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Musing on Kallus's Background

Given what happened to Dedra and Partagaz after their screw ups it just reinforces my belief that Kallus was well-born and had connections to the elite of Coruscant. Given how many times he screwed up when trying to deal with the Ghost crew he would have been buried in a prison or faced a firing squad after the first failure unless he had powerful friends and family.

Because he really screwed up... a lot.

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This gave me such delight tonight.

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"We Regret" The Final 2 Chapters.

Well, it was a ride and I loved writing it, but endings matter, and you have to stick the landing. I hope I did, but here is the link for the final 2 chapters of this massive fic.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29914020/chapters/167966839

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New Chapter "We Regret"

The end keeps retreating ahead of me, but here is a new chapter. You can find it here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29914020/chapters/157861462

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New Chapter "We Regret"

This took forever and I apologize, but life and work intruded. What I thought was the final chapter just kept expanding so I broke it in half and here is the first part.

I'm well into what I think is the final chapter and hopefully it won't take so long for me to post that. I'm contemplating starting a new fic following Kallus into the Mandalorian era, but I don't have my arms around that yet. So for now enjoy this chapter which you can find here:

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I have been a stranger and I'm sorry, but sometimes life and work intervenes. I am working on the next chapter of We Regret, but had to put it aside for other tasks.

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thank you @seikilos-stele for the tag

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New Chapter "We Regret"

Finally got the Lira San chapter posted. You can find it Here:

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New Chapter "We Regret"

So, the second half of the chapter that ate the galaxy has been posted. You can find it Here:

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New Chapter "We Regret"

This was turning into the longest chapter in the history of fanfic so I decided it had to be split in half. So, here is the first half, second half to follow in a day or two.

Sorry this took so long, but I've had actual writing work, and things in my house breaking, but it's finally done. You can find it here:

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This is turning into the longest chapter in the history of chapters, and I just can't find a graceful place to break it up. Chapters need to end with a sharp period, something that propels the reader to want to keep reading. Chapters just can't just peter out, they need to sizzle.

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Last Line Challenge

Thank you @arrothededushka for tagging me. Here is the last line I wrote of a current novel:

"Closing the veils between multiverses would do that, and I am willing to pay that price, and if me taking possession a dying body is what’s required, then so be it.”

And here is the last line I wrote in the chapter of We Regret I'm working on finishing:

Raffi was dressed in her usual flamboyant style, her hair twined up into an elaborate do and held in place with long hair pins set with chiming crystals."

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Sorry I've been a stranger, but I have a whole lot going on in real life. I am working on the next chapter of We Regret, but I have to sneak in a few moments now and then to focus on it. I hope to have it finished in a week or so.

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New Chapter "We Regret"

It took way longer than I wanted, but I finally posted a new chapter in my big Kallus story. You can find it here:

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As someone who loves Opera, this is perfection.

Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Of Seville | Director: Chuck Jones Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1950  

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Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations

Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China. I suspected this would result in arbitrarily applied censorship to control the ballot. I am sad and unsurprised to discover I was correct.

The 2023 Hugo Nomination vote data has been published (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2024/01/2023-nominating-and-final-ballot-statistics-published/), and includes notation where nominations were excluded from the ballot. Those with normal reasons, such as being in the wrong category or not being published in 2022 are identified with their reasons for exclusion. This time there are a number of nominations that are merely marked at "Not eligible".

Here is the list of those nominations, that would otherwise have been placed on the final 2023 Hugo Award Ballot.

Babel - R.F. Kuang - Best Novel: Very likely excluded for referencing student revolution, and the use of language and translation as coercive tools of oppression. Color the World - Congyun "Mu Ming" Hu - Best Novellette : A story about perception of, aid of, and discrimination against disability. Congyun Hu has left China and now lives in New York. Fogong Temple Padoga - Hai Ya - Best Story : Either there is something in the original Chinese that was not translated, there's a taboo subject that elides my reading, or this otherwise innocent looking near future tale of cultural building restoration was written by the wrong person. The Art of Ghost of Tsushima: Dark Horse and Sucker Punch Games - Best Related Work : The video game Ghost of Tsushima was subject to directed social exclusion for it's depiction of the Mongol invasion of Japan. Sandman, Amazon Studios: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long and Short) - A diverse and divergent cast, includes subject matter and social issues that are currently taboo in China. Paul Weimer - Fan Writer: Publicly Critical of holding a Worldcon in China. Xiran Jay Zhao - Astounding Award: Qualifying work "Iron Widow" is reimagined story of Chinese Empress Wu during a fantasy/mechanical alien invasion.

This raises a lot of questions as to if this basically taints the process, and what can be done about it.

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This was absolutely delightful! thank you for posting this.

So Australia has a yearly tradition going back over 20 years, that every Australia Day we all gather round our screens to watch an ad for a certain product. It's so ingrained in our consciousness that the ads don't even really relate to what they're supposed to sell anymore, we all just know.

This year the ad broke containment, and non-Australians are having their brains melted by this bizarre tradition, so international followers, lets see if you can work out what this is trying to sell before the last few seconds.