on star wars slash:

[cimorene]

i think i have a weakness for that teacher/student kink which, not surprisingly, runs rampant at the master/apprentice archive.

but oh, i think a really adult obi-wan is so much more romantic. equality is romantic as inequality never can be. i have this one facial expression in mind from aotc--with the beard, and the hair, both ridiculous, but neither without charm. adult, confident, self-contained, self-sufficient and capable in his own right.

i don't think the 'unable to function without you' thing is all that romantic, although to be sure it's real enough. apparently many people disagree with me.

mirabellawotr, i'm about to update my recs page with about fifty qui-gon/obi-wan. if you're, y'know, still interested... ::sly look::

Comments

[not-fledged-yet.livejournal.com]

Cim,

I have quite an aversion to the master/student thing, as I recently posted about in my own journal. On the other hand, adult Obi-Wan things are Good. I really enjoyed the recent rec you posted where Qui-Gon gets turned into a pleasure slave. I agree that "unable to function without you" is not that great.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

>I have quite an aversion to the master/student thing,

entirely a matter of personal taste.

i'm willign to bet there aren't many people with that particular taste reading in that fandom, though. heh.

[not-fledged-yet.livejournal.com]

oh, more than likely.

The movies are bad, but I'm a sucker for prequel-timeline stories (I take the novels out from the library). I'll check out your recs page - I quite liked the story I mentioned, and if there are any more adult Obi-Wan stories I may well like them as well. I think what I liked about that one was the recognition that although they were still formally bound in a master/student relationship they had pretty much progressed to treating each other like equals.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

try 'betrayed' by james walkswithwind. um. can't think of more off the top of my head, but there must be like 70 or 80 total there.

[mirabella]

Yay! Coincidentally, I just hit your recs page yesterday and read a bunch of stuff from it.

And you're totally right, adult Obi-Wan is so much better. I love that there are so many AUs where Qui-Gon doesn't die at the end of TPM; the fics that take place after Obi-Wan becomes a knight allow for a great exploration of that pairing with the two of them as equals.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, i stopped marking them as AUs, not because i decided it was unnecessary but because i stopped NOTICING that they were au.

i believe that most of my new recs mention whether baby!obi appears. sometimes even if he goes too far in that direction i like the story--like i said, weakness for kink, provided he doesn't come off a child to me (ewwwww--and sometimes THAT happens even when he's supposedly adult). but it's still a flaw, imo. so usually, it goes in the description.

did i mention i'd be THRILLED if you wrote it?

[mirabella]

Some of the baby!Obi fics are kind of cute - I like the one where he hauls off and whangs some other kid in the face with his stuffed Wookie - but yeah, some of them go way too far in the direction of the Merry/Pippin Tru Wuv From Birth OMG ickiness.

I actually have a fic started and sort of percolating. Yesterday I did a Q/O drabble that was exceeded in awfulness only by the "love scenes" in AOTC, but that's okay, it took me a few tries to get the hobbit voices down to where I was comfortable with them too.

Ah, the honeymoon period of a new fandom. Fun, fun.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

> the "love scenes" in AOTC

'this place is so HARD and SANDY. not like you. you're SOFT.'

> the honeymoon period of a new fandom. Fun, fun.

yeah. i'm on my second honeymoon with star wars, which is lucky, because i get far pickier when i'm not in the honeymoon periods. i've been finishing stories in the past week that i wouldn't have got past the first paragraph of six months ago.

tell me moooooooooore about this fic you are writing?

[mirabella]

There's not much to tell at the moment - I'm still trying to figure out what all is going on and tie some disparate scene ideas together at the moment. Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, of course, either first-time or preslash, probably low-rated even if they do get around to the sex. Right now I'm arguing with it over whether most of it should take place on or off Coruscant; the first part of it is off-world but I really like the Jedi temple setting so I'm trying to write most of the action there. It'll get there, it's just taking me time to get the vibe down.