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"And Though The Static Walls Surround Me." (Vorkosigan Saga) G

Title: And Though The Static Walls Surround Me. Author:lannamichaels Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga Series: Part 11 of Are You Out There, Can You Hear This? Rating: G A/N: The title is from Are You Out There by Dar Williams. Archives:Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga

Rating: M (for language, discussions of sexual subjects, drug/alcohol references, mild dub con)

Words: 956

Summary: Ges and Aral make a little list. Or: a really unprofessional chat over the Barrayaran version of an instant messenger system while on duty. Because Aral was dumb like that and Ges was, well, Ges.

“I know what kind of love this is After all, I was there when we made it.”

“I Know What Kind of Love This Is” Dar Williams

A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon:

Let’s go to the beach -each, let’s go get away.

SO GUYS… i remember how much i love palpaplaguies some years ago (IT’S ALMOST TEN YEARS?? OH SHI-)

new star wars fic! it’s the Anakin-dies-in-the-Temple-Au I posted a snippet of earlier. thanks @primeemeraldheiress for the title suggestion!

summary:

“Shh…” Anakin says, gathering the younglings around him, reminding Obi-wan of all those whispered arguments where he had insisted to Anakin that yes, he was good with children, he’d be just fine teaching Ahsoka. He can almost feel the terror rising off Anakin from the hologram; Anakin doesn’t know what’s happening either. But he isn’t letting the younglings feel it. “You need to listen to me very carefully, okay? This–” his voice breaks, “–this is going to be scary. But you have to be calm, and strong. Just like Master Yoda taught you.”

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Or, the ROTS au where Obi-wan finds a very different type of pain while looking through the Temple’s recordings of Order 66.

I read A Vader Family Sithmas. I want more. No matter how much I read, I never get tired of Lord Vader’s parenting stories.

(What I'm trying to say is, has your writing talent been lying dormant this whole time or was it just your first *professionally published* book?)

oh boy!

so when I was a kid, my favourite author was Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. she wrote her first professional novel at 14, and my thinking was, I needed to do that, because if my fourteenth birthday passed and I hadn't published a book, I'd be an irredeemable failure.

anyway. many years later, after many horrible unfinished novels, and many horrible short stories, and shelves full of books like YOUR FIRST DRAFT and 50 FIRST PAGES, I finally finished a manuscript. and managed to sell it!

I get how from an outside perspective it looks like I just wrote a book on a whim, but in actuality I am standing on a mountain of my own failures. it's just that the heap finally got tall enough for me to actually get anywhere

Bones: I fucking hate space, I hate it so much, why am I here, why did I think friendship was a good idea and necessary part of life, they NEVER LISTEN and I'm going to have to fix whatever goes horrifically wrong THIS time

Spock: if it were possible for I, a Vulcan, to love anything, I would love loping around expanding the boundaries of knowledge and the security of knowing I can kick the ass of anything that might threaten my dearest friend and beloved, but as it is, I will derive profound satisfaction from observing unfamiliar data at Jim's side, formulating and testing substantively-supported hypotheses, and following his tactically superior orders while occasionally insulting the doctor

by now i've been through a lot of fandoms, seen a lot of different kinds of villains, and met a lot of fans of villain characters. and one theme that seems to surface over and over again, is that the stories and arcs of villain characters provide a very specific fantasy of... hm...

Of your pain matters. Yes, it does. Even if it was overlooked at the time, even if the cops didn't care or your friends excused it, what you felt in that painful moment matters. The villain's big plan is a way of reflecting that pain back on the world. Making everybody look at it and share in it and say yes, this was awful, this should never have happened to you, in a way that nobody can overlook and dismiss.