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Writer, reader, fan. Jewish. The fannish content generally consists of Star Wars (Jedi-positive Prequel Trilogy and Rebels; I've loved the Jedi since 1994), with occasional Tolkien and a few Young Wizards and American Girl doll posts. All of my Silmarillion fic is on SWG and my non-Tolkien fic is on AO3 (as is most of my Silmfic). Non-fannish content tends to be autumn, landscapes, and dogs. Also, this blog is spoiler free.

[independence1776]

It’s come to my attention that Tumblr app users can’t see the pages linked at the top of my blog. So I’m making a pinned post with the same information.

Writer, reader, fan. Jewish. The fannish content generally consists of Star Wars (Jedi-positive Prequel Trilogy and Rebels; I've loved the Jedi since 1994), with occasional Tolkien and a few Young Wizards and American Girl doll posts. My Tumblr is primarily used for keeping up with friends and reblogging things that make me happy. I’ve used this screenname since 2004; I chose it because it’s my favorite time period in American history.

I do not post or reblogs spoilers before the release date. I endeavor to label them for at least two weeks after [whatever] airs or is published.

In Star Wars, my primary writing area is the Kanan comics niche of the Rebels subfandom. In Tolkien, my favorite characters to write about are Maglor, Elrond, and some of the people related to them.

My non-Tolkien fic can be found on AO3.

My Tolkien fic can be found on SWG; most of it is also on AO3.

I maintain a list of Tolkien fanfic archives.

[xclowniex2]

At a time where jewish groups are being banned from pride events, you do not get to use Anne Franke, a dead jew murdered for being jewish before she could ever come out, as a puppet for whatever queer rights message you want to share.

You do not get to profit, financially or attention wise or another way, off of a *potentially* queer jew whilst we are banned from pride events.

We do not know if she was questioning her sexuality but ultimately straight or if she was actually queer because she was killed for the crime of existing as a jew before she could come out. Queer rights obviously matter. Anne Franke is not the person you should be using.

You need to protect alive queer jews. You need to love all jews, not just the dead ones.

[allthingskenobi]

Happy 25th Anniversary to The Phantom Menace → May 19, 1999

[animatedjen]

to be a jedi. (maul: shadow lord spoilers)

[rostekhorn]

Ezra, who will become a Jedi: "There's no way I'd stick my neck out that far! Who does that?" Hera, who is in no way a Jedi: "We do."

I like the idea that the Rebel Alliance isn't just trying to bring back the Jedi or shelter the Jedi (though they, including Hera, quite willingly do both), but that a lot of it is just a bunch of normies saying "the Jedi aren't around to help people anymore, but somebody still has to. And that somebody is us."

[brittany]

Star Wars prequel triology + futuristic city shots (1999 — 2005)

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[independence1776]

Weekly Kudos Thanks

Thank you to Lolydodia, Fir_5, wixteria, Morgrim, BrightRedSunset88, sillylovesxngs, Rodanthar, RandomEnglishMajor, TotallyNotFangirl, drowninginmytbr, and one anon for leaving kudos on my fics last week.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

"Using an Oxford comma is a sign of AI"

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Stop hunting like it's 1692. You're not going to find Goody Proctor at the ChatGPT sacrament. What you're going to do is exactly what happened back then: harming people who've done nothing wrong.

[arviyya]

can I reblog this a million times

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[tatooineknights]

Luke Skywalker + hugs

[desmothene]

sparked by an unrelated post, but I came to the sudden realization that I want more than anything is for post-OWK show Reva to have clawed her way out of the dark and back into the light, and then fucked off into the wider galaxy, scooping up every force sensitive child she finds and vanishing them off FAR away from skywalker nonsense.

we keep getting teased with the possibility of the jedi being able to reform as a cultural group and then having that storyline ripped away, I just want REVA to have the opportunity so bad. She deserves it, she knows how the Inquisitors work she could save children from the terror of the darkness of the empire and keep them from falling into it as she did.

Also her never interacting with Luke ever would make total sense in this AU, because it was her inability to let go of her hatred of Vader that kept her in the dark for so long, but what she really wanted was to protect and save her jedi community. I imagine even Obi-Wan would have told her it was perfectly fine for her not to harm herself by trying to force that relationship with Luke. It would have been bad for both of them.

she deserves it ok. she deserves it to let the skywalker nonsense pass away and not give it her time. she deserves to focus on saving her culture. she deserves the chance to save other children who fell alone into the darkness, the way she wanted to have been saved.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[banannafan]

Kevin Olusola!!! 🎶

[homunculonimbus]

"Wow, you're really good at this, you should do this professionally" okay but have you considered that I don't want to because that would suck all the fun out of this thing that I do for fun and entertainment and it's actually a conscious choice to not do this professionally because that would destroy the very reason I do this to begin with

[homunculonimbus]

"You should monetize this hobby" You should go outside and leave me alone

[girlactionfigure]

"Orwell argues that antisemitism operates like a conspiracy theory. Because its adherents willingly swallow clear absurdities, he concluded that trying to counter antisemitic prejudice with facts, logic, or statistics is largely useless."

[dailycatsblog]

[foodffs]

ORANGE ROLLS

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[chdarling]

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.