June 2017

Comics

Found and binged Wilde Life, about a kind? lost? man running from his old life to a tiny town in Oklahoma… only to find himself embroiled into the affairs of a typical teenager who’s also a werewolf, at least three witches, talking animals, asshole bears, and the odd ghost or two. It’s beautifully drawn, cute and amusing and seriously good.

Fanfiction

Apparently I’m trying to read the entire Star Wars fanficdom on AO3. Or at least, those that catch my eye in the listings. Still firmly avoiding certain eww pairings. Briefly dipped into Thor fics as well. A lot of (delicious) NSFW.

• {SW} Cover Boy. {2k words}

• {SW} BB-Gate. {5k words}

• {SW} pocket full of sand. {6k + 3k + 4k + 1k + 1k + 1k + 2k + 5k + 2k words atow}

• {SW} YV-4209. {3k words}

• {SW} Take Seven. {70k words}

• {SW} Allegiance. {70k words atow}

• {SW} Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns. {125k words atow}

• {SW} Two and a Half Men (with a baby). {13k words atow}

• {Thor} Landing. {16k words}

• {Thor} The Still Point of the Turning World. {28k words}

• {Thor} Indulgence. {3k words}

• {Thor} Lying Tongues. {11k words}

• {Thor} All the Reasons I Gave. {4k words}

• {SW} you knock me out, i fall apart. {65k words atow}

• {SW} Futurus (-a -um). {60k words atow}

• {SW} If This Goes On…. {28k words atow}

• {SW} Te buyacir, te lightning bal te orar. {14k words atow}

• {SW} The Dark Path Lit by Sun and Stars. {16k words atow}

• {SW} of all the truths i could not tell. {32k words atow}

• {SW} What the Tide Drags (In/Out). {0.5k words}

• {SW} Whatever I Do (I Do It To Protect You). {52k words atow}

• {SW} Down on the Plains of Lah’mu. {8k words atow}

• {SW} hurricane on the edge of oblivion (with nowhere to go). {82k words atow}

• {SW} Realign the Stars. {39k words atow}

• {SW} Ringo Vinda and what came after…. {7k words}

• {SW} time to change the road you’re on. {27k words atow}

• {SW} The Chosen. {78k words atow}

• {SW} Ad Verecundiam. {15k words atow}

• {SW} Out of the Dark Valley. Too intense at times so I had to take breaks while reading it. {305k words atow}

• {SW} Saving Anakin Skywalker. I’m always a bit uneasy at redemption fics, but this… wasn’t bad. {54k words}

• {SW} A Cog In Something Turning. {2k words}

• {SW} The Reality of Change. {185k words}

• {SW} The Time the Force Sent Obi-Wan Back in Time and Quinlan Vos kept him from Going Kamikaze because let’s be Honest, Being Forced to Come Back in Time Would Suck.. {7k words atow}

• {SW} Warmth. {44k words atow}

• {SW} fame and glory, kid (are not the real treasures here). {4k words}

• {SW} Soldier, Poet, King. {102k words atow}

• {SW} once you start down the dark path (forever will it dominate your destiny) and forgiveness (can you imagine?). {30k + 6k words}

• {SW} Lights Will Guide You Home. {27k words atow}

• {SW} Old Ben. {32k words}

• {SW} Feathers of the Sand.

  One of the best fics I’ve read this month, perhaps even the best. It is very much a rationalist fic, where not only the world is constructed in a rational manner, but the characters are shown to think and behave according to complex reason rather than just whatever the author needed to happen at this point in time. (A work that does only the former is called a “rational” fic, which is too subtle a word difference I think.) Does enough original worldbuilding that it can get where it wants, without overwhelming the story, even though one can just see the author could happily write an entire volume about their own part and culture of the world rather than stick to the Star Wars locations and stories. A+, would recommend. {15k + 78k words atow}

Rogue One fics I want to read but haven’t gotten to yet because I’m taking a break from this crew full of feels

• {SW} The Next Chance. {4k words atow}
• {SW} Be alright tomorrow. {111k words atow}
• {SW} floating, sinking. {171k words atow}
• {SW} ice will rise from the dead. {27k words atow}
• {SW} Stay in Motion. {6k words atow}
• {SW} What Stays and What Fades. {22k words}
• {SW} Inevitable. {40k words atow}
• {SW} angel_deux’s fics.

And then I burnt out on SW for a bit, so here’s my remaining to-read / to-look-at list

• {SW} Hearts of Darkness. {389k words atow}
• {SW} oh rise with me forever. {7k words atow}
• {SW} through heaven’s eyes. {1k words}
• The OotDV chapter I’m on. (see above)
• Star Wars Minute