#Naasade

[finalfrontierpublishing]

So it's been a while since i posted any books - mostly because i've been hiding my progress like a little sneak.

I just finished this bind last night of The Desert Storm by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, or really it's volume 1 out of like ??? 15, maybe. Please take whatever i say with a pinch of salt (I have had 0 sleep for more than 24 hours, and that tends to make me a little very sleep-deprivation drunk a.k.a. unhinged). Okay, on to thoughts! The Desert Storm was foisted onto me by @celestial-sphere-press who told me under no uncertain terms that I WOULD FUCKING LOVE THIS SHIT. Well, I did. This more than 1 million word epic about Ben Fuckin' Kenobi is pretty much god-tier fanfiction. It reads like a goddamn novel. I can never think of canon again without thinking that this good shit should be canon. I read it and then consumed half of it within a week, and I have zero regrets. @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, i absolutely love you and love your writing. It is the best thing since sliced bread. It is better than sliced bread.

I also had the benefit of @celestial-sphere-press saying, hey would you want to use the typeset? MY GOD, i am grateful. I love this fic, i would have typeset it if it hadn't been typeset but Des did such a beautiful job that i am absolutely in awe and thankful that she and the author allowed others to use it. Look at it - it's so beautiful. I only had to think hey, i just gotta design the cover and et cetera and so the book happened.

Please also check out @celestial-sphere-press 's amazing post here and here, who is the only person i know who's started and is almost complete in fanbinding this epic, and is also making an author a copy of the entire series.

Some stats, if you will.

96215 words || 380 pages

Title font: Ghaomiec

I took some inspiration from starblight bindery's lovely desert scape as well as this amazing cover of Dune which i own. I love that the landscape emanates Dune vibes while being oh so Tattooine - just sand and heat, relentless loneliness and melancholy. This fic centres around Obi-Wan Infinite Sadness Kenobi so it needed SAD VIBES TM, which i tried to deliver in desolate landscape form.

Also thank the heavens for Renegade members, who in a masterful stroke of Group Buy Saves Money, managed to source extra-out-of-production colours of Colibri and help a fair number of us get really cool limited edition versions of bookcloth. I am now a proud owner of a lorge stash of Duo and Colibri of which i am now sitting on like a shifty dragon with a hoarding problem. Good luck getting your bookcloth now, Folio Society, ha ha (gloating)! This particular bookcloth is Colibri Copper which has been wholly stashed for The Desert Storm series. I am leaning on transitioning to Malachite for Rise and Fall when I get to it.

The front cover design was done with a stock image and converted to a PNG, which i then fiddled with and did some HTV magic with. It was remarkably easier to weed than expected. I tried something new and ironed the design on the naked bookcloth first before gluing it to the boards, which was a new challenge in making sure everything was aligned.

Endpapers are marbled endpapers (Renato Crepaldi) which I got from Hollanders, which perfectly fit the colour scheme of the bind. The only hiccup was as I was cutting, I realized the sheet was running in the opposite direction of his usual papers and half the size, and only yielded 3 A5 size endpapers and so my heart went noooooooooo. oh well. i guess i will use it for quartos.

Endbands are my favourite - silk in 3 colours in the french doublecore style (as i was binding this i did not have the mental capacity to handle the difficulty of 4 strands). the truth is i usually only can do 4 when I have higher brain function and am willing to spend 80% of my time unraveling it from getting tangled.

I also forgot to mention I had mild fuck-ups, I got glue on the front endpaper which I had to hastily remove with wet cloth, and the back square is preposterously bad but I'm ignoring it for now.

Anyway, i've actually managed to complete a few other binds which have not been mentioned here as they've all been gifts/ surprises or event books in some form. I am SO EXCITED, also because I am travelling in the latter half of July to San Diego and L.A. and I get to meet some bookbinding friends in the flesh. Renegade is fucking amazing y'all. I am ready to embrace these crazy lads who have enabled me for the last 1 year, even when i'm the solitary (1) weirdo from my country of origin in the server. Also... potentially bookbinding trip early next year??? I am enthused.

[ryucreates]

ok, this is just some corrie guard shit. i got bored ok and i drew some clones haha

[corriegardenia]

Amatakka - How to Write in the Tattooine Slave Language

For anyone not running in these particular fanon circles, Amatakka is the fake language of the star wars slave people, Amavikka, like Anakins family at birth. It was originally made by @fialleril, adapted by a whole lot of fan authors like @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, and grew a life of its own from there.

It has a community dictionary with several hundred words, (https://at.tumblr.com/booklindworm/amatakka-dictionary/0dvnmuhlusq3) and a very basic phoneme dictionary (https://conworkshop.com/view_language.php?l=AMAT ), but absolutely no script, other than the vague idea that it'd be written in the Tusken script... which also does not exist. This is my attempt.

(The conlang fundamentally can't be separated from the slave experience, if anyone is disquieted and wants to step off. The way canonical star wars treats slavery is... weird at best; this is supposed to be a language of empowerment. I'll link some folktales at the end!)

In spite of being a communal conlang for an oral language, and my linguistics training being... sporadic, and mostly based on what helped me pick up my current four languages, and two pick-and-drop-and-pick-again languages.

I'd start with something like the inuktitut script (https://youtu.be/xW4hI_METac ). Amatakka is very polysynethic, and the idea of basing my script cataloguing an extant language off of another script cataloguing an extent language tickles me. But a lot of sounds have a specific cultural meaning that is used almost every single time that sound is used in the entire conlang. (Which is desperately impressive, considering it was primarily created by one author, extended by another, and then absorbed into damn near every fan work concerning Tattooine, but I digress.)

For that, i'd use something like Japanese's mixture of three writing systems: kanji, complex and symbolic pictograms; katakana, phonetic representations of loan words; hiragana, phonetic representations of original Japanese words.

In my Amatakka script, I'd put certain heavily symbolic sounds, like ur (wrong) ama (mother, heavily connected with their main goddess) and ani (rain/freedom) into 'kanji', which allows them to be represented as a concept even if the pronunciation changes a little (ani as raindrop and an- as rain, anumakkar as rainstorm, all symbolic of freedom)

Then, I'd put the remaining sounds in an inuktitut based system of syllables, based on the conlang dictionary of phonemes and an analysis of the Google sheet collection of amatakka words.

A system like this seems to fit the language we have well, which would make sense as - both in Canon and in fandom - the words came first, then the writing down of them. Multiple 'kanji' with one component being the same could represent different words, like how levrukka and er-amma are both names for ar-amu, and 雨、雪、電 (rain, snow, electricity) all contain the same radical. (There are probably better examples from folk more fluent in Japanese than me).

Example of this in practise, Depurekta, a slave who enslaves others. This is made of dep, chain, plus ur being something like twisted / wrong-but-less-morally-judgemental, which together is the word for slave owner, plus ekta, healer, one who heals the chains that bind.

Lets look at just that ur in the middle. It appears in japur, a scraggly and twisted native tree where ja- is being native to tattoine; also in kotovur, skin hunger, where ko- is mere skin contact; kusur, sarlacc, where kus- is nourishment; murek, a purple that also symbolises wealth and otherness, where me- is you, yourself; nuro, judge, where no- is son <twisted son who cooperates with slavers judgements>; tovur, starvation, where though we don't have a translation for to- specifically we have torazu and toris, both forms of edible seed; urs-gillig, a tusken relic cave, where I imagine gillig is a regular cave.

This said, when placed inside larger words, ur loses its symbolic meaning, eg shursu, root or foundation, where shulku is suitability; suru, puddle, where sudu is spinning/whirling air movement; kurra, strengthening food where ku- itself is nourishment; kurio, with the same root, appears more in line with ur as a symbolic sound.

(The third person pronoun tur has interesting connotations in this model, but I digress.)

So! Depurekta would probably be fully kanji, with ur being one radical in the kanji for depur, since that's such a key word for the amavikka people.

Kotovur, skin hunger, would have that ur kanji after an inuktitut style descriptive of its first two syllables, with ko- possibly getting its own kanji, as it is also used in words relating to skin contact with less desperate connotations.

Murek, purple associated with otherness, would probably be entirely inuktitut with the kanji in the middle.

Perhaps the system would, in the interest of becoming compact, turn into a hybrid model, with the symbolic pictogram in the middle and small lines off of it representing the inuktitut syllables, so that the whole word could be compressed small and hidden. Amatakka is an oral language, so any amount of writing they do have is likely to be hidden and special, like japor snippets or carvings worn close to the heart.

I am NOT planning on fleshing out the entire writing system, because that would take either hours of manual labour or an understanding of how to make a database spit out the symbolic sounds in words, both of which are not possible for me right now. I MAY write some of my favourite words, after my exams. I only have experience with the celtic and romance language families, barring a spattering of Greek, my Japanese, and English as my native tongue. I'd love to see someone else try and puzzle out how to write in amatakka; this is my attempt.

And, for those who are curious, the folk tales promised - I absolutely recommend a deep dive!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4678835

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3510809

https://archiveofourown.org/works/206521

(This one is a good sample of amavikka culture, but is part of a larger fic. Its a good larger fic!) > https://archiveofourown.org/works/18538078?view_full_work=true https://archiveofourown.org/works/19087303/chapters/45669586

[raspberryzingaaa]

Everyone shut up im rereading Mirage (the Desert Storm Saga)

[palfriendpatine66]

✨️ and 📚 for the fic rec game!

✨ A fic you wish you could read again for the first time 📚 A fic you wish you could display on your bookshelf

OK not to oversell this, but I could never oversell this fic: The Ben Naasade Saga by blue-sunshine-mauve-morning. I have actually said before that I wish I could erase all memory of this story from my mind to experience reading it for the first time again. There's probably thousands of moments I would love to relive for the first time but: being so completely blindsided by The Big Thing I absolutely should have seen coming and yet never saw coming...I'm prepping myself for a reread soon to appreciate the incredible craft of this author. ALSO I would kill pay large sums of money to have this in print. It absolutely 100% belongs on a bookshelf. I wrote a whole rant fic rec post on this here if you want some more details. READ IT HERE

[blankerthought]

i get distracted for two minutes and the main character decides to ditch all his previous, years-established plans that he’s rigorously held to and instead just murder the shit out of a guy in like. the remaining hours of the day

[wild-karrde]

@ladysongmaster has written this: The Dare for Clonetober 2022. And really, while reading this I was ready to jump in and pummel the trainer so hard my fists would bleed! The little cuties that are cadets are so worth the hugs and love but find themselves in trouble. Thankfully there is someone around looking out for them and the way that we get to see Fox Naasade and Jango interact is priceless.

The Brothers' Keeper AU seems so cool from the bits that I have read, and I totally agree with you on all counts. Totally wanted to pummel the trainer, but love to see the cadet camaraderie. It's endearing all the way around. Thanks for the rec!

Participate in Fandom Friday to show your favorite creators from this week some love! :)

[dandyzay]

“Commitment and perseverance. Very Jedi values. Very Mandalorian ones too.”

Decided I wanted to do a redraw of Ben Naasade from @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning fanfic series: “The Desert Storm” (GO READ IT) because my art has significantly changed since the last time I drew him in his orange, reds, and yellow :)

[finalfrontierpublishing]

Remembrance by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

I finished binding Remembrance by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, which is the next part of The Desert Storm Epic. This is currently volume 2 of a projected 14/15 volumes!

some stats:

97,852 words || 384 pages

Title font: Ghaomiec

i'm still using the lovely @celestial-sphere-press' beautiful typesets. Sticking with the current theme, i decided to do Coruscant this time, with the Jedi Temple front and centre. Egged on by Des, this design is something like 10 times more complicated and took an entire hour to weed. The bookcloth is Colibri Copper, while endpapers are @renato-crepaldi, whose papers i love. I finished the bind with gold and brown silk endbands in 3 colours. Am likely to vary it up a little with the next volume with a different bookcloth colour, just for kicks.

Next up, I do have one more FFWAD bind to complete, and once i'm done with that, my physical stack of textblocks will have decreased to 4 (SUCCESS) and i can let myself print more things. Am working on my list of author copies as usual, slowly but surely.

i'm also waiting on legal paper (in the right grain this time) very excitedly, because i want to make more legal quarto books.

[atelier-dayz]

WIP Wednesday: Jate'kara

I honestly had a hard time deciding what snippet to share. But HERE have something with squishy feelings:

“Whether you’re Force-sensitive or not, the Force resides in everyone.” Obi-wan suddenly smiles, sly and sharp, with a gleam in his eye Jango does not like. The jetii leans closer to Anakin as he says in a false whisper, “Even Naasade, who claims he’s as Force-sensitive as a rock.” “A rock?” Anakin repeats before turning to look up at Jango almost too pensively for his preferences. Jango huffs and rolls his eyes at Obi-wan. “K’uur! Leave me out of your lessons, jetii.” Obi-wan’s smile widens into a downright shit-eating grin, and Jango would have shoved him if Anakin hadn't been sitting between them. Anakin makes a loud, thoughtful sound. They both turn their attention back to him, and the kid nods. “I get it,” Anakin says. “Not a rock though. More like…a boulder.” “What…do you mean?” Jango asks. “In the Force, Mister Naasade!” Anakin says. “Maybe you can't use the Force, but in the Force, you’re like a rock, but bigger. Like a boulder -- big and strong and…and stable. A boulder is steady, so we can build things on top. When there’s a storm, a boulder can give shelter. And also, people might think it’s just cold, but actually it can give you warmth from the sun too.” Jango stares at the kid, completely blindsided and speechless. Obi-wan seems surprised as well, saying not a word. At their continued silence, Anakin pouts. "Maybe I didn't explain it right." "No," Obi-wan then says, "I think you explained it just right." And Jango looks over at Obi-wan to find him looking at Jango, with an expression so soft and -- dare he say, fond, that Jango has to look away before he starts thinking of doing something….rash. “You…you really think that?” Jango asks the kid. Anakin nods, brow scrunched in seriousness. Jango doesn’t know how to react to that other than to say “Thanks, kid” and pat Anakin’s head. He strictly avoids looking back at Obi-wan.

Someone save Jango because he is Struggling.

[raspberryzingaaa]

Ben Naasade Saga is about compassion! It's about having grace for yourself and learning to love your younger self for making mistakes!! It's about being gentle!!

[cuminhoid]

okay sorry to be a faggot but! listener's culture around respecting the bodies of the dead and then some fanon interpretations of the significance of mandalorian armor and what "desecration" looks like to mandos and... there's something here i know it

like obviously they can't really "pass down" carapace in the way mandos can pass down armor, but both groups can be interpreted as/written as having a no-one-but-family deal

but then what happens with the naasade? does their armor just go to a local goran to be melted for foundlings? and the listener equivalent, when there is no next of kin?

while tagging had some thoughts

Mandos have the Ka'ra and Manda and all that, and "stars-touched" can hear it like other Force-sensitives (and I'm writing literally an entire fic that is mostly just about different Force traditions so . I'll stop there) but the listeners become disillusioned with their own "ancient council of rulers"; somewhere I saw a post that talked about how listeners not disturbing the bodies of the dead was a remnant of the refusal of the old gods' body-takeovers

So! the two cultures reasons for not stripping/disturbing the bodies are super super different, one out of respect for the spiritual ancestors and one out of worry that those ancestors will come and terrorize them again--but the similarities!

that's all for now i think

[direwolfrules]

Would anyone care for some unsolicited fanfic recs in this trying time?

Star Wars (because I have no other life):

(Re)convene by Nightfall_1409:

10 years after sacrificing himself for the Rebellion, Ezra Bridger is offered the chance to turn back the clock and alter the course of history forever- the Force sending back with him a ragtag band of heroes, all whom have proven themselves worthy of the chance, all of whom have the drive to prevent the events that turned their lives into living nightmares, all of whom have the chance to save their loved ones from their fates.

Now 35 years in the past, returned to the era of the Republic 6 years before the rise of the Empire, 3 years before the start of the Clone Wars, he has to unite his scattered allies- Ahsoka Tano, Din Djarin, Boba and Omega Fett- and put together the puzzle of what caused the galaxy to fall, or they'll all be doomed to watch it happen again.

Personal Thoughts:

I really like this one. Time travel is my favorite trope. It’s well written, it draws you in, and the author has done an excellent job of mashing up Legends and Canon in fun and unique ways.

It has everything: Force Sensitive Omega, Tired Space Dad Din Djarin accidentally becoming a main character, Ezra and Anakin as chaotic besties, no Jedi bashing, and much more that would be spoilers.

The author tries to update twice a month. It’s really good. Also this is the only one I’m including the summary for because I’m lazy.

Time-Traveling Artoo by SpiderMansUnfriendlyNeighbor

Crack fic go brrrr. Seriously though, it’s just Artoo fucking with Sidious and then kidnapping children to matchmake. I was laughing the whole way through.

A Means of Survival by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude

In which Ursa finds a half dead Jedi Padawan named Caleb and the Mandalorian Adoption instinct activates. Listen, Sabine has decided the Jetti’ad is her favorite person, they can’t just not adopt him

The Time Heals ‘verse by jessicas_pi

Force Sensitive Sabine travels back in time to the Clone Wars, accidentally bonds with a Force Entity that I’m 99% sure is the Brother, becomes Obi-Wan’s Padawan, and keeps accidentally-on-purpose bringing people back to the past.

Also Quinlan Vos is there.

It’s Sabezra if that’s a turn off for anyone.

You Either Die A Hero… by RennyBanette

The 501st gets trapped in a time loop on Umbara. Delightful crack full of Krell murder and fire.

The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine

This is the Star Wars time travel fic. It’s so good. 4 years after the fall of the Republic Obi-Wan gets caught in a sandstorm, and when it passes he’s back in time when Anakin’s just a three year old clinging to his mom’s skirt.

Naturally, Obi-Wan frees the Skywalkers, changes his name to Ben Naasade, takes his younger self as a Padawan, and gives Mace Windu so many headaches.

Featuring: Jedi Shmi Skywalker, Pong Krell getting his shit wrecked, Legends stuff, Jedi Shmi Skywalker, Mandalorians being awesome, Alderaan being awesome, Jedi Shmi Skywalker, Obitine, the Sith being evil and creepy, and most importantly, Jedi Knight Shmi Skywalker

[palfriendpatine66]

Fic Rec Friday

It has come to my attention that I have really really slacked off in making the most important fic rec I could every make: The Ben Naasade Saga (comprised of two series: Desert Storm and Rise and Fall) by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning Blue_Sunshine on Ao3 Begin reading here.

Four years after the events of Revenge of the Sith, Ben Kenobi of Tatooine walks out into a sandstorm and when he makes it to his destination he realizes he’s many years in the past. He adopts the name Ben Naasade and sets about doing everything he can to change the fate of Anakin Skywalker and prevent the tragic events of his timeline from happening this time around. Including changing the course of events for 13 year old Obi-Wan Kenobi.

It’s sounds like the heart of every time travel fix it but I promise you: it is So. Much. More. It very very much an epic saga. It has many many parts. It’s well over a million words. PLEASE don’t let that turn you away. It is worth every second of your time. It is masterfully written. It is done with time and care and attention to so many details of Star Wars knowledge and lore. It has layers and layers. The foreshadowing is meticulous and yet you will be absolutely floored and gobsmacked. Again and again. This was what dragged me into fanfic. I would literally pay very large amounts of money to own a bound copy of this. It deserves a place of honor on a library bookshelf.

I cannot possibly oversell this enough. This story will change you. Whether you are like me and binge read and consume this over a very intense month(s?)and walk away dazed and reeling with everything you just went through or slowly work your way through and savor the depth of the plot and characters and events, please. Just. Read this.

[savrenim]

OKAY my fellow svsss peeps I have some scum villain/ general xianxia questions if anyone wants to help a pal out

this is mostly bc Naming My Beloathed

my understanding of how courtesy names work are that in general, courtesy names are given at the age of 20 bc that's Reaching Adulthood. cq sect ALSO does a thing where each generation of peak lords ascends together, retires together, and get cool matching peak lord names.  (a) is it the case then that they do things weird and don't get courtesy names until they all become peak lords, independent of age? (b) related does anyone know what age they are becoming peak lords bc my assumption is that peak lords would want full adults who were already immortals and had been training for the position for at least a decade or two, not barely-more-than-teenagers who given min age for joining had been at the sect for a decade at most 

does anyone have name-picking resources besides the standard "go to wikipedia and look up the longest list of real historical figures, and then any name that you like the Vibes of make sure that person wasn't famous and if the name has a meaning that it's a meaning that also you like the Vibes of, and then go with that" bc that works well but the more options I have the better I'm So Bad At Names

again similarly are demon names in svsss clearly distinct from human names to anyone who is used to xianxia/wuxia naming conventions or would the same strategy for finding human names work for demon names

Is there a generic name that means "No One"? I'm searching for something like Naasade is in Mando'a in Star Wars, or like in a setting that pulls from Latin and Roman names saying your name is "Nemo", or probably more the vibe of going with "John Smith" rather than "John Doe" in English but that sort of "I am telling you a name but it is very clear that it is Not My Name because it is the commonly understood Generic Name in this language"? Or does that not exist / you would just go by a title like daozhang if you're a cultivator etc etc?

Is there any particular distinction between/ reason why you would pick one over the other of using xiao', a', or -er if giving someone a cutesy nickname?

Is there any clear canonical timeline for events that took place before Luo Binghe's birth, besides the relative order that they took place in (ie number of years between events, how old the supporting cast was when they happened, etc) or even a partial timeline or even common accepted fanon for what ages people were when various things happened?

[ryehouses]

I'm slowly rereading ast and cannot stand that I cannot remember but I came across this part

“Ah,” said Fett, brushing a few strands of hair out of Din’s face. He sounded fond again, which meant that Din hadn’t messed up too badly. “Not entirely back, are we?”

Din made an agreeable noise. He had no idea what Fett was talking about. Din hadn’t left. He’d been with Fett all evening.

and I can't remember if boba ever properly explained to din what he meant with "not being back" and other terms he uses for din when he's like that?

ahh hello! thanks for stopping by!

they do talk about what boba means, eventually! they have a discussion in chapter 33 ("naasade") about it, and din is able to articulate what he feels in subspace.

however, nobody ever uses the term "subspace," mostly because i had a really hard time trying to think up a star wars proxy (in between arguing with myself whether i needed a proxy at all!) and then abandoned the effort in favor of vague metaphors.