Star Wars Prequel Fic - WildPeace - Chapter 1

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 1
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~5,100 (this chapter)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuff ’s Yooperverse
Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years.

What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths.


Author’s Note:

Three years ago, I found an amazing story, Ever Since Happiness Called Your Name, and it became my perfect fanfic. I have read it so many times, I can recite parts of it. I was lucky enough to meet WriteStuff, the amazing author of this amazing story, and even luckier to become friends with her, amazing person that she is. For the last year or so, we have spent many hours each week (or day) talking about Kal and Ben and their lives. They are quite real people to us now.

One of our conversations centered around a comment Kal made at the end of Beyond the Rightness and Wrongness of Things, when he's talking about his relationship with his father. He seems so facile about it, and I just called bullshit, and said I'd like to write a timestamp exploring the truth of what really happened between Kal and his father. This story is that.

WriteStuff was not only my cheerleader and alpha-reader, but she was a critical reader too, making sure my vision of Kal and Ben stayed aligned with hers, but she also gave me amazing freedom, too. Working with her and her creations and George's (well just barely George's now) has been an honor.

The title of this story is borrowed from the poem by Yehuda Amachai, Wildpeace, which is reproduced in the endnotes.


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Chapter Summary: Chapter One - Twenty-three years ago, Robert Cahill left behind a large wooden crate as a legacy for his son, Khalil. It’s only just been found. Fate and good luck, two things the Irish have in abundance, seem to be smiling on Kal - he and Ben are in Dublin just at the right moment in time.

Chapter One on AO3

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Day 2

Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1. Be more present here on Dreamwidth. That means posting once a week. Posting links to my fic, posting pictures of my jewelry, posting random stuff. I used to be good at that, then I got infected by the Tumblr and became so damn lazy. NO MORE!

2. Finish This is the Time of the Lost and Found. This story has one chapter left. The problem is, there's no real drama left in the story - this fic was an "inset" story in a much longer work, and that story has been done for almost two years now. But I need to finish this, get the boys over the finish line, even if it's just a thousand word epilogue.

3. Get back on the horse with Just One Life, So Many Doors. I got stalled on this for a stupid reason, then I got sidetracked by other stories. I'm still sidetracked - I'm working on a big project and I'm really a one-story at a time writer. But maybe I can slip a chapter or two in every few weeks.

These are doable goals, so I think I'm going to stop here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Day 3

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

In keeping with my desire to be more present here on Dreamwidth, can people tell if they know or are interested in:

1 - Any Star Wars communities, particularly focused on The Phantom Menace or the Original Trilogy? Yes, I know that's sooooo old school, but I'm old school myself.

2 - Is there any interest in participation in a Star Wars Drabble Community? I used to have a grand old time with ladygray99 running whitecollar100, which had a simple weekly prompt and the challenge to write a 100, 200, or 300 word ficlet. Any kind of variation on that could be fun, like one, two or three-sentence fics. Let me know if you're interested. Any Star Wars media property is welcome.

3 - Does anyone know if there's a Star Wars kink meme here?

4 - Also, looking for a few good Star Wars - The Phantom Menace icons.

Thank you!