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gal ✨🦋🍂
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reader, writer, editor | lover of em dashes and italics | old enough to remember the dark days before ao3 | minors dni | she/her

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gal ✨🦋🍂 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · Jul 2
my #reylofic thread 🌌
graphic with a watercolor galaxy aesthetic background, a drawing of books lined up on a shelf, and the words peculiar galaxies fics
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Tom Stoppard. One of the great writers. An epic wordsmith whose craft was such that one only compares themselves to him aspirationally. ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. BRAZIL. EMPIRE OF THE SUN. BILLY BATHGATE. ANNA KARENINA. Stage, screen, print. A genius. Rest in peace.
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h
Goodbye to the master.

❤️
Tom Stoppard, photographed by Laura Hynd.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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tarzelladraws.bsky.social
Proof of Selkie Reylo life
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
I've been going back and forth on whether to use imperial or metric units in a modern au, and somehow I ended up with this gem:

"He must be [a full two meters/over six inches] tall, but she can’t focus on that when she’s also cursing herself for being an impulsive idiot."
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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echofarandfaint.bsky.social
This reminds me of one my first fics:

all young lovers know why”

🪐 canon-divergent, mid-TROS
🖋️e, complete, one-shot, 9k
❤️‍🩹 rewriting TROS, this is canon to me

archiveofourown.org/works/52930267
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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ninepiecesofcrait.bsky.social
UPDATE #reylofic

punch down

e, 6/11, 4.1k

🍰 hot loser/baker ben
🎥 competent producer rey
🎪 tent full of characters and hijinks
🥐 baking triumphs and pitfalls
❤️‍🔥 slow burn
[picture of a piece of red and white check gingham fabric that’s a little rumpled up, so there’s light and shadows. at the top, in a crisp, sans series, all caps font, the text reads: punch down, with the word “punch” bowing upwards and the word “down” bowing downwards. the effect is that the two of them are nestled together. under that, there is the actual swirly flourish from the gbbo logo, and then, at the bottom, in the paterson font: a great chandrilan bake off au by ninepiecesofcrait.] [screenshot of an ao3 fic summary that reads as follows: punch down by ninepiecesofcrait. Ben doesn’t even know why he’s doing this show.   But he knows he’s going to prove that he’s the best amateur baker in all of Chandrila.]
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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aaveena.bsky.social
UPDATE! Fall Into You

🍁Thanksgiving Break AU
🍂CH 2/5
🍁Frat Boy Ben/ Engineering Student Rey

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Ben Solo knows that Rey Niima doesn't like him. He doesn't even blame her for that, but Thanksgiving might just be his opportunity to turn things around.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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emsdispatch.bsky.social
final chapter of this #sapphic #reylofic for #reylogenderbend

“to speak, perchance to dream”
rated e, 4/4

🏜️ we're going to need a u-haul for the emotional baggage alone
🏜️ *painting nails* i want it mythic, i want it sexy
🏜️ modern sapphic dyad bond

archiveofourown.org/works/66875035/
a desert skyline. it's hazy and the hills are rocky, and there is scrub brush that litters the sand. in the foreground is a silhouette of two women on the precipice of kissing. they're going to kiss. they've already kissed. it's already happened; it's happening now. above them in the sky in looping letters is the title 'to speak, perchance to dream: a sapphic reylo fic by emsdispatch' a desert skyline. it's hazy and the hills are rocky, and there is scrub brush that litters the sand. in the foreground is a silhouette of two women on the precipice of kissing. they're going to kiss. they've already kissed. it's already happened; it's happening now. above them in the sky in looping letters is the title 'to speak, perchance to dream: a sapphic reylo fic by emsdispatch' She imagines taking Brenha's outstretched fingtertips, pressing her palm to the back of Brenha's hand, and guiding her through signs when words fail. She imagines stepping into Beauty's Kingdom, and finding there an embrace so affecting that it blinds all those who have not spread out their toes in the earth for the sake of sighing love. She imagines all of the signs in all of the languages she will learn for this woman. It's already happened; it's happening now. She lets her woolen blanket fall from her body as she stretches out, uncurling her wrists until she feels herself grounded once more in her soles. And she follows Brenha's footprints into the mud of the riverbed and beyond, out into the span of the great desert.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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ev3rmichelle.bsky.social
Annoyance
a fic for the @reyloffanth.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge

"Ghosts"

1.4k words, rated teen

"Once again it seemed like Luke’s only goal was to give him a throbbing headache. Typical Jedi nonsense."

archiveofourown.org/works/74910096
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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madgemaril.bsky.social
i’m teaming up with my local indie downbound books to offer signed & personalized copies of my f1 romance SLIPSTREAM for the holidays!!

order by dec. 15 to get it by christmas <3

🔗 & full details: downboundbooks.com/slipstream
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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vasttelia.bsky.social
| a new found grace |

📱text fic
🏙️ modern AU
👤best friend’s older brother
❤️‍🩹found family
🚪forced proximity
🔥age difference
🧸unplanned pregnancy (not reylo)
🚫rated M
✨HEA guaranteed

• coming this Saturday •

#reylo #reylotextfic
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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funkelly.bsky.social
speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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kierqe.bsky.social
Sunshine
Chibi illustration of Rey from The Force Awakens.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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echofarandfaint.bsky.social
NEW: "non serviam"

a mob boss Rey flash fic to survive the day before thanksgiving

- undercover cop Ben x mafia Rey
- Rey tops another woman to teach Ben a lesson

archiveofourown.org/works/74831266
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
the fluffy, smutty epilogue of "an unenviable fate" is on the way! 💌 (cw: allusion to pregnancy)
Do you suppose you will still be home this Wednesday eve? Five days did not seem so very long when we parted, but—oh! you must forgive me a little sentimentality and not take it as cause for true concern—I have been restless at night and all the warming pans in the world cannot make up for the warmth of my husband. I admit, too, that this month’s symptoms continue to include the kind of hunger that cannot be sated by anything from the kitchens, and I am aching to have you in any (or perhaps every) way possible. Now, do not mistake the above for complaint or recrimination. I stand by what we agreed, which is that Alderaan must be represented in Parliament; and if you did not vote as your father’s proxy, he should be obliged to go; and furthermore, if I accompanied you, your parents would come regardless, defeating the whole purpose of sparing the rest of us a muddy, miserable journey. You know all this, but I have written it out regardless as a reminder that there is no need to feel guilty nor to call for the carriage at this very minute—only that I dearly hope to have you in my arms again soon. With all my love, always, Your wife, Rey Solo
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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aaveena.bsky.social
NEW! a good run of bad luck

🐎Widow Rey/ Outlaw Ben
🤠CH 1/10
🐎Rated E

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Rey's luck turns from bad to worse when a gang of outlaws takes over her home. Will the recently arrived Ren Gang be her salvation or damnation? Could they be both?

🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/748168...
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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aaveena.bsky.social
One of my all-time faves; About as Real as Tofurky

Rey employs Dr. Kylo Ren to pose as her fake boyfriend for Thanksgiving to keep Han and Leia from trying to set her up with their son.

🦃 archiveofourown.org/works/43542609
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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echofarandfaint.bsky.social
Hux had several delicate matters to attend to: feeding his rare fish, checking his crypto wallet, deep cleaning the fridge…and once again, the noise from Kylo’s room was intolerable. First, there was shouting. Then strange thumps. And now? Throaty moans and breathless panting. Worst roommate ever.
dyadprompts.bsky.social reylo word prompts @dyadprompts.bsky.social · 5d
⭐ prompt 356 — DELICATE
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
roommates to lovers in which Ben's cat chews on the charging cord for Rey's vibrator, and he wants to make it up to her. #reyloprompt
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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kelly-knox.com
narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
spare

M | complete | 2k #reylofic #rffa

🖤 enemies to lovers
🤍 Knight of Darkness Kylo x Paragon of the Light Rey
🤍 angst with a happy ending

🌥️ archiveofourown.org/works/74512491
moodboard with an image of Rey holding Ben's face, both of them dirty and bloodied. the title, spare, is in capital letters at the bottom, above the words by peculiar galaxies and r f f a flash fic 2025. at the top is a small graphic of three heart shapes, one a solid teal color and the other two washed out and faint. She’s cradling his head in her lap and tracing the line of her scar, the one she left him with in that snow-shrouded forest. He reaches up a hand and lays it over hers, holding her warm, dry palm against his clammy skin, right where her sunlight once branded his flesh. “It’s the only one that doesn’t hurt,” he tells her. Kylo died twice during the war. The Light's greatest hero spared him once. Now she's here, ten months into his exile, somehow both muddier and more radiant than in his dreams.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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denzerwriter.bsky.social
Muzzled
2/2 *now complete*
5K | E

Trapped in an underground cage with an Alpha, Rey goes into heat. Ben is determined not to bite her, even as her enticing scent overwhelms him

CW// Omegaverse, Kidnapping

archiveofourown.org/works/747090...

#reylo
#reylofic
a woman's hand on a man's chest overlaid with the text 'Muzzled by Denzer'
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
in which our dyad’s self-control is hanging by a thread, everyone gets a wardrobe upgrade, and changes are made to the First Order org chart! 😉
rainydaychai.bsky.social rainy ☕️🍂 @rainydaychai.bsky.social · 5d
UPDATE: MORAL ASCENDANCY | E | 23/48

⚔️ canonverse, post-TLJ
⚔️ *enemies* to lovers
⚔️ (more) forced proximity | slow burn

“You don’t belong here,” he levels at her.

Her chest clenches in answer—I know.

The Twi’lek leans forward. “I’ll tell you a secret—”

Chapter 23 | Chapter 1

#reylofic #reylo
A black and white moodboard for the Reylo fanfic Moral Ascendancy. Along the left side, there are pictures of a First Order interrogation chair, a palace with circular turrets on a hill, and Kylo Ren's face. On the right, there is Rey's face, craggy rocksialnds wreathed in fog, and a woman's body in sleek and fitted black armour. In the middle, italicized text reads: "You seem to have forgotten that I surpass you all in both rank and power—and can therefore do whatever the fuck I want. And now she does as well."
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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rainydaychai.bsky.social
UPDATE: MORAL ASCENDANCY | E | 23/48

⚔️ canonverse, post-TLJ
⚔️ *enemies* to lovers
⚔️ (more) forced proximity | slow burn

“You don’t belong here,” he levels at her.

Her chest clenches in answer—I know.

The Twi’lek leans forward. “I’ll tell you a secret—”

Chapter 23 | Chapter 1

#reylofic #reylo
A black and white moodboard for the Reylo fanfic Moral Ascendancy. Along the left side, there are pictures of a First Order interrogation chair, a palace with circular turrets on a hill, and Kylo Ren's face. On the right, there is Rey's face, craggy rocksialnds wreathed in fog, and a woman's body in sleek and fitted black armour. In the middle, italicized text reads: "You seem to have forgotten that I surpass you all in both rank and power—and can therefore do whatever the fuck I want. And now she does as well."
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
peculiargalaxies.bsky.social
"I'll make it fit"

(my end notes in the ao3 character limit)
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM