Fanfic recs

I think it's time we blow this scene by suzukiblu
Oneshot
Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka try to defend Supreme Chancellor Palpatine during a high-speed chase through Coruscant traffic. Anakin asks Palpatine to take the wheel for a bit and two out of the four people in the vehicle have a lot of fun; the other two very much do not.

 

And to no-one's surprise, more Star Wars Time Travel Fixit-Fic:

Desert Storm series by Blue_Sunshine, and its follow-up Rise and Fall

Four years after the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, Ben Kenobi wanders into a Tatooine sandstorm, and out of a Tatooine sandstorm 23 years earlier, just in time to meet a young slave woman and her baby boy who shines in the Force.

Really dense, really long, lots of Mandolorians, lots of cliffhangers, lots of sand (so much sand). Also so many characters, canon and otherwise, some of them familiar, some of them remixed due to time-travel, but also lots of OCs (or might-as-well-be-OCs given how little they appear in canon) who are nonetheless pretty cool.

Also I am not kidding about long: Desert Storm is over a million words, and Rise and Fall isn't finished at nearly another half mil.

 

You are not kidding about long! I have put so much of my spare time into binging this since the fic rec. Glad to have gotten into it, but now peering down the edge of the cliffhanger I'm on and pondering whether to shelve it for a bit.

Spoiler: Desert Storm ending, no really, spoilers

Off the top of my head, I don't think I remember seeing Ben in anyone's visions of freeing Tatooine? And one thing that would make for a more challenging war to oppose this healthier galaxy would be a successfully turned Ben.....

 

So not really a fanfic, but something that might be of interest:

A vaguely accurate RPF story about the Archive partially told in ALT text by samvara

Something of one person's experience of the early development days of AO3, written basically as it was happening.