It would all make more sense if Cassian were younger! But also, clearly this whole thing only got greenlit in the first place because someone went to Disney and said look, Rogue One is one of your most successful Star Wars projects to date. It is divorced from the controversial sequel trilogy and we can sidestep the rabid fanboy rage by giving them a Man in the leading role this time. And Diego Luna is passionate about the project, and both "foreign" and progressive enough to make Disney look progressive for featuring him but obscure enough (and, let's face it, probably white enough) to rabid US bigots to not have them up in arms about his casting.

So the draws were: direct connection to Rogue One and featuring one of its more popular standout personalities prominently - because they were clearly terrified that nobody was going to care about this show. I really think any version insisting on centering a younger, unknown actor as young Cassian for anything longer than a two-minute flashback would have died on the vine. They would not have taken that risk. It could have been better, and made more sense, and given them much more room to work with and breathe (and also, if we want to dream really big, this could have let them produce like four seasons at the same time, with Diego shooting stuff now that would be released as Seasons 3 and 4 without him having aged out of the role in the meantime). But they were not going to present the public with the prequel for a guy they barely cared about played by an actor nobody ever heard of. Genuinely I think this whole project lived and died with the casting and they simply decided to ignore all the pacing and story issues that came with it.

that is... all too real, actually. and it makes me so sad. the movie industry isn't interested in telling good stories anymore, they haven't been in a while. they just want a quick cash grab. and you can tell even they knew that Diego was too old for the role because that's why they aged him up. so why not just cast a younger actor?! instead of messing with the story and retconning stuff. don't get me wrong, I love Diego as Cassian, he was a fantastic choice for Rogue One, but the story and character are more important to me. and he could have 100% still appeared as older Cassian later on.

first of all THANK YOUUU it was a total delight to write, so i'm glad that other people are enjoying it too :)

second of all EVERY CHANCE !! though fair warning you're in for it now...... the intersection of Massive Fucking Nerd business and language development and boundary maintenance...... my jam......

now, i do maintain a note that is just a compilation of star wars cursing that i can draw from (mostly lifted from wookieepedia); i will paste this at the end of the post.

BUT the main thing to think about when developing creative swearing is that most cuss words/phrases have to do with sex, body parts/functions, and blasphemy.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso, Jyn Erso & Leia Organa Characters: Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, Mon Mothma, Leia Organa Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Christmas Tree, and being buried underneath one idek, Rebelcaptain Secret Santa, in which jyn accidentally assaults her boss' legal counsel with a pine tree Summary:

Cassian didn’t think there were a lot of ways to surprise him with violence anymore. Until he was waiting for an elusive client in a swanky lobby and was, literally, assaulted with a Christmas tree. And, though that didn’t seem to matter much in the grand scheme of things, with the employee who was tasked with decorating it.

under starry skies (we are lost) by @ruby-red-inky-blue

She messed up on that damn factory on Listoria, almost got herself arrested. He had to come back for her, and he did; but it hadn’t been like Scarif. On Scarif, him coming back for her felt… Force, she could’ve sworn she’d never felt that ecstatically, ridiculously happy in her entire life. On Listoria, though, there’d just been a wholly different look on his face – one that let her know that she’d let him down.

She understands that. He can’t afford liabilities.

And she’s a liability in these shoes.

Read this at  guineapiggie‘s AO3 here

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The Running Kind by guineapiggie (@ruby-red-inky-blue)

as somebody who has constantly had at least three WIPs... write down any ideas before you get them confused with something else, and anything that can keep the essence of what the story is at its core straight in your brain is good - keep separate playlists or moodboards or something. The thing that kills your inspiration for the individual fics is if you get them muddled up with one another - at least for me

Thanks for the advice! 

I’ve been bad in the past about writing ideas down (“Oh I’ll definitely remember this dialogue, I’ve replayed this scene at least 3x in my head already...” NOPE.) so I’m trying to get better about that. 

This has resulted in me constantly scribbling down thoughts on post-its (sometimes totally different drafts of the same scene bc I forgot I wrote it down already). Then the post-its get lost in my purse, until finally I clean that out and dump them on my desk. And I wind up with a hoard of post-its like some kind of idea dragon... 

Which then requires a fair amount of time spent deciphering and sorting them... (I had them all sorted out on the coffee table the other day, then I foolishly plopped a blanket down on the ottoman and whoosh)

I am pretty good at organizing my files online once I type them up (I probably spend too much time organizing TBH), but I’m pretty horrible at doing this for my handwritten notes.

oh this is at the centre of Venn diagram of Josie Interests: Magneto + Languages 

I remember the post you mean - there is also another post where I speculate about what kind of accent Magneto would have exactly and why it wouldn’t necessarily be a (distinctly) German one. (x) Mind you, my speculations there are based on his comic book origin story, but the general idea could easily be applied to XMCU Magneto as well - that he learnt various different languages at an early age outside a school environment and that they affecting his accents when speaking them. English lessons in German schools were pretty much all about translating short texts and reciting the same phrases over and over again (if my grandparents are to be believed) and Erik didn’t even get to finish school so that’s likely not where he perfected his English. He probably learnt it during his travels and likely not even from native speakers. So he probably would have developed a really...vague, ambiguous accent, maybe with a habit of mispronouncing words he only knows in their written form.

You mentioned stigma. On a human (sorry, Mags: Mutant) level, Erik probably doesn’t care much about that. Being unapologetically himself in face of adversity is exactly his brand and something he actively practices and encourages. He hates being liked for something he is not and has zero tolerance for nationalist bullshit. If someone was rude to him for being an immigrant or Jewish or mutant or anything else, he’d probably just kill them or re-arrange their anatomy at least a little.  I could imagine him pretending to be British if he needed to trick someone to get information out of them or something. But we know he speaks in that accent even around his friends and people who definitely know where he’s from, so it’s no charade. 

Also... Erik is no James Bond. Even in that scene in the bank in Switzerland, he just walks in, tells Banker Man who he is and what he wants and starts torturing him (using his very distinctive ability to move fucking metal with his mind, wow Erik they will never find out who did this). And in Russia he just storms that mansion and starts wrapping people into barbed wire. Plus what even was his plan on Shaw’s fucking boat? He’s just. not very slick and Charles even calls him out on his habit of almost getting himself killed. So I doubt he spends much time pretending to be British when obviously brute force is the solution to all his problems.

We’re also supposed to believe he speaks fluent, accent-free Polish (suspense of disbelief) so I have little doubt that he could fake a specific accent if he wanted to conceal that he is German. Concealing an accent isn’t as hard as changing your own or perfecting one from a country you never lived in. (That’s why a “generic” accent as you say is still a good choice, because even if you perfect a language as a foreigner, you won’t naturally develop distinct regional inflection without living there.)

In the original triology, Magneto even indicates that he came to New York after the war which would even make an American accent more likely  than a British one (even if Ian clearly speaks perfect British English) (In fact, of all countries we see Magneto visit with, he never seems to share any meaningful connection to Britain).