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crack_van2003-09-24 07:18 pm
A Star Wars Trilogy Overview: Through the slash-colored glasses
Star Wars, in case you've been under a rock for the last 25 years
This is Luke Skywalker. He was raised on the desert planet of Tatooine by his aunt and uncle. Their deaths at the hands of imperial stormtroopers, coupled with the mysterious plans hidden inside a droid and the intervention of one of the last Jedi, Ben Kenobi--once called Obi-wan--catapulted Luke into the adventure he'd dreamed of for so long. 
The first order of business was getting off Tatooine. To this end, Ben booked passage with a pair of reckless smugglers: Han Solo and his wookiee first mate Chewbacca.
They rescued Princess Leia, owner of the droids and leader of the Rebel Alliance
from the clutches of the evil Darth Vader
and destroyed a planet-killing battle-station.
In the second movie The Empire Strikes Back, Luke learns more of being a Jedi, Han and Leia are captured by the Empire and luke is drawn into a premature confrontation with Darth Vader. Luke and Leia escape, but Han is still the captive of one of his creditors.
In Return of the Jedi, Han is rescued, and Luke confronts both Vader and the Emperor.
As for slashiness, where to start? The icon above is an actual screen capture.
Lucasfilm claims there is no homosexuality in a Galaxy Far Far Away.
But the movies argue otherwise.
This is Luke and his childhood friend Biggs saying goodbye before Biggs heads off on his first mission fresh out of the Academy. They're intense, they touch a lot. The scene bogs down, and hence was cut from the movie.
When Luke meets Han, the sparks fly. There is major flirting in that first meeting, and afterward, they are perpetually in each other's space. Touching, hugging, reassuring.
(The best slashy moments are collected in a video at http://home.ipa.net/~rsparrow )
But this, the goodbye look Han sends after Luke on the ice planet Hoth (after he's ridden out into a blizzard risking his own life against impossible odds to save Luke) is the moment we slashers melt for. The camera lingers, and lingers.
Other minorly slashed characters include
Lando Calrissian
A gambler and con artist, Lando now runs Cloud City. There's a fair chemistry between him and Han, and one wonders what incident Han is "sure he's forgotten all about that." Han trusts Lando enough to let him fly his beloved Millennium Falcon in the third movie.
Wedge Antilles
The only survivor (other than the lead characters) of all three movies. Wedge, Red 3, is one of Luke's wingmen (Biggs is the other until he dies). Some people slash him with Luke.
The most common couple is, however, Luke and Han.
("Demon" by Zyene)
There are some who write Han/Chewbacca, and others who write Luke/Vader.
Major fic archive links
The prime Han/Luke site is Elusive Lover
http://www.elusive-lover.de
It has the first two Elusive Lover zines, plus a variety of other fic.
Also, there are links to other sites, and ordering information for the other 4 paper Elusive Lover zines and the Sanctuary Moon zine.
The SWA-L archive has more Han/Luke, some Luke/Lando, and even a Luke/Ben
http://www.squidge.org/swal/
Elizabeth Stuart has Luke/Vader, Luke/Han and Han/OMC at her site
http://members.tripod.com/elizstuart/
Lady Angel's Den of Debauchery has about 30 Han/Luke, plus other pairings
http://www.geocties.com/lady_aethelyde
The Darth Side is ZP Florian's Archive. Alas, ZP is in poor health and continuing to deteriorate. There will be no updates.
http://zpdark.tripod.com/index-2.html
Irene Heron's Luminous Beings has some really excellent Han/Luke that is not available on Elusive Lover
http://www.luminousbeings.net/
The Luke_and_Han mailing list at yahoogroups maintains a large archive of pictures, and has many stories in the back posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Luke_and_Han/
Anyone with other recs or sites is welcome to post them in the comments, because I'm taking off my pimp hat for the moment
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None of the pictures seem to be showing. Would you like to email me the pics? I could host them for you.
But otherwise, great overview! :)
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You might check if you can see pictures at this link. Others can.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/valarltd/158700.html#cutid1
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This made me laugh. :)
Nice overview!
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No Han/Leia?
No Luke/Leia? (Come on, who doesn't like a little unintentional incest?)
Star Wars is about the only thing that even comes close to sticking me with an OTP. Slash is great, but ... Han/Leia! The GOOD kind of het. Squee!
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Han/Leia is "canon," although I can't see it working past the end of RotJ. (I couldn't at 15, which is why the movie left me so cold) And the more I watch ESB, the more it looks like him using that extra foot of height to bully her. There's something coercive and nasty about it. And there's his lack of response to her hurling herself at him after he's thawed. Sorry, no recs as I haven't encountered a convincing one yet.
I love Luke/Leia, either knowing or unknowing. Unknowing can be incredibly sweet. And Knowing can get dark, evil and sadistic, if one or both is a dark-sider. No recs since I'm one of the few that writes it.
Leia/Vader turns up now and then. Either rapefic from her time on the Death Star or AU. The best of these is "Savage Dove" by Belea Keeney. It won a Star aWard and appeared in the zine "Imperium 7."
A site to steer clear of is the Star Wars Erotica forum. It's mostly male-written het and reflects a porno sensibility which requires the women to be either coerced or sluts. Sex-positive females do not appear in that fanfic.
Some people write in the Expanded Universe, but that is beyond the purview of this pimping, as Lucas himself does not consider those canon.
He is of the "Sola Cinemata" school.
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Ah, the making of a young fangirl ...
I've definitely never seen bullying, and while I doubt everything was serenades and roses after Endor, I've never thought that they couldn't work out how to be a couple if they so choose. As for him not reacting when she flung herself at him after he was thawed ... he'd been stuck in rock for half a year, he was blind and weak, all his other senses were on the blitz, and as of his last conscious moments they were surrounded by some of the nastiest enemies it was possible for someone to have. He DID hold her, and I think that not dropping in to professions of undying love can be forgiven at that moment.
See, that's the great thing about fandom. There's room for you and me and all points between.
Though now I have the urge to go find Han/Leia fics to rec. *whimper* Can't ... read ... must ... write ... essays ...
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Actually, there was a good one in "Menace of the Rest of the Garbage" where he takes her out dancing. Very sexy, very sensual. (And I've forgotten the title and can't lay my hands on the zine.)
Seriously, I was a huge Han/Leia shipper in 80. I wanted them to live happily ever after. but in 83, that just didn't seem to be panning out. Even that last kiss he gives her, he breaks it off to tousle an ewok. I was horrified! (And the profic didn't help. She turned into a workaholic ice-queen and he turned into a drunken househusband and perpetual adolescent.)
Slash gave me a framework on which to hang all the stuff that bothered me about all three movies. It also resolved the decades old conflict of "I love Luke and want to be Han."
So yeah, slash colored glasses on very solidly here. And that's fine, and your kink is OK too. Pass the scoop shovel and we'll both play in this great big sandbox!
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Still Life with Ghost. One of the Best Luke/Leia sweetness stories.
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Blue Harvest Video has a number of the cut scenes for download, including the Biggs & Luke scene. It's about 1 M.
Or
http://www.starwarscutscenes.com/episode4/Biggs.html
They're also available on the "Behind the Magic" CD.
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