#silveronthetree

[cacchieressa]

I was tagged for this GTKY meme by @silveronthetree

Name: victoria p.

Nickname(s): shoe, miss july

Gender: female

Star Sign: Cancer

Height: 5′3"

Sexuality: straight

Hogwarts House: if I were sorted at 11, Ravenclaw. Now, probably Hufflepuff.

Average Hours of Sleep: 7, 8 or 9 if I can.

Dog or Cat Person: dog! I am allergic to cats

Blankets You Sleep With: a top sheet and a comforter, with an extra fleece blanket if it gets really cold.

Dream Trip: sail up the Nile

When You Made Your Blog: for Tumblr, October 2010

Reasons For Your URL: I thought it was going to be separate from musesfool? Idek. It's a misspelling of chiacchieressa, which was one of my nicknames in high school, which means 'chatterbox' in Italian.

Followers: 1874, and I'm pretty sure at least 50 are not porn bots.

Why You Made A Tumblr: I Did It All For the Robins, i.e., to follow the fyeahs for Dick Grayson and Jason Todd without having to remember to check in on them for new content.

color(s) I’m currently wearing: gray long sleeved t-shirt and darker gray (with hot pink lining) yoga pants.

last band t-shirt I bought: Man, I don't think I've bought a band t-shirt since the early 90s. Maybe the La's?

last band I saw live: Billy Joel at MSG! Last month. It was awesome.

last song I listened to: Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin

lipstick or chapstick: chapstick then lipstick.

last movie I watched: does the youtube of the Star Wars Battlefront II movie count? Because that.

last 3 TV shows I watched: The Good Place, the Rangers game, Runaways

last 3 characters I identified with: Chidi Anagonye, Eleanor Shellstrop, Gert Yorkes

books I’m currently reading: shockingly, nothing. I have been swept up in preparing to move, so all I've been reading in my spare time is fic.

[mustreadwinterwidow]

Improvements aren't always for the best. Roboarm cuddling ficlet. Rating: General audiences

[roane72]

29 for the ask meme

What is the ship you ignore 98% of canon for?

I bet you know which ship I ignore the most canon for. :D There’s a lot of Luke/Biggs canon (well, EU canon anyway) that I adore, but there’s just that ONE REALLY BIG THING that I ignore, and that’s the big thing everybody remembers anyway, so that counts as 98%, I’d say.

Valentine Fandom Ask Meme

[cacchieressa]

I was born in the desert I been down for years Jesus, come closer I think my time is near And I've traveled over Dry earth and floods Hell and high water To bring you my love

Climbed over mountains Traveled the sea Cast down off heaven Cast down on my knees I've lain with the devil Cursed god above Forsaken heaven To bring you my love

[cacchieressa]

18 for the ask meme

Since i already answered 18, @silveronthetree then asked: 6 or 22!

6. most underrated character

While this is probably about lesser known or secondary characters, I think people still don’t give Luke Skywalker his due, so that’s who I’m going to say. It’s hard because Han and Leia and Vader and Obi-Wan are all so much larger than life and they get the cool lines and dramatic fight scenes, but Luke is so awesome and all people want to do is talk about how he whines. But that’s the whole point! He starts out as a kid - a 19yo kid whose biggest problem is that his uncle doesn’t let him go hang out with his friends. And then he rescues a princess and blows up a battle station and suddenly a whole galaxy of choices and adventures is laid at his feet, and he’s so powerful and yet so kind, and so people forget about the power, and how much of a choice that kindness and compassion is, how it’s what he does (or did, anyway), rather than just a quirk of who he is.

22. best star wars actor

I have to say Ian McDiarmid, because that seduction scene at the opera in RotS is probably the best thing in the prequels and he’s so awfully good in it. I feel like he makes it out of the prequels unscathed - none of the issues I have with those movies makes me think less of his performance. He’s top notch at all times.

[cacchieressa]

@silveronthetree and I were talking about Scandalore (which is a hilarious and awesome AU you should check out if you haven’t already), and I was like, "Anakin: an inconvenient padawan" and she said, "that sounds like a Regency romance," which was totally my intention! (I mean, you have met me, right?)

And then we started trying to figure out how to do a Star Wars Regency AU - who would it be about? And she said she was thinking about Devil's Cub (my favorite Heyer!) and I was like, you could do Han/Leia with that, with Leia as Vidal and Han as Mary (her: "Han is certainly the sort to follow through with a blaster shot..."), and then I was like, you know who is perfectly suited to a Regency AU? Obi-Wan/Satine.

Picture it: Mandalore, fifteen(?) years ago - Obi-Wan and Satine spent a year together on the run from assassins! and then they meet again in the present! and people are still trying to kill them! but now they're supposed to be respectable adults doing respectable adult things like dancing and flirting in ballrooms and meeting in the political arena where her outré views are ridiculed and he'll do anything to protect her!

silveronthetree: Regency would be perfect for Obi-Wan and Satine. The pining! The flirting across the dance floor. The potential scandal. So good

me: the way she would rap his forearm with her fan, and he would hold her too tightly during the waltz!

silveronthetree: And all the hissed under their breath arguments on the dance floor.

me: ooh, maybe anakin and padme would elope and obi-wan and satine would go after them to save them from the scandal

silveronthetree: Oh they absolutely would!

me: and of course, obi-wan and satine get caught in the same scandal and anakin is like, i think you're the one who has to get married, obi-wan; ahsoka and all of padme's handmaidens were with us the whole time!

silveronthetree: Forced on a road trip but this time without the somewhat dubious chaperoning of qui-gon

me: YES

silveronthetree: There has to be a duel though. I mean this is Obi-Wan. Or was that what pulled them apart in the first place? Satine couldn't countenance a duel for her honour or something

me: ooh yes! she was going to ask him to stay! and he would have! but after it was all over and she thought she was safe but then there was some random dude who tried to start rumors about her virtue(?) and obi-wan dueled the guy - "I didn't kill him, satine, why are you so upset? he only lost a hand!" and satine is like, "you cannot maim everyone who spreads rumors about me, obi-wan!"

silveronthetree: He's secretly all yes I can!

me: yes! and so they part on cranky terms rather than stay together, and over the years, Obi-Wan thinks fondly of her but thinks he probably made the right decision - they would have killed each other if they'd stayed together, and he's a good jedi!

And then they meet again!

silveronthetree: Oooh. So why do they meet?

me:  well, the clone wars is still happening? like the peninsular war? because then it could be at some sort of peace conference that fails OR ooh ooh could there be something like the duchess of richmond's ball? where he has to run off to battle from the dance floor? and she's like, don't get yourself killed obi-wan! i still have arguments we need to settle!

silveronthetree: Obi-wan in knee breeches and he keeps leaving his greatcoat or jacket in random places and shocking everyone by his improper dress

me:  ahahaha yes! and anakin is just like,"master, could you please keep your clothes on in company? padme's family thinks we're bad ton."

silveronthetree: And Obi-Wan flushes because he doesn't mean to but at the next ball he has to rescue someone and there his coat goes again

So I guess the question is - is this set in the romance novel version of Regency England, or should it be set in the GFFA with Regency social values/mores/etc.? I am leaning towards the latter but am still trying to figure out how to make that work.

Obviously it would have to be titled "Half-Truths and Hyperbole."

(other ideas: Obi-Wan and Anakin as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, with Satine as Edward Ferrers and Padme as Colonel Brandon; or Obi-Wan as Captain Wentworth and Satine as Anne.)

[cacchieressa]

for reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture, @silveronthetree and I were talking about a Star Wars Top Gun AU, and all I can think about now is shirtless Jedi beach volleyball. And also Anakin and Obi-Wan singing “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” to Padme.

[cacchieressa]

Huddling for warmth for the meme!

I am very likely to write this one! I love this one! And right now, it would have to be Finn and Rey (and maybe Poe? I haven’t figured out how to write him yet).

Anyway, Rey’s from a freaking desert planet and Finn is used to climate controlled star destroyers and space stations etc., and they’re not dressed properly for the environment, but Finn was great at survival stuff in training and he knows that if you strip naked and bundle, you’ll conserve body heat better. Rey is mostly skeptical but willing because she wants to cuddle with Finn and doesn’t really know how to do that? So she’ll take the opportunity when it’s offered!