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❄️ !! happy 冬至 | winter solstice !! ❄️

UPDATE: after fighting with amazon / my amazon seller bc they refused to ship my stuff for like almost 3 weeks, my final pc part came in, only for me to find out my cpu is bottlenecking when i try doing legit anything on my pc. guess my cpu just can't handle my new gpu 💀 anyway, ordered a new cpu, which also requires a new motherboard and DDR5 ram. thankfully, i have until feb to return my old cpu and mobo, but man, sucks to face yet another setback, but at least it's an easy fix!!!

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HEY! I wanted to pop by and remind you of how awesome you are, if you hadn't heard it enough recently. your writing is fantastic, and it's so clear to see how much love and thought you put into your characterization; I hope you're having an amazing day, because you deserve it!

WOW. i have no idea what brought this on but thank you very much!! i really appreciate the kind words and i'm so archiving this kind ask forever. i won't lie, i think i needed this more than i thought.

admittedly, i haven't been writing han as much lately because people seem way more interested in my vaderkin / luke than in han, among other reasons. but i get it, not a lot of interest in OT muses and not very many OT blogs left since the 2015 sw resurgence, but still. oop! i'm waffling again — anyway, thank you so much!!! i hope you're having a wonderful day/night!! 💕 xoxoxo !!

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annoyed bc my gpu still hasn't come in. i've already assembled my pc and it's just sat around waiting for my gpu. i ordered everything on black friday and 'most everything arrived within days. it's been two weeks and it hasn't even shipped. i'm so. hhhHHHHH.

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i had a dream last night that i was on some fancy interview youtube show and they brought on a panel of my all time favorite characters . the interviewers said “how about you tell us and the viewers at home why you likes these characters so much .” i promptly said no & then called vin ( @stillsolo ) so he could talk about how much he loves han solo instead .

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send me a 🚩 and i’ll share my unpopular rpc opinions and hot takes.  bonus points if you include a specific topic to talk about, like follower count, softblocking, graphics, etc.

wow, okay!  this took me a lot longer to answer than i would’ve thought. nobody sent in topics ( which is okay! ) but without direction, my laidback attitude about everything ended up hurting me in the long run lmfao   but now i’m here!!  better late than never, eh?  tagging others who also sent in something, mainly because i’ve realized i’m chill and got nothing more to say than this it seems  @fifthdimensicn @lightburnsyou @techniiciian ( thank you for sending something!! )

i’ll preface this by saying i have nothing against anyone.   i am just a massive childhood star wars nerd, who basically learned english through the canon/legends movies, games, books, and writing fanfic etc.   so, i’m rather well read on star wars and have a tendency to be uhhh. autistic lol  stringent, for want of a better word, about the universe lore.   overall, i don’t care whether or not people agree; this is just a topic i lowkey struggle to understand yet see far too often.   why people willingly step into this paradox is beyond me!

anyway, if your muse is canonically a force-null in star wars, yet you create a serious, fleshed-out jedi verse for them, then i can’t help but think you don’t actually love your muse as much as you think you do.

of course, you’re totally allowed to have fun—i am not against fun; i’m actually all for breaking and bending verses to my will—and i understand getting bored with the same verses you’ve played in for years and years.   but when this reinterpretation becomes a serious endeavor—like, you’re really out here recontextualizing the entirety of star wars, including its characters, regardless of how ooc it would be to do so, just to fit this verse??   that’s where you lose me lol

for clarity: force nulls are simply people who are not outwardly force-sensitive, aka an individual who cannot consciously sense or interact with the force.   so, think han solo, padmé amidala, or even captain rex and the clones etc.   these are people who stand tall without the force, relying instead on their resourcefulness, resilience, and humanity.

i know the arguments.    i’m well aware some would argue that han and padmé could be considered “lowkey force-sensitive” in their own way, and i’m actually very inclined to agree—to a point.   these two do exhibit qualities that some might attribute to a higher-than-average midichlorian count: padmé’s marksmanship and her negotiation skills; han’s brilliant piloting and uncanny luck that often defies logic.   but yeah, that’s also the whole damn point—they’re exceptional because they lack the force, not in spite of it.

here, lemme use padmé as my primary example because i already know the concept of han being a jedi sounds absolutely absurd lol ( or at least it should if you know him at all 💀 )

let’s imagine a world where padmé is suddenly a jedi, wielding the force with all the grace of a trained knight.   it’s a pretty popular verse i’ve mostly seen outside of rp—and it’s utterly baffling to me.   sure, it’s an interesting twist, but it’s also a strange one.   why?  well, in my honest opinion: in making padmé overtly force-sensitive, you strip away everything that makes her outstanding.

she is extraordinary precisely because she isn’t outwardly force sensitive.  her ability to connect with people, her unparalleled empathy, and her deftness at negotiation are what sets her apart.  outward force sensitivity would rob her of these defining traits and generally diminishes her skillset—because the ability to sense emotions, to read others with an almost prescient understanding—is not a unique power, but rather one of the many force-given gifts jedi possess.  if padmé could sense others’ thoughts, how would her talents at diplomacy and empathy stand out?  just like that, what once set her apart would be merely an extension of the jedi arsenal.

the same applies to han!  this is why i’ve never written a force-sensitive han solo and likely never will.   his disbelief and distrust in anything he can’t see or feel for himself is paramount to his disposition / mentality as a character.   in the movies, he’s your taste of hard cynicism; he’s introduced as a reality check right after luke and ben’s floaty nonsense about the force.   ya feel me?   han solo is remarkable not because he’s imbued with mystical powers, but because he doesn’t have them.   he survives, thrives, and outsmarts the galaxy without supernatural powers to lean on.   to make han force-sensitive would be to strip away the very core of his character.

all in all, these characters, these force nulls, are extraordinary because they don’t rely on the force.   they are exceptional in spite of it, and i don’t really understand why anyone would make a concerted effort to take that away from them.

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Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) / Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)

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this is a reminder that i literally do not care if you reply in five minutes, five months, five years.  still owe me something and want to start something new? go for it.  still owe me something and want to answer memes or send memes instead? go for it.  just not jiving with it and want to do something with a different character? go for it.  need to disappear into the wilderness and scream at the sky for a few years? no problem.  you take any and all the time you need.  this is a hobby, it is for fun, it should not ever cause you stress.  you do what you want to do when you want to do it.  i will never be mad bc you drop something or it takes a year for you to answer it.  this is a collaborative hobby that we do for enjoyment and if it isn’t fun, if it isn’t sparking joy, do something else. you take care of you.  

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send me a 🚩 and i'll share my unpopular rpc opinions and hot takes. bonus points if you include a specific topic to talk about, like follower count, softblocking, graphics, etc.

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alright, black friday! just bought all the components i need to build my new pc. also went with the amd radeon rx 7800 xt, basically the equivalent of the nvidia geforce rtx 4070 super. excited. can't wait to play survivor in HD aslkjdks baby cal kestis in HD 🥰

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🦃 happy turkey day !! 🦃

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waking up and missing ur otp, hanluke

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apologies for the lack of activity!! the lovely @tapalslegacy got me fallen order + jedi survivor since they were on sale, so i've been binging the games while livestreaming it all to @techniiciian 💕 i'm sure ill be back soon with some serious sw inspiration 👀

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━━ ❝ the name's solo. matthew solo. and i take my blue milk shaken, not stirred. ❞

a silly, goofy, fun-time depiction of matt the radar technician. loosely based & inspired by the snl skit star wars: undercover boss & personal headcanons.

indie. semi-selective. 18+. highly canon divergent. est. 2016 // rebooted. 2023 adored & written by aer.

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Better to have loved and lost, huh? I don’t know about that.

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was gonna reblog memes so i decided to dip into my archive — and oml why didn't i realize deactivated blogs can't be reblogged from? why did i decide to hoard everything in my drafts instead of simply reblogging it to my sideblog? 🤡

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       ❝KID  ──  i’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other.  i’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but i’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s one all-powerful force controlling everything.  there’s NO mystical energy field that controls my destiny.  it’s all a lot of simple tricks and NONSENSE.❞

          indie, 18+, semi-sel , para / novella-preferred,            au / oc friendly, & heavily headcanon-developed.              han s. brought to life by vincent.   est. 2012.

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this is a social experiment reblog this if u were rping on tumblr before 2016