“I am itchy.”

she/her i write sometimes on Ao3 as JellyOpal ✨Tech’s Not Dead✨

[jelly-opal]

I put the link to my Tumblr in my latest fic, but I thought that I would actually introduce myself here and talk about my fics, I guess?

Hi yeah so, I'm Opal and/or Jelly, she/her. Mostly Star Wars stuff around here with some other stuff occasionally mixed in, plus the occasional Original Thought if I'm feelin froggy. Very much in a deep TBB phase (heavy on the Phee and Tech and TechPhee).

I write on Ao3 sometimes as jelly-opal. Tl;dr, fic quick-links below:

Obitine fics are here:

All That I Can Do is Done (3k words, one-shot)

Empty Air (9k words, wip vignettes)

And That, She Decides, is a Triumph (1.1k words, one-shot, Obitine Week 2023)

She Will, My Love (1.3k one-shot, Obitine Week 2023)

She is Indeed (900 words, Obitine Week 2023)

TechPhee can be found here:

Fulgurite (8k words, one-shot, Quinlan Vos POV, Tech lives AU + some Vostress)

Sentries (1.1k words, one-shot, TBB Sanctuary missing moment getting together fic)

Cosmos (1k words, multi-chapter WIP, TBB Sanctuary missing moment in which Tech thinks thoughts of the Baby variety)

Standard of Care (1.1k words, one-shot, TBB Sanctuary missing moment after the Gas Incident in Chapter 22)

Quinlan and Asajj saving kids and being chaotic AU is right here:

Sunshower (2k words, one-shot)

Padme, Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-Wan being friends here:

I'd Keep You Here With Me (2.8k words, one-shot)

Reprieve (5.2k words, one-shot)

Padme and Obi-Wan being friends is here:

Grateful (1.3k words, one-shot)

And Obi-Wan's mama thinking about her little boy can be found here:

Her Boy (700 words, one-shot)

Largely un-updated details below:

We've got some Padme, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Anakin friendship stuff:

I'd Keep You Here With Me: Padmé & Obi-Wan & Anakin & Ahsoka, 2.8k — In which Padmé shirks her Senatorial duties for a bit to help Ahsoka with her Galactic Politics homework, watch Anakin and Obi-Wan bicker, and offer them all a cup of tea.

Reprieve: Padmé & Obi-Wan & Anakin & Ahsoka, 5.2k — In which a famished Padmé only agrees to help Anakin and Obi-Wan prepare for a mission in exchange for dinner. Naturally, they get nothing productive done (at first, anyway). Or: Our quartet eats greasy diner food in Padmé’s fancy apartment.

Then we have the Obitine fics:

Empty Air: Obi-Wan/Satine, 9.1k wip — At times, running from bounty hunters is a surprisingly quiet affair.

A collection of short vignettes exploring the burgeoning feelings between a Duchess and a Padawan, the bond between Master and apprentice, and the ways in which the three of them make the most of their year on the run. Featuring, among other things, a broken radio, some singing, and a bit of holodrama gossip.

All That I Can Do Is Done: Obi-Wan/Satine, 3k — Many things are lost in the rise of the Empire. Buried under smoldering rubble, once-glittering planets, eloquent rulers, and exuberant ways of life are lost to time. The late Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore is one of many who are forgotten about with the onslaught of chaos and devastation.

But Obi-Wan remembers. He could never forget.

Inspired by Mitski’s “Remember My Name”

Next is a study of his friendship with Padmé:

Grateful: Obi-Wan & Padmé, 1.3k — His world crumbled on Naboo. He was nearly brought to his knees by the spontaneous, cataclysmic shift in his life: the reemergence of the Sith, the loss of his Master, and the sudden responsibility for a little boy that called him Master. Despite that, he was heartened to know that Naboo was not dark. Padmé would never let it be so. She led with pure light.

And finally, a micro-fic from the perspective of Obi-Wan's mama:

Her Boy: Obi-Wan's mother & Obi-Wan, 700 words — Her son was taken from her to be trained as a Jedi over 30 years ago. He's still her little boy, even when the only things she knows about him are from sporadic updates about the War.

Based on this piece of art by @stealingpotatoes

[optical-trapping]

[eternalgirlscout]

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[liz-squids]

Excuse me, does your firm also represent women under thirty who experience fandom misogyny from people who are mad at That Girl From College/Work/High School?

[eternalgirlscout]

we take those cases pro fucking bono

[poupon]

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[gabescrayons]

in memory of my childhood fish tank lamp

[sim-jaeyuns]

Tech in The Bad Batch 1.01

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[snotbuggle]

No one told me Tech and Mel had so much beef in Sanctuary. It’s like the relationship between a man and his girlfriend’s dog/bff who doesn’t like men

And I’m loving it. Not even that far into the book

[jelly-opal]

It's interesting seeing gifsets of TBB S3 because I so rarely venture back into that season with the exception of a handful of scenes so I'm usually like, oh yeah right that's a thing that happened I guess, I did actually kind of forget.

[jelly-opal]

Rest assured I’ve got Phee’s freefall scene from Juggernaut memorized though.

[jelly-opal]

It's interesting seeing gifsets of TBB S3 because I so rarely venture back into that season with the exception of a handful of scenes so I'm usually like, oh yeah right that's a thing that happened I guess, I did actually kind of forget.

[depsidase]

[theperksofneurodivergency]

The mental gymnastics required to say that effort doesn’t require effort is fucking insane

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[rockergiirl]

[soymoss]

disco starling

[cyanocoraxx]

the humble peppered cory........

[probadbatch]

It's magnetically sealed featuring (almost) all my favorite idiots

[crittaslink]

I gotta hand it to sandler that this scene is exactly what listening to that song feels like.

[gasolinehive]

— RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA

Ryuichi Sakamoto playing a piano (Grand Yamaha) that survived a tsunami which killed more than 1,600 people after the earthquake in Fukushima on March 11, 2011. He said it felt like playing "the corpse of a piano that had drowned"