Best Of: Star Wars
Ever wish you could find the best works of the Star Wars fandom - all genres, any ratings - in one place? Look no further. Full disclosure: I admit to a certain level of bias with regards to pairings, but if the work itself is high quality, I'll put it in. Feel free to send me recommendations!
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Asylum by Spongyllama
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Jun 2020
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Anakin, taken hostage by the Sith. Grievous, captured by the Republic. When Padmé refuses Dooku’s offer of prisoner exchange, Anakin appears to be lost for good. One year later, a mysterious Jedi-killer called Vader appears.
AU starting from TCW episode “Shadow Warrior.” Inspired by Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier.
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- Part 1 of Asylum
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Every Moment Points Toward the Aftermath by HiNerdsItsCat (HiLarpItsCat)
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
25 Jan 2019
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In a strange sort of way, this is the story of how, in the final days of the Clone Wars, Mace Windu saved the galaxy by taking a nap.
With sleep had come peace, and with peace had come clarity: Mace volunteered to find General Grievous himself because, unless Obi-Wan Kenobi stayed on Coruscant, a calamity would ensue beyond anything they had ever seen before.
Which was how Anakin Skywalker found himself in his current predicament: falling a thousand stories to who-knows-where in the depths of Coruscant's lower levels.
Sure, Palpatine had betrayed him to a extent that he was only beginning to understand, there were three murdered Jedi in the Chancellor's office, he didn't know if Padmé was going to be alright, and it was completely possible that he was going to end up as a bloody smear across the windshield of a speeder, but the fact remained that he and Obi-Wan had just spent the last ten minutes shrieking at one another like a pair of younglings to such a degree that they forgot about the Sith Lord in the room.
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Mirrors by SpellCleaver
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
30 Jun 2018
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Leia Skywalker was bold, strong, dedicated; Luke Skywalker was gentle, curious, brave.
None of this is synonymous with "good". -
Nativitas by frodogenic
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
15 Dec 2017
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An ESB AU oneshot. In the end, Luke comes to him as all children do--through blood, sweat, and tears.
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the sharp edge of survival by with_the_monsters
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
21 Dec 2016
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They're heroes, now, but the not the type of heroes the Republic wants. Not bright and clean and effortlessly Light. Not able to sit still or give up the fight. The fight built each of them, after all. Made them what they are.
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Coruscanti Regency by be_brave13
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
04 May 2020
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The thing is, when Anakin figures it out, is that it all obviously has been there, if he’d only cared to look for it.
And, admittedly, he is angry. Mostly at himself, which isn’t something that happens very often, so it’s an especially harrowing realization.
All these years, he thinks, I’ve been so blind. I was so busy ignoring everything I didn’t want to think about and blaming everyone else for things not under their control that I didn’t stop to look at the bigger picture.
He sighs and leans back in his chair to gaze at the ceiling.
If only, he laments, true remorse coloring his thoughts, I had started watching period holodramas earlier.
OR, how Plo Koon watching and subsequently introducing Ahsoka to Star Wars’ version of Downton Abbey changes Anakin's life path like nothing else could.
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- Part 1 of Coruscanti 'verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,103
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 433
- Kudos:
- 3,524
- Bookmarks:
- 720
- Hits:
- 57,696
Bookmarked by shieldmaiden19
23 Jul 2024
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Only in Star Wars can you get a story with such a campy premise that still manages to emotionally obliterate you. 12/10
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Vod'e An by Triscribe
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Kanan (Comics), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
05 Feb 2024
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Have you ever seen a time traveler dropped into the middle of someone else's butterfly effect? How about several dozen someones? AKA I nabbed all my fave clone troopers and sprinkled them into a much happier galaxy, with a touch of violence on top. As a treat.
- Words:
- 63,378
- Works:
- 10
- Bookmarks:
- 2,750
Bookmarked by shieldmaiden19
20 Nov 2023
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Another Star Wars AU that doesn't make me cry <3 Or if it does, it's tears of relief. Ahsoka draws souls together and in doing so changes the past.
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These Things Happen by writehandman
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
09 Apr 2020
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Obi-wan Kenobi keeps promoting Cody. The promotion gets out of hand, and suddenly the balance of the universe shifts into the palm of a very competent, caffeinated man.
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- Part 2 of The Happening
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 38,639
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 12
- Comments:
- 1,038
- Kudos:
- 6,947
- Bookmarks:
- 1,222
- Hits:
- 120,030
Bookmarked by shieldmaiden19
21 Sep 2023
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Such a fun, sassy AU with very real, very intense stakes. I look forward to reading the Cody "Sass Machine" Kenobi again <3
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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.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,080
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 23
- Comments:
- 1,007
- Kudos:
- 15,848
- Bookmarks:
- 6,656
- Hits:
- 116,875
Bookmarked by shieldmaiden19
15 May 2023
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Filed under: Star Wars AU that doesn’t make me cry. A believable, logical, and hilarious averting of fate via clone practical jokes
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Aren't You a Little Tall For a Stormtrooper? by HowTheWorldCouldBe
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
17 Jul 2024
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(For a moment, he was back in the Clone Wars, helping Senator Amidala down from her transport, her gait poised and regal as she stepped down. This woman, the prisoner, was not quite the same. Her nose was wider and her jaw just a little off. But for a moment, the two overlapped. And then this short little woman, with Padmé’s bearing and face, with hair curled into buns at the side of her head in a way that dragged up long-buried memories of Naboo, turned and snapped at the troopers escorting her, face curled into something politely vicious. It echoed a long-lost General perfectly, and Cody’s heart stopped all over again.)
“I’m Cody. I’m here to rescue you.”
On the Death Star, Leia’s rescue comes a little earlier and a little different- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,381
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 624
- Kudos:
- 4,186
- Bookmarks:
- 1,214
- Hits:
- 43,631
Bookmarked by shieldmaiden19
26 Jan 2022
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An absolute BALLER AU wherein Cody does not deserve another Skywalker dragging him into deep shit but another Skywalker is exactly what he needs.