#video essays dissecting movies and TV shows are one of my very favorite genres of video essays

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

You really write the best Din Djarin; the way you care deeply for the character really comes across, and it feels like you truly take the time to think about his thoughts, desires, and feelings (in a way canon stopped doing, *cough cough*). I'm also very impressed with how you write characters that get sort of sidelined, like R2D2 and Grogu. I adore the scene in The Suns when Grogu offers food to Fennec after she complains about wanting to eat it, or all of the R2 and Luke interactions. Like the one where Luke tells R2 they'll get Cobb next time. I'm not sure how to explain it, but it feels so organic and realistic. Your characters never come off as too scripted or tropey, you know what I mean? They feel so real, and I think it's really lovely. You're a fantastic writer, and I'm very grateful that you share your writing with us. Waiting for updates has been keeping me going for the last few months, lol. And I'm really excited to see where you'll take the story . I hope you're doing well and that you're having a wonderful day!

Hello there, Anon. Sat on this for a lil bit mostly to get enough energy to respond. I appreciate this ask a lot. I've been fascinated by Din Djarin since the beginning and that is a fixation that will never die. His perspective is one that fascinates me, a survivor and a member of a Mandalorian diaspora making his way through a post-war galaxy, someone who's been too busy surviving to pay attention to the Star Wars happening a skip and a hop over in another system, and that fascination tends to bleed a lot into the things I write and draw. It's a real damn shame the Felonious Duo fumbled the bag so badly after the Season 2 finale.

Sometimes I think I don't write enough about Grogu and Artoo, tbh! I get paranoid about how I use other characters. I want to make sure they have their own lives and relationships and goals and troubles outside of their connections to Din and Luke because to me, that lets me really expand on a living 'verse while still following Din around the gffa. For a story that's been growing in scale with each installment, I want to match that with characters and settings that existed before Din, exist alongside him, and exist after him. Does that make sense? I hope it makes sense. I guess that's a reason why I really love open world games where I get to wander around a map and do everything but the main quest.

I will say, I spent a lot of years floating through "sporking" communities, reading a lot of opinions and essays from writers and readers about storytelling, and taking art classes on telling stories in a more cinematic way, and I'm so happy to hear that it's showing through with this story/series.

Thank you so much for reading and for stopping by to comment on the things you read. Hope you keep sticking around because I'm certainly not letting go of this character, this ship, and this fandom anytime soon.