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I will read this stuff even if TLJ insists that Poe was immaculately conceived by goddamn porgs. Actually, wait, of COURSE an AU would sound good next to that. Take two. What I mean is that the only thing that would stop me from reading this universe is physically being struck blind with no text-to-speech options.

seramarias

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“In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just...”

I am completely down for non-canonical/AU stories. Your material has always been good, to me, and I'll read anything you feel like putting out there.

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I’ll happily read weird au shit. That’s basically what Buffy fandom is these days.

Oh-- I didn’t mean that I was going to have to veer off wildly into non-canon, or that, uh, I may not actually be awake enough to finish this sentence, I just got up and was confident I was awake but I’m kind of groggy. Uh, what was I trying to say here? 

I mean, thanks, guys, I’m touched! I just mean-- it’s like, when a canon gets Jossed, you know, it can take the wind out of the sails. There are whole swathes of fic I’ve read and loved where you can absolutely pinpoint where the released canon was when the author wrote it. And it’s still fine fic and you still read it, but there’s kind of a-- I don’t know, sort of quaint cast to it? like ha ha ha this person wrote this story before we had a canon first name for this character so she’s using the fanon one, aww. [I’m thinking of SG:A’s Major Lorne but this works for H*x too.] 

I also know as an author that it tends to take the wind out of my sails a bit. I have these enormous epics, and they build, and then the canon they started from changes in a different direction, and I just sort of... it takes some support away, you know?

And actually I just sat down last night and was reading the opening of Home in the Wind and... oh... gosh. There are a ton of little details that I’ve since changed my mind on, some explicitly and in writing and within the text of the story, so, uh. (Norasol, in that opening chapter; I mention a husband, I imply that Kes’s father had been around, I totally friendzone her with Lita-- it gets worse, I hadn’t realized I’d said so much stuff right out, that I later solidified in my head a different direction.) What I ought to do is edit the whole story, but what I’m going to do is just write an author’s note, I think. 

Because, again, when TLJ comes out, the whole series will get sort of fossilized in the genre of “post-TFA, pre-TLJ” fic, and it’s not that it won’t attract any new readers ever, but it will be sort of fly-in-amber-like, you know? As soon as the trailer came out with Finn in that pod gasping and waking up I was like-- yeah all of us with Finn Wakes Up stories are Jossed now. [And that looks like a great moment and I’m pumped. Of course Movie!Finn is going to be a lot more driven and urgent than EpicFanfiction!Finn.]

So, anyway-- at least for my own satisfaction, I want to wind this up before TLJ comes out. Either I won’t be caught by it at all, in which case I’ll be glad to be disentangled from an epic anyway because the fandom will be moving in new directions, or I will and I’ll want to write something compatible, and either way, I need this ‘verse to be done. And i have a few thousand more words of material it’d be a shame not to ever get to publish in anything.

But, again, thanks y’all for being supportive. And holy heck, thanks for reading that whole epic, inconsistencies and all, I’ve been publishing that thing for over a year!

reydiation replied to your post “In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just...”

WE CAN RHYME AMAZING

I'm glad you're okay! RL friends have been posting pictures of Santa Rosa and I think their high school burned down. :(

Santa Rosa has been hit really hard and it looks like there are even more fires this morning - not just in Santa Rosa but in Napa and it’s crossed the ridge and now parts of Fairfield have gotten evacuation orders. The news is reporting that it’s still at zero containment. The air quality is terrible here (still 40-50 miles out from the fires) - it smells like I’m surrounded by campfires.  Hospitals are filling up with people who have respiratory problems.