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I wanted to finish this fic this year and I did :)

There Are No Emperors
Campaign: Skyjacks/Star Wars fusion(/crossover), where Jonnit is Gable's padawan and Nodoze is their clone commander and Travis is around too, and so are some others. Warning for Order 66, but a fix-it after that.

This one started out as daily writing exercises that then turned into a fic, so I felt much less pressure to polish it than I usually do which was enjoyable.

Only a few more hours and then 2020 is over! I didn't read half the Yuletide fics I wanted and commented on ever fewer, but I have three days without work coming up where I can hopefully catch up a bit. Work has been very busy in December, and January promises to be even worse, but it'll be okay. At least my bachelor's thesis is done, and I postponed my next exam (again...) so I have a little breathing room, which is nice. Maybe I'll even finally get around to those posts I meant to make in December ^^ And my end-of-year review, I look forward to that.

Guten Rutsch!

I posted the third chapter of my Skyjacks/Star Wars fusion/crossover AU There Are No Emperors. (I'm still proud of that title.)

This started as a series of daily writing snippets that I then realized were already almost an actual story when put together. I had to re-write the ending a little, which wasn't that hard once I realized that it's my AU and I can make the plot do whatever I want. But now I have to figure out the epilogue, and turns out that's the hardest part by far. Not only because now that I write the epilogue after posting the main story I treat it like an actual story in my head, which means more pressure; but also because I suddenly have to think about how that canon divergence would go.

( Post Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith AU musings )

This was only the fifth most popular option from the what to rec next poll I did, but I'm in the mood for vids so vid recs it is.

( Detroit:Become Human, The Magicians, Star Wars, Good Omens, 2 multi )

I got to ride in an ambulance today for the first time! ...because DD dislocated her shoulder -.- Right after her ankle recovered, too. At least it was when I was at home and could help. Not that I could do that much, but still. At least now I can make sure she doesn't need to move her arm before the doctor says she can. (This is why I really wouldn't want to live alone.)

The ambulance team was very nice, but, and this is the main thing DD remembers because she was so out of it with shock, one of them had terrible Star Wars opinions. I get soo annoyed by people - especially guys - telling me that the worst thing that's wrong with the sequel trilogy is that Rey was able to hold her own in a fight against Kylo Ren in TFA. Unlikely/unrealistic is one thing, but more unrealistic than anything else happening in any of the previous Star Wars movies? Seriously?? (Personally, the thing that annoys me the most about the sequel trilogy is that ( Spoiler for TRoS )

Anyway, it worked as a distraction. DD's shoulder got put back into place quickly; they forgot to prescribe her painkillers, but fortunately we still had some at home. There was some slight confusion about her insurance (she has private health insurance and is so used to using it that she forgot which public one she's technically insured with, which you afaik only need to know at hospitals), but never any worry. We're so lucky with our national health service. I especially like the new health hotline, I might hesitate to call the ambulance when something doesn't look like an emergency-emergency but that hotline is very convenient. Though it would be best if I don't have to call again for a while.

A Consort's Choice by

Frostanity (Books of the Raksura)
28k, post-canon
Summary: Post-series. Consolation and her flight are settled in and beginning to thrive. Now they seek a consort. Some in Opal Night favor the idea, others don't, and Shade is trapped in the middle. Moon meddles because he can.
Why I love it: I'm writing this rec post because this fic was just finished and I had to rec it immediately. It is such a wonderful post-canon fic, with wonderful Shade and Consolation and Malachite and Moon and great OCs and Raksura court politics, just all of it.
Canon knowledge required: Yes

Handfast by

emilyenrose (Nirvana in Fire)
10k, Nihuang/Mei Changsu, canon divergent AU
Summary: Nihuang with her heart pounding squeezed the Emperor’s hand. She had known before she submitted the report that it might not work. She had already thought of her last resort. She confessed, “I could not choose from the nine good men, your Majesty, because the one I wanted was not there.”
Why I love it: I'm normally not the biggest fan of this ship, but this AU is amazing and completely sold me on it. Nihuang is the best, always but here more than usual. This has the expected amount of angst for a NiF fic but it is also funny and warm and hopeful.
Canon knowledge required: probably yes, definitely at least a summary

Twin Sunrise by

gestalt1 (Star Wars)
302k, gen, canon-divergent AU
Summary: Exploring an ancient Jedi Temple on Vrogas Vas, Luke runs into a little more trouble than he bargained for. Meanwhile Doctor Aphra has been sent to secure the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, and the Inquisitor who was once Ezra Bridger has a mission of his own. Their colliding paths will lead deep inside the Temple, to the revelation of secrets decades old, made only more complicated when Darth Vader comes to claim his son.
Why I love it: This is a fascinating AU. I love the plot with great adventure and politics, and the many characters and the interpersonal relationships and their development, especially the Skywalker family drama.
Canon knowledge required: original trilogy yes, SW:Rebels probably not

I saw The Last Jedi! I saw it with a friend and then when I came home I wanted to talk with DD about it, except it turned out that DD and I have very different opinions on it, which rarely happens.

( Spoilers )

My favorite part about going to watch Rogue One: while waiting for admission DD and I by chance started talking with two people next to us. It started out about the practicalities of cloning, at one point we talked about Sith Lady Umbridge, and after the movie we went to two Christmas markets together and exchanged numbers and already made plans to meet up again. I love making new friends, and recently it hasn't happened as often as I'd like.

I also enjoyed the movie. It wasn't spectacular, but it was good.( Spoiler-y notes )

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/186212.html

4:30am and I almost finished packing! My time management is... not ideal. Now a few hours sleep, then a few things still to do, then to the airport. This will be the first time that I don't participate in an election, I ran out of time, I'm a bit disappointed in myself. (It's "only" the election of the mostly symbolic president, I definitely would have made time if we had a parliament or mayor election.)

Today in the morning I woke up to an excited text message from DD about the result of the first Pens playoffs game. Great win, now 15 more \o/ Playoffs are stressful.

I visited a Star Wars exhibition with DD in the afternoon, it was a lot of fun. Some original costumes, models, concept art, and some interactive "build your own character" stuff. Clearly made for fans. (She created a Twi'lek Jedi from Kashyyyk, I a Nautolan trader from Kamino, and yes of course I already thought of stories, that's what one does with characters.)

I'm not taking my laptop to NYC and I don't know how much internet access I'll have, I'm curious what and how much I'll miss. I'm very grateful for my ebook-reader, I made sure I'll have more than enough to read on the flight (especially considering that I'll definitely sleep for a few hours.)

ETA: Turns out I have iron-deficiency anemia, that explains several symptoms I didn't realize were symptoms. That's good news because it means I have another way to combat them. If I could pick, hopefully my appetite will come back first.

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/161348.html

I finally saw it! Unspoiled too (except the trailer), which was great.

( Reactions )

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/147869.html

Only two and a half weeks until the new Star Wars movie! I haven't even started my rewatch of the trilogies yet, I hope we'll manage to coordinate with my friends in time.
As the internet found out yesterday, J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote some new music for their version of a cantina scene for the new movie. (My first reaction was "new cantina music, what, how, that music is so iconic", but I feel a bit more optimistic knowing LMM wrote it.) Inevitably a #Force4Ham hashtag was created, and it's a lot of fun. Some good tweets are collected here, and there are many more.

There is a Kickstarter for a documentary film about the inaugural season of the NWHL. They're one week and a little under 5,000$ away from meeting their goal, and I really hope they make it. It would be very cool.

Congrats to everyone who won NaNoWriMo! That's a lot of words :)
(I keep meaning to try it one day, but November is usually a time with many fic exchanges and for those I can't just write words without regard for quality. I almost finished my

hockeyfestivus fic, that's at least something.)

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/146366.html

I watched Star Wars Rebels, and it was a lot of fun :) I'm looking forward to the second season.

My favorite difference between Clone Wars and Rebels is between Chopper and R2D2. In the very first episode of Rebels the crew of the Ghost takes a vote on what to do, and Chopper gets a vote. Chopper is part of the crew! I love it. He's still technically property, but he's not treated that way (mostly. What were you thinking Zeb.) Nobody would ever think of leaving him behind.

( More thoughts and spoilers: the crew )

( The Empire )

( Other thoughts )

Overall I enjoyed the show, it was good entertainment. It didn't really grab me in a way that would make me want to read and write more about the characters, I'm not sure why but that's generally mostly unpredictable for me. Another plus, unlike Clone Wars where we know it all ends in tragedy Rebels has more hope :)

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/130414.html

I'm trying to get my thoughts about the Jedi in order. (I finally have a Star Wars icon, even!) For comparison I'm looking for other canons that have people with special powers that are sometimes born among the population and whose existence is general knowledge.

So far I have:
- the telepaths in Babylon 5
- the mutants (or other super-powered people, but mutants fit best) in X-Men/Marvel and other superhero stories
- benders in Avatar:tla and LoK, though they're a bit more wide-spread
- chakra users in Naruto
- wizards and witches and magicians in several fantasy worlds: right now I can only think of Tortall and Emelan, but I know I'm missing some obvious ones, even excluding the many I don't know. Uprooted qualifies.

Which other groups/worlds can you think of?

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/129426.html

Things emphasized in TCW 6x01-6x04: the story of the clone army is extremely tragic, and Palpatine is extremely evil. Excellent episodes.

( 6x01 The Unknown )

( 6x02 Conspiracy )

( 6x03 Fugitive )

( 6x04 Orders )

These were the last episodes of TCW that I really wanted to see. Onwards to Rebels! I'm really looking forward to it. There are a couple of TCW episodes that I'll probably watch later, but I want to try and catch up with Rebels before I'm even more spoiled than I already am. I heard good things :)

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/129056.html

I have a kitchen! It looks great! They finished installing it today and I'm really happy with it. My mom helped me clean my room and it looks even better now, it's amazing how much clean windows can do.
I'm moving on the 25th, it seems simultaneously very soon and still some time away. Ten days! I'm excited :)
(I should probably start tidying up my room in preparation for packing...)

More Clone Wars episodes reviews from yesterday. Today during the kitchen installation I read Homestuck fic instead, which surprised me a lot because it's been a long time since I read Homestuck. If it wasn't so extremely long I'd like to reread it. Maybe I could jump in somewhere in the middle where I still remember the plot. Is anyone here still following it? How are the recent updates?

( 5x17 Sabotage )

( 5x18 The Jedi Who Knew Too Much )

( 5x19 To Catch a Jedi )

( 5x20 The Wrong Jedi )

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/128647.html

I woke up because of a nightmare today, fortunately in the very early morning and not in the middle of the night. Usually I like to remember my dreams and try my best to recall them, so this one has been hard to shake. It did have some cool elements: I was part of a special operations group with superpowers. I was fast, had fighting skills, could make myself less noticeable, and I could switch objects with each other and/or keep them in "limbo" for a brief period of time, which was especially useful because the bad guys were among other things after a special rock. Unfortunately after some sneaking around eventually we fought against a group of human-looking demons who were impossible to kill. We put a trident through spine and lungs of one of them and broke her neck and she still got up again. They were pretty scary, and I couldn't even kill them when I started to realize that I was dreaming.

More Clone Wars season 4. It's the hockey offseason and I thought I would probably get into something new during the summer, but I didn't expect Star Wars. I'm not even sure how much I really like Star Wars! But it's fascinating.

( A Friend in Need )

( Rako Hardeen )

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/128209.html

What an arc. Sometimes – quite often, actually , – TCW has plots that strongly remind me of h/c fanfic. This one in particular was excellent slavefic.

( More details )

Then I wrote fic about that AU. In one day. Huh. That was sort of an accident, looks like I really didn't want to study yesterday.

Kadavo (1809 words) by schneefink
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slavery, Torture
Summary: Rex isn't sure if it's been seven weeks or eight since they arrived on Kadavo.

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/127665.html

I watched the Umbara episodes. Wow that was intense.

( Spoilers )

I don't think I can root for the Republic anymore, it's just too broken. It's better than the Separatists, but that isn't saying much. And there may not be a viable alternative. But still. A "republic" built on slavery and brainwashing, no thank you.

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/126921.html

I watched a few more episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and I really want the AU where the droids rebel and take over the galaxy. Ahem.

( Mostly season 2 episodes )

I've looked through the episode summaries on Wikipedia and I'll probably just watch the episodes that sound particularly interesting. There are a couple that I'm looking forward to.

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/126703.html

(Yes, the icon is wrong, I should get a generic space icon.)

When I said "suddenly"…. A big reason why I got more interested in Star Wars again now were updates to two great WIPs: A Star to Steer By, an excellent Stargate/Star Wars crossover/fusion (fantastic premise), and Re-Entry: Journey of the Whills, a time travel fic. Both feature clones, which persuaded me to check out the animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." I'd heard of it in passing, but never watched it. Everything set before Revenge of the Sith has so much tragedy waiting in the future, I can only take that in limited quantities.
But so far I enjoy Clone Wars! Following this chronological order, I just finished watching 1x12.

( Some thoughts so far )

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/124304.html

It's still months until the next Star Wars movie, but I suddenly have a lot of feelings about Star Wars. Confused feelings. (And I use them to procrastinate. Today is not a good day.)

Star Wars was the first science fiction movie I saw, I'm pretty sure. It had spaceships! Robots! Lightsabers! I loved it.

I think "Revenge of the Sith" was the first Star Wars movie I saw in the theatre, when I was 14. I was not impressed. Anakin was unsympathetic, Padmé was extremely passive, Obi-Wan was incompetent as a mentor, the Jedi Order seemed little more than a military with magic… I already didn't like Attack of the Clones very much. And then I didn't want to rewatch the original trilogy because I was afraid it wouldn't hold up.

So the question of whether or not I actually like the Star Wars movies is kind of complicated. I really like the idea of them, but the movies itself… I don't think I can look at them without bias. For me Star Wars is the perfect example of a canon where the fascination comes from "wow, this has SO MUCH potential." If I ignore some parts of canon and add a lot of headcanon I get something really cool.

There are some aspects I want to clarify for myself, like "how would/should the Jedi order actually work", "are droids sentient and if yes how do you justify keeping them as property", similarly with the clones (who are definitely sentient so programming them to be obedient is highly questionable), and what exactly I think about Luke's actions on the second Death Star. I definitely need to rewatch the movies. I'd like to watch them with LK and AV to discuss questions like these, but it's rare enough that we get time to watch anything together, and we probably first want to finish Bab5. But we'll definitely watch Star Wars again before Episode VII. Maybe even sooner, we'll see.

Crossposts: http://schneefink.livejournal.com/123960.html

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