✧ luminous beings are we ✧

No time for sorrows, because we still have three more days of Han/Leia love! 💕 Our prompts for Day 5 are AU / Canon divergence.

This is one of our staple prompt sets and we can't wait to see what you've come up with! Didn't manage to finish yet? You have all day to share it, or you can even post it during the weekend.

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Thanks to everyone who's joined us so far with their fanworks or with their support towards creators. Let's keep it going!

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For Han and Leia Appreciation Week day four: "Afraid".

This is a fic that a couple of people requested after I mentioned in passing the idea of Han suffering from sleep paralysis post-carbonite. Since I have had sleep paralysis episodes for about as long as I've loved Star Wars (aka for like 28 years), I figured I could try to capture the feeling in words. (It has a sweet ending, don't worry.)