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Star Wars: A New Hope dir. George Lucas | 1977

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the first rule of writing is that there are no rules. the second rule is to save your work every 5 minutes because technology is a fickle god.

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Rogue One: a Star Wars Story (2016)

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Han turns to Princess Leia. They look sorrowfully at one another, then Han moves toward her and gives her a final, passionate kiss. // Han and Leia's eyes lock; the moment seems suspended in time. [...] Another shared look between them, as she smiles up at Han.

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HARRISON FORD as Han Solo & MARK HAMILL as Luke Skywalker - STAR WARS EPISODE VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

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The Good Place (2016-2020) Derek (S02E07)

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The Good Place 3x11

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Complexity of Obi-Wan Kenobi

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The great tragedy of trying to track down a 25+ year old fanfic that was dear to you except all the search engine tricks you used to bend the Internet to your whim in the chaotic cowboy days of GeoCities webrings don't fucking work anymore because even though the html bones of some of the great pre-ff.net libraries still linger in the mists, AI and search engine optimization have made it impossible to pluck anything useful or specific from the firehose of muck Google has become.

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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

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THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE 2000, dir. Mark Dindal

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Ultimate gay ally Sherman T Potter

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a War || M*A*S*H 10x17 Original Airdate: February 22, 1982 written by David Pollock, Elias Davis story editing by Karen Hall directed by Alan Alda

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@swsource​ star wars week: day 5 – don't make me nickname you clones & chosen names

no guarantee or ambition for absolute completeness

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you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

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Yeah, well, don't test me, eating crisps!