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here is all my bookmarked winterwidow fics from my ao3 (i dont see them recc very often, so they're maybe not the most popular ones, but they are stellar):

This abyss, where I cannot find you (one shot 1500 words)

that you're the one who's taking me home (19k words, one shot)

the city of three revolutions  (40k words, 4 chapters, its wip, updated 10 years ago so..yeah, but its one of the best winterwidow fic out there, and really the most underrated there is i fucking swear - i dont see it rec often - but it should have like thousand kudos bc the prose is...incredible, it mix marvel 616 with the MCU and its a fucking hit gawd. i still havent recovered)

an aura of violence (2k words, one shot)

tell me baby, do you recognize me? (63k words, wip too - 10/11 chapters)

Black Widow: The name she was given (its a recent fic - the only one i follow nowadays - updating regularly, and quite nice!)

author lookondownfromthebridge :

teeth beg for something tender to sink into (58k words 2 chapters, WIP too and last update was 3y ago but dammit this is so good )

This abyss, where I cannot find you (one shot)

author Naradot:

bound to linger on (one shot, 1500 words)

From the end (until the beginning) (one shot, 3600 words, ffnet)

looking for winterwidow fanfic recs on TikTok made me realize how bad marauders fandom spoiled me

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discovering at 1am that Clovis actually has shooters..thats enough internet for today i think

Propaganda nobody’s falling for: Anakin was worse than Clovis.

At the people that say “between Anakin and Clovis, I’d definitely pick Clovis.” Girl, you don’t like Clovis, your ass just hates Anakin and nobody gave a f*ck. Maybe you’re a different case, but no other sane woman is choosing the incel creep who forces kisses on them, uses them to benefit their career, then holds them at gunpoint to save their own ass over the sexy devoted lover man who’s flawed but beautiful. Get lost.

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oooh hi!! thats me! (also my art account is @vicki-anart , i'll probably post my other hiccstrid art - and other - over there!!) ty for the love 🥰🥰

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really telling how every other chucklefuck who talks about atla won't shut up about katara needing to apologize for what she said in the southern raiders, but no one ever even suggests that aang should apologize for crumpling up and hiding hakoda's letter and mocking and belittling southern water tribe culture, nor does anyone say sokka should apologize for years of misogyny directed at his own little sister who HE ADMITS looked after him after their mom died. funny how that works.

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Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

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someone.. is there someone i can talk abt all my literati fanfic brainworms (waking up thinking abt them, walking my dog thinking abt them, cooking food thinking abt them) like a discord server or a gc tumblr twitter, idc im not picky i need to exchange with someone about them i am slowly becoming insane lol

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When I say "Cassian Andor s2 corruption arc" btw I don't mean him just becoming bad or losing his moral compass, but I think it would have been both fun and interesting for the Rebellion to change/reshape him - a Cassian who lost everything not because it was taken from him per se (dragging him, unwilling, to his Destiny) but because his increasing devotion to a cause that demands ethical compromise alienated him from the people who loved him. A guy who goes from sparing Syril against Luthen's orders to carrying out hits against his own conscience until, years later, killing Tivik is regrettable but reflexive and sparing Galen Erso is not only a redemption but a return to the more idealistic man he was when Luthen recruited him. The first time you do something you want to forget, how do you make it worth it? - You make sure you win, and you win by doing it again and again and if that means the people you love can't look you in the eye anymore, if they leave you because they can't sleep next to a murderer, because you're turning into a stranger with every passing day, then so be it. You have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror. Where was this s2 Cassian Andor

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i mean...

never stop being a hater, or in TG's case, an arrogant man who thinks only his vision matters

tony gilr0y being a bitch about writing credit. a tale of two movies

Gary Whitta, story writer for Rogue One

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rory and jess + that instrumental

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You know, there’s a few things I’ve always wanted to say to you, but out of respect for my friend Rory here, I’ve refrained. However, the circumstances seem to have changed.

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Recently I came across an interesting article reviewing the second season of 'Andor'. Below is a translated excerpt from this article: […In the early version of the series developed by showrunner Steven Schiff, K-2SO was used much more actively and essentially served as the second main character. Gilroy found this format too dull and completely rewrote the plot from scratch.

Upon learning that Cassian’s first encounter with his mechanical partner K-2SO had already been depicted in a comic, Gilroy flatly stated: "No, I won’t be using that." However, Andor doesn’t exactly offer a worthy alternative. K-2SO only steps into the spotlight near the series’ finale, Cassian’s decision to take him along feels contrived, and the friendship between the two is, once again, established off-screen. Gilroy might as well have skipped rewriting the comic and simply introduced the droid without any additional buildup, just like many other characters in Rogue One.

Andor has a complicated relationship with Gareth Edwards' film in general. The series tells a mostly self-contained story, and most of its characters don’t even appear in Rogue One. If the creators had wanted to make a full-fledged prequel, the focus should have been on the military officials of the Rebellion and the Empire, the family of the brilliant engineer Galen Erso, and/or the fanatical partisan Saw Gerrera. In reality, the latter doesn’t even get his own arc in the series, he just occasionally shows up as a dark reflection of Luthen Rael and his spy cell, the true protagonists of Andor.

Yet, in the final episodes, Gilroy explicitly steers Cassian toward the events of the film, essentially abandoning the climax of his own story and handing it off to Edwards. The result is an absurd situation. To fully grasp the series' ending (What’s this about Jedha? Who’s Erso? What’s Tivik’s deal?), you need to have already seen Rogue One. And yet, Rogue One now demands a rewatch after Andor, otherwise, the story feels abruptly cut short. Even Rebels, despite being simpler and aimed at a younger audience, handles this balance far more elegantly.]

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i am genuinely confused at why we didn't get cassian DOING SPY STUFF. he goes undercover a couple times but like.... what about his network of informants and the implication in r1 that he has done some really shady shit for the rebellion?

im so confused. this is already a prequel. there's no other prequel coming. this was the last chance to do some fun stuff with cassian and you waste it making him a pale imitation of han/jyn

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there's no fucking way bro, there's no fucking way that's his excuse. Cassian literally put together her file, and if Gilroy even bothered to rewatch the movie or do some research for 10 minutes, he'd have known that there's very strong evidence to suggest the Alliance already knew about her and where she was by Kafrene. this should have been the easiest fucking thing in the world!!

mind you, they didn't even necessarily have to bring back Felicity... all we wanted was a mention of her name lmao. it wasn't! that! hard!

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there's no fucking way bro, there's no fucking way that's his excuse. Cassian literally put together her file, and if Gilroy even bothered to rewatch the movie or do some research for 10 minutes, he'd have known that there's very strong evidence to suggest the Alliance already knew about her and where she was by Kafrene. this should have been the easiest fucking thing in the world!!

mind you, they didn't even necessarily have to bring back Felicity... all we wanted was a mention of her name lmao. it wasn't! that! hard!

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I walked away from the last three episodes of “Andor” feeling disappointed - and not because the baby reveal was a poorly foreshadowed cash grab mostly irrelevant to the story they’d been telling (and also one more instant of terrible, inconsistent writing for Bix), but for another, much deeper story reason:

In what was otherwise 90% a great show, “Andor” does not stick the landing of its main character’s emotional arc.

Here’s why the ending isn’t quite resonating - why it feels emotionally “off” to some viewers:

They created 2/3 of a very compelling arc:

1. Cassian hates Luthen. He hates the way he uses people; discards them when they become a liability.

2. Cassian understands Luthen. He respects what Luthen has had to do - what he has had to become - the sacrifices he has made to keep the Rebellion alive.

And what should come next, knowing what we know about the Cassian we meet in the next film?

3. Cassian becomes just like Luthen…and he hates himself for it.

This is the the Cassian we meet at the beginning of Rogue One - he is angry - and while we aren’t given a full explanation, so much of it seems to be anger at what he has had to become to help the Rebellion succeed.

…But the Cassian we see at the end of “Andor” just isn’t quite carrying that same anger.

Due to time jumps, we’ve missed seeing the “things he’s had to do.” We’ve missed the character development that makes his decision not to shoot Galen Erso feel like a big deal and not just another “on Tuesday, we disobey orders” for him.

Sure, they technically landed the plot of the show “right before Rogue One”…but they failed to land the main character there in an emotional sense.

When your outer and inner arcs don’t match, you’ve failed at one of the most important parts of emotionally resonant storytelling, and you leave your audience feeling strangely unfulfilled, even if they can’t put their finger on why.

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just saw a post today abt how he was a woman when they first wrote the first scripts or something of that order and like. it all makes sense now (also yuri literati 's been on my mind lately - lowkey Jess's hair are a nightmare to draw so i will make him a woman. for reasons haha).

was thinkin about lucas luke butch danes in high school…. canon loser skaterboy

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watching from the sidelines in horrendous fascination as the Andor fandom transform itself into one of these star wars dudebros cult that wont accept shape or form criticism while constantly praising and worshipping the creator of said show and screaming he 'saved' star wars with it for the 27337933times (all the while said show was essentially born first and foremost from the love fans had for Rogue one + Cassian Andor, but you got god send TG saying he barely rewatched the movie because this is all okay and since everybody have done it then, i guess as the showrunner, its really okay! what a clown) yep, laughable really (also here's one more thing he reconned to 'save' Rogue one, i suppose...woohoo!)

the fact that they're able to do this (without doubt to give the audience the impression it was always planned from the start; she's part of the rebellion see! he shoot with her gun see, so she's an important character!!) but not give her any substance as a stand alone character in 2 seasons. wow.

like the showcreator openly admits he didn't rewatch the movie he was making a prequel to and I'm supposed to take his backstory and characterization of Cassian seriously? it's laughable actually