yLANSKI

19 | asoiaf , itwtv , Star wars | ao3: yLANSKI

[ylanskii]

chapter 13 is up! 🤍

i always get a little nervous posting the slower chapters because they're much more character-focused, but i honestly had so much fun writing this one. thank you to everyone who's been reading and leaving comments—they genuinely make me excited to keep writing.

ao3 link below!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86709686

[ylanskii]

chapter 12 is out!! ❤️

This is a slow-burn psychological Obi-Wan & Vader fic that follows Obi-Wan after he's taken prisoner aboard Vader's Star Destroyer.

In this chapter, the search through the hidden Jedi archive continues... and somewhere else in the galaxy, a rumor reaches someone who refuses to ignore it.

AO3 link below! ✨

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ylanskii]

chapter 7 of So I Don't Forget is up!! 🖤

i genuinely think this might be my favorite chapter i've written so far. this chapter is mostly just daniel... talking loll , except he isn't really just talking. he's trying to understand armand, and centuries later armand is forced to sit there and realize someone may have understood him better than he ever understood himself.

also:

Its another tape

daniel being painfully perceptive

armand having what is, unfortunately, yet another existential crisis

if you're into introspective devil's minion, book canon, and stories that are probably more about memory than they are about vampires, i'd love if you checked it out. <3

"He'll make it beautiful. He'll make it intelligent. He'll make it sound older than God if he has to. But the second something actually matters, he steps sideways. Like if he keeps translating himself, nobody can catch him in the original."

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87128741

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ylanskii]

I think im going to focus now on my interview with the vampire fic , have been postponing it so,i could work on my starwars fic soo

[ylanskii]

chapter 11 is out!!

This is a slow-burn psychological Obi-Wan & Vader fic that follows Obi-Wan as a prisoner aboard Vader's Star Destroyer.

In this chapter, the Empire starts cataloguing a hidden Jedi archive... and Obi-Wan has to decide exactly how helpful he's willing to be.

i always love reading everyone's comments after posting a chapter, so if you end up reading it, let me know what you think! i read every single one of them :)

AO3 link below! ❤️

archiveofourown.org/works/86709686

http://archiveofourown.org/works/86709686

[lesbiansidney]

[rotsnovelization]

OBI-WAN KENOBI Revenge of the Sith (2005) dir. George Lucas

[mistycatt]

Anakin after a long day of failing to hide his marriage and giving obi-wan gray hairs

Another successful day for skyguy

[ylanskii]

Snippet for chapter 11 of What Remains!

chapter 11 snippet because i couldn't keep it to myself. somehow this turned into obi-wan arguing about archive classification with the empire and i'm not even mad about it 😭

[inthedepthofsoul]

Who made the Dark Lord angry?

[divastat]

The framing devise in this season wrt to unreliable narration...

People are confused by the framing devise this season, because we have the documentary on one hand and the "failures" on the other, and both devices seem to be used randomly. As a result every perceived inconsistency in the story is being blamed on unreliable narration. Maybe this can help clear some things up:

The failures, and only the failures, are the framing devise. It's likely here to stay all thru s3+4, and maybe beyond.

In contrast the documentary is one plot device among many (the music, the tour, the great conversion). Primarily the doc exists to generate conflict between Daniel and Lestat. We already know it ends sometime in 2025. From the perspective of the show's present time frame, which is the auction set in 2026 (or possibly later) and more importantly after the events of qotd, the doc is in its past. Hence NOT a framing devise.

The doc is an admitted performance (to parallel the 1973 SF interview). It's not meant to be taken as gospel. In universe the doc is a means for Lestat to wrestle back some semblance of control over his own story. Through it we see some things that are true and some things that might be embellished or downplayed. And yes, there are outright lies (i.e. Sophia), bc the doc is meant for the public. And Lestat doesn't owe the in universe audience or Daniel for that matter the truth. He can pick and choose what to tell about his life just like any irl artist would with their music/tour docs. It's a performance!

Now on to the failures: these recordings are Lestat's true reckoning, his attempt at truth and reconciliation (to parallel the 2022 Dubai interview). Only he doesn't need Daniel to bully him into telling thehis truth, bc he's doing it of his own volition. And bc presumably his target audience of one is Louis. For the most part we're supposed to trust this narration. He doesn't have any incentive to lie at this point. He's recorded them after Akasha's demise, when he's free of Marius' gag order. And as he says, unlike Louis he isn't deluding himself, meaning he doesn't have memory issues. He's neither deliberately lying to us nor subconsciously misrepresenting the past.

At the auction the failures were presented as "an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album... and the consequential global catastrophes". This is the writers telling us to treat Lestat's narration as close to omniscient as a pov character can get. As for "but he wasn't there", the show already told us to focus on the what, not the how. And consider this: we're after the events of qotd, and the writers might very well have made the omniscient bit literal. Since the show has increased the power levels for everyone, post-qotd-Lestat can probably read anybody's mind anytime anywhere in the world, except for his fledglings' ofc.

Back to the particulars: while we aren't supposed to question the veracity of the failures in general, they're bound to include some falsehoods, bc it's still a subjective account. Especially in the beginning Lestat glosses over the worst parts of his trauma (incest, rape, grief). That's why there're 111 volumes. They're his version of journaling. It's how he's processing 266 years' worth of trauma, and ptsd from Akasha on top of that. So cut him some slack, and maybe don't call him a liar at the slightest inconsistencies? The further along we get the more he'll open up to the truly vulnerable parts of himself.

And last but not least the writers will throw us some curveballs for sure! Most likely we've seen some deliberate misdirections, some of which will be revealed by the end of the season, and others probably won't be resolved until like season 5? 🤯 Let the tale seduce you...

[ylanskii]

Guys i swear il cooking even after i looked at my screen for about. 30 minutes just hoping something comes to mind that i can write

[messvoid]

The Devil has minioned too close to the sun

[ylanskii]

posted chapter 10 of What Remains!!

this chapter was very much me figuring out the emotional fallout of the archive scene and deciding that unfortunately obi-wan was not allowed to keep even one hopeful thought for longer than five minutes. i also really wanted the archive to matter beyond just one chapter, so this ended up becoming a lot about aftermath, control, and vader being deeply unreasonable about literally everything.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ylanskii]

Snippet for next chapter 👀

[catie-does-things]

Thinking about how Anakin canonically both touched grass and got laid and was still Like That.

[knighteirian]

Daniel Molloy & Armand THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026–) 3.04 "The Devil's Road"