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the mercy cut

is finished.

This particular Skywalker Family Saga takes as its starting point Padmé attempting to kill Anakin on Mustafar, and runs wild into Rebellion, Force machinations, ghosts of generations past, dragons, queer women, and what is hopefully an interesting exploration of what justice and responsibility look like in Star Wars.

I have loved writing it. I hope you will love reading it.

the mercy cut, 330k, rated E for queer sex scenes (one per installment) and canon-typical violence. Luke & Leia, Padmé Amidala/Sabé, Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano, Leia & Jyn Erso, Luke & Anakin, Leia & Anakin.

In a secret compartment at the side of her bed—the bed they shared—there is a dagger. Long as her forearm, slim, elegant, deadly, it slides neatly from its hiding to sit against her skin, under her sleeve. She opens and closes her hand, remembering Sabé’s training, until the dagger leaps into her palm at the speed of thought.

stitchingatthecircuitboard

the first of the mercy cut’s side stories is finished!

green’s your color, 51k, rated M for depression and suicidal ideation. Barriss/Ahsoka, Barriss & Mace Windu, Barriss & Shaak Ti, Barriss & Luminara Unduli, Barriss & Yoda.

I’m sorry, Barriss wants to say. A hundred words spring to her lips and die there: I swore to protect you, but I can’t protect you from myself. I can’t protect myself from myself. I swore to follow you, but I must navigate my own madness first. I swore to love you, and I do, but—

You should have known better than to trust me.

Or: Barriss learns to live with having committed an atrocity.

stitchingatthecircuitboard

Ten years ago today, I published the first chapter of i remember summer, dimly. I spent six years writing the story that began with that chapter, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life in many ways. Thank you to the friends I made and the lessons I learned as I wrote it. Here’s to another ten years.

#fic: i remember summer; dimly #scrivenings

maidthings

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

fake-lancelot

#about stitch #queue

maedictus

Evenstar ✨️

#the silmarillion #middle earth #queue

sansaorgana

AUSTIN BUTLER as BENNY CROSS THE BIKERIDERS (2023)

#the bikeriders #queue

zaccrimart

It's the end of the world as we know it.

credits x

#dissertation #queue

dykemessiah-deactivated20230125

condola rashad as joan of arc i am free on sunday at 5 im just letting you know that i would be available on sunday at 5 if someone asked me to dinner on sunday at 5

#oh???#condola rashad #jean d’arc #jeanne d’arc #queue

exploringwithalexus

"Even the face of death could not crush the power of Jason's love. Jason did good." Father Ken Canedo

#ch: what it takes to survive #i believe in gotham city #detective comics comics #queue

nondelphic

sometimes you have to put your little guy in the Horrible Situation Factory so he can grow. i’m sorry little guy. it’s for the plot.

#fic: incorrect merciful impulses #writing #queue

pleasuretrade

i just think that the photos tom hardy took of austin butler during filming for the bikeriders

#the bikeriders #queue

jessaerys

i've always found the scene where anne dismisses mrs mapleton who was being too rough with max so that she (anne) can take over tending to max both very erotic and romantic... i remember reading a post a while back critiquing it for being too phallic-centered, i guess because we get this shot of anne lubbing up the metal hose that goes up inside max to wash out her cervix, that somehow that detail in and off itself is male-gaze-y - which seems to me like such an obtuse, bad faith reading. not even getting into the fact that lesbian women penetrate each other for pleasure you know lol like it's not a sexual scene. no one is getting off. but it is a sensual scene and it does so much in such a short simple moment - from answering the questions we've had about the experience of being a woman pirate (unaddressed until now (!)) the brutality anne has had to grow into to be respected by the dangerous men around her, to the logistics of 1700s birth control (which shows attention to detail - max magically not getting pregnant would have been unaddressed in a lesser show, i think), to the understanding between two women who know the specific physical pain of sexual violence, not because of the magic essence of womanhood but because of class (that it is a woman who is initially tending to max like cattle, dismissive of her pain, accustomed to profiting off the sexual labor of other women is, i think, not an accident), to like the bodice-ripper-esque erotic fantasy of being treated gently in one's most vulnerable places by what up until them had been presented as a brute - when anne says "i only thought they'd kill you" it tells max two things: that she is both barbarous and kind. like it's not erotic because it's about penetrating a pussy, it's erotic because it's about the power anne has to hurt max like the other pirates have done and how she chooses not to when she touches max's pussy. there's a difference. read a romance novel for crying out loud

#black sails #queue

mithrandirl

'I had to study you first, and make sure of you. The Enemy has set traps for me before now. As soon as I had made up my mind, I was ready to tell you whatever you asked. But I must admit,' he added with a queer laugh, 'that I hoped you would take to me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.'

#lord of the rings #middle earth #queue

mememuseumofhistory

#writing #queue

sweeetestcurse

Austin Butler as Benny Cross in The Bikeriders 01/??

#the bikeriders #queue

firefly464

Is this anything

rainfallsuphere

I propose an addition

parchmentengineer

Been thinking about this graph a little (actually been thinking about it a lot)

charlesoberonn

#poetry #astronomy #space #queue

ancientannoyance

And Baru cast the first dart at hand, the words that set the coopers and the fishmongers and the bannermen of Lyxaxu and Oathsfire and Unuxekome roaring: “Show them who should rule Aurdwynn, and why.” Vultjag! the poorer parts of the crowd screamed, a raw astonished sound. Vultjag!

#op i want you to know that this post is the reason i read this book and i am OBSESSED #love the way you adapted this scene and thank you so much for introducing me to baru!#the traitor baru cormorant #queue

fitz-fool

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything – or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story.”

Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner

#thomas pynchon #writing #queue

muttsandmustelidae

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

muttsandmustelidae

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!