Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

Welp, I'm ages behind on everything, and  have been writing up a storm on the things that pay the mortgage.  Also, getting older sucks and I've been struggling with a whole string of health-related things.  Nothing overly serious, at least not yet, but all requiring management.

I fell into binge watching The Librarians, I love Agent Carter, got caught up on Elementary, which has been so strong this season and now reruns of Master Chef have been on BBC America so I've been working out at night to that. 
Also, FESTIVIDS are live, awesome and I love them. 
And Half-A-Moon is live, 14 days celebrating women in fandom, so GO FORTH and at least share links and recs!  I've not done anything yet.  I usually do at least rec list of a few fics I've enjoyed that are fem-oriented.

IT IS OBVIOUSLY A SIGN FROM THE PANTHEON OF FIC DEITIES BECAUSE I RECEIVED 2 QUERIES ABOUT HOSTING A 3 SENTENCE FICATHON ON DREAMWIDTH.  SO THAT WILL BE OPENING TOMORROW!!  I horrible at banners and things but I'll try to do something there. 

( Blather about TSG, committment to update, and such )

I suppose it's fitting.  This year, I finally, finally uploaded all of Stuff to AO3 under rthstewart and on fanfiction.net under the old G2 handle.  I went back and wrote Mara in an xover with River Song in Separated at Birth in 2011 and observed at the time that some 16 years after writing Stuff, I found I was interested in different things, like whether Mara had any friends.  I'd said what I had to say about Luke and Mara in Stuff and that was all there was to say.  However, Stuff certainly assumed lots of backstory and that post Last Command Mara had a very rich life independent of Luke, that she possessed emotional intelligence, that she was loyal, that she could be fun.  What did her life look like without Luke in it? 

There were some really wonderful Mara prompts in yuletide this year.  The one I'm really sorry I didn't get to was one by beatrice_otter  that had me plotting Mara and Karrde on their first caper together.  I'll get to that because damn, that would be fun.  But that left some other stories that I thought I could tell, missing moments between Mara and Karrde that admittedly fill in some of my own head canon, especially abut Mara's ties to the lightsaber Luke gives her (the big tube of lipstick) and the Jade's Fire and the importance of home, belonging, and freedom.    ancarett  and Princess_lirin had great prompts and it was really fun to take them on as treats.

So, I wrote Home Game and Emerald Light Refracted and Dispersed which are both closely related and in fact, if you're inclined to read,  I'd recommend you read the first two parts of Emerald Light (Mara and Karrde just post TLC and just post Jedi Academy), then read Home Game (which is post Jade Solitaire and before the Corellian series) and then conclude with the final bit of Emerald Light, Mara and Karrde post-Vision.  Home Game is where I really set out my head canon on just why the Fire was so important to Mara and why it was Such A Big Deal when she destroyed her ship in Vision. 

so read if you like!  Or not!

One final observation is how really quaint the stories read to me.  They harken back to a different era in a way, heavy on dialogue and SW tech, written as spackle and gap filler in the Bantam Spectra era.  They aren't as plotty as the WEG Adventure Journal stories because that's never been my strength, but the feel, to me, is similar.  They are very old fashioned.  To that end, there are a things in both stories slipped in that harken back to that era--, references to Karrde's hard drinking Corellian stringer and the splicing of the ship transponder, Kyp Durron, Shada, the Jade's Fire beacon call, (heck the emphasis upon the ship at all), the fact that Zahn always thought post-TLC that Mara had a calling as a teacher,  and a few other things.  Certainly, anyone who has read my SW work over the years (and my and Yav's collaborations) knew it was me and I really had some moments of LULZ when Dunc  posted about the yuletide prompts on CJ. 

So, that's all.  Read if you like.  Happy Yuletide!

I was starting to work on the NFE and then this fell out. It's not quite the way I wanted it but if I didn't get it out, I'd never get back to the NFE.  It's all Digory angst and goodness I suck at writing angst.  Also, there's lots of my harping on the themes of redemption, mercy, forgiveness, and grace. 

I quote again from what has gone before but I liked the reference to the Great Lay.  It's kinda sad to think what losses Edmund is (not) dealing with even as he helps Digory.  It completely skews the relationship and the Ps are probably a bit too composed but as I mention in my note, Miniver's gorgeous This Other Eden is my head canon here.  buttonloops  mentioned her own Well Done and it's an lovely piece in the genre of Digory angst which gave me some guidance in this heretofore uncharted area of spiritual angst. 

And why yes, having been a lector and teaching catechism for about 30 years, I do know something of the Bible.  A little.  A bit.

So,  Chapter 9 of AW went up today, on the second anniversary of when I started posting TSG.  Yikes.  My notifications through FF.net are completely screwy.  I am not getting them at all or they come 12 to 24 hours later.  This doesn't help my perennial anxiety whenever I post.  So, do let me know, here or via a review if you got it. 

A huge thanks to all of you who made note of letters that you wanted to read and thought should be included.  In looking through this chapter, it really is a sum and substance of so much that has gone before and so much of what is to come. 


( The Research )

( The Highlights and Lowlights )

 

( Part 2 )