Fic Rec: Beyond the Clouds by SassySnowperson

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Beyond the Clouds (23277 words) by SassySnowperson
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Biggs Darklighter/Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian/Biggs Darklighter/Luke Skywalker
Characters: Biggs Darklighter, Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Polyamory, Friends to Lovers, Post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Pre-Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, mentions of canonical injuries, Mutual Pining, Biggs Darklighter Lives, Tatooine Cultural Discussions
Summary:

Luke is left reeling after nearly dying by his own father's blade. His pride is wounded, his dreams are shattered, his friend is frozen in carbonite. The only bright spot in these bleak days is one Lando Calrissian, whose easy charm and comforting presence do a lot to ease Luke's mind.

Unbeknownst to Luke, there's more good news waiting, though this particular bit of joy will make certain things a great deal more complicated…

 

Lando paused. "So, if you'll forgive the vain questions, what are the similarities?"

Luke smiled, thinking of his first friend. "Well, let's see. You both have enough charisma to sell sand to a Jawa. Flirt as naturally as breathing." Luke reached over, laid a hand on Lando's jaw and ran his thumb across Lando's mustache, skin brushing over Lando's lips as it went. The sensation stayed long after Luke dropped his hand and said, "He even had the same mustache and fondness for capes."

Lando, still lost in the sensation, took a minute to say, "Well, it certainly sounds like you have a type."
 

This is amazing and I love it. Luke and Lando's characters are so perfectly explored, the yearning is so deep and so heartfelt.

Saturday Night Recs

[doranwen]

This is an extremely short post this month because while I've been still wading through years-old fics posted on ff.n (in my small bits of free time not occupied by other projects), I've not actually finished doing so, and I'm doing it on a different computer (because the Linux update of FFDL stupidly required a development version of a library rather than one that was actually found on OSes) so I'm waiting till I've caught up to the present day to dump the lot over to this computer to import into the database.

So I present to you one Matrix fic not from ff.n (or AO3 for that matter) that I had time to read, format an epub of, and add to my database. No special flags, but it does have some things some people would find triggers. If you want to know what themes those are, please comment and I'll be happy to let you know; I'm not including them here because some people like to be surprised. I found it a very good read, intense and emotional, and an interesting take on Trinity's backstory.

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Kirstma - Left
26002 words, R
Neo/Trinity