe keeps losing terribly at sabacc, it's time to take matters into its own digits and find an algorithm to help turn the tables.
-Lando plays a Lor San Tekka-type role, having some clue that could help lead to Luke at the beginning of The Force Awakens, and Poe tries tracking him down then. What changes, what doesn't? (Please no past Lando/Luke.)
 
Bodhi/Misurno
-Misurno calls Bodhi his best, and only, friend after a couple drinks. One thing leads to another, and they realize they're more than friends. (In vino veritas revelations are great! I'd prefer not "too drunk to consent" though!)
-Misurno and Bodhi get lost on their hyperspace route and are stranded on an alien planet, needing to trust in each other to survive.
-Bodhi survives Scarif only to encounter Misurno on the opposite side of the war.

Lando/Master Codebreaker
-A high-stakes game of chance.
-Lando doesn't even like cryptography, but he can't resist the chance to beat the Codebreaker at his own game.
-When one of them owes the other a favor, they expected to be pay in credits--not secret missions for the Resistance.

Maz Kanata/Master Codebreaker
-What made Maz so confident that the Codebreaker could help Finn and Rose out?
-Maz has outlived a lot of people. Is this just a short-term fling for her? How does she cope with human lifespans?
-I think outsider POV could be very amusing; they're both notorious creatures across the galaxy, so when they get together, do gossipers completely misunderstand the circumstances?
 
Jyn Erso/Paige Tico
Finn/Bodhi Rook
 
So for both of these, I'd be interested in something building from this alternate ending to Rogue One where some of the protagonists carbon-freeze themselves to escape the Empire...and don't get thawed out till decades later. Are they relieved at the success of the rebellion? Disappointed it's all starting over? How (if at all?) do their new friends/lovers help them get adjusted into the new world?
 
I'd also be happy with any kind of time travel/Force ghost shenanigans!
 
-Bodhi meets FN-2187 before his defection and tries to convince him there's another way.
-Jyn and Paige both struggle with the balance between protecting the people closest to them and the big picture.
 
Toryn Farr/Leia Organa
 
-Bonding over being some of the few military women in the rebellion. (Feel free to make this cracky/self-aware, but I'd prefer not too "issueficcy.")
-Leia appreciates having someone who treats her as an equal, not a princess.
-How would Bespin or Endor have been different if Toryn was there?
 
Cassian Andor/Enfys Next
-Child soldiers who both gave their lives to the rebellion.
-When they try to spend time with the other's faction, small differences prove to be annoying.
-Swoop bikes make for very dangerous, if exciting, date nights. 
 
Kaydel Ko Connix/Tallissan Lintra
Tallissan Lintra/Paige Tico
 
Tallie was one of my favorite parts of a TLJ rewatch. Feel free to bring the angst!
 
-Legends of the Alliance made civil war sound a lot more glorious than it really is.
-Survivor's guilt, over the short or long term.
-If Paige and/or Tallie had lived, would they have supported the coup?
 
Lando Calrissian/L3-37
K-2SO/L3-37
 
*For L3 fic set post-Solo, I'd prefer that if you have her conscious mind in the Falcon, that she's okay with it and able to communicate somehow. Pre-Solo fic and/or actual death are also welcome, of course!

Lando/L3
-One of them changes the other's mind about some controversial issue. Lando taking a stand for droid rights? L3 seeing things his way?
-If L3 had lived, how would that impact the OT era?
-Heist shenanigans!

K-2/L3
-They disagree, loudly, about how or if droid rebellion should fit into the wider rebellion.
-One or both was surprised to find *that* model of droid acting like they did.
-Awkward double-dates with Cassian and Lando.
 
Organic Droid Rights Activist/Droid Who Doesn't Trust Their Intentions
Space Hippie/Trigger-Happy Assassin Droid
 
I think these should be both fairly self-explanatory. Go nuts.
 
Rey/Aaron Burr (Hamilton)
 
*I don't care when or where this is set; the Star Wars galaxy would be great, but if you have something in mind featuring Rey in the musical era, feel free!
 
-Broody, introspective Burr and Rey who has no time for his angst
-What does legacy mean to both of them? Rey comes from nothing, and Aaron has his parents' reputations to uphold.
-They're trapped in some kind of transportation, and one of their companions is murdered! ;)
 
Feel free to bring in any other characters you'd like from both canons, particularly ones you think could work well in a crossover-style setting.
 
Again, no obligation to use any of this, just on the chance it sparks your interest. Anything about these ships would be cool to see. May the force be with you! :)
primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)
 Thank you very much for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on ao3. I love all these ships and am excited for whatever you write (requesting fic for all), feel free to use as little or as much as this as is helpful.
 
Things that would be fun to see for any ship: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama--I'm fine with character death), nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, "Backstroke of the West," "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" verse), time travel, five things, canon-divergence AUs
 
General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, underage sex, rape/non-con* (except where as noted). If something relies on knowledge of secondary canon (except the Rogue One novelization), I'm afraid I probably won't understand the allusions. I prefer no AUs that are mundane in the sense of humdrum, but if you have an idea for these ships that brings out the fantastic and hopeful themes of Star Wars in somewhere equally dramatic but a different setting, feel free to go crazy. And while I like most unconventional fic formats I'm not a big fan of plain second-person prose.
 
Bail/Breha
-Alderaanian worldbuilding! How they fell in love in happier days before the empire.
-Fake-fake dating trope subversion; they're already married, but they still need to keep their rebellion affiliation undercover.
-Leia's Force powers manifest at an inconvenient time. The cover-up is awkward.
 
Cassian/Tivik
-They had a long and complicated history together that came to a head on Kafrene.
-Tivik joins the organized rebellion (or Cassian joins the Partisans?) so they can be together, but their conflicting ideologies take a toll.
-Tivik survives but is captured by the Imperials, and thinks back on his relationship with Cassian.
 
Lando/Poe
-They don't understand how each other could be so incredibly wrong about some subjective point of spacecraft comparison and get into stupidly petty arguments about it.
-BB-8 decides that if Poe keeps losing terribly at sabacc, it's time to take matters into its own digits and find an algorithm to help turn the tables.
-Lando plays a Lor San Tekka-type role, having some clue that could help lead to Luke at the beginning of The Force Awakens, and Poe tries tracking him down then. What changes, what doesn't? (Please no past Lando/Luke.)
 
Bodhi/Misurno
-Misurno calls Bodhi his best, and only, friend after a couple drinks. One thing leads to another, and they realize they're more than friends. (In vino veritas revelations are great! I'd prefer not "too drunk to consent" though!)
-Misurno and Bodhi get lost on their hyperspace route and are stranded on an alien planet, needing to trust in each other to survive.
-Bodhi survives Scarif only to encounter Misurno on the opposite side of the war.
 
Dice Ibegon/Lak Sivrak
-These two apparently were hanging out in the Mos Eisley Cantina the day Luke and the gang showed up. Are they regular customers? What does a day in the life at the cantina look like when protagonists aren't causing trouble?
-Alternatively, per Wookiepedia, Dice is an alliance loyalist who eventually convinces Lak (ex-Imperial) to join the Rebel cause. Tell me any part of that story!
-Years later, they realize what they saw and tell their grandchildren/passers-by "gosh, we met Ben Kenobi when he was still in exile..."
 
Lando Calrissian/Bor Gullet
-Lando chooses to make a very unusual deal to protect a friend.
-Nobody else can scratch the itch to sort through Lando's memories quite like the Bor Gullet, who seems to find it very pleasurable too.
-One of Lando's allies isn't able to trust him anymore. Lando offers to prove himself, but there are unintended consequences for everyone.
 
(My normal caveat about non-con doesn't really apply for this pairing; go as dark as you'd like, although I'd prefer something that's not unrelentingly bleak.)
 
Crossovers:
 
Maz Kanata/The Ellimist
-Long ago in a distant galaxy, both powerful creatures taught each other lessons about the ability to use their power for good.
-When the Ellimist needs a musical pick-me-up, he stops into Maz' bar just like everyone else.
-A single butterfly flaps its wings across the universe, and now Maz is in the wrong place and time, needing a shift in the cosmos to get home.
 
Maz Kanata/Visser Four
-Visser Four takes the Time Matrix back in time to Takodana, not knowing what he's gotten himself into.
-Maz the pirate has a time machine of her own, and stumbles into interfering with Visser Four's plans.
-They wind up creating a "pocket universe" where people and powers from various planets blend.
 
(For both crossover prompts, feel free to bring in any other characters you'd like from both canons, particularly ones you think could work well in a crossover-style setting. Also, given the potential for magical-style possession and power differentials, I'd be okay with some non-con type elements if you think the story really calls for it. Definitely not necessary though.)
 
 
Again, no obligation to use any of this, just on the chance it sparks your interest. Anything about these ships would be cool to see. May the force be with you! :)
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 Hi there! I'm also primeideal on Ao3. I wrote a couple treats for the original run of the exchange and was invited to leave prompts in case this inspires anyone else. Feel free to use as little or as much as this as is helpful.
 
Things that would be fun to see for any ship: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama--I'm fine with character death), nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, "Backstroke of the West," "William Shakespeare's Star Wars," verse), time travel, five things, canon-divergence AUs
 
General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, underage sex, rape/non-con. If something relies on knowledge of secondary canon, I'm afraid I probably won't understand the allusions. I prefer no AUs that are mundane in the sense of humdrum, but if you have an idea for these ships that brings out the fantastic and hopeful themes of Star Wars in somewhere equally dramatic but a different setting, feel free to go crazy. And while I like most unconventional fic formats I'm not a big fan of plain second-person prose.
 
Bail/Breha
-Alderaanian worldbuilding! How they fell in love in happier days before the empire.
-Fake-fake dating trope subversion; they're already married, but they still need to keep their rebellion affiliation undercover.
-Leia's Force powers manifest at an inconvenient time. The cover-up is awkward.
 
Finn/Rey
-Finn is embarrassed by his legendary status among the growing ranks of subversive/defecting stormtroopers. Rey thinks it's adorable.
-Finn is terrified of being "reformatted" back to FN-2187 and asks Rey to kill him rather than let him be taken alive if it comes to that. Does she fail, follow through, or do they find another way out?
-Something transplanting the dynamic of them fighting in different ways, but always watching each other's back, to another setting.
 
Lando/Poe
-They don't understand how each other could be so incredibly wrong about some subjective point of spacecraft comparison and get into stupidly petty arguments about it.
-BB-8 decides that if Poe keeps losing terribly at sabacc, it's time to take matters into its own digits and find an algorithm to help turn the tables.
-Poe draws the short straw and has to tell Lando about Han's death.
 
Owen/Beru
-Luke sarcastically asked for a droid who could speed up time and get him off Tatooine. Little did he know that Owen and Beru had purchased a time-travelling droid in C-3PO. Life is about to get interesting.
-An AU where they raise Leia and/or Bail and Breha raise Luke/some other permutation in the twins' upbringings.
-Outsider POV on the events of the prequel trilogy (or vice versa, other prequel-trilogy characters' POV on their relationship).
 
Again, no obligation to use any of this, just on the chance it sparks your interest. Anything about these ships would be cool to see. May the force be with you! :)

Dear Yoda

Feb. 17th, 2016 06:31 pm
primeideal: Multicolored sideways eight (infinity sign) (Default)
Very grateful to you for writing for me, I am!

I love the grand themes of Star Wars, with its sweeping scope of good and evil on galactic scale. And I love all these characters, who aren't completely committed to one single regime throughout their lives but who make choices that matter and through their lives, gradually or decisively, move in hopeful directions. I'd love to read about anything that brings out these themes, explicitly or implicitly. I chose single characters rather than preset relationships because I'd rather you have the freedom to make unexpected connections--set a story in an era we didn't see onscreen or bring in other characters if you'd like! (I'm not familiar with most secondary canon, though.)

General likes: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama), gen, friendship, enemy-ness. I'm also fine with total crack, so if you want to write something with a really nonstandard format (I've listed a couple examples before) go nuts.

General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, rape/non-con.

Here are just a few suggestions for each character to get an idea for the range of plots I'd be interested in, really anything goes.

Anakin:
  • Vader and his subordinates on the Death Star. Could be bureaucratic humor, or maybe he's impressed by Leia's unyielding under torture...sensing her potential?
  • Force-ghost Anakin trains Rey in the ways of the Jedi
  • Backstroke of the West-inspired silliness
  • Any stage of the Anakin/Padme relationship would be great (no other romantic relationships for him, please)

Lando:

  • How Han got the Millennium Falcon from Lando
  • Vader first convinces Lando to set a trap at Cloud City
  • 5 (or some other number) of responsibilities Lando conned people out of, and one he didn't
  • Lando and Poe work together on a project for the struggling republic (gen or shippy)

Finn:

  • JB-007 and Finn work on the same sanitation unit
  • BB-8 helps Finn decode some First Order messages
  • Finn and Rey's wedding night involves unceremoniously kicking Chewbacca out of the Millennium Falcon
  • A William Shakespeare's Star Wars-style retelling of any Finn scene in The Force Awakens
Like I said, don't feel compelled to use these, just if they're helpful as jumping-off points. Anything that involves these characters confronting good, evil, or hopes old and new will make my day. Thanks in advance for whatever you come up with,  and of course, may the force be with you!
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 So, at a boardgaming convention this weekend I got to play an RPG called The Trial of Lando Calrissian! Amazing experience.
 
I'm a fairly novice tabletop gamer. I have done some one-shot games, which is what this is--you're given a ready-made sheet with your character on it, including their statistics (which are used in dice rolls) and some general facts about them. So they don't improve over time and aren't used for multiple sessions, but I got the feeling this session was looking for relatively experienced players. So I put my name down as a backup the day before and didn't get my hopes up. But when the time came, only three other players had showed out of a maximum of six, so in I went!
 
The setting was a few years before Empire Strikes Back: Lando has been arrested for the murder of a mining guild representative. We all played different characters who knew Lando from his days as a scoundrel and showed up when we heard about the big-deal trial. I was Lirin Carn, a wandering musician/alien who played a clarinet-type deal. We also had a charmer type, a space pirate, and a coercive sort...both of the latter two were good hackers. We all had our own obligation ("Lando is groovy") and motivation ("Dig that Lando vibe") for helping out on the case, even if at first our characters didn't believe his weak protestations of innocence.
 
Lirin began investigating by asking who stood the most to gain from Lando's arrest--who was the new administrator? Serafina? Could she be behind it? Then Lirin went with the charmer, Tarax, to a casino owned by a Hutt involved in a crime syndicate. After trying to make some awkward small talk with the locals ("I'm from off-planet, what's up with this murder case?" "Do you start all your conversations this way?") Lirin finally learned that the so-called miners weren't really miners at all.
 
Meanwhile, the other two were returning to the scene of the crime, and encountering a droid. "Can I charm the droid into talking to us?" asked the coercive character. "No," explained the GM, "your character doesn't have any of that skill. "Aw, man! I'll have to threaten it instead! Give us all the info or we'll destroy you!" After a very lucky dice roll, the droid complied easily, and we got some unedited footage of the crime scene--a bright blue astromech droid was there at the time of the murder, too.
 
The dice were one thing it took me a while to understand. To accomplish something that took luck, we'd roll some number of special green dice; if we had a lot of skill in that area, we could swap in green to yellow dice as indicated on our character sheet. Mixed in with that, we would roll purple dice that were weighted against us at the GM's discretion--more purple dice were assigned for harder task. He'd also give us white dice to represent narrative advantages that we had on our side, and black dice to represent disadvantages for us. All of this made sense, but then when the symbols came up there would be some "successes" and "failures" that canceled each other out as well as "advantages" and "threats" that carried over into the future of the story (which we'd all ad-lib). So everyone else recognized these symbols, but I was just throwing dice down and going "great, tell me what this means."
 
Tarax, Lirin's buddy at the bar, decided to play a game of sabacc with the Hutt owner, betting his ship for information. "Okay, some green and yellow dice for you, purple dice for the Hutt...plus black disadvantages since it's his home turf. Plus more if he cheats. Hmm, plus more advantages since you're working the crowd and getting them on your side, more since they hate the Hutt too, he's interrupting their games!" Sadly, he lost his ship, but the Hutt confirmed the information anyway--the "miners guild" was a cover story.
 
So we all met up at the hotel room where we had information that the droid's owners might be registered, but it seemed uninhabited. The coercer decided to continue along the threatening lines, tyrannizing a housekeeper until she gave up information. This led us to a spaceship. We split up there; Lirin and one of the others found a droid transmitter hidden in the cargo bay, while the other two took over the ship. When some mooks came onboard, our guys bluffed that they were going to zap them with radiation poisoning from the vents.
 
So the mooks confessed that they were actually not mining guild representatives, but rather, working for the new leader of the "delegation," on behalf of the former administrator, who wanted their job back. The questionable leader of the Cloud City police assured us that he'd take it from there, and that we needed to exit the spaceship.
 
It seemed like our job wasn't completely done, though, since the droid on the transmitter had told us that it was on a gas refinery a little ways out of the city, then abruptly gone silent. We decided we should not tell the authorities, but rather handle this ourselves. The coercer was extremely paranoid and kept double-checking that the coast was clear, refusing to move until the loading dock was totally empty. Since we were alone, we hailed a pair of cloud cars and took off. Lirin has no qualifications either to shoot or fly anything (the other three, minus Tarax who'd gambled his away, all had their own private spaceships), so just sat down at the "gunnery" station on one of the cars with the qualified pilot.
 
At that point, we were trailed by five more cloud cars, and combat began! Our car was carrying the droid transmitter, and we had no ability to shoot behind. It seemed like the best thing to do was for the other car to make an unexpectedly heroic move (scoundrels, remember), turn around and start shooting at the pursuers, giving us time to speed ahead and hopefully make it to the refinery. Combat is accomplished by a different system of rolling dice--first everyone "rolls for initiative" to see who'll get lucky and get to act first. Then we act and see who gets a hit, taking damage, or who gets a "critical hit" that can inflict lots of random damage in one go.
 
While the other cloud car took out one of the five pursuers, that left four attacking them, and they damaged our allies pretty badly. Three continued to fight them, while only one zoomed onward to fight us. While the other cloud car was left to plummet onto some weird sky-jellyfish things, we had to make a controlled crash into the refinery. "Okay, you have this many green and yellow dice in piloting...lots of purple, very hard. Disadvantage is you've just been shot and are reeling. Do you have anything else going for you?" "I ca play some inspirational music on my kloo-horn?" *has already exhausted "Cantina Band," tries "May The Force Be With You"* "Sure, we'll call that an advantage."
 
So somehow, through luck or a kind GM, we don't die, and break into the office space at the refinery. There, we find the "victim" of the murder! We take him hostage, and as we proceed, run into some minions. My partner and I both had useful special abilities, though; theirs was to suffer some "strain" (like wound damage, it's something that seems to have a maximum threshold, but I don't think anyone else took any), in order to reroll her initiative rolls. This gave her a better chance at getting the first strike in in a fight. As for Lirin? Once per fight, he could dazzle people with his kloo horn and disorient people for two rounds! So we had a head start in bolting past them to yet another spaceship. I did sustain some damage along the way, losing 7 of my maximum 12 hit points...but also took out one of the mooks. By bashing them with the kloo horn. :D
 
Finally, on the spaceship, we confronted the droid and the old administrator who was behind the scheme. Again, Lirin tried distracting him, while the space pirate maneuvered down to drag the fight towards his own cargo hold and lock him in there. Our friends showed up, with their cloud car being towed by the tractor beam of the previous spaceship we'd found. And justice was restored. :)
 
All in all, an awesome time, and I'm really glad I did it. Other than interpreting the dice rolls (and they tried to teach me what it meant at the end again), I didn't feel that out of my depth--a little quiet and unsure "what should a scoundrel do" sometimes, but definitely worth it.
 
Here's a picture of my character sheet and a map of one of the spaceships with our dudes running around it.

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