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the third law of motion as displayed by binary stars by never_going_home_in_potmetal (never_going_home) for nhyhu

Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
21 Mar 2025
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roche lobe: the location in space between binary stars where gravitational pull is equal and opposite between them. push and pull, neutralised; instead, a reflection of the other. a moment of perfect balance.

CC-2224 is a good soldier. Good soldiers follow orders. This is the way things go. Except there's a prisoner with his name in her mouth, and a droid, and a target whose face he cannot remember, and everything's sort of going to shit. It's fine. Everything's fine. He's probably going die very soon, and he does not particularly want to die, but dying is the purpose of his whole life; inexorable and necessary as a sun going supernova. This is, after all, what he was made to do. He just has to remember that.

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- Part 1 of persona ex machina
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death is not a game which will soon be over (not for us, not like that) by never_going_home_ARCHIVAL (never_going_home)

Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
20 Mar 2025
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"You--" he broke off, wheezing faintly, and that hope began to dawn in Merlin's heart once again. "You know exactly what this means to me. I mean, even for you, Emrys, this is low." He settled back onto his haunches, a sharp, cruel light that Merlin recognised entering his gaze, the prelude to some terrible gotcha. "When did you decide that you were okay with chipping your humanity away, piece by piece? When did you stop being kind?"

"Oh, I don't know," Merlin drawled, swallowing down the little burrs of guilt that threatened to catch in his throat and stick painfully. This was not the gotcha that Mordred thought it was going to be. Well, actually it was, but Merlin had an even bigger gotcha, which cancelled Mordred's out. "I think it was around the time you killed my best friend."

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glory be by never_going_home

Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Oct 2024
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“I know you,” says Obi-Wan desperately, like he’s trying to force some greater meaning into it, some huge understanding, like he’s teetering on the edge of a precipice and lunging for a guiderope just out of reach. Obi-Wan reaches out as his nose begins to bleed. Obi-Wan’s hand finds his temple. It stings. It stings. He does not know why. Obi-Wan cups his face, and, just for a moment, a surge of recognition blooms, bright and beautiful and alien. “I know you,” he says, softly, gently. “Cody. Cody.”

It is then that Cody passes out.

[note 20 june 2026: this is still my baby and she's not abandoned do not fear]

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- Part 1 of codywanweek 2023
- Part 1 of never_going_home greatest hits. in my humble opinion
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sinner sinner, come to dinner by never_going_home

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
31 Jul 2024
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He has been rotting since he came to Coruscant, since he set the fire that ravaged half a continent, since his general and nine hundred thousand verd’e in his legion died, since his boots touched the sand of Geonosis, since he first left Kamino. It is not new. Fox has always been rotting; the only difference now is that people know.

He breathes in. He breathes out.

Let me help, Vos had said. I want to help. Please.

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- Part 2 of oranges and sunflower seeds
- Part 1 of foxquinweek 2024
- Part 2 of never_going_home greatest hits. in my humble opinion
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and i turned 'round and there you were by never_going_home_in_potmetal (never_going_home)

Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
06 Jul 2024
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Fox wakes up face-down in a pile of flimsi with his hair in his mouth. This in itself is not particularly unusual, because he’s been sleeping at his desk for the last—five months? Six months? He doesn’t care enough to recall. Whatever. Point is, it’s been a long fucking time since he’s bothered to drag himself into his bunk. His steel desk chair is comfortable enough to while away the four hours he has between finishing paperwork and starting his first shift.

(This is a lie so fucking big it beggars belief. Fox’s steel desk chair is the stuff of children’s nightmares and one day, if the war ever ends—if he lives that long—he’s going to take a great amount of pleasure in attaching several detonators to it and throwing it in the Supreme Chancellor's ornamental lake.)

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Fox hasn't been doing well. His batch notices (eventually).

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I'm half doomed and you're semi-sweet by always_a_slut_for_hc for postapocalyptic_cryptic

Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
19 Feb 2023
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day 16; semi-conscious
After taking fire on Scipio, Fox still has to work.

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- Part 7 of Febuwhump 2023
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08 Jul 2026

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To Give the Gift of the Desert by LizaGreen

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
15 Dec 2020
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When Anakin Skywalker enters Jabba's Palace he meets a young slave by the name of Neira who asks a favour of him. This changes things.
Obi Wan learns he may have been incredibly culturally insensitive to his padawan for years.
Ahsoka is just trying to learn how to be a Padawan and most certainly did not expect this.

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- Part 1 of The Adventures of Neira Stormchaser and Anakin Skywalker
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30 Jun 2026
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The Legend Of Liob by Killbothtwins

Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
28 Apr 2022
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The Republic sends a combat photographer to be attached to the 212th until further notice, citing the need for a morale boost. The clones make up a fake clone, citing the absolute fact that it is very funny.
Somehow, these two things save the galaxy.

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01 Aug 2022

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SHOUTING SCREAMING EATING GLASS ETC ETC
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Compassion Leaves A Trail by Killbothtwins

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
04 May 2026
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Obi-Wan, watching over Tattooine, reencounters a semi-redeemed Reva Sevander. Together, they chase rumors; the Empire never makes things easy. Cody is seeking his own redemption after the Jedi Purge. Together, they try to carve out a galaxy that's just a little bit brighter. Come on, what's one last mission, like the good old days?

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30 Jun 2026
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got a case of the whales by deniigiq

Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
12 Nov 2022
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EB: Maul, are you ever sad?
ML: no
EB: are you sure?
ML: yes
EB: You’ve never been? Not once?
ML: disappointed, yes.
EB: they’re the same thing
ML: full of grief, yes
EB: that’s the same thing too
ML: regret? Hurts the teeth
EB: maul you’re just describing sad
ML: u ask for sad and I give u truths and now u spit on my teachings

(Maul and Obi-Wan are moving and give Ezra the task of transporting Chicken Foot to her temporary lodgings until they're good and settled. Ezra's working through some stuff of his own in the meantime.)

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26 Jun 2026