he never left the desert

aqua (雅嘉), they/xyr/she (佢/tā/她), adult, eng/中 | pfp by @mxxnfish | 2025/03/11 (04/29 // 05/29) – present | prequels main | rise, and thus be free | I am begging for you to consume the source material | MY CULTURE IS NOT YOUR AESTHETIC

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

intro

aqua (雅嘉), pronouns they/xyr/she, adult hongkonger, likes from @/aquaeclipse. my ao3 is aquaeclipse. eng/中. i main the core lucas saga and especially the PT.

i emerged from the trenches of block people roleplay to be here, so this ain't my first rodeo. as a veteran of the trenches, i also enjoy making fun of and complaining about stupid fandom takes, so heed the discourse tag (for fandom nonsense) and the negativity tag and its derivatives (for "canon" nonsense).

i may mass-reblog from people sometimes. please feel free to mass-reblog from me too.

find me on ao3 here. permissions statement here.

大家好，我是雅嘉，我是香港人。我的母語是廣東話，也會說普通話／國語／華語。雖然這個blog我主要用英文溝通，我一點也不介意你們用中文（繁體简体也好）跟我談星球大戰。

content warnings

considering the source material, i have a blanket blog-wide warning for abuse, body horror, death, dehumanization, grooming, guns, injury, mental health issues, slavery, substance use (incl. alcohol and drugs), trauma (incl. religious trauma), violence, and other sensitive topics in fiction. while i have content warning tags for most of these, i may occasionally forget to tag something.

i occasionally post suggestive/nsfw content here, but it is typically tagged with tw nsfw, so feel free to filter that out while browsing. if you're under age 18, then please do so.

canon policy

i have a flexible canon policy

the prequel and original trilogies are my main canon; tcw (2008) cartoon is only canon to me in broad strokes at best

everything else, i may compile from the legends or disney canons (1) if they support the characterization/themes/symbolism of the main canon, or (2) if it's interesting to me

the sequel trilogy (and everything post-rotj) isn't canon to me, but i may occasionally post about it (1) if it fits the themes/symbolism, (2) if the art is good, or (3) if it's funny

tldr: my main canon are the six g-lucas movies, everything else is only canon to me if i say it is

discourse policy

i am jedi-critical (you know you fucked up when you somehow manage to give space jesus* religious trauma) + pro-anidala** + i am paying for anakin skywalker's therapy and slugthrowing darth sidious the first chance i get. is that enough for you.

my stance on the disneysequels is that i don't object to the new characters or even some of the plot points as concepts, i just wish they didn't exist to disrespect the PT/OT core saga.

(* tbh i have a whole thesis about him being less of a space jesus and more of a space adam storyline-wise, but that is a story for another day)

(** i do fool around with other ships sometimes but i don't seriously ship much outside of anidala)

我在這裏以 A/P 爲我的 otp、會批評 jedi，除了前傳、原本兩個三部曲之外也不一定會理：角色特徵、象徵意義、中心思想襯托前、原三部曲的話我才當作正典 (canon)，喜歡或想吵的我才會post，迪士尼後傳當認真的都跟我滾！

[pedroam-bang]

The Boonta Eve Podrace

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

[krabzine]

Jake Lloyd was insanely adorable and I get intense cuteness aggression when I watch TPM. Seriously who were the demons that watched that movie and thought that a kid deserved to be harassed, he did such a good job. He was only one apple tall.

Little ani, you will always be famous

[gouged-doll]

[mirrorofliterature]

actual anakin skywalker was not committing war crimes left right and centre, that's a TCW kids cartoon 'creators just wanted things to look cool' speciality. pre-fall anakin was a good person. for fucks' sake.

[tpwrtrmnky]

*cracking open your moral intuition systems* ohhh i see, there's the issue, you're running secularism on a kernel built for protestant morality.

Tricky one cause the kernel's built around creating the need for salvation from a higher power, and you'll have to change up a lot of the systems for evaluating your own and others' moral worth to avoid operating with a deficit when there's no inbuilt release valve.

You haven't been going around making up ad-hoc solutions for redeeming sinners instead of trying to patch out the notion of sin, right?

[frog-on-top-of-a-log]

Fandom needs more aspec headcannons that actually get explored

There seems to be a weird phenomenon in fandom where people give their aro/ace headcannon to an unimportant side character or the one person that they don’t have a ship for. Every other character is shipped with another person and there is just one single person in their story and that is the aspec character.

And that is shitty for a few reasons.

You cannot only make the “boring” or ”undesirable” people aro/ace. It feels incredibly weird. Those are typically the characters that get sidelined in fics as well. There are outgoing aspec people. With friends and in some cases they are in relationships as well. They aren’t all shy introverted people or science geeks with no desire for a social life. But you don’t see that in fandom.

The other problem is that it seems like you cannot imagine an allo person being single. Choosing to stay single. Like the only way someone could be happy like that is if they were “incapable” of love and had to settle for what you perceive to be a lesser form of happiness.

You also often see the aroace label, but rarely aroallo or alloace headcannons anywhere. The aroace label just gets used as a “this character doesn’t date and is therefore unimportant” box.

The aromanticism and asexuality rarely gets explored any further than “doesn’t date, cannot give relationship advice” (which both isn’t always the case either). People just slap the label on a character they hate and don’t do anything with it. It feels like they are checking a box. “I’ve added an ace headcannon so I can’t be called aphobic”

[mirrorofliterature]

I think both anakin and padmé took the secrecy of their marriage seriously, actually.

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

padmé naberrie does not exist for you to project onto her

[solitalost]

No, I don't hate the fact that Padmé is a "lawyer" or holds a "law degree"—it’s not because I dislike TCW or anything like that; I hate it because it is unconstitutional. Someone who values ​​democracy as much as she does would never put herself in that position.

I know I’m talking about an Earth-based concept and shouldn't mix real-world democratic principles with star wars — since it’s a Shakespearean tragedy and a space opera, and we don't really know how the separation of powers works there (there might be three branches, or four, five, or six, and we’d never know, given that no one in that franchise knows how to write politics)—but the main point is this: none of the three branches mix. The executive doesn't mix with the judiciary, the legislative doesn't mix with the executive, and so on.

The only secondary professions a lawyer, judge, or prosecutor can hold are teaching or writing, as these involve passing on knowledge. Aside from those two options, a lawyer, judge, prosecutor cannot have a second job.

Providing services to a government agency? There is a partial conflict of interest if they act for or against public entities; they cannot take on certain cases. Holding a public political office? That creates a temporary incompatibility, and the individual must even notify the bar association that they will be unable to practice law for a time.

And then there’s the issue of conflict of interest—Padmé shouldn't have been able to represent Ahsoka in that trial—but I won't go into further detail.

All this information and these perspectives are from MY country; things might be different in other countries.

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

#also when would she have had time to get a law degree? she was busy running a planet then having her soul sucked out in the senate (via @mirrorofliterature)

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51: Life

Quest for Quasar Fans Don't Like Ottekvar

BALDERDASH, ADARLON – Although the entertainment industry is abuzz with the casting choice of Harlan Ottekvar for the role of Lord Baltharog in Myris Pictures' big budget Quest for Quasar adaptation, a small but vocal undercurrent of devoted fans have taken to the HoloNet to criticize the decision.

"According to the original sourcebook, Baltharog is 1.89 meters tall. Ottekvar is only 1.84 meters, maybe 1.86 in boots. Do they expect us to overlook this?" said Groz "QuasarKing327" Niclari on his public HoloNet infocache. Niclari hosts the largest fan-run Quasar infocache, and has collected nearly 1.5 million signatures in his online petition to have Ottekvar replaced. The height discrepancy is only one contentious issue (though some fans are quick to point out that the 1.89 meters came from a spin-off source, and thus is not canon). "Ottekvar is just too famous. Whenever I see his face, I think SuperKnight: The Awakening, or Webb Tenger: PeaceBuster, not Baltharog." Ottekvar himself is unphased by the outcry. "C'mon guys. It's only a holo," he said.

Quest for Quasar, directed by Mryis' proprietary HoloMaker 4.0, opens next summer. (x)

[aroace-ryland-grace]

I NEED TO WRITE FANFICTION <- guy who is perfectly capable of writing fanfiction <- guy who is not writing fanfiction

[extremetimedchallengeexchange]

Extreme Timed Challenge Exchange 2026

The fastest gift exchange around. Objectively a bad idea. 48 hours of hyperfocus.

Schedule: (All times in EDT)

Tag Nominations Opens, Discord Opens: 0:01 August 20

Tag Nominations Closes: Midnight August 26

A03 Sign Up Opens 0:01 August 27

A03 Sign Up closes: Midnight September 2

Creation Phase: Noon EDT September 5 - Noon EDT September 7

Treating Week: September 7- September 14

Discord Closes: Noon September 14

Everybody admires everyone else's work: September 7 - Ongoing

Rules

The exchange is multifandom, and open to artists, writers, web weavers, and podficcers. Fandoms do not have to have a canonized Ao3 tag to participate.

You must be a member of the Discord, for communication purposes.

Once assigned, participants will have 48 hours to deliver their gift.

Artists are expected to deliver a decent sketch on unlined paper, Writers and Podficcers have a 300 word minimum, Web Weavers are expected to deliver 3-element weave.

No AI-Generated content. You are expected to create your gift yourself during the time of the exchange.

This exchange will be operating on DL:DR when it comes to what the mods will police and what we ask you to respect in terms of other people’s requests. The single exception is RPF, which has additional rules. 

RPF is allowed. Persons nominated for RPF must be famous in their own right and over the age of 18. Persons famous chiefly for their participation in facist regimes or as serial killers will not be considered for nomination. Mods reserve the right to reject RPF nominations in poor taste.

Original Work is allowed. Use the "Original Work" fandom. If it is important to you that a person within a specific pairing is a specific gender, make that clear within the tag, for example "Middle-aged King (M)/His Loyal Bodyguard (NB) (Original Work)".

Please note that for filling OW requests that can be interpreted as historical such as "Invading Soldier/Teenage Boy", real-life wars are considered opt in, not opt out. If someone receives a gift about a real-life conflict more recent than 1850 AD without having opted into that we will take them to emergency pinch hits if it's brought to our attention.

As this is a 13+ exchange, there is no NSFW allowed, even if you’re sure that both you and your recipient are adults. This applies both to sexual content and to extreme (e-rated) gore.

To increase matching options, tags must be seconded (nominated twice) to make it into the tag set. Because of this, tag nominations will be collected through a google form.

You can nominate tags for up to ten fandoms, with up to twenty tags nominated in each.

You will have one week to submit relationships and characters to a tag set, one week to write your prompts, and 48 hours to deliver your gift.

Participants are required to request at least three fandoms (with associated prompts), and offer to create around at least three fandoms.

To help your creator out, you must offer either a list of likes or prompts that contains at least one element that works for each art form that you have opted into. If you opt into art, you must give at least one art prompt or like that works for art in your signup, and the same for fic, podfic, or web weaves.

Please include anything you absolutely don't want to receive (Do Not Wants) in the Optional Details field in your AO3 signup. Only DNWs in the Ao3 signup will be enforced, and mods will not enforce DNWs that are overly restrictive, unclear, or used to box a recipient into a specific gift (i.e. "nothing gross", or "I don't want anything that isn't a space au with the mc's other major love interest dead off screen".)

This exchange uses Ao3's matching algorithm, and as such, you need an Ao3 Account.

Make sure the email attached to your AO3 account is one that a) you check regularly, and b) are comfortable with exchange mods seeing. You can verify your email here: archiveofourown.org/users/[your ao3 name here]/change_email

As per Ao3 and Discord’s TOS, you must be at least 13.

Links

Ao3 Collection here

Tag Set here

Nominate Tags [form available in the discord]

Tag Nomination Rules Here,

Discord Here

Things We Do Differently Than Other Exchanges Here

Web Weave Rules Here

Intro to how to sign up for an Ao3 Exchange Here. Variant using a gifter letter here. A note on what Solo tags mean in practice here.

Sign up for Ao3 Here (there is a waiting queue.)

Additional Challenges (just for fun):

One Day: Fulfil your gift within 24 hours.

Word Count: Write or Podfic 5k or more on a single gift.

Art: Produce a fully-rendered and coloured (lined if that's your style) art piece with at least two characters, or a 10-panel comic with clean pencils or simple inks, within the 48 hours of the exchange.

Web Weave: Produce a 20-element weave.

Multi-media: Make at least 2 gifts that meets gift minimums for different gift forms— art, fic, web weave, and/or podfic.

Multi-fandom: Make at least three 3 gifts that meet gift minimums from three different fandoms.

FAQ:

Why? Because it seemed like a terrible idea.

You're doing this AGAIN? Hey we counted the collections and this is the sixth time the event has run and the fifth year (cause it ran twice as mcyt, and one year we did it two times— one multifandom and one mcyt). We love to make terrible decisions.

How do I sign up/How do I format tags/Are you using OR matching: Signup FAQ on the Ao3 collection here)

Further Questions? Join the Discord Here

[eldritchdemigodskywalkers]

the more i think about it the more i can't forgive j*n c*zart

[brachiosaurus-on]

Smh, all the discourse about how Obi-Wan should have been more outwardly affectionate is making the assumption that Anakin’s love language is hugs or “I love you”-s and not modifying your droid without your permission. Enough of Anakin learning to interpret a hand on the shoulder and small acts of service, I want to see Obi-Wan figuring out how to interpret the upgrades Anakin made to his kettle.

[gffa]

Anakin retrofitting Obi-Wan’s droid to match his own is Anakin’s love language.  And that he hardwired it into the ship so Obi-Wan has to take it with him, is double Anakin’s love language.

[weepingpresence]

by @ guazp5 on X / Twitter

[bpdjainasolo]

I’m not transitioning I’m becoming a Sith Lord

[starwarsclassical]

You were supposed to destroy the cis, not join them!