Life Day dinner in the Yoda/Dooku/Qui-Gon/Xanatos/Obi-Wan/Anakin/Ahsoka lineage would be a TRIP. Like, Mace Windu and Plo Koon taking bets on when the first spoonful of mashed potatoes gets thrown kind of trip.
I wandered way too far into my drafts and found this. I truly have no clue what it was. or when. but, hey, it’s a something! 🤲
also @meggory84 I had you tagged in this for jedi family shenanigans
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“Grand-Padawan, stop texting under the table.”
Ahsoka glanced up, wide-eyed. Nobody really paid her much mind when these dinners got going. But now she could see that Master Dooku’s jaw was clenched, and Master Yoda’s eyes were alight with some dangerous mischief.
Dammit. She’d missed something.
Obi-Wan sighed. “We can see you anyway—might as well just do it in the open.“
“Tell Plo I owe him ten credits,“ Qui-Gon added.
“For what?“
Ahsoka barely held back an ill-advised eye-roll.
Anakin had been focused on the dinner like any reasonable being (and he had every right—after all, he’d cooked it, and he was the only one who could eat some of the spicier dishes). Now, though, he too had realised he’d missed something, and his insatiable curiosity wouldn’t let a dead eopie lie.
He also lacked—Master Plo would call it subtlety; Obi-Wan would not-sigh and say something like “tact, Ah-nakin, tact,“ and Qui-Gon would sigh like a soft summer breeze.
Ahsoka, however, happened to know that Master Qui and Master Plo had a running bet about whether Master Yoda would ever fail to bring up that mysterious Event that only he and Master Dooku seemed to know about.
And Ahsoka had missed it again.
Somehow, any mention of The Event would invariably provoke Master Dooku—or rather, Master Yoda needling at him for the rest of the meal tended to do that. Master Dooku, however, would start looking for ways to distract himself. It didn’t work.
Last time, Master Dooku had spent over a week holed up in the Archives after the dinner ended in disaster. Master Obi-Wan had had to brave Master Nu’s disapproval to bring the man food.
To Ahsoka’s immense relief, the front door swished open.
“HULLO! DID YA MISS ME?“
Relief was a distant, shriveled thing. In the landscape of Ahsoka’s mind, a fell wind blew, and ash drifted on the chilling currents in the air.
Master Qui, on the other hand, perked up. “Xan! It’s so good to have you back, what opportune timing!”
Ahsoka could just see the corner of Xan’s cloak as he froze in the midst of kicking off his boots with as much flair and noise as he could manage. She fancied she could just about hear a soft “ohshit.“
No one was safe when Master Qui got like this.
“Join us!“ Qui-Gon continued, the grin on his face absolutely maleficent and aimed at his shrinking Grandmaster. On the other side of the table, she saw Master Obi-Wan’s hand clamp down on Master Dooku’s forearm. Master Dooku was probably remembering that time his cloak caught fire.
It used to be that Xan would do his best to break up the fight, and take the blame for it. He also had... well... a propensity for pyrotechnics and other elaborate prankery, as Master Obi-Wan put it. Ahsoka still remembered the days when Master Qui had been utterly aghast at the results. They were, in a word, messy, and tended to involve potatoes.
Lately, and especially when he was in a mood, Master Qui rather tended to encourage Xan’s destructive puckishness. With the caveat that, of course, Xan would be the one making amends and cleaning up the mess. And braving Master Yoda’s and Master Dooku’s rage afterwards, sometimes combined.
The difficulty with this, of course, was that Xanatos wasn’t just paying for his own pranks. After all, Ahsoka had it on good authority that it was Master Obi-Wan who set Master Dooku’s cloak on fire.
there was this post from ages ago that told you how to, presumably, crosspost your tumblr posts to dreamwidth. it wouldn’t do backups (iirc) but once you set it up it would basically mirror your tumblr on your dreamwidth. idk. doesn’t seem to have worked.
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Well, I found a couple of publications, but idk if they’d be helpful
*startled blinking* um. feel free to list them, actually.
At this point I have a bunch of tabs and links open out of which I’m referencing all of one sentence maybe (risky business, I know). but the fact is I don’t actually have the core text yet (2 single spaced pages) where I should, conceivably, plug them.
