LINKDING

<blockquote>Luke kills his father and Falls, and Leia becomes the last resort.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Jyn talked herself into a corner with her grandma," Han explained. "Now she needs a fake boyfriend for Christmas." "Why doesn't Cassian do it?" Luke asked, and Jyn scowled at him. [In which Jyn, in an attempt to get her mother's overbearing, gossipy, and traditional family off her back for one freaking Christmas, conscripts Cassian to join her as her (fake) boyfriend for the whole week in England. Shamelessly, wildly, gleefully AU.]</blockquote> ➤ Feels more like origfic bc it's so far divorced from canon, but I enjoyed it regardless

<blockquote>The war is over and Bodhi Rook has been away from Jedha for too long. It’s time to go home. He winds up with an unexpected passenger. A love story between two people and a place, about all the different meanings of home.</blockquote> ➤ (and then a sequel about finding & rescuing Rey, and then a meta post describing the events that led to this au) ➤ Series consists of: Stone and Sand Different Deserts For Those That Read Stone and Sand

<blockquote> "Just got my replacement First Officer. It's Poe Dameron." "You don't sound thrilled." "It'll be fine. Just…I've met him at a few of the company mixers and"—Luke cleared his throat, heat on his cheeks—"He has been...aggressively flirtatious, in the past. That's going to be fun to manage." "You know you could just go for it." Bodhi tone turned teasing, Luke could picture his sly smile as clearly as if Luke were standing in front of him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke Skywalker's parents are never going to be able to afford the college of his dreams. Luke resigns himself to community college. His best friend, Wedge, has a different idea. / Mind still scrambling for some sort of solution, Wedge asked, "Marriage? It's legal for you to get married." "And thank God for that." Luke rolled his eyes. "I don't know if you've noticed, buddy, but supreme court decision aside, there's not a lot of options for gay guys around here. Besides, how does that pitch go, marry me for the student loan debt?" "Okay," Wedge responded. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Rey never expected that Han and Chewbacca would keep coming back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you're Padmé Amidala's daughter."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Like most Republic citizens, the Naberries have never spent much time thinking about the Jedi. But that changes with the birth of their daughter Ilaré. (Or, the AU where the third Naberrie daughter is a Jedi, Padmé offers Naboo as a sanctuary for runaway slaves, Shmi is a conductor on the Tatooine freedom trail, and Anakin jump starts a reformation. Or maybe a heresy. It all depends on your point of view.)</blockquote> ➤ wip through part 17 so far

<blockquote>She is a gift to Lord Vader from the Emperor. Her name is Padme Skywalker.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The year is 1993. The Cold War is old news. Don't ask, don't tell is brand new. Poe Dameron is the best fighter pilot in the Navy, and he's in love with a man.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I don’t know how this happened. I don’t yet know why. But this is definitely Anakin’s fault." Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master, Exile, and now Force Ghost, was pleased with the way things had turned out. The Sith were dead. His padawan had returned to the Light. And Luke Skywalker was beginning to lay the foundation for his new Jedi Order. And while Luke, Leia, Han, and the Rebellion cleaned up the last traces of the Empire on the physical plane, he and Anakin would devote the next stage of their afterlives to repairing the damage Sidious and his ilk wrought on the Force itself. At least, that was the plan. After a disaster on the cosmic scale that Obi-Wan is still trying to wrap his mind around, he finds himself back in the early days of the Clone Wars, Commander Cody loyally at his side, Anakin at his back, and Sidious plotting against the Jedi at every turn. He's been given an unasked for chance to do everything over again. And with the Force as his ally, he intends to set the galaxy on a brighter path than the one it's currently on.</blockquote> ➤ through part 2 as of last checking

<blockquote>When he brings Owen and Beru their nephew, Obi-Wan collapses at the Lars farmstead instead of exiting stage left to a hide-out in the Jundland Wastes. Several things go quite a bit differently, after that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Padmé wakes to the back of Obi-Wan’s head, his hair mussed and his arms spread, outstretched over her knees as though to shield her from all that would come. (Too late, Padmé thinks, feeling the dull ache around her throat, where phantom hands tightened. Much too late for that now.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"He tries for three days to tell her what Vader said, the truth of his family, but the words stick in his throat. Leia's the only person he has left and he can't stomach the idea of her looking at him with the same kind of hatred she reserves for Imperials, the pity and sorrow she saves for refugees. The thought makes him nauseous, that one day she might look at him as anything other than the farmboy, the pilot, her best friend." (Or, what if Luke went back to see Yoda while Lando & Chewie were looking for Han between ESB and RotJ, Leia insisted on going with him to Dagobah, and they learned they were siblings then.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"There's going to be an attack on the Temple. Tomorrow, at eleven hundred hours. A bomb in the hangar bay." Barriss Offee had no idea what fate she averted for herself or her friend Ahsoka Tano when she stopped her planned attack on the Jedi Temple before it started. But her actions will still have far-reaching consequences—for both of them.</blockquote> ➤ I am in AGONIES over this fic's abandoned state. It's so good and I care so much and it ends on the WORST cliffhanger!

<blockquote>After seven years training as Qui-Gon's Padawan, Anakin finally has questions that his Master can't answer. A specialist in force-user initiation and the erotic mysteries might be just what Anakin needs--but Kenobi is almost too good at his job.</blockquote> ➤ I appreciate this fic's dedication towards Anakin making exactly the kinds of TERRIBLE choices Anakin would make given the situation

<blockquote>Obi-Wan didn't become Qui-Gon Jinn's apprentice, and Ben didn't exile himself to Tatooine. On Bandomeer the two meet.</blockquote> ➤ marked as a wip and hasn't updated in a year, but it feels like a good ending place to me so it doesn't read like a wip. ➤ This fic is a lovely look at how being part of the Agricorps instead of the Jedi Order can actually be a /good/ thing

<blockquote>In which Padmé and Anakin keep in touch after TPM, and this changes literally everything.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“It might be better for you to die,” Obi-Wan muses as she holds her children in her arms. Padmé looks up at him and arches an eyebrow. “I didn’t mean literally,” he clarifies. “I know what you meant. I’m thinking about it.” Padmé survives childbirth, dies as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned, takes her children with Obi-Wan, and runs. Pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shmi leaves Tatooine with Anakin and goes to the Jedi Temple.</blockquote> ➤ parts one through three are complete ("In all your wanderings", "Winds of change and chance" and "Messenger"). ➤ Part 4 is wip, "It will be written," and I am thoroughly enjoying this fic! ➤ Part 3 is an outlier, focusing on Beru Whitsun in freedom and her mentorship with Jango Fett and subsequent break from him, and is a wonderful story standalone as well as part of this larger universe

<blockquote>Han Solo blows by, moving fast. "Don't drink the hose water, kid, it's got fertilizer in it." Finn looks up, affronted. "Now you tell me?"</blockquote> ➤ Essie I particularly recommend this fic to you!

<blockquote>It’s a new year, a new semester. Looking out across the classroom, taking in the bright-eyed students in their winter gear, the crowded desks, the aisles choked with backpacks and bags, Luke can’t help but feel that it’s going to be a good year. “Welcome to Transformative Journeys: Pilgrimage and Practice in Global Buddhisms,” he says, with a smile. “I’m Professor Amidala-Lars."</blockquote> ➤ OH NO I AM CHARMED ➤ (Poe is the new hire at the university where Luke teaches, and Rey is a neighbourhood foster kid Luke's taken under his wing) ➤ I had a lot of feelings about being in religious studies back in my university days and how I miss it. But also just a good fic! ➤ I did feel though that the fic went on too long beyond a natural end point into nothing but fluff that wasn't going anywhere new.

<blockquote>Padmé and Obi-Wan raise the twins together while hiding from the Empire.</blockquote> ➤ and kill Vader in the end

<blockquote>and now all I want in this world is an au where President Skywalker meets the feisty lobbyist Poe Dameron from the environmental nonprofit</blockquote>

<blockquote>General Hux is dispatched to Hosnian Prime to try to convince maverick senator Ben Solo of Naboo to give one of the First Order's fake charity fundraising organizations tax-exempt status. To do this, he must play his part in one of the Republic's oldest political traditions: Lobbying.</blockquote> ➤ what did I just read

<blockquote>Dooku is taken alive onboard the Invisible Hand, and Sidious' web is torn. The Sith Lord wonders if death might have been preferable to clumsy interrogation by Anakin Skywalker.</blockquote> ➤ the author doesn't seem to have a pt 1 posted so who knows what's up with that, but this stands fine on its own. ➤ It starts a little slow but once Dooku and Anakin start talking I'm ALL THERE and it's amazingggg. ➤ I'm delighted by how dooku's sheer frustration with the magnitude of Anakin's issues is what begrudgingly turns Dooku back from being a Sith. Such fun to read! ➤ And it's tragically true how Anakin needs MULTIPLE interventions to keep from going darkside, oh Anakin.

<blockquote>Anakin promised to free all the slaves and it is a promise he intends to keep. Struck by visions of a slave uprising on Tatooine, he runs away to join the fight. Five years later, it his new alliance of former slave worlds that the Republic fears, rather than a Separatist threat. Enlisted to negotiate a peace treaty, Senator Amidala is dispatched to find Anakin, alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, who only wishes to bring his former Padawan home. AOTC timeframe</blockquote> ➤ I enjoyed it, but also a) found it stressful and b) did not do a good job of actually following the plot stuff. I have literally zero idea what Luminara's intentions/plans were, for example. ➤ But I really like the premise of Anakin running away to free the slaves and just keeping on expanding that vision until he's basically the leader of much of the outer rim.

<blockquote>anonymous asked: What if Luke and Leia were "switched at birth" (or rather, the difference is how they were split)? Prince Luke Organa? Leia Skywalker? - When she is nine, Leia sits her uncle and auntie down and, small face screwed up with determination, asks for an increase of her allowance. She has prepared points and counterpoints. She cites both local and intergalactic codes of labor law. Her uncle frowns at her for a long minute once she’s done. She holds his gaze, stare for stare, chin untrembling, because that’s how he’d taught her to when they went to barter for parts at Toshi Station. “Alright,” he says. “My bedtime should be pushed an hour later, too,” Leia tries and her aunt laughs and tells her to go do the dishes. When Leia is twelve, she organizes all of the children of local farms into a union. Their parents think they’re kidding until they hold their first strike.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Or, How Hux and Kylo Burnt Down a Home and Saved Their Marriage Hux and Kylo are married and flip houses for a living. Rey and Finn are their long-suffering unpaid house-flipping interns. Millicent is their cat who gets feline acupuncture. It's in LA.</blockquote> ➤ I feel like this author specializes in writing fics that make me go WTF in the strongest way and I love it

<blockquote>Rey knows something about pulling things apart. Putting them back together again is where the real challenge begins.</blockquote> ➤ defs here for Phasma & Rey!! Author tags this Phasma/Rey but like. This is clearly gen. But I would totally read Phasma/Rey!