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Fic: Wanted (Modern AU), gen

Title: Wanted (Modern AU)
Author: Nicky Gabriel
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
Word Count: 32K (WIP)
Rating: M
Category: gen
Characters: Suki, Hakoda, Bato
Relationships: Bato & Suki, Hakoda & Suki, Bato & Hakoda, Sokka/Suki (very background)
Tags: Father-Daughter Relationship, Adoption, Friendship, Family, Platonic Bed Sharing, Platonic Cuddling, Fluff, Angst, No Romance, Modern Setting
TW: in the description of the series, rather heavy stuff
Summary: It’s a story about how Suki has fallen in love with Sokka’s Family.
Link: Wanted
(Some parts of this series are locked and available only for registered users on AO3)

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Community Challenge Treat Sheet!

Thank you to all the pinch hitters hard at work! We have eight pinch hits left at this post, if you missed it!

And thank you to shadow for running our official treat sheet! Find your next treat recipient here.

The spreadsheet includes participants with one or zero current gifts, who completed their assignments, and did not opt out of extra gifts. The last-updated timestamp is at the top of the sheet.

Our tiers for Community Challenge success are:

33.33% success: 150 remaining
66.66% success: 75 remaining
100% success: 0 remaining

Happy trick or treating!

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movies:misc

More movies courtesy of 10 hours on a trans-Atlantic flight

Asteroid City - I watched this because it looked visually interesting and I couldn't tell what it was about. I can now add that after seeing the whole movie, I still don't know what it was about.

( A little more about that )

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.

( More on that )

(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)

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2025,
pinch hit

Post DEADline pinch hits! mwahaha

The deadline has passed! Which means you may peruse our lineup of eepy creepy pinch hits below!

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

These are due October 28, 23:59 UTC.

Thank you!

PH #6 (firsttraintovictoriaville):

Roots of Pacha (Video Game), The White Stripes, Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game), Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/firsttraintovictoriaville

PH #13 (plicate):

Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

PH #31 (bluerosekatie):

Bionicle - All Media Types, Tron: Uprising, Tron (Movies), Rockman | Mega Man Classic, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tetsuwan Atom | Astro Boy, Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game), Metroid Series, Crossover Fandom

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/bluerosekatie

PH #36 (diplomacy):

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/diplomacy

PH #40 (IncurablePeppermint):

Misfits in Toyland (Webcomic), Alien Nine, Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/IncurablePeppermint

PH #49 (Syksy):

Buffyverse (TV), Charité (TV 2017), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008), Penny Dreadful (TV)

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/Syksy

( Already claimed )

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Friday, October 25 - Hobbies

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Star Wars Fic and Meta - From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 60

Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 60 — Shadows Pass Over Our Faces
Author:

elrhiarhodan /

elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, The Force as a Sentient Character, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Ahsoka Tano, Sifo-Dyas, Reva Sevander, Lene Kostana (mentioned), Savage Opress, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (yes, we’re arrived)
Word Count: ~ 7200 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Canon typical violence, non-canon death of a minor canon (TCW) character.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Anakin Skywalker returns to the Temple for the first time in three years, for the first time since he had delivered his half-sister Rey into the keeping of Master Plo. He is not sure how he feels, knowing his children are here, his half-sister is here, but he can’t see them or ask about them.

It’s a good thing he can lean on his padawan-brother, Obi-Wan, for emotional support and wisdom in this difficult moment.

From All The Spaces Between Times — Chapter 60 — Shadows Pass Over Our Faces (On AO3)

( Meta — Shadows Pass Over Our Faces )

Thursday, October 23 - Free for All

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tv:babylon 5

Still thinking about Babylon 5

... as one does ...

( Spoilers for 5x12-5x16 )

Wednesday, October 22 - Contrast

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2025,
deadline

Boo! Less than three days until works are due!

Works are due October 24, 23:59 UTC/7:59 EDT. Please take this opportunity to double-check assignment requirements and that you've actually posted the work instead of leaving it in drafts!

Please also remember there will be no extensions.

After the works deadline, there will be a week for pinch hitting and treating to get ready for work reveals on Halloween.

Speaking of which, our Community Challenge of Treating Every* Participant will kick officially into gear after the post-deadline pinch hits go out! There will be a treat sheet for tracking.

*some restrictions apply
**like opting out of treats, haha

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fanfic:babylon 5

Babylon 5 fic: Dedicated

More B5 fic! This is one that I wrote some time ago, but haven't posted mostly because I was completely stuck for a title, until the right one fell into my lap. (I'm honestly delighted with how the titles for this little series have been working out; they're coming out so nicely multi-layered.)

Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)

This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.

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!promotion day

Tuesday, October 21 - Promotion Day

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Whumptober Day 20: Fancy Event (Murderbot)

Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.

I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).

No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

( 450 wds under the cut )

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Whumptober Day 13: Forced Retirement (Biggles)

I return to Whumptober! Obviously the days are completely off at this point, but I'm doing a bit of catch-up.

No. 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement

Biggles & EvS, late in canon (600 wds)
Also posted on Tumblr.

( 600 wds under the cut )

Monday, October 20 - Dance

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!theme day

Friday, October 17 - Solitude

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Current Music: Wet Leg - Angelica

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music

My life in music

When I have disposable income, I spend it on concert tickets.

So back in January I went to see Irish country-pop singer CMAT live. My friends and I were the oldest people in the room and we all got covid, and it was absolutely worth it. In terms of "best gigs I've been to", I'd put it on par with Florence + the Machine as The Actual Best, only at a fraction of the scale and price.

Her new album came out at the end of August, and I have an embarrassing number of feelings about the title track. Embarrassing because I was a fully grown adult and also Australian when the Celtic Tiger collapsed, but growing up in suburbia and feeling like your whole generation has been fucked over by neoliberalism is A Mood.

Watch on YouTube

She's touring early next year, and I have tickets secured and a note in my planner to get a covid booster three weeks before the date.

( This got long and has more embeds, so... )

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Star Wars Fic and Meta - From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 59

Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 59 — Rings In a Tree Trunk Reveal How Old the Tree Is, As Tears Tell the Length of a Life
Author:

elrhiarhodan /

elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, The Force as a Sentient Character, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Ahsoka Tano, Sifo-Dyas, Reva Sevander, Lene Kostana (mentioned), Savage Opress, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (yes, we’re arrived)
Word Count: ~ 5930 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Canon typical violence, non-canon death of a minor canon (TCW) character.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Obi-Wan lays out his fears for the survival of the Order to members of the Jedi High Council. They are surprisingly receptive, both about his concerns and about what the Order should do to protect itself.

From All The Spaces Between Times — Chapter 59 — Rings In a Tree Trunk Reveal How Old the Tree Is, As Tears Tell the Length of a Life (On AO3)

( Meta — Rings In a Tree Trunk Reveal How Old the Tree Is, As Tears Tell the Length of a Life )

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!free for all day

Thursday, October 16 - Free for All

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Wednesday, October 15 - Surprise

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