#it's really funny tbh bc it was baby yoda that got me into this fandom for realsies and i think i have written one (1) mandalorian fic ever

[itstimeforstarwars]

how'd you get into star wars?

Technically, the first movie I remember watching in theaters is Revenge of the Sith. We only had Star Wars (a new hope, but the vhs was so old that when it came out there was only one Star Wars) at home, so my dad rented the other five from Blockbuster so we could understand what we were about to go see. This didn't make much of an impression on me, except I really liked Episode One, and my sister and I would sometimes pretend to be Jar Jar and Padme or Qui-Gon and Anakin. But there were other shows we liked more, and so Star Wars did not have much impact on my life when I was a kid.

Then Episode Seven came out, and I was enthralled. There was gonna be a stormtrooper Jedi! How cool was that?? Finn and Rey were awesome, and they shared a lightsaber, and they kicked ass!

And then Episode Eight came out, and I hated it so much I swore off Star Wars forever. The prequels haters were right, I thought. Star Wars is stupid as fuck, and they never should have made any after the first one. I still haven't watched episode nine.

But then quarantine happened, and my roommate mentioned that she'd never seen star wars. She barely knew about it. The only thing she knew was Darth Vader. She didn't even know who Luke Skywalker was.

But the Mandalorian looked cool. And we were bored, trapped inside, and we'd already done our single grocery shopping trip of the month, so we had literally nothing to look forward to or fear. I had just graduated, and I had just been laid off because of covid. She had online school, and she'd had the vast majority of her work shifts cut for the same reason.

So since the Mandalorian was a star wars show, we decided to watch the first seven movies.

And I loved them.

I hadn't watched any but episodes 4 and 7 since 2005, and I had almost completely forgotten them. But the movies were so fun, and watching them with my roommate made them more fun. And then, once we'd watched the movies, we got into the Mandalorian, and the first season was so good, so I got to looking at gifsets on tumblr, and then that somehow led me to Projie and Soft Wars---which was my introduction to tcw, because I thought that Soft Wars was based on Episode Two, and I spent approximately fifteen fics being extremely confused but enjoying myself nevertheless. Who is Rex? What is this...Wolffe? Why does everyone have a really stupid name?

And three years later, I've written about a hundred works for this fandom. It's wild. I got through half of tcw08, all of tcw03, all of Rebels and Andor, and way more comics and books than I ever thought I would. And I'm still having fun!

But tl;dr: it's mostly quarantine and baby yoda that got me into it.

Thanks for the ask!