#accidental child acquisition
A bit late this month since I had to send my computer off for repairs (RIP my stickers, but at least it was mostly cosmetic damage), but I made it! I’m putting the 7 Star Wars fics of various pairings above the cut, and the 5 miscellaneous fandoms (Nirvana in Fire, Life 2005, Lord Peter, The Untamed, Our Flag Means Death) underneath.
STAR WARS
Cody/Obi-Wan
Worth a Thousand Wordsby@glimmerglanger
“You need to show him what you have to offer,” Fives said, which sounded shockingly like relevant advice. Cody blinked over at him.
“What?” he asked, because, honestly, he’d take any advice he could get, at this point. The war had been over for nearly six months, and he’d made no progress on his own.
Fives slammed back a shot of his own and then–kind of leered over. “You need to give him a look at the goods,” he said, and then, pointedly, dipped his gaze down.
OR, the one where Cody takes some very bad advice and has to deal with the consequences.
*wheezing with laughter* AKA the one where Cody sends a dick pic. Post-war, no Order 66, very funny and sweet. Also, it didn’t really hit my embarrassment squick despite being tagged for that, because it’s not mean-spirited about it, and has some good perspective about how there’s a huge gap between the clones’ life experience and their socialization for things outside of fighting a war.
Strong Bones by missmollyetc
We must all start as we mean to go on.
Triptych of stories about Obi-Wan and Cody set post-Order 66, with absolutely GORGEOUS prose. The first two will break your heart (especially #2, how DARE), but the last one will gently patch it.
Din/Luke
Blood Ties by scheidwrites
A few things are slightly different, which means everything is different. Boba and Fennec arrive just a bit later, Din takes his jetpack back up to the temple, and so he and the child are both taken prisoner by the Empire.
Fascinating AU and a lovely h/c series that deserves a lot more hits than it currently has.
Pragmatics by Derkish
Admittedly, this is not the first time Luke has wound up at someone else’s kitchen table in someone else’s clothes. But it’s not breakfast, Luke’s not an undergrad scarfing down bacon and eggs to cure the common hangover, and Din doesn’t strike him as the kind of guy he’d meet at a house party. The baby is definitely a first.
Luke is a grad student trying to finish his linguistics PhD after an unexpected leave of absence. His neighbor, Din, is a single dad and delivery guy at Pizza Parsec. (Actually, Pizza Parsec is just a front for the bounty hunters’ guild. But Luke doesn’t need to know that.)
Fantastic modernish AU that hit the sweet spot for me regarding Luke being a emotional mess with disaster family issues but ALSO a very smart and competent person in his field. I also really enjoyed how the Skywalker family drama was translated into this setting.
A Warrior Dance by twoseas
Luke reacts strangely to Din’s bared face and an overheard conversation leads the Mandalorian to believe the Jedi thinks he’s ugly. Things spiral out of control from there.
Featuring Mandalorian combat without armor, Han and Leia being a little into Din, and Luke being so much into Din he accidentally makes him think he’s unattractive.
This one has been widley recced already, but I finally read it and it’s just as charming as promised without the secondhand-embarrassment I feared.
Obi-Wan/Anakin
if i only knew by wanderlove
Newly knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan, Anakin Skywalker, have been sent to Ryloth on a simple diplomatic envoy. While there, an unsettling incident causes Obi-Wan to look at Anakin in a new light and re-evaluate…everything.
The Galaxy will never be the same.
aka: “come for the obikin, stay for the tzai and deep emotional discussions that dismantle every single misunderstanding in the prequels.”
Very satisfying fix-it AU on many levels, with lots of time and detailed work on building their relationship in a healthier way.
More recs below!
(Nirvana in Fire, vid) …One More Time by absternr
Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know?
I’m gleefully angry about how perversely perfect the lyrics are for this Jingyan vid, and at the vidder for making it work both on a straightforward editing level and a cheeky ‘let me vid this serious historical drama to this iconic pop song’ level. I love it <3
(Lord Peter) to translate a passion, to divide a sorrow by nnozomi
Harriet Vane bestows a murder on her college, to the benefit of all.
Lovely character study with Harriet brainstorming a story.
(Life)never thought about love when I thought about home by napricot
“I don’t do undercover,” said Dani. Not anymore, anyway.
“I’ve never really done undercover, or not anything longterm,” said Crews, frowning.
Tidwell leaned back in his chair, unmoved by their protests. “Yeah, gonna be honest, you two are not the preferred undercover picks. You are, however, the only two detectives available who could plausibly pass for a married couple in search of a precious baby to adopt.”
Classic execution of the undercover-married-in-suburbia trope, but perfectly written for these two characters and their whole thing. Post-canon, Charlie/Dani.
(The Untamed) good morning sunlightby@stratisphyre
Next time, Lan Qiren swore he would stay in bed with Xiao Jingfei. Wei Changze could be the one to take their wretched spawn to the market.
AKA Accidental Child Acquisition: The Fix-It Series. So delightful! Low-key Cangse Sanren/Lan Qiren/Wei Changze, which some of you might remember the author writing in a different AUfroma prior rec set - that isn’t the same continuity and isn’t a prequisite though it does develop the triad more if you’re curious. This one’s all about the (literal) found family and making things happier!
(OFMD)and let your hair hang down by Ark
Stede exhales, warm breath stirring Ed’s hair. “Again?”
“Stede,” says Ed, “I’d sit on your cock all day for a chair and captain the ship like that if the option was available.”
I haven’t read a ton of OFMD fic (I think this is gonna be another Old Guard-like fandom for me where I loved the canon but my brain doesn’t really want fic), but this one is a gorgeous piece of kinky smut with sharp characterization.
