Stories and Snippets

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sith twins aus are fun but you know what's even more fun? HALF of a sith twins au <3

It's only gotten BETTER over the years because EVERYTHING KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER. When I first saw it, it was the first Star Wars anything I'd ever seen, and the Original Trilogy was the only major content that existed back then anyways, because I am Old. So with ONLY that movie to go on, and because I was a small child, I could kind of buy all of these people as Somewhat Serious Characters Whose Lives of Great Adventure were and would be dignified. Then you get through the whole OT and it's like "OK whoa, ghosts and swamp muppets and Darth Vader is a human man who apparently procreated?? Obi-Wan left a LOT of what sounds like pretty crazy shit out???" Han, Leia, Luke are all moderate disasters and you still feel like we have a LOT of missing information on preeeeeeetty much everyone? Sheev is a thing, and he's possibly the best and funniest villain who has EVER EXISTED? They built the same superweapon twice and it got blown up twice within a very short span of time?

Fast forward to now: The Prequels, The Sequels, Rogue One, TCW, Rebels, Mando, the Obi-Wan Show, on and on and ON AND ON. I watch A New Hope NOW and I'm full-on cackling within the first 30 seconds, because look: here's Anakin, being a giant attention whore AND acting like he's in charge when you now know he has NO REMOTELY FULL IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND BASICALLY NEVER HAS. Leia JUST handed the Death Star plans off like 45 seconds earlier, AND she hates Anakin AND he's actually her bio-dad AND she helped Obi-Wan find the will to kick his ass ONCE already and she's SENDING ANAKIN'S OWN DROIDS TO GO GET OBI-WAN SO HE CAN MESS WITH ANAKIN'S BRAIN AGAIN.

Uncle Owen REPURCHASES HIS LATE STEPMOM'S DROID which he actually needed to help on his farm, which Anakin STOLE FROM HIS OWN FAMILY WITHOUT ASKING TO GIVE TO HIS GIRLFRIEND, WHO THEN INADVERTENTLY ENDED UP GIVING IT TO OBI-WAN WHEN SHE DIED AND ANAKIN GOT SET ON FIRE. AND THAT SAME DROID IS GOING TO BASICALLY IMMEDIATELY GET STOLEN, BY OBI-WAN, AGAIN.

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

ok awesome

so i have finished a psychological thriller novel, and have begun the process of doing research so i can prepare to query agents. now, my novel has some pretty intense triggers in it, so i am aware it’s a bit of a hard sell– that being said, many agents have a “do not send me your novel if it has these things” list, so that’s what I’m looking for so i don’t accidentally trigger someone.

so i’m going down this list, and i find this agent. their “do not send me” list includes the following: non-consent/sexual violence, age gaps, teacher/student relationships, stalkers, cheating, everyone dies at the end, miscarriage/pregnancy, and abuse masked as love.

okay, cool! everyone has different tolerances for stuff, and it’s perfectly reasonable to not want to be involved with a story that has stuff you’re uncomfortable with. not the agent for me, but good on them for defining their boundaries.

but then i scroll back up and they’re requesting for gothic horror.

excuse me?????????

gothic horror without pregnancy or miscarriage? gothic horror without cheating? without stalking? gothic horror without major character deaths? GOTHIC HORROR WITHOUT ABUSE BEING FRAMED AS LOVE AND THE INTERROGATION OF THAT DYNAMIC?????

HEY CAN I GET A GOTHIC HORROR WITH NOTHING???

tabloid drama surrounding padmé’s pregnancy has the entire galaxy convinced that clovis is the father, and that there was some sort of steamy love affair between them - which she can’t confirm or deny lest people start suspecting her close friendship with a certain jedi

and anakin going crazy wanting to rip his hair out when people around him gossip about it or he sees it plastered all over the holo news because he can’t say anything or risk expulsion from the order

and obi-wan, who at this point has figured it out, reminds him of it constantly just to watch him turn red and blow steam out of his ears

like he just silently pulls out a trashy magazine with padmé and clovis on the front and pretends to be flipping the pages whenever anakin is in sight

and cody, who knows exactly what obi is doing, joins in

“i always knew they were a thing, sir”

“oh, anyone could see that, cody. they do make a handsome couple!”

anakin: