#jennycbs

Updates like this one make me shoo everyone to bed...

Yay! I love the idea of you frantically rushing everyone to bed at like 4pm so you can read fic updates. :D 

knightedrogue

This is adorable and more lajulie to love. AH YES THANK YOU!

Thanks, my friend!

jediofgrace

I love early ESB tenderness-brewing goodness! Hold that thought. Love it!   

Yes, there’s a reason ESB is my favorite of the original trilogy. Thank you!

alderaanallday

I'm a sucker for any relationship chicken of this era. This was so great! (: 

“Relationship chicken” is a perfect way to describe that era. Thank you!  

otterandterrier

This was so bittersweet but the ending !!

I know--I hate having to have my favorite space couple actually hurt each other’s feelings, but that’s just it, right? They’re clashing because they’re talking past each other. Neither of them mean to do it.

waitjustaflick 

I love this but I want it to be like four times longer…can we make this happen? ☕️💕

aidanstein: I agree with @waitjustaflick       

lbovie: I agree with @waitjustaflick!   

luv15: Ditto.

jennycbs: Yes. 

@jhgraham and I have discussed this at length and we have some basic ideas about how we see that happening, but there are lots of details we haven’t even considered yet. We have a draft doc containing bits and pieces of our thoughts on this, but we’re a long way from writing it up. Having said that, that lovely dress has sparked our imaginations!

Some broad ideas we firmly agree on:

* They wouldn’t marry immediately after the Battle of Endor. We don’t buy the “accidental pregnancy” shite that Disney wants us to buy, either. Not for Leia Organa. No chance! So we don’t think a wedding happens due to pressures of impending parenthood; we also don’t think it would be the first thing on their agenda in the aftermath of victory, when there’s still so much work to do to secure real peace.

*Otoh, we really don’t buy the old EU version of events, either. We think it’s ridiculous to suggest they’d wait that long. And no way would Leia give any serious consideration to any other offers of marriage, from princes or anyone else. She is, in fact, already “married” in her heart to Han, and always will be, and likewise he to her. Cheesy as that sounds, that’s our headcanon and we’re sticking to it! =P  The actual formal, public wedding ceremony (which in our minds, is a mere formality) probably happens around a year (give or take a few months) after Endor.

* Over the years of their acquaintance, they probably chatted casually about marriage in a very general way (perhaps whenever some Rebels on base got married or there was something in the galactic news that sparked discussion), so each has some idea of the other’s views on the subject long before it becomes a possibility for them.

* We think the topic probably also came up on the long trip to Bespin, not because it was even a remote possibility for them at that time, but just in the “what do you think about X” type conversations that come up at the start of any new romantic/sexual relationship phase, when you’re getting to know one another better and exchanging views.

* In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, after the dust settles re: the Vader news and it becomes clear that Han is firmly attached and going nowhere without Leia, then the subject becomes much more relevant and weighty for them. With so many Rebels getting married and settling down after the war, it’s a topic that’s bound to come up with increasing frequency. Maybe they do talk about it somewhat obliquely at that point...but they’re in no particular hurry to join in the wedding frenzy. They’re sure of each other now. They can wait until the time is right to make a public declaration.

*  Han has been thinking about it for waaaay longer than Leia has... and has quietly nursed hopes in that direction for much longer than he will ever admit. He has also acquired a little something that will facilitate his proposal when he makes it. More on that in the fic itself, if we ever write it!

* It’s a family affair. When the time comes for them all to get some well-deserved post-war R&R, nobody really has a home to go to; Alderaan is gone, of course; Luke is in no hurry to go back to Tatooine, and Han doesn’t exactly have fond memories of growing up on Corellia.... so they all travel with Chewie to Kashyyyk instead, where Malla and the rest of the clan give them a warm welcome. It is there that Han plans to make a formal proposal and, if Leia’s up for it, to have a wedding as well. Just the fam. ;)

* Han knows what Leia’s answer will be, so he’s not nervous about that, but he really wants to make it special. He plans in secret, with Luke and Chewie colluding a bit. Leia is very happy when all is revealed.

* Later, they will have a much grander public ceremony, in keeping with Leia’s status. Han’s okay with that; the important thing is that Leia wants him as much as he wants her, and she has agreed to spend the rest of her life with him. WIN! If he has to get a haircut and wear his dress blues, shake hands and make nice with several hundred strangers and the galactic press for a day, so be it.

There’s probably a lot more I could say but this is already so long. It’s just a sketch, too! No wonder our chapters are 10k words long. Sheesh.  

I wish this for you too, KR! I just want Christmas to be over so gift-day can arrive. I can’t wait to read your fic! ��

Shoot, were you feeling badly? About chapter 2? But it's brilliant!

, @jennycbs No, no! I wasn’t feeling badly about chapter 2. I was concerned last week about posting Leia’s perspective in a very politically charged environment. I wrote those scenes a billion years ago and felt as confident as I ever do while writing (which is to say: hardly confident at all). It doesn’t matter how many years an author has posted fic: pressing “submit” is always a terrifying experience. :D 

And 99 percent of the feedback to the chapter has been so kind and so humbling! I am consistently heartened by the support of this community and the love we give authors. I got one fantastically confusing review on FFN that I couldn’t decide to laugh at or cry (Leia’s acting like a bitch? She should go punch a rancor on Dathomir? What?) but nearly everybody else has been beyond supportive. 

"Now its time to go back to my regularly scheduled perfectionist performance anxiety routine for chapter three." Lol!! I'm a recovering perfectionist: I work hard at not working so hard every day. ��

I read that comment and was also confused by it. Was thinking how much of our own experiences we bring into reading (and commenting) on fics. I knew you’d written this a while back, yet I kept reading Weinstein / Hollywood / trump into it. And I have a comment on my reread of MT that I have yet to submit (sorry!) where I’m reading your Thrawn as Putin!

I love this! I also love that the only thing you wanted in your early twenties was a large readership!