Been reading this wonderful fantasy fanfic by @jimtitkirk and I couldnāt help but doodle along as i read!! Awesome idea and amazing writing, 10/10 yelled about it to anyone in a 10 meter radius.

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Been reading this wonderful fantasy fanfic by @jimtitkirk and I couldnāt help but doodle along as i read!! Awesome idea and amazing writing, 10/10 yelled about it to anyone in a 10 meter radius.

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just remembered the funniest and probably best compliment iāve ever received about my writing was, amidst an entire paragraph talking about the fic: āPlease develop a God complex.ā
i can tell my depression has like. Officially gone away because i was hit with an idea last night and the adhd was so unhinged that i literally couldnt sleep until 4am because i couldnt stop thinking about it.
anyways. letters to my dearest beloved truthers, May or may not have an interesting project in store for yall
For all those "Worst Sex Scene of the Year" awards that exist none will ever be able to affect me or even faze me because in 2017 I took a college creative writing course and my classmate subjected me to the single worst sex scene ever scripted and nothing can top it I mean nothing can top the sleep-deprived and coffee-addled shock and disbelief I experienced parsing one word after the other and convincing myself I was not dreaming.
The guy has an epiphany mid-thrusting-into-his-gf that his goal in life is to conquer Europe (not in a silly way. in a "studies Hitler and Mussolini way") to return it to its "feudal glory"
I saved a copy because some things cannot be lost to fever dream.
Also I'mma shut off reblogs if this breaks containment since I'm putting some rando's writing on blast but I need to share. Even if I delete this tomorrow morning I just. Need it to be known what I endured.
NSFW as HELL text--this shit's mature-labeled and minors look away but jesus h chrst I just
One thing Iāve learned about writing is āgive everything a faceā. Itās no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Donāt just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.
itās bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.
This is the real heart of āshow donāt tellā

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Some Quick Character Tips
Here are a handful of quick tips to help you write believable characters!Ā
1. A characterās arc doesnāt need to grow linearly.Ā Your protagonist doesnāt have to go from being weak to strong, shy to confident, or novice to professional in one straight line. Itās more realistic if they mess up their progress on the way and even decline a bit before reaching their goal.
2. Their past affects their present.Ā Make their backstory matter by having their past events shape them into who they are. Growing up with strict parents might lead to a sneaky character, and a bad car accident might leave them fearful of driving.
3. Give reoccurring side characters something that makes them easily recognizable.Ā This could be a scar, a unique hairstyle, an accent, or a location theyāre always found at, etc.
4. Make sure their dialogue matches their personality.Ā To make your characters more believable in conversation, give them speech patterns. Does the shy character mumble too low for anyone to ever hear, does the nervous one pace around and make everyone else on edge?Ā
5. Make your characters unpredictable.Ā Real people do unexpected things all the time, and this can make life more exciting. The strict, straight-A student who decides to drink at a party. The pristine princess who likes to visit the muddy farm animals. When characterās decide to do things spontaneously or in the heat of the moment, it can create amazing twists and turns.
6. Give even your minor characterās a motive.Ā This isnāt to say that all your characters need deep, intricate motives. However, every character shouldĀ need or wantĀ something, and their actions should reflect that. Whatās the motive behind a side character who follows your protagonist on their adventure? Perhaps theyāve always had dreams of leaving their small village or they want to protect your protagonist because of secret feelings.
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hallelujah, itās a christmas miracle: manslut luke fic is being written after too many months of writers block <3333
a god in his mind
"there's a bubble in timeāsometime past the near-death by a traināthat may only exist within the most covert memories of two men, drowned by their own misguided betrayal. (extended bit after the train scene)."
goncharov/andrey, 770 words, not rated but there's not really any violence or otherwise explicit content.
āWere you trying to kill yourself, you fucking coward?ā
Thereās no more bite left to Andreyās words, only a soft puff of breath that whispers against the bristles that line Goncharovās mouth: Goncharov caught a glance of Andreyās expression as the air had been knocked from his chestāan ounce of panic, an ounce of weakness to which the traitor would never admitābut any anger that remained sapped away from Andreyās body as they lay chest-to-chest, the steam train whirring past their heels like a roaring current. Their breaths had slowedāsynched, perhaps distantly longing to be the same entityābut not once had Andreyās gaze strayed to the piercing stare of the manāonly a man, perhaps nothing moreābeneath him, fixated stubbornly on the darkness at their side.
āLook me in the eye, andĀ thenĀ call me a coward.ā
continuing reading on ao3
Inevitable Concerns in Courtship of an Oblivious Manslut (Ch3)
āIn receiving a mission from Force ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi to carry out an ancient Jedi tradition, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker consequently becomes one of the galaxyās most renowned mansluts. In the process, Luke manages to woo the incredibly emotionally-repressed hearts of close friend and smuggler Han Solo as well as Mandalorian bounty hunter and father Din Djarin, both of whom naively assume they are the sole proprietors of Lukeās affection. Once finding out otherwise, however, instead of communicating like mature adults, Han and Din decide to take matters into their own, terribly petty hands.ā
[very] explicit, overall itās a din/luke/han story, but it technically progresses as han/lukeādin/lukeāvery-messy-very-loosely han/dinādin/luke/han, chapter 3/9 (had to split this one in half), 25025 total words.
A one-night stand does not, however, characterize a manslut: the final step to fully-matured mansluthood is the personal motivation to seek out adventure and variety within oneās sex life and its actual execution, which is where we meet Luke at this point in the story.
Luke did, indeed, spend a great deal of time navigating his way quite literally across the galaxy (about four-point-five oāclock against the spiral) with Dantooine already challenging enough to navigate to from its adjacent hyperspace runs, and then proceeded to spend an even greater amount of time sifting through ruins upon the discovery of an old Jedi Temple. (He emerged with a couple holocrons, some partially-damaged texts in desperate need of translation, and a few potential leads to other bases or points of interest, but this story doesnāt actually give two wompratsā whiskers about anything actually significant in regard to Lukeās functional role in the galaxy, so we will disregard most information relating to ecclesiastical archaeology in favor of serving substantially the same function as a tabloid).
ReadĀ āChapter 3: The RumorsĀ (Part I: How It Started)ā on ao3
is manslut luke fic bordering on 3 months unupdated? perhaps. but Also i am melting my brain and creating the most realistic tabloids ever, the sun should hire me frfr

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Iāve seen five different authors take down, or prepare to take down, their posted works on Ao3 this week.Ā At the same time, Iāve seen several people wishing there was more new content to read.Ā Iāve also seen countless posts by authors begging for people to leave comments and kudos.Ā
People tell me I am a big name fan in my chosen fandom.Ā I donāt quite get that but for the purposes of this post, letās roll with it.Ā On my latest one shot, less than 18% of the people who read it bothered to hit the kudos button.Ā Sure, okay, maybe that one sort of sucked.Ā Letās look at the one shot posted before that - less than 16% left kudos.Ā Before that - 10%, and then 16%.Ā Iām not even going to get into the comments.Ā Letās just say the numbers drop a lot.Ā Iām just looking at one shots here so we donāt have to worry about multiple hits from multiple chapters, people reading previous chapters over, etc.Ā And if I am a BNF, that means other people are getting significantly less kudos and comments.
Fandom is withering away because it feels like people donāt care about the works that are posted.Ā Why should I go to the trouble of posting my stories if no one reads them, and of the people who do read them, less than a fifth like them?Ā Even if you are not a huge fan of the story, if it kept your attention long enough for you to get to the bottom, go ahead and mash that kudos button.Ā Itās a drop of encouragement in a big desert.Ā
TL;DR: Passively devouring content is killing fandom.
Reblogging again
So much this
You know, kudos and comments are much beloved by all esp. yrs truly, but I have to say: Iāve been posting fic for 20 years, and I have never in my entire life had a story stay above a 1:9 kudos to hits ratio (or comments to hits, back when kudo wasnāt an option). Usually they donāt stay above 1:10, once theyāve been around for a few weeks.
I also have a working background in online marketing. In social media 1:10 is what you would call a solid engagement score, when people actually care about your product (as opposed to ālikingā your Facebook page so they could join a contest or whatever). If BNFs are getting 1:5 - and I do sometimes see it - that is sky-high engagement. Take any celebrity; take Harry Styles, who has just under 30M followers and doesnāt tweet all that often. He regularly gets 3-400K likes, 1-200K retweets. Iāve seen him get up to just under 1M likes on a tweet. Thatās a 1:30 engagement ratio, for Harry Styles, and though some of you guys enjoy my fics and have said so, I donāt think you have as lasting a relationship with my stories as Harry Stylesās fans do with him. XD;
Again, this is not to say we, as readers, should all go home and not bother to kudo or comment or engage with fic writers. That definitely is a recipe for discouraging what you want to see in future. But this is not the first post Iāve seen that suggests a 20% kudo ratio is the equivalent of yelling into the void, and Iām worried that we as writers are discouraging ourselves because our expectations are out of whack.
I think about this a lot, because itās important to know what a realistic goal to expect from an audience is, even though I admit it definitely is kind of depressing when you look at the numbers. I was doing reading on what sort of money you can expect to make from a successful webcomic, and the general rule of thumb seems to be that if your merchandising is meshing well with your audience, about 1% will give you merch. I imagineĀ āsubscribe to patreonā also falls in this general range.Ā
Stuff that is ONLY available for dollars are obviously going to have a different way of measuring this, but when it comes toĀ āIf people can consume something without engaging back in any fashion (hitting a like button, buying something, leaving a comment)ā the vast majority will.
And as a creator that is frustrating but as a consumer itās pretty easy to see how it happens. I have gotten steadily worse at even liking posts, much less leaving comments on ones I enjoy, since I started using tumblr. Itās very difficult to engage consistently. I always kudo on any fanfic I read and comment on the vast majority, but then again I donāt read a lot of fanfic, if you are someone who browses AO3 constantly/regularly for months or years, I could see how itās easy to stop engaging. I donāt remember to like every YT video or tumblr fanart I see, much less comment on them.
When we are constantly consuming free content itās hard to remember to engage with it or what that engagement means to the creators. And lol, honestly that sucks. Certainly as consumers we should be better about it. But also like, as a creator be kinder to yourself by setting a realistic bar of what you can achieve.Ā
And IMO, if numbers matter to you (kudos, comments, etc) be honest about the fact that you CAN improve those things by marketing yourself better. TheĀ āI just produced my art and put it out there and got insanely popular because it was just so brilliantā is less than a one a million chance. Lots of amazing content is overlooked every day because there is a lot of good content and a metric fuckton of mediocre to bad content. You can only SORT of judge the quality of your work based on the audience it generates, but if what you WANT is an audience there is way, way, WAY more you can be doing than simply producing whatever you immediately feel like. Marketing yourself is a skill and if you want the benefits of it you have to practice it.
I have a professional background in internet marketing as my day job and a moderate hobby business. My definition for āmoderateā is āit pays for itself, keeps me in product, and occasionally buys groceries.ā In the day job, which is for an extremely large global company, there are entire teams of people whose entire purpose of employment is to ensure a 3% conversion rate. Thatās it. That is for a Fortune 100 company: the success metric is for 3% of all visitors to a marketing web site to click the āsend me more infoā link. My moderate business that pays for itself has a 0.94% conversion rate of views to orders. Less than 1%, and itās still worth its time ā and this is without me bothering to do any marketing beyond instagram and tumblr posts with new product. I know it feels like no one is paying attention to you and youāre wasting your time if you donāt get everyone clicking kudos or commenting but I promise, I PROMISE, you are doing fantastically, amazingly well with your 10% rate. You probably arenāt going to go viral AND THATāS FINE. Youāre only hurting yourself if youāre expecting a greater return ā donāt call yourself a failure, because youāre NOT. Youāre just looking at it the wrong way. I promise, youāre lovely just the way you are.
Reblogging this bc it is a take on fan engagement at AO3 that I havenāt seen before, and as a writer I find it helpful to have this reality check. Also I wonder which came first: the overall low engagement rates in internet commerce, or the freaking shit-ton of unwanted spam and advertising weāre constantly bombarded with?
I think as writers our assumption (my assumption anyway) is that the portion of hits that donāt convert to kudos equals the portion of readers who looked at your fic, didnāt like it, and never finished it. But it would seem that is an overly pessimistic assumption.Ā
I should know this, because IĀ ālikeā very sparingly here and reblog only less sparingly, and yet I read and enjoy a lot of posts I donāt like or reblog.Ā
#also something that is really obvious that none of this points out#(probably someone did somewhere in the notes but I do have a life)#your hit count will go up by virtue of PEOPLE REREADING YOUR FIC#a hit count disproportionate to kudos/comments#which are things that are only really done once #is INEVITABLE#and a GOOD thing #people rereading your fic is a good thing
Also, while I will always defend peopleās right to take down their work if they want to, I will point out that taking your work down simply because you think it didnāt get enough engagement prevents you from having the experience of seeing it slowly grow over time. Youāre doing the equivalent of cancelling a TV show that doesnāt have an amazingly successful pilot episode, without waiting to see if it gains a devoted following by mid-season. Itās short-sighted. It means youāre not going to potentially have the pleasure of someone commenting on it 5 or 10 years later to explain that it was their favourite story, that they re-read it 20 times, that they shared it with their friends, or even just that theyāre so glad they found it on that specific day, years after you posted it. You might not even have the pleasure of going back to re-read it yourself and see how youāve progressed as a writer.
AO3 is an archive - itās there to preserve fanfic. It has longevity, and if you leave your works there, they can have longevity too. And you never know when something is going to be rediscovered, or who it might mean something to (including yourself).
Due to RL shenanigans, and my brain not working correctly, the last piece of fanfic I published was probably about five years ago? But it is still such a pleasure to get a random kudos from someone in my inbox, sometimes for stuff I wrote at the turn of the century!
The point about people rereading stories they love, or calling the link back up on their web browser to send to a friend, is really key here. If I find myself going back to a story again and again and getting the āyou have already left kudos hereā message, I try to at least leave a little comment to tell them that it is a favorite.
But yeah, 1:10 engagement is super freaking good for any kind of web content. So yes, as a reader, leave your kudos and comment whenever you can, but also remind yourself as a writer to keep your expectations within the realm of likelihood. š
I have a couple of stories out there that, were I a mid-list published author, would be the books that truck along in print forever. I get a slow drip of comments on them, and a slow drip of kudos as people dig around into older stories in their fandoms, and itās such a pleasure knowing they are still out there giving people something.
The most popular of these is well under 10% kudos-to-hits, and 0.4% comments-to-hits. Iāve never bothered to calculate that before now but Iām not surprised by it; I know from some of the comments that the story is frequently re-read. I canāt imagine being shirty about that ratio or taking fic down because of it.
also to return to the bit about how you can in fact market yourself, even beyond the āshare links on social mediaā etc element to draw in readers, a skill iāve been grinding to my benefit for the like. 17 years i have now been posting fanfic online good gracious
is writing the kind of author notes that encourage the reader to 1) think of commenting and 2) actually want to do that.
because i love hearing what people think; itās not just the general boost of positivity though i love that, itās every piece of positive to neutral feedback expands my experience of my own work in a way that reifies it and allows me to perceive it as a reader does, which is great for many reasons including i mostly write the things i want to read.
but āplease comment!ā does not give people the feeling that iām a person who wants to be talked to, and [tiresome textwall] does not give them the feeling that they want to talk to me. and the kind of note that will inspire that depends on the fandom and the vibe of the specific fic, so thereās a learning curve there.
so sadly, even here social skills are required to optimize your social benefits from a thing. tragic i know.
Also like⦠the obvious problem here: You can only leave one kudos on a fic. Every time you visit it, you will leave a hit.
So yeah if youāve got a 50 chapter fanfic, and only 5% of readers leave kudos, that would mean that every single hit belongs to a person that read your full fanfic and left kudos. Is the ratio more out of sync? People are re-reading it.
Or maybe they thought the fic was something else, and upon clicking on it and getting a few chapters deep, realized that you were working with headcanons they werent interested in, so politely closed the tab and moved on. Thatās not a fucking crime.
And lets be real here, the list of people that have left kudos on a fic is public knowledge; the whole thing is right there for anyone who wants to see. And with fandom purity culture being what it is, people may honestly not feel safe leaving kudos on a fic with the knowledge that the Morality Police might take offense to that fic and express that outrage by harassing everyone who interacted positively with that fic. I like reading pretty heavy content sometimes, and I canāt count how many times Iāve gotten through an excellent fic only to find a comments section with people screaming in outrage and declaring that the author and everyone who enjoyed the story is a complete monster for wanting to see content that isnāt fluff (donāt we know there are CHILDREN on the internet????), and sometimes itās kind of hard to feel safe putting a target on my back to defend the fic.
Finally, you know the main reason I donāt leave kudos on fics sometimes? I fucking forget. Itās one little button. Iām not thinking about Smashing That Like Button or what the fuck ever, Iām thinking about going to the next chapter. And when Iām done with the fic, Iām thinking about what I just read. God, itās pretty frequent for me to finish reading an incredible, thought provoking fanfic, and then several days/weeks/months/years later track it down in my history to bookmark it because I fucking forgot to do that.
i donāt usually add my two cents to posts outside of tags, and especially on an already long post, but because writing on ao3 has been such an important part of my life for so long and this is something iām constantly studying, I thought Iād add some additional thoughts that I have yet to see mentioned:
firstly, bouncing off the previous reblog, i know this may not be as common but some people might not want to be associated with certain fandoms: i currently have 51 private bookmarks of a fandom i consider a guilty pleasure, but i donāt drop kudos or comments because i donāt want my name publicly listed there (should i log out and do so anonymously? probably, but there are also many fics that are only available to users). iāve also gotten a comment on an explicit fic of mine that was anonymous because said person was embarrassed to be commenting via their user, and only did so when i recognized their name and gushed about how i was a fan of their work in not one but two obscure fandoms (you know who you are š)
aside from multi-chaptered fics versus oneshots, authors should also take individual fandoms and even types of fics into account. even though iād only written two oneshots, one of the fandoms with the best engagement iāve seen was Moomins back when there was a huge explosion on tumblr: both fics are approx. a 1:6-7 kudos ratio, and have a large collection of comments that genuinely mean a lot to me. the best fandom for stats for which iāve written was hlvraiāsomething in which I wasnāt really invested but wrote a short oneshot for friendsāyet even now, has just under a 1:5 kudo ratio. none of these fics were promoted. other fandoms that i wouldāve thought to be more popular remain at around 1:9-15, even if they had been promoted in bangs and whatnot. as for ātypesā of fics, i want to take my star trek fics into account: an explicit crack oneshot (written as an academic joke, but something a reader would look at like āwhy would i ever want something like thisā) is at 1:16 but with more coverage* and satisfying comments, a mature humorous oneshot at 1:7 (more coverage), an analysis (oneshot, romantic, a lot of retelling thru writing) at 1:11 (little coverage), and archiving of a star trek rp with friends with almost no kudos or coverage whatsoever. (*by coverage i mean how many people engaged with the fic: were hits in the hundreds, or were there a few thousand?)
lastly, i feel like we tend to forget about other factors such as bookmarks, collections, and subscriptions. subscriptions are harder to surmise due to only showing in the statistics tab, but iāve often been surprised at thinking an ongoing fic had no interest whatsoever only to be baffled by the amount of subscriptions collected. as for bookmarks, i almost use them as an indicator more than i do kudos. being an author of tiny fandoms, i am often guilty of checking the ārankingā of my fic in the tag sorted by kudos; however, when looking at fic above mine, i always take into consideration a) the date fics were published (how many more years could another fic accumulate kudos?) and especially b) how are the bookmarks and collections comparable to the rest? bookmarks are often used as a saving-for-later, but itās also a public statement of love, saying āi enjoyed this fic so much i want to display that on my profileā, and the amount of ācommentsā alone that iāve read as bookmark tags/notes has also drastically influenced my motivation. the statistics tab also includes private bookmarks, which at least doubles the number, if not more (say, in the case of an explicit fic, where people may be more hesitant to display āwhat theyāre intoā). collections are a bit more of a rare case, but an incredible honor ā sure, fics will be put into a collection for activities like bangs, but iāve also had fic put into personal collections curated by someone who wants to showcase favorite fics in a fandom or even personal top favorites.
i know this is repeated like mantra in writing circles, but you really should be writing what you like to retain your love for the hobby. itās hard as shit to post something with so much love and get almost no coverage whatsoever (writers for obscure 20th century movies are stronger than us marines, ily), i know that from personal experience, but itās also true that constantly trying to write āwhat appeals to othersā can be draining and even accumulate into writerās block. the way i see it is you have to get your practice from somewhere, so why not improve your writing by writing the most self-indulgent trash that has ever graced your imagination?? i promise you at LEAST one other person will love it, and eventually (with practice) you might get the satisfaction of receiving a comment that only says āWHY IS THIS CRACK SO WELL WRITTEN??ā
Inevitable Concerns in Courtship of an Oblivious Manslut (Ch2)
āIn receiving a mission from Force ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi to carry out an ancient Jedi tradition, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker consequently becomes one of the galaxyās most renowned mansluts. In the process, Luke manages to woo the incredibly emotionally-repressed hearts of close friend and smuggler Han Solo as well as Mandalorian bounty hunter and father Din Djarin, both of whom naively assume they are the sole proprietors of Lukeās affection. Once finding out otherwise, however, instead of communicating like mature adults, Han and Din decide to take matters into their own, terribly petty hands.ā
[very] explicit, overall itās a din/luke/han story, but it technically progresses as han/lukeādin/lukeāvery-messy-very-loosely han/dinādin/luke/han, chapter 2/8, 17520 total words.
āWhat if I-ā Hanās mind was racing, trying to reach for anything at that point. āWhat if I went and chased after your brother, hm?ā
āYāknow, Iād actually much rather that than you sweet-talking some arbitrary sex worker in whatever Outer Rim shithole youād find yourself in,ā Leia admitted, looking far too amenable to the idea than Han could have ever imagined. Han felt like his head had been dunked under ice-cold water. āKnowing you, youād probably end up putting another bounty on your head, and Iām already swamped with enough work as it is. Besides, youāve seen how Lukeās gotten: poor kid probably needs a good lay.ā
Read āChapter 2: The Smugglerā on ao3
if i dont finish writing the next chapter today im giving yall legal permission to hunt me for sport
ok theres prolly like just under 2k words left to write but im packing it in. gimme a 30 second head start and then just go hog wild ig
if i dont finish writing the next chapter today im giving yall legal permission to hunt me for sport
i really gotta finish chapter 2 of the manslut luke fic but im debating whether im bold enough to write smut on the airplane :/

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why do all my best fics come out of there being something seriously wrong with me. i wrote letters to my dearest beloved during the end of high school and the summer after when i had like. one of the worst crashes in my life so far. and yet not only do i think i personally wrote some of the best stuff iāve ever done, but the amount of feedback iāve gotten from readers is still MINDBLOWING. and even now, iām kinda fucked up in general. and let me tell you. this intro for a fic for ofmd that i wrote? holy fuckin shit yall. ough
Inevitable Concerns in Courtship of an Oblivious Manslut
āIn receiving a mission from Force ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi to carry out an ancient Jedi tradition, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker consequently becomes one of the galaxy's most renowned mansluts. In the process, Luke manages to woo the incredibly emotionally-repressed hearts of close friend and smuggler Han Solo as well as Mandalorian bounty hunter and father Din Djarin, both of whom naively assume they are the sole proprietors of Luke's affection. Once finding out otherwise, however, instead of communicating like mature adults, Han and Din decide to take matters into their own, terribly petty hands.ā
explicit (though not this chapter), overall itās a din/luke/han story, but it technically progresses as han/lukeādin/lukeāvery-messy-very-loosely han/dinādin/luke/han, chapter 1/8, 4245 words.
āThis exercise in attachment is an old Jedi secret passed down only to the most advanced of padawans, those with more life experience. My own Master Qui-Gon passed down his wisdom to me, oh, just before I became a Jedi Knight myself, believing there is a strength and nobility in restraint. In fact, I now believe one of my failings as a teacher to your father was in refraining from assigning this exercise.ā
At the mention of his father, Luke perked up, bringing his cosmopolitan up to his lips to take another sip. He wondered what important knowledge Yoda had happened to miss in the short amount of time he received training from the old Jedi Master.
āYoung Master Luke,ā Obi-Wan said. āWhat have you heard of the Intragalactic Grindr practice?ā
Luke choked on his drink.
ReadĀ āChapter 1: Introduction - The Jediā on ao3