After a very stressful - but ultimately successful - board meeting yesterday, I took today off. Okay, that's not why I took today off - I was supposed to go out to the new apartment to 1. make sure the stove works and 2. meet a contractor. Except that just before I was supposed to leave, the contractor called me to reschedule, so now we're doing it tomorrow after work. Which could be a problem if ConEd hasn't turned the lights on yet (I requested they do it a few days ago but I haven't gotten any word yet that it's actually happened). So I may call the guy tomorrow to reschedule, but regardless, I still have to go check out the stove (the super called me this morning to tell me the gas company had been and gone to turn the gas on).

I have to say, as annoyed as I was to have taken a day that turns out to be unnecessary, a little while later, I got my period, so. It turned out to be better that I'm home on the couch drinking hot chocolate than schlepping around Queens in 20 degree weather or sitting uncomfortably at my desk at work.

So I've used my day to catch up on some TV:

Brooklyn Nine Nine: Game Night / Favor
Oh my heart. I teared up when Rosa's father (DANNY TREJO. OF COURSE. This show has knocked it out of the park in casting the parents of these characters) came by the precinct to tell her he was sorry and he'd try to understand her better. And then Holt's encouraging speech. *sniffle* Plus the episodes were both very funny ("I'd like to shame some hussies and I'm in a hurry!" best use of Hitchcock ever?), though Gina's return was a little jarring to me. To be honest, I hadn't really missed her.

As for Runaways, Karolina! <333 Also, Nico! Still too much focus on the parents, though. And I guess they're really not going to run away until the season finale. Or maybe Mrs. Wilder threatens Molly and that's what sends them running.

In other news, I posted a story yesterday:

After he took from you everything he could steal (@ AO3)
Star Wars; Darth Vader/Obi-Wan Kenobi; AU; adult; 9,560 words
"I'll most likely kill you in the morning."

Contains: dubiously consensual sex, emotional manipulation, an untidy mix of Stockholm syndrome and Lima syndrome, Obi-Wan as a ciswoman, and Vader without the suit.

Since I haven't been able to find any Anakin/lady!Obi-Wan porn (let alone Vader/lady!Obi-Wan), I had to write some myself. The heart, or in this case, the id, wants what it wants, okay.

As I said in the end note, Padme is alive and taking care of the twins, likely with Ahsoka hanging around to protect them while Obi-Wan is off on this mission. I thought about writing the part where Obi-Wan and Padme argue about which of them should go - Obi-wan wins mainly on grounds that Padme would be little use against Palpatine even though she'd probably have an easier time convincing Vader to overthrow him (though she's also kind of punishing herself for what she perceives as her failure to guide Anakin into being a moral and responsible adult, and when that didn't work, for failing to kill him after he turned), but then I thought the story worked better when, except for the beginning, you're completely in Vader's POV. The most fun part of that was that he knows she's playing him somehow, and he STILL falls for it. I mean, she does love him and want him, but she's also manipulating him and he knows that but can't help himself. *hands*

(Also, I'm pretty pleased that he absolutely nails her motivation early on when he thinks she's there to save someone who 1. doesn't want to be saved, and 2. doesn't deserve it either, but he never makes the leap to realizing it's him and not those runaway slaves she's trying to save. As I said to snacky, he's not stupid but good lord he's a dumbass.)

Also as I said in the end note, in the part of the story I'm not writing (I'm not! I just enjoy thinking about it!), Obi-Wan bows out after they kill Palpatine and leaves Anakin to make the explanations to Padme, and Padme is just like, "if you had just SAID you wanted her, we could have worked out having her in our relationship, and it would have saved the galaxy so much trouble!" And Anakin is just like, "...Oh."

And then also because I'm me, and why only have two sekrit babies when you could have three, when they finally catch up to Obi-Wan a few months later, she actually is pregnant. Because of course she is. And the galaxy is protected from Darth Vader wreaking any more havoc by the fact that he then has three kids under three to take care of while his wife and former master start putting the galaxy back together. Because honestly they do work so much more healthily as a threesome. (Regardless of whether it's canon Obi-Wan or lady!Obi-Wan.)

So that's a story I definitely wrote for myself but I'm glad other people enjoyed it too! And on that note, I'm just going to leave a link to this old picture of Hayden Christensen here. I still can't believe how attractive he is there. #my whole world is askew

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