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The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. Woman is given one year to live and proceeds to make choices that horrify her stuffy society family! This was fun and cleverly written and I feel a strong need to write a Star Wars fic inspired by it which is maybe mildly insane of me--the vibes are very different--but also is just life in fandom. Will see if the muse holds.

Speaking of Star Wars, I watched Skeleton Crew and it was very cute! I feel like I heard almost nothing about it and I wasn't going to watch it but I'm glad I decided to. Space kids accidentally going off on space pirate adventures! I'd be interested to see a season 2 because they left several things half open but the season also worked as a good stand-alone.

Some enjoyable WIPs as we all quarantine. I love the feeling of seeing an email update for a WIP I'm reading. I like to have at least one at all times to look forward to. Right now I have three.


you're in my blood like holy wine by magneticwave | Game of Thrones | Sansa/Jon
Regency AU. Sansa is my favorite and she's amazing in this. Her political calculation is *chef's kiss*. Fabulously written. Warning for references to rape.

All Amok by WerewolvesAreReal | Star Trek | Gen, Spock
SPOCK! I love angsty Spock fic, okay? I genuinely thought for several chapters that this was written by kianspo who I also subscribe to and who wrote Don't Stop Believing and I was shocked when I realized it was written by WerewolvesAreReal who I followed for awesome Temeraire fic. And now for awesome Star Trek fic. Spock takes drastic measures when he finds he won't be able to make it back to Vulcan for pon farr. Warning for suicide attempt and suicidal ideation.

Asunder. by outpastthemoat | Star Wars Jedi Apprentice | Qui-Gon/Tahl, Obi-Wan
I actually haven't read the Jedi Apprentice series but I read so much Star Wars Prequels fic referencing it that I feel like I have and I love Jedi Master Tahl by osmosis. Qui-Gon doesn't die, but he still leaves Obi-Wan behind. Melancholy but hopeful.


And I may actually post part of my Gimli/Legolas Lord of the Rings WIP which is so close to being done--please let me finish it, I don't care about the plot holes anymore--for motivation and I almost never post WIPs.

Challenge #11: – Recommend a fannish or creative resource

All the Star Wars planets and where they are in the galaxy! I've been making up planet names for a fic and just having this list is so much better. Although, sometimes I get sucked into it too far.


Also, keyboard short cuts are fabulous. I use some of the basic ones in Google Docs so I think they translate outside of Word.

And I just figured out yesterday how to add emojis on tumblr: Command + Control + Spacebar. (This may still be a weird way, and possibly Mac specific.) Also seems to work for AO3 comments which I think support emojis now.

Title: your kiss is cosmic
Rating: T
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Characters: CC-2224|Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Pairings: Cody/Obi-Wan
Word Count: 4700
Warnings: None
Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary: The new general stepped off the docking ramp and raised his head to look over the troopers of the 212th waiting at attention. General Kenobi’s eyes were blue Cody noted distantly as something deep in his chest rang clear and sonorous as a bell.


For maythe4thbewithyou!

space_swap - Fic/art/vid/etc swap for all kinds of space fandoms! Sign ups until Feb 17 and due date in April. I don't do the swap part of exchanges much anymore because I don't like the pressure of potentially defaulting on a gift for someone and I'd rather go through the requests and pick something I'd really like to write than risk matching poorly but there is a treat option so I'm keeping an eye on the request list https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SpaceSwap2019/requests?sort_column=fandom&sort_direction=ASC

romancingmcshep - I can't believe it is Feb 12 and I still haven't finished my fic!! Luckily it looks like the start date for posting is Feb 14 and not the deadline so technically I have a couple more weeks. But as with any time I have a deadline, all my inspiration is now for something completely different.

( What I'm Watching - Star Wars: Clone Wars - Seasons 1 & 2 )

( What I'm Writing - Star Wars Prequels )

snowflake_challenge Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Yes! I love reccing!

The Uses of a Sandwich by laurakaye [Star Wars Prequels, Gen]
A few months after being taken as a Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi faces a challenge: meeting his Master's first apprentice.
This is a lovely story of kid Obi-Wan growing up with Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon's first, now-knighted padawan has some concerns, expresses those concerns poorly, and then there is self-recrimination and healing. I think Obi-Wan deserved this big sister in his found family.

Small Kindness by Elsajeni [The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, Gen]
Fili gives a little snort, as if he doesn't believe that, but he doesn't press any further, either. Instead, he hands the crumpled note back through the bars and says, "Burn that, will you? And..." Another moment's pause; then the dwarf seems to make up his mind. "And come back and speak to me, if—"
"If I hear any more word of your uncle," Legolas finishes for him.
Fili grins, teeth glinting white in the darkness. "If you've a mind to," he says, "news or no news."
A poignant and perfect bridge between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I'm very sad that Legolas and Fili and Kili didn't get time to be friends.

By daybreak we'll be gone by storm_petrel [The Losers, Jensen/Cougar]
Once you go into the woods, you don’t come back out again; or, how Franklin Clay got himself a pack.
The one where they're all werewolves except Jensen and that causes problems right up until it doesn't anymore. I've read this at least half a dozen times.

I actually don't think I've commented on some of these and I should go do that. I also need to finish up Yuletide reading and get some recs out for that as well!