Hm, the planetary storylines... A lot of them have bits of lore, and I do have to give the Republic Alderaan storyline credit for having the one of the few (the only?) noble who actually seems like a competent leader, but Tatooine is probably the most memorable storyline. (Not counting ones that are memorable for bad reasons.)

I like that the focus isn't directly Empire vs Republic, and both sides get solid stories. The techzombie thing is effectively creepy and disturbing and the asshole from Czerka is a satisfying enemy. Your allies on both sides are likeable or at least interesting. And it's overall different enough to not end up blending into the other planetary storylines. Or blending into the general exploration missions -- there are several planets where I couldn't tell you exactly what the planetary mission was.

It's also the only planetary mission set I can think of where you could combine the Imperial and Republic storylines and have them work together, which has tempted me to do something with it in fic at some point. And if I ever figure out a way to set that up, I will. It's just that my remaining Republic and Imperial folks are a bit harder to cross-faction with one another. (Or this isn't quite the right set up for that to work. Or something.)

OC + Emoji challenge from my twitch stream:

Rules: list your favorite TV shows in GIFs without naming them and tag ten friends. I’m so late to this I dunno who’s done it now...

I was tagged by @kmlaney sorry I’m about to be a disappointment.

Honestly I don’t watch much TV (or very many movies) and I don’t tend to stick with a show long enough to see it get cancelled or run it’s course. I tend to see a couple seasons and then lose interest, so I’m only including shows I saw most episodes for and stayed until the final (or most recent) season. In no particular order (except first gif is definitely my fav)...

TV GIF meme tag thing

Oo! Is that a Pippi Longstocking? I heard of a series but it never showed in the States.

2. Anything that you’d like to write but feel like you’re unable to?

Oh heck. I have a lot of trouble handling relationship stuff outside of friendship, and also sex (whether in relationships or otherwise). It's not that I want to write smut or romantic stuff rather than gen, but, like, Savler and Mako are a couple and conveying or exploring that at all is really hard. Or my awkward ficlets around Kyrian and Kaliyo's relationship (whatever that even was. ill-suited partnership with benefits?). Kyrian's other...uh, experiences, for that matter, from celebrating with Sanju after their success on Balmorra to his willingness to trade sex for information or access or whatever. (Sex work for the Empire, except the coin isn't money?) I am very aro/ace and the whole sex and relationship stuff is very uncomfortable for me. But I have characters who are not, and whose experiences are not, and conveying that is really fucking awkward and uncomfortable. Hell, even properly establishing Jezari's orientation (which is the same as mine) was awkward and possibly not direct enough.

(I don't even know if cultures in Star Wars look at sexual orientation the way we do! Not all cultures historically have! Go to so some places and some times and try to establish people's orientations and they're not going to have any idea what you're talking about.)

On the one hand, I do generally just write gen adventure stuff, on the other hand romance and sex are part of the human sentient condition, even when an individual's opinion on them is "nope!" (And definitely when it isn't.)

20. Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?

I generally only have one longer work in progress at any given time, but I might write any number of ficlets during that time. It seems to work all right, except for how hecking slow I am at writing.

33. Give your writing a compliment.

Unfortunately, he’s clever enough to make it work for long enough to really get himself in trouble.

Keeper had really hoped that sending him to a place like Hutta, where there are no innocent people, would be enough to file off those inconvenient scruples. It’s the perfect place to send a young agent who’s a little naive, a little too principled, a little too soft. Everyone there is terrible. Violence is a way of life. And he’s undercover as part of that world of violence. How could he not walk away understanding how necessary the Empire is, how necessary the darker parts of the job are?