LINKDING

<blockquote>Luke Skywalker: Jedi master, hero of legend, isolated hermit... avid birdwatcher???</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I don't mean to offend," Luke said. His ears were turning hot, because Han was looking at him again with that condescending starpilot look, like Luke was a child. "It's just—water is purple?" "Purple?" Han looked absolutely baffled. "Why would water be purple?" In which moisture farming involves a lot more cacti than in canon.</blockquote>

<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>Han offers Luke some unexpected support after the funeral of the guy who tortured him.</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 and Leia, growing up and watching the stars.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To earn her place on the Falcon, Leia has to be useful, so she tries to learn everything she can.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Hello.” Luke blinked down at the very tiny girl with dark purple hair sitting to his left. “Uh, hi,” he tried. Up until now the little girl had been eating her food and not all that interested in the state dinner going on around her, and Luke had been talking with an ambassador from a world he hadn’t quite caught the name of so it’d been a stressful forty minutes so far. “Do you want help with the silverware?” the little girl asked. “Only you’re eating your salad with the dessert fork.”</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>See that line where the sky hits the sand? It calls me.</blockquote> ➤ what a great idea for a vid, and well executed too!

➤ Excellent use of dialogue clips taken from the movies - usually I don't like that kind of thing in vids but it works really well for this one

<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>"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>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>After the second Death Star, Leia had an unexpected visitor.</blockquote> ➤ au in which vader doesn't die

<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>For as long as Leia can remember dreaming, she’s dreamed of a desert.</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>There was a man in the Temple with a story too outlandish to not be believed—outlandish even by Master Yoda's standards, who had seen almost 900 years in the galaxy.</blockquote> ➤ I wish this continued! I love the idea of Luke being the time-traveler

<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>“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>In which Rey and Luke kill some time in a cantina waiting for Luke's mystery contact. Wild stories ensue.</blockquote> ➤ awww, what a delight

<blockquote>This is the last day of Leia Organa's life. From a certain point of view.</blockquote> ➤ Leia's relationship with her birth family

<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>Poe turns big dark eyes on him and Finn feels something ache in his chest. “Tell me, Finn, how is that gonna look, buddy? You save my life, we take you in and then we throw you back when it suits us? I wouldn’t fight for a Resistance like that and neither would you.” He wants to say, yes I would, but with Poe looking up at him the words die on his lips.</blockquote> ➤ in which Leia prioritizes saving Poe from the First Order over having the chance to attempt to convince Kylo Ren back to the side of the light.