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    The Weight of Words by

    Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types  

    16 Oct 2022

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    Dim blue eyes stare up at him. Hair that might once have been rich with colour hangs limp and brittle around a gaunt face. A face with a split lip and a fading bruise on one cheekbone. A face that is blank of all emotion and yet simultaneously screams help.

    No, he doesn’t see danger. He sees only a man trying to meld with the wall and make his body as small as possible while staring down Din with a glare so cold that it could cause anyone’s blood to turn to ice. The man is dressed in thread-bare prison garb that hangs off his slight frame like oversized drapery and around his wrists is a pair of complex-looking cuffs. They’re the same ones Grogu had been shackled with, cuffs that somehow diminished his powers. If this man bears them too could that mean…

    Din crouches, bringing himself down to the man’s level.

    “Are you a Jedi?”

     

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    In an alternate universe where the name Luke Skywalker has long since been lost, Din Djarin discovers an unexpected prisoner aboard Gideon's ship, finding not only a potential teacher for Grogu but also the man who will change his life, and his heart, for the better.

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    05 Feb 2023

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    The World Ender by

    Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

    29 Sep 2022

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    There’s something…off about The Gentleman Pirate. It takes Ed a little while to put it all together, longer than it would have if Stede weren’t so fascinating, so goddamn distracting. It’s little things, at first: how Stede is not a good enough pirate to be that blasé with his personal welfare, how confident he seems that things will work out in the end, the glimmer in his eye he gets when danger comes close and whispers in his ear. It’s maddening and familiar, too, because Ed swears he’s met Stede before. Maybe on a ship somewhere, or in town, a shared look before a shared bed; though, if the sex were as good then as it is now, Ed’s sure he would remember. As Ed watches and waits — and desperately tries not to fall in love — he grows more and more convinced that the truth is a terrifying third option; a monster parents tell their children about at night and all sailors dread. Stede Bonnet is The World Ender.

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    19 Oct 2022

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    A Marriage of Equals by

    Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)  

    20 Jul 2021

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    In trying to return Mandalore to its former glory, the council of Mandalorians begin searching for a way to form an alliance with the New Republic. In doing so they request the new Manda’lor, Din Djarin, to consider something he never thought he’d be able to do.

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    04 Oct 2022

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    Crash and Burn by

    Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars Original Trilogy  

    10 Sep 2021

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    (includes searchable skips for explicit content)

    There had been no Seeing Stone on Tython that Grogu could use to call for a Jedi. They had survived Gideon's light cruiser mostly by luck. And now Din Djarin is trapped between trying to resume his old life with Grogu in tow or facing what wielding the Darksaber truly means for him and his people. Mostly he just wants a nap.

    Luke Skywalker is looking for Jedi artifacts he can use to help build a curriculum for the school he seeks to create. Not that he knows where it will be. Or how to find pupils. But then he runs into a shiny stranger whose beskar armor makes him a null space in the Force. And he doesn't know who Luke is.

    Intrigued (and in need of parts to repair his ship), he Skywalkers his way into tagging along on the latest bounty.

    They just might change each other. And everything else.

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    formerly titled A Closed Book

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    07 Apr 2022

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    The Secret Life of Daydreams by

    Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types  

    04 Oct 2021

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    Din Djarin is not your quintessential gentleman, nor is his family considered "normal" by high society - or by any society that is not Mandalorian for that matter. Not that he cares for such people's opinions. In his eyes, it is they who are the uncivilized ones, not his family. So when the dour Mr. Skywalker and his colourful friend Mr. Vanth arrive in Nevarro for the summer, Din assumes the same of them and vows not to give them a second thought.

    Fate, however, has other plans in store as it continues to relentlessly thrust Mr. Skywalker in Din's path.

    Is there more to the man behind the cool mask of indifference, or is Din correct in thinking him a prideful, arrogant aristocrat?

    aka the Pride & Prejudice (2005) au (yes, again), only this time it's actually set in the Regency Era (or at least my version of it), Din is Lizzy and Luke is Mr. Darcy

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    30 Mar 2022