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    Hedge!Jedi AU by

    Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jango Fett Open Seasons (Comics), Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars Legends: Tales of the Jedi (Comics), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

    14 Dec 2025

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    This series explores two intertwined narratives: the adventures of time-traveling Obi-Wan and the reactions from the core, particularly the Jedi. It presents a Jedi-positive perspective but challenges the traditional notion of Jedi training. The series questions the importance of time in training versus the impact of experiences on a Jedi's potency. Drawing on examples from Legends, canon, and games, I posit that the skills of a Jedi could be taught to adults/teenagers in a relatively short time. It’s the mastery of self that would take the most time, and ultimately why the late-modern Republic’s Jedi training started with children.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    Fascinating take on the time traveling Old Ben. Ben finds himself on Tattoine and begins to teach Jedi philosophy to anyone who wants to learn.

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    Why We Did Nothing by

    Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types  

    18 Nov 2024

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    A Mandalorian and an EduCorps Historian walk into a bar. The Mandalorian starts a fight. The Historian starts a lesson.

    The conversation starts a realization, a reckoning, and a revolution.

    (Please read the tags before reading. This gets Heavy before it gets better.)

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    22 Dec 2025

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    Centuries of misunderstandings and death stand between the Mandalorians and the Jedi. One honest conversation starts slowly walking that back.

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    Take it from the top and try again by

    Fandom Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

    04 Jan 2026

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    09 Dec 2025

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    Daughter absconds with Obi-Wan 5 years after the rise of the Empire, and sends him back just in time to help Jinn with Maul on Tattooine. And become Anakin’s hero. And befriend Padme. Unique take on a familiar trope.

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    do or do not by

    Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

    27 Feb 2026

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    16 Nov 2025

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    This is awesome. I can’t wait to see where it goes next.

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    Third by Experience by

    Fandom The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types

    20 Jan 2020

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    Gimli dies--and then wakes up in the past, right before the Quest for Erebor. His next actions prove to have long-reaching consequences.

    By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

    Book 1 - Comes Around Again

    "Sooner or later, everything you thought you left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again." - Stephen King

    Book 2 - We Are Made Wise

    “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ― George Bernard Shaw.

    Book 3 - The Greatest Test of Courage

    "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert Green Ingersoll

    Book 4 - Our Greatest Glory

    "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Goldsmith.

    Book 5 - Never a Night

    "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." - Bernard Williams

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    14 Oct 2025

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    Gimli gets sent back to fix things. Great world-building.