comfort reads

[ironymaiden]

on the health front: C still testing positive, me still testing negative, even though i have a raging sore throat. i don't know if i have some other tripledemic affliction or if my body is just really angrily throwing all the mucus at the problem of hanging out in the house with the sick dude.

i'm sad and i'm angry and i'm worried about C (who is improving again and currently walking the dog) but there have also been some nice moments. i normally take a bath before bed, and during this time most evenings C uses my water when i'm done. (he is not a Bath Person when he is healthy.) i hang out in the bathroom and we talk a little, and then i read him some lightweight Star Wars fanfic while he soaks.

so here's the sick partner rec list so far:
Operation: Secret Girlfriend (10887 words) by SendPseuds
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Amidala & Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Satine Kryze, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Amidala, Quinlan Vos, Korkie Kryze, CC-2224 | Cody
Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, Anakin Skywalker is a Little Shit, Gossip, Suspicions, Secrets, Obi-Wan Kenobi is So Done, Implied Sexual Content, Fluff and Humor, Confessions, Drinking, Crushes, Embarrassment, Korkie Kryze is Not a Kenobi, Sorry Not Sorry
Series: Part 9 of Even if you wanted to
Summary:

“Promise me, Snips,” he said firmly, his stare serious.

“I promise,” she whispered, knowing there was no turning back now.

Anakin took a deep breath, looking around as if to make sure no one could hear the deep dark secret he was about to share with her.

“I think Obi-Wan has a girlfriend.”



-or- The Scooby Gang snoops on Obi-Wan

^ I think you have to have seen The Clone Wars episode Voyage of Temptation for this one to land properly. Regardless, chapter two is *chef's kiss*

Flowers for the Emperor (7642 words) by Fialleril
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pooja Naberrie & Leia Organa, Naberrie family - Relationship, Pooja Naberrie & Mon Mothma
Characters: Pooja Naberrie, Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Padmé Amidala, Sola Naberrie, Mon Mothma
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Double Agent Vader, Spies & Secret Agents, Worldbuilding, Language of Flowers, Time Skips
Series: Part 10 of Double Agent Vader
Summary:

Someone is sending the Emperor seditious flowers. Senator Pooja Naberrie is delighted.

(Or, I finally write the Bouquet of Disdain as an actual fic.)

^ this is from a series that I highly recommend, but stands alone nicely.

Ghastly, revolting, mind numbing... happiness (4369 words) by WhatisWithin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Sheev Palpatine & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, As a bebe - Character, Leia Organa, Also as a bebe, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Baby Luke Skywalker, Baby Leia Organa, There are no tags for this., Gosh this is hard., uh. - Freeform, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious Being an Asshole, What else is new, Anakin Skywalker Doesn't Turn to the Dark Side, Anakin Skywalker is Trying, He is a wonderful father, The twins are born early, Anakin Skywalker would be their stay at home dad, fight me, Crack Treated Seriously, Crack
Series: Part 1 of In Which Everything Goes Horribly Wrong (For Sidious)
Summary:

His future apprentice has his hair tied back into a knot of a ponytail. There is a cloth on his shoulder, and a tiny infant barely bigger than the hand that cradles them lays atop it. His eyes show circles underneath, and his simple tunic and trousers are stained and likely two days without washing. He has not even bothered with a glove over his mechanical hand.
And he is beaming exuberantly.
“Chancellor!” He cries, and he leans forward and crushes Sidious in a one armed hug.

In which the twins are born a liiiiiiiiiitle too early for Sidious's taste.

PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version Sith (5192 words) by Beth Winter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rise of Empire Era - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Original Characters, Original Imperial Character(s) (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Anakin Skywalker is an engineering nerd in any era, elements from Legends, project management through loth-cat videos, Lothal setting
Summary:

The overworked project manager on the redesign of the Imperial Lambda-class shuttle gets surprisingly competent feedback from an unknown official on Coruscant. She promptly decides that anyone bored enough to do a technical review of their own free will should be found proper employment for their own good.

Her correspondent has been missing the opportunity to tinker with machinery. It gives him something to do between hunting down rebels.

^ this one works even with the lightest ambient pop-culture awareness of Star Wars.

Drinks with Friends (8338 words) by SendPseuds
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos, Satine Kryze/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Quinlan Vos, Original Characters, Satine Kryze
Additional Tags: Friendship, Gossip, Drinking, References to Sexually Explicit Content, Young Love, Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, Young Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan might be an alcoholic, Past Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Post-Break Up, Intermission Chapters, Quinlan Vos is a Little Shit
Series: Part 7 of Even if you wanted to
Summary:

“What’s this?” Quinlan asked, reaching for the small pale metal pin sitting out on the nightstand.

“What?” Obi-Wan asked, turning around before shouting, “No! Don’t—”

But it was too late...

 

 
-or- Quinlan touches something he shouldn't. Obi-Wan gets drunk about it.

^ this one references events from a series of explicit year-on-the-run fics* but is a funny slice-of-life; C enjoyed it as a standalone but if you like het porn with plot/feelings i recommend starting the series from the beginning.




* let me sum up: there is a whole world of fiction built on events referenced in a handful of episodes from The Clone Wars where we meet Obi-Wan's ex, the Duchess of Mandalore (who fans of The Mandalorian may know as Bo-Katan's sister). pretty sure you could enjoy the story without having seen any of The Clone Wars; it's young Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon on an extended mission during a civil war.