#so i am just Tired

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[transthatfag]

destiel forehead healing kiss. what more could u want.

[riverthebooknerd]

"but why do you even ship them-" IT BRINGS ME JOY AND WHIMSY!!!!!!!

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[joshuamj]

Hero.

[to00fu]

[firefrightfic]

to anyone missing my writing please know i am also missing my writing

[idolomantises]

I think one of the more unfortunate consequences to creators being more interactive with fans is that a lot of fans/fandoms normalized this idea that creators have to explain/validate every headcanon they have.

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[krysmcscience]

Call this the Whoopsie AU (it's barely an AU)

I mean. Narinder never explicitly SAID the Lamb would stay dead... :3c He probably should have been more specific. >:3c

Part Two:

Well. The Lamb tried, but...sorry, Nari, the crown hates you now. Shouldn't have been so quick to lend it out, I guess. :D

Aaaand Part Three:

'Isn't he just adorable?' -The Lamb, probably, while their followers smile and nod and internally scream at the brand new hellcat they now have to share living space with...

Anyway, nothing says 'Dead To Me' like following a person around to loudly remind them of how dead they are to you. Right? Right. Narinder's got this all figured out. <:]

[windwenn]

This started out as a joke but then i realised the hight difference is kind of accurate💀

[kathaynesart]

REPLICA PLAYLIST

MUSIC UNDER CUT

I have been receiving requests for any songs that inspired Replica, so here, have my personal playlist. Sorry it’s not Spotify/Soundcloud but they don’t have some of these songs available so uh… guess you’re stuck with YouTube vids. For fun I'll include my personal titles for them (which might give a few hints of what to expect in the future/end).

Replica Main Theme - “Die for You” by Grabbitz Like Father Like Son Like Brother (Omega and Shelldon) - "As Above So Below" by Alistair Lindsay Mikey's Theme / The 1st Vision - "Suzume no Tojimari" by Nanoka Hara Military (Mad) Dogs / Central Park Colony - "Imperium" by Madeon Shanghai - "Icarus" by Madeon Boom Goes the Donnie-mite (Mikey/Donnie vs the Sweeper) - "The Red Zone" by Mitsuoto Suzuki The Day the Sky Bled Red - "7 Seconds Till the End" by Nobuo Uematsu Going Out Like a Boss (Raph and Leo) - "Agape" by Nicholas Britell Remembering the Right Way (Mikey and Leo) - "The Souls of Many" - by Alistair Lindsay Mystic Hands / The 2nd Vision - "Am I Dreaming" by Metro Boomin x A$AP Book 2 Trailer - "Sea Dragon" by Covet 7 Years Later - "Iron" by Woodkid Leo's Theme / Attack on the Labor Camp - "Ego Death" by Polyphia Omega's Theme - "Touch" by Daft Punk Flat Lines (Omega Alone) - "Die Toteninsel Emptiness" by 1000 Eyes Spear - "Monsters" by Tommee Profitt Final Protocol - "The Kraken" by Katie Dey Rise / Epilogue - "Close in the Distance" by Masayoshi Soken & Tom Mills

I will admit, it's a little embarrassing since you can easily see the patterns of what I've been listening to for the past year or two. I swear I listen to more than just videogame OSTs, these songs just jive well with the story and I often find lyrics distracting when brainstorming scenes. Regardless, the music I listen to is such an important part of my creative process and some of these songs really defined the scenes I now have locked in my head. So I figured it was only fair to give them the credit they're due.

I will continue to add to this playlist, and will note in comic updates when one of these songs is applicable!

[quiddie]

Just had a friend show me a conversation in a fan discord about Suvi as a Black American woman in the context of the fallout from the election. And honestly? Yeah. The blueprint is simple: Black women are expected to put their own priorities and emotions on hold to show up for everyone else's battles and hold endless space for everyone's feelings while simultaneously weathering attacks on our character (oh she's so angry/aggressive/violent/rude) and authority (she's a woke hire/affirmative action quota/nepobaby) without complaint. We're expected to save the day under nigh-impossible circumstance, and with fewer resources and support that is AT BEST, conditional.

So yeah, relistening to Suvi's speech in The Witness hurts now. Because that's exactly the feeling I'm wrestling with, and what I see mirrored in the Black women around me. We are exhausted and angry and sad. Those voter percentages are a betrayal of "we" that was promised by other marginalized groups when speaking of the interconnectedness of our liberation. And the unexamined expectation that we immediately rise from the depths of our despair to prepare for the next fight is a cruelty. Suvi isn't real, but if this helps lend empathy toward actual Black women in the world, then I'm glad.

[queerautism]

We're back at this being the entirety of the advice being given for Testosterone DIY HRT in a bunch of current threads about it. Genuinely sick of this.

And it's very dismissive of the legal risk as well, which is significant for many marginalised people in the US, like POC who already get disproportionately targeted by the cops.

[super-nova5045]

its always “we should beat up and kill rapists and abusers!” but the moment someone actually does you all turn on them

[notasapleasure]

👏👏👏 oh yes, all of this!

I didn't want to hijack your post, elwen, but tumblr has a tag limit now I guess, so the following tag ramble was extracted from my drafts so I could finish what I was saying. Basically, uhhh, I agree (though I don't think it's because of the novelisation so much as the backstory in all the associated material disney released - perhaps we might call it the Edwards backstory vs the Gilroy backstory, and I'm gonna try not to get into all that but. we know the rewrites had a big impact on the characters and narrative of R1, and I know a bunch of R1 fans act like they'd rather have the Edwards edit for shipping reasons, while the film we got is undoubtedly better for Gilroy's influence). I say all this as an avowed rebelcaptain shipper (though ship and let ship, I'm a multi these days I guess) who was there from the start, who loves R1 and Andor, and who's uh, honestly a bit sick of people on both 'sides' acting like their version is intrinsically better or like canon only has space for one or the other.

😏😏😏 #what a wise post #cassian is going to be the most unreliable narrator of his own life! #i have seen people claim andor erased his background as a child soldier #apparently missing where he's sent from juvie into war as a teenager - but maybe they take luthen's version at face value too? #i find that i don't like to hear gilroy's reasonings for a lot of what he does - e.g. using cassian as an example of #'how far can i remove this person from where they end up to show their journey there' #but word of god always gets my back up and i find gilroy often insufferably smug #it's nonetheless helped me think about what i love about andor differently - while i am a R1 fan who needed time to come to terms with #the slow first episodes (a feature not a bug i agree now and a good one a refreshingly unusual one) #and the way the community around him works - gilroy's 'what would it take to make a guy like that into a guy like THAT' #relies overwhelmingly on the people around him and those he meets - the community of ferrix is such a crucial foundation in that #giving him support and guidance - even when he doesn't want to hear it - that you can imagine running through all that comes after #same with nemik and gorn and kino and melshi and all the others he meets - each meeting is what's important for me rather than the events #also i think there was a trend in R1 fandom - that always left a bad taste in my mouth - to…over-militarise the rebellion? #to look at the yavin base and see the organisation and ranks and cassian's straight back talking to draven and… #to imagine it like a modern formal coughus military set up #and i love that andor shows that despite the need for rank and order - it's not that simple. the rebellion is flexible and pragmatic #it has to be. i don't imagine that the disagreements on how things are run end when luthen and saw are not longer involved #ALSO lbr the R1 fandom was always notoriously bonkers about the 'i've been in this fight since i was six years old' scene #i've been in this fight since the beginning! i've seen people claim that scene makes jyn racist makes cassian sexist i've seen attack ships #on fire off the shoulder of orion….etc… #i love that scene in R1 but i ALWAYS felt neither of them was fully telling the truth about themselves that's them that's who they are!! #it's deliberate button-pushing because they know what will push the other's buttons because they know each other they're painfully similar #jyn says something meant to hurt - the stormtrooper line. and it works! it hurts! so he says something cruel back #he knows her background he's read her file - he knowsshe was in the fight at six years old like it or not and yet she apparently walked away #with the andor background you can see that was his impulse too - but since then in R1 he's had the chance to come back of his own adult will #both of them are using their own pain about their past (jyn's dad is no stormtrooper but he did wear an imperial uniform) to hurt the other #*oh and i didn't really follow up the rambling military tags but i think that fed into R1 fans liking to see cassian as #representative of a stable institution. someone who's been in a framework of strict rules requiring strict behaviour from him for years

So yeah following on from the tags what was I gonna say…I think it's a struggle to see Cassian so aimless - I found that tough on the first viewing, too. And I *do* think the show is still settling into stride in the first episodes, and sometimes it feels like Cassian is a character being moved from convenient lecture point to convenient lecture point, BUT the best thing about the show is that it transcends that because the characters and action are so well written. It sweeps you up in it anyway, and the performances are *mwah* chef's kiss - it adds to Cassian's arc to see him so aimless in the end, trying to find meaning and direction. To think of him in R1 as someone who *chose* that path and knows how he's been moulded into a tool and has chipped away at himself to fit into that structure but it's also give him an optimism he doesn't have in Andor and a faith in the hope of it he never had before, but he still chafes at it, hope is finite, and meeting Jyn - and Bodhi and the others - jolts him out of that complacency about his thankless role and reminds him why he chose to do what he does.

I have taken time to talk myself round to this view though, and fandom hasn't really helped.

Op this isn't about you at all, but I do also have to say that while I know there's been clown behaviour from R1 fans, I think it's unfair to rag on people who are disappointed that a collective fanon was 'disproved' by canon when 1) no one expected a R1 prequel at the time it came out, it was a bit of a niche and unloved part of the SW fandom even then, 2) this new disney era of SW is meant to be internally consistent, right? We got rid of Legends, we mourned the old EU, and now we have a clean slate.... only Disney is too inept/doesn't care about consistency, they couldn't even manage it in a flagship trilogy of films, so of course they don't give a toss about it between R1 and Andor (here I'm referring to the stuff that is directly contradicted by Andor about Cassian's father, Carida etc. that doesn't come from the novelisation but from the R1 promo material 0 and that this was a KNOWING change emphasised by the reference to Fest, which I remember cringing at tbh). Yes, this is Star Wars! This is the life of a SW fan as it's always been, actually nothing has changed. You've got to choose your own version of canon and block out the versions you don't vibe with. 3) That being said, R1 fans have suffered like you wouldn't know. Read Rebel Rising. You'll see what I mean. *barf* Anyway, having had Jyn's backstory made into some twee and tidy YA adventure romance, I can see why people were disgruntled that the ideas they'd been left to build about Cassian were also swept away - and I do think that's not an invalid way of thinking about it. Gilroy deliberately wanted to remove Cassian from the person he is in R1 as far as possible to tell the resistance story he wanted to tell, and that is a good story!! But it's understandable it felt like a kick in the teeth to people who were already invested in the person Cassian was presented to be.

Ha. Insert some point about Cassian the master spy and trickster, never revealing his true self.

I don't really know how to wrap this up. Oh yeah - leftist infighting simulator!!!! We're all clowns here. We are all participating in a big budget Disney circus. Andor is well-written, but like...Disney is not unaware of its themes. Gilroy isn't some subversive genius smuggling in messages Disney disapprove of. Equally Rogue One was still kind of a mess, guys, never forget the rewrites and the production hell we'll never know about and all the bizarre inconsistencies that existed from the beginning because the merch was already made (Sergeant Erso, and ah yes, brave pilot who was certainly not a last minute addition...*reads smudged handwriting* ...Booby Root....?)

So it's hardly surprising that there are inconsistencies, but I did always think that the fun of fandom comes in taking the gaps and the contradictions and making a fannish theory to fix them, and in the case of the scene and quote in the original post (....a ....long way above...sorry...s so sorry, this got away from me I've needed to say this stuff for a while....) it's not even a reach to make them align if you want them to! I think it's sad that so many R1 fans don't want them to. And I think it's sad that a bunch of Andor fans are so sniffy about why R1 fans were left a bit bruised by the size of the gaps their fanon needed to change to fill. Though adding on the important caveat that I did come to the Andor fandom late because I worried about how I'd find it as a R1 fan, and so I probably missed some of the worst clown behaviour by R1 fans.

Anyway, bring on S2, I refuse to let myself get hurt by having any opinions on what to expect! This is a normal and good coping mechanism and I haven't been burned in the past despite my somewhat patronising attempts at diplomacy here. :)))

(I couldn't find the fandoms one but this works too)

I WANNA HEAR YOUR UNPOPULAR ANDOR OPINIONS

OH THIS IS SUCH A GOOD AND HARD ONE!!!

I have plenty of thoughts on Andor that I suspect are fairly widely held within the fandom and maybe not so much outside the fandom (like the belief that the "slowness" of the first three episodes is a feature and not a bug).

But I think maybe one take I have that might be more divisive is that - while I understand why some fans who read the novelization of Rogue One are disappointed in the changes to Cassian's backstory - I don't actually think that what Andor gives us negates the line in RO where Cassian says he's "been in this fight since he was six years old." In fact, I'm really drawn to a possible reading of that scene that Andor makes available, which is that what we see in that moment is a Rebellion-era Cassian re-narrating his life after the development of a revolutionary consciousness. While he doesn't yet understand his experiences as part of "the Rebellion's fight" at the start of Andor, after the events of season one (esp. Nemik's manifesto and the Narkina breakout and the Rix Road uprising) and what we'll see in season two, he eventually comes to see what happened on Kenari as his conscription into a fight against imperialism and fascism.

And in many ways I think that story (of someone who has to learn that they were engaged in political struggle before they recognized it) is a more suggestive model for thinking about what it takes to build resistance movements than the story of someone who could sign up to join an already-formed militant group.