#ruth baulding

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

how does ruth baulding characterize ahsoka?? ive never finished anything they've written so if it's that bad i'm not even gonna try lmao

Well the Lineage series is pretty good from what I remember (but it might be my nostalgia speaking, mind you) and there are quite a few standalone stories that I love, despite everything being based on Jedi Apprentice or other EU books.

But for Ahsoka... Hmm... There’s a one-shot where she’s studying and chats with Obi-Wan. She’s kinda, more subdued than in canon, but nothing too egregious. The problem is the Armistice story, where both Bail *and* Anakin *and* other people separately think of her as ‘exotic’ (like wtf, there are plenty of Togruta on Coruscant, piss off) and ‘aware of her femininity’, as in she purposely dresses and moves to catch people’s attention. Which. THE FUCK? Not even posting what’s exactly said here, but... It’s bad. It’s really bad. 

I’m pretty sure the bad characterization comes from Armistice being explicitly based on Karen Traviss and Karen Miller’s TCW books. (Says so in the summary, and also the Altisian Jedi are there! Yay! *brings a torch and burns KT’ legacy from my memory* Uuuugh.) 

[pagingdoctorcarter]

Answer me. I must know.

[elfpen]

As a Reprise lurker (seriously love all your work on that, its SO fantasic) Any recs from among those time travel fics? Asking as a time travel trope junkie

Gahhh sorry for taking so long to respond to this!

I was wracking my brain trying to think of my favorite time travel fics, most of which date back many years. There weren’t so many back when I was actively reading a lot of fanfic, and one of them I know I’m forgetting the name of, but the one that really sticks out in my mind is Unexpected Awakening by Rhiw. I read it many years ago, and am fuzzy on the plot details, but I remembering enjoying it a great deal when I was younger. (ALSO Apparently she’s doing a rewrite???? Updated last in December??? Good lord this is a blast from the past...)

Also, it’s not time travel, but so long as we’re on the topic of fic recs, if you ever read any Obi-Wan/pr-saga-centric fic at all, please read anything and everything written by Ruth Baulding. 

In a double tragedy, I have to inform you, however, that Unexpected Awakening was never finished, and Ruth Baulding herself has taken leave of the Star Wars fandom for reasons unknown. But, they’ve both left us with some enjoyable reads, so have at it. 

[luvvewan]

Important Reminder

that Ruth Baulding’s Call of the Wild is a masterpiece. In this *gen* story:

Qui-Gon holds Obi-Wan’s hand as they sleep on the ground.

Obi-Wan is encouraged by the wolf-like lifeforms of the primative planet to show proper respect to Qui-Gon by laying at his feet. He acquiesces.

Lots of grumpy, exasperated Obi-Wan.

Lots of amused Qui-Gon.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan mud wrestle, shirtless.

And then Qui-Gon spanks Obi-Wan’s butt at the end of their shirtless mud wrestle.

Lots of worried Master, stroking his sleeping Padawan’s hair.

Qui-Gon, propped against a wall, beckons Obi-Wan to him during a dark moment of near dehydration, and Obi-Wan huddles against Qui-Gon’s chest to sleep. This is the image that is in my mind most of the day, every day.

Obi-Wan leans his forehead against Qui-Gon’s, tenderly, and whispers to him.

Lots of worried, brave Padawan, risking his life for his Master.

Obi-Wan falls asleep in a “half-embrace” with an injured Qui-Gon.

Obi-Wan falls asleep on top of Qui-Gon, and remains that way until morning.

From the wolf character’s POV, Obi-Wan is referred to as a “pup”, Qui-Gon is an “alpha”. Many other adorable and apt descriptions of them.

Very little plot to get in the way of all that good stuff listed here.

Did I mention shirtless mud wrestling and spanking?

[drakefeathers]

lineage xi

i cry a lot

[panharmonium]

Hi, thanks for continuing to be awesome! I love the Qui-gon and obi-wan and your Blog has been fantastic for that! And your art, just so goooood! - A long time ago, you posted about a female fanfic writer that did a huge/amazing series of Star Wars stories about Qui-gon and obi-wan padawanship (early years I think) and that you or a friend of yours would print them out in a book form to read them? Do you remember who that was or the link to their work? Thank you for you time and blog! MTFBWY.

Yes, definitely!  The author we liked so much is Ruth Baulding on fanfiction.net - author page is here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3380015/ruth-baulding.  The series that covers an AU version of Obi-Wan’s padawanship is called Lineage.  There are…11 installments, I think.  It then goes on to be continued in another series, Legacy, which I haven’t actually read yet.  And RB has written a ton of other awesome chaptered stories and one-shots as well.  Thank so much for the message; happy reading! :D

[jubilucky]

time to read lineage again

[dyingsighs]

The death of Satine (One Too Many by Ruth Baulding)