I need a tag that just says "Star Wars rambling ahead, beware!", don't I?

Well, the good news is that "A Long Time Gone" has gone to computer -- that is, I'm typing what's in my notebook into Word and labelling each scene for context. The bad news is that a lot of those scenes are going to have to be gone, gone, gone -- I have two possible beginnings, although I may be able to combine the two; a confrontation that I'm almost certain isn't going to take place in this story; a declaration that isn't part of this story at all; and a bunch of scenes (some of which are fight scenes) with a character who was killed ONSCREEN in canon, so I'm choosing not to push my luck too much. Also, I think her addition would make the story more confusing than it already is. Oh, Aayla. We all wanted you to be a Jedi spy who was sent to kill Anakin, but alas, you died in the movies and I'm pretty sure the few minutes of difference from the Lostverse and canon wouldn't change that. Oh, yeah, and there was the flashback within a flashback where I handcuffed Anakin to a bed; I think that's getting cut.

The other news is that part of the Qui-Gon lives AU has been written, and I can't figure out if Obi-Wan is a bastard or if Anakin's just a wimp. The other other news is that there's a possibility I may have started writing the Clone Wars story where Obi-Wan's on trial for being a Sith spy and Anakin gets passed around the Temple and proves that no, he really doesn't want to be anyone else's Padawan. I think I have to write it just for the scenes where Anakin is a horrible person, purposely forgets his temporary Masters' names, beating them in the rings, going on random rampages across random battlefields, ignores their orders, and oh yeah, swears that if Obi-Wan's convicted, will break him out of his cell and go on the lam with him. Plus, there's Obi-Wan awesomeness of the "ducks his guards -- while handcuffed, with Force inhibitors! -- and swears to kill the next Jedi who lays a hand on Anakin" type.

No, seriously, why do I keep watching SW vids that break my heart? Pause for a vid rec: Sick Cycle Carousel, by wolfling, which shows that there is something very wrong with Our Boys. No. Seriously, there's something wrong.

Also, why has no one yet made an icon of the end scene from RotJ, where Anakin and Obi-Wan are smiling at each other as Force ghosts, that says, "Actually, we *do* have the last word"? I mean, I won't promise I'd use it, but it should exist. Maybe I'll try sometime.

the gods hate me

God damn it, I have to get braces again.

And by "again", I mean for the third time.