#or Poe

[soysaucevictim]

And now I'm zoning out.

Kinda want to write again. But I'm gonna reserve some energy for Horrorfest stuff, whenever they get everyone pairing up.

Debating on writing something short for the Gymrat!AU (probably some QPP Analogical... probably.)

Even though there's a part of me going. Take. This. Break. Don't go burning yourself out.

Hmmm...

[mournfulroses]

Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

[bethsvrse]

me staring at my ceiling after y/n does the most FLABBERGASTING thing ever

[assiraphales]

reylo was probably THE worst thing to happen to star wars. just had to drool over a genocidal 6 and help encourage the derailing of an entire trilogy. no luke skywalker shouldn’t have killed him bc it would have gone against his morals but he should have phoned a friend

[lunarriviera]

for a long time i lived alone, but then i got a service dog. after a lot of training, the service dog came to live with me—except, the same day the trainers brought quincy, an orange tabby tomcat also showed up.

"you didn't tell us you had a cat!" said the trainers, both very upset (because they hadn't trained quincy to live with a cat).

"i don't have a cat," i said. "I don't know who this is."

the cat never went away. i named him poe dameron and he lived with me and quincy. they got along fine, in their own way.

we had our quiet adventures. poe was very cuddly but sometimes he just took off for a day or two. once he got into some paint.

after a while, i found out that poe dameron really lived across the alleyway, and belonged to my neighbor elizabeth's teenaged son, and his real name was PUMPKIN. but poe apparently didn't like the teenaged son (probably not least because he named him PUMPKIN), so he had come to live with us instead. elizabeth was fine with it.

the years went by and one day poe dameron crossed the rainbow bridge too soon. i took his ashes to elizabeth. we were very sad.

a few weeks later, she asked me to come over to see something.

it turned out that poe dameron had also lived with a THIRD lady, a few streets over. this lady, whom neither of us knew, was a painter, and she had made this painting of poe dameron. i don't know what she called him, but she painted him like one of your french girls.

"i think you should have it," elizabeth said, tactfully. "after all, he spent the most time with you." i was quite sure she just didn't want this hideous painting in her gabillion-dollar house, but i agreed.

the painting now hangs in the kitchen over my stove—not least because its brick-red frame matches my curtains. and because it delights me to see poe dameron every day, looking so fluffy and sultry, like an orientalist renaissance odalisque.

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

[imposterparrotgrass]

I love Star Wars, I have no choice, I spent too much time with it as a small child not to love it, and some of it is really really good but also some of it is bad. The original tirilagy is mostly good, the prequels have good ideas in them, and the Sequal tirilagy is just close enough to being good that it torments me and makes me wish it could have just been bad and I wouldn’t be cursed to still be tormented by it 5 years later.

And in like, a normal fandom, I feel like I would be able to turn to fanfic, and confindatly be able to find at lest one or two fix fics by people who understand the themes and heart of the story better then the most recent installments, who made at lest the bones of a better version of it, but I feel like that is a lot harder with Star Wars.

Star Wars is TOO big. Not just too popular, not just that there’s too much source material, but all of it is diverse. There are expanded universe novels, games, comics, ect. that not only encompasses many many different tones and genres, but many different themes. There is military Sci Fi that is both about the horrors and cost of war, and justifying preventive military action. There are Force destiney quest stories about how connections can be harmful, about about how the detachment preached by the Jedi is wrong. For every Star Wars story that takes a firm thematic stance on something, there’s another then takes the opposite.

And for this reason, even though “the Sequel trilogy was very disappointing” is a super common stance to take, most people disagree on what its failure was. Did it slander the original trilogy characters? Did it focus on them too much? Was Finn done dirty more by Last Jedi, or Rise of Skywalker? Did it not focus enough on galactic politics and military sci fi numbers games? Did those distract us from the real character stuff?

And I know what I’m looking for is out there, I know there are more then enough Star Wars fans for very many of them to have had the same grievances as me, and that at lest a few of them have written the type of fox fic I want. But I also know that to get to it, I would likely need to wad though a butch who’s primary complaint is “it’s not New Jedi Order from the eraly 2000’s” and “it should have been all about the original trilogy characters” and of course, “too much woke.”

As always, the problem with talking about Star Wars, is that so few people have the same Star Wars in their hearts as anyone else. And there is something beautiful about that, but it makes finding fic hard.

[stealingpotatoes]

doodle for my friend who put himself through rewatching TROS

[aphrcdites]

the bond between a girl and their favorite fictional man is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object

[l0caltiredgirl]

when i want fluff/angst fics and all i’m getting is smut

the struggle is real

[jk-bees]

Telltale Heart valentine

[ID: Animated gif of a pop up card. A man sits at a table with his head in his hand, glaring down at the floorboards. As the card's pull tab is pulled the floorboards open and close reveling a heart underneath. Text above the scene reads "Thinking of You"]

[good-darks]

POE POE RUN A YARNABY PULLING OWNER! 🙀

[ottiscloud]

Do you ever cry because of a book?

[thesmallestmango]

The Horseman of Death

[theinternetarchive]

'the flying raven' lithograph, ex libris for 'the raven' by edgar allan poe, 1875.