You're Tender and You're Tired

Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan Fanfiction
Title:	You're Tender and You're Tired
Author(s):	Yasmin M.
Date(s):	05 October 1999
Length:	7k
Genre:	slash fanfiction
Fandom:	Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
External Links:	You're Tender and You're Tired (Master & Apprentice)
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You're Tender and You're Tired is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan story by Yasmin M..

Summary: As a Jedi Knight you will be called upon to do many things you don't want to do...

Recs and Reviews

This startling and powerful fic caused quite a little furor on the M_A list, rightfully so. You're reading along, caught up in the emotion, but not expecting the punch to the gut which comes out of nowhere. Yasmin's bleak A/U take on certain events is well done.

Second-person present-tense narration that works. 'Nuff said? No? (Really, though, doesn't that go a long way?) This vignette is lovely and spare: watercolors, rather than oil painting. If this were a film, it would be filmed in black and white but you'd have a sense of what the colors were anyway. This is the kind of economy of language and deftness of description that I envy with everything I've got. How I would love to be able to write like this -- a mood piece of fewer than a gazillion words? A mood piece in which something happens?! is that even allowed?

You're Tender and You're Tired -- This is going to be listed on everyone's rec page, but so much the better; it's a lovely sad piece for those with strong hearts. Story by Yasmin M, and now I'm going to go see if she's written anything else.