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[thenumbertwentyseven]

Physical copies of The Wyvern

Okay I've gotten several messages concerning the physical copies of the Wyvern featured on princesszorldo's page, so I thought I'd put some basics right here for those wondering how I got them!

I used Barnes and Noble to publish the books, I did not bookbind myself. The only reason I did this is because of my nonexistent bookbinding skill and princesszorldo's permission to do so. If you are wanting to publish other fics through them please make sure you contact the author.

I typeset the entire fic myself to fit a 9x6 book size, the PDFs I send should be editable in case you want a different size but please keep in mind that making it look good for that size will take extra effort.

Yes, I'll send you my PDFs of all the text! The Wyvern is a massive work so I have it split into 3 different 'Volumes' with accompanying covers.

Many if not all images from the original fic did not react well to any attempt to format them, so the twitter posts and some news articles will not be included in the physical book, I'm sorry about that!

Last but not least (probably most important), I am NOT ACTIVE on my Tumblr most days. I don't receive notifications of messages for some reason so it could take me a bit to see your request. I am truly sorry for that but I'll also do my best to get everything to you as quick as I can once I do see your message.

I think that's everything, happy reading and thanks to emmagnetised for allowing me to share their work with you all!

[throwbabiesoffboats]

[tethered-heartstrings]

Hannibal is not Garrett Jacob Hobbs. They both eat people with very different mindsets.

Hobbs wanted to honor the victim, their sacrifice. If anything goes to waste, then its murder. He didn't want to be a murderer. He felt he had to kill others so he didn't kill Abigail. The mindset was flawed, because it was still murder. But every possible part got put to use to justify it all. To ease the loss. To make himself feel better. Because I bet if he killed Abigail and lived, he wouldn't treat her body like he had everyone else's. He didn't consume out of love for the victim. He did it as self-preservation to not entirely hate himself for what he had done, despite how necessarily it felt to do. There were no bodies to find because all the evidence was consumed. The only body they found had something wrong with it, so he couldn't honor her. He saw her as his first real murder. Between that reality and the phone call, he then felt compelled to kill his family, to actually go through with it. He wasn't a killer before but he now he was. He choked Elise Nichols to death but he butchered his wife and slit Abigail's throat. Suffocation to preserve the meat beneath. He didn't intend on eating his wife and daughter because he didn't cannibalize out of love. Only justification for his actions.

Hannibal sees his victims as rude. The bar is very low and fluctuating for what constitutes being rude enough to lose your life. The bar get higher if he cares about you. Hannibal sees his victims as pigs, as less than human. By technical definition, it is cannibalism because he is eating people. But he doesn't see them as people. For it to be cannibalism, they have to be equals. He sees them as livestock, and he takes what he wants from them. He has no desire to honor them or respect them since they didn't respect him. He displays their bodies because there is beauty in death. An artful display is a form of not being wasted. "The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted." They were unpleasant in life and Hannibal made them pleasant in death. He has no moral qualms about justifying his actions, he doesn't care about them. He knows he is killing them and he is fine with that. Top of the food chain mentality. He is better than them and he deserves to eat them, it's his right. Hannibal has no need to use every part of his victims, there is no guilt in "waste" because there is no waste in art. But he also doesn't care as much about waste since their purpose was served.

Hannibal also views true cannibalism, between equals, as a form of love. Unlike Hobbs. Hannibal ate Mischa because he loved her. He wanted to eat Will because he loved him, too. When Hannibal realized and accepted he truly loved Will, his first instinct was cannibalism because that is how he knows to love. That is when he felt truly cannibalistic. To consume someone, to incorporate their flesh into his own, to fuel his life, to make them a part of him forever. That is love. The highest honor he can give someone is eating them out of love. To bear the burden of their loss but always be connected to them. Their physical form being gone, but their memory living on. Their pulse becoming his, same with their movement and thoughts and breath. He doesn't cannibalize for self-preservation. He does so to preserve the person he lost.

[thenumbertwentyseven]

hi there! I just finished reading "The Wyvern" and saw that you made some gorgeous hardcopies. I'd love to buy one or make one of my own--do you know where I could get one or a company I could use to self-publish? Thanks!

Hi! I just posted a little FAQ but in the meantime all I need is your email and I can send you everything you’ll need for the method I used. You’ll get 3 PDFs of text, 3 PDFs of title covers, and a single file of the background color cover for the back.

[thenumbertwentyseven]

“ There was so much. Alice flipped through letters, order briefs, reports, photographs of soldiers and civilians, maps, budgets. And this was just what was in the secretary's desk drawers. Alice did her best to retain what she skimmed through, but she had one goal tonight and she could not allow herself to be distracted. Her fingers were nimble as she scoured the desk's contents, the flashlight held in her teeth and her hair falling in her eyes. “

-emmagnetised, The Siren

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And last but not least, a collection of Alice reading what she can from a file before being forced to move on. I like to imagine she attended an outdoor gala in the spring and one of the officers was a little too lenient with his briefcase. 

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And to emmagnetised themself:

Thank you for writing fics so good I forget that I'm even reading fanfiction. Fics so good I get confused when the Soldier doesn't get picked up by a fleeting shadow, when Steve doesn't confess to his marriage on the Valkyrie in the movie. I've been wanting to do something like this ever since I read Alice's description and realized we have some pretty similar features. Even if I couldn't quite get the 1940s curls quite right, or missed my chance to take the photos in an actual performance theater, honoring your characters was super fun and I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do! Loved the new chapter today, as always, and here’s to Alice finally getting the recognition she deserves as a badass Allied spy!

~~~

@princesszorldo

[thenumbertwentyseven]

“Once she'd finished the Bratwurst she took a circuitous route home and dropped her newspaper in an alley she passed, as if she were too lazy to find a trash can. She checked her watch - her courier would be by at 9 to check the alleyway for an information drop. He'd see the paper.The drop was nothing she hadn't done before, a mere shade of risk compared to the danger she'd been in dozens of times.“

-emmagnetised, The Siren

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Once again the background doesn’t do the scene justice but the badass feeling that came with walking away from that envelope was pretty fantastic :D

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@princesszorldo

[thenumbertwentyseven]

“ She sat near the center of a dazzlingly decorated ballroom amidst a burr of conversations and laughter as she sipped a condensation-speckled cocktail. A gold-sequined dress pooled around her feet as she sat with her ankles crossed. She curved her mauve-painted lips and told a joke which had her retinue of tuxedoed men and gowned ladies bursting into laughter.”

- emmagentised, The Siren

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The dress isn’t gold and the background is far from a ballroom, but much of Alice’s spy-work was done under cover of the spotlight. With a laugh and a smile she memorized information crucial to the Allies cause, all without arousing suspicion. 

For legal reasons, the liquid in this glass is sparkling lemonade :)

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@princesszorldo 

[thenumbertwentyseven]

Showing off my physical copies of The Wyvern, while in Alice cosplay! The books finally arrived today and I almost ruined this makeup by reading the very end. More pictures from the rest of our mini-shoot to come :)

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@princesszorldo

[thegreyzen]

They go out.

[kavinskhhy]

My director cut on TROS

(aka how I fix Tros reusing its own plot. If you want to write an actual fan fiction with this just message me).

Prologue

We discover Snoke was amassing a fleet and projecting ships equipped with Star Killer’s cannons.

He could achieve this goal because he accessed Palpatine old “secret fortess” on Exegol, the planet of siths

Kylo Ren gets this informations shortly after becoming Supreme Leader. Hux (now first general) knows this too and gets worried about what this could mean for the whole galaxy

Kylo goes to Exegol to investigate with the Knights of Ren but the spirits of the Siths (the voices in his head) force him to obey them and convince him to bring to Exegol the legacy of the Jedi, Rey, to have the order destroyed for good and start a new line of Siths through the Knights of Ren

Kylo, being the Supreme Leader, accepts and tells them he will bring Rey to Exegol. Deep down, he wants to turn her and make her supreme leader too

Act I

The resistance gets a message from a spy that the First Order has found (somehow) an addition fleet to its already vast attack forces. They get to now this fleet is kept on Exegol and will depart in a matter of days

Rey, thanks to the Jedi texts, knows a way to reach Exegol: find a Sith wayfinder. she descovers it may be on Pasaana

Pasaana is the last known planet where a wayfider was forged. The forging (happened thousands of years before) made Pasaana a desert but did not erase life.

Rey + Finn + Poe + 3PO + Chewie travels to Pasaana while Leia and Rose try to assemble an attack fleet with the help of Lando Carlissian

The make it to an old hidden sith temple and retrive the wayfinder

Kylo connect with Rey, understands where she is. He is going alone to try to turn her but the Knights of Ren stops him. Helped by the voices of the Siths they extort Kylo the information about where the last Jedi is.

Chewie gets cought, Rey and Kylo fight over the convoy and destroy it, Knights of Ren gets the wayfinder

Rey, Poe and Finn flee from Pasaana. C3-PO was damaged in the process. To save him they need to visit Babu Frick and Zorrii

Act II

C3-PO is restored but the Knights of Ren followed them

Rey, Poe and Finn enters the First Order ship. While searching for the wayfinder, they overhear that Chewie is alive. They split to save Chewie and retrieve the wayfinder

Poe Finn and Chewie get caught but are saved by a bunch of Stormtropper deserters. One of them is JN-2109, one of Finn’s former friend

They escape. But a ploton of loyalist to the first order blocks them. They call Zorri for help

Rey fights with Kylo and isn’t able to retrieve the wayfinder; he asks her to join him another time but she tells him to revert to the light instead. He is almost answering but Zorri and Babu Frick get the millennium falcon and save the day by salvaging Finn Poe Chewie and the rogue stormtroopers

Rey has no choice but to flee leaving Kylo behind

The Knights of Ren take all this in and doubt Kylo’s true motives (they thought he wanted to kill Rey alone to take all the glory).

Act III

Rey searches on the text again but can’t find nothing about other wayfinders

Rey calls Leia to have a confrontation on what to do

Finn hears a voice (Obi-Wan) that tells him they need to go to the relict of the Death Star

Finn tells Rey (in private) he is Force sensitive and they travel to the Death Star

Meanwhile the Knights of Ren are not please with Kylo. They tell him he let Rey go on purpose and send him to kill her to show his true fealty to the first order. They do so because general Pryde found a damaged footage of the day Snoke was killed and, even if it is not clear, it seems Kylo was the one who killed their master, not Rey

The Knights sends him away to make sure he won’t ruin the Siths plan to make the Knights of Ren full masters

Rey&Co travels to the sea moon of Endor. After some searching they find what could be a secret Sith “room” in the throne room of the Death Star. Only Rey is permitted to enter though, cause only Force sensitives can enter there.

Kylo, thanks to the Force bond, can sense where Rey is and flies there

Rey actually discovers another wayfinder but has to face the “ghost” (in reality it is only a security sistem) of the dead emperor. She is lead to believe she is her secret granddaughter and that is destined to be the ruler of the Siths. She faces a Dark version of herself but snatches the way finder away

Kylo, after knocking Poe, Finn and Jannah (she was renamed by Poe) off, fights with Rey to kill her and finally be accepted by the Dark side.

Leia connects with him and stops him from killing Rey

Rey hurts him them heals him. She takes the wayfinder and, using Kylo’s ship, she flies to Exegol

She doesn’t know that the Knight of Ren are waiting Kylo there and are going to slian her

Kylo finally redeemes himself, sees Han, and goes by Ben Solo again

Ben calls for another ship, but not before telling Jannah (that stood up to confront him to save Rey) that the Knights of Ren went to Exegol to launch the new fleet and try to achieve full Siths powers.

Act IV

Poe Finn and Jannah flies back to where the resistance is to inform them of the new plan.

Leia is dead and practically everyone has lost hope

Rose gives an inspiring speech with the help of Poe

Lando comes to them saying he has gathered a modest number of ships

They think about a strategy to block the fleet on Exegol

Meanwhile Rey has gone to Ach-To to have some answers from Luke

Luke appears as force ghost

She asks him why she and Ben are connected

We get a satisfying explanation of the heck a Dyad is

Rey now knows she can truly redeem Kylo and uses Luke old ship to fly to Exegol. She gives the route to the resistance

The Knights of Ren meanwhile have managed to rise the fleet. They ordered Pryde and Hux to come and bring the full armada on Exegol to unite the two and assemble the Star Killer cannons on the old ships

Rey goes inside the cube. Here the spirits of the Siths try to enter in her head

Rey is found by the Knight of Ren. Sensing she is hanging in the balemcr between light and dark, They try to revert her to the Dark Side.

She has almost given in when Ben arrives

The Resistence has come to Exegol to stop the First Order Fleet

Pryde tries to destroy them with a Death Star cannon. Hux fights with him to stop him. It is reveled Hux is the spy.

After the resistence successfully enter Exegol atmo Hux makes contact with them tell them how to destroy the first order ships

Hux dies in a satisfying and not ridicoulus way

Lando comes with others ships from all other the galaxy

Ben and Rey fights the Knight of Ren. The Siths spirit tries to overcome them.

The jedis speak to Rey and Ben and give them the strength they need to kill the Knight of Ren and destroy what remains of the Siths spirits

Rey dies, Ben brings hat back. He is almost dying to but we see Leia’s corpse fade away. Ben hears his mother voice one last time: she gave him enough living force to not stop breathing

The resistence wins and destroys the whole first order fleet

Rey carries Ben to the ship and they reach the base of the resistence

Epilogue

Poe-Finn-Rey reunites and hug each other

Rose give Chewie his medal. Maz Kanata tells her she will surely be a great general, as Organa and Holdo were.

Ben gets out of the ship

Everyone wants to kill Ben. He says the first word as Ben solo:”I am a monster. Do as it is right.”

Rey explains them that he was manipulated by the Siths all along, since he was a child

There is trial. Ben is exiled on Tatooine & is forbidden to use force ever again

Rey goes with him. They bury Leia’s and Luke’s lightsabers.

Anakin ghosts shows up and tells them they are the true legacy of the Skywalkers

Poe and Finn gets medals, they officially becomes leading generals. And finally Poe tells Finn he is in love him

Finn is startled but tells Poe it could work

They ententes the Falcon and before it closes they kiss

Senator Rose and senator Janna watch as the Falcon departs through the sky

Zorri and Babu frick giggles as they load a ship to go back home

Rey and Ben watch the double sunset on Tatooine (no yellow light saber because both the Jedi and the Sith orders are now unexisting).

End of the Skywalker saga

Here. I fixed it.

[organicslut]

[starwars-but-its-stormpilot]

I know no one wants to hear this

But like everyone’s mad about TROS and honestly, I liked it.

Here were parts that I didn’t like- it can’t be perfect and it definitely can’t be perfect for everyone, but I wanna step away from that. Please, y’all, let’s talk about the good stuff.

I love Finn and Poe’s best friendship and I’m so ready for the potential bromance- let’s be honest, it was so palpable, it basically happened. Fanfic writers, you’re up.

I love the trio, that shit was great, they love each other so much, they fight together so well, they hold each other up. Love that.

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo turned to the light. Like, why would you be upset someone turned to the light? Those fight scenes were awesome. The cut to- cut away- cut to were amazing. No, he didn’t earn full redemption, but yes, he did as much as he could. You can’t fully be redeemed from stuff like that, you can only do the right thing going foreword. It will never be enough. But it is more than nothing.

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo died. So I know people are mad he died- I thought it was the best decision to make with his character. Did he turn to the light? Yes. Good, character arc resolved. Does he deserve a happy ending? No. He dies for the light, and gives himself up. The point of this is he has nothing left for himself. This is okay. He doesn’t deserve anything for himself, except to know that he did a good thing in the end.

The fight scenes. Yes. Stunning. Yes. Gorgeous. Yes. Fast. Yes, giant fucking armies, a shit ton of allies, a hella powerful female protagonist.

Rey is a Palpatine. This drives home you are who you choose to be, not what is in your blood, not what others tell you you are. I like this message. I love it.

Rey’s lightsaber. Beautiful. I love.

Luke showed up. Did his thing with the X-wing. How can you not love that. All of that. And Leia too, being a Jedi, we love that. We Stan. This is beauty and strength and the story our princess deserves.

Leia. Need I say more? She said her son’s fucking name and that’s all it took to turn him. Fucking legend.

Han. We got to see that guy again.

Lando. We got to see him too. He was great.

The stormtrooper deserters. Um, hell yeah the deserters were awesome. We Stan. We love. And especially that last moment- where are you from? Let’s find out. Yes, bro. My father-daughter vibes are going wild.

C3PO was finally a relevant guy. Love him, but he’s finally doing something useful and I love him even more.

Poe Dameron. All of it. Every single moment except his unnecessary attempt at being straight. You can tell his heart isn’t in it- but damn if every scene of him with Finn wasn’t on fire.

Force-sensitive Finn. There’s no words to describe how freaking amazing it is to just- watch the movie and just- I- yes. Just, yes.

Feel free to add. Positive things or thoughtful contributions only, don’t just add negativity. PLEASE. I want to think happy thoughts.

[darth-tantrum]

Clowns: we didn’t know what to do with Rey’s story so we made her related to someone ! Isn’t that way more interesting ! we just had no clue what story to write.

Fans Like Four Days After TLJ:

The consequences of having Ben tell Hux: “The girl killed Snoke.” Implying she did it alone, and is powerful enough to do such a thing. This sparks conflict and tension between Rey and the Resistance if they learned she worked with Ben, or if they expect her to be more powerful and carry the weight of impossible tasks.

The very drama of Rey having a Force bond to the guy whose working on, and leading the opposition. How do her friends feel ? Do people trust her still ? How is she hiding it ? Is she hiding it ? Is someone going to try and weaponize the bond ? How do you explain to your friends that their arch nemesis isn’t hunting them right now ? Even though apparently he can see and talk to her across great distances.

Rey grappling with her dark side and anger that rightfully comes from having lied to herself for years. Her wanting to ‘let the past all die’ but knowing that Ben’s philosophy is wrong even if it’s appealing.

Rey trying to read the Jedi texts on her own, not really understanding them, and working to realize she needs to create something new because the books aren’t what she needs. She wants to work with Ben, but she also can’t explain to her friends that their greatest nemesis could be her best hope of understanding herself further.

Rey realizing that she and Ben are the only ones strong enough to destroy the final conflict of the series, and that they have to do it together. But the Resistance and First Order dont understand and see both of them as threats.

[jacenyra]

kylo ren walked, so BEN solo could R U N

[targsdaenerys]

although ben had no an extreme lack of dialouge which reminder his real last word was dad if you think about its honestly…adorable? like kylo ren never fuckin shut up in this movies scenes unless it was to brood. but then ben solo is just…this quiet kid who is smiley and likes to practice calligraphy at his jedi summer camp

[sisterstextreylo]

Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate that REYLO IS CANON! The past four years have not been in vain, ladies.

[thatbitchydonutcollector]

Some TROS Thoughts

Spoilers, obviously.

Rey got to wear a resistance helmet like the one she had on Jakku. And she did it in Luke’s x-wing, on her way to save the fucking galaxy. Then, she was nothing. Now, she is everything.

“She was in my quarters!”

When Rey fought Ben on the death star’s remains, she was so entranced by the dark side that she had no idea what she was doing for the first 70% of the fight.

Ben didn’t even arm himself until 30-40 seconds into the fight, realizing she wasn’t going to stop so he needed to defend himself.

At the end of the fight, Rey was so disoriented and confused as to what she was doing, so far as after she stabs Ben with his own saber, she has this look of regret pass over her face.

Ben KNOWS she is not herself during the fight. They are supposed to be equal, yet she is losing. He sees a killing blow, and for an instant he thinks about it, she was on the ground and he thought “what the fuck am I doing? I didn’t even start this fight”

As Kylo Ren was healed by Rey, he turned into Ben Solo. If you look closely, there was no scar on Ben’s face, which marks a visual difference between the two.

THE PARALLELS BETWEEN BEN KILLING HAN AND BEN TALKING TO HAN WERE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. In one, he knows he is pulled towards the dark side, and in the other he is pulled towards the light. I am impatiently waiting for a gif set of this please and thank you.

Ben and Rey are force dyads, literally sOULMATES.

Absolute rogue Ben Solo with a blaster and in his pajamas coming to help his soulmate out.

“Ow”

I need a gif set of Rey throwing her saber to Ben in TLJ, and when she force bonds it over to him to kill the knights of ren. 

THE FUCKING REYLOS KNEW SHE WAS LOOKING AT BEN. WE KNEW. There is only so much pure love and pride that can be put into a look, and that was it.

In order for Rey to destroy all of the Sith (including Palpatine), she had to destroy all of the Jedi (including HERSELF). 

B A L A N C E- one could not be destroyed while the other survives.

Ben is not in either of those categories. He is not sith anymore. And he is not a jedi. He survived their destruction, only to save the love of his life.

Romeo and Juliet would be proud… or disgusted.

WE GOT A BEN GODS DAMNED SOLO SMILE AND I WILL NEVER STOP SEEING IT IN MY BRAIN.

Reylo is cannon and ya’ll antis can suck my ass.

When Rey flies back to the resistance after everything, THAT IS NOT THE FACE OF SOMEONE WHO HAS JUST LOST HER SOULMATE. Nope. She knows something the audience doesn’t.

As Luke even said in one of the trailers: “NO ONE’S EVER REALLY GONE”

Please feel free to add thoughts/feelings/reactions/theories/drabble.