OMG IT IS A STAR WARS POST

[quigonejinn]

Title: Easier Than Dying
Fandom: Star Wars
Character: Qui-Gon Jinn
Theme set: Delta for 1character
Disclaimer: Not mine, not mine, not mine.
Rating: PG.



#01 - Blend

He was, when grown, the most peculiar blend of arrogance and humility.

#02 - Stain

Once back from Telos, Qui-Gon had the droids not only clean the robes for stains and odors, but also completely sterilize at the highest setting.

#03 - Island

True, he may not have been a complete island, and true, Qui-Gon would probably have violently disputed even the applicability of the saying to Jedi, who were joined to the Force and could never be truly alone; neverhtleess, the truth was that for the long decade between when Xanatos left the Order and when Obi-Wan became his Padawan, Qui-Gon had penninsula joined to the main body only by the narrowest of isthmuses.

#04 - Apple

Qui-Gon realized that he may, in fact, have made an inappropriate choice of a second Padawan when he found an eight thousand word report titled "Vegetation-Based Temptation Myths of Republic Worlds: A Survey" lying on his desk the next morning.

#05 - Paper

"Certainly a barbaric and foul method of record preservation," Dooku said, and even he sounded a little choked from the stench coming from the river.

#06 - Relax

When the time came to go, to truly dissolve into the Force, Qui-Gon found that it was was even easier than dying had been.

#07 - Leaves

"This is truly foul, Master," Obi-Wan muttered, making an absolutely wretched face around the raw Lherda leaves, but they were the only edible thing in a five mile radius and all they had for dinner, so he continued to jam them into his mouth.

#08 - Proof

Qui-Gon had never been very good at the logic exercises that Dooku put him through -- he had gotten competent at them through hard work and diligent application, but he never acquired an actual knack for proofs and corollaries and premises.

#09 - Ugly

He kept waiting for his Padawan to go through an ugly, strange-looking stage -- even Xanatos had, after all -- but somehow, the boy never quite did.

#10 - Book

Qui-Gon remembered, in fact, the first time that he showed a printed, material information volume to Obi-Wan -- the boy had blinked, looked at Qui-Gon, and then assumed a neat, blank, and vaguely obedient expression that, in later years, once the boy finally grew a sense of humor, signalled the imminent approach of a teasing statement about "pathetic lifeforms" or "irritating antiquities" or one of Qui-Gon's other eccentricities.

#11 - Brood

Qui-Gon was prone to periods of brooding himelf -- it was the quintessential preoccupation for an order whose primary gift was the gift of precognition, and all the Living Force in the world didn't entirely balance that out -- but after their off-Corsucant mission together, Qui-Gon had to wonder whether the boy had been genetically engineered for maximum worry capabilities.

#12 - Mesh

Qui-Gon still remembered vividly the first time that he had trained wearing the sensory-deprivation mesh set at its highest level, which meant that it started to shut down even pressure receptors under your skin, inducing a sense of freedom and weightlessness such that you felt like you were floating in the darkness, mostly deaf, possibly half-asleep, utterly relaxed, with something that hummed and, as your master irritatedly pointed out to you after the mesh had been removed, was an actual, working, powered-on lightsaber that might, for example, the way that you had been waving it around, come perilously close to separating your Master from his knees.

#13 - Soft

The boy reminded Qui-Gon of the Seranian dormouse had once seen kept as a pet -- small, brown, soft-looking with bright eyes, and equipped with both a remarkably sharp mind and remarkably sharp teeth.

#14 - Shelf

The materials that Qui-Gon had collected over the years on the prophecy of the Chosen One were not much referred to, and he kept them on the topmost and dustiest shelf in his Temple quarters.

#15 - Alone

As a youngling, Qui-Gon had understood, mentally, the notion of being alone, but he never actually experienced it until he was thirteen and accompanied Dooku to one of the scorched planets of the Dark Zone.

#16 - Fall

A telling linguistic quirk, Qui-Gon thought, that the local word for the transition into the cool seasons was also a homophone for uncontrolled downward movement.

#17 - Knot

"That'll hold my weight, Qui-Gon?"

#18 - Crowd

Dooku had explained to Qui-Gon, once, that even though a great man might walk in and among a crowd, he nevertheless remained alone, always.

#19 - Denial

Qui-Gon had used the Force to crack open someone's mind completely only once -- it had been when he was sixteen, and he had not dreamed of the man in many, many years.

#20 - Train

Qui-Gon had been assigned alone the duty of protecting the rear of the baggage train from attacks, which, admittedly sounded glamorous, but mostly meant that he ate mule dust for the remainder of the journey to H'ladan.

#21 - Fur

Dooku's heavy winter cloak had been lined with heating elements as well as trimmed with fur.

#22 - Chrome

Each of the shining buttons on the piloting board just about half of the size the smallest nail of the smallest finger on Qui-Gon's; he had to squint to see them, and well, no idea of how he was actually going to operate them.

#23 - Heart

Obi-Wan's heart was, in the way of his species, rather large and covered only by a thin strip of bone; Qui-Gon's, however, was encased to the point that a common cause of death on his birth planet in primitive times had been calcification of the channels permitting return of oxygen-depleted blood to the heart.

#24 - Intention

Qui-Gon had intended, before Tatooine, for Obi-Wan to be his last Padawan.

#25 - Push

For Qui-Gon, performing the mindtrick felt much like leaning his weight against a door and pushing it open.

#26 - Look

When Obi-Wan was sixteen, he picked up the habit of giving Qui-Gon supremely reproachful looks out of the corners of his eyes while keeping the rest of his face blank and respectful, and well -- Qui-Gon wasn't yet sure what he would do if he ever caught the Padawan who had shown Obi-Wan that particular trick, but it definitely involved suggesting to his Master that he set his Padawan to writing, with the Force, I will not corrupt other Masters' students several thousand times in the Temple sand gardens.

#27 - Weight

The knot had not, in fact, held Tholme's weight.

#28 - Spider

There was very little in the way of edible animal life on Tattooine, and when Qui-Gon pointed out that the six-legged jumping rock spiders were probably eminently nutritious sources of animal protein, even in his advanced age, Obi-Wan made such a face that Qui-Gon had laughed and never suggested anything of the sort again.

#29 - Robe

No, the Jedi were not assassins, but yes, at Qui-Gon's order, stitched into the hem of Obi-Wan's robe was a length of narrow-gauge Yranian wire, strong enough to hold a space shuttle together during re-entry and thin enough to garotte most upright structured species.

#30 - Umbrella

It was not easy sharing an umbrella with someone who was a head and a half shorter than you and had shoulders as broad as yours, not to mention a profound distaste for getting any part of himself wet.

#31 - Surface

"You should like this planet, Obi-Wan -- during particular times of the year, the surface tension of the planetary liquid cover is high enough to walk on."

#32 - Idea

Another concept that was difficult for Qui-Gon or, really, any Jedi to ever process: life without the Force.

#33 - Diamond

A field composed entirely of highly compressed carbon pebbles made for a wretchedly unforgiving -- though aesthetically attractive, he had to admit -- walking surface.

#34 - Blind

There had been a brief, terrifying period on Oline where Obi-Wan had gone blind -- Sardell spores, released into the mining tunnels precisely for the purpose of flushing them out and thankfully incompatible with Qui-Gon's body chemistry -- and Qui-Gon didn't think that he would ever forget that rush of fear, the first time he had felt even the faintest hint of that emotion in over a decade, when he saw Obi-Wan standing there in the tunnel, eyes milk-white, spores powdering his shoulders and hands golden, and him trying to calm himself enough so that he could use the Force to navigate.

#35 - Flow

The sewer, in the way of every sewer that Qui-Gon had ever visited, stank, and without having to look behind him, Qui-Gon told Obi-Wan to stop using the Force to float himself over the ankle-deep goo.

#36 - Movement

Qui-Gon had never actually been all that clumsy; he had been born big, after all, and had learned to move carefully long before he stepped into a training circle.

#37 - More

There was a notion among the Jedi on the limits of knowledge: there might be an infinite amount to learn in the universe and infinite ways to know the Force, but for each person, there was a limit, a line, a demarcation past which he could not go.

#38 - Honey

Qui-Gon remembered being rather revolted when he learned the process by which honey was produced, and after learning its origins, he never quite re-acquired his old taste for it.

#39 - Weather

It was unusual to find pebbles from the River of Light weathered down and as obvious as this -- usually, they were covered in at least a shell of igneous rock, but this one lay in Qui-Gon's palm and quietly went about it business of glowing in the presence of a midichlorian node.

#40 - Blue

The refraction index of water gave most planets a blue sky, but Terpsichore, with its typical passion for the overdramatic, carried enough exotic organocompounds in its atmosphere to make its ceiling only a shade or two darker than the blade on Qui-Gon's lightsaber.

#41 - Double

The Shaman had, in the dream, two faces: one flesh that looked so much like Qui-Gon's that they could have been blood brothers and then, another looked like it was made entirely out of blue light.

#42 - Braid

Dooku had to punish Qui-Gon out of the habit of chewing or otherwise playing on his Padawan braid; Obi-Wan, on the other hand, came to being a Padawan hungry for all the signs and dignity of that status.

#43 - Thread

There was no set regulation as to how or which events a Padawan would mark on his braid with extra thread -- guidelines, yes, but regulations, no -- and Qui-Gon respected Obi-Wan's privacy enough never to ask what his bands marked.

#44 - Angles

His arm hung such a funny angle in front of him that, even though he could only feel the pain dimly, at the edges of his mind, Qui-Gon could only assume that his arm was broken and the bit of white and red poking out at the side was where the bone had broken through the skin.

#45 - Daydream

Sufficiently trained Jedi rarely allowed themselves to fantasize, and even if he had been emotionally inclined for it, Qui-Gon could not have conceived of a life besides that of following the Force and going planet to planet, ship to ship, with his Padawan by his side.

#46 - Nightmare

Xanatos had, as a child, been somewhat prone to nightmares; Obi-Wan, on the other hand, slept with the lifelong assurance of someone who had arrived at the Temple hours after he had been born.

#47 - Honor

There was no honor among the Jedi; there was only the Force.

#48 - Palm

It was a combination of genetics, rough usage, and sheer phyical size but by the time he was thirty, the palms of Qui-Gon's hands were almost twice as big as that of most other near-humanoid adults.

#49 - Screen

"Tatooine, Master," Obi-Wan said, and from the angle at which he stood, Qui-Gon could make out not only his reflection on the screen, but also Obi-Wan's, all bright eyes and concentration.

#50 - Warmth

The Sith lightsaber had been warm; the floor had been cold, but Obi-Wan raised him off of it somewhat, and in the end, dying was very, very easy.

Comments

[karabou.livejournal.com]

....! This is awesome. I love how they aren't in any sort of chronological order, I especially love how knot and weight go together, and The boy reminded Qui-Gon of the Seranian dormouse had once seen kept as a pet -- small, brown, soft-looking with bright eyes, and equipped with both remarkably sharp mind and remarkably sharp teeth. Wow.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie. You are entirely too good to me. *____*

I am sorry that people in funny dirty clothes are eating my heart and that I cannot give proper love to your Mountie + spare. We should get together again soon, though, if only so that I can skeeve more DS off of you (or so that we can watch Firefly) and I can give your DVDs back to you.

[karabou.livejournal.com]

LOL... yes we should (Firefly?? Hehe) um, unfortunately Will is going on some three week trip to far away lands and will only be back on weekends so he probably won't give me up for them. Is there a weekday we can hang out?

We need to figure out a way to make the laptop volume louder! If I bring my computer's speakers do you think they would be able to plug into your laptop/make a difference?

[ex-suhina987.livejournal.com]

"This is truly foul, Master..."

Ah bliss.

...Qui-Gon had to wonder whether the boy had been genetically engineered for maximum worry capabilities.

Heh.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

:D Well, you know. He's so small. And yet he worries so damn much.

Thanks for reading.

squeesqueesquee

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

OMG. O____O These are so wonderful. They're drawn with such deft humour and insight and pathos. I really want to go through and point and gibber at all of them, but I'll spare you. XD The glimpses of Qui-Gon's flaws and his uniqueness and his heart (omg, I love the heart sentence, how Obi-Wan's is so unprotected and Qui-Gon's is protected too much!)-- they're lovely and really fit together.

What I like best, though, is the multi-faceted, thoughtful, clear construction of Qui-Gon we get in putting them all together. It reminds me why I love Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan, and you writing both of them. <3333333333

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Ahah. As usual, you are way, way, way too nice.

I'm glad, though, that the consistency of Qui-Gon's characterization came through. There was a specific Qui-Gon lurking around in my head for this one, and I was like OMG WTF THIS IS NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY SENNNNNNNNSSE.

[mozart.livejournal.com]

where did you find this?? what was the word promt for each from, a community?? AGK I LOVED IT. and I want to do xanatos, now!

oh god. Oh god I miss xanatos.

*waves hi to the Japanese peoplez*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Too braindead to elaborate, but: 1character.

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Who is Pellew and is he good to slash with Horatio?

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Pellew is the gentleman in my icon here, and IMO, yes, he is a little old, but he is billiant to slash with Horatio. He's Horatio's Captain in the first four epiodes, and in the first movie, he's the one who chews Horatio out for fighting a duel and then shoots SImpson in the chest, and later on in the movie, he really tries to take care of him. <3 <3 <3

At one point,when Horatio is in rilly rilly hot water, Pellew yells something like, "By God, do you think I'll let them hang him? The boy is as dear to me as my own -- "

And cuts it off there because it's getting, um,a little inabppropriate. XD Pellew is a real historical peron, by the way, and in the stories, his first child was illegitimate (thus the charming middle name of "Bastard") nd born the same year that Horatio was. XD XD XD

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Mmmm resonant.

Okay, god, I remember now. I guess I need to re-watch the Duel. I suck at remembering minor characters. I only just got it down that Louis is the black guy in DS, I always kept mixing him up with Huey.

At one point,when Horatio is in rilly rilly hot water, Pellew yells something like, "By God, do you think I'll let them hang him? The boy is as dear to me as my own -- "

Awwww!

This is what made me wonder. For whatever reason I imagined it was Bush/Horatio...

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Probably because my OTP brainwashing waves were at work, and yes. Pellew/Hornblower is pretty ludicrously amazing.

Throughout the books, even when he's a captain on his own, Hornblower is like ZOMG PELLEW IS TEH AWESOMEZ0R. They're not as close as they are in the books, but I was reading Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, and there's this one point where Horatio is all talking about Pellew's "superb" seamanship.

Alo a point where Pellew rushes on deck in his nightgown and a pink do-rag, but that's neither here nor there. <3 <3 <3

[karabou.livejournal.com]

That's likely! Ahahaha

but I was reading Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

*has that at home somewhere*

Alo a point where Pellew rushes on deck in his nightgown and a pink do-rag, but that's neither here nor there. <3 <3

ROTFLMAO Oh dear...

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. So humbling. Woman, you give me a complex. You had some typos, and one of those sentences was incomprehensible to my teensy brain for the first three reads (#12), but guh. So many of your usual little details, delightful injection of real character, story, sci fi, humor, and touching sorrow. I think I'm too tired to give you feedback that's worth anything, but I really, really liked this. ♥

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

It's a Rhodfic. Would it be Rhodfic without eight gajillion typos, a 100 word long sentence that doesn't make sense, and at least four section breaks and/or random numerals? XD I've been going back through since I posted yesterday, getting all the things that I failed to snag when I proofread it before, and I'm sure that I'm still missing shit.

Oh well. :D

Thanks for reading this. I've been feeling really UNGGGGGGGGH about the technical quality of my writing recently, so I'm glad that this hung together for you, and really. The point of this comment is to tell you to go get rest, not to worry, and that I'm saving your Obi-Wan 50 things toread.<3

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

♥ Yet, these are minor things in the face of the meta and the details and the characterization. :D But fear not, for I suck at proofreading myself as well. XD

Awww, well, I loved this a lot. The phrasing is very solid to me, and the scattered nature of this challenge really worked with all the things you said. We likes it. :D

*blabbers*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going through one of my Moods about writing -- either that, I think, or the pace at which I've been writing in the past month is showing. It took me all of last year to get to ~70K words, and I've clocked in 23K this month, so I'm not spending nearly as long resting between stories and getting organized and stuff.

And yeah. Down with the grammar Nazis, goddammit. I know I'm overly unconcerned with details, but really. *looks for sporking fork, but alas, is so disorganized that she can't find it* :(

Randomly. I hope your orig idea is going well *___*

Re: *blabbers*

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, well, that pace is what drives me insane. I write far, far too much, am not organized, etc. It generally puts me in a very insecure mood about my writing. XD I'm just jealous because all these Hornblower people are getting all this fic from you, and really, I rely on you to prove I don't automatically hate all Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan. XD

Well, I'm more concerned about the bloody people who don't even KNOW how to use a comma. laskfhls;adf *hates* So, I guess I'm getting sporked when you find it, huh? *runs*

I hope so, too. Right now, it's floundering around. Not sure what to do with it. And fandom is distracting me. XD

Re: *blabbers*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

The best fic I've ever written, I think, is stuff that knocks around in the back of my head for a few days and that I then sit down and write in a single session. I haven't had a chance to do that for a while, so I might put a bit of a writing moratorium on myself just to see if I can get back into the groove.

And Hornblower is lovely. The fandom is amazingly sweet, newbie-friendly and anti-wanky, and the canon is stuff that I can actually respect as, you know, a thinking individual. It's just icing on the cake that the big, obvious pairing in the fandom that I'm in reminds me a bit of Q/O -- except, you know, Qui-Gon is unquestionably unbalanced, Obi-Wan isn't as articulate, and the whole teacher/padawans-can't-have-sex thing, which I completely don't buy in SW even though it can make stuff interesting, has serious weight and teeth to it. <3 <3 <3

Alas, I fear it is not to your taste, but if you have time to read or even to watch, tell me, and I can hook you up.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

I love Qui-Gon Jinn, but I had never read any fic-bits about him before. OMG LOFF. That last one just slaye me.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

HURRAH SOMEBODY WHO LOVES QUI-GON AND ^___________^ And, er. Yes. If you ever want pointers for good Qui-Gon Jinn fanfiction, I've got a links to a bunch squirreled away.

Also. I've been intending to say this ever since I saw that you were a Pirates fan -- my God, Zach Duke is ridiculou.

I have no Qui-Gon icon; I will have the Princess fill in

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

Some day I will ask for Qui-Gon fic, yes. I love him (and Leia) most of all the people from the movies, but I've never been fannish about the SW stuff for whatever reason (maybe I have too many fandoms already?).

As for baseball, dude, my team is so screwed (for the 13th year running). Zach Duke is our Great White Hope for this season. I don't know of his ridiculous qualities, but I'm sure as our GWH he will be bombing out in some spectacular fashion this season. Why do you find him ridiculous?

all that, and he's kinda hot, too.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Dude, yo. I know that ERA's don't count for the whole story, but 1.81 ERA is kind of ridiculously flashy, particularly in a neutral stadium like PNC. And he's got a solid K/BB ratio, and yeah, it was only fourteen games, but *______* I'm curious to see whether he'll continue being effective against major-league hitters for a whole season.

And oh, Pirates. :/ I am sorry. I hear that, um, your stadium is really nice.

Re: all that, and he's kinda hot, too.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

Oh, you meant ridiculously good. Yeah, we'll see; he was very good, but he's got to last through to September.

I have always thought that PNC is a pitcher's park - it plays pretty big during the hot part of the summer.

And yes, the park is every bit as nice as they say. I've been to a few of the new ones, and I think ours is really the best.

Re: all that, and he's kinda hot, too.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Baseball-Reference.com says that PNC is generally pitcher-friendly a couple years back, but for some reaosn, they were pretty much neutral last year.

(And yeah, as you can tell from the math dorkery, I've never had the pleasure of being to PNC, and since I'm an AL girl, I haven't seen watched too many games at PNC. Of the newer parks, I've been Citizen's Bank, Comerica, and Jacobs Field, and they're all pretty, but XD I love my grody, nasty, city Yankee Stadium too much, I think.

Though, dude. You can arrive by steamboat? *_*)

Re: all that, and he's kinda hot, too.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

I have never in my life been to Yankee Stadium. This is a big big failure on my part - I mean, I cannot stand the Yankees, but I feel like everybody has to go there and to Fenway at some point, or they're just not true baseball fans.

Re: all that, and he's kinda hot, too.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yeah, I'm a rabid, frothy Yankees fan who thinks about Johnny Damon at center field and dies inside a little, so I think I'm going to skip out on the Fenway thing. XD

A friend and I went to Cleveland to check out the Indians park, and we were both wearing A's gear because they're her primary and my subsidiary team, and we got booed as we were leaving.

And Cleveland won that night. Bitches.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

RIDICULOUS. MY INABILITY TO TYPE TODAY IS RIDICULOUS.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

LJ needs to stop implementing silly nudge features and give us comment editing. *That* is the killer app of LJ.

[a-blue-moon-cat.livejournal.com]

Word.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

There's a wonderful story lurking behind almost every one of these stories. I'm really wondering about what happened with Tholme and the knot, though.

with something that hummed and, as your master irritatedly pointed out to you after the mesh had been removed, was an actual, working, powered-on lightsaber that might, for example, the way that you had been waving it around, come perilously close to separating your Master from his knees.

I can just imagine Dooku's ever-so-dry delivery of thise line. Qui-Gon strikes me as someone who might have been hapless (not to mention *goofy*) as a teen.

The sewer, in the way of every sewer that Qui-Gon had ever visited, stank, and without having to look behind him, Qui-Gon told Obi-Wan to stop using the Force to float himself over the ankle-deep goo.

HEE! I love the entire characterization of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and their relationship. Obi-Wan is so confusingly *sober* in comparison to Qui-Gon, it must have made his teenage years very very odd. And I keep getting the image of Obi-Wan as a cat that Qui-Gon isn't quite sure what to do with, being as he is a dog-person if I've ever seen one.

qui-gon = the doggiest dog person. ever.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

I'm really wondering about what happened with Tholme and the knot, though.

The short of it is that Qui-Gon and Tholme were trying to sneak into a part of the Temple that was off-limits to them. Tholme wanted to use the Force -- like Obi-Wan does later in the sewers -- to lift them up and over the wall, whereas Qui-Gon thought it would be a great idea to rappel over and talked Tholme into trying it his way.

Alas. It failed to work, and writing lines in the Temple sand gardens was only the start of it.

Thank you so much for the feedback. <3

[a-blue-moon-cat.livejournal.com]

And I keep getting the image of Obi-Wan as a cat that Qui-Gon isn't quite sure what to do with, being as he is a dog-person if I've ever seen one. Bright blessings upon you! This is just perfect! I wish I could draw cartoons, then one could have Qui the dog and Obi the cat, and Oh! what mischief could they get up to! LOL!

[temve.livejournal.com]

My Qui!love is fed, warmed and sated. This was a wonderful kaleidoscope of just what makes Jinn Jinn (and sometimes impossible to live with, and sometimes impossible not to love).

Brava!

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Isn't he a cranky old bitch? Him and Obi-Wan are such a delightful odd couple. <33333

(PS: you know what's really impossible not to love? your new CANE. kfj;lgihdf.)

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Knot -- *snigger* (Weight -- ROFL!)

I think I want to marry "Push". *G*

And "Flow" is your usual character-world-relationship magic, Masterful one, as is "Thread".

And oh! "Warmth". *sniffle*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

You know, it doesn't help me come up with a sober, coherent response that I'm listening to Weezer's "The Good Life." I waaaannnt sugaaaar in my tea. I don't want to be alone anymore -- shaking booty making sweet love all the night

That sums up the emo about this story rather well, and uh. Yeah.

Thank you for reading, man. I admire your writing a whole hell of a lot, so I always get this extra little internal bit of squee when I see that you've left me feedback.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

The admiration, man, it is mutual. I'm serious that you're the only one who can give me Qui-Gon that I love. I can't even face the concept from anyone else.

Also, you are a little crazy, but it just adds to your charm. *G*

Speaking of crazy and mutual admiration, I have about, oh, one paragraph of faculty!Aayla. I suck egregiously. But once I've cleared a few more projects off my plate, I intend to try and add severely to that, with the aim of actually getting moving with you on that thing.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, 45 and 50 choked me up so badly I had to stop and breathe for a little. Damn. 6, 10, and 13 made me sigh.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I am here thanks to randomalia's rec. This is marvelous; so subtle and three-dimensional, and it produces a very compelling portrait of Qui-Gon. I laughed, I cried... :)

[a-blue-moon-cat.livejournal.com]

These are quite amszing. :) It's difficult to pick any faves, I am that impressed with all of them.

4 Apple and 10 Book made me laugh.

13 Soft -- love the imagery.

16 Fall -- always a fascinating bit.

21 Fur -- why am I am not surprised?

26 Look -- that's a good one!

31 Surface and 35 Float -- made me snort.

37 More -- could not or would not?

40 Blue -- a lovely sentence.

47 Honor -- and maybe that was part of the problem.

[polgarawolf.livejournal.com]

*Snerk* No wonder Tholme doesn't like Qui-Gon. I bet that fall hurt if he didn't manage to catch himself with the Force before he hit ground.

*Ignores 2 and 50 because they're sad and most of the rest are all so wonderfully funny and light and very Qui-Gonish and I can just SEE the look Dooku gave him and I don't want to compare Qui-Gon and Lady Macbeth right now really I don't and I nearly snorted tea up my nose over 26 and 11 both and 4 for some reason just made me howl with laughter, not sure why*