Chocolate Box Reveals + Fic: The Long Way Round

[thisbluespirit]

So, chocolateboxcomm has revealed and I can finally talk to the world again! When I signed up, I offered Padme/Obi-Wan (as I've done for a few exchanges where it's been an option) and then discovered I needed to offer two relationships, hovered on the point of deleting that offer (because I've never written proper SW fic!) but then added in Padme & Obi-Wan as well... and guess what I was assigned?

The long and the short of it is, I wrote Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon master and apprentice fic for dragonlingdar, since I liked their prompts, and, why not?

So... then I rewatched the Prequels, inadvertently had overdue fictional catharsis and broke through something, except I apparently also broke through my carefully constructed 15 yr old "I don't have SW Prequel Feels" dam, and I do have feels, okay. I've written 25k overall in three weeks, my tumblr draft folder has gone up to 100+ Prequel reblogs I was trying not to drive away all my followers with. (I have 57, which is very much not a lot on tumblr. I don't want to lose them and they mostly came for the vampire gifsets and not Obi-Wan Kenobi). ( I've been trying to pretend I was just having a bit of a resurrection of Padme/Obi-Wan feels, and be casual ever since. It's a lie. Send help. Or more beautiful gif sets. Either will do. /o\)

Anyway, that has very little to do with this fic, which was fun to write even if it had me permanently on Wookieepedia, checking everything and learning that every single pre-canon idea I had for early Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon has already been done. At which point, I decided I could write a bland missing scene, default, or just damn the EU and write all the ideas up into a five times fic, so obv. I did the latter. (It is one of those stories, though, where this is totally not what it was going to be when I started out and I'm still not sure what happened to that story. It just... went somewhere along the way?)

(The irony of this being the time that I finally got to watch Good Omens was also pretty funny, after waiting all that time and hoping I'd feel fannish about it like everyone else in the universe my flist. Yeah. Somewhere in between being drowned in my pent up Prequel feelings, I may have had an actual feel, like, once in episode 4? I enjoyed it very much otherwise, though. But the thing about stories is it's the right thing that comes at the right time for you, and what that may be and if it will come at all is unpredictable.)

But I wrote a little real SW fic and didn't die even though I put Yoda in it. And then I wrote more, including two treats I'll post later. (Although none of them have Captain Janeway and Obi-Wan on a coffee heist, so I will never again reach the heights of glory of my first attempt (but crossovers can never count fully). ;-p)

The Long Way Round (4386 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: 5 Times, Jedi, Pre-Canon, Master & Padawan Relationship(s), Lightsabers, Hurt/Comfort, Crash Landing
Summary: Five steps forward in a Master & Padawan relationship.

Comments

[lirazel]

I'm kind of delighted by this story of you stumbling into prequel feels! And I had the exact same reaction to Good Omens.

[liadt]

Aw, keep feeling the feels whatever fandom it is in!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this, but mostly happy with a side order of My Life Is Ironic.

[thisbluespirit]

I will! My SW breakthrough brought back all the feels for some other things too! What can I say?

[shannonsequitur]

Between your sudden flood of prequel trilogy angst and my suddenly becoming an empath for everyone else’s sequel trilogy angst, we make quite a pair, don’t we?

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed! :-D

[theseatheseatheopensea]

But I wrote a little real SW fic and didn't die even though I put Yoda in it.

OK, I laughed.

I finally sat down to read this (my "kudosed for later" list is embarrassing!) and I'm so glad I did, because I loved it. Even if it's giving me SW feels. I swear I don't have any SW feels. I really, really don't ;)

[thisbluespirit]

OK, I laughed.

Yoda is hard! I am so, so used to being able to mimic speech patterns as long as I watch/rewatch/read whatever fandom it is close to writing it without a problem, that finding myself screeching to a half every time Yoda came to speak was a shock. And I'd watched the Prequels twice each in a row + the OT and thought it'd be fine! It was not. :lol:

And, aw, thanks! I have a bookmarklet thing and it may have rather a lot of things tagged "to read" on it. I may get around to them all someday now I have more reading brain again, though! <3

[liadt]

The fic force within you is strong!

[thisbluespirit]

For the next two minutes anyway. ;-)

♥

[arcanetrivia]

my tumblr draft folder has gone up to 100+ Prequel reblogs I was trying not to drive away all my followers with. (I have 57, which is very much not a lot on tumblr. I don't want to lose them and they mostly came for the vampire gifsets and not Obi-Wan Kenobi).

LOL. I had a moment (where moment = about 2 years) like that when I got into DW and David Tennant and Takin' Over the Asylum, where I was like but but but, these people came for the Harry Potter and misc faery/forest/stars/general geeky stuff, not a flood of that. It sounds like we might have done the same thing: rather than queueing up all that flood I put it in drafts and carefully titrated it out over every 4-5 queue posts or something until it wasn't so much of a firehose. #reblog all the campbell things apparently

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, pretty much like that!