Wednesday Reading Meme

What I’ve Read 

running with lightning feet by blackkat - https://archiveofourown.org/works/23348836 - Clones Wars Era AU - Feral/ Wolffe, Savage/Sinker, Maul/Fox/Amidala (Rare pair hell trifecta, my dudes.) I’m re-reading this in bits and pieces. While it's not quite complete, there's a real lovely bunch of character work on Dathomir and the world building about the way the team is going to handle the downfall of Palpatine is great. I

Our Bodies Safe to Shore by dharmaavocado - https://archiveofourown.org/works/15933347  - Star Wars, Obi-Wan/Rex, Maori selkies. This has a great little mystery at the core of it that I wasn't expecting - Obi-Wan is a nice normal English teacher in a world where the Fae have invaded most places - but not Aotearoa. So he goes there to hide from whatever happened, and meets a family of selkies who, slowly and gradually, decide to keep him. Everything I have read by this author really hits a particular spot for me - one with a lot of tenderness. 

 

praying for the wicked on the weekend by Just_a_Loth_Cat, coldishcase - https://archiveofourown.org/series/1872874 - Darth Maul/Obi-Wan Kenobi with some identity porn - Darth Maul hires a dude he meets in a bar to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in a sex fantasy for him - not realizing that he'd actually found Kenobi on Tatooine and that "Ben" would be willing to play along. It has some great smut paired with some excellent character work. Series is not complete but I'm pretty pleased with it so far. 

 

Sidebar: I have a very simple rule for the porn I'll read about Darth Maul that's set post-Phantom Menace - he got cut in half and that's going to have some impact on his sex life. No perfect prosthetics, no changing the nature of his injury so that he only lost his legs: either commit to writing a character who has disabilities, or set it before he got cut in half. He has force powers, he has two good hands, he's certainly very compelling (because there is *so* much smut) - there's plenty to work with! This fic does a fair bit of work on that, and I liked reading it. 

 

 

What I’m Reading

Battle of the Linguist Mages – Scotto Moore  - Book Club - a bit spare with a lot of the character depths, with a really interesting mystery going on. I am betting that the Not!Scientologists are, in fact, right about aliens invading the earth. 

 

 

What I’m Going to Read Next

True Colors - Karen Traviss - there's some fanfic I want to read of the Republic Commando series and I want to actually meet these characters before I delve into it. 
Two Old Women - Velma Wallis