StaleBagel



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    In the aftermath of the battle, no one has time to check on Spider, and the last thing Spider wants is to be more of a burden than he already is. All he has to do is survive, as he always has.

    It isn't enough.

    In which Spider slides down a metaphorical slippery slope, and no one notices until Jake almost loses another son.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    59,377
    Chapters:
    7/7
    Collections:
    12
    Comments:
    634
    Kudos:
    4,173
    Bookmarks:
    1,045
    Hits:
    97,891

    15 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Obi-Wan is this season's Bachelor. Anakin is the host of this season's The Bachelor.

    It's pretty much an unspoken rule that the host should not under any circumstances fall in love with the bachelor.

    But someone really should have told Anakin that. And then reminded him. Many, many times.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    11,210
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    54
    Kudos:
    1,179
    Bookmarks:
    220
    Hits:
    9,045

    12 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    When Anakin was very small and new to the Temple, a junior senator by the name of Obi-Wan Kenobi taught him how to read and write his letters. Twelve years later, that same senator asks for him specifically to accompany him on an expedition to examine a planet of old Jedi Temples.

    For Anakin, this arrangement is perfect. For one thing, he's been nursing a deep, abiding, romantic love for Obi-Wan Kenobi since he was sixteen. For another thing, he has a few very important questions to ask the man, like for example: why did he stop visiting? Why did he never answer any of his letters? And of course, does he believe in the Core concept of marriage?

    But his idyllic plans for reunion, retribution, and hopefully wedlock suddenly become bisected by a lightsaber when Obi-Wan takes one look at him and pushes such disappointment into the Force that it guts Anakin where he stands. He can't understand why, but by the Force is he going to figure it out.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    7,749
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    41
    Kudos:
    1,282
    Bookmarks:
    151
    Hits:
    9,027

    22 Nov 2024

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “Of course. You all—” Namjoon’s voice catches. He doesn’t admit to them that they’re the first people he’s spoken to in nearly a decade. He doesn’t tell them that their mingled scents remind him of his home that’s been long lost in a forest a lifetime away. He doesn’t share that here, with them, Namjoon feels as if there is sunlight pouring in through all the empty spaces of his chest.
     

    (Or: Namjoon hasn't had a home in years and a strange pack in the mountains tries to change that.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    28,056
    Chapters:
    4/?
    Collections:
    4
    Comments:
    686
    Kudos:
    3,368
    Bookmarks:
    981
    Hits:
    50,498

    01 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Oh, if only Qui-Gon could see Obi-Wan now. What he must think of his padawan, so totally abandoning the tenets he tried to instill upon him and his very connection with the living Force, trading it in for pomp and procedure and mind-numbing, endless boredom as the newly appointed Senate Liaison for the Jedi Order.

    Endless boredom with one very integral bright spot.

    Well, technically two.

    An argument could, of course, be made for three.

     

    Or, Obi-Wan has trouble counting. But to be fair, Anakin Skywalker--full-time galactic senator and part-time public speeder commute eye-candy--isn't exactly making it easy for him.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    19,088
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    69
    Kudos:
    1,373
    Bookmarks:
    367
    Hits:
    9,589

    11 Oct 2024