Story Title: separated by Fate, only to be brought back together
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59264770
Summary:

Soulmates were something Fate gave to those that needed someone. Someone to compliment who they were and the path they would take. They belonged to those in all walks of life, yet were so rare that some never saw one.

Leia saw hers as the guide to where she would go.

Luke saw his as a promise that he would find something more.

Warnings: None
Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Breha Organa, Bail Organa, Owen Lars, Beru Whitesun, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader
Pairings: Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Bail Organa & Leia Organa, Breha Organa & Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker & Beru Whitesun, Owen Lars & Luke Skywalker
When I Started: This was started in May of 2021 and was mostly stalled for three years.
How I Lost My Shit: I got to the point where I was hitting movie canon and just could not deal with the idea of rewriting the entire original trilogy. So I quit writing and left it for years. There was just no way I was going to do that to myself. Especially since it was already one of my longest fics ever at that point.
How I Finished My Shit: I used the power of this event to make myself look at it again. And then decided I wasn't going to do a full rewrite. But that I would only worry about the parts I needed to and end this at the point that felt the most right for them.

Art Title: Scoundrel
Fandom: Star Wars Orignal Trilogy
Link:AO3
Warnings:none
Bragging Rights: Still improving my photoshop skills.

Story Title: fooled heart

Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41694255/

Summary: After Crait, Rey is ready to ignore the Force bond and its consequences, but the Force has other ideas. She can't deny the pull of her fated partner across the galaxy, especially when the First Order still holds dominion. She and Ben are caught in the tangle of the past and the galaxy's unhealed wounds and Mustafar does not want to let them go.

Warnings: Description of injuries, mind manipulation, light smut (No Archive Warnings Apply)

Characters: Rey, Ben Solo, R2-D2, Leia Organa

Pairings: Rey/Ben Solo, Rey & Leia, Ben & Leia

When I Started: This was originally intended for the 2021 Reylo Fanfiction Anthology, where the theme was a celebration of the previous five anthologies. I outlined it to include each of the previous themes as well as a couple of my favorite head canons and ties to another important fandom to me, to mark the anthology's anniversary.

How I Lost My Shit: I worked right to the end of the due date and past it to try to get this done. I was one of very few people to have submitted a piece for every other RFFA project, and not finishing this in time without a backup in place was a little devastating. I cared about this piece a lot, but trying to care for it while also modding and dealing with rl ended up failing on all counts. When the last chance deadline passed, I was too upset to keep working on it, so it got left in the wip folder.

How I Finished My Shit: This one didn't have to wait too long, because it never really left my head. It has a lot of aspects about it that appeal to me as a writer, and it was important to me to finish eventually. It was a struggle, because it ended up longer than expected. (The final chapter ended up cut in two after it went over 10k) It ended up being a matter of pushing through on this one, and I'm so happy to have it done, especially with an ending I like. 

Story Title: harvest moon and autumn sun
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Link: ao3
Summary: After years on her own, Rey's found a job at Resistance Tattoos. It's not a bad gig. She has friends who understand that magic isn't as fictional as most people believe and who put up with her after the full moon. Things are starting to make sense for Rey, but what doesn't fit in is the flower shop moving in across the street and the man along with it.
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rey, Ben Solo, Finn, Rose Tico, Hux, Phasma, Bodhi, Jyn
Pairings: Rey/Ben Solo, background Finnrose

When I Started: October 2018
How I Lost My Shit: Originally meant as a gift for a discord exchange, the fic ended up a lot longer than I expected (as always), and it ended up not being half done by the time of reveals. I tried to keep working on it through 2019, but I was involved in other fandom projects, and it got completely lost by the wayside when I struggled with the ending.
How I Finished My Shit: In my head, I was meant to work on this throughout the summer. I had gotten 4/5 (now 4/6) chapters finished previously, and I had a much better idea of how to wrap it up. What actually happened is that I lost sleep for a week and finished it in a blind haze. I did go back and update previous chapters in editing, and I'm much happier with it than I was previously.

Art Title: Moodboards for "harvest moon and autumn sun"
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41621445/chapters/104399397
Warnings: imagery of tattoo needles
Bragging Rights: The fic these are made for is "harvest moon and autumn sun" a Reylo Florist & Tattoo shop AU.

I love gardening and plants so doing art for in part a Flower Shop AU was right up my alley. I'm not so knowledgeable on tattoos but I liked the challenge of doing something for that, as well as a new fandom and pairing to create for. The chapter 3 moodboard was the toughest to make since it's for a chapter with a big fight which is hard to depict, and I couldn't find actor pics with quite the right clothing/accessories, so it's more implied for them but I'm happy with what I managed for the aesthetics of that.

Story Title: In Vino

Fandom: Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33822709

Summary: Near the end of the Clone Wars, a drunken encounter prompts Anakin and Obi-Wan to confront some long buried truths as they fight for their lives—and for each other.

(aka, the one where Obi-Wan's dick saves the galaxy)

Warnings: Contains several instances of sexual encounters involving one or both characters under the influence of various substances or injuries. All are considered consensual by the characters themselves.

Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

When I Started: Sometime 2006-2007ish. The original file has been lost to the mists of time.

How I Lost My Shit: I wrote the first chapter of this as a one shot not long after after Revenge of the Sith came out, but the ending was a little too depressing. I kept trying to think of a way to expand the story and give it a happier conclusion, but it never quite came together, and after a while I drifted into other fandoms and lost my motivation. But I never forgot about it!

How I Finished My Shit: A friend talked me into doing the WIP Big Bang, and this story was the obvious choice. Over the years, I'd come up with a pretty solid plot outline, but never felt the urgency to work on it. I'm always better with a deadline, so I figured this was my best shot to finally get it done. Having my betas and artist reading along as I wrote and encouraging me was super helpful. But mostly, I'm a stronger writer now than I was 15 years ago. So maybe I just wasn't meant to finish it until now. :)

Story Title: Starkiller Day
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Link:
Summary: The morning after the destruction of Starkiller base, Hux woke up…to find it was the morning of the destruction of Starkiller base. It happened again the next morning, and the next, and the next, no matter what he said or did. He didn’t know what caused this phenomenon or what he needed to do to break the loop, and the one person who might shed some light on the problem was the one person he wanted to talk to the least. But if he didn’t ask for Kylo Ren’s help, he might remain stuck on the worst day of his life for the rest of eternity.
Warnings: groundhog day au, temporary character death, alternate universe-canon divergence, crack treated seriously
Characters: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren
Pairings: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren
When I Started: sometime in 2017
How I Lost My Shit: I had the outline all done but couldn't get the words to come out
How I Finished My Shit: Sometimes having the deadline helps, and sometimes it doesn't. This time it did! I sat down over several weekends in a row, participated in writing sprints, and pushed through to the end.

Story Title: Unexpected

Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (modern AU)

Link: AO3

Summary: Rey doesn’t want anything from her one-night stand Ben Solo, not even now that she’s broke, jobless, and pregnant. But he’s desperate to avoid a scandal that could derail his election campaign, so they agree to a cold-blooded business deal: she’ll marry him and be the perfect political wife—for a price, and a limited term.

Warnings: pregnancy

Characters: Rey, Ben Solo, Finn, Poe Dameron, Rose Tico

Pairings: Rey/Ben Solo

When I Started: At the end of 2019. I wanted to practice writing longer work, so I decided to try adapting the plot of a novel I’d read into a modern AU. 

How I Lost My Shit: Even with a template to follow, I had to simplify it (cut out subplots) to make it shorter and alter some of the emotional arcs to fit this fandom/ship—so I still got stuck figuring out the mushy middle. 

How I Finished My Shit: Because writing for a Big Bang meant I had a deadline! And my artist, the lovely & talented Doptimous, encouraged me all the way. 

Art Title: Art For "A Bard's Guide to the Galaxy"
Fandom: The Witcher/Star Wars
Warnings: None for the art
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: It took forever to get rid of the background for the lute picture, but I love how the cover turned out. And the wallpaper is actually a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, but I love love love how it turned out with the quote and the border.

The full size wallpaper is up at https://i.postimg.cc/kMTmxWwm/ABGTTG-WP.png



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Art Title: Fanmix For "Cinnamon Sugar"
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Warnings: None
Link: Fic | Art: Tumblr / AO3 | Music: 8tracks / Download
Bragging Rights: I am playing catch-up on posting the remaining art I need to post because I got hit with a nasty bout of my chronic fatigue and then earlier had been at a hotel with no wi-fi. But this had been done a while ago, so it was just a matter of getting it up! I loved this fic so much and it was a pleasure to make a mix for it. It's sweet, but there's also a part that speaks to the protests going on now all around the globe and I loved that. Such a good blend, and I tried to reflect the ideas of love and the ideas of freedom of speech in this fic. Also, I'm not entirely sure who does the "Imperial March" cover but this is my favorite version so I found whoever made what I believe is the first post and credited them.



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Art Title Art for "Temple Of Our Hearts"
Fandom Star Wars
Link Here @ Tumblr
Warnings None
Notes I seem to have gotten the wrong title for the fic, but the cover art could hopefully be used for the prequel story. My apologies for that. The wallpapers should be fine, though. paynesgrey, if you'd like me to do a separate cover for the actual WIP fic, let me know and I'll do it for you.

Art Title: The Two Sons of Tatooine
Fandom: Star Wars (Prequels)
Warnings: None.
Link: AO3
Story Link: AO3
Bragging Rights/Notes: Another favorite piece of mine this round. Photomanipulation. Media done in Photoshop, cover art for the original story "The Two Sons of Tatooine" by ChronicBookworm. Done for wipbigbang .

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Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Link

Summary:
Hux isn't sure whether the tumblr that just started following him is a porn account or not.

Warnings: Explicit, public sex, exhibitionism, legal marijuana use

Characters: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren, supporting star wars cast

Pairings: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren | Ben Solo

When I Started: 9/24/16

How I Lost My Shit:
I stalled out on the story after posting the last chapter in June of 2016 - I had an outline and knew where the story was supposed to go, but couldn't get it to come out on paper.

How I Finished My Shit:
This and my other WIP for this bang were my projects for April's Camp Nano. My cabin cheered me on to the finish!

Story Title: Empty Spaces

Fandom: Star Wars: Rogue One

Link(s): Empty Spaces

Summary: "Only the best and most dedicated can serve as Guardians." Chirrut and Baze took very different paths to the Temple.

Warnings No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus

Pairings: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus

When I Started: The beginning of this year, for the Chocolate Box challenge.

How I Lost My Shit: I was wildly overambitious in plotting. I ended up writing a much shorter fic.

How I Finished My Shit I really wanted to get back to this story, and help from the nanodownunder community and a Nano Cabin got me into writing regularly on it, and finally getting up enough momentum. This is still only 15% of my original outline, though, so there's more to come, but this is definitely a start - thanks to this community! And thanks to my artist as well!

Story Title: you were only waiting for this moment to arrive

Fandom: Star Wars Rogue One

Link(s): you were only waiting for this moment to arrive

Summary: All Bodhi's life there have been hands on his hands, showing him how to make signs, how to feel his way, how to cut tangaroot, how to hold the knife. Somewhere along the way he realizes that it's all been leading to this. Somewhere along the way he learns what it is to serve something more than himself.

Warnings none, but it's pre-canon and should be read with that in mind

Characters: Bodhi Rook, Galen Erso

Pairings: Galen Erso/Bodhi Rook

When I Started: I got inspired for this in the fall upon reading a snippet from the movie novelization on tumblr.

How I Lost My Shit: After writing the first section and a few dribs and drabs of the rest, I ended up falling into another, much longer story in another fandom that demanded all my attention. Then when I finally was able to turn my mind to this story, I got caught up in worrying about the style, which is very much out of my usual sort of thing.

How I Finished My Shit At last I just powered through and my beta (kindly) reassured me about the style. I'm so glad that I finished!

Story Title: What makes the desert...
Fandom: Star Wars
Link(s): On my website
Art link: On my website
Summary: NC-17. While Luke was away on assignment Han was busy walking into doors and attracting strange looks. He definitely wasn’t his normal self, but if Han thought Luke’s return would put him back on track, he couldn’t have been further from the truth. All Han's introspection had given him the answers, but one big question remained.
Warnings: None
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Han Solo
Pairings: Luke/Han
When I Started: March 2015, so one of my more recent WIPs. Finishing a story in just over a year is a bit of a record for me...
How I Lost My Shit: Life in general :(
How I Finished My Shit: Well, I did this challenge last year and finished a story - it made me think I might be able to do another! I've barely got this online properly - it's there, but I still need to do all my website links. Still, it's finished, and so is the art, just about. Huge thanks to this community - the fact I'm actually finishing things is down to you guys :)

Art Title: Midnight [Fanart]
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Warnings: n/a
Link: AO3 | LJ
Bragging Rights: I've never done anything for Clone Wars before, but I was really interested by the idea of a story focusing on the various lives and broships of various clones. The snippets were emotional and vivid and I thoroughly enjoyed creating art for this fab fic. :D

Story Title: Midnight
Fandom: Star Wars (The Clone Wars)
Link(s): Fic on AO3
Summary: Collection of short stories set during The Clone Wars that deal with the Clones' lives, missions, dealing with the death of friends, and dealing with PTSD.
Warnings: Violence, Death, Heavy Injury, Angst, PTSD
Characters: Fives, Rex, Echo, Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Oddball, Kix, Jesse, Hardcase, Tup, Gregor, Wolffe, Plo Koon
Pairings: None
When I Started: Oh, back in May of last year~
How I Lost My Shit: My writing got too angsty! I couldn't handle writing about the poor Clones and all they had to go through! It was terrible! I gave up right around Rex's story... I think I had about 200 words on his ficlet, but I couldn't bring myself to complete it. So the collection just sort of... sat there.
How I Finished My Shit: I just dug deep and started going again. It helped that I was running through the Clone Wars series (again!) and I could really connect with the characters. It also helped that I decided to put in at least one happy-ish ficlet in there. I also made a good playlist of some epic battle music and some really sad stuff, so it got me in the mood. Honestly, finishing Wolffe's fic was the hardest because I really connect with him. But! Now they're done! And now I want to write more little Clone ficlets! PLUS, getting my fic claimed equals extra motivation because ARTWORK!!