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A few months ago, I decided to add a tag for poetry. I thought it would be nice to make it easily searchable for those who might be specifically looking for poetry. And then, somehow, I forgot to make an announcement letting everyone know! So here it is: there is now a type: poetry tag to use if you so choose (it's not a requirement).

😁

asakiyume

If I need a friend I just give a wriggle,
Split right down the middle.
And when I look there's two of me,
Both as handsome as can be.
--from "A Very Cellular Song," by the Incredible String Band

Division takes a whole and splits it into parts, and those parts are necessarily smaller than the whole, increasingly smaller the larger the number of divisions ... unless, as with cellular mitosis, the divided parts grow, so that the two halves each become as big as the original whole was. If those two both divide and give us four that grow as big as the original, and then if the same happens at eight and sixteen and on and on, then pretty soon we've got a lot, maybe too much, a big mass, a big mess. We could end up like Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, flooded out by too many animated broomsticks lugging too many buckets of water, a cancer of servant broomsticks.

...These thoughts brought to you courtesy of glancing down at a newspaper and seeing this headline:

(In this case it's a transitive "divide" that's meant, not an intransitive one, but I was taken with the notion of a budget just mitosising away, burgeoning out of committee, expanding beyond the district--who knows what happens next.)

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Posted by Astera_Fandoms

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82342086

by Astera_Fandoms

At nineteen turning twenty, Bennett Drew or Bendy as he is referred is finding his place in the world with his brother, Boris finally gaining a purpose that wasn't filled with disappointment however the world would laugh in his face as he falls ill. With this illness blurring his vision, rumors of a machine, a machine to cure this blur would spread and the two would embark on a journey for it. For the ink machine however a few stand in their way being two hunters bounded by a debt ready to kill them as long as they get their lives spared.

Words: 4446, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82342086

ysabetwordsmith

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...

* Posted "Birdfeeding" in

birdfeeding.

* Commented on "News Article: Backyard Birdwatchers help scientists uncover what hawks really like to eat" in

birdfeeding.

* Posted "Earth Month" in

common_nature.

* Commented on "Nature Diary" in

common_nature.

Current Weather: busy

ranalore

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Current Location: snow on the ground classic easter week in utah

shadowhive

So I did go to the cinema today! Before I left I had a delivery though, of a Lego bunny set. Someone had put up instructions of Rocky from Project Hail Mary using the set and I totally caved to get it. (I built him tonight before this post, may post pics later)

In town I picked up some things mum wanted, feminine stuff she had vouchers for and the Lego Easter sets before going to the cinema.

I got the Mario Galaxy cup they had, which came with a keyring! I chose bowser which is pretty cool. (I got early because I knew how crazy the next days would likely be). Pics tomorrow in light. (They also had a popcorn tin but that seemed pricy and basic) After nomming some waffle fries I went up for the films.

But first, trailers! These were the same for both which makes sense given they were the same genre but it felt a shame there wasn’t even one different. They were:
Scary Movie: I’d seen this one before, it looks like it’ll be really funny and dumb, I’ve not seen the scary movie films for awhile so I’ll have to look them up
Passenger: Same trailer as before (well more a short scene) and I’m still super curious about it
Obsession: New trailer that I’d not seen. This one has made me jinda curious, especially how the woman’s face is always hidden which is kinda sus and intruiging
Hokum: new to me trailer, I’d seen another longer one which had made me curious, the vibes look really good
The Mummy: a different trailer than before, but I dunno I didn’t vibe with this one as much. I’ll still probably see it since I’ll be in town anyway
Undertone: I’m so sold on this one, cause I’m a sucker for haunted tech and thags the vibe I’m getting. Also the way it used the cinemas audio in the trailer alone makes me excite for it.

Before I get into them it is kinda funny that two films with similar themes came out so close to each other. They probably would have worked better not releasing as close but then maybe someone thought that’d capitalise on a double bill which… well it worked on me so I guess there’s a point there.

Thoughts under the cut for They Will Kill You then Ready Or Not Here I Come.

( Read more... )

Now though I’m gonna bundle up and tomorrow is gonna be a rest day, I might go out on Saturday to get the Lego make and take from The Entertainer and see Mario Galaxy and Arco but we’ll see. Plus the newly found Doctor Who eps go live tomorrow too.

Current Weather: thoughtful

mecurtin posting in

fandom_checkin

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, April 2, to midnight on Friday, April 3 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34440 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 13

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (69.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
4 (30.8%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
5 (38.5%)

One other person
4 (30.8%)

More than one other person
4 (30.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

china_shop

Article 48 [Restriction on Acceptance of Engagement] (7647 words) by china_shop [Teen and Up]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 당신이 잠든 사이에 | While You Were Sleeping (TV)
Relationships: Han Woo Tak/Jung Jae Chan/Nam Hong Joo
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Threesome - F/M/M, Getting Together, Prophetic Dreams, Found Family
Summary:
“Woo Tak, you haven’t left home yet, right?” Hong Joo’s voice comes down the line with the familiar confidence of long-standing friendship. “Don’t drive. You’ll get stuck in traffic, and you’ll miss your test.”
Woo Tak momentarily forgets his place in her life. His crush is usually manageable, but this morning, taken off-guard, he can’t suppress a kindling warmth, nor the smile that accompanies it. “Nam Hong Joo, have you been dreaming about me from all the way over in Australia?”

This request came up for pinch hit around the time I defaulted on Yuletide, and I thought, well, if I can't manage my assignment, I'll at least do a treat. Especially since I'd nominated While You Were Sleeping (one of my long-standing tiny Kdrama fandoms). But in the end, this foundered too. Turns out partners having operations is not great for my writing productivity.

So since mid-February (I think?!), I've been finishing the draft, re-writing, and re-re-writing. I came up against successive problems, and I want to document them here, because I know these issues are cropping up in my writing generally, of late.

Internal/external consistency: one of the big problems with my first few drafts was: Character A decides to do X and continues to believe they're doing X while actually doing Y. In other words, the external dialogue and actions contradict the internal monologue in a way that is not deliberate and just comes across as confusing and nonsensical. ("I've decided not to tell them how I feel... except that I keep hinting without acknowledging that.") I'm sure there are deliberate ways to do this that can be very effective. This was not that.

Solution: step outside the POV and look at what the character is actually doing. Then signpost reversals and the reasons for them.

Cue words/flow: one of Matt Bell's newsletters a while back quoted Robert McKee talking about cue words:
[E]very reaction[...] needs an action to prompt it.

Therefore, ideally, the last word or phrase of each speech is the core word that seals meaning and cues a reaction from the other side of the scene. [...] A miscue happens when a core word is placed too early in Character A’s line and prompts a reaction from Character B, but because Character A has more words to recite, Actor B must swallow her response and wait while Actor A finishes performing his speech.

In prose, this isn't just about external reaction, but internal reaction too. If the POV character's internal monologue isn't reacting to the last thing that happened/was said, then the reader is left scrambling to make connections with something that might have happened lines or paragraphs back, or which might not be there at all. I find I'm particularly prone to this when I have a lot of meta thoughts I'm trying to include in the POV's internal monologue.

Solution: restructure so that the reactions directly follow on from the thing that caused them, and make sure that meta thoughts flow naturally, each one prompted by the last, in a way that fits the overall arc/direction of the scene (keeping in mind that it's perfectly fine to have reversals).

Location of conversation/theory of mind: I've been finding lately that my POV characters often conduct a huge amount of the story just inside their heads, even when there's someone else there. They have all these thoughts and feelings to process! It's a lot! And then occasionally the other person says something, setting off a new cascade of thoughts and feelings. But most people have theories about what the people they're talking with are thinking, how they're feeling, what they're trying to achieve. Conversations, especially romantic ones, usually work better when the focus is shared between the POV character's internal thoughts, and their assessment of what is happening externally.

Solution: make the other party to the conversation more active. And make the POV character react to them, as well as their own internal stuff.

Direction/progress of scenes: I touched on this above, but it deserves its own point. Because I discovery write, I find it easy to take a very meandery path from the start of the scene to where I want to end up. In fanfic, this isn't fatal because we all enjoy spending time with our characters. But it can undercut tension and test readers' comprehension. It's something I want to work on.

Solution: structure scenes so that there's a sense of progress, with only one or two reversals, not flip-flopping every few paragraphs.

Anyway, things to think about. Things to work on. I'm super grateful to

teaotter for multiple beta rounds, helping me figure some of this stuff out. And I'm looking forward to applying these lessons to my current WIP, which oh dear, really needs it. ;-)

starandrea

♥ Dog
DNA test has been administered. This will test the requirement that the swab be in the dog's mouth for at least 30 seconds, as Daphne was not super keen on that idea, and it is unclear how much DNA is actually on the swab as a result. That's okay! I'm sure they receive questionable tests all the time, and there was nothing on their website about what happens if the swab is insufficient. Perhaps a small amount of DNA is acceptable for a small dog?

♥ Plants
Dahlias are not quite touching the light above them and still show no signs of sunburn, so I have not yet intervened. I did turn down the replacement light in the other room, as the inch plant has turned a vibrant purple and the leaves of the multi-colored geranium are now variegated, both of which indicate high light levels. This particular light has five levels of brightness, and of course I started it on the brightest setting. Turning it down is less straightforward, since I bought it because I already have one just like it that the plants love.

The issue is that the brightness can only be adjusted by remote control, and the remote control is not light-specific. This has already meant that the two lights are always both on or both off, so they're on the same schedule, which is fine. But now it has a new effect, which oddly is not "the lights are always at the same brightness level." Instead, apparently I can have both lights very bright, I can have one light at half-brightness and the other at full, or I can have one light at the lowest setting and the other at half. I am not sure why this is. (I have tried aiming the remote at each of the lights, aiming the remote away from each of the lights, etc., though I have not done dedicated proximity research, so it's still possible the effect of the remote can be further isolated.)

For now I have one bright and one half-bright. It's a partly cloudy day on that side of the room.

♥ The Untamed
( Episode 1 )
( Episode 2 )

delphi

Fandom 50 #7

This pick from 1983 isn't necessarily the most representative of the sound the Payola$ are known for, but it's a certified bop with a hook that still gets stuck in my head on a regular basis.

I'll Find Another (Who Can Do It Right) by The Payola$

Watch on YouTube

china_shop

Previous poll review
In the Favourites poll, 63% of respondents have a favourite colour, 23.9% said sort of, and 8.7% said no. In ticky-boxes, rainbows came second to hugs, 68.8% to 87.5%. Raccoon chefs came third with 43.8%. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
Still listening to The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, read by Sid Sagar. At this stage, I'm enjoying the worldbuilding most of all. (Why is ancient xenophobia, eg, Thebians hating on Athenians, amusing, when its modern counterpart is the worst?)

Still dipping into Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell. I'm still in the drafting part, which has lots of strategies and good things to think about, but doesn't seem like it will get you a clean first draft. Like, that is not at all his goal.

Kdramas
I've nearly finished my immediate rewatch of One Spring Night. Will I manage not to go straight back to the beginning, or will it be like that time I had Maroon Five's Songs About Jane in my car tape deck for maybe three years straight? (Note to self: potential Yuletide fandom; I would love future fic about teenage Eun-u and his relationship with his new mother (and cousin(s) and possible younger siblings), and also his sort-of-outsider POV on his parents' relationship.)

Finished Undercover Miss Hong, which was sweet and fun. Not a favourite for me, but enjoyable, and I'm glad I watched.

I'm in the market for something new. I started Phantom Lawyer (about a fledging lawyer who sees ghosts and takes them on as clients; yes, it's a shaky business model), but Andrew's watching it with me, so that's an evening thing. I need something else to lure me onto my exercise machine.

I tried episode 1 of The Practical Guide to Love, for Han Ji-Min, but am not convinced. (Is anyone else watching it? Does it pick up?) Also, a little more of While You Were Sleeping, but either VIKI or I have forgotten where I'm up to. No Love Scout this week or last, due to illness.

Other TV
The Pitt. Ahhhh, my favourite weekly stressbomb.

A few more episodes of The Madison, which continues to be pretty; continues to push the message that cities are trash, versus country living, which is wholesome and full of community, and inspires personal growth. Somehow, the appearance of a love interest has turned me off the whole thing, and I don't even know why. Genre shift? Also, (can I be spoilery? does anyone care?)

not even really spoilers

there are all these flashbacks to Conversations from a Marriage between Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, and every single one of these takes place in New York while Michelle Pfeiffer is in the bath. After a while, I concluded that actually these conversations had happened all over the place (at brunch, in the street, in Central Park, in bed), but Michelle Pfeiffer's character's bereavement/grief means she can only conceptualise them as bath conversations. And then Andrew said that soon there'd be flashbacks of her friends in the bath with her, too, and now I can't take them seriously at all. (Also, she must have been so pruney after shooting all those bath scenes!)

Rooster, Cheers, and Scrubs season 1. A little bit of SurrealEstate. Paper Girls with Ed. Fringe and Bluey with my sister.

Online life
520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange modding behind the scenes, yay! Part 2 of sign-ups closes tomorrow, then it's matching, and then things will quieten down for a bit. | A lot of beta. :-) | My computer went into a crashing spiral a couple of days ago, and I started worrying (DNW to upgrade from Windows 11 to a subscription model!), but the culprit appears to have been a faulty flashdrive. Now I've removed that, things have calmed down. *knocks on wood, makes a backup*

Writing/making things
I finished a fic in March (by the skin of my teeth)! Hooray! So happy about that. I'll post about it separately.

I'm still having thoughts about my other started-for-Yuletide WIP, but I've fallen into the "I'll just ~quickly~ get this done before switching to my exchange assignment" trap before, and that way lies desperate last-minute scrambles up against the deadline, especially when I'm going so slowly. So I'm putting WIP #2 on hold until I at least have a 520 Day draft... which is why I'm writing this update, rather than racing to finish a fic that simply cannot be completed in two busy days.

Life/health/mental state things
Things are good. A bit hamster-wheel-esque, but at least my arms are hanging in there. | I'm looking forward to next week when Writers' Hour goes to 8am NZ time, and I can find a new rhythm for my day that somehow includes exercise. (Summers are great because I exercise first thing and then it's done.) | It's a long weekend, with a bunch of family stuff going on. My other-city-based brother (not to be confused with my US-based brother) is coming to dinner tonight for the first time in roughly a decade.

Cat
Halle really likes burrowing; I think she may be part mole. Sometimes I go into the bedroom, and a lump in the bedclothes starts letting out little warning "don't sit on me" meeps.

Car
I stopped driving on about 6 March because, you know, petrol prices. Which meant of course that when I tried to drive to lunch on Wednesday, my battery was completely flat, and I had to call NZAA and go for a long drive to recharge my battery. This seems like a terrible, inefficient system. Why can't my car just sit there, primed, until I (rarely) want it? Bah! I've considered getting rid of it entirely, but we're heading into winter, so idk.

Good things
So many hot cross buns, srsly! I finished a fic, after many many rewrites, yay!!!!! Family stuff will probably be good and will definitely come with delicious food!

Poll #34439 The whooshing sound as they go past

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

View Respondents

Deadlines, generally speaking

View Answers

yay! motivating!
6 (35.3%)

meep! *hides*
7 (41.2%)

manageable in moderation / under specific circumstances
10 (58.8%)

depends on the time of year
2 (11.8%)

other
1 (5.9%)

ticky-box full of pirate treasure, and the pirates are labradors and border collies
10 (58.8%)

ticky-box of finding a rhythm
7 (41.2%)

ticky-box of sunbeams dancing brightly on leaves in the breeze
12 (70.6%)

ticky-box of lemur vs sloth poetry slam
8 (47.1%)

ticky-box full of hugs
15 (88.2%)

melagan

It's that time of year again for

unconventionalcourtship

This is one of my all time favorite challenges.

sign up info here

swan_tower

The Kickstarter is up and running for Lady Trent’s Field Journal: A Dragon Coloring Book! . . . and it funded in three hours flat, heeeeeeee.

cover art for Lady Trent's Field Journal: A Dragon Coloring Book, showing partially colored-in line art of a dragon swooping down upon a herd of stampeding antelope

cover art for Lady Trent's Field Journal: A Dragon Coloring Book, showing partially colored-in line art of a dragon swooping down upon a herd of stampeding antelope

Granted, the goal this time around is literally an order of magnitude smaller than it was for the pattern deck, so I had every expectation that it wouldn't take all that long. But three hours? It literally happened while I was asleep (since I followed the same pattern as last time, i.e. pull the trigger and then immediately go to bed -- with my phone in another room, so I wouldn't be tempted to check on progress in the middle of the night). As of me posting this, we're almost at double the goal, which is excellent! We've already achieved one stretch goal, which is me hand-lettering the captions that will label the art; the second, which unlocks at $5000, is to upgrade the paper stock for the coloring books. There are more beyond that, too!

I'm really delighted to be doing this. People genuinely have been asking for years if I would ever write some of Isabella's scientific work, and while I couldn't quite make it go to do an entire article or book's worth of that, this coloring book gives me the chance to drop in snippets of that, while also exploring some fun corners of zoology. So check it out, and let's see how many stretch goals we can unlock!

(By the way, I consider this part of my twentieth anniversary celebration. It just seemed . . . inadvisable . . . to launch it on the actual anniversary, lest people think the Kickstarter is a joke!)

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/CSz8n2)

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'The Crown'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to

100words and

emotion100
Summary: They would burn you alive just as soon as it’s heard

( The Crown )

lovelyangel

Top Memory Cards

Thanks to AI sucking up as much solid state memory as it can hoard, memory for consumer devices (phones, computers, etc.) is getting scarce and/or much more expensive. With Sony Suspending Shipments of Memory Cards, photographers have a vested interest in the situation. Prices are rising and supplies are dwindling.

Last year was an expensive year for photography (tariffs! 3 cameras! 3 NIKKOR Z lenses!). This year is a quiet recovery year, with no equipment purchases expected. Consequently, I didn’t feel bad spending some of my tax refund money this year on three memory cards – before CFexpress B cards got to be hard to find or a lot more expensive. Last year I bought CFexpress cards for my Nikon Z8 and Nikon Z6 before I got Thom Hogan’s Nikon Z8 Guide. What I learned in Thom’s guide book is that SanDisk and Lexar memory cards are bad (generate excessive heat) and that Delkin and ProGrade are the best (highest performance, lowest heat). I also learned not to get big (256GB or larger) memory cards. I generally take Thom’s advice.

So I made the command decision to replace my SanDisk / Lexar CFexpress B cards with optimal Delkin CFexpress B cards. B&H Photo had exactly what I needed (as recommended by Thom). The prices for the premium memory cards were only about 15% higher than equivalent SanDisk or Lexar cards (excluding sale pricing). On Monday, I placed an order, and the memory cards arrived today. I bought three cards – two for my Z8 and one for my Z6. The current SanDisk / Lexar cards will serve as spares/overflow memory.

Hopefully, this is the extent of my photography upgrades for the year.

oliviacirce

It's been a hard day, so here is a poem for that. Clint Smith simply never fails.

( For the Hardest Days )

redbird

I was going to have my teeth cleaned next week, but the dentist's office called yesterday to tell me that the hygienist wouldn't be in that day, and asked me to reschedule either for today, with the next available after that being in June. So, I went over to Watertown this afternoon.

Before cleaning my teeth, the hygienist took a full set of X-rays, because it had been a couple of years. The dentist looked at them, and said that there are no cavities, but some of my old fillings are no longer doing their jobs. So, he wants to do two crowns (at least). This will involve some drilling, apparently, but no root canals. I have an appointment in two weeks to do the work on at least one tooth, possibly both, depending on how I'm feeling after the first. To my surprise, my current dental insurance is covering 100% of the cost.

Also, after a complicated office maybe-move and name change, that dentist is consistently seeing very few patients at a time: there's often nobody [else] in the waiting room while I'm there, which is reassuring given that I can't wear a mask while having dental work.

I stopped on the way home at Lizzy's and got a quart of ice cream. It's a few degrees above freezing and overcast/drizzly, so I didn't want to be outside eating ice cream, but that also meant I could leave the insulated bag home.

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musesfool

I made my appointment to return my old modem and router for 2:15 pm today before I decided to take today off, because 2:15 put it right in the middle of my lunch hour. However, having taken the day off, 2:15 became the worst possible time to do it. But it's done! Not without a slight misadventure. I put the address in for a Lyft and doublechecked the confirmation text and was like, okay, 74-10 Austin Street. But when we arrived at 74-10 Austin Street, it was a residential building. And I'm like, I know it's just up the block there and the guy is like, but this is the address you requested. So I get out and start walking and I'm like, I know it's here, I've been here before, where the fuck is it??? So I recheck my phone and the address is...71-40. I would have sworn on a stack of bibles everything said 74-10, but it did not. Brain, why are you like this???

Anyway, the equipment return was quick and smooth, and Shake Shack was 2 doors down, so I had Shake Shack for lunch and it was all good.

Here's today's poem:

Five passages between uncertain territories

1
The wind has got trapped in the chimney;
its plaintive howls crash, slash and rumble
all the way to the backbone and back again.
Walrus angels ride their ancient motorbikes
on the Wall of Death.

2
I burrow deep into heretic soil, lie quietly
close to roots and corms, listen to the sounds
of critters in the field, beasties by the roadside:
their adventure songs of rescue, revelation,
revival and sunrise.

3
Because you travel the undiscovered country,
carrying the black flag, mallet and stake,
I offer you heartware – I stay tuned in all right;
but you know I don't trust you any farther
than to the rim of the map.

4
I lost my little mittens and my hands are cold.
All around, purple pearls and snailshells lie
scattered like random pebbles; I pick them up
gingerly, clovefully. I count them three times,
then once more for luck.

5
Cloaked in furs and feathers I shall sojourn
in abandoned observatories, hurdy-gurdy
power stations, mills by mystic lakesides,
stitching tales of hope and hardship, breaking
every bone in the book.

--Jane Røken

***

Current Weather: confused

elrhiarhodan

Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 76 — And Still
Author:

elrhiarhodan /

elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, The Force as a Sentient Character, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Breha Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Ahsoka Tano, Sifo-Dyas, Reva Sevander, Lene Kostana (mentioned), Savage Opress, Pong Krell, The Traitor, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (yes, we’re arrived). Bail Prestor Organa/Breha Organa
Word Count: ~ 6100 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Grief, mourning, angst. Non-canon death of a canon character.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: The fallout from the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi ripples through the galaxy.

From All The Spaces Between Times: Chapter 76 — And Still (On AO3)

( Meta — And Still )

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Fiction
The Blinds, by Adam Sternbergh

Nonfiction
Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, by James Robert Parish

Page Summary

mxcatmoon in vocab_drabbles - Announcing a tag for poetry
asakiyume - division
ao3_ducktales2017_feed - Bendy and Boris: InkBound Odyssey
ysabetwordsmith - Community Thursdays
ranalore - I've got my teeth in you
shadowhive - A tale of two (attempted) sacrifices
mecurtin in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-In
china_shop - While You Were Sleeping fic, and writing meta
starandrea - "now that my tiger tally is being used against me, I understand how annoying it is" (wei ying)
delphi - Post and Jam: I'll Find Another (Who Can Do it Right) by The Payola$ [1983]
china_shop - Me-and-media update
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