#SW!Gang Answers

[lilythecattt]

"Question for everyone: did you know there's a horror game based off you all? Well more like survival game, but there is a game where you extract ink or something in an infinite floors whilst evil versions of you chased you around. Its pretty fun! It's named after your old show"

* T h e s i l e n c e i s d e a f e n i n g .

[🍫]: “Is this about that ‘Sunny’s World’ Fangame?…”

[🪞]: “Y-Yeah.. it.. must be that!…”

*The silence returns… Dandy and Sprout are VERY quiet.

[👻]: “Or it could be that dark-web game that weirdo made. Creepy how much those people know…”

[🍓]: “Speaking of-”

*Dandy interrupts:

[🌈]: “How much do you know.”

[sir-fluffbutts]

I love love your recent comic about JJ and pepper, will JJ ever realize his feelings for pepper?? Oh and JJ and pepper really remind me of jonathan and dio, i even thought they were their fursonas at first 🤧

I DON'T THINK, I CAN ANSWER THAT

pepper and JJ's "romance problems" arn't really importent current lorewise, and whatever related to it will happen AFTER the "fish market" lore so i will keep quiet for now 🤫

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also (the main reason why im answering this question), OH BOY DO I HAVE A STORY ABOUT THAT

OK SO, jj looks like jonathan from JJBA cause...design wise, he have went through the jonathan kinsona phase

i had JJ (originaly named "piper") since 2019, and between the time he have went through a LOT of design changes

i should mention that at time time, he has been a part of a [specific CS] * i will not adress them in name as i've left the species with a bad taste in my mouth and do not want to be involved with them again

around 2020 when i was INSANLY into JJBA, i found out there was a "jjba (CS)kinsona gang" chat within the species group, and while talking with some people there, i was like "haha won't it funny if i redesign my guy into a jojo character that'll be insane" and i did just that

sadly the small group kinda crumbled cause CS is all about trading and most of the "kinsona characters" got traded and redesigned 😔 i still kept JJ intending to redesign em again.

then, in 2021 when i had beef with the said [CS] and decided to leave, i sold out most of my said CS characters, but kept JJ due to sm fond memorys on him

but i didn't want him to keep being just a "jonathan kinsona". so after a species change, giving new lore and doing bunch of redesigns, the JJ we all currently know was born into the world

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while being redesigned to his current looks, i put a lot of his previous design+ his cousin(shark)'s design elements and i feel like he turned out pretty well

definatly still have a sort of a resemblence, but different just enough 🤌

it actually seperates the characters more in his outgrows neck/back fluff ver, but (for now) he likes to keep it clean

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pepper is also a pretty similar story

his OG design was based on speedwagon and when in my JJBA CS phase i was like "wait, wasn't there a SW inspired design??" and managed to grab em

however i don't think he gets the same recognition as JJ cause

i actually don't think his OG design resembles the character that much

i officially got him (ended my trade) when the said "JJBA CS gang" started to crumble, so i almost immidetly did a 180 on his design and used him for different lore purposes

people tend to skip part 1 so they have no idea who speedwagon is (😭)

and considering how i NEVER get comments on his connection with him but constently hear about how he look like

• dio (part 1)

• DIO (part 3)

• striker (helluvaboss)

i think i've done a pretty good job on his redesign 😂💅

[ysrjune]

Ok so u made this little story about Dallas Winston and yn but at the end she just leaves can you please make a part two Im begging

nah I'm good fam

jk LMFAO yes I can bb 💖 if anyone is wondering what this is a part 2 to---here's the link -> CLICK HERE.

Love of my life you've hurt me

I forgot I even have stuff about Dally on my account.. i need to start making mutuals that dont only write about hayden christensen or sw cause dayum. Also, I know Dally is like 17 and i think I accidentally made reader like 15.. ignore that. She's the same age as Dally.

The rest of that week, you didn't hear about Dally but you did about his gang. You saw them often as well. Going on your walks in the morning, you always saw a boy named ponyboy on his way to school. There was also another kid following him around and then waiting for him outside until the school day ended. His name is Johnny. Everyone knows Johnny and his unfortunate situation at home. You wanted to make him feel like he had other friends other than ponyboy and those other hoods, so on that Friday morning when pony went into the building, you walked up to Johnny.

Not to your surprise, he didn't really say anything. Nor did he even make eye contact. But you being you, you just kept talking. Soon enough over the next month--yes, month, he sort of became your friend. You would walk with him and pony in the mornings to school ever since you started high school again. Still, you hadn't seen Dallas, but ponyboy DID tell you about him.. not that you even asked, either. He just started talking about him. "Im pretty sure he only tolerates me cause of Johnny. Johnny's like his pet." The boy says. Johnny looks over to pony and scoffs. "I aint no pet of Dallys. He just.. we're just pals is all."

It was getting suspicious how much pony would talk about Dal. Had the older boy said something to him? The answer was definetly. During lunch, you sat with pony and confronted him. "Dallas said somethin' about me to you, didnt he, Michael?" Calling him ponyboy sort of icked you out. he said he didn't care at first and that you had to call him that like everyone else did, but once Johnny spilled the beans about his middle name, you wouldn't stop calling him Micahel, and the boy just had to learn to deal with it. "Uhm, yeah. Said you was friends back in the day. He aint around much so i thought that you might wanna know more about what ol' Dal has been up to since he don't even talk to you."

"Is he ignoring me on purpose?" You ask with no shame. Pony looks at you right in the eye and back at his lunch. "I dunno. He doesn't really talk about you." He shrugs. "Michael, you know something! Tell me!", "Would ya quit callin' me that?! My name is Ponyboy!" he knew it was no use to correct you for the hundreth time, but it was a habit by now. "No. Now tell me or I oughta shove you into my locker." You threaten. "Jesus, okay okay." Pony groans and shakes his head. "Don't tell anyone, and I mean ANYONE about this.. so.. he's.. he's scared to talk to you. He feels awkward, Doesn't know what to say to you. Thats all I know, though. i swear it. I overheard him talkin' with the other guys.", "So Johnny knows, then?", "Nah, he knows as much as I do.. I think. I dunno. You can ask him, but I don't think he'll rat on Dally to you. Or anyone at that." RRRIINNNGGG. Saved by the bell.. you'll get him later.

Saturday. You had the nuts to walk over to the Curtis house to get ponyboy. On your way there, Johnny saw you and ran up to you. "Hey, where you goin?" He asks with his hands jammed in his pockets. "Off to Michael's house. need to ask him something about.." You looked at Johnny. "Hold on, he said you know why Dallas won't talk to me." You stop walking and face Johnny. "Come on, John. You gotta tell me what he said! You and I are best friends, ain't we?" You touch his shoulder. "Woah. I dunno about all that." He raises an eyebrow. Jesus Christ, he was so sassy with you. He's gotten comfortable. Maybe cause you were usually so nice to him. "Please John? Please! I need to know! I haven't seen him since I moved here!", "Nuh-uh, no way! It can't be done. I told him I wouldnt tell you!", "So he knows you and I talk? Can you at least tell me what you say to him about me?" Johnny was starting to cringe a little bit. Why were you so desperate..

"Why do you care so much? he's just a guy!", "Cause he was my best friend, Johnny. Come on, please?" You ask nicely. Johnny groaned and gave in. "Fine, fine." He sighs and starts walking the opposite direction, assuming you'd follow. "The first time I ever mentioned you was, like.. a month ago? I just said that some random gal came up to me 'n started talkin' to me. He didn't ask much. Just what your name was, and when I told him, he didn't react like how maybe you'd hope he would. He shrugged it off and was like 'oh, okay." Johnny explains. "Uh.. anything else i've said is just about how you're real nice and I walk you and pony to school.", "Okay.." You replied. "Just let me in on one thing, alright? Just one more thing. Does he not wanna talk to me? Has he been ignoring you?", "Ignoring you?" Johnny snorts. "Yeah, sure. If being in the cooler is ignoring you, then yeah. Totally avoiding you."

Oh.. Dallas was arrested.. how didn't that come to mind? "How long has he been in there?" You ask. "Since a week after you moved here. He slashed some guys tires and then fought him."

TIMESKIP BECAUSE IM #LAZYAF

Johnny was walking around with Two-Bit and Dally. Dal and Two were sort of arguing about something, but it wasn't really serious. It was more like name calling each other. "Yeah? Well that's why you're a big ol' scaredy cat! Too scared to talk to a girl. thought you was a ladies man, Dal." It was so stupid. It shouldn't have bothered Dally as much as it did, but he couldnt help it. "Shut your damn mouth, I aint scared. I just.. got nothin' to say to the broad. 'S gonna be weird If I just stand there in front of her and stare like an idiot. If she wants to talk, she can come to me, but I don;t got nothing to say, so." He shrugs. Two-bit side-eyed Johnny. "Alright, man. I didn't need a whole explanation. You could have just called me a bastard." All of a sudden, the mickey mouse lover started laughing hard. "Man, you are a bastard." Dallas rolls his eyes and turns around for a minute, lighting a cig. "Hey, Jahnny, you wanna go see if--" Dallas turns back around, but Johnny wasn't there. Just Two laughing extra hard. "Where'd he go?" Dally asked. "Man, he booked it! You shoulda seen it. Funniest thing I ever seen!" He cracks up even more, gasping for air.

Banging was at your door. it startled you. "HEY! HEY I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! OPEN THE DOOR! CMON, NOW! BEFORE THEY SEE ME!" Johnny's voice called from the other side. Oh dear, was he in trouble? You ran to the door and opened it quickly and all of a sudden he was fine. "Hey, how are you?" He asks normally and slides in. "What? Johnny.. Why-- Why in the hell were you hollerin' like that?! Thought you was in some serious trouble, boy!", "Sorry, I just needed to get you to open the door." He shrugs. "So, I was with Dally and our other friend.. and they were making fun of each other. Guess what? Two took a jab at Dal for not talking to you and Dallas got offended by it." Johnny leans against your kitchen counter. "Meaning he's sensitive about the topic of little ol' you. I think he wants you to go up to him."

You go up to him? No way! He's the man! He should be the one to say something first. "No. If he wants to talk, he'll start the conversation. Awkward or not, it'd mean a lot to me if he would just man up and at least say hi." Johnny shrugs. "I don't know about all that." Oh God, there he goes with that line again. Lately, that's been his favorite thing to say. "Dal ain't like that. Confident with girls he actually likes." John clicks his tongue. "Oh well. You go on 'n figure it out yourself. I just thought I should tell you what he said." The 16 year old boy says and walks out of your house. Boys.. how annoying.

Not even an hour later, there were voices outside your bedroom window. It sounded like a bunch of guys.. and.. Michael and Johnny? What were they doing yelling outside? You open the curtains and see more boys than you expected. Two-bit Matthews, Steve Randle, Sodapop Curtis, Pony.. Michael Curtis, Johnny Cade.. and Dallas Winston. They were all pushing him towards your window and yelling at him to ask. Well, everyone except for Johnny. He was just smiling and standing next to Soda. But what? What did they want him to ask you?

"Don't be so shy about it now, Dal. You was just talkin' all that, sayin' this was gonna be a piece of cake." Steve nudges Dally. "I heard something about Cake?" Two-bit tunes back in. "You idiot. It was a metaphor!" Michael scolds Two. "Whats a metaphor?" Two raises an eyebrow like he always did. Everyone quiets down and slowly turns to Two. "My God, I was just joking around. I know what a metaphor is." He rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. "Stop staring. I know im a handsome young fella, but we're s'possed to be focused on Dal and his ex lady friend." Everyone looked back at you and Dallas.

"Um.. what are y'all doing here." You managed to say. "We brang Dallas to you just like you wanted, little lady. Now say something." Steve replies. You give the boy a weird look and then return your gaze to Dallas. "Hi.." You say. Stupidly, everyone cheered and started hyping Dally up. Im gonna kill them. He thinks to himself. "Im comin' in, alright?" He tells you. "Alone." He turns back to his gang. And so he did. It was so damn weird. He was sitting on your bed, hunched over and looking down at the floor.

"So," you break the silence. "I heard you were in jail." Dally looks up at you and smirks. "Yeah. Not exactly a shocker. I'm always in there for something.", "Is that supposed to impress me? the whole bad boy act?", "Woah. I don't know about all that." Jesus Christ, so this is where Johnny got that dumb line from. "Nah, it wasn't to impress you. I was just telling you the truth. Even when I don't even do anything wrong, they'll still lock me up. Them cops don't like me, so they'll find any reason to throw me in jail." You nod and tap your foot on the floor. "That's nice, sweetheart." You tell him. Dally chuckles. "So what's been up with you, huh? Your boyfriend been calling you from across the country?", "No. We broke up. How did you even know I had a boyfriend?" You ask curiously. "Johnny tells me everything you tell him. Not like I even ask, but he just tells me." Of course he does.

"Dallas." You mutter his name after a moment of silence. "Why did you just leave like that? You left without telling me anything."

Dally sighs and rolls his eyes. "Look, it's not even that serious.", "Yes it is! I was worried! I thought you had died or something!", "Dramatic. Always been so dramatic, you." He groans. "I didn't have enough time, alright? I had to leave as soon as possible. Guys were after me. A whole group. I couldn't stay in New York.", "Why didn't you write?" Your eyes water. "I was poor. Any money I had, I had to use for food. My apologies for not wanting to stay hungry and write a letter instead." He gets sarcastic. "Man, I still couldn't write to you if I wanted to if you were still in New York. I don't know how to spell correctly. I wouldn't even know what to say. Hi, i'm not dead?" Dally scoffs. "Dallas, do you really think i'd care if you spelt a few things wrong? Who cares? Not me. I would have been happy to even see the 'Hi, i'm not dead' message.", "Yeah, right. You were better off without knowing anything else about me. Man, you're better off without me right now! I'm just trouble." He stands up from the bed.

"Where are you going?!" Your tears travel down your hot cheeks. "We aren't done with this conversation. Sit back down!" Your voice was shaky and breathy. "Yes we are. We're done, We been done." He snapped back. "So just like that? You're gonna leave me all over again." Dally stares you down. "Yeah. I guess I am. But this time I'll actually say goodbye." He mutters. "C'mere." He walks over to you and gives you a tight hug. "Listen to me when I say this. I ain't good for you. I ain't good for nobody. It's best you stay away from me. We can't be friends again. I ain't the twelve year old boy you used to like. I'm much worse." He whispers and kisses your head. "Im leaving now. Have a good afternoon." Dally says and finally leaves.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Tom Phillips and Clavel Rangel at The Guardian:

Neiyerver Rengel’s captors came one sunny spring morning, lurking outside the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and pouncing as soon as he emerged. The three government agents announced the young Venezuelan man had “charges to answer” and was being detained. “Everything’s going to be OK,” the man’s girlfriend, Richely Alejandra Uzcátegui Gutiérrez, remembers the handcuffed 27-year-old reassuring her as she gave him one last hug. Then Rengel was put in a vehicle and vanished into thin air: spirited into custody and, his family would later learn, dispatched to a detention centre notorious for torture and inhuman conditions hundreds of miles from home. “We have to take him,” Uzcátegui recalls one officer saying before they left. “But if this is a misunderstanding, he’ll be released and given a phone call to contact you.” That call never came.

The scenes above might have played out in any number of Latin American dictatorships during the 20th century, from Gen Augusto Pinochet’s Chile to Gen Jorge Rafael Videla’s Argentina. Thousands of regime opponents were seized at home or on the street – and slipped off the map, becoming “desaparecidos” (the disappeared ones). But Rengel’s disappearance took place on 13 March this year in Donald Trump’s US, where what campaigners call the “forced disappearance” of scores of Venezuelan migrants has fuelled fears of an authoritarian tack under a leader who vowed to be a dictator “on day one” of his presidency. Those fears intensified on Friday amid reports that a judge had been arrested by the FBI for supposedly helping “an illegal alien” evade arrest. Juanita Goebertus, Human Rights Watch’s Americas director, said she had no hesitation in calling the detentions of those Venezuelans enforced disappearances. “Under international law, when someone is detained and there’s no account of where the person is, it amounts to enforced disappearances – and this is exactly what has happened,” she said.

For five weeks after Rengel’s detention in Irving, Texas, relatives remained in the dark over his whereabouts. His brother, Nedizon León Rengel, said he spent hours calling immigration detention centres but failed to get clear answers. “They told us he’d been deported but wouldn’t say where,” recalled Nedizon, who migrated to the US with his brother in 2023. Finally, on 23 April, came the bombshell: a report on NBC News said Rengel was one of at least 252 Venezuelans who had been flown to authoritarian El Salvador and jailed for supposedly belonging to the Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang that Trump’s administration has designated a foreign terrorist organisation. “Finding out through the news was devastating. But the worst part was having to tell my mum,” said Nedizon. “Before I came here, the US represented a land of opportunity – a place to fulfil dreams and improve our quality of life … Now it feels like a nightmare. Human rights aren’t even being respected any more – not even the right to make a phone call, which is guaranteed to anyone who is detained.”

[...] Nelson Suárez, the brother of a third Venezuelan jailed in El Salvador, said the treatment of the detainees – some of whom have been paraded on television with shaved heads and in shackles – reminded him of how the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro dealt with his foes. “[They are doing] the same thing they do in Venezuela when they capture a political prisoner. They lock them up and disappear them – and nobody hears anything more from them until the government feels like it,” said Suárez, whose brother, Arturo Suárez, is a musician with no criminal background. The wave of detentions and disappearances has devastated the US’s Venezuelan community, which has swelled in recent years as a result of the South American country’s economic collapse.

A disturbing echo of what we see in Latin American dictatorships has come to America: disappearing of political dissidents.

[arliganzey]

aahhh okay I have another one I just thought of! What are your thoughts on the relationship between Zey and Skirata? Skirata seems to hate him in canon, but as far as I can tell, Zey is actually pretty chill with Skirata?

(Thank you for indulging me! I'm relatively new to the RepCom portion of the SW fandom, and am still finding my footing lol)

DO I HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT ZEY AND KAL! YEAH I DO

In fact? I think I have too many thoughts so for the sake of answering your ask in less than 5,000 words, I'm going to focus on:

Kal doesn't hate Zey. Kal hates 'the Jedi', as an institution, and vis a vis, the Jedi themselves. Since we see a lot of Zey through Kal's POV, we get his (wrong) impressions of Zey because Kal won't admit that he not only doesn't hate Zey, but might actually like him.

Unfortunately, Zey isn't Etain or Bardan, and is 100% representative of "the Jedi", so Kal treats him as such.

(Also, obviously, Kal is doing a lot of illegal stuff under Zey's nose, so he's rightfully pretty avoidant whenever they talk.)

I'm going to delve into a couple scenes from Order 66, but there is a LOT to sift through in Triple Zero, True Colors, and 501st.

"Zey knew him well enough" makes me go insane. The way Kal plops down, and Zey has caf out, and Kal starts off pretty casual like maybe these two have had hundreds of conversations over the past three years-- then oh no here we go, Kal is trying to pull a fast one on Zey, just because he can.

Meanwhile ...? I really think Zey is just trying to catch up with Sergeant Skirata. I'm living for this interaction.

AND WINKED

I don't think Zey gets enough credit from Kal and the gang for being more aware of what's going on. In the opening scenes of Triple Zero, Zey keeps up with Vau and Kal's doublespeak about going rogue for the terrorist op. He asks what happens to Fi in True Colors because he knows Kal has something to do with it. I don't think Zey accepts Fi's dead--I think Zey is hopeful that Fi is alive, and if I can be so bold, wants to know that he's okay.

Bardan tells Delta to be careful about what they reveal to Zey after Delta helps Vau rob the bank, because "Zey knows something is going on."

Okay sorry, got off topic.

From 501st right after Vau is livid about Zey being at Kyrimorut:

a fairly pleasant man they knew well

THEY CAN'T ADMIT ZEY MAYBE KINDA SORTA WAS A FRIEND. I'm cackling

I have abooooout 7 other scenes about Kal and Zey but I might actually need to do something besides think about these two old dudes today...

[littleladymab]

♥ ERADICATE : Book 3 of Meliora [[a wip intro for @moon-and-seraph's WORDS INTO POTIONS March event]]

♠ Genre: Collapsing Post-Utopian, Mystery ♣ Series Summary: A mysterious benefactor invites citizens of Eminence, built on the remains of London, to participate in a game. The reward? Information on the darkness of the city and a chance to escape. All they have to do is prove they are worthy. ♦ Etc: writing tag || playlist

My goal this month is to actually finish the outline for this and NOT abandon it to simply start replanning the entire series from book 1 again. And somewhere between this and SW, hopefully write 4 chapters/about 10k.

Main Cast

♥ Ayn Starling: 19, lit student + ballerina, playlist ♥ Catoir Altair: 20, librarian, goes by the name "Fletcher Oswin", playlist ♥ Jonas Quinn: 20, hairdresser + gang leader, playlist

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Sender: The Program Manager Subject: Invitation to a Game

Message: My fellow citizens:

The illustrious city of Eminence stands as a beacon of success and security. Top class schools, an expanding array of businesses, and a world renowned medical team. Many find themselves drawn to it for these reasons.

I, like you, like many before, have dropped all that I was to make a fresh start in this New World ‘Eden’. And I, like you, like many before, find myself content to continue to make a living.

We do not dream of leaving.

What I am here to tell you is that it is not a problem of desire: You cannot leave.

As a fellow citizen of Eminence, it is my duty to entrust this secret to the curious few. Thus, I offer up Meliora, a game in which the willing participate, but only the fortunate will make it through.

I will not say much on the nature of this game -- not all of you will believe me. Meliora is a chance for you to obtain information on what those hungry for the truth will want more than anything: An answer to the riddle of Eminence.

Should you choose to accept my first invitation, I ask that you join the others at the little doors six days before the approaching ides. Expect to arrive in time for high tea.

There will be no consequences if you reject this offer. You will soon forget this message and continue on in blissful ignorance.

Choosing to participate proves to me that you are worthy of a way out.

I hope you will make the right decision.

Respectfully, The Program Manager

[kiwikipedia]

tagged by @certified-anakinfucker oc tag game

i have been trying to post this for like thirty minutes I don't care anymore no more detailed answers I'm going to throw a fit tumblr stop being bad challenge impossible

favorite oc — I do not have one, I love and hate all of them equally (lying)

newest oc — Satori Luong, a Spider-'Sona' who also is known as "Kumo" or "Spider Hunter". They personally call themselves the "Average in Intelligence Spider" when put up against the wall with all the others as they're no genius in any field except for combat and observation. Unable to websling organically, they also never developed any tech to aid them nor can they stick to surfaces, and didn't even realize they were a "super' until Miguel O'Hara showed up. they just assumed their spider-sense was luck and their strength was because their parkour and strength training paid off.

oldest oc — probably a warrior cats or rainbow fairy oc? honestly, I can't remember anything earlier the end of middle school-start of high school era.

meanest oc — Orcin Nauta (SW) hands down. He's a gang boss based off of the Orca Whale, aka the bully of the ocean. He's mean and vicious and also 16 fucking feet tall with a gang family that spans the entire galaxy.

softest oc — Persephone "Seph" Spring (PKMN) probably. Very kind, very gentle, very patient. The perfect balance for her rough-and-tumble cowboy mining boss of a husband tbh

most aloof / standoffish oc — Emilia Lynx (COD, FMAB) without a doubt. It's the trauma babyyyy.

dumbest oc — Ajal Agni (BNHA). Have you seen your foreign-born janitor stick his hand straight into boiling water? WOULD YOU LIKE TO?

smartest oc — Kori Hayashi (Standalone). She's kept her organization at the top of the underground chain for a while, after all. She knows how to play the game, knows which cards to reveal, knows how to keep her men in line, and when to let them loose.

horniest oc — Hakra Dorgoa. I will not explain further than Man Is He Glad That He's Got Strong Mental Walls And Shielding As A Member Of The Temple Guard Or Else Everyone Would Know He's Down Bad For Eeth Koth

oc i’d bang — in reality, none because I'm AroAce, but metaphorically? Ban Sult (SW) because he'd treat me right. Someone had to give Plo Koon unwanted but appreciated and used romantic tips between teaching him how to blast lightning.

oc i’d be besties with irl — Gelaisa Kaliope and Miles "Millie" Shira (Fate). They are two of the most laid-back and chill characters in my folders and have a sick music taste. ngl, they'd probably also just let me nap in a pile of blankets and also under them. Can't have one without the other though.

no pressure tags: @crc-jedi-knight-serushna @alexeithegoat @hotshot9 @spacerocksarethebestrocks @gen-has-green-vibes

[steepedwonders]

SW, I think your answer/take is perfectly put. I feel completely the same way. It’s sad that fans cannot voice their opinions often times exactly like yourself in that answer on other platforms without the bands defenders ganging up on them or telling them since they have criticism of the band that there is no place for them in the fandom.

YES YES YES with all the points being made. It was mentioned on another blog once but even when certain larger BOtwt accounts decide to lead a hate mob against someone who has shared an opinion that doesn’t align 100% with theirs, the need for them to then start demanding that if your on of their followers that you now need to unfollow the person whose opinion they don’t like is so insane. I often see it from fans who their age is known and they are well into their 20’s and 30’s. Like wow such high school bully mentalities they have. It’s like they think that if the crew or band comes across their tweets going after someone who has criticized the band or something they release that they are gonna personally reach out to them and thank them for berating someone on their behalf over an opinion.

☕︎

[heaven-s-black-box]

Liyue- Dominos chpt.4

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Recovery date: March 14th, 2023

Description: Aether and Lumine take a commission in the Chasm and twelve years later Hinata Tachibana dies as a result of the unchecked activities of the Tokyo Manji gang— all it takes is one domino to tip and the world order will collapse. With three parties unknowingly playing hide and seek with the devil, can the scales be tipped by Takemichi and friends?

Notes: While the entry is corrupted I lost steam there are still partial records, and therefore the entry may yet be recovered. I found part of chapter seven, so I might be able to write more if not finish it

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Word count: 1 575

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Dain let out a long groan as he shifted while waking up, nose being tickled by something under him, and the first thing he noticed was how soft his surroundings were. He was in a real bed, and the last place he remembered being was in the underground of the Chasm. His face was squished into a pillow, and when he finally opened his eyes he found himself facing a window.

He curled his fingers, the rough sheets scratching along his body as he tried to pull himself up. It was when his arms gave out beneath him and he fell back onto his stomach that he realized his shirt was missing.

The door to the room opened with a creak, and Dain slowly turned his head; body far too heavy to move any faster.

“You’re awake,” Aether smiled. “That’s good.”

Opening his mouth, Dain found it unbearably dry and difficult to speak. Noticing his struggle, Aether helped him roll over and sit up before pouring him a cup of water from the nightstand.

“Sorry about the shirt,” he said, sitting down next to the bed, “it’s just out drying right now with your vest, Lumine said she’d stitch up the holes once they were done.”

“Tha-” Dain’s voice broke and he cleared his throat, “thank you.” He took a moment to down the glass of water before speaking again. “Did you find Paimon?”

“No, but we asked a friend to help with a search party, she sent a group of Millelith out to where we were.”

Dain nodded, looking out the window to see where they were.

“How long have I been asleep?”

“A day.”

There was a soft knock at the door and Lumine poked her head in.

“I brought food.”

She set a plate of noodles with mountain delicacies on the side table and brought the desk chair over to sit beside her brother.

Leaning forward with her elbows resting on her knees, she asked, “what happened?”

“Where am I?”

“Wangshuu Inn, now answer the question… please.”

Dain looked over at the plate, and Aether handed it to him; he gave it a quick sniff before taking a small bite. It was good, light and easy to swallow.

“I followed the footprints for a while but I lost them in a giant cavern. Someone jumped me while I was looking for a trail to pick back up and then I blacked out.”

“So someone else was out there with us?”

“So it would seem, and they were too competent to be treasure hoarders.”

“Must be Abyss if they got the drop on you,” Lumine considered, sitting back up and turning to Aether.

The three sat in silence while Dain finished his lunch, and just as he set the plate back on the side table, a loud crash came from beyond the door. Dain jumped, reaching on habit for his sword— only to spot it across the room— while the twins just stifled laughter. Faint yelling could be heard before a loud thud sounded as something hit the door.

“Grogu, no!”A stern voice called before the door creaked open and a floating metal cradle drifted in and loud stomping rushed up the stairs.

The inhabitant of the cradle, a weird green creature with beady black eyes, cooed and waved at Dain before drifting up between the twins. A man in a metal suit appeared in the doorway, visor locking on the cradle before he hung his head and sighed.

Aether smiled, scratching the creature's head while Lumine stole a blue cookie from its bassinet.

“Hey buddy,” Lumine cooed, splitting the cookie and handing half to Grogu. “You causing problems for your dad?”

“I’m not his dad,” the metal man said, cautiously stepping into the room while keeping an eye on Dain. The creature in the bassinet cooed sadly, turning to look at him.

Ignoring him, Lumine moved on to introduce them.

“Dain, this is Din, he helped us get you back here.”

“And he had this stuff called bacta spray, pretty sure that’s the only reason you didn’t bleed out.”

“And Din, this is Dain, he’s a friend of ours.”

The two shared a tense stare before nodding stiffly in acknowledgement. Even through the visor Dain could feel the scrutinizing look Din had fixed him with.

“Well, we should let you rest. I’ll bring your shirt up once I’ve stitched it up,” Lumine said, tugging Aether’s arm.

“We should be going too,” Din said, turning Grogu’s bassinet and pushing it towards the door. “We have to get that case back to our friend, can you show me how to use those blue crystals to get to the border?”

“I’ll just take you, I want to check in with the Millelith looking for Paimon anyways.” Aether turned to Dain and smiled. “Rest up, and don’t leave without saying goodbye.”

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Mikey stared at the cafe window, looking over the displays of sweet treats and their prices; considering if Draken would let him get anything. Just as he decided that a parfait wouldn’t hurt, it wasn’t even that expensive, he felt a strong hand grab the top of his head and turn him away. He let out an indignant whine as he was manhandled forward and away from the sweet heaven.

“Ken-chin, I just want a parfait!”

“No, you can have something after lunch, now we have to find the others.”

Once they’d gotten a good distance away from the cafe, Draken let go of his friend's head and let him fall back slightly.

“-But Kyouka-chan got crepes!”

The two boys stopped and turned around to see a man in a brown cap and cape pouting and pointing at the display they’d just left behind. He was complaining to an older man in a black haori and green yukata. 

They could barely hear his response of, “You have had plenty of sweets, no more until you eat something proper.”

A soft snicker left Mikey, and Draken gave him a side eye in indignation.

“That’s what you sound like,” Draken quipped, earning a glare.

“I do not.”

“You do.”

Slowly their voices grew louder as their bickering grew more intense, a few passerby rushing past in fear that a fight may break out, while the two men infront of the cafe turned around.

Ranpo tilted his head, eyes opening slightly as he took in the sight, and Fukuzawa sighed and shook his head.

“Children,” he muttered. “Ran-” He turned to the young detective and froze, realizing the young man was no longer at his side.

“Hey!” Ranpo called, waving wildly and catching the attention of the bickering boys. “Do you know any restaurants around here with good desserts?”

“Ranpo,” Fukuzawa sighed, trailing after him.

Mikey and Draken stopped, Draken winding up his fist to deck Mikey while the shorter boy wrestled his other arm, and turned towards the voice.

The detective smiled at them, hands laced behind him, and waited for an answer as they slowly realized he was talking to them.

“No idea,” Mikey shrugged, letting go of Draken’s arm as he dropped his other hand back to his side, “we’re just visiting Yokohama with some friends.”

“Aw man,” Ranpo pouted, Fukuzawa coming up behind him, he turned around, “if I eat lunch can we come back to the cafe?”

Fukuzawa nodded and the detective’s pout quickly morphed back into a grin.

“Now, if we want to eat and come back before we leave we have to get a move on.”

“Fine,” he turned back to the blonds, “well, thanks. Enjoy Yokohama.”

Ranpo gave them a half wave-half mock salute and started walking backwards before skipping off with Fukuzawa close on his heels.

“What a weird guy,” Mikey and Draken mumbled before bursting out into quiet laughter.

“Mikey! Draken!”

The two turned around and waved at their approaching friends.

“Takemichy, Chifuyu, any luck finding a boat?”

“We couldn’t find one to Liyue,” Chifuyu started, once they got closer, “but we found somewhere a bit closer-”

“So, no boat?” Draken asked, looking at Takemichi, cutting Chifuyu off.

“No boat,” Takemichi sighed.

“But if we go to Ritou we can spend another da-”

“We got a boat,” a gentle voice called, and all four boys turned towards the pier.

Emma and Hina joined up with them, arms linked loosely as they ascended the stairs from the beach; an ice cream in their opposite hands.

“You did? Great!”

“How?”

The girls exchanged a look and shrugged before Emma said, “We made a new friend and his owner is about to head to Liyue on business.”

“His what?” Chifuyu asked.

A soft chittering startled the boys, and a racoon popped up over Hina’s head. Its tail swung over her shoulder and it chittered again, making the girls laugh.

“This is Karl, we saved him from a dog,” Emma said, unlinking her arm from Hina’s and scratching the rodent’s head.

Karl climbed out of Hina’s hood and jumped across from her shoulder to Takemichi’s, making the boy freeze up as he continued across to rest in Chifuyu’s hood. Chifuyu turned his head once Karl had settled, trying to catch a glimpse of the sleeping animal, and got the rodent’s tail in his face. The other five laughed as he sputtered, trying to get the fur out of his mouth.

“Come on, Poe said we had to leave soon.”

“Right, then we should get going, it’s gonna be a long trip.”

[grandmofftarkinsuggestions]

'Zenith' by Ghost is a total Tarkin jam

@opxngravxs

(OH it totally is!)

[lilythecattt]

"To every toon here (Sprout, Cosmo, Connie, Glisten ect ect) favourite type of music? Rock, metal, jazz, the souls of the dammed, classical, pop?"

- Vocaloid Anon

[👻]: “Ooo! FINALLY I get an ask!… Sure do love some ‘Souls of the dammed’ on a good day.”

[🍫]: “Souls of the- What??”

*Ignoring them, Glisten says:

[🪞]: “I listen to a couple kinds of pop! In music, vocals matter a lot to me… So I won’t listen to it if it sounds like a dying cat.”

*Glisten says between coughs “Fukouna Girl”…

[🍫]: “I don’t think the songs that bad…”

[🪞]: “Cosmo. It’s horrid.”

*Dandy tries (and fails) to keep from laughing in the background. Sprout tries to keep from snickering, but also fails…

[👻]: “Sooo?~ Sprout, Cosmo? Gonna answer the question? :3”

[🍓]: “I don’t really have any favorites… Sometimes I listen to Rock, and a bit of Metal. Usually I just listen to whatever Cosmo-”

*Connie interrupts:

[👻]: “Lies. I’ve seen you’re Emo Playlist, Spro-”

[🍓]: “CONNIE it’s not an Emo-!!”

*Dandy laughs so hard he’s basically dying in the background—

[👻]: “ ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ is at the top of it!~”

[🍓]: “Connie…”

*Sprout stares intensely at her, but she continues:

[👻]: “ ‘Wake me up inside! I can’t wake up Wake me up inside—’ ”

*Cosmo blurts out:

[🍫]: “I like a lot of Experimental things!…”

*Connie and Sprout stare at Cosmo, while Glisten hides his face in his hands… Dandy is still struggling to breathe in the background.

[🍫]: “I also listen to some Vocaloid… Though I don’t really have a specific artist I like…”

*Slowly, Connie turns to look at Sprout…

*…Before cackling like a hyena, and rolling through the air into the other room.

*Sprout sighs.

[🍓]: “Thanks for the question, ‘Vocaloid Anon’… Hope this answered well enough.”

[👻]: “OOH! Wait! Let us know if you want us to make the other Mains or just other Toons answer your question too! Hehe!~”

(/OOC: I had way too much fun answering this… XD)

[tessiete]

Dude.. just read through your whole year-on-the-run fic (well, what’s been posted of it, excited to read the yet-to-be chapters as they drop) and it is SO good. I’m not usually one for war politics and I don’t have very much legends/legends adjacent Mandalore knowledge, but your writing held my interest in both subjects with ease. I don’t have the words right now to describe how invested I got in it and how enjoyable and emotional it was to read but I can say that I think you did an EXCELLENT job with the characterizations of the main cast. (aspec Obi gang!!!) - a secret admirer who is considering drawing something based on your writing, and also apologizes for how incoherent this might be as it is 2am and my brain shuts off at 11:30 💕

AHHH! Nony! I'm so sorry for the delay in answering this - truthfully, I wanted to reply at a reasonable hour that you might see it during, but I live at the end of the timezones and so often miss EVERYONE.

But allow me first of all, to THANK YOU!

I received this comment while I was at work, and I must have read it a hundred times while I was meant to be serving customers. No regrets!

And also, let me say how relieved I am to hear everything you commented on! I'm not obsessively into Mando-Lore, and my Legends knowledge is selective (some of these comics are SO hard to find, now!), but my ultimate goal is not to stick religiously to either legends or canon, but to smooth out the wrinkles between them to make something believably compliant with both!

To that end, I'm doing my best to make all the information accessible, and relevant to the plot. I try not to drop too much, too fast, or overcomplicate things. The handy thing is that the Jedi - particularly Obi-Wan - has no idea what's going on, so if I need some exposition he just pipes up with a question!

The other stuff I like to hint at, and then save for bombshells later (Galidraan and it's ties to Dooku being the first, but keep an eye on Melida/Daan!), which I hope helps to mitigate the feeling of being in the dark. I really want this to be something that *anyone* with basic SW knowledge can read and love.

Mixed, of course, with enemies to lovers, and UNREASONABLE HEAPS of hopeless pining! But that's par for the course.

Truly, thank you SO much for assuaging so many of my fears, and being so kind in your compliments. Really, truly made my week!

AND THEN TO SAY THAT IT HAS INSPIRED YOU CREATIVELY AS WELL?! Well, that's just...that's just incredible. Seriously, I don't know what to say except thank you, and I'm happy I could incite such joy in you. Anything you create, I'd love to see! <3

And thank you for taking the time to reach out and talk to me!

[vibecenter13]

16, 18 and 23 for the sw ask game! <3 (also ur welcome this was rly fun to make lol)

16. you had to be stuck in an elevator for 3 hours with one of the characters, who would you choose?

Probably either Fen, or Armilly. Fen(either Dig or Heist) because it’d be awesome to talk about chaos & to just hear stories about Dot, and Armilly because I feel our energy levels are very much the same so we’d both be screaming about something

18. should orik tits out tuesday be a thing? (only one correct answer)

the right answer is Yes. Orik Tits Out Tuesday Should 100% be A Thing

23. Do you have a steamworld oc? tell us about them! you can talk about as many ocs as you’d like

looks at my three heist ocs OKAY SO

First off is Krona. My beloved Krona Copperpots, Royalist Scientist who joins the main crew! She specialized in studying Vectron, specifically the prisoner the Royalists had. She’s also. going to be best buddies with Fen, the two have a rocky relationship @ first b/c they are Vectron tech. She has a glitch, she’s a nervous little bitch, and I adore her with all of my heart!! Idk if I’ve ever put art of her here. If I haven’t I will do that later.

Second, Gem Pistonson! I just introduced her in my fic, and Krona is. the big gaytm for her. Gem’s a Royalist soldier, and she’s. Kinda dense, but hey that makes her just as loveable. She’s bold, Very friendly, and of course she is. Taller than Krona. (Her and Krona may have been. Yknow. roomates). I’m still working out some things about Gem, but she’s a big dummy with a big heart and I also adore her.

And finally! Jett, my scrapper girl! I really don’t have much about her, but I can confidently say that her playlist is mostly folk punk songs, if that gives you anything about her vibes. She is the epitome of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. I want her to have her own little gang of scrappers that she runs, and her own little part of the outskirts. She is a rude bitch and I adore her so much. I am also. Looking to make more ocs, I have a dig one and maybe a quest one n the works!

[grim-on-the-darkside]

The Latest Information on Lucas’s Sequel Trilogy he wrote in 2011. Also some information from  Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III: 1999–2005, author Paul Duncan interviewed George Lucas his ideas of a Sequel Trilogy.

Firstly, some of the things Pablo Hidalgo has stated about Lucas’s sequel trilogy that he has access to and spoke to Lucas directly about.

We know Lucas never considered the EU canon or a part of his Star Wars universe so it is not surprising his Sequel Trilogy was of his own creation.

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"Fast forward to 2012, when we hear George is looking to make SW movies again, I though I thought 'I wonder what next Mon Calamari's gonna be. And it turns out, the Mon Calamari this time was huge swaths of the EU. There was no Jacen, no Jaina. No new Jedi Order. Chewie lived. Not surprising, but there it was."

~ Pablo Hidalgo, 2016               

https://ibb.co/nmjWcBM

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[Regarding Lucas Sequel Trilogy Treatments he wrote in 2011 and sold to Disney]

Comment - "What are you talking about? J.J. threw out His story treatments and he [George Lucas] has no imput at all anymore."

Pablo Hidalgo Response - "Not entirely true. But the treatments as they were pretty much disregarded the EU, which was to be expected.”

~ 2018

https://ibb.co/Dz7qhTB

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Commentor - 'Thank You for the clarification, might I ask if you ever recieved any direction that George Lucas with the number of children the Solos had as depicted in the EU?'

Pablo Hidalgo - "All I meant is his starting point for this Trilogy didn't have Jacen, Jaina, and/or Anakin."

Commentor - 'Was there Ben Skywalker?'

Pablo Hidalgo - "There was not."

https://ibb.co/JH2Y8tg

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Question -  "My question is, *what did George's treatments for 7 look like? I would love to see if they fit the EU."

Answer [Pablo Hidalgo]- "They did not. For instance, there was no Jaina, Jacen, or Anakin."  ~ 2017                                                                       

https://ibb.co/N7HKCsF

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Pablo Hidalgo - "Jacen and Jaina never existed in George's storytelling, even in treatment form."

Comment Response - "And about Mara Jade?"

Pablo Hidalgo - "No. George never thought of Mara as being part of his universe either."

~ 2016 https://ibb.co/YLHk6Ft

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From Star Wars Insider

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"There was no Ben Skywalker in George's Universe. He came from the NJO team." ~ Pablo Hidalgo 2016

https://ibb.co/HDtXh6D

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"Question from Today, but I thought this was pretty well known. George Lucas never considered Jacen, Jaina, or Mara Jade as part of his universe."

~ Pablo Hidalgo May 2016 https://ibb.co/VDX2qvY

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"But anyway Luke in exile predates TLJ by a long time and came from someone who can very happily and rightly supersede anyone's feedback :)"

~ Pablo Hidalgo https://ibb.co/sKZnWKk

[Luke was in something of a self imposed exile on an Island in Lucas Sequel Trilogy which is something that Disney ripped off from Lucas’s Sequel Trilogy. Pablo is referring to Lucas in this quote.]

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"Luke was training a new generation of Jedi, it all went wrong because of 1 boy, and he's the 'Jedi killer' - that's the source.”

~ Pablo Hidalgo, 2016 https://ibb.co/JjYtGtf

[The source being George Lucas sequel trilogy treatments he made in 2011 and ended up selling to Disney later. Something else Disney ripped off from Lucas’s Sequel trilogy.] ..

Pablo Hidalgo -   "George's starting point for 7 had no Jaina, Jacen, Anakin and Chewie never died. So yeah."

[Reply] - "Could we please send this to every EU purist we know?"

[Other replyer] "They wont care."

[First Replyer] "They will after what Hidalgo just said after this."

[Pablo Hidalgo] - "No, they won't. You can't correct the internet.The info's out there. They've made up their minds."

https://ibb.co/mXGX0Qn

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Pablo Hidalgo - "But there was no sequel trilogy at that time."

Commenter 1 -

'Also, Lucas' Treatment of EP VII did not have the twins born in the Thrawn Trilogy'.

Pablo Hidalgo - "It didn't have twins."

Commenter 2 -

'You're referring to the treatment Lucas sold Disney in 2012. I guess plans changed.'

Pablo Hidalgo - "Or were defined. Jacen and Jaina were never part of George's story. They were Tim's [Zahn] invention."

~ Pablo Hidalgo Q&A

https://ibb.co/VQ5Zrr0

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Here’s what George said about them during an interview with James Cameron for his The Story of Science Fiction project.

“Back in the day, I used to say ultimately what this means is we’re just cars, vehicles, for the Whills to travel around in…. We’re vessels for them. And the conduit is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones that communicate with the Whills. The Whills, in a general sense, they are the Force.

All the way back to — with the Jedi and the Force and everything — the whole concept of how things happen was laid out completely from [the beginning] to the end. But I never got to finish. I never got to tell people about it.

If I’d held onto the company I could have done it, and then it would have been done. Of course, a lot of the fans would have hated it, just like they did Phantom Menace and everything, but at least the whole story from beginning to end would be told.”

~ George Lucas

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/george-lucas-episode-vii-episode-ix-1201974276/

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As part of the book Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III: 1999–2005, author Paul Duncan interviewed George Lucas. During this interview, George talked more about his plans for the sequel trilogy.

Paul Duncan: What about the stormtroopers? They look robotic, but they’re not.

George Lucas: How do you know what they are?

Paul Duncan: Did you have a different idea of what they were?

George Lucas: Yeah, they started out as clones. Once all the clones were killed, the Empire picked up recruits, like militia. They fought, but they weren’t very good at what they did.

Paul Duncan: That’s why they kept missing.

George Lucas: That’s why they kept missing. Then after the Rebels won, there were no more stormtroopers in my version of the third trilogy.

I had planned for the first trilogy to be about the father, the second trilogy to be about the son, and the third trilogy to be about the daughter and the grandchildren. [There was only one, Ben Solo, another Disney rip off.]

Episode VII, VIII, and IX would take ideas from what happened after the Iraq War. “Okay, you fought the war, you killed everybody, now what are you going to do?” Rebuilding afterwards is harder than starting a rebellion or fighting the war. When you win the war and you disband the opposing army, what do they do? The stormtroopers would be like Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist fighters that joined ISIS and kept on fighting. The stormtroopers refuse to give up when the Republic win.

They want to be stormtroopers forever, so they go to a far corner of the galaxy, start their own country and their own rebellion.

There’s a power vacuum so gangsters, like the Hutts, are taking advantage of the situation, and there is chaos. The key person is Darth Maul, who had been resurrected in The Clone Wars cartoons — he brings all the gangs together.

Paul Duncan: Was Darth Maul the main villain?

George Lucas: Yeah, but he’s very old, and we have two versions of him. One is with a set of cybernetic legs like a spider, and then later on he has metal legs and he was a little bit bigger, more of a superhero. We did all this in the animated series, he was in a bunch of episodes.

Darth Maul trained a girl, Darth Talon [The only thing from the EU in Lucas’s Trilogy, but it wasn’t even really her, just had the same look and name, completely different background. She wasn’t even born yet at that time frame in the comics]., who was in the comic books as his apprentice. She was the new Darth Vader, and most of the action was with her. So these were the two main villains of the trilogy. Maul eventually becomes the godfather of crime in the universe because, as the Empire falls, he takes over.

The movies are about how Leia — I mean, who else is going to be the leader? — is trying to build the Republic. They still have the apparatus of the Republic but they have to get it under control from the gangsters. That was the main story.

It starts out a few years after Return of the Jedi and we establish pretty quickly that there’s this underworld, there are these offshoot stormtroopers who started their own planets, and that Luke is trying to restart the Jedi. He puts the word out, so out of 100,000 Jedi, maybe 50 or 100 are left. The Jedi have to grow again from scratch, so Luke has to find two- and three-year-olds, and train them. It’ll be 20 years before you have a new generation of Jedi.

By the end of the trilogy Luke would have rebuilt much of the Jedi, and we would have the renewal of the New Republic, with Leia, Senator Organa, becoming the Supreme Chancellor in charge of everything. So she ended up being the Chosen One.”

George also expanded on Midi-chlorians:

“This is the cosmology. The Force is the energy, the fuel, and without it everything would fall apart. The Force is a metaphor for God, and God is essentially unknowable. But behind it is another metaphor, which fits so well into the movie that I couldn’t resist it.

Midi-chlorians are the equivalent of mitochondria in living organisms and photosynthesis in plants — I simply combined them for easier consumption by the viewer. Mitochondria create the chemical energy that turns one cell into two cells.

I like to think that there is a unified reality to life and that it exists everywhere in the universe and that it controls things, but you can also control it. That’s why I split it into the Personal Force and the Cosmic Force. The Personal Force is the energy field created by our cells interacting and doing things while we are alive. When we die, we lose our persona and our energy is assimilated into the Cosmic Force.

If we have enough Midi-chlorians in our body, we can have a certain amount of control over our Personal Force and learn how to use it, like the Buddhist practive of being able to walk on hot coals.”

And the Whills:

“The Whills are a microscopic, single-celled lifeform like amoeba, fungi, and bacteria. There’s something like 100,000 times more Whills than there are Midi-chlorians, and there are about 10,000 times more Midi-chlorians than there are human cells.

The only microscopic entities that can go into the human cells are the Midi-chlorians. They are born in the cells. The Midi-chlorians provide the energy for human cells to split and create life. The Whills are single-celled animals that feed on the Force. The more of the Force there is, the better off they are. So they have a very intense symbiotic relationship with the Midi-chlorians and the Midi-chlorians effectively work for the Whills.

It is estimated that we have 100 trillion microbes in our body and we are made up of about 90% bacteria and 10% human cells. So who is in service to whom? I know this is the kind of thing that fans just go berserk over because they say, “We want it to be mysterious and magical”, and “You’re just doing science.” Well, this isn’t science.

This is just as mythological as anything else in Star Wars. It sounds more scientific, but it’s a fiction.

It’s saying there is a big symbiotic relationship to create life, and to create the Force, but if you look at all the life-forms in the universe, most of them are one-celled organisms. I think of one-celled organisms as an advanced form of life because they’ve been able to travel through the universe. They have their own spaceships — those meteorites that we get every once in a while. They’ve been living on those things for thousands of years, they’ve been frozen, unfrozen, and can survive almost anything.

The one-celled organisms have to have a balance. You have to have good ones and bad ones otherwise it would extinguish life. And if they go out of balance, the dark side takes over.”

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Obviously there is the older information that’s already been out there, I just wanted to share some of the newer information that has come to light. I’m sure in time we will learn more.

[myevilmouse]

Hi, how long have you been in the SW fandom? How did you get into it?

Thank you so much for this ask anon!  I love asks, even those that reveal that I am a fandom ancient, like this one.

Although I was unable to see Star Wars at the movies in 1977, my entire family was pretty obsessed when it came out.  My brother had all the action figures and comics, and my mother was the world’s biggest Han Solo fan. 

We played with blasters and Kenner playsets and invented all kinds of great adventures for Luke and the gang.  So I was a fan of Star Wars even before I saw the movie!  I had the long-playing storybook record and the picture books, a couple action figures of my own, promotional tie in items from fast food chains, whatever I could get.  

And then…Empire came out and that solidified my love of the franchise and characters.  We went as a family to see Empire in the theatre…which you can read about here.  And then Return of the Jedi was released, which just was the perfect ending to a perfect fairy tale for me.  And I think Luke Skywalker’s legs kickstarted my puberty, too. 

Luke was always my favorite—although my mom claiming Harrison Ford as her own may have influenced the choice, I’m pretty sure I would have picked the Jedi regardless.  I’ve always been a sucker for blond boys in black.

So anyway, Star Wars was a real Thing in my family, growing up.  Going back at least to 1980, for me personally.  When VHS became a thing, we got those movies and it was a Thanksgiving weekend tradition to watch them all.  We were all crazy fans, quoting lines and devouring the EU/Legends books when they started coming out.  I was just saying to some friends today that my mom read Heir To The Empire before I did—she had dibs and then the kids could read.

I stuck with the EU novels for a long time…but lost interest as the adventures got weirder and less focused on my man…but everything Star Wars imparted joy for me.

TL;DR my love of Star Wars has basically been with me my entire life.  In college, I wallpapered my dorm room with printed out copies of the scripts.  Star Wars was my comfort food, something I could turn to when whatever else I was currently obsessing over lost its appeal. 

So to your question re: fandom...I wasn’t really active in “fandom” because fandom as we know it today wasn’t a thing…people were waiting 10 minutes for one picture to load Netscape and reading fic on usenet back in those days.  There weren’t the same outlets as there are now…

Fast forward past the Special Edition rereleases (I disapprove of every single change, for the record), the prequels (yes I was at every single midnight release), the Disney purchase and subsequent annulment of the EU, and then the sequels (only TFA midnight for me that time), although I saw them all in the cinema.  And learned the true meaning of this wonderful gif by @jadedjo

So...

I started to care less about Star Wars when it became clear that the stories that were “my sequels” wouldn’t be “real sequels” for Disney, but what yanked me into fandom as I am now was my friend who was writing Rogue One fanfiction was getting harassed and flamed by people who seemed to think it was their job to police content on AO3.  I hadn’t ever even heard of AO3 but I was pissed.  Fanfic is for fun and everyone should write what they want to write!  I don’t have to like it, but I will defend anyone’s right to write whatever crazy hijinks they want Luke to get up to!  So I decided to check out this website called AO3, defend my buddy, and then I got sucked in.  I looked at everything like...nah, there can’t really be Predator/human porn (there is and some of it is ... not awful), and omg seriously Leia/Chewbacca!??  I read Sherlock and GoT and Labyrinth and all kinds of fic, I read stories by super talented writers and ultimately was convinced to write something myself. 

I had always liked writing, and now I could just indulge.  It became my primary hobby and crowded out all else...  That was back in … 2018.  I got on tumblr in 2019 and I’m still here, hanging out, sharing the Luke smut and Thrawn lust with y’all.

Thank you so much for the ask anon!  I’m happy to be in this fandom with so many wonderful people!!!  I hope I answered that question and sorry I got a little long on ya.  Just remember...

[steepedwonders]

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SW, I think your answer/take is perfectly put. I feel completely the same way. It’s sad that fans cannot voice their opinions often times exactly like yourself in that answer on other platforms without the bands defenders ganging up on them or telling them since they have criticism of the band that there is no place for them in the fandom.

Exactly. I don't see any reason why fans can't express dissatisfaction for something the band does. It's not the end of the world, and I'm sure they'll be fine with a little criticism.