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Title: Castling
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (books)
Character: Radagast the Brown
Tags: Drabble, Character Study, Post-Canon
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: In Mirkwood, the morning comes softly.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for verdande_mi who prompted 'a morning break among the trees', which made me think of Mirkwood and its guardian...

Castling on AO3

( Castling )

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Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 79 — My Heart Has Shouldered Sorrows Not My Own
Author: elrhiarhodan / 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, Breha Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Ahsoka Tano, Sifo-Dyas, Reva Sevander, Lene Kostana (mentioned), Savage Opress, Pong Krell, The Traitor, 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). Bail Prestor Organa/Breha Organa
Word Count: ~ 5000 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Character relieves his murder

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: Too many tragedies have almost happened the Dark creeps ever closer. Everyone is tired and on edge. But there is still work that needs to be done.

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From All The Spaces Between Times: Chapter 79 — My Heart Has Shouldered Sorrows Not My Own (On AO3)

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Title: Salt
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Stray Kids
Pairing: Changbin/Seungminn
Tags: Drabble, Ocean, Implied Sexual Content
Rating: T
Word count: 100

Summary: Afterwards, Seungmin follows Changbin into one of the many bathrooms of the beach house.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for pushkin666 who provided the pairing and 'salt of the sea' as prompts. It immediately made me think of the Do It jacket making video. This takes place in the immediate aftermath, in case you want to like, picture outfits :D

Salt on AO3

( Salt )

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New words this week : 9,949 words which is a little surprising. I thought it was going to be another slow week, and I guess it was not!

WIPs worked on this week : 2, with 1 new WIP

I thought this was going to be another week with lower wordcount because I did not feel like I had much writing time, thought looking back I did have one big day (2.4k) that I think helped boost my total quite a bit. I'm so blindingly exhausted that my memory is garbage right now.

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☆ food truck au : 7,611 words which brings the total to 133,418 words and we're still going on the smut. I originally had it planned as a single chapter and figured it'd be on the longer side, but it would still be fine to post as one. We're at 22.5k and I think I've got another 1-2k to finish it off. Whew. ALSO. I think I finally have a title for it, which I have been worrying about because I usually have a title by this point.

☆ au of food truck au : 2,511 words which brings the total to 2,511 words and it's inspired by something from food truck au that I really want to write and doesn't fit in that fic. So, I've just been throwing words at it in a separate doc, first to try to get it out of my head, and then because I think (and my beta agreed!) that it might be fun to post as a little "extra" for food truck au. The way it's written now is shaping up to be a whole new fic of its own, which I do not want to write, but I think that I am going to reshape it as a pwp so that'll keep the wordcount fairly constrained.

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Title: Desert Flower
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Cobra Starship/Bandom
Character: Gabe Saporta
Tags: Drabble, Character Study, Desert
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: The venom bleeds out with the night.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for pushkin666 who provided Gabe and the title as prompts.

Desert Flower on AO3

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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.