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[sholio]

MCU AU Fest is open! And the fic that was written for me is wonderful. <3

Traveling Companions (3500 wds, gen or pre-ship, Peggy & Jack & Daniel, modern-day/mundane AU)

Absolutely delightful modern-day AU in which Peggy is a pseudonymous mystery writer who gets into an argument about one of her books with a stranger (Jack) on a train. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when I left modern-day/mundane AU prompts: the characters are distinctly themselves, but filtered through a different set of experiences, and all kinds of new possibilities are opened up. I love Peggy's relationships in this fic with both Daniel and Jack, similar to canon, and yet different. I think I'm going to be rereading this one a lot.

In other news, starwarsflashmeme is still going on (we are now in week 19!) and this week's challenge is Documents and Letters. Come on, you know the Empire's incident reports must have been amazing. (What's the form for "Jedi Master killed, body appears to have vanished"? Whatever it is, it probably has to be filed in triplicate on 12 different planets ...)

Comments

[muccamukk]

I remember there was a debate at one point as to what the literacy rate in the Star Wars universe was, given how few written things we see.

[sholio]

I remember running across that and finding it rather silly as an actual argument for canon; I mean, obviously someone can headcanon it that way if they want to (it would be interesting to postulate a post-literacy high-tech universe) but they canonically have a written language and just going off the movies, at least, there's only a few hours of actual canon, most of which deal with people running for their lives and things blowing up. We rarely see people eating or sleeping, either, but that doesn't mean they don't! It's mostly a side effect of having limited canon that's almost entirely action-based.

... that said, in all likelihood their forms, documents, etc. wouldn't (necessarily) be recognizably like ours, and the challenge is ABSOLUTELY open to alternate interpretations (video letters, histories, newscasts, people digging up the records of the Rebellion 10,000 years later, etc). I'd love to see people coming up with interesting and different takes on the prompt!

[muccamukk]

Ha, yeah. I think we see LUKE reading at one point (translation from R2 on his X-Wing), and he's the most likely of all the characters to be illiterate. I think it's like that Jar Jar is a Sith Master theory that people were holding onto because they hadn't had new canon in a while.

Older records or found records, or changed context is always cool.