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>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>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>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>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>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>"Time travel? Are you kriffing kidding me?"</blockquote> ➤ seeing Leia and Luke through Anakin's eyes (and seeing through their eyes how they see him) is super interesting. I do hope Anakin succeeds in fixing things after his return!

<blockquote>Neither Rey nor Finn ever knew their family. Sometimes the Force moves in mysterious ways.</blockquote> ➤ a Finn Skywalker fic

<blockquote>Five times Luke brushed Leia's hair.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>Beru knows that Luke will return to the stars one day. Owen pretends that he doesn't know it. Three loosely connected stories from Luke's early life on Tatooine.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A long time ago, Luke Skywalker had a son. For seven wonderful months, he was a father to a small, wonderful baby boy with tiny brown fingers and his mother’s nose and dark eyes.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Finn is Luke's son

<blockquote>Rey gets sick not long after arriving at Luke’s hideaway. To her surprise, the man who said he didn’t want her as a Padawan takes care of her, goes back to civilisation to make sure she’ll be okay, and, all right, makes her his Padawan. Alternatively: affectionate Luke & Rey bonding, and Rey realising that she’s found her place in the universe (and it’s right here with Luke, Finn, Chewie, Poe, Leia, and the Resistance).</blockquote>

<blockquote>Leia wavers. “I’m not like you, Luke.” Luke’s face turns puzzled, bemused. Leia hurries to continue before he can stop her. “I don’t have a great destiny. I haven’t been to any swamps seeking old mentors, I don’t have Kenobi looking over my shoulder to make sure I do the right thing.” “You’re my sister,” Luke says, and she doesn’t know how to make him understand. OR: The one where Leia trains in the Force.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"A Jedi doesn't dwell on the past or fret about the future. A Jedi is present in the moment, in each moment, as it happens. But there's nothing wrong with occasionally reminding ourselves where we come from, and keeping our eyes open to where we're going."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Padme lives. She runs.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Fuck you,” Leia says. “Who said anything about getting married? Did Luke say anything about getting married?” “Luke is not involved,” Luke says, not looking up. “Hey, Luke is not involved,” Han says, pointing at her. She’s going to bite his finger off, then they’ll see how much pointing he can do with it. “This is about you and me, princess.” “There’s not going to be a you and me,” Leia says. “I’m going to have this baby with C-3PO.” C-3PO says, “Madam,” tremulous.</blockquote> ➤ I love how this fic understands their relationship

<blockquote>ABSTRACT: This article seeks to find the ways people remember Darth Vader and the forces that shaped those impressions and memories. Using a combination of Imperial propoganda and personal accounts from those who had personal interactions with Vader, the author analyzes widespread impressions of Vader and how they remain 30 years after the fall of the Empire. Originally published in the New Alderaan Journal Of Public History.</blockquote>

➤ does what it says on the tin. rule 63 Anakin and Obi-Wan end up in our universe and meet Luke, Leia, and Han. ➤ incomplete thought experiment sort of thing, but what exists is GREAT ➤ (I'm really unsure whether to tag this gen or femslash so I guess I'll go with both?)

<blockquote>How Han Solo decided to hang around the Rebel Alliance, just for a while.</blockquote> ➤ set before the medal ceremony at the end of IV

<blockquote>"So either you're not here or you're not living," she says. "I'm definitely here," he replies, and there's amusement in his voice.</blockquote> ➤ woohoo, force ghost anakin!

<blockquote>In which Ahsoka meets the pilot who destroyed the Death Star.</blockquote> ➤ I just keep on running into more and more star wars canon that I don't know about. thank goodness google exists, and that there are dedicated nerds out there cataloguing everything star wars.

<blockquote>“I’m not afraid of you,” Rey says. Her heart is pounding. “It’s everything else.” “I am afraid.” Luke does not look at her. “Of you.” She stares at him. She knows that he is not lying to her—he has not lied to her at all while she has been here, and she doesn’t expect him to start doing so. But she cannot fathom what he means—why Luke Skywalker would ever be frightened of her: of no one.   (Rey and Luke, immediately following the events of Episode VII.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Serene thought about this for a moment, and then theorised, "Perhaps the fact that you are so much like a woman in some ways makes it natural for you to be more attracted to men." Luke started to splutter again. "Oh no, that was insensitive, wasn't it," said Serene. "I meant only that you are brave and warlike, with great endurance, like a woman, so... Don't look at me that way! It's a compliment!"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Elliot thought he was prepared for elven culture. He finds he is really not prepared for Serene’s parents. “I am Fire-Red-Hair-Blows-in-the-Wind,” the elf man said, leading them up a grassy path. Up ahead, there was a wooden mansion that seemed to have grown organically between three massive oaks. “Please call me Fire. Although I went by ‘Fred’ for a while when I was travelling among the humans; do use that if it makes you more comfortable.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>A rewrite of Part I from Luke's PoV, with bonus Luke and Serene scenes. Most dialogue taken directly from canon. Elliot was without doubt the most irritating, spiteful and neurotic council cadet that Luke had ever encountered. Luke also suspected that Elliot was the type of clever which made Luke look like a particularly bright cabbage, and he didn’t like that either. But Elliot, for some weird reasons of his own, was helping Serene. And Serene liked him.</blockquote>