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What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

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sometimes we (i) forgot

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Due to AI scraping of fics I have made the decision to lock all of my fics so that only those who have an AO3 account can access them.

AO3 accounts are free and fairly easy to get though often there is a wait time. I would encourage anyone who has not already to get one.

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Listen listen. It was a tragedy. It was a tragedy because of who he became because Anakin Skywalker couldn't bring himself to take away people's will but also he led the 501st to the temple.

Anakin Skywalker who knew what it was like to be enslaved but still choose to enslave others. Anakin Skywalker who fell in the name of love but couldn't crawl out of the hole he dug for himself.

Anakin Skywalker who was manipulated by Palpatine for so long that it warped him beyond recognition. Until he was no longer the man that Obi-Wan helped raise, or Ashoka's master, or Rex's general. Until he became Darth Vader.

anakin skywalker does not use jedi mind tricks 

not once in the films 

do you think that’s a coincidence 

not on your life buddy 

anakin skywalker does not have it in him to overrule another being’s free will

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STAR WARS REBELS 2.06, Brothers of the Broken Horn

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favorite sterek scenes:                 -> 1.12 stiles + being protective over derek

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Me, staring listlessly at my wall: The Jedi had comedy nights. Masters exposed other masters, Padawans snuck in after curfew to watch the masters being silly lil guys while they knew that they did half of those things and the masters never knew. Jedi knights are trying to reason with the masters but somehow get roped into doing some stnad up comedy themselves

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Fox: Please don’t use the lightening stuff on me, it really hurts.

Plo, just trying to pick his troopers up from the drunk tank, not wanting to disturb Wolffe from a much needed nap: …………………….. Who’s using lightening on you?

Fox: Palpatine? I presumed that was standard for natborns?

Plo: no…. No, it’s not???

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Here's a funny fix-it idea for saving the Haat Mando'ade (and the Jedi, and the galaxy) through a bi-monthly (once every two months) game of holotransmessage sabacc!

And it all starts with Jaster Mereel and his One Mand'alor Persistence War of Getting into the Jetii Archives.

Basically his bi-weekly (twice every week) requests start getting on Madame Nu's nerves so much that she ends up agreeing to a gamble.

She'll give Jaster access when he beats her at sabacc. Provided he leaves her alone between the games and those games are properly scheduled at least a week ahead of time (missing the agreed upon time will mean waiting two months for the next opportunity).

Jaster does not beat Jocasta Nu at sabacc.

Jocasta Nu is a shark (something that literally any Jedi could have warned him of, no one plays sabacc with Madame Nu unless they feel like being utterly humiliated).

But Jaster will get into those archives if it's the last thing he does.

And then at some point like twenty games in, Korda VI mission shows up on the books two days before an agreed upon sabacc date with his Jetii Archnemesis.

Jaster almost had her last time (he did not), and he refuses to skip an opportunity... so despite Montross' strange insistence that they should take the gig, Jaster doesn't take the bounty.

(and Montross ends up exposing himself a month later because his anger gets the best of properly checking his surroundings and Jango hears him muttering murdery/traitory things under his breath).

Anyway. Fast forward to Galidraan and Dooku recognizes Jaster as Jocasta's Sabacc Buddy (read: victim) and it would be incredibly awkward if he had to tell her that he killed the only person in the galaxy willing to play sabacc with her... so he decides to err on the side of not being suicidal and asks a few questions first.

It is the beginning of the end...

...a thousand year old Sith long-con foiled by a long-standing sabacc date.

P.S. It takes Jaster 11 years and exactly 66 attempts (and somewhere down in Sith Hell Palpatine is screaming in rage at the irony) to beat Madame Nu at sabacc (really Jocasta let him win, but let's leave Jaster with some dignity here) and so he is at last invited to cross the archway of the Jedi Library past the gaze of the Great Krayt Dragon of the Archives (aka. Jaster's Jetii BFF).

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Everyone’s talking about this guy, the clone who punched a droid.

Everyone seems to collectively have forgotten that his dumbass general thought kicking general “the head clanker” Grievous was a good idea and his very tired commander, THE marshal commander, who will throw himself on the nearest available droid as though this isn’t standard operating procedure for the 212th.

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Thinking about Predator Species Obi-wan.

The 501st and 212th are chilling on a planet after a campaign. Everyone setting up little campfires and cooking stations.

Rex is watching his General eat bugs, trying to be polite and not gag at the crunch of the beetle as he bites into it. "Sir we went hunting..." When that does not get a response, he adds "There are rations."

Anakin waves him away with the hand not full of bugs, squirming and wriggling. "Naw im fine." He grabs one of the thick round worms from his hand and slurps it up. Rex feels himself die a little inside.

Rex turns to Ahsoka to complain and finds her biting into a raw rabbit-like creature with a look of glee on her face, at least she has the excuse of biology. He keeps turning until he finds Cody. "I'll trade. Your jedi isnt feral."

Cody gives him a flat unamused look, shifting out of the way revealing Obi-wan gnawing on the bones of something, his fingers and the skin around his mouth are a little bloody still. The men are thanking him for catching whatever it had been for them to cook up. "Are you sure about that vod?"

Rex stares for a moment as he comes to terms with this revelation. "Does he also get 'the zoomies' and hunt the mouse droids?"

Cody snorts. "When something triggers his hunting instinct his eyes get all big and round. So far he hasnt hunted anything, droids or otherwise but I can tell when he has to talk himself out of it."

"And the zoomies?" Rex asks because he absolutely needs to know if the imagery in his head of Kenobi bouncing around the halls is true or not.

"Sometimes." His brother shrugs. "Mostly he climbs things." Cody says simply.

"Climbs things. Like?"

"Everything." Cody answers.

Yes that makes sense. It explains why the man is always climbing up into trees or scaling cliffs or perching on boulders or the walkers when they're brought out. "People?"

"Everything." Cody repeats. "He likes to 'have the high ground'."

"Are you the high ground?" Rex asks because he cannot help being a little shit.

Cody's flat bored gaze turns scathing, promising violence. "I will tell Skywalker you want to try those worms. Watch your mouth."

Threat noted and understood. Rex hears another crunch from Anakin's beetles. Ahsoka makes a happy whistle-click as a trooper hands her another little rabbit thing to tear into and he hears a snap a moment later from Obi-wan breaking the bone hes been chewing on, in between bites of the cooked meat Pudding hands him, to get to the marrow. Both Ahsoka and Obi-wan eating like they've been starving.

"Are they doing okay with just the rations?" Rex asks. His amusement and mild disgust turning into concern.

"Obi-wan says they're fine." From the tone of his voice he obviously doesn't trust that assessment. "Vacc is looking into it. Not much we can do though."

Rex nods. That's just the way of things. "I'll have Kix look into it too. He's already asked Kenobi if Skywalker was missing certain nutrients in his diet that he gets from insects." Rex says. His eyes shifting to stare at the man. "He said no. Skywalker just finds the taste enjoyable."

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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I really want the Star Wars fandom to understand that Jedi essentially practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

You feel the thing. You acknowledge the feeling. You let it pass.

It's not suppressing emotions, but simply not becoming attached to them. They're mindful, not numb.

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I have finally gotten back into Star wars after taking a couple of years hiatus! However I find myself lacking people to yap to about it. If anyone has any recommendations for any prequel era, Jedi friendly Star wars servers please let me know!

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I hate the "as a girl whose grandmother was a slave, can I just say not cool?" line from hazel in moa it's the worst line of dialogue rick has written in his life. But like what the fuck. what kind of insane lore drop is that. hazel's grandmother was an enslaved woman. marie levesque cast a spell to meet the god of riches so that she could finally know what it was like to live beyond the indigence and suffering of her mother. marie wanted to be a queen, not a slave like her predecessors. she wanted pluto to give her all the riches beneath the earth

and then the earth enslaved her body. gaea possessed her and through gaea's influence marie forced hazel for six months to overexert herself to the point of collapsing to raise and reanimate alcyoneus. gaea worked hazel like a slave

it's so explicit here. this is SLAVERY. gaea was using hazel's forced labor for material wealth and power. she was only 13. her grandmother was used and her mother was used and hazel herself was used, they were black women exploited for what their bodies could provide in service to the hideous intentions of monsters in power over them. hazel broke free from the cycle and saved the world all by herself by choosing death - it was the only way out

and even in her second chance at life she's actively fighting to die again. she's an instrument of the gods being used to achieve an end that is supposed to kill her. she was convinced that freeing thanatos would result in him taking her life. she didn't know throughout hoo if her father would kill her when the main quest succeeded. even nico didn't think hazel was going to live. she didn't WANT to die a second time. but she fought for the world and for her friends anyway

by the end of marie's life she was only skin and bones. gaea used her body until she didn't need it anymore. marie was the daughter of an enslaved woman who dreamed of being a queen and instead the earth goddess robbed of her life and dignity. and her soul would have been tortured further in the fields of punishment if not for hazel's unfathomable selflessness and bravery to negotiate for mutual asphodel. hazel never even saw marie again after that. what was it that doomed the levesque family? that marie asked the god of death and riches for too much? she deserved even more than what she asked for. I'm fucking sick no one talk to me

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Everyone, say it with me: BAD characterization happens when a character's personality is seemingly random, inconsistent, and doesn't really fit within a defined set of values.

GOOD characterization happens when a character has distinct personality traits that fit within a defined set of values.

but GREAT characterization?

That's when a character has a defined set of values, but those values EVOLVE, and therefore they may act in ways that seem contradictory to their supposed "personality", but it still makes sense because you understand why.

AKA, they feel like PEOPLE. Not characters anymore. PEOPLE.

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leo would NOT put his username as like "xX_fireboy_Xx" or wear fire related tshirts as most of you would believe, 😭😭 that's like if my mom suffocated to death inside a concrete wall and i put my username as "**~concrete-luvrr~**" LOLL keep in mind he does NAWWT like his fire powers. i feel like many people think he does ??

i know he eventually grows into appreciating his powers but still i feel like anytime he'd see fire-related stuff he'd think of his mom. he didn't even use his powers for the 6 years after he ran away, even though fire would be REALLY useful as a runaway who doesn't have access to readily available cooking stuff.

i just don't think he'd be so fire obsessed as many people believe. however, one thing he DOES like would be mechanics, so i usually replace fire motifs with mechanical motifs. plus, all the memories he has with tinkering related his mom are all positive.