There's a Mirror On the Wall

Title: From Death to the Stars
Fandom: Highlander
AU: They Who Sleep In Elysium: Time Travel Alt
Word Count: 500
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Drabble Set, Don't Like Don't Read

Five glimpses of Methos in the time travel AU of They Who Sleep In Elysium.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Ships, Friends, and Lovers
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Outer Rim Hooligans
Word Count: 1152
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Force Shenanigans, Social Events, Weddings, sometimes relatives are the worst, Don't Like Don't Read

Veers and Organa become Max and Leia.

(With a side of terrible Clone Wars weapons, Luke/Quinlan, an idiot trying to flirt badly, some world building, and some headcanons regarding color symbolism.)

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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All the fic that should have gotten posted back in August, and I blanked on at the time (it was Pennsic, this happens). So you get it all today! Several chapters of Reliable Vengence stories, and a handful of Fireside Tales.

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Title: Death Ship
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
AU: The Queen and the Soldier
Word Count: 312
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Clones, Rescues, Don't Like Don't Read

Sabé and her crew raid another ship heading back to Kamino with clones who have decomission and recondition orders.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Returned
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Chorus and Solo
Word Count: 270
Category: Other
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sith, if you kill me you become me, Ressurection, Dialogue Heavy, Don't Like Don't Read

Maul wakes up. He was not planning on this possibility.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: In Midnight Blue and Vengeance Gold: Healing and Knowledge
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
AU: Reliable Vengence
Word Count: 727
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Non-Graphic Injury Description
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Force Healing, Rebels, Don't Like Don't Read

"He's an Imperial General, Shura. There's no such thing as not a problem."

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Blue Durasteel: Family Drama
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
AU: Reliable Vengeance
Word Count: 1249
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Imperials, Skywalker Family Drama

Piett would like for one. kriffing. week to go to routine. It would be a delightful holiday from the usual.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: In Midnight Blue and Vengeance Gold: Unexpected Pain
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
AU: Reliable Vengeance
Word Count: 2130
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Panic Attack, Frank Discussion of Order 66, Mentioned Character Death
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Don't Like Don't Read

Shaking her head, she steps into her quarters, eyes drawn to Max, sitting on her bunk with his feet on the floor. He's staring back, radiating shock and denial. And something like stark terror.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Stepping Out of Imperial Gray: Star Wars Original Trilogy/Planetfall
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
AU: Reliable Vengeance
Word Count: 2104/1623 (3727 total)
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Panic Attack, Frank Discussion of Order 66, Mentioned Character Death
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Don't Like Don't Read

Veers wakes up on an unfamiliar ship to find familiar faces, and uncomfortable facts.

The planet they land on is empty save for a supply depot. A rebel supply depot.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Paint Bombs
Fandom: The Witcher (Netflix)
AU: NOS
Word Count: 147
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alterate Universe, Dialogue Heavy, Eavesdropping, Pranks, Don't Like Don't Read

Not everyone appreciates Berwyn's antics, especially not with paint involved as well as his beloved explosives.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: See Them Free
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
AU: The Queen and the Soldier
Word Count: 300
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Clones, Younglings, Slice of Life, Don't Like Don't Read

Slick likes it here, and likes making sure his littlest brothers get to grow up safe and happy and free.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: A Headache Named Skywalker
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
AU: The Queen and the Soldier
Word Count: 185
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jedi, Headaches, Don't Like Don't Read

He has a headache the size of a Venator, and it's name is Skywalker.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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New Fic

Title: A General and a Jedi
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Reliable Vengence
Word Count: 797
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Don't Like Don't Read

Luke Skywalker meets Maximilian Veers face to face.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Means of Aid
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: The Queen and the Soldier
Word Count: 448
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, Domesticity, Don't Like Don't Read

Padmé and Fox talk while on their way to a Kamino.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Roses In Springtime
Fandom: MCU, Harry Potter
AU: Bucky of the House of Black
Word Count: 100
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossover, Drabble, Don't Like Don't Read

Bucky is pleased with his efforts to protect his Tiny Mission.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Book of Hours
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF, Star Wars
AU: Blade of the Force
Word Count: 200
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Crossover, Medieval Christianity, Double Drabble, Don't Like Don't Read

Margaret does her best to have some pieces of home in this strange new world she's in.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Old Fic (Posting to Squidge and AO3)

Title: Stepping Out of Imperial Gray
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Reliable Vengence
Word Count: 25,000+ (currently has 413 words posted)
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major Injury
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Hoth, Clones, Rebels, Jedi, Don't Like Don't Read, Tags and Warnings To Be Updated As Chapters Are Posted

After his AT-AT is brought down by a crashing snow speeder, Veers doesn't expect to survive. He expects less to have his past catch up with him, and all that follows.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Midnight Blue and Vengence Gold
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Reliable Vengence
Word Count: 5500+ (732 words posted)
Category: F/M
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major Injury
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Hoth, Clones, Rebels, Jedi, Don't Like Don't Read, Tags and Warnings To Be Updated As Chapters Are Posted

Shura did not expect to see her husband again, but when the base on Hoth is being evacuated, she follows a draw in the Force, and pulls him from the wreckage of a downed AT-AT. Now she just needs to figure out how things are going to go forward.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

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Title: Blue Durasteel
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Reliable Vengence
Word Count: 3600+
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Hoth, Imperials, Don't Like Don't Read, Tags and Warnings To Be Updated As Chapters Are Posted

Piett would like to have one day where things run smoothly and efficiently and he can have a stress-free shift. He knows this is never going to happen, but it would be nice if he didn't have to deal with a Sith Lord's family drama.

Posted: Squidge, AO3

New Fic

Title: Consequences of Traps
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Chorus and Solo
Word Count: 292
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hallucinations, Traps, Sith

Obi-Wan in a Sith tomb/temple, and the results of springing a trap.

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Old Fic (Porting to Squidge)

Title: Descent
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: In the Silence and the Dark
Word Count: 3469
Category: Gen
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Psychological Torture, Starvation, Force Feeding, Depersonalization, Torture
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Isolation, Mental Manipulation, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

Qui-Gon is taken by a Sith Lord whose greatest interest in the Jedi lies in breaking him, and in doing, gaining a new Apprentice.

Posted: Squidge

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Title: Holding Pattern
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: In the Silence and the Dark
Word Count: 4711
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Exhaustion, Psychological Trauma

Obi-Wan returns from Mandalore with Satine, and reports the disappearance of Qui-Gon Jinn to the Jedi Council, three months after he's vanished. A month later, Quinlan Vos returns from the mission to find the missing Jedi with a location.

Posted: Squidge

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Title: Escalation
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: In the Silence and the Dark
Word Count: 5393
Category: Gen
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death, Death Threats, Poison, Slavery
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Faux Hospitality, Jedi, Sith, Surveillance

Vinris and Tholme have located Qui-Gon and sent Quinlan back to the temple to tell Mace. Now they just have to survive long enough to escape. They hope it will be with Qui-Gon in tow, but neither has a good feeling about that.

Posted: Squidge

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Title: Cacophany
Fandom: Star Wars
AU: Chorus and Solo
Word Count: 6775
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major Character Death
Tags: Alternate Universe, Sith, If You Kill Me You Become Me

Two bodies lie on the power generator catwalks, and Obi-Wan is certain he's going mad. The price of killing a Sith, apparently, is to have them all crash down on his head.

Posted: Squidge

Title: Small Comfort
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 351
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Assassins, Clones, Handmaidens

She makes a mental note to send something to the Guard as a whole as a thank you for their kindness in this latest assassination plot fiasco.

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The last time I wrote a one-episode AU piece, it was shorter, and sans dialogue. It was also a fix-it AU for a major character death. This one is being more a reframing of the context of the dialogue in the episode, which changes so much. It makes the things which I find deeply unfunny more obviously unfunny, and delves into what makes the episode highly uncomfortable for me. And not in the sense of growth can be uncomfortable.

Depending on how long it takes me to get through it without pitching things at the walls, I might even have it done in the next couple of days. Or a week ago, depending on when people see this.

So, the episode does this "his name is Meredith, isn't that so funny for a man to have a girly name?" thing that wasn't funny the first time I saw the episode, and is infuriating on this rewatch. And the whole "here, have a cooler, more confident version of Rodney who has better relationships with everyone, this who he could be if he let go of his ego".... except that everything I see on screen doesn't make me think that Rodney has an ego the size of Atlantis so much as he has never had a place and people where he felt safe and secure, so he pushes them away by being abrasive and arrogant and rude, because than no one notices he's only pretending that their constant attempts to tear him apart don't hurt. And that no one cares unless he can do something for them doesn't hurt like hell.

And this episode just. Makes me so very, very angry.

(It’s still not done yet.)

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Because it was a successful cooking experiment, so I will share!

Ingredients:

1 frozen salmon fillet (I'm using, in particular, the farmed frozen salmon that Costco sells)
1-1.5 cups of frozen pitted dark sweet cherries
the green parts of one bunch of green onions, chopped
~1/4 teaspoon roasted granulated garlic
~1/4 teaspoon roasted granulated onion
~1/4 teaspoon powdered ginger
~1/4 teaspoon powdered cardamom
~1/4 teaspoon seseme seeds
~1 teaspoon lemon juice
1.5 cup water
~1/4 cup heavy cream
salt to taste

Equipment:
electric pressure cooker

Instructions:

Put everything but the cream and the salt into the electric pressure cooker's inner pot, close up pressure cooker, and set for 12 minutes on low pressure. (Which is what the medium setting on the rice option on my instantpot is.)

Leave it be until it is done, then flip the quick-release valve, and when you can take the lid off safely, stir it up good, add the cream, stir well, and salt to taste.

And the wonder where the food has gone when your spoon unexpectedly scrapes the bottom of the empty bowl.

Nominally it would serve two. Nominally.

Less out of spoons. It is, though, grey, cold, and wet, and fuck all of that. I'm going to turn the heat up and nest in blankets for the day.

Not as sunny today, but the sun is not absent, so that's good enough.

I got the kitchen floor swept yesterday! And all the organizing that goes with sweeping, and got my laundry done, and I ate breakfast, dinner, and dessert. I finally put away the utensils from the previous load of dishes, and pulled some of the clean dishes out of the dishwasher from this load.

No story words, but also brain will not settle on a fandom, so who knows. I'll see what I get done today, if anything.

I did get more map work done, though, so that's good. Eventually I'll get this all the way down to the very fine-grained map I want. That will also be very massive, and probably split up by continent, just to reduce the size of individual files.

Breakfast this morning is dessert leftovers, because I haven't tested how well these freeze, so the sooner eaten, the better. (I am, though, now entirely out of canned fruit.)

And five things makes a post.