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This is crossposted from tumblr and Pillowfort, though I think I am planning on making this my main non-tumblr blog home since I have a new laptop and the RTE actually functions with this one!  For some reason, my old laptop never wanted to load the RTE properly and lemme tell you, it is HIGHLY irritating trying to work the HTML in the little bits of free time I've been able to spare and making a post on mobile... hasn't been the most convenient thing either.  But I am planning on making more of an effort to be more active on here (and backing up on Pillowfort, probably) because I miss fandom and it would be nice to have a journal to record fic thoughts and D&D thoughts and the like without shouting it into the void of tumblr.  That can certainly be useful for small posts, I think, but I really do appreciate the ability to friends-lock posts and have functional readmore cuts.

Anyway, enough about that!  I wrote and posted a new fic for the first time since, uhhhh, October 2018!  It was for the Rebelcaptain May 4 Fic Exchange.  It was my second year participating and was an interesting process... I spent a lot of time writing beginnings of things and then opening new, clean documents to start something completely different.  Finally, I was able to complete something related to the prompt I received!
 
The prompt was "reasons to celebrate, scars, reunion fic; she hung on so tightly she left her mark in you" -- and I think I got a decent amount of that in... certainly "scars" and "reunion fic".  My original thought was to have something with Cassian's POV reflecting on how Jyn's presence in his life has changed him, but the fic I wrote instead has some different ideas.  I'm interested in how the past affects the present, how we carry people and events with us.  So somewhere in there I tried to convey internal marks and scars, good and-- not bad, just haunting.
 
Anyway anyway, musing aside, here's the fic:
 
late night arrival [AO3 - rated T]
 
Back from a Pathfinder mission, the first person Jyn looks for is Cassian.

She missed him.
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Originally posted on Tumblr and can also be found on Pillowfort.

One morning I woke up from
a dream and suddenly shipped Cassian/Melshi in this very specific Friendly Exes way and now I have 1k's worth of ficlets.  The fic I should actually be writing is longer and in Melshi's POV and will actually feature Cassian/Melshi flashback content if I can get my shit together soon.

ancient history
[
Tumblr, AO3] - Melshi talks to Cassian about Jyn before a mission.

shovel talk [Tumblr, AO3] - Melshi and Jyn have a talk after said mission.

something about happiness [Tumblr, AO3] - Jyn and Cassian talk a little when Jyn and Melshi return from the mission.

And then the fic rec! 
vaultfox (jyner-sew) gifted me a ficlet for the raft featuring Jyn rescuing Melshi during Endor.  It's wonderful, I love it very much!  Go check out She likes you. on Tumblr and/or AO3!


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Originally posted on Pillowfort!  Before I became obsessed with Rogue One and The Last Jedi came out and depressed the hell out of me, I was working on a Rey + Luke Skywalker centric series.  I have every intention of eventually coming back to it, but for now there are two connected gen fics.  I'm still very partial to this first meeting between Luke and Rey.  [Full series on AO3]


PART 1 - rise at dawn and wake my sluggish heart [AO3]

Her body has stretched longer, thin with hunger and exhaustion, her skin rough with the scrape of metal, sand, and heat—but her hands still remember the last pattern her parents wove into her hair. That small, bright hope curls warm inside her and carries her through another day.

Rey-centric snapshots before, during, and after The Force Awakens.


PART 2 - we move lightly [AO3]

When Luke smiles at her, the corners of his eyes crinkle with laugh lines. Something about that feels like a gift.

An interlude. A couple of moments between Luke and Rey.

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