#The Keltiad

[rosheendubh]

Thrawn concepts…Supreme Commander-Empire of the Hand and Imperial Remnant…

[chicagosavant]

yeah...this man as my concept basis for a revised Nuru Kungurama--Kivu'rama'nuruodo...I mean, with red sclera/irisis/blue skin/black hair...

...the cousin of Thrawn/Thrass/Borika, by their father's brother...

-Persona/based off Original Nuru/now known as Rama (with a tie-in to the Hindu Rama, or the Ramayana...), and a mesh of young, James T Kirk brilliance/rebelliousness, preStar-Fleet days (2009 Trek movie), and Will Hunting, from Good Will Hunting (the genius talent/orphan/displaced/humble-origins/anti-establishment/rebel in the underclass-sort)-who, crossing paths with THrawn as JodoKast in my AU (combining events from SideTrip and TatooineGhost), gives the FcuckYou to Thrawn about joing the Mith Household Phalanx, hates everything about Chiss society which sent him off as an exile-hates that his older cousin, now the Supreme Commander of the Empire of the Hand/and Imperial Remnant, served the jackASS, Palpatine, who authorized the massacre of the only family Rama had when he'd been discovered in the stasis-pod by the Jedi, and left to make his own way after Order66. Contra the est lore of Nuru/Rama, finds employment as the procurer of a biomodification shop in MOs Vespa (reformed MosEspa, w/ a tie-in of Princess Vespa as a business investor reshaping MosEspa into an ecoTourism resort for transwormerhole vacationers from the TerranQuadrant)--and having encountered AU, Kaltoi OFC in her pursuit of biohacked gene sequences which led her, temporarily to Tatooine, gets some RobinWilliams style/patient Father-figure advice from BobaFett one evening after OFC has left Tatooine on her wild goose chase w/ Luke (post RotJ years/)-and Fett senses Rama's awakened ideslism/restlessness as thoughts keep wondering back to a certain biokinetically gifted, advanced practice medic who touched the lives of MosVespa w/ her charity clinic/and community initiatives in the few months she'd set up shop on Tatooine. Where Rama asks Fett what led him to eventually bury the warrior ethos of his culture, and settle down. And Fett, w/ glance to Fennec Shand, offers wryly, "Isn't it obvious, lad--[lad is like, mid 30s, but whatever]--I went chasing off after a girl..."--

Also, PeterEggers is just hot...and I don't think Nuru'Kungurama gets enough love...Now, Kivu'Rama'nuruodo...(my blurring of EU and canon revised Chiss naming conventions...)

[msbarrows]

I hate when there's a book series I LOVED when I was younger, and would very extremely happily re-buy as ebooks, and they're just.... not available. I mean, I DO still have my original paperback copies of them all (somewhere...) but with my eyesight these days I vastly prefer ebooks.

*Shakes fist in general direction of whatever probably-corporate-entity is currently sitting on the copyright for Patricia Kennealy's Keltiad series*

[rosheendubh]

Yeah—blue man hot…

Thrawn appreciation post.

[longsightmyth]

Me, whispering: got another one for you ms kennealy-morrison

(Celts in spaaaaaaaace)

[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

Whoopsie book haul today (feat. mead!)

Friend and I went to a used bookstore so she could get a present for her coworker....and I was excited to find a whole bunch of de Lints, the next 2 books of the Keltiad series, and some other odds and ends that are on my TBR!

SO excited for The Onion Girl, I've been looking for it for ages!

[rosheendubh]

Retaking the Ascendency…

—credit to the unknown artist of Faenor as the basis of this art-manip…Chiss are basically a cross of LotR Elves, with Targaryens and Valeryons with an Edo/Neo-Feudal era Japanese cultural and societal aesthetic…

…just noticing, if one squints hard enough, that *could be* the Paatatus chimera ring (paralleling the Keltoi symbol of the Tetraskele and the ouroboros of the Red and White Dragons of the Mabonigion…correlation with Keltoi medic/OFC protagonist…)…

[rosheendubh]

Hot damn if this resemblance isn’t spot-on. Thanks for feeding my head-canon finally, with a face/persona I can put-into my own head-canon….also, JoaquinPhoenix too—maybe for Thrass, eh?.

That said, If the writers/producers of Andor were heading this, I’d have faith. I’m a fan of good writing, and not dumbing down the live-action shows to less than PG13, nor cheap shot cameos to up ratings for lackluster characterizations/plot/derivative drama and story-arcs. Also, LarsMikkelson’s voice is too pediphilic, creepy mustschiod villain for me. I much prefer Stephen Dillane’s WestCountry cadence (as Thomas Jefferson)— gentle-hypnotic-transfixing-even as he commands Rukh to hold your hand beneath a plasma-ray burner, watching your skin fizzle, boil, melt, and char…yeah, looks like Sewell, sounds like Dillane…

la-it is what it is. I’ll probably still watch bc…maybe it’ll have something redeeming (yes, I follow saltierthanscrait redDit…and pretty much agree with everything their threads condemn/condone…). Get ready for more Poo-doo folks. If the Mandalorian S3/Kenobi/BoBF we’re anything to go on, this tank needs a mine too blow it all up. Poor Zahn should never have given over his BlueMan.

JUST REALISED, Rufus Sewell could also have been a great choice for live action Thrawn

[chicagosavant]

Thrawn and ar’Alani (you’re going to tell me these two aren’t shagging in dark-hideaways all through her command ship?? Whatev’s—only the purposely denying can’t see this. Zahn writes a smile onto Thrawn’s face. That never happens. Except Ziara/Ar’alani. Maybe Thalias, too—I can buy that…). But these two are OTPs all the way…

“…Why don’t you come to the Irizi homestead with me?”

“To your *homestead* [to meet the parents???]?” Thrawn echoed. “Are strangers even allowed?” A muscle in his check twitched. “Especially strangers from rival families?”

“I don’t know and I don’t care,” Ziara said. “I am blood and I am an honored member of the fleet who just helped save eight-thousand lives. I don’t know how far all of that will take me, but I’d rather like to find out. You game to find out with me?“

“I don’t know, “Thrawn said hesitantly “I don’t want you to get in trouble on my behalf.“

“I’m not worried about it,” Ziara said. “Did I mention that my grandfather was an amazingly passionate art collector?”

Thrawn smiled. “If I haven’t mentioned it recently, Ziara, you have a knack for seeking out and exploiting your opponents’ weaknesses. Very well. Shall we once again charge headlong into danger?”

“We shall,” Zara said. “Besides, we just survived an encounter with a malicious gas giant planet. Really, how bad could my family be?“

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Excerpt from ‘Thrawn: Chaos Rising’…

—so, even in my non-canon AU spoof SpaceRockOpera crossover of StarWars/TTT, Firefly-Serenity/and the Keltiad, my OFC, after she and Thrawn have their wicked way with each other (enemies to friends dynamic…), she points him back to Ziara. —I’ve toyed with, and am warming to part of my AU narrative arc, having Ar’alani and Thrawn completely professional and never pursuing intimacy in the years they served the Defense Fleet together. And in the night before he’s enters exile, with no more consequences compromising career paths, they consummate their affection. And 7-10 years later, we’re discovering Un’hee, who’d been taken away from Ziara once her psionic navigating abilities had been discovered. Then, as part of Blue Sun Corp’s research with enhanced super-soldiers like River Tam with psionic abilities, collaborating with Black Sun Syndicate and the Virathi/Coroniad/Grysk commanding the multiple strands of this stage across a Wormhole and distant parts of the MilkyWay, amid other confrontations, it’s the Firefly crew that rescues Un’hee, whilst River Tam with my OFC (biokinetically gifted Keltoi medic, teaming with Luke Skywalker) following some unholy uses of an ancient bioquantum-valent protogenome that enables real time mutagenesis and tissue regeneration (in hybrid Reaver-clones…Vong-V-V-V-Vong…we see where this is going, but no reborn Palpatine and it’s NOT called Project Necromancer…), and reunites Un’hee with her mother. And, with Thrawn back in the picture advancing the interests of The Empire of the Hand, with Ziara leading the Chiss branch of military/space fleet, leaving Thrawn to put 2 and 2 together. Recalling that baby-making sex (as it’s termed when it’s a rollicking—swooning-no-blood-left-brain kind’a sex…) night from a decade before…

—anyone game for writing this plot-bunny? Does anyone even know what the Keltiad is (of the 5 folks who actually know that fandom on this hell-site—and if you do, tell me it wouldn’t make an awesome crossover concept merged with the Firefly and Star Wars aesthetic😜)…

[marblesarelost]

I just went through my book wish list and put it on Bookshop.

(I'm not buying anything TODAY because I have to move in ....FML SEVEN WEEKS?... and I am not stupid enough to buy MORE BOOKS just to have to pack them up and move them. Not to mention some of them are on backorder or preorder and I don't want them going to the wrong address because I am moving in seven weeks.)

BEFORE adding a bunch more?

Um

It was over $300.

AFTER adding a bunch more?

I don't know how much it is, and I'm honestly afraid to add it all up.

WELP

Just added all to my cart.

YEAH

It's under a grand!

.....barely....

But a lot of these books are REALLY IMPORTANT -- Jared Sexton, Heather Cox Richardson, stuff about how we really are facing a civil war coming, stuff about how shitty it is to be poor in America (not that I don't KNOW that shit),and then there's the books I just fucking WANT: the Wolf Hall books by Hilary Mantel, the Shigeru Mizuki Japanese history mangas, new copies of the Paks original trilogy and the expansion of the world as well (I didn't like those as much as the original Paks books, but I liked them well enough, and also Sergeant Stammel -- gods bless him), Gaiman's Norse Mythology and American Gods and Stardust and a new copy of the Graveyard Book, and the Chronicles of Prydain which I really do need to read, and then there's the James Clavell** books that I legit HAVE to have and the Tolkien, again, I have to have them because somehow I do not have copies of the big Four and the Silmarillion and yes I AM getting the illustrated Hobbit and the illustrated Silmarillion separately because ILLUSTRATIONS BY TOLKIEN, DAMMIT

(** Yes, I'm aware that Clavell's work is very problematic. That being said, my mother once told me, when learning that at the time I was reading Shogun and really liking it, that Shogun was the only book she ever saw my father, my actual father, read.

Now I know for a fact, solid and cold, that Daddy liked Stephen King. He read a lot of King after he and my mom divorced. He's who turned me into a Constant Reader -- okay given that I read Pet Sematary when I was eight at my grandma's house -- by giving me The Eyes of the Dragon when I was young; by handing me IT and Christine and The Shining and The Stand when I was older.

All that being said, there is something very special to me about reading and enjoying and loving books that my father read and loved. It makes me feel that we are still sharing, still reaching out to one another, beyond the Boundaries of Death's Country.

Not to mention, King Rat is....horribly problematic. Horribly so. Yet there is something in it that reaches to me. Here is greed, here is horror, here is the worst that man can be to man. Yet here is generosity, here is quiet stoic heroism, here is mercy, here is hope.

Clavell's work is problematic, yes. Lots of work is. But there is something to be learned from it. Do I think every work has something to be learned from? Not really. Some is just shit, and that's the honest truth. But some, we can learn something from.)

and FML I still need to find the complete Keltiad -- the Aeron books and the Arthur books, Blackmantle was a horrible revenge fantasy -- (And just for the record, I KNEW her, I KNEW Patricia, she invited me to her HOUSE if I were ever in NYC, she named me her War-Badger, I counted her as a FRIEND, I MOURNED her when she passed, and I STILL think Blackmantle was a HORRIBLE revenge fantasy) and the complete Belgariad along with Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress --

....FUCK.

(If you're wondering why I didn't mention the Malloreon, it's because I read the first book and hated it)

...I'd love to have the complete Foxfire series...

...guess I'm gonna have to hit up AbeBooks or something too...

RIP the cash I was gonna set aside just for me I guess....

[beatrixiv]

Written by Jim Morrison girlfriend lead singer of THE DOORS

Serge Gainzburg, Jane Birken was there a Coffee House Jam Session in France… of all the coffeehouses in the world, how did you get here… “Le Patch Azure” in Saint Moritz, France The Greek GetAway Haircut!

[longsightmyth]

It's possible I am old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn-ing but like.

(It's never The Keltiad)

[libriamore]

Every time I read something related to the Mabinogion/ Cuchulainn cycle I feel like I’m rewiring my brain

[rosheendubh]

The method behind the beauty of these covers (Napoleon and Beauty and the Beast as inspiration—need I say more?)…oh, the hand pose, described as ‘intimate’??

[rosheendubh]

Lol—alas, the fanfic I want to write—lol😜 Involves some convoluted/adapted crossover between the Keltiad (Patricia Keannelly-Morrison’s *Celts in Space* space-opera…), Serenity-Firefly, and Star Wars/revised Thrawn trilogy with themes of the 1st DarkEmpire…inspired by the Mabonigion/Ramayana/and slices of Nordic Myth (yes, there will be Space Valkyries…)—

—

Hi,

I always love visiting your blog, and @jedimordsith as well—a nice diversion after stressful real life, and such😜 Thank you for all the posts/fics/etc.

I’m not sure if anyone takes any requests, or if you’d know of any particular fics with scenes/plot-lines of what I wish I could find (short of writing them myself at some point…). 1) I love ‘BrokeBack Mountain’—just wondering if there’s ever been a Thrawn/Luke pairing featuring a similar kind of *enemies to (reluctant) friends/lovers* sort of weave. Ideally, set post RotJ. Maybe set as a spliced-in alternative/additional scene during the original Thrawn trilogy—they’re stuck on a planet, or crash-land, whatever—as Luke is trying to find some sort of gadget/weapon/plot-prop/whatever, before Thrawn/Empire can reach it. In the pursuit of our dashing Jedi, Thrawn ends up stuck on the same planet—a hostile environment (for whatever reason of the author’s conceiving)—requiring both Luke and Thrawn to eventually form an uneasy/ambivalent alliance in order to survive, and escape said planet…and amid the various perils they’re forced to navigate in order to survive, well, you know—stuff goes ‘BrokeBack Mountain’…

2) Additional potential fun-random scene, of little narrative value other than pure imaginative indulgence:

I can never get enough of the dance scene from the movie ‘Freida’/2002 (about the immortal Kahlo, and her relationship DiegoRivera…), where Diego and Antonio Banderas’s character get into some increasingly heated bro-debate on art-crit/socio-political theories, and Ashley Judd’s character basically corks the 2 Males by plopping a bottle of tequila in front of them, and daring whoever can drink the most will get the prize of getting to dance with her. And of course, Salma Hayek’s Freida swaggers on over, ends up out-drinking both the Menz, and proceeds to perform that eye-scorching tango with AshleyJudd’s character, set to Lila Downs’s voice in the background. While the Menz just kinda sit there, jaw-dropped and boon-doggled, the way men (and women) will when 2 incredibly sexy, intelligent, confident Ladies command the space, and the moment, around them, while sensuously diffusing a tense situation. Is there any fic that shows MaraJade with another equally charismatic/kick-A$$ woman, in a similar scenario-set-up, maybe in a dive-bar/tavern, maybe in front of Luke-Lando-TalonKarrde (hell, even Thrawn??—setting of Imperials vs NewRepublics in a scene like Casablanca with the French and Germans—lol)—and for the love of Wookiees, if there’s no fic featuring a scene like that, that you, in your vast repertoire of StarWars knowledge may know of, might anyone of such writing skills as you/JediMordsith embody (and anyone else wanting to try…) indulge this poor, beseeching fanGrrl?? I mean that mostly joking—I know peeps are busy, but just thought I’d inquire, and maybe plant a plot-bunny wish…

thanks for reading this whenever you have a chance, if you’re so inclined—and thanks for all-y’alls awesome blogs🙏😘

Hi!  Thank you so much for this message/ask @chicagosavant! @jedimordsith and I definitely appreciate knowing that our fics/posts bring joy to a stressful day and you are very welcome to come ogle with me and my pervy friends anytime at the wonder that is Luke the smexy Jedi and Thrawn the dashing demagogue.

This is a little long though so follow me below the cut! 

So I crowd-sourced your ideas with some fandom friends so you have the benefit of multiple minds behind this answer 😁

Unfortunately for these great scenarios you have, I don’t really read or write slash (m/m) or femslash (f/f) in general.  Nothing wrong with it, but I’m painfully heterosexual and it just doesn’t melt my butter.  Since fanfic is for fun, I just explore those ships with EXTREMELY limited exceptions (such as my Thranto quadruple drabble or hinting at Luke/dude in random drabbles).

So for your first idea, I think your best bet for the kind of scenario you describe (not really Brokeback Mountain but more like reluctant allies to lovers type thing) would be to explore Ezra/Thrawn fics and Thranto (Eli Vanto/Thrawn) fics.  nu!canon Thrawn is more likely to go on missions than Legends!Thrawn (who would probably just send an underling) so maybe explore post 2017-Thrawndom.  Most of the Luke/Thrawn stuff on AO3 is not really my jam (some mpreg!), but but I can tell you that the best Thrawn/Luke content I’ve read is in the Triumvirate AU series, which you can explore here.

It’s Luke/Mara/Thrawn and sometimes Luke/Mara/Thrawn/Pryce and there is some specific Luke/Thrawn content in the fics that @celinamarniss writes in particular that you will probably enjoy, like this one and this one.

As a totally unrelated aside, I actually did a Trigun dubbed movie trailer to Brokeback Mountain 100 years ago you can watch here.

As for the second idea, regarding a recreation of the dance scene in Frida, it’s unlikely to come from my pen, but it’s definitely a sexy moment/concept for a fic.

There is plenty of Leia/Mara that feature sexy confident intelligent women getting it on, maybe even dancing (tags are great for finding stuff like that…but I only found one dancing tag in my search).  I ALSO found you a Mara/Jyn dancing ficlet.

Since you are putting these plot bunnies out into the world, it’s possible that some awesome talented writer will take these on and write exactly the fic you want to read.  Maybe consider doing a dedicated “plot bunny” post offering them up to a good home?

The reality is most fic writers have full plates and too many ideas and too little time, so you can always do the default option, and tackle these great ideas yourself!  Write the fic you want to see in the world.  You can then keep it private for your own enjoyment or share it with everyone else to spread the sexy, either option is a win!  Thank you again for the ask!  I wish you lots of luck and happy reading (or writing!)!

[chicagosavant]

...what the Admiral wants, the Admiral gets...