187: Change Is the Only Constant

[thefourthvine]

Recently, svmadelyn linked to some free Harlequin books, and she mentioned a NASCAR romance novel as being one of the ones available

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[betzz]

I just spit peppermint tea on my laptop screen, I was laughing so hard. And yes! It's an actual Sentinel AU!

Also: Stephen Maturin is LOVE!

[thefourthvine]

And yes! It's an actual Sentinel AU!

I know. But where IS it? I want to read this fine work of Sentinel AUness! THEY ARE SNOWBOUND WITH UNDERGRADUATES AND JIM'S SENSES. How can this not already EXIST?

Also: Stephen Maturin is LOVE!

*nods*

This is a true and scientifically proven fact.

[cimness]

I'm a big fan of her mysteries, too, tfv! I have reaction posts on many of them as I bought and reread them last year and the year before under the Heyer tag in my journal.

[thefourthvine]

ZOMG, how did I MISS this? Of course, I spent last year distracted by a new baby and the year before asleep because I was pregnant, so perhaps this is not as huge a surprise as one might think.

I must go seek out your Heyer tag, because I need to see if you did a reaction post on my least favorite of her mysteries. Some Cim reaction to that one would definitely brighten my morning.

[thefourthvine]

I knew there was a reason I liked you so much! Obviously, I was picking up on some kind of Heyer Mystery vibe. Well, I mean, your other many awesomenesses, too, but the vibe had to help.

[thefourthvine]

Possibly you missed it because it had its Fusion Shield engaged (and also because it was, I think, written a lot later than her other TPM stuff). I'm glad I could make you aware of the thing that has obviously been missing in your life.

[jmtorres]

(Long before we'd read any fan fiction, and just before TPM came out, Best Beloved and I sketched out exactly how we'd do episodes one through three. I still dream that those movies were made, some nights. Those are happy nights. Basically, our fantasy movies remain my own personal canon, and I just pretend the real movies were something I found on fanfiction.net.)

Spill!

[thefourthvine]

Holy shit, are you kidding? We went into DETAIL with these things. It'd take forever to go into it, especially since we sketched it out scene by scene, with all the dialog and everything.

I can tell you this, though. Our version of Leia's mother was an ambassador in her thirties. And when our movie starts, deep in the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan and Anakin are almost the same age; Obi-Wan is a padawan (except we called it an apprentice, because we didn't know the term padawan yet) whose master dies in the first scene, in a spaceship explosion, having sent Obi-Wan to get the ambassador to her destination, and Anakin is the pilot (he's a lieutenant; obviously, the real pilot has to stay behind with the ship under attack) who flies the tiny craft they escape in. (Obi-Wan realizes the Force is incredibly strong in Anakin. Later, when the three of them crash land on a planet, he begins teaching Anakin little Force tricks because he thinks it will help their survival, and because he just stopped being a padawan by virtue of, you know, death, he

[puckling]

This is completely superior! I want to know what happens next! Plz?

[hradzka]

MOAR

[cimness]

The Stranded in the Mountain Cabin is SO MUCH my favourite harlequin subgenre that I actually have many times read the Labyrinth fanfic novel matching the cliché, The Enticement.

So after I read your Story Proposal, I just want to read the Sentinel story, and don't have the capacity to read your other recs instead.

[thefourthvine]

I'm sorry! If it's any comfort to you, I also long intensely for that Sentinel AU. I keep trying to think of someone I could beg, whine, or pressure into writing it.