Duke Marjorie

Chapter 3 is finished if you want to take a look. https://archiveofourown.org/works/74056936/chapters/193205621 Now onto Chapter 4. What I like to do when working on my story is getting to a core idea and then thread them with things from Star Wars, History, and recent events. In this research, I am working with the core idea of love. Being someone who has worked in theatre for a decade, has stage managed stories from my own culture and others, and being autistic, patterns of why things are the way they are are not something I thought as a problem to solve, but an understanding and a discovery. Love is one of those things that is the glue of civilisation. Without it, we wouldn't be here. In a world right now where we have to become an academic to be "allowed" to have an opinion on something fundamentally human, I learn what humanity was, but learning the stories told through people, not books... I also had dyslexia in the 90s and parents who were nonexistent, so reading and writing didn't come naturally to me, but listening and observing did. I had to because it was a survival mechanism, because the love I was given was access to things, but not the love of being known. I am a millennial and had boomer parents, and even though I love a good roast on them, that access was their love and when we would question it or want more or something else, THAT was seen as a problem and not a failure on their part, but ours. If you can't be grateful for letting you live in my house, then you can leave. Then, as millennials, we had been raised by media that had stories of love where someone sees you and loves you "just the way you are" and that was what a lot of us wanted from our parents. To be known so when we go out and find someone to love we want to give that kind of love back, but... Well, that didn't happen. From my lived experience, there was a separation of people, of all groups, and they started to mythologise eachother, and a lot of influences of fascist ideas popped out that were subtle at first. But this sort of attack on what love is, who gets to, and why religion seems to control it or use it. Is because it is something humans NEED to survive. To me, love was not just romantic, and honestly, I don't even know what romantic love is anymore. For me, having someone care for me and about me is what I deem as love, because I wouldn't love them back if they didn't. Love is unconditonal is, only if maybe your partner was some religious figure in the sky. But they are not. They are human, and you can't love unconditionally because the conditions are you have to love back for anything to work. The reason why right now people are so divided is that love has been marketed to us, and the practice of it is clinical. So for Chapter 4, I am looking at historical stories from multiple cultures about love, before empires and before colonisation, to get a sense of how love was always within us and we lost the translation of it through modernising into something complicated.

I'm using it to explain things to the reader and the character in the story but I have a strange predicament. I have aphantasia, which is I can't see anything in my head if I've never seen it before It is like being blind until I see it outside of myself.

Could you imagine what it's like to develop a world I cannot see? It's quite unusual for me to use AI for this specific problem just so I can interpret the visuals of what I FEEL in my head even though I really would rather have an artist draw stuff for me. I'm using the AI to fill in the blanks that I cannot see. So a lot of times I use that as, I guess, the visual development of my project in hopes that I either make funds with this or something and I can actually afford to pay someone to do the designs. For now that is my workaround so that I can visually see what's going on. And right now I have been working on trying to figure out what I am feeling to put in the story because I can't see. I can feel and I know something is there but I need visuals to get it out of me because I am stage managing the story I can't see and I know where it needs to go but I need outsidd stimuli to find a thread.

That's why I was always really into theatre and movies because visual storytelling is really how I learned how to do a lot of things. Because you can explain what an apple looks like in such great verbal detail, I'll never be able to see it. I'll never fully understand it until I actually see an apple, eat it, taste the flavour, and all of that to understand what it is.

So I was watching Trainspotting for a particular chapter I'm working on and I chose Trainspotting because the character in my story is a young man who has been on the darkside of life that the reader seen as a villain in the beginning. Also the writer Irvine Welsh had a really good way of making something very dark while having a very pleasant way of describing it that I really enjoyed, but becauss I saw the mvoie first then read it I could follow better.

the whole story is about finding the exit out of your stuck in and is killing you. Renton was able to find a way out of his story while everyone else in that story stayed.

Here is the Star Wars Seeds of Hope Fanfic. Happy May 4th

Seeds of Hope. Planting a root system in a story that outlives an empire from the very people I learned it from.

I am getting heavily boted on this app. So I just want to say this:

If you ask me "can I ask you a question" I am not going to respond. Ask it and I will see if I want to answer it or not. I will assume you are bot.

If you say you like my work and you want to draw something that is inspired by my story?

Go for it. I am using AI just so I can have rough visuals for myself (I have aphantasia) but I rather see other artist create something that I inspired them to make.

However I have NO money so if you DM with a vague appreciation and want to draw something and get money off of me. I am literally trying to do the same babe and I will assume you are a bot. So if you are asking for permission to draw something then you have my blessing but I have no money. Best I can do is show it off to people and hopefully get them to follow you.

My story very much weeds bots out. So if you actually read it I will know. So if you do these things in my DM. I will ignore it.

Anyway, if you want to read my stories and you are not a bot check out my site. 🤗✨

This is what inspired my fanfic work.

A story within a franchise that deradicalize ideology. It is called Star Wars Seeds of Hope

I take the Heroes Journey and turn into the Caretakers Journey. I have worked in theatre production for a decade and it was before storytelling was very important for me to understand things and because I grew in the 90s when he had amazing children programs. Storytelling has always inspired empathy in others.

They take away your ability to name your feelings. They tell you love is weakness or wokeness.

They tell you caring is dangerous.

They tell you only the extraordinary deserve to live.

And then they profit off your numbness while you destroy eachother.

...Want to read a story that teaches you emotional and media literacy as a practice and entertaining at the same time?

Story of what if we gave people back their emotional literacy in stories they know. What if we taught them to aim their violence at the oppressor instead of each other? (Already been happening before I was born) What if we showed them that caring is the most dangerous thing you can do to a system built on apathy. Be the trickster the don't see coming. ❤️‍🩹

And then someone weaponized our compassion. Turned it into purity culture. Made you fight each other over outfits instead of fighting the people actually causing harm.

"They knew we were sympathetic and compassionate and they needed to fuck us up."

That's the manipulation. That's the pattern I see. And that's why I'm writing this story - because no one can use pattern recognition against you if you teach people to see the patterns themselves. I am breaking myths.

So to me the British Empire was like the Jedi Order/Republic. They act benevolent but also erases to create uniformity and because Europe before hand was not just one group but many. A lot of cultures got homogenized and a lot of history erased. Then you get them trying to expand just like jedi was trying to. Cultures did not want their kind of "saving" and then acted like they had authority because in their story they are benevolent in their "destruction" of other cultures because they acted with authority.

So that is why being from two empires that did a lot erasure does not know how to answer "were they a problem or not" IS the problem and they will be doomed to repeat it.

Anyway, I have a fanfic of a force user oral storyteller who teaches someone through storytelling clarity that persevere truth when an empire falls and creates a new one that turns to narrative eradication and control before the next generation knows about their history. Happens in a lot of colonies of empires. You get a package deal of history.

This is NOT your typical fanfic. This is if a stage manager took over the show and became a trickster therapist who weaponize emotional literacy like it is the super power the galaxy has been sleeping on.

It is like if Good Will hunting meets, Scheherazade, meet my dinner with andre, meets a literal neurodivergent force user and her trying to sort out the real baddies from the ones stuck in their story.

These are actually deradicalizing techniques that could be used for your loved ones if they are susceptible to propganda.

think you'd like this story: "STAR WARS: Seeds of Hope" by dukemarjorie on Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/story/403983730?utm_source=android&utm_medium=com.tumblr&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=dukemarjorie

Come to know, a lot of people felt that way too or have had it worse and when we talk to eachother. We have a collective reality that makes sense.

But what if someone controlled your reality? What if someone said that we are THIS or THAT and because everyone says so then you know it to be true. And anyone who says eitherwise is... Crazy.

Being disabled and being treated like a problem I have been in a controlled environment of being something dangerous my whole life and no one giving me an answer, I had to find it for myself. But so has everyone else in their own way had no one answering their questions. We are more isolated because nothing is safe anymore. So where do you find your safe space?

Alot of people believe what they want to believe. But I don't know what to tell ya. I believe in the here and now. And I am not looking for THAT story to be reality. Because I know better. So I am taking the narrative away from you.