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This isn't just a question of whether they're canon - you can still use them as backstory regardless of it's official status, and they can still have an influence on things like how you do his relationship with Qui Gon, or think about things like his self esteem even if you consider them soft canon.

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You know, all three times Palpatine took an L it was because he couldn't just couldn't stop jizzing lightning. In fact, with the exception of the bit where he tries a little burst and Yoda just catches it, every time he does it it breaks bad for him in some way cause he's just to much of a sicko to stop electro-jaculating in time. Compare this to the dignified, almost regal, force lightning emanations of Count Dooku.

Don't really have a point, but sometimes you just gotta post about Sheev Palpatine.

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no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak

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Imagine being into SW and medieval epics and falling for the cunty old swashbuckler in BOTH. Hagen!Dooku for my little soul <3

(outfit and pose entirely stolen from Fritz Lang's 1924 Nibelungen silent film. it's free on youtube btw. if you even care. it goes stupid hard)

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clone wars au where jocasta 360 no scopes count dooku

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hell yeah brother

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My friends are all roasting me for living a fanfic cliche when I just want to get swole on the cheap 😔

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Caught off guard by a binging with babish moment👇

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Siegfried hatte ein rotes Haar – Bertolt Brecht

1. Siegfried hatte ein rotes Haar Und Hagen Tronje liebte ihn sehr Und Siegfried wußte, was Hagen Tronje war – Aber da war noch Giselher.

2. Gunther sagte dem Hagen Tronje oft: Siegfried liebt man. Da lachte er Und stand eines Tages im Gras, unverhofft Und schlug in Siegfrieds Nacken einen Eschenspeer.

3. Hagen Tronje blieb drei Tage bleich Und trank sich durch die lange Nacht Denn er dachte an Gunther und Giselher immer zugleich Und er hätte lieber nur an Gunther gedacht.

4. Aber am vierten Morgen kam Giselher selber zu ihm hin Und brach das Brot mit ihm und aß von seinem Salz Und sprach von Weibern und Pferden mit dem Kinn. Da ging dem Hagen Tronje wild der Wind an seinen Hals.

Bertolt Brecht: Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe. Hrsg. von Werner Hecht, Jan Knopf, Werner Mittenzwei, Klaus-Detlef Müller. Bd. 13. Gedichte 3. Gedichte und Gedichtfragmente 1913-1927. Berlin und Weimar / Frankfurt am Main 1993, S. 255f., S. 492.

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"i want him bouncing and moaning on it" okayyyy and what abt struggling and sobbing on it 😐

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There's two of them now

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Count Dooku? More like Cunt Dooku.

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Good news. There are only 69 days until Andor season two.

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when you googled waco did u read about how this one couple w an hgtv show is like singlehandedly rehabilitating wacos reputation its insane

I didn't, but now I've read a little! That's genuinely amazing for them :D I think it just drowned in all the search results for the crazy shit that happened there.

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I'm on this fic again and I think the real fiend here isn't the weird history, but rather the fact that all the maps draw the trail through towns that just didn't exist at the time the fic is set in? And every map goes through vaguely different towns? Or has random forks for no reason?

"Oh, the International-Great Northern Railroad went through here" ok, when? What was there before 1873? You said there was something there before 1873, right? This Wikipedia article says that the town was already a railway prospect in 1868, right?? Please elaborate? Would there have already been some form of rail there in, say, 1872? Hello? Anything??

writing the codywan cowboy fic is going great bc i have no idea what your average texas landscape looks like. so i just image search random towns/rivers that cowboys would pass through on a cattle drive. just to figure out the general vibe yknow. innocently google 'waco'

well

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for our good friend dooku, 16, 21&22, and 6 if you have more to say about it. 🙏🙇‍♂️

OH YOU JUST COME INTO MY ASK BOX AND MAKE MY DAY?!! :D Beloved anon, these are SUCH fun questions and I absolutely had a blast answering them. Thank you so much! Stop by anytime and I’ll make you a cup of coffee! (I have tea too, but my taste in tea is real gross.)

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

Ohh, this is a hard one! 

The thing is, while I have my favorites, I find Dooku soo very shippable with a vast number of characters - not because he has any healthy understanding of his own sexual and emotional needs anymore than he has a healthy relationship with food - but because especially in his Sith era, he’s a black hole of need and loneliness. Sex is like the one way Sith are allowed to access the intimacy that fifty years of Jedi communal life has trained him to want and need. 

The ship for him that I absolutely love-hate in that vein is Sidious/Dooku. I doubt it went much further than a few absolutely debased encounters because let’s be honest, Sidious can do much better and isn’t in the habit of letting his dog eat from his plate, but whoof, what a fun, fucked up ship with nasty power dynamics. “Oh nooo, oh no, awful….where’s the link?” energy.

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

I love giving Dooku big, often violent, over the top moments where his natural appetite for chaos comes out. 

Dooku gives you these amazing options as a fanfic writer. He’s so high drama. A huge part of his reserve and composure is that there’s an absolute volcano of feeling bubbling under the crust.

The things he says are absurd and beautiful, poetic and horrific, hilarious and awkward. You can push the character further than you expect, and he’ll go with you in surprising places in a piece of writing if you let him show off. This is a character who loves attention and has the natural talent and chaos to back up his own bullshit. If you can get his sound and feel right, there’s almost nothing you can’t do with him - because a core part of Dooku is the unreliable narrator: even he doesn’t always know what he’s about to do. 

I think the hardest part is his “voice” because Christopher Lee had such a distinctive cadence - it’s not just a British accent, it’s early 20th century British, who grew up bilingual and went on to speak like literally 7 different languages fluently, with a supremely deep voice, who wanted to sing opera but only got half-trained before WWII ruined that dream for him. It’s a very unique sound.

I like “my” Dooku voice in my fics and I’m proud of it; I work really hard on it and it’s why I use him as a POV character most often. But I still look at my own fics and have those record needle scratch moments where I know a line of his needs to get reworked. It’s a constant process.

The Christopher Lee accent also could not be MORE different than my own rural American one. There’s a hilarious-awful story in Lee’s autobiography, Lord of Misrule, about him getting stopped by a patrol of Americans in WWII who absolutely do not believe he’s English and they start trying to speak German to him. He goes, “you don’t have to speak German, you know, I’m fairly capable of understanding English, since that’s what I am.” 

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?

I love it when fics do a realistic job of letting Dooku be the walking contradiction he is. Two of my favorite Dooku fics right now are Pray My Mind Be Good to Me and Galaxies Far Far Away May Be Closer Than They Appear - both feature Dooku written in this way. He has done or is going to do horrific shit - shit that cannot be changed and has real consequences. In both fics, he’s also portrayed vividly, a "real person," full of genuine emotion, vulnerability, and deep investment in the other characters. Love is a part of his betrayal and betrayal is a part of his love. These two things exist in the character simultaneously in queasy, gorgeous combination. 

As far as what I don’t like, I don’t know, I think Dooku is a tremendously intimidating character to write and I’m impressed by anyone who takes a crack at writing him! I’d encourage anyone to give it a shot. 

I have one really small weird pet peeve, and that’s giving him too much stuffy, uptight rich guy cliche. Dude was a mud-grubbing mission Jedi for 50 years, himself raised by a swamp troll, who went on to train two of the most chaotic Jedi. He’s eaten more bugs than Anakin, and I'll die on that hill.

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

I went pretty broad on my other answer, so I’ll tell you two lil' things!

I’m tall (ironically I’m about Sifo-Dyas’s canon height, a character whose legit tallness is often overlooked cause he’s standing next to Dooku–) and I pull a ton of my own experiences into how I write the way he moves or his little gestures, especially how small he can fold up when he’s feeling vulnerable. There’s a unique tall person awkwardness that comes from experiencing the adolescent growth spurt right at the time when it’s the most emotionally unbearable to be physically conspicuous. 

I didn’t realize I shared his exercise-away-the-strong-emotion thing until I was chatting with @bolithesenate about some fic or something, and said something offhand like “too upset about Sifo-Dyas, gotta go for a run” and she was like “uh, Jess? are you QUOTING your own Dooku characterization here?” :O Don't call me out like that, bro!! Do not perceive me!