#softanon

There was always sunshine on days like this.

— Dia <3

@softanon 🥰 thank you! Sorry this took me so long to reply to; I couldn't decide which direction to take it but in the end, of course, had to go with these guys:

There was always sunshine on days like this.

They were in Florida, sure, but it was more than that, more like a bright glow warming him from the inside and beaming out to every passerby. It was cheesy and a little dangerous to admit—because this whole thing still felt surreal and precarious sometimes—but Ben was really happy, light on his feet like the sensation itself was carrying him along. He ignored the curious look Frankie shot him and they continued down the sidewalk, bumping shoulders companionably and hustling to catch up when Fish's daughter looked back impatiently from her little-girl trot ahead.

"Come on, we’ll be late," she yelled.

(Also have you read the novelization because 😭 Talk about heartbreaking)

-Dia / softanon

Oooh hi Dia! @softanon 💕 It's so lovely to hear from you!

I agree with you completely; Rogue One is one of my favourite things out of the new Star Wars movies/series (maybe even more than The Mandalorian!) I can remember walking out of the cinema after seeing it for the first time and just being absolutely stunned—like, 'Holyshitholyshitholyshit' haha.

My thoughts on it aren't very deep sklfkldj 😂 but I think I love it so much because it's so emotion/relationship-driven. The plot (maybe because it's very constrained by where it falls in the larger SW story) almost feels secondary to the energy spent on the characters themselves. I wonder if knowing none of them would survive meant that the writers had greater freedom and so could give them meaningful endpoints; everyone was allowed to be very flawed and have difficult/conflicting motivations in a way that felt really mature and dark. And as a result, it felt right but still hurt so much more losing them! 😭

(I haven't read the film novelisation yet, but it's on my list for sure! I read the prequel, Catalyst, which I liked! It was cool to have more context about Krennic and Galen's relationship and I liked how much detail it went into for the more technical side of things.)

-dia

okay, dia, but consider THIS

buff: 5

boft: 16

📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

(P.S. I hope you’re having a good day 💕)

📚 the last thing was a to-do list but the last fanfic thing was this little excerpt from a Joel/Tess fic I’m vaguely, gradually working on:

She wants more from him than he can give her. It takes a while for her to realize that.

When they reach Boston the group splinters, and it’s Tommy who invites her to stay with him and Joel. Six months later, when Tommy announces he’s found his own place one sector over and is moving out, she watches Joel’s knuckles go white with tension, fist clenched on top of the table. Tommy sees it too, and pretends he doesn’t.

“I’ve been a pain in your ass my whole life,” he says, “and I sure as hell ain’t gonna stop now.”

And Joel lets him leave.

🍬 uhhhh well I do not think Joel Miller is a sleazebag despite what I see constantly in the fandom tags 🫠 Nor do I think he would sleep with his best friend’s daughter 🫠 Tbqh I don’t think Joel is any sort of hyper-virile sex god; I think his grief and depression and stress and substance abuse and age has dampened a lot of those inclinations 🤷‍♀️

🔪 answered (poorly) here!

-dia