📝 My writing is tagged 'kiki writes'. I post writing snippets under 'fic snippet'.
🦊 ao3 is darth_indignatious, but I use the pseudonym sithfox for Star Wars fics
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🌏 I have a sideblog for my Kiffar worldbuilding at kiffu and for my Mirialan worldbuilding at illisurevimurasi
Current WIPs below the cut 👇
🔎 A Study In Scarlet: The one where Thome actually gets to be the Sherlock Holmes-knockoff he was always meant to be. QuinFox, Tholme & Fox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🔥 setting fires to keep you warm: The one where Palpatine realizes Fox is Force-sensitive and decides to train him as a backup in case something goes wrong with the whole 'corrupting Anakin' thing. AKA @/blackkat rewired my brain with this fic. This thing is already 30k words and I can feel it's gonna be 300k when it's done. QuinFox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🔑 my mind is a safe: The one where Fox gets sent back in time to Fix Shit. Featuring Anakin and Fox being besties and Anakin getting his head on straight. QuinFox, Anakin & Fox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🩸 it might be your wound, but they're my sutures: The one where Fox is the most Wet Cat Pathetic Man you've ever seen. Featuring the Holocron of a Sith academic who's really into the whole 'knowledge is power' thing. QuinFox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🌵copper fires burning bright: The one where Quinlan has to leave the Jedi Order and go be Sheyf. Actually just all my Kiffar worldbuilding masquerading as a fic. QuinFox, Blyla, Quinlan & Aayla & Tholme. (AO3) (Tumblr)
👑 the crown hangs heavy on either side: The one where Dooku manages to send Palpatine's plans wildly off course. Featuring Separatist!Clones, Sith!Quinlan, and a slightly less morally reprehensible CIS. Slightly. QuinFox. (Tumblr)
🥀 just a voice inside you and a stone to throw: The one where Sabé is Force-sensitive and this changes...well, not everything. But some things. SabéAniDala, QuinFox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
⏳ this is your chance you have no choice: The one where post-Order 66 Quinlan and Fox are sent back in time by a Sith artifact. Featuring Quinlan's younger cousin who ends up in their care. QuinFox. (AO3) (Tumblr)
⛅ i fall and stumble towards the light: The one where Dooku is the time traveler. Featuring Disaster Lineage shenanigans (post-Sith Dooku and Xanatos my beloveds).
🌑 i want to be let in not out: The one where Palpatine takes Quinlan as his apprentice in the wake of Order 66. Featuring my girl Mara Jade. QuinFox, Fox & Mara Jade.
⚔️ of course you have my body but now you've got my soul: The one with the Sith and Mandalorian Empires. An omegaverse romance novel with a Star Wars hat. Featuring Thorn as the bestie everyone wishes they had. QuinFox, Fox & Thorn. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🐦🔥 hope for the future got me on my knees: The one where post-ANH Fox finds Quinlan in an Imperial prison and brings him back to the rebellion. Featuring the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi being a little shit. QuinFox, Fox & Leia. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🗡️ looking for a little bit of hope these days: The one where Din Djarin reckons with his feelings on Boba Fett, his covert, and Mandalore herself. Featuring the internal monologue of the man of few words. BobaDin. (AO3) (Tumblr)
🏞️ from the dead (a sense of scale): The BotW fusion fic. Featuring an unholy combination of the Sheikah/Yiga and New Mandalorians/Aka'liit. QuinFox. (Tumblr)
Finished Fics:
❓love stored in trinkets: The one where Quin gets a bit too close to figuring things out and Palpatine decides taking all his memories should solve that problem nicely. Featuring Dooku having a haunting-induced change of heart. QuinFox. Now titled Loneliness Moves in him Crude and Black. (AO3) (Tumblr)
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[ID - A vector image of Ahsoka Tano in the Mandalorian in the style of the video game Journey. She’s an orange Journey traveler. Her montrals have become Journey scarf shaped, with the back one a long scarf curving down to her legs. Near the bottom is the Jedi Order star. Her robe is blue with a lighter blue flared wing pattern with a pattern of lines and shapes in white over top. The background is a dull green with many dead trees fading into a fog.]
What if the Mandalorian, but it’s Journey, Ahsoka! I based this partially on her look in Rebels and partially on her look in the Mandalorian. Her montrals got converted into scarf thingys. The writing is based on the “unidentified ancient script” that’s on her outfit in Rebels, but I don’t know what it says, if anything in particular.
Others in this series: Close ups, Ahsoka, Armorer, Boba, Bo-Katan, Din (& Grogu), Fennec, Grogu (& Din), Luke, Omera & Winta, Paz, Stormtroopers
Edit: fiddled with the scarf a little more. Still not totally happy with it and a bunch of people have already reblogged the previous version but anyway.
now that I'm thinking about it. nulls names mando'a pronunciation according to me:
Mereel - /mɛ-'ɾiɫ/ or /mɜ-'ɾiɫ/
Jaing - /dʒæ-iŋ/
Ordo - /'oɾ-do/
Prudii - /pɾu-diː/
Kom'rk - /'kɔmʔ-ɾk/ or /komʔ-ɾk/
A'den - /'ɑʔden/ or /'ɐʔden/
Notes:
I am assuming for fun that pronunciation of "r" sounds varies by mando'a dialect. tapped "r"s are listed here but I think there are varying levels of rhoticity in mando'a "r" sounds and I imagine a "softer" tapped r for standard mando'a where a rhotic sound is made at the beginning/in conjunction with the tongue movement to tap the r.
I also imagine mando'a as including pharyngealized sounds (this is when you move the root of your tongue back, contricts the throat and creates more open and compacted vowels). my reasoning for this is that these sounds flow smoothly with glottal stops (also happening in the throat), which many people have pointed out the apostrophe's in mando'a represent. (I don't think this is universally true but I'm not mando'a god or a linguist by any means so.) the Diné language is a great example of a language that uses vowels vocalized from the throat in conjunction with glottal stops if anyone would like to research, although it is is also a tonal language while mando'a is not so that's worth keeping in mind. pharyngealized vowels are common in arabic and in caucasian languages as well.
in my interpretation of mando'a there are "deeper" vowels from the throat and "lighter vowels" from the front of the mouth that I assume would be denoted in mandalorian writing script (although I dont think its a super consistent system maybe just an observable split?). I know very little about writing in IPA so I did not do that. what determines these in mando'a probably relates to syllable emphasis on some level. for this reason I have decided that:
- the first syllable "o" sounds in Ordo and Kom'rk are both deeper/coming from the back of the mouth or throat. the "a" sound in A'den is a very good example of a pharyngealized vowel that leads right into a glottal stop, or a pause, depending on how you choose to interpret the symbol. these pauses are kind of structurally necessary because you often need time to move your tongue to the opposite end of your mouth to pronounce the next syllable when speaking.
- relatedly, the "a" sound in Jaing, despite being a "lighter" vowel in mando'a (#toMe) still produces an "ah" sound (all the lighter a sounds in mando'a seem to require y's lol. ex. wad'e tay'haai). so you might hear a slight divide between the two vowels as they create a flatter "ah-eeng" where the "a" shortens and moves forward to meet the i instead of collapsing into an "ey" sound.
- Mereel and Prudii both have names fully vocalized in the front of the mouth, due to the open vowels. Possibly the "l" at the end of Mereel could slide back towards the throat but this is something that seems like it would fully vary by dialect.
- Kom'rk's name would also vary by dialect, as the first "o" sound could work as either type of vowel, but as a vowel from the mouth would make a glottal stop after less intense
- Ordo's name when pronounced according to #myrules is very nice because the sound rolls from your throat to the front of your mouth :)
side note: interesting to me that clustered consonants after stops in mando'a words become representative of whole sounds that include "invisible" vowel sounds to string them together, similar to some european languages with lots of consonants that are written in western alphabet
do u think the clones' blood type is a universal recipient (ease of repair) or universal donor (available for natborn use)? i refuse to believe they have some regular ole chump blood that has to be specific
oh OH i think universal donor for sure. they were designed as PRODUCTS. in my awful evil heart i KNOW that part of the kaminoans' pitch was and in case you run out of bagged blood, the blood in our clones can be harvested for use, compatible across species! fucking... clones expecting to be CANNIBALIZED FOR SPARE PARTS. fuck! take that and stretch it out! all organs! like having a "spare kid" to provide healthy tissue for the older one except the spare kid is an army of three million young men who have grown up under the instruction that not even their internal organs are their own! in the depths of my evil little mind Thoughts Are Churning!
In response to this ask but it got hella away from me and didn’t fit the tone anymore so I split it up! I put too much googling into this to not post it.
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Editing romance novels is so weird, because it's like. No, shut up, I can't be focusing on the horniness right now. I gotta make sure this choreography is right or else they are looking like a horror movie when the head turns all the way around. How many times have they growled and groaned in the last three paragraphs - have these words lost all meaning and begun to sound like gibberish yet? Refractory periods don't work like - oh, okay, it's magic sex so they dont gotta worry about that. Where did the lube land when they passionately tossed it out the way in their hurry, and is it still open? Because that is going to make a mess. If it is on the floor someone could slip. Or is that just bothering me because I'm a safety conscious autistic, and I should let it go?
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
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[ID - Vector icon of Din and Boba’s helmets pressed together in a heart silhouette]
I burned myself out on things and so kind of failed at participating in Bobadin Week, but I’ve been really enjoying seeing all the fantastic stuff people made ♥️. Had a brief amount of energy today & made a little Bobadin Keldabe icon ☺️. Depending on your screen size it might look a little pixelated because it’s 500x500, but as an icon it should look fine.
I tried to show everything they'd been through during their last days/hours together in The Clone Wars paired with their reunion in Rebels. I don't know how long it's been since they've seen each other, but judging off of other canon, it's probably been a long time. After everything they'd been through together, all the anguish and horror and terror, I couldn't not try to express how much they mean to me (and how much seeing Rex in Rebels meant to me and Ahsoka!) in gif form.
Our next retreat weekend is this coming Saturday & Sunday!
🌧️ casual, self-paced event hosted on discord (18+)
🌧️ we love a theme. this time it's RAIN & STARS!
🌧️ work on anything you like!
🌧️ sprint with other writers
🌧️ and you get a free PDF planner that I made for fun
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i drew every single link on the aventail by hand because im a masochist-level cheapskate and use the free version of sketchbook on my phone. no custom brushes we die like men