ExtraPenguin

11. Relationships that you currently like a lot. (They don't have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

Okay! Hm. Well, let's skim through a few things. I like more things than I name here, and since I already talked a bit about my / ships in my SW Rare Pairs letter, I'm mostly concentrating on & relationships. A lot of my fannishness is setting, worldbuilding, and solo characters, so with my current interests the relationships section is just Star Wars. /only moderately incoherent

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker
One of my big likes is Good mentor figures/teachers who have their students' best interests at heart and succeed. This is not that. This is Obi-Wan Kenobi's B+ to D- Parenting, Anakin and Obi-Wan's complicated relationship where Obi-Wan's best wasn't actually good enough but now that he's a Knight, Anakin has forgiven him for it because Anakin's issues are around losing people, so of course he wants to keep his brother/dad. Based on the movies and TCW, their relationship didn't really get good until after Anakin was Knighted, and I have discovered I really like the whole Thing about complex mentor-mentee/parent-child relationships and their fallout now that the junior partner is an adult. I also like the Obi-Wan/Anakin version for extra explosions! A lot of people would suddenly find a need to ask Anakin some very concerned questions, and the fallout would be excellent.

Female Jedi Exile & Bao-Dur
Loyalty kink! What more need I say? I am 100% here for the loyal subordinate who's here for his General. I liked how he was integrated in the narrative and the central mystery of WTF went on with the Exile pre-canon. Also the mutual loyalty, where this is someone the Exile will just grab and trust unconditionally, and how their conversations were less the standard video game "hi who the fuck are you" type and more like eavesdropping on a pair of old friends conversing. It's a feeling I rarely get and I absolutely loved it.

Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano
The Clone Wars was very good for my appreciation of padawan raising schmoop. Anakin is young and has little clue what he's doing, but he's trying his best (and was already Knighted, did not just traumatically lose his father figure, and did not start out resenting his future padawan) and mostly succeeds! I liked seeing how Ahsoka went out with other people as well and ended up better integrated in the community.

...okay, two of the above were perhaps more about the canon than the relationship, but you get what I mean! Also I said I'd concentrate on gen stuff. I lied. Though I'll restrict myself to the rarer of my rarepairs.

Anakin Skywalker/Mace Windu
Anakin has a Thing for authority. He 100% has had some confusing sexual thoughts for Mace. Mace, OTOH, probably didn't think about Anakin that way, but he does canonically enjoy combat/fighting (like Anakin), and definitely deserves to have a hot young Knight give him a back massage. Couple that with Anakin's service kink, and it is a travesty that this ship has <10 fics on AO3.

Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash
See above wrt padawan raising schmoop, except this is the evil version where the apprentice gets a spaceship as reward for murdering the master's enemies. Zash was so exuberantly affectionate with the Inquisitor that I couldn't help but be charmed, and then came the delicious betrayal and body theft attempt. (Also part of why I was so salty about KOTFE/KOTET – it was a total ripoff of the Sith Inquisitor plotline, except the Sith Inquisitor plot did it better.) Even after that, though, there were the cute conversations where Zash said she liked the Inquisitor enough she almost didn't go through with it. It's simultaneously fucked up and sweet and I love it! I want them to be evil Siths together forever.

(list of questions)

Because as I said, I write in two arcs, mostly, and dealing with a whole year's crop is too much. An even more pared-down version of isis's 2016 in review post, this time with just the fave lines/titles, plus the questions at the end. Also some misc blathering about all the fics I've written so far!

Current word count: 64838 words this half-year, which is way way more than in any of the full years prior to this, wtf. Spread over 8 fics. (Average ~8105 words per fic. Longest 31006, shortest 655, not gonna do a stats analysis of the distribution with only 8 items, sorry.)

( the stuff I wrote, thoughts on )

( questions! )