Unsent Letters from the Renaissance and a Galaxy far, far away

[selenak]

The unsent_letters_exchange authors were revealed. As mentioned before, I went back to two old fandoms of mine for this. My assignment actually matched me in several of those, but the one I had signed up for was Star Wars, and of the various prompts, the one that immediately spoke to me was about Anakin's mother Shmi. Shmi had only a bit of screentime, but Pernille August gave her presence and warmth, and I was happy to explore her emotions and mind in this format:

Messages from Tatooine (3217 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker, C-3PO & Shmi Skywalker, Cliegg Lars/Shmi Skywalker, Shmi Skywalker & Owen Lars
Characters: Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO (Star Wars), Cliegg Lars, Owen Lars, Qui-Gon Jinn
Additional Tags: Mother-Son Relationship, Character Study, Family Feels, Canon Related, Parent-Child Relationship, Motherhood, Slavery, Freedom, Coping, Healing, Separation Anxiety, Epistolary, Letters
Summary:

Five messages Shmi Skywalker began and one she finished.

Now, one of my oldest fannish friends had discovered The Borgias this year, and, like yours truly, quickly discovered that if you're not into Cesare/Lucrezia, and/or Cesare/Micheletto, there isn't much fanfic to be had. Just when she'd drawn this conclusion, I stumbled across this ficathon which I hadn't done before. Let's participate, quoth I, and thus be part of the solution to this problem. We weren't matched, but I thought after luring her into this the least I could do was write her a treat, which I did:


So let us melt (1736 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Borgias (Showtime TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rodrigo Borgia | Pope Alexander VI/Giulia Farnese
Characters: Giulia Farnese, Rodrigo Borgia | Pope Alexander VI, Vittoria (Borgias), Lucrezia Borgia, Vannozza dei Cattanei
Additional Tags: Friendship/Love, Older Man/Younger Woman, Epistolary, Post-Canon, Romance, Past Relationship(s), Character Study, Tenderness, Correspondence
Summary:

So let us melt, and make no noise,/ No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;/'Twere profanation of our joys/ To tell the laity our love.

Giulia looks back.

Comments

[ffutures]

This sounds a bit like the old Dead Letters Home challenge, where the idea was to write a last letter sent by a deceased character. Some good stuff in there - I wrote Dracula to Buffy, which was fun.

Dead Letters Home challenge
http://www.dymphna.net/deadletters/

...Or may I call you Buffy?
http://www.dymphna.net/deadletters/ormayicallyoubuffy.html

[selenak]

That brings back memories! I never participated in "Dead Letters", but I do recall reading some of them back in the day. Not years, though, which is why I did right now and found it delightful.