LINKDING

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

<blockquote>Rey has a plan. Get to Ahch-To. Find the lightsaber. Get off Ahch-To forever. This plan is foiled by a group of judgemental fish nuns. A story of complicated emotions, unimpressed aquatic aliens, and fixing what you can.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>Four times Han definitely didn’t need anybody’s help, and one time maybe he did.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dying, for a Jedi Master in the line of Yoda, was a gentle thing. or "Hi, Not Listening To This Anymore," Han said, appearing suddenly. "I'm dead."</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's a grieving process, of some kind.</blockquote> ➤ Lando dealing with L3's death

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

<blockquote>She's older now, and so is he. Far older now. She wonders: will he have lost any power with his age? Will he be shorter, weaker? An old man on a ventilator? It's hard to imagine that he won't still be dangerous. But then, that's exactly what she's counting on.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Beru Whitesun Lars goes to war.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke is desperate to learn the ways of the Force. Leia can't really help him there, but she knows how to wield a blade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When your father dies, say the Coruscanti, you are left clutching a star map for a different galaxy.   In this, as in many things, Leia is her fathers' daughter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Poe gets a second chance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You take responsibility for your actions if you’re in the Resistance, even if those actions are, you know, mutiny. “There’s—” Okay, There’s nothing wrong with me is clearly not accurate.</blockquote> ➤ Author's note: <blockquote>Even though I appreciated the character development in TLJ, the writing for Poe and Holdo’s storyline was so sloppy it hurt me in my soul and (as is the case for like 90% of everything I write) I immediately started trying to fix it. Particularly, I was interested in finding logical reasons why: – an experienced vice admiral, in an organization so informal most people go by their first names, would not just tell her panicking crew that actually, they did have an escape plan – an experienced military pilot would suddenly start second-guessing all his commanding officers, even when they have stellar records and/or he's personally loyal to them – said commanding officers would react to this with “lol what a scamp” instead of anger or betrayal or brig time</blockquote> ➤ yes good this author and I agree on what was wrong and so we agree about what needs to be fixed. This is a good fic.

<blockquote>Leia was not adopted. She was stolen in the middle of the night and registered to House Organa with forged papers. This was kidnapping, a class one felony, and her parents could be executed -- unless she returned voluntarily to her rightful father. Immediately. A man called Grand Moff Tarkin explained this to Leia when she was eleven years old.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After her shuttle crashes on a desolate world, Leia has only one person to keep her company.</blockquote> ➤ leia and force-ghost-anakin in new trilogy era

<blockquote>Leia begins showing signs of force sensitivity at an early age. Her parents struggle to dissuade her from investigating her new powers before Vader discovers the daughter he never knew he had.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Now that Rey is part of the Resistance, she needs a place to stay. Poe is helping her find a roommate, and he takes her through three options: his old friend, Kare Kun; a young and enthusiastic officer, Lieutenant Kaydel Ko Connix; and the friendly, if not nerdy, pilot, Jess Pava. Rey is excited to find a new place to call home, but can't help but feel a little bit like an outsider as well. Can she really ever escape her scavenger past? Do her Force powers mark her irreversibly as an outsider? What will happen when she meets someone with dolls that are EVEN COOLER than the one she made on Jakku?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Summary: In a war where entire planetary systems may fall victim, remembrance is key, and joy goes with grief. Notes: This was written for peradi, who asked me what Hallowe'en was like in Star Wars, but was probably expecting a 600 word ficlet. I don't really do 600 word ficlets. I do 6500 words of thinking about inversion festivals, rituals of grief and remembrance, and what you do to mark a loss when you have nothing left to mourn. Say because your planet's been blown up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Food and love have a lot in common. Leia learns how to cook. This takes some time.</blockquote> ➤ three times Leia cooks with someone else

<blockquote>Rey and Leia bond after an ambush leaves them stranded.</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>Feral Desert Child and Former Stormtrooper Learn How To Food, Beleaguered Resistance Pilot Watches With Love And Horror</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>Imperial Sanitation Specialist Yaran Avoset discovers a jam in Death Star garbage compactor 3263827. His superior is not amused. Fortunately, a resourceful man can go far in the Imperial Navy. Or, how the Death Star got dianogas. Words by Carmarthen, art by motetus.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ben Organa died during the destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Ten years later, a man arrives on Coruscant, claiming to be Leia Organa's son.</blockquote>

<blockquote>If he reaches out, he can feel each drop of rain as it falls, and the movements of the plants and animals in response, the greedy slurp of tree roots, the unthinking satiation of tiny frogs, and a million other points of life flickering beyond his normal senses.</blockquote> ➤ five vignettes on the theme of rain for five different characters

<blockquote>"I'm in charge of security, Your Highness," Vader said, haughty and automatic, and had to shove away a sudden onslaught of memories. It was this building, he thought, and the presence of a small brunette senator with a smart mouth. That was all.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“It doesn't need to be anything symbolic. Formal, but it's just—” “Land-use policies with the Gungans,” Eirtaé finished agreeably. “A new independent trade agreement with Alderaan,” Padmé finished at the same time.   / Or: Three potential diplomatic incidents, two Amidalas, one burst water main, and the biggest headache Eirtaé is ever likely to experience again.</blockquote> ➤ note to my future self if I reread: nothing goes wrong, they get through their various impersonations without being detected

<blockquote>Somewhere in the galaxy, there is a concept of free time. That place is not the royal palace of Naboo.</blockquote>

<blockquote>She probably shouldn’t trust the wish-granting Sith artefact.</blockquote> ➤ I will always love time-travel fixits, and this one is notably different than the standard!