"Stay afraid, but do it anyway." - Carrie Fisher

PLEASE REBLOG AND ADD ANY OTHERS YOU MIGHT KNOW OF <3 <3

WOOKIEEPEDIA. The source of anything and everything you want to know related to Star Wars. Good for fact-checking, character history, or simply killing time. There is also, of course, the official Star Wars Databank! STAR WARS GALAXY MAP. A fantastic project that maps the Star Wars galaxy as we know it. Consider donating ( if you can! ) to help keep the site up and running! Also check out W.R. van Hage’s map and the Star Wars Atlas Online Companion. TIMELINE. While hosted on Wookieepedia, this is nevertheless deserving of its own bullet point. This page provides an approximate timeline with dates of all canon material. You can also filter items, so that it displays only TV episodes, for example, or only books, or only movies! Find the Legends timeline here. STAR WARS SLANG AND PHRASES. A collection I’ve been keeping of phases, slang, idioms, insults, and more from the Star Wars universe. This also contains a glossary of frequently used terms, such as “refresher” in place of “restroom”. Please feel free to use/share! 

STAR WARS NAME GENERATOR. This is a fun one AND a life saver. You can generate up to 100 Star Wars-sounding names ( first and last! ) with a click. 

OTHER GENERATORS: 

Spaceship names as well as spaceship type/models

Earth-like alien planets for any alien planet you don’t have info on

Random landscapes, see above

Technobabble generator for when you need a reason for a red alert

Alien plant/herb/flower name generator. Also: mineral/metal/gemstone names, material names, medication names, and descriptions of alien substances

Scifi tool names for gadgets and gizmos

OTHER WEBSITES:

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, Dirk Loechel’s Sci-fi Spaceship Size Comparisons, and other Star Wars Deckplans

Star Wars Post 

Star Wars News Net

Erik Stormtrooper’s Imperial Gallery - A fansite the features fonts for Star Wars languages, as well as information on Star Wars toys.

Mando’a Database - The official website for Mando’a, by author Karen Traviss. Features a dictionary, phrase list, and forum.

Star Wars Fan Database - This link goes specifically to the PDF of all original scripts for Episodes I-VI. Includes deleted scenes. Website contains themed games, and encyclopedia, drawing references, and IRL news relating to Star Wars.

Coruscant Translator - translate from Basic

Materials Glossary - fabrics, plastic metal etc.

Star Wars Food

Species Anatomy - speculation diagrams & meta for various aliens

No I don’t support child free public transport because adults are the most obnoxious people on public transport

A baby might cry but that’s normal babies do that

You know what’s not normal

30 year old Suzan shouting at the train conductor

40 year old Jeff shouting racial slurs at everyone on the bus

20 year old Chris playing music obnoxiously loud on a Bluetooth speaker on a packed bus

50 year old Jess talking about how she wants to physically assault a child on the bus

I'm NOT a prude. I'm pro kink and frequently offer sex ed. But I don't like random sex scenes if i'm not expecting them. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable in a way porn doesn't because when I sit down to watch porn i've consented to watching people fucking you know?

I don't think it's prudish to not want to have to watch simulated sex. If I want to watch sex, i'll watch porn or erotica. But i'm here to watch sci fi aliens fight giant robots, where in this did I sign up for sex?

And I do wish it was easier to KNOW if this shit was about to happen. Sometimes it's really clearly telegraphed, but other times it's blink and "wtf? Sex? when did that happen?!"

We shouldn't HAVE to rely on community curated blogs and websites to know what media to consume comfortably, it should be present in the show's opening itself. "this show may contain scenes viewers may find distressing" isn't clear enough. Give us a list so we can make an informed choice.

I don't like sex scenes. They add nothing of value to me, they feel exploitative and they're awkward as all hell not only to watch, but for the actors to film. There's no reason in my mind not to have all the lead up and then just fade to black. Do we really need to see simulated thrusting? Like is that really seriously necessary? Naked kissing and entwinement isn't good enough? Come on now. Why do we need to see all the grunting, thrusting, moaning bits when all they appear to exist for is to titillate the audience. And I didn't go to the cinema to get horny!

Maybe i'm just an annoying asexual there, but while I have no issue with intimacy, nudity, implied sex and so on, I really really fucking hate simulated grunting thrusting.

I don't want to see it and i'd really appreciate some warning that it's gonna happen so I can divert my attention or fast forward or just not watch that particular piece of media. But it also sucks because there's a lot of shows and stuff i'd otherwise enjoy, if not for the excessive fucking and prolonged scenes of just moaning.

It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:

Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.

If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.

No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don't ruin that for them.

Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.

There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.

For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.

Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.

Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.

People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.

Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.

Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.

This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.

I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.

What you’re not understanding is that fandom is not a service, it’s a community. I saw someone compare leaving a comment on AO3 to reviewing a product on Amazon - if you didn’t like the product, you’re going to say so. But fanworks are not products and you didn’t pay money for them. They were shared with you.

Leaving un-asked-for criticism in AO3 comments isn’t like reviewing a product you were disappointed with. It’s like going to a friend’s house when they’ve cooked a meal and telling them all the things that are wrong with the food. Sure, you can do it, but it’s rude as hell and they are probably not going to invite you to dinner again.

The next day she came in with my ENTIRE star chart with personality tropes, life advice, predicitons for my future and so on. Now, I don’t go in for Astrology but I can tell when someone is making a well-meaning gesture and I can say “Thank you” and shut up.

Especially because I told her the Wrong Birthday.

See, my birthday is in the middle of a cluster of a whole bunch of family birthdays and growing up I used to have to share my Birthday with my older cousins and while that’s not really a big deal (even fun if you’re older) it kinda sucks when you’re five and none of your cousins share your interests.

So mom made a deal with me: We’d celebrate my “Un-Birthday” in January, when nobody else in the family has a birthday or anything else, and the “real” birthday would be my Cousin’s. I got my own birthday and they got a second party and it was fun.

As I got older, I just started using my Un-Birthday for everything except paperwork, becuase January is boring and bereft of holidays except the one that’s really part of Xmas these days. On paperwork, I put my real one, but I’ve been celebrating my birthday in the wrong month for over 25 years now, and didn’t think about it when she asked, and told her my Un-Birthday.

And for a few weeks everything was fine.

But Debbie had a RIVAL.

Another woman in the office “Sharon” was also big into Astrology and was convinced Debbie was Doing It Wrong, so when she was going over payroll, she saw my Legal Birthday, realized Debbie had filled out the chart wrong, and then proceded to drag Debbie on the company facebook group, and a bunch of astrology groups they were both in.

I found out when I came in three days later from a long weekend and Debbie burst into tears and sobbed “HOW COULD YOU LIE TO MEEEEEE???”

After an extremely garbled recounting by our coworkers, a talk with my manager about “Hey yeah I don’t think it’s Legal for Sharon to take my name and date of birth from Payroll and put it all over facebook?”, the manager had a talk about “I know you are all over 50 but this is NOT WHAT THE COMPANY FACEBOOK IS FOR”, Sharon was ‘removed from the premesis’ and I finally got to sit down with Debbie.

I explained the slip-up and how I sort of have two birthdays and think of the January Birthday is my “Real” one.

Debie looked up from where she’d been sobbing into her tissue all morning, realization dawning on her less like the illumination of the sun and more like a baby sea turtle headed in the wrong direction because of light Pollution.

“Oh!” She said “You’re TRANS-ZODIAC! You might have been born as an Aries, but you’re really a Capricorn!”

As someone who’s been hit by a minivan and gotten a minor skull fracture from it, I’m pretty sure hearing that sentence gave me more brain damage.

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

Where do they come from. What do

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love you I love you.

I'm NOT a prude. I'm pro kink and frequently offer sex ed. But I don't like random sex scenes if i'm not expecting them. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable in a way porn doesn't because when I sit down to watch porn i've consented to watching people fucking you know?

I don't think it's prudish to not want to have to watch simulated sex. If I want to watch sex, i'll watch porn or erotica. But i'm here to watch sci fi aliens fight giant robots, where in this did I sign up for sex?

And I do wish it was easier to KNOW if this shit was about to happen. Sometimes it's really clearly telegraphed, but other times it's blink and "wtf? Sex? when did that happen?!"

We shouldn't HAVE to rely on community curated blogs and websites to know what media to consume comfortably, it should be present in the show's opening itself. "this show may contain scenes viewers may find distressing" isn't clear enough. Give us a list so we can make an informed choice.

I don't like sex scenes. They add nothing of value to me, they feel exploitative and they're awkward as all hell not only to watch, but for the actors to film. There's no reason in my mind not to have all the lead up and then just fade to black. Do we really need to see simulated thrusting? Like is that really seriously necessary? Naked kissing and entwinement isn't good enough? Come on now. Why do we need to see all the grunting, thrusting, moaning bits when all they appear to exist for is to titillate the audience. And I didn't go to the cinema to get horny!

Maybe i'm just an annoying asexual there, but while I have no issue with intimacy, nudity, implied sex and so on, I really really fucking hate simulated grunting thrusting.

I don't want to see it and i'd really appreciate some warning that it's gonna happen so I can divert my attention or fast forward or just not watch that particular piece of media. But it also sucks because there's a lot of shows and stuff i'd otherwise enjoy, if not for the excessive fucking and prolonged scenes of just moaning.

"Movies ... will just stop being sponsored by worker abuse"