Edges of the World by glompcat is a Mouse Wars fanfic in which Leia gets swapped with an alternate version of herself during the time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, following both of them as she discovers a resurgent Galactic Republic where Anakin killed Palapatine at the opera house rather than become his Sith apprentice, and Padme is by now the Chancellor herself, while Jedi Padawan Leia Skywalker (who had been on the verge of her trials for knighthood) struggles to fill her place in the Rebellion to keep morale up, help Luke with his own training in the force, and generally throw a good dozen hydrospanners into the works of canon in just a few days by the point I dropped it.
Note that I did so not because the story or technical quality were poor,. but because the author's note at the beginning of ch37 was gushing about how they loved The Last Straw, had watched it eight times already, and were definitely going to be adjusting the future of the fic to aim for that black hole of failure and awfulness. Assuming that isn't a hard pass for you as it is for me, I can heartily reccomend the fic on the basis of the first half.
Note that I did so not because the story or technical quality were poor,. but because the author's note at the beginning of ch37 was gushing about how they loved The Last Straw, had watched it eight times already, and were definitely going to be adjusting the future of the fic to aim for that black hole of failure and awfulness. Assuming that isn't a hard pass for you as it is for me, I can heartily reccomend the fic on the basis of the first half.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus