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DEAD-CEPTION JUST HIT 1K KUDOS!!!!!

WOWEE WOW, you guys!!!!! Literally NEVER in a million years did I think this would happen. I am so so grateful to everyone who’s interacted with the fic in any capacity. I’m linking it again because I mean… I gotta. I’d love to say that I’ll post something in celebration, but life is so busy that I can’t make that promise lol.

But anyway: Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!

#star wars #my writing #my fic #the deadception au #1k kudos????? y’all???? #thank you thank you THANK YOU #literally never imagined this would happen ever #wowwwww

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#my fic #top gun #tgm #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #It's been so long since I've published a fic!!! #hope you enjoy!!! #new fandom same old angst #what else would you expect from me (:

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I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

#fanfiction #AO3 #I love you anons #I’m so very sorry that I feel the need to do this #but I want to protect my work #I will be making my works public again as soon as I possibly can #because I HATE having them archive-locked

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Dead-ception is two years old today!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me and my work.

If you're interested in checking the fic out, click HERE!

(Shout-out to Soup over at Hyenas who made this last year!)

#my fic #the deadception au #deadception is two years old!!!!!

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Hmmmm. For the blorbo thing! Ahsoka Star Wars or Dean Supernatural

Hi Clary, thanks for the ask!!!

Guess what I did both

#dean winchester #spn #supernatural #ahsoka tano #star wars #tori talks #blorbos #exposing my hyperfixations on main #whoops

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Send me blorbos and I'll rate them

#SEND ME THE BOIS #This looks like fun! #blorbos #tori talks

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Thank you for the tag, @kcat92!

Favorite color: Pink!!! Specifically hot pink.

Currently reading: Not counting the dozens of fanfics I’m reading at the moment? I’ve actually started reading Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s a book I’ve been meaning to read for a loooong time but finally got to!

Last song: As the World Caves In by Matt Maltese

Last series: The last series I watched was the Kenobi series!

Last movie: The last movie I saw was The Avengers! I watched it with some friends and it was a lot of fun. It’s been a while since I’ve rewatched it.

Currently working on: In terms of fandom projects, I’m…. *sighs* writing a Supernatural fanfic. Yes, yes, I know. The first chapter’s out, though, if you feel like checking it out HERE.

No pressure tags (sorry it’s late I don’t feel like tagging 9 people): @anakinfruit @padmesstylist @obi-1kenobi @syoemei @djemsoresu

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better :)

Thank you for the tag @kckenobi !

Favorite color: pink! The lighter pastel ones to be more specific

Currently reading: *carefully not looking at my tbr pile or my ao3 emails from march* I’ve been in such a reading slump lately so just some fic here and there.

Last song: Broken by Noelle Johnson. Y’all I’ve been obsessed with this song since I heard it literally listening to it everyday

Last series: the last one I’ve watched from start to finish was the Kenobi series

Last movie: White Christmas lol I was in the mood for some comfort. The last movie I saw in theaters was the new Thor

Currently working on: surviving the last week of the four week program I volunteered for. I also have some screenshots from google waiting for me to use to outline a fic I’ve been sitting on forever lmao.

No pressure tags: @lowkeyanakin @billowypantss @indigostars @smhalltheurlsaretaken @writing-is-thorapy @hellowkatey @one-real-imonkey @strwrs @giggles-and-freckles

#tag game #Tori talks #thanks for the tag friend!

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#star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #obi wan and anakin #fanvid #myedit #the heart needs #kenobi spoilers #idk if people still care but I’m tagging it just in case #Now with actual dialogue!!! #Youtube

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After being pulled out of Hell by a mysterious entity and reuniting with Bobby and Sam, Dean attempts to figure out who or what saved him.

He never does.

As the mystery of Dean’s rescue remains unsolved, the Winchesters are thrust into the center of an apocalyptic plot that they must try to stop. Meanwhile, Dean finds his fascination (and other unacknowledged feelings) captured by an enigmatic hunter known as “Cas.”

(Title from “Battle Cry” by The Family Crest)

#my fic #spn #supernatural #how did i even get here #i hope you enjoy it!!

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Decided to try my hand at limited color palettes, featuring TFW!!!

I’m really proud of these because of how they illustrate my growth as an artist, from early February (when Dean was finished) to when I finished Sam in early May. Each piece has progressively less line work—Sam is actually my first completely lineless piece!! I learned a lot about facial anatomy and shading (among other things) while drawing these guys.

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #spn fanart #tfw #self reblog #tori draws stuff #sam is legit the best thing i’ve ever drawn #yes i’m a supernatural fan now #someone please help me #how did i get here

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Decided to try my hand at limited color palettes, featuring TFW!!!

I’m really proud of these because of how they illustrate my growth as an artist, from early February (when Dean was finished) to when I finished Sam in early May. Each piece has progressively less line work—Sam is actually my first completely lineless piece!! I learned a lot about facial anatomy and shading (among other things) while drawing these guys.

#spn fanart #spn #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #tfw #color palette #tori draws stuff #my art #a study in artistic improvement #look at how my art improved!!! #i’m very proud of myself #Sam is legit the best thing I’ve ever drawn #yes I’m a supernatural fan now #someone please help me #how did I get here

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They don't want to take Ahsoka's picture.

They're here, the three of them - Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka - in a slightly too cold for comfort studio on Coruscant, because the PR division wants pictures.

For inspiration, the Senate says.

For morale.

For presence and reassurance and a dozen other slightly too bright descriptors, they all say.

"For propaganda," Master Kenobi mutters, even as he agrees to do it. He was requested, specifically. They both were.

General Kenobi.

General Skywalker.

The Negotiator and the Hero With No Fear.

The Team.

The team Ahsoka thought she was really getting to he a part of.

Everyone in the studio seems very... energetic, all smiles and excitement over the particular tang of professional stress. They all smile at Ahsoka too, but they don't swarm her like they're swarming her masters. They don't put her under the bright lights, or pose her in front of the banners, or cover the tiredness under her eyes and the bruise at the edge of her brow with make-up, the way they fuss over Obi-Wan and Anakin.

She doesn't quite understand why.

They keep fussing with Anakin's hair, to the Knight's irritation, and chiding at Obi-Wan to smile. He keeps frowning at the cameras, and Anakin laughing nervously.

"Why don't they want my picture?" Ahsoka asks Obi-Wan, when he sighs one too many times and strides out of the spotlight to join her next to the drinks table in a quiet, neglected corner of the room. "I'm part of the war effort too. And I'm adorable!" She grins cheekily and some of the tension seeps from his shoulders - the desired result.

But it's true. Ahsoka has led men into battle. She's lost them in battle too. She's spent a full year as a soldier, in the thick of it, and she has the scars to prove it.

"You're too young," Obi-Wan says.

Ahsoka scowls. "That's not fair."

The Senate will put her on a battlefield, but not on a poster?

Master Kenobi let's out a tense breath of dissatisfaction, something just too curt to be called a sigh.

Ahsoka looks up at him, where he's watching them take pictures at all angle of Anakin, who is trying his best but really doesn't look like he knows what he's doing.

Ahsoka tries to see her master, for a moment, how his master might see him. Hair not quite grown out, cheeks still a little soft with youth, and edge of shy nervousness to his patented grin. Her master isn't much older than her, really, for all that he seems so, being so darn tall.

He's only twenty.

"You think he's too young too," Ahsoka says.

"There isn't a person alive who's old enough for war," Obi-Wan replies curtly, and when Ahsoka looks back at him, startled, she watches his lips thin. Like he hadn't meant to say it out loud.

Her grandmaster, Ahsoka thinks, isn't as old as his title suggests he should be either.

Obi-Wan rests a hand on her shoulder and squeezes in reassurance, a consolation for the unease left by his words.

"The Troopers are younger than all of us," Ahsoka says. "And they should really be the forefront. They're the ones we owe the most. They're the ones who win the most and lose the most."

"I know," her grandmaster says simply, his tone as thin and hard pressed as the set of his mouth.

They do not get a picture of General Kenobi smiling, no matter how hard they try.

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Ahsoka sees the end of two more campaigns before she sees any of the posters, blown up larger than life on the side of a building.

Foremost is Anakin, looking up from beneath his brow, just the start of a smile or a smirk forming on his face, his arms crossed, his feet planted, tunics dark, armor pale and gleaming and his eyes piercing.

He looks indomitable. He looks like The Hero With No Fear.

At his shoulder is Obi-Wan, a bright shadow next to the younger man's consuming presence, arms crossed too, body turned aside, like he's primed to be guarding Anakin's flank. His hair color seems to burn, his expression sharp and his gaze sharper. Not so much the Negotiator as The High General.

It's the Team.

Somehow, they look nothing like her masters.

Ahsoka's glad they didn't take her picture.

She doesn't want to know what her war poster would have made of her. Doesn't want to see an image of herself that is not her, but that everyone will believe to be.

~

There are a dozen copies plastered on the wall of the corridor right inside the hanger of the ship, when they get back. Master Obi-Wan hands Anakin a stylus and Knight Skywalker draws a horrible mustache on their faces on every single one.

They all laugh about it.

The next day there's not a single poster left on the ship, and no new ones ever show up.

#star wars #tcw #ahsoka tano #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #fanfic recs #fanfic #...oh #o h #w o w #that was... wow

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#my fic #star wars #kenobi series #angst! #FIC BRAIN HAS RETURNED FROM THE WAR

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#star wars #myedit #obi wan kenobi #kenobi show #kenobi series #entertainment weekly #i am screaming #Mustafar

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Fanfic Patterns

@ghostwriterofthemachine Heck yeah I wanna do a tag meme!

Rules: DON’T REBLOG THIS ONE, MAKE A NEW POST! List the first lines of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any. Then tag some friends.

1. Let Me Pretend

Ahsoka is running.

2. Don't Come Find Me/I Won't Be Here Waiting

Ahsoka survived.

3. Our Lives Now in the Hands/Of Soldiers Taking Aim

Commander Bly is ready for the war to be over.

4. It All Comes Undone

They're fighting.

5. “Here's My Shoulder, Bury Your Head”/She Opened Up My Chest Instead

Anakin is happy to finally be done with Christophsis.

6. Here We Lay Alone

“Tech? Do you have access to the GAR database?”

7. Stirs of Whispers Trail and Linger

The mission is over, and with it ends Obi-Wan’s time as Rako Hardeen.

8. The Future's Up in Smoke

“I gotta say, Snips, I wish we could’ve stayed on Coruscant a bit longer,” Anakin says as he and his Padawan walk through bustling Temple hangar towards the gunship waiting to take them to the Resolute.

9. Haunt Me While I Burn

Obi-Wan tries to stay strong as he falls from the sky and hits the cold water below, as his once-loyal troops turn on him, as he escapes and meets up with Bail Organa and Yoda and Padmé.

10. Sunset, it Dawns on Me

“I can’t believe the war is over,” Anakin says to Obi-Wan.

Patterns:

Well first of all, these are all from my Dead-cember prompt fills, since those are the last ten fics I've published.

I tend to start stories with short, punchy sentences meant to draw the reader in. They introduce the protagonist (though sometimes I specifically do not name the POV character for shock factor). They're kind of simple, but I get into more complex themes and sentence structure as the stories continue. I think it's likely a subconscious effort on my part to not immediately overwhelm someone with something crazy or in-depth but idk.

In terms of the titles: I don't like having super long titles, but I got out of my comfort zone a bit with some of these. Many of them are song lyrics, and I felt that they fit their respective fic so well that I couldn't not use them.

Present tense. Lots of present tense. I tend to stick to that unless I'm trying to like, prove a point or something.

No pressure tags: @stolen-pen-name23 @primeemeraldheiress @meep-morp-s

#tag game #tag meme #my fic #star wars #tori talks

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My brain was stuck on the fact that Din flying the N-1 looked so much like the podracing scene from TPM so...

#myedit #star wars #tpm #bobf #bobf spoilers #episode 5 #bobf episode 5 #the mandalorian #din djarin #anakin skywalker #podracing #now this is podracing #comparison #n 1 starfighter

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HI!!! STAR WARS LEAST AND FAVS NUMBER 11??👀

Hi, Selenka! Thanks for the ask!

I actually already answered this one right here! LINK

#star wars #tori talks #star wars faves #ask tag #ask game