You know they’re my favorite character when I set about causing them all kinds of pain while making sure they and their best beloved don’t actually die.
Maaaaybe I should write out that AU headcanon you inspired and show it to you after all…
*blinks hopefully at you, and grins*
Doooo iiiiit!
For this set of prompts, or see this list of completed/available ones.
AU: Valföðr
He has nothing left to lose.
Methos walks along a stony shore, a cloak wrapped around him, feet bare to chill of air and beach. Watching, and waiting. They’re here, when he is ready for them.
When he is ready to surrender all the world has been for what the world will become. To give up enemies and innocents alike. Not his friends, who are dead or locked safely inside Methos’s skull.
“I want to eat the gods.”
“Soon.” Methos keeps walking, listening to the crash of the waves. “When I’m ready.”
Then, only then, will he call down Ragnarøkkr.
ooooh, very cool ^^ thank you
You’re welcome! Thank you for the prompt! 🙂
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ugh fedex. Hope they don’t screw up.
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hope the music stop soon, that you can get some rest, and that fedex doesn’t screw up 😦
*crosses fingers* At least if they come, if I’m down at the house, I won’t miss them.
And if the music doesn’t stop soon, I’ll be attempting to sleep with the headphones on, which is very uncomfortable, but. I’m tired and I want to sleep.
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Yeah, calling around here tends not to do much either, because the local police are next to useless, but asking sometimes does (I wouldn’t go out at night round here either tho, there are feral dogs and occasional reports of cougars). I’m really sorry you’re not gonna get much sleep. I hope your headphones show up without delay.
The largest wild critter around here might be a fox or two. Animal control is pretty good about picking feral or stray dogs. (Mostly because if they catch them quickly and they’re pets who got loose while their owners are at work, it means they can find all sorts of little things to gouge residents to ransom their pets.)
I got an email earlier about the headphones had shipped, and paid the extra money for overnight, so hopefully they’ll arrive on time. And I’m going to spend tomorrow down at the house where I can watch for the package, and there’s usually less noise. And the people most likely to make noise are far more considerate in the first place, and amiable to being asked to turn the music down when it’s a little too loud.
Also, because it’s being shipped via FedEx, and well. I don’t trust FedEx very much at all.
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Ugh that sucks. I don’t have access to my music rn either. One of my dogs got a hold of my ipod charger, so I have to wait til the 1st to order another. I can still listen on the computer, but that doesn’t help when I’m outside, lol. You’s think you could just call in a general disturbance of the peace…. Have you tried asking them to turn it down, or is that not a (safe) option?
It requires walking around the neighborhood to the main road that the particular property fronts onto, and I’m not up to walking that far in the cold, nor do I feel safe doing so. (No sidewalks in the neighborhood, and they put in speed bumps because people keep driving too fast through here.)
Also, apparently one or more of the properties along that row of houses/businesses has had the police called about a disturbance of the peace, and it did absolutely nothing to stop the noise. Which makes me unwilling to try, because what’s the point if they’re not going to be able to do anything?
At the moment, they’re quieter, but still too loud for me to sleep. Which is a minor problem, because I haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep in most of a week now, and it’s hard for me to nap during the daylight hours.
Before I forget again.
(Me, in one of my favorite tunics, rust-colored linen w/olive drab around the neckline, sleeves, and hem. My glasses are trying, as always, to slide off my nose. And this is the photo that shows off the double chin the least – genetics, shared with mom and her dad and his mom, regardless of weight.)
#adhd selfie
(Hey, @poplitealqueen! *grins* You wanted to see my face today.)
(I hope it’s okay to reblog this lemme know if it isn’t!)
*chin hands* You’re a cutie. I knew it. AND A REDHEAD. Nice nice nice. Thank you for tagging me on this, dude.
#That tunic is great did you make it #look at them #look at my friend the cute #morgynleri #beautiful people
It’s ok to reblog. 🙂
*hides behind hands a moment* Thank you!
@lferion made the tunic. She made most of my currently wearable tunics, actually, and repaired one that’s currently in the process of being decorated lots (I still do any fancy decoration I want on my tunics, even though I don’t make the tunics themselves any more). I should pull that project out again, once I have the blanket done and the other fic-with-a-deadline.
(Also, *tacklehugs* You are awesome and wonderful and I love it when people use the right pronouns! It makes my day.)
D’you have to ask a hard one? *chews on lip*
Qui-Gon/Living, because I was cranky about his death long before I was terribly interested in Obi-Wan.
(Yes, I am the One Who Asks. How else would people have explained the intricacies of why Commander Cody wasn’t seen on Umbara or how bacta is a viable lube? I’m not good at many things, but I’ve always asked good questions.)
You do indeed ask good questions.
(I might expand on why I’m cranky about Qui-Gon’s death later. Right now, I am a cranky bear, and should go watch another episode of DS9, and hope the next one isn’t one that makes me want to yell at the screen. Even if it does give me ideas on how to respond to one of the titles sent as part of a meme thing.)
Clone Wars, only because I got further before I noped out, and noped out because of boredom not uneasiness and frustration.
(Remind me to pick your brain about SWR sometime. TCW too. May be weird, but I love knowing why people stop liking things.)
First, disclaimer:
Everything that follows under the cut is my opinion, it might not fit with anyone else’s take away from TCW (primarily) or Rebels. Don’t try to convince me to give either show another chance, I don’t have the energy to deal with the frustration and rage on the off-chance there might be good stuff in there.
Also, anyone who decides to yell at me that my Opinions Are Wrong will be blocked, and not engaged with. Polite attempts to enlighten me about something I might have missed due to noping out will not be responded to tonight, as I am a cranky bear and want to go back to my rewatch and yelling at DS9 episodes.
Grumpy. Sith. Murder Kitten.
Not evil wanna-be Obi-Wan with an inferiority complex and no fucking reason to be alive. I mean, he lost half his spine, his digestive system, and quite possibly his diaphragm at the end of That Fucking Scene. If he got immediate medical attention for the trauma, maybe he could have lived for a little while. But that level of trauma, with no medical attention? Nope. I do not believe it.
I love Maul, grumpy Sith murder-kitten of TPM. I think he’s adorable, and fills his role admirably. I like writing AUs where he survives Naboo, for one reason or another. I’m also content to make him very dead, if the narrative calls for it. Because he had a Good Death – one that made sense for his character arc (what little there was of it), that was cathartic and emotionally satisfying, and was useful and good for the narrative.
Filoni decided that Maul didn’t deserve a Good Death, and he took that away from him. He didn’t even have the decency to do it in a way that might have made sense, either. He decided that Maul clearly survived a trauma he should not have been able to, in conditions that were a ripe breeding ground for infection and disease and further trauma, while neglecting to show how he could have done so while missing vital organs and part of his central nervous system.
Of course there are fan theories to explain the gaping plot hole that Filoni blithely created where there had not been one, but that doesn’t excuse Filoni’s mess.
I still love Rex and Cody and Ahsoka and Wolffe, and the various other clones that we get from TCW. I like that we get to see minor characters explored more.
I will gladly keep Hera and her crew from Rebels, and play with them when I’m working with that era. I’m glad to know that Numa shows up there.
But Filoni can take his fanfic and take a long walk out an airlock. I do not fucking care that it’s canon. It’s boring. War is boring. The reasons behind it can be fascinating, but there’s so damned little of the intricacies behind things and so much focus on what battle is happening now. And look at all the awesome men who are fighting this war, the ideal soldiers.
It has it’s good points, it does. And I like prying the shiny awesome out of the rest. But it bores me, and Maul’s being cheated of his death and just not allowed to die pisses me off. (Which, granted, I didn’t actually find out about until after I noped out because bored now.)
What made me uneasy and frustrated with Rebels wasn’t so much what I watched as the spoilers for the second half of season two. I didn’t have words at the time to go “this is what makes me not want to watch it”, but everything I heard and saw of it (and not everyone on my dashboard disliked it, some of them genuinely do enjoy it) just. Made me twitchy. And then there was the stuff about Maul, and twitchy became cranky bitching in the privacy of my head. Honestly, I’m not even sure I have the words now to say why it made me twitchy even before I heard about Maul coming back.
*sighs*
And this is with my usual attitude toward canon being “someone gave me shiny toys to play with!”
@poplitealqueen, I hope this brightens your day some. Well, for certain values of brighten. 🙂
Currently untitled, both AU and story. Unedited and unbeta’d as well. Inspired by this post.
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Jorus’etan | Joru Setan | Darth Setan
Timeframe: During Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan’s mission to Mandalore to help Satine.Warnings: isolation, psychological torture
Joru had gone to Mandalore to recruit some of them for his own plans, and returns home with something more interesting. Now he just needs to make something of the Jedi.
The Jedi kneels on the floor of the cargo hold of the old ship, looking for all the galaxy as if he’s meditating. Trying to, anyway. Joru knows he can’t reach the Force for a full Jedi meditation. It amuses him to see the Jedi trying so hard for serenity, when it had been his emotions that had caught Joru’s attention on Mandalore. Not as volatile, perhaps, as those of the children with him, but they’re children, and Joru finds children boring when they’re not irritating.
Joru smiles to himself, sharpened teeth pricking at his lips, and turns away for now. There will be time enough to play with the Jedi when they’re safely hidden away where neither the Jedi nor Joru’s own line-descendents can find them. Especially not the other Sith. Joru hisses quietly at the thought of what his line has become, and what they have forsaken in the process.
*stares in utter awe*
Have I mentioned that you are a vastly underrated writer that can create one hell of a scene? Because you are one vastly underrated writer that can create one hell of a scene.
God, that cell alone. *shivers* I especially love how you describe the part hidden beneath the carpet, LORD and then the electricity. Everything, from the water to the feeling of utter helplessness to the gritty nasty stuff he’s given given to eat, all of this is damn perfect.
I’m officially assuming the name Joru is canon. Darth Setan is canon, dammit.
Thank you, this did brighten my day (well, night now). I’m a sucka for Sith torture scenes, yas I most certainly am. You are one brill writer, dude.
(If I can ever paint a written scene as masterfully as this, perhaps I’ll count myself one, too. *that’s* how much I like this.)
I’m glad it made your day better!
(I’d probably be less underrated if I could finish things in a timely fashion, or was more willing to write popular ships/characters/tropes, but. *shrugs* I can live with it being mostly-ignored most of the time, because there’s almost always at least one person who likes a given story, and is patient about me bouncing around like a ferret with All the Shiny Toys.)
Joru…. oh, Joru has about half an article on Wookieepedia, without even a name to his credit, and only barely a species. I found him while hunting for a useful point in which to insert Padmé as a Sith in a different AU, and decided that he’d be excellent for the purpose. And then he got a name and a backstory, and now he gets to have his own story.
I’m honored and flattered to have his name considered someone’s canon, and I’m not fussed if other people want to play with him as such. (And if anyone wants me to expand my backstory on Joru, feel free to ask! I have more, I’m just… I keep typing it out to post and then deleting because Reasons.)
And there will be more! Hopefully today, if I can get the next scene to cooperate with me. I will make sure to tag you in it so you can see it. 🙂
Martin Scorsese’s Silence has officially been set for a December 23rd limited release by Paramount.
#I am fucking ready#silence#liam neeson#lookit him all messed up#I LOVE it#qui-gon jinn#obviously a qui-gon forced to wander#oooooh or one taken by sith and broken little by little until he goes mad or becomes one of them or both#eheeeee#he has such pretty eyes#also I think adam driver is in this?#so hey everyone have fun with that (tags via @poplitealqueen)
Damnit, Pop, I do not need more plot bunnies! *whimpers*
Yes you do.
#One can never have enough plot bunnies#although in pop land it’s more like ploy jackrabbits streaking about at the speed of sound#morgynleri#*finger wave* you will have more plot bunnies
*tries very hard to glare at you*
I mean, I have something over 500 stories posted to AO3 (exact number is not actually the number of works, because various reasons), plus at least double that number in the mess of things I haven’t posted, scattered over two dozen plus fandoms and 200+ AUs, so it’s not like I’m really trying to stop gathering plot bunnies.
(Almost 30 of those AUs are Star Wars. And I’m not counting the ones without names.)
Anyway.
Qui-Gon, taken by the Sith, and broken piece by piece by piece. And I could use that in one of my already extant AUs (Our Hands Will Never Be Clean; Darkness In the Light; Their Name Is Death), or I could make a new one. That’s the biggest problem, though, is deciding which AU to use it with.
Obi-Wan would probably decide not to talk to me for a while again if I used Our Hands Will Never Be Clean, I suspect. He has Plans for Qui-Gon there. So does Eea, and that’s a little more worrisome.
Darkness In the Light isn’t nearly far enough along to seriously contemplate it, though Maul would cheerfully break Qui-Gon all to pieces after he has a better idea what he’s dealing with.
Their Name Is Death…. *snerks* Tracyn would just leave Qui-Gon on Korriban, with enough supplies that he won’t starve or die of dehydration, and let the planet do the work for him. (Jango would cheerfully murder Qui-Gon, if Tracyn asks him. Satine might even let them.)
But for something new… *hums to themself* Oh, I think I’ll keep that to myself for the moment. Because now I have notes, and plans, and am giggling to myself.
I think I’m in love with you.
*blushes and beams*
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