Elendiliel

Exploring far-off galaxies, distant Continents and robotic planets from slightly unusual perspectives, through the medium of fanfiction (and the odd bit of fanart). AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/Elendiliel

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Hello, Galaxy

Now that I appear to have followers (how did that happen?), a summary post seems appropriate.

- About me: Catholic, scientist (yes, that’s not just a possible combination but quite a common one), female (she/her if you prefer), 29, based in England.

- About the blog: I started this to try to publicise my fanfics a bit more widely. Inspired by others on this site, I eventually branched out into trying my inept hand at art and the odd gifset.

- About my work: I write fanfiction, primarily for Star Wars (all the films, live action TV shows and animations from 2008 onwards, apart from Visions, and a fair amount picked up from Wookieepedia and some fan-compiled online dictionaries) and Transformers (Animated and Prime; I'm planning to include Rescue Bots as well). My main Star Wars series, Lightning Strikes, follows a less-than-conventional Jedi throughout the timeline of the Skywalker Saga, along with the men assigned to her in the Clone Wars; for Transformers, I'm tracking a young, neurodivergent field-tech from Animated Cybertron, assigned to Earth and later transported to the Prime universe by space-bridge nonsense, through the series Not Bugs, Features. I also have another Star Wars series, currently on hold, A Medic’s Guide to the Galaxy, about a nurse in the Resistance, and have written fics for The Witcher and Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels. Other fandoms - to date, Dune, the Grishaverse and Doctor Who - have strayed in in the form of crossovers, and I scatter references to everything from Hitchhiker’s to the Bible in quite liberally, sometimes without realising it.

I usually publish my stories on AO3 and then share them here, but some have been posted direct to Tumblr (masterlist here).

Art happens occasionally, when I have ideas, time and references. I have about the same natural talent as a GNK droid, but practice is helping - I think. Gifsets have been known to appear, and even the odd video edit - though I have even less practice there.

Asks are always open, and welcome, as is any other form of feedback. (If I take a while to reply, it’s because I’m busy at work and/or struggling to find the right words. Probably the latter.)

Live long and prosper, may the Force be with you, and God bless us all.

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Just (barely) before Christmas definitely ends, the second class of Rescue Bot recruits have joined the party. (I wonder, is herding Dinobots easier or harder than herding cats?)

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Follow-up to this post: the rest of the staff and a few other friends have joined in, just (barely) in time for the feast of the Epiphany. (Which is still not the end of Christmas, so there will be another drawing in this series.)

The same design notes apply as before, although a few of the "reference" pictures were my own screenshots from the show.

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This year's Christmas greetings come from the Rescue Bot recruits and their mentors. (The rest of the students and staff will be added in future iterations; watch this space.)

Design notes: all 'bots were traced from pictures found online, other than Chase, who was drawn from a screenshot I took myself. Hoist and Hot Shot were spliced together from two pictures each; Medix's colour scheme had to be taken from a different picture from the pose, as it's very dependent on the lighting around him. The robins were also traced, but the rest of the Christmas additions were freehand.

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Mixing things up for Prime Day; here's an irreverence of Rodimi Primes. (Left to right: G1, Dreamwave (from the More than Meets the Eye guidebooks), IDW (specifically MTMTE), TFA.)

[Design notes: all traced from various screenshots and comic panels; G1's was Googled (and hastily modified when I realised too late I'd chosen a picture of Hot Rod), Dreamwave's and TFA's were my screenshots of the MTMTE guidebook and Allspark Almanac 2 respectively and IDW's came from the TF Refs Discord server. New favourite style to copy: G1. Reigning least favourite component to draw: realistic tyres.]

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Catching the tail-end of Transformermay with a rough drawing of my OC Glitch as a mermaid (inspired by @keferon's Apocalyptic Ponyo AU). She's a mer healer, kind and gentle with her patients, friends and family, fierce as a wild orca (though not as dangerous, as she's only human-sized) when defending anyone she cares about, and fascinated by humans (albeit rather warier of them since her mentor lost all four fins to poachers - but another human saved him, so they can't be all bad, right?). So when a tsunami hits a nearby human city, she packs her bags, arranges cover for all her shifts and sets out to help.

[Design notes: face and body traced and heavily modified from photos of Emma Peel and Cathy Gale, respectively, from "The Avengers" (the '60s spy drama); colouring taken from my last design for TFA Glitch, and guided by keferon's designs for AP Jazz and Prowl.]

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While it's still technically May the Fourth, here are some of my favourite moments from every Star Wars film and show so far (other than Visions and Forces of Destiny). (Yes, most of these are taken from my previous compilation; no, I don't know what happened to the subtitles on two of the new clips, or how to fix them.)

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Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. 

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

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I'm Going To Save Them All (27867 words) by Elendiliel Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, Original Jedi Character(s) (Star Wars), Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), CT-1284 | Spark, Clone Trooper Longshot (Star Wars), Osi Sobeck, R2-D2 (Star Wars), CC-2224 | Cody, Wilhuff Tarkin, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Trooper Hardcase (Star Wars), CT-5385 | Tup, CT-6922 | Dogma, Pong Krell, Clone Trooper Waxer (Star Wars), Original Characters Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, I would have said "everybody lives" but Umbara will happen, all the named characters will live though, and many unnamed ones, Action/Adventure, episode rewrite, Citadel Arc (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Fix-It, (to what extent I don't yet know), Rescue Missions, Umbara Arc (Star Wars: Clone Wars), Planet Umbara (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Hardcase Lives (Star Wars), Major Character Injury, Betrayal, Diplomacy, Hurt/Comfort, obligatory vodpile Series: Part 101 of Lightning Strikes Summary: The Citadel. Umbara. Ringo Vinda. Just three of the 501st Legion's most costly missions and battles. But what if each one had gone slightly differently? What if even a few other people had brought their unique talents and skills to bear on those bloody problems? And what if one of those people were a Jedi dead set on saving as many lives as possible? Helli Abbasa is about to find out…

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As promised, and while it's still Chrismas season (just about), here's a full version of this picture.

(The same design notes apply. Sorry for the delay, by the way; life's been slightly on top of me lately (what's new?), but not completely so.)

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Per @twilightna's request (and rather later than I intended - sorry about that), here are some new Blurr gifs. (By the by, requests for gifs, compilations etc. are always welcome - though the results may be delayed by time zone and other shenanigans.)

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Wishing everyone a very happy and blessed Christmas, along with the whole Burns, Rescue Bot and Greene-Baranova family (and, no doubt, the rest of Griffin Rock).

(Edited versions of this may appear, as and when I have time to add other 'bots.)

[Design notes: mostly traced from an assortment of Googled pictures and screenshots, several of which came from @/rescuebotsoutofcontext, which also helped me get the scaling roughly right; the extra details are mine, along with any expressions that didn't come out right. By the way, Woodrow's wearing a Scandinavian nisse's (elf's) hat (no Danish Christmas is complete without a number of nisser around the place), and Anna's wreath comes from the Swedish Sankta Lucia procession. (The candles are electric and have been thoroughly safety-tested by Chase.) And Doc's badge was meant to be the chemical structure of cinnamaldehyde, which is responsible for the scent of cinnamon.]

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