Mollymando

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[mollymando]

Hello there! Just came from reading Come Devil Come and wanted to ask if you had any other fics out there? Absolutely in love with your writing style 🥰

(General Kenobi) Thank you so much, I'm always baffled that people seem to like my self-indulgent fic as much as I do! Apart from 'How Obi-Wan learned to stop worrying and love the fall' I don't, but!! literally yesterday I started working on more chapters for Come Devil Come because I'm rewatching the prequels and the brain weevils have snuck back in. I make no promises of when more chapters will come but more chapters Will come ‼️

[creaturefeature333]

here’s the qui-gon and obi-wan vs darth maul fight from phantom menace but tracked to gimme gimme gimme by abba

[amynchan]

What on earth possessed you to do this?

[coline7373]

Genius. Clearly.

[mollymando]

Book Bingo Category - Micro History

Dava Sobel's Longitude; The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Finished - 09th Jan 2026

Review - 5/5

I don't want to be too dramatic on book 2, but reading this made me get the whole thing with book bingo. This was a book I was absolutely never going to read by myself, having gone into it not even knowing the difference between latitude and longitude and bracing myself for a quite dull read about people figuring out something I didn't conceptually understand.

Despite that, I thought it was phenomenal, and read it so much quicker than I thought I was going to. Sobel writes clearly and energetically, not letting you get too caught up (and in my case confused) with how sailors established longitude using the sky or using clocks. It's not the type of book to read if you desperately want to know how to do that, but it is if you have ever expressed any interest in the development of clockmaking, the history of sailing, astronomy or even if you just want to go hey I know that guy. Galileo, Flamsteed, Halley, Newton, King George III, Darwin, there's a lot of names in there that made me realise how close together in time they all lived.

I'm not a historian by any means, and I'm sure there's much that Sobel didn't include in the story - my edition of the book is only 185 pages - but for the first time in my life I'm interested in visiting the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to see the various places mentioned in the book, and is that not the point of non-fiction?

@2026-book-bingo

[mollymando]

Book Bingo Category - Short Story Collection

Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo and Other Stories

Finished - 07th Jan 2026

Review - 3.5/5

Having been a fan of The Magnus Archives since 2020, and being a lifelong horror fan, Algernon Blackwood is a name I have been hearing for years as a cornerstone of classic gothic/ghost story horror, and after reading I can say deservedly so.

As it's a collection of short stories, the quality varies drastically between each, and some of them have incredibly uncomfortable racist language and description that does make it difficult to read - I did not enjoy The Doll and A Haunted Island, the first for the racist language and the second because horror just seemed to be the fact that there were Native Americans. A Descent Into Egypt was also weak, but this is more for being unclearly written and in my opinion rather dull.

Where the short stories shine, however, is in the eco-gothic. Maybe because I'm currently writing an eco-gothic piece, and therefore paying a lot of attention to stories that work in a similar genre, but the true standouts of the collection were The Wendigo, The Man who the Trees Loved and The Willows. All three slightly longer stories do a remarkable job at ambience and presenting the natural as unnerving and threatening, drawing in the humans sometimes willingly and sometimes against all their instincts. The Man who the Trees Loved especially presents the fascinating dynamic of someone trying to fight against the forces of a forest to protect a loved one, which just creates a really intense energy that is built out by Blackwood's depictions of the natural world around them as a threat and an overwhelming power. All three also do really well at not having a monster front and centre, but being completely reliant on the skill of Blackwood to build the mood.

Also for fans of ghost stories, I would recommend The Kit-Bag and The Empty House for being superbly written and deeply creepy stories - I read The Empty House at 1am so I can understand being freaked out by that one but I read The Kit-Bag in a car ride in the middle of the day and still got a little scared.

@2026-book-bingo

[saiintofawe]

holy shit dude the elephant in the room just beat that horse to death holy fuck he's still going

[eliassimp]

hilltop road....

[pasteldice]

I do think it’s really funny how “socially awkward wizard” is always an immediate hit in the cr blorbo scale

[otterandterrier]

"we need more complex women characters!!" you can't even handle the idea of Leia not forgiving Darth Vader

[orientalld]

Still love this AU with all my heart

Hades&Persephone

[mimosa-sex-tea-people-contrsf]

Deserved to be a Villain Poll Round 2 Part 1

Anakin Skywalker

Squirrelstar

Voting ended onAug 22, 2025

[bird-prince-afterhours]

If the Kenobi show gets a season 2 I really really really want Vader to come back again bc I think it would be hilarious if like every six months Vader and Obi-Wan just had a knock out brawl. Vader just keeps getting his ass beat all the way up to A New Hope.

“When last we met I was a learner-“ and it was like, last week.

[darkcrowprincess]

What if one episode they are trapped somewhere together and have to work as a team to get out alive?

[bluemoonscape]

I’m sobbing this could be such gold

Obi-Wan and Vaderkin in a whole elaborate escape room constructed by a dedicated space fujoshi. They need two Force users to get out so they can’t immediately try to decapitate one another. Obi-Wan goes from the very stiff and saddened “Darth” to downright exasperated “Ah-nakin, for the love of the Force, you have to turn it right to tighten it” while Vader dramatically shouts through the voice modulator “I AM TURNING IT RIGHT”

[fealty-to-thee]

s1 jon: this statement Would have been absolute drivel wasting the time of myself and literally everyone at the institute that i nonetheless put 100000 hours of inspection into even though it's meaningless and is nothing to me........if not for this one detail. as it is, it gives me the heebie jeebies. dont tell anyone i said that.

s2 jon: listen this is how you make sure you dont get killed: run around in the dark by yourself. tell the worst lies anyone has EVER heard. also i got stabbed but its fine now. i need to figure out why everyone decided to work here its weird bc this place sucks. i can't just ask them so i will look in their desks instead

s3 jon: WHY do i keep getting kidnappedSTOP PICKING ME UP BY THE SCRUFF OF MY GODDAMN NEoh wait are you Murderous Mike?? from the statements! please describe how you got to be so murderous-- OWWW. okay but tell me i think im like.. you? so tell me,

s4 jon: ah, Murderous Mike yet again. that reminds me of this philosophical conundrum i have been spiraling over for the past two weeks. and also how much ive been missing martin. do you think the world would be better if i were killed. be honest

s5 jon: martin. martin do you understand the dreadful metaphor. good because i was Nott going to explain it. i should probably be shot dead but that isn't going to happen (im too special) so i am going to bother my extremely stressed out companions instead :)doyou want to hear a joke that you wont like :)

[madfanboy]

We need to steal the era's cgi budget from them until they learn how to use it correctly. Get ready to use bubble wrap villains again, Doctor Who.

[mollymando]

take it AWAY bubble wrap pipe cleaners green spray paint cardboard boxes and half held together headpieces

[meshla-cyarika]

Doctor Who propaganda I'm not falling for:

Mfs who still say "recton 13" and then glaze the fuck out of this new era.

Not acknowledging that bringing back old faces to play the doctor breaks lore and having these specific faces coming back makes it seem like other eras dont matter.

Believing that Disney is the only one to blame for how this era has turned out.

Praising RTD for his inclusivity when it's really just the bare minimum.

People who acknowledge that the writer is bad but still like it cuz its "fun". Tell me you really dont care about the show without telling me you really dont care for the show.

People saying that 13 showing up in the reality war had the best writing she's ever got. Mf she acted the same as she did in chibnall's era you just clearly have never rewatched 13s era since it came out and now that you've seen her again and aren't clouded by hate just cuz she's a woman you're seeing her in a new light.

People who blame Ncuti for david tennant showing up as 14 and how 15 regenerated so quickly just because he wanted to extend his career into other things. Just cuz he was busy did NOT mean Russel had to call in david Tennant specifically, nor did it mean he had to have 15 regenerate he could've just put the show on a break for a bit which would make sense because Ncuti filmed the 60th, season 1 and season 2 back to back. No one would've complained if it had a pause (WHICH IT IS HAVING ANYWAY SO WHY DID 15 EVEN REGENERATE IN THE FIRST PLACE).

People who say "oh, I really hope (insert beloved character here) will show up!!" DONT GIVE RTD IDEAS YOU LUNATICS.

[excalisi]

Your name is Obi-Wan Kenobi, and you are twenty-five years old. Your Master has fallen to the saber of a Sith, and the boy he'd intended to replace you with is given to you as a padawan. He looks up at you with big eyes bluer than the color of Coruscant's noonday sky, and you don't know it yet, but you'll love him forever. It will lead you to ruin, but you wouldn't be able to save yourself from it even if you'd learned of what is to come.

He looks very small and very lost. You don't offer him your hand, but when you begin walking to your quarters and he hurries to catch up, you shorten the length of your strides so you can walk side-by-side. Easily, and without much effort at all, your steps synchronize and the pair of you are walking in perfect time. His shoulder brushes against your hip, and he looks up again to smile—just a small, uncertain little curve of a thing—at you.

You smile back, and inevitability closes its teeth around your throat.

[galactic-rhea]

mission on swamp planet<3

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[duchess-of-mandalore]

I didn’t change anything. This is what happened.