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Happy 25th birthday to The Phantom Menace and to me!

I started this blog in 2015, when I started liking Star Wars (because of…the Star Tours ride, for some reason). I was welcomed in by the Luke Skywalker Thirst Squad (and then I betrayed them for Kylo whoops lol). The 2016-2018 Star Wars fandom was such an iconic moment (Anakin Eats Live Bugs, Star Wars Bad Lip Reading, the SNL Kylo skit, Hux’s cat…if you know you know) and I loved suffering through the sequel trilogy with you guys, and I humbly submit to my Reylo overlords as long as they let me keep making my Ben/Rey sibling/cousin AUs. And thank you to everyone who survived teenagerhood alongside me and Ben Solo—we made it fam. :)

Since I revived my Tumblr in late March of this year, three years out of college and newly married, most of the mutuals I knew have faded away (@threadsketchier where are youuu)…but I’ve gotten to meet new friends here, and you know who you are! :D It’s been especially cool to discover the Star Wars/Jesus fandom crossover (as @avercado5 puts it lol—and this also includes you @seeking-elsewhither , the biggest Star Wars fan I know who’s never seen Star Wars XD) And I’m so touched that there are still people down to follow Ask Ben Solo after eight whole years. Lol

I’m thankful to God for bringing me this far in life. Y’all know I’ve been going back into the history of my blog and chuckling at the silly young lady I was. That Adam Driver thirst post from when I was 17 was something indeed. And then there was all the random humblebragging about having poor mental health, which used to leak into my ask blog too. (One time I got some feedback that was like “Hey…can Ben just be happy for like five seconds?” And honestly…valid.) I spent a lot of ages 13-24 being unhappy (some of that was self-inflicted for sure), but recently, things have been pretty good. I know the promise of God isn’t that now I’m out of the woods and life is always gonna be super great now; I know that bigger storms (that He will help me weather) are in my future; but for now, I’m thankful for this happy little reprieve with my handsome husband and my silly little fanfics and my galactic-conflict-enjoyer internet friends. :)

Thank you guys! <3

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@threadsketchier replied to your post:

To add to the awkwardness, there's yet another deleted scene from ROTJ - the sandstorm scene - where Luke this time initiates kissing Leia goodbye.  Which, to me, actually indicates something significant.  (This might take a couple of replies.)

By ROTJ, Luke is 100% clear on where Leia's feelings stand.  He knows it's Han she truly loves.  Yet he openly and brazenly kisses Leia right in front of him.  This leads me to think that there are degrees to this kind of act between them.

Meaning, when their sibling relationship was still subconscious, drawing them together in a way where they still didn't fully understand what their actual connection was, they could easily mistake that attraction as sexual - but gestures such as kissing could also be nothing more than signs of affection, similar to a hug.  I don't really see romance in the quick kiss she gives him while nursing his wounds on the Falcon.

It might be bizarre to some, but it's tied in to the way that Leia, an otherwise closed-off person starting in ANH, was oddly affectionate and touchy-feely with Luke immediately after meeting him.  I think before they became aware they were siblings, they did cross a point where love triangle feelings between them did fade into this vague platonic-but-still-intimately-affectionate relationship that existed in a murky gray area.  All of that to say...

...it would have made zero sense for Luke to kiss Leia smack dab in front of Han right after the Jabba rescue.  :p  (I know in-universe it was supposed to foreshadow Han's insecurity later in the film - "You could tell Luke, is that who you could tell?!" - but even so, that would have been a really tasteless gesture on Luke's part, who is obviously sensitive to his friends' feelings.

TL;DR, there's no getting around the incestuous awkwardness around Luke and Leia, it's true, but I think there are times when they kiss and it's not really a sexual/romantic gesture but more a sign that they love each other in a deeply bonded way that they were comfortable doing before they realized they were siblings and then it would be inappropriate.

Oooh this is great commentary—exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to hear! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts!! I completely agree with you on all of this. 

Honestly, I think the biggest challenge now will just be editing my story so that all these nuances are somehow portrayed (at least as much as they need to be)!

P.S. Holy crap, I don’t remember that particular Luke/Leia kiss in the sandstorm scene. I’ll have to go back and watch it again. I’m gonna say right now that that’s probably not going to end up in my personal canon! 😬

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Thanks y’all!!! :D

also i’m super obsessed with my nails right now so extra thanks for that call out :D :D for the record it’s OPI - Suzi and the 7 Dusseldorfs. 

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LOL, IIRC I think the #cleft chins cyborg hands & psychotic rage tag originally came from anghraine way back in the day. I'm just a sponge who absorbs & preserves iconic tags, my actual wit could never

Looool nevertheless I still love the tags you leave under a lot of posts. They are so much fun to read!! and yes they are pretty iconic™ Don’t underestimate yourself, you’re probably much more wity than I could ever hope to be :P 

[fialleril]

Replies to ‘Flowers for the Emperor’

So I’m hideously behind on my replies. (Seriously. So far behind that the folks I’m replying to probably don’t even remember what they said, lol.) But dang it, I’m getting them done! Eventually.

I’m gonna do a post for each fic I owe people replies to, so I don’t spam people.

Here’s the replies for the last DAV fic, Flowers for the Emperor.

@w3-4r3-th3-f1r3 said

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH OH MY GOD GUYS GUYS THE FLOWERS OH MY GOD

OHHHH MY GOD I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE WHOLE FLOWER LANGUAGE BEING WRAPPED UP IN FOLK HISTORY SO MUCH

AND THAT POOJA COULD RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE SHZ KNEW THE STORIES THATS SOMETHING THAT MAKZS MY RESEARCH-HAPPY HEART FUCKING SOAR I SWEAR TO GODDDDD

and Leia’s line, “and we’ll have flowers”.. I PUNCHED THE AIR SO HARD I HURT MY ELBOW BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I HEAR HER SAY THAT CLZAR AS DAY IN MY HEAR. AND IT WAS GLORIOUS

Thank you! :) Apparently the moral of this story (and arguably the entire DAV universe) is that it pays to be a nerd. The revolution is fought (and won) with folk tales and poetry and flowers.

@threadsketchier said

  #I HAVE NEVER HIT REBLOG SO HARD IN MY LIFE    #i'm so thirsty for naberrie family fics  #& my thirst is slaked  #night: made  #crack!fic goals  #majestic    #*flaming elmo gif*  #it's ok that we're still not at bespin   #because we get more quality content like this   #the family that slays together  #say it with flowers  #that may be my new tag for this lol  #lastly  #YAAAASSSSSSSSSS

Ha ha thanks. :) This fic basically turned into a vehicle for all my Naberrie headcanons, with a side of double agent Vader shenanigans, so I’m glad you enjoyed that.

Also “say it with flowers” sounds like a catchy advertising slogan and now I’m picturing Darth Vader doing TV ads, so thanks for that.

@miriannemiri said

fabulous!  absolutely fabulous!  the way he told her to get out was fabulous  and just all the inside jokes possible with this  and the way he almost tested her the first time!  Also   as someone who used flower language in literary analysis while getting my master's   this just tickles me   fabulous addition 

Oh my goodness, I’m delighted to get a seal of approval from somebody who actually knows flower language!

I imagine the scene just after the end of the fic is Pooja telling Ryoo all about the different bouquets, and Ryoo cracking up laughing at each one.

@themoosejthm said

#A NEW FIC  #AND IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD  #READ THE THING  #ALSO THAT FAM REUNION IS GOING TO BE AWKWARD AS FUCK  #we also see more of Anakin being an awkward duck and just...swanning away from conversations midway through them  #the language of flowers on naboo is also a thing of beauty  #also it was really beautiful how present Padme was in this piece even though she's been dead for years  #just...FIA AT IT AGAIN WITH THE GOOD FIC   

Yessss, I’m so glad people are commenting on awkward turtleduck Anakin. He’s so awkward, but he gets away with it because people are so terrified that they think he’s being intimidating, when in fact he just...doesn’t know how to end a conversation.

Padme keeps popping up in dreams and memories because the idea of writing a story without her in it at all is just too terrible to contemplate.

@stereden said

#when someone who married into your culture knows your flower language better than you Palpatine it may be time to admit that you're an idiot #can I just say how much I adore the idea of Ekkreth basically telling Palpatine TO HISFACE that he's acting against him and will kill him #FOR PADME #and using Padme's culture to do so #imagine Anakin and Padme spending time together and Padme teaching him about Naboo and her traditions #and Anakin tells her stories of Tatooine #because for all that he hates the planet and what it represents #he learned a lot there #and in his darkest hours it's those lessons he remembers and uses to free himself #one story at a time #one bouquet at a time 

Thank you for these lovely tags!

Palpatine is a Serious Galactic Political Force, the inane superstitions and provincial traditions of villagers and slaves do not concern him.

By the time Pooja sees her first bouquet, Anakin’s been sending them for several years already and got his delivery down to a science, but I think the first time he sent the flowers he actually thought that Palpatine would be able to read them, and he fully expected his Master to take his anger out on him, even if he didn’t suspect Vader as the sender. Anakin was just too depressed to care. But then to his surprise it turned out that Palpatine couldn’t read the secret language of his own people (which, to an Anakin who’s now thinking largely in Tatooine terms, is practically a moral judgment itself). And once he knew he could get away with it, he got really into it.

Both Pooja and Anakin think of the bouquets as Padme’s flowers, though for different reasons.

kiralamouse said

Y’all, if you aren’t reading Double Agent Vader, you’re missing out. It’s fractally beautiful, the little details mirroring the big picture mirroring the middle-ground means, that injustice must be shattered (and shall be, by the reassembled broken bits reforged into immutable objects). Also, secret admirer flowers being secret death threats. Details.

#best au  #incidentally thanks fia for the fact that i can no longer not see your religious worldbuilding in canon  #no seriously thanks  #this fills the hole so perfectly that canon has yet to contradict

Thank you so much for this really beautiful image, wow. I’m flustered.

Also delighted that you like the Tatooine culture. :)

@thecookiemonster77 said

#!!!!!!!!!! #EEEEEEEEE DAV UPDATE!!!!! :DDDDDDD #IM YELL #I love ani what a nerd #*enters conversation* *doesn't know what to do* #*scuttles away* #same ani #same #but also!!!!!!! padmes family!!!!!! pooja!!!!!!!!!!!! #and flower fic!!!!!! #I'm so excited the hate bouquets became an official part of this installment omg #ani u nerd #I'm just. so in love w how they throw their disdain in palatines face #literally #like???? I just love their resistance and how they take whatever humor they can get #and!!!!!! using tales and flowers for rebellion!!!!!!!!!!! #dex as a part of the rebellion!!!!!!!!! #ITS WONDERFUL 

:D I’m so glad people enjoyed awkward!Vader because honestly, he’s so much fun. A giant terrifying nerd. Someday in the future, once a lot of things have come out, Pooja is going to tease him so hard about this.

There’s an old saying that the thing that infuriates the Devil most is being laughed at. I feel like that’s true for Palpatine, as well. Of course, right now he doesn’t realize he’s being laughed at, but there’s a certain satisfaction in that, too. And it keeps people going. Laughter is important for a rebellion.

Also I am literally incapable of not name-dropping Dex at some point in my AUs, so the biggest surprise here is that he took so long to show up.

@fairandfatalasfair said

This was fantastic.

I love the parallel between Ryoo’s research and the traditional stories of Naboo, ignored because how could romantic poetry be relevant? and the insignificant folk stories that inspired Anakin’s change of alleigance.

I love the awkward conversation between Pooja and Anakin, and her complete unpreparedness for being questioned on the floral arrangements by the emperor’s right hand. (I’m not totally sure whether he’s reminding her not to give away the joke, or just checking whether she shared her aunt’s interest in flower language, or something else entirely, but regardless it’s a delightful exchange.)

I love the flower Pooja leaves behind - a last message for the emperor. It’s so in keeping with the rest of what we see of her in this, very different in tone from the gloating, personal hatred of Vader’s bouquets. That principled declaration of unflinching intent to see democracy victorious, hidden in something fragile and beautiful and insignificant, is exactly what she’s been doing here all along. And Palpatine will never know.

#Stories are important

#And everyone knows this except Palpatine

#I'm not even going to go into the dramatic irony because at this point that's just the defining reality of the AU

#But it's still simultaneously delightful and also killing me

#because Pooja's like inches from putting together who sent the flowers and misses it because it just seems too implausible

#okay maybe I'm going into it a little bit

#anyway beautiful story

Thank you for such an epic comment!

This entire AU is not so secretly centered around the power of stories to inspire and create resistance, so I’m glad people are enjoying that. :)

Also I imagine that to someone like Palpatine, things like flower language and folk tales and poetry are all considered childish and feminine, and therefore unimportant. So there’s a double sense of enjoyment in seeing those things lead to his downfall.

Anakin originally approached Pooja in that awkward exchange because he wanted to see if she really understood the meaning of the flowers - and if that meant he actually had an audience for them now. (Anakin’s a little bit of a showboat, tbh, and he hasn’t really been able to exercise that tendency in a long time. Sending messages to Palpatine that the Emperor can’t understand is satisfying, in its way, but it’s much more satisfying to known someone else does understand.)

Only once he’s confirmed that yes, she definitely can read the message, he has no idea how to end the conversation. So he just kind of...leaves. Like the awkward duck he is.

I’m glad you like Pooja’s flower at the end. :) And the important difference, ultimately, between her (and Leia) and Anakin. Anakin’s doing this in some sense for Padme - she loved the Republic so he’ll fight to bring it back - but ultimately, he still doesn’t really believe in the ideal of the Republic, and democracy is still a pretty meaningless concept to him. He’s out for a personal revenge, and he is actually invested in the Tatooine revolution, but the Rebellion as an organization is a lot more abstract to him.

Pooja, though, is really Padme’s ideological heir, even if she’s crafted her public image to be Padme’s opposite. She is fighting for democracy, for a core set of principles, for the ideal of the Republic she genuinely hopes to create.

@astudyinimagination said

#dammit uncle ani pls talk to your niece like a normal person#honestly when everything finally comes out this is going to be the most awkward family reunion in history#in other news#yes that is a washington post reference#i couldn’t resist#and of course the naboo have multiple flowers representing democracy#of course they do#the lyane rose is the flower padme’s parade dress in tpm is made to look like#also i’m continuing my one person campaign to write fema baab as a master spy#in all universes apparently#and finally it’s possible the bits with mon mothma at the end#conflict in minor ways with rogue one

Well, for starters, this is an AU so if anybody minds that it conflicts with Rogue One, that’s just… silly. (And I adored the movie and I ain’t bothered. ;) )

YES ANAKIN TALK TO YOUR NIECE AND DON’T BE SO RUDE. PADME IS PROBABLY FACEPALMING. HONESTLY, ANAKIN.

And what I probably should have started this sort-of review with is that I’m SO GLAD that one tumblr post snowballed into something that made you want to write something as glorious as this. Thank you so much for actually doing it!

AND POOJA IS SO AMAZING. I just… I love the potential of Padme’s nieces as characters. I bet they were amazing. <3 And I love the way you flesh out the Naberries. *gives them all some much-needed hugs*

Oh yes, and the way that this fic is predominantly female characters is lovely. That’s always a plus. :) (Mon Mothma was great. I loved her. And she’s totally enjoying the knowledge that Darth Vader sent an important message through flowers. :D )

I love Pooja’s assessment that Palpatine had never forgiven Padme for being a better person and not being as ambitious as he was. That’s great. :D

I love Leia and Pooja being friends (oh my gosh, they’re cousins and they don’t even know it and cousins who are good friends is a thing I love). And Leia being so gleeful about her bestie’s symbolic shenanigans is wonderful. (I just… it’s odd, maybe, but I just feel like Leia and Anakin are sort of besties—they have a lot that they share with each other that they can’t share with anyone else. They’re unknowingly biological father and daughter, basically adoptive father and daughter… and they’re besties. And that makes me so happy. :) )

“One day we’ll tell all the stories again. And we’ll have flowers.” —I LOVE THIS LINE.

I have to admit, I wouldn’t have thought that there could be a purge of Senators when the Senate is abolished, but it makes sense. And honestly, that part was truly scary in a way that I haven’t felt from any fics in a long time. Maybe because it was a little more real? Pooja’s amazing, but she’s not Force-sensitive and she doesn’t exactly have the Skywalker luck to get out of Situations. (Heck, maybe it even connected with some old recurring nightmares of mine subconsciously, now that I think about it.) That was genuinely scary. *shivers*

So thank goodness Anakin could give Pooja that message, and thank goodness Pooja and her handmaidens and her family got safely away! Here’s hoping she and Anakin saved a lot of lives!

Oh my goodness this comment is epic! :)

Anakin’s always had an awkward streak, but combined with the additional awkwardness of interacting with someone he hasn’t seen in years, who happens to think he’s dead and to be terrified of the person she thinks he is...and then on top of that the realization that, having determined she can indeed read the flower message, he has no idea where to take the conversation next.... Welp. Better to just nope on out of there.

(Also Darth Vader is frequently awkward in the movies and I feel like fandom doesn’t talk about that enough, so I’m on a quest to write awkward!Vader as often as possible.)

I’m glad you enjoyed all my Naberrie headcanons! I had lots of fun with them and I really need to write them more.

Mon Mothma was great. I loved her. And she’s totally enjoying the knowledge that Darth Vader sent an important message through flowers. :D 

She so is. Honestly she’s probably hoping for The Reveal just so she can finally tell people this ridiculous but true story.

I love Pooja’s assessment that Palpatine had never forgiven Padme for being a better person and not being as ambitious as he was. That’s great. :D 

Thanks! I suspect Pooja is right on the money, too, though of course she doesn’t know that Palpatine also has the joy of tormenting Anakin with his endless parties on the anniversary of Padme’s death. But I think he’d have done the same thing even without Anakin, because he really did hate Padme on her own account.

Pooja and Leia already having a pretty close friendship is going to make at least one part of The Reveal easier. And yeah, I think Leia and Anakin do see each other primarily as friends, with a father-daughter dynamic because it’s a friendship with that level of age gap. It’s not unlike the relationship between Shmi and Anakin, actually: a parent-child relationship that’s really a partnership, a relationship between equals. Leia calls Anakin her teacher, and he does consider her his student (though he’s never actually used that language), but the relationship doesn’t look anything like any teacher-student relationship in his experience. He’s not her master, and neither of them have ever called her his apprentice. He doesn’t give her orders. He doesn’t tell her not to ask questions. They’re friends.

My headcanon for this ‘verse is that the entire Senatorial contingent of the Rebellion got out before Palpatine dissolved the Senate, so this operation, at least, was a resounding success. :) And while Palps must think that someone tipped them off, it certainly couldn’t have been Vader, who was light years away chasing down Princess Leia above Tatooine, and who has always hated politicians anyway.

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For the "get to know your author" meme: 5, 12, 13, 11, and 16 plz :3 (yeah I'm just piling them on lol)

Pile away!

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

Hmmm, probably Kylo Ren in Red Five, since I don’t particularly care for him as a character (in that I find him the least interesting/engaging of the ST characters and the fandom woobification sets my teeth on edge) but once I included him in the fic I felt I needed to really engage with a plausible backstory and reasons for his turn, in a way I hope was understandable while not excusing the things he did.  The decision to leave his future, possible redemption open to reader interpretation was a deliberate choice, since it wasn’t his story and he was very much the villain of the piece, while being somewhat sympathetic without whitewashing his actions.  

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

I definitely am better at longfics than I was, particularly when it comes to intricate plotting, writing action, and juggling a cast of characters.  There was a time I would never include OCs but I’m much more confident in that area now, and I would hope that I rely less on cliche and cheese than I did before - some of my early writing really makes me cringe on that front.  

12) your weaknesses as an author

Adverbs, description between dialogue which tends to end up as a repetitive expression/said that way/did this thing, telling not showing and over explanation in internal dialogue.  Not properly proof reading before posting.

13) your strengths as an author

I like to think dialogue and characterisation, and playing with mythic elements.  

16) are there any characters who haunt you?

I don’t really know, writing fic usually sorts that out.  

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Now look. What are you doing to my little ginchy heart??? 😭🥰😭🥰 I love Han finding the silk and Leia’s memories and Chewie, and she and Luke, oh really, I’m teary. Just lovely, Sketchy. 🥰🥰

Whumptober #14 - Tear-stained

The next couple of prompts are angst rather than whump-related, but this was the first thing that sprang to mind for this one.

The name for Alderaanean nevesilk is derived from the Spanish word for snow, nieve.

There had been numerous times in Leia’s childhood where she’d felt she would never be able to master braiding her own hair beyond basic plaits.  Although attendants or her mother could handle the task for her, Leia had stubbornly insisted on learning herself, despite her loathing of the waste of time and distaste for the seemingly frivolous pomp.  It was hair.  Why couldn’t she simply shove the whole mess in a simple bun and get to work on more important matters?  Father was a perfectly good prince consort and senator without long tresses bound in gravity-defying coiffures.  Mother had roared with undignified laughter at the mental image.

Leia came back to herself again for a countless time, her thumbs unconsciously worrying the pool of fabric in her lap.  She felt as though she were eight years old again, all fumble-fingers and hesitance, not the grown woman who could practically braid and pin her hair in her sleep.

It was common for brides to be a bundle of nerves on their wedding day, but the tremors in her hands and the bounding of her heart really had nothing to do with that.  There was nothing to be nervous about when it came to marrying Han, as absurd as that thought seemed.  He was crazy and still somewhat of a scoundrel and more comfortable than ever with meeting death head-on, but he was her bedrock.  Underneath all the bravado and sarcasm and awkwardness, he was the steadfast guardian of her heart and soul, he was her home, and she had no lack of confidence in him.

What she’d once called home was gone, and only shreds were left, like the one she was currently holding.

Alderaanian brides traditionally wove fine scarves of nevesilk into their wedding braids, often handed down through their family.  Mother’s had been embroidered with couched bronze thread in a delicate starlily pattern.  Today she would have been wearing it, and she would have let her mother have the honor of braiding it for her.  Instead Leia sat alone staring at herself in the mirror, tears coursing down her cheeks.

The faintest of impacts in her lap made her look down to see that twin tear stains had darkened the fabric.  Han always had his ways; somehow he’d managed to get his hands on a piece of raw nevesilk, though probably through far more honest means than a con.  Even if she’d refused the crown, most of the survivors of Alderaan still considered her their de facto queen as well as their princess, and she could imagine just the mention of her marrying would be enough for some archivist to donate a piece.  The fact that he’d done his own research to help keep her traditions alive spoke volumes.

But this scrap of silk was neither long nor wide enough to weave throughout the full length of her braids, so he, Chewie, and Luke had plotted to fix that by unorthodox means and contribute cloth of their own to make up the rest.  All three pieces were dyed the same Alderaanean royal slate blue, but each took the color differently, rending them varying shades and depths.  To the nevesilk Han had added a strip of Kashyyyk treeworm silk - touted as the most durable silk in the galaxy - and Luke added a portion of Tatooine homespun, which was much more textured than the other two, not dissimilar to the coarse mountain silk Mother had often worn in her braid crown.  Luke himself had sewed them together.

Water stains could linger on nevesilk, but Leia wasn’t concerned; by the time the scarf was twisted through her hairstyle, they would be obscured.  Still, she had to gain control of her emotions - she had less than two hours left and her makeup wasn’t even done yet.

A soft knock at her door startled her.  Only then did she realize who was on the other side; she’d been too preoccupied and overcome by her anguished reverie to sense that he’d picked up on her distress.  Leia wiped her face and said, “You can come in.”

She saw Luke enter shyly by his reflection in the mirror.  He didn’t need to say anything, already having felt her grief.  He just knelt behind her chair, wrapped his arms around her, and rested his chin on her shoulder.  Leia bit her lip hard, fighting back a fresh wave of tears.

“Do you want me to help?” he whispered.

She nodded with a strained but appreciative smile.  He stood up, taking the scarf from her grasp and draping it behind his neck to hang down his front while she gathered her hair and started the base plait.

When the updo was finished about half an hour later, a couple of mistakes and some much-needed laughter had done wonders for the knot in her chest.

[celinamarniss]

4, 5, 6, 37, and 48 for le fic meme (nope, I got no chill haha ;D )

4) What is your favourite genre to write for?

I write star wars fic, so I guess it’s space adventures! Since I write a lot of shipfic, there’s a romance angle, but usually the main plot is a space adventure of some sort. 

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?

Probably Glory Box, though I’m very happy with The Family Business and it gives me a lot of fuzzy found family feelings. 

6) If you had to delete one of your stories and never speak of it again, which would it be and why?

At the moment I’m proud of all my stories and I wouldn’t have posted them if I didn’t want them to be read and enjoyed. But I haven’t been posting fic for very long, and this might change! There may come a point when I cringe over the older stuff I’ve written (this is true of a whole pile of older stuff I’ve written that will never be posted.) 

37) What’s the funniest story you’ve written?

The Punch of Supreme Friendship. I deliberately set out to write a funny story, because I think a lot of the “humor fic” in the star wars fandom …isn’t funny. At all. I wanted to write a funny fic that appealed to my sense of humor. I’m very interested in the rhythm and timing of humor in fiction, and writing a silly story like Punch is a way to practice that type of writing. (though I’m always happy to point out that frangipani came up with a lot of the jokes in Punch!) 

48) What’s your favourite trope to write?

Ugh. How to choose? The enemies to friends to lovers thing is the basis of the Mara/Luke relationship, so it’s probably that. Found families come up a lot as a general theme, too. Exploring family relationships in general! I feel like I’m missing something blindingly obvious that will occur to me later.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[viterbofangirl]

@threadsketchier  #how does han manage to look dorkier in his pose than luke lol

LOOK AT THAT ADORABLE ASSHOLE! LOOK AT HIM! SHOULDERS BACK, CHIN SET, NARROWED EYES... THAT IS THE FACE OF A MAN WHO IS THINKING “FUCK YEAH! BRING ON THE NEXT SUPERWEAPON! I AM READY BABY!!! JUST TRY AND MESS WITH MY NEW FOUND FAMILY SLASH IDEALISTIC CRUSADE. IMMOLATE THIS, BITCH!”

Han’s just like, *Hey, it looks like the buffet table is serving muffins. That’s nice.*

Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill filming Star Wars

[myevilmouse]

Fictober 2019 Drabble #27

Prompt number: 27, “Can you wait for me?” Fandom: Star Wars (All Media/Legends) Rating: G Word count: 100

Mara took in Skywalker’s bruised face, the rain of lacerations along his bare arm, and the ragged gash that had destroyed his flightsuit.  The emdee unit said it would be one standard hour for stitches, then overnight in the bacta tank.  She’d thought Skywalker was unconscious, but one swollen eye barely opened as she turned to go.

“Can you wait for me?” His voice sounded as bad as he looked.

Mara fully intended to make some crack, joke about financially compensating her, or harass him for getting them both into this mess.  But what came out instead was “Of course.”

[fialleril]

threadsketchier replied to your post “Hello! I've read through your manymany pages of Anabasis things, and...”

It feels really comforting that you went through this process because that's pretty much what happened to me and my most melodramatic fic. :3 It's been 14 years now, whew.

We were both young and foolish back then. ;)

Really though I think anybody who writes for a longish period of time is going to go through this. Writing styles grow and develop with time, but we’re also always growing and changing as people, and honestly, anybody who’s been writing for at least a couple years and claims they’ve never written anything that now makes them cringe in almost certainly lying. I’ve got a fair amount of old stuff that would make the me of today instantly hit the back button and nope on out of there.

[viterbofangirl]

SHOUT OUT TO OUR VERY OWN @threadsketchier​ FOR HER LIBERO PER FIDEM!!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThreadSketchier/pseuds/ThreadSketchier

So I recently checked out the Star Wars fandom just to see what all this Reylo hullabaloo was about and discovered that they have their very own Murder Dad trope.

A Murder Dad trope! My bread and butter?? Someone made it a bonafide establishment right under my nose!

So yeah I’m never coming out of the Dad Vader rabbit hole and I invite you all to join me.

I’ve seen the first movies like maaaaybe 2-3 times in my lifetime and only once of my own free will but you can’t take fandom Luke away from me, it’s too late he’s mine now.

[viterbofangirl]

@threadsketchier

I sent you a message, dear!  Please read at your convenience! 

[celinamarniss]

threadsketchier replied to your post “Fic to-do Schedule for 2018”

LANDO & MARA HAVE AN ADVENTURE DEFINITELY :D

lol, that fic has been in development hell for like a year and half. I can’t decide on the tone and there are some plot details I’ve never figured out. It might be a case of trying to stuff too much into one fic, but who knows. One day maybe I’ll figure it out. 

I think I have a funny snippet I wrote for that fic that I can share. Lemme look it up.