i'm just here for mara

Star Wars (mostly Luke/Mara, Legends, & X-wings), science fiction, space, and Vorkosigan saga. AO3 & FFN - same name

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔

[transformativeworks]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p0rz4n0mo

[theorganasolo]

Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[mooshire31]

Leia’s stylist likes to make them all “matchy-matchy” (as Maysilee Donner would say)

Han was very against it at first but Leia’s stylist actually takes Han’s style preferences and fit of other clothes he wears regularly into consideration when designing things for him…so he’s less against it now. He still complains tho

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Mara Jade: I haven’t been that hostile towards Skywalker. Talon Karrde: You threw a knife at him…

[jedimara77]

That's just foreplay.

[holonetwork]

Young Jedi Knights: The TV Series That Almost Was In 1996, Lucasfilm was approached by Fox Kids about adapting Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta's Young Jedi Knights series to television as a cartoon. Fresh off broadcasting legendary hits like Batman: The Animated Series and Spiderman: The Animated Series, Fox Kids was eager to have Star Wars on its roster. However, Lucasfilm was focused on producing the special editions and the prequel trilogy, so they turned down the offer. Still, interest in 1996 was high for the Young Jedi Knights series. The series followed a new generation of characters, like Jaina and Jacen Solo, before the events of the New Jedi Order, and would likely have been a big hit with audiences. Kevin J. Anderson commented in May of that year: "At this time there are no plans to make a Young Jedi Knights TV series. In the past week I've received a dozen or so e-mails from people asking me about it. Nobody's ruling out the possibility, but Lucasfilm is concentrating all efforts on the new movies." It is one of those tantalizing what-ifs of EU history, thinking about if this television series had actually been produced. Sources: - Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, cover art by Dave Dorman

[thereigning-lorelai]

Goodbye. No understand word. Means, uh, see you later. But I won’t see you later.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[ insp: ● ○ by @tlematimun ]

[vampyre-lesbian]

quick luke sketch bc i am officially and rather spectacularly back on my star wars bullshit

[jedidryad]

This search for Cardas is getting frustrating...

Dances Without Purpose - Chapter 10 is up!

Mara's frustration with her mission leads her to make some interesting choices...

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for anonymous!

(commissions are open!)

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for @jedihlaalu!

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[stealingpotatoes]

commission for @jediscribe!

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[jediscribe]

Isn't she beautiful? You should commission Potes. Easy to work with, reasonble prices, amazing results

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Corran Horn: hey Kyp look at me

Kyp Durron: [turns around]

Corran Horn:

Corran Horn: bitch

[fellshish]

reading other comments on the fic you’ve just commented on is like. asynchronous book club meeting 🫶

[jedimara77]

I miss TFN fanfic comments.

[lukescarif]

does anyone have any good lukemara fic recommendations

[coolskeleton66]

give me like 10 min

[coolskeleton66]

OKAY SO AUTHOR RECS (complied from comments from this post):

ginchy, Admiral_Byzantium, DrMckay, celinamarniss, JediDryad, jedimordsith, atamascolily, Conquistadora36, SquidWonder, SkywalkerForever, frangipani, JediMara77, Gabri_Jade, BananasAreForParties, evilmouse,  KLCtheBookWorm, Viari, vader_incarnate, jadelotusflower, JadeDjo, Ash Darklighter, Jedi 2-B, fiesa, kataja, kayladie, Rhea Jediknight on FFN, Talon88 on AO3, Claudia_flies, MariahJade2, VioletStardust123, polardefoxy, cbett50, Just_S, resperella, JediScribe, IllegalCerebral, AHopefulVoice, IaMcHrIsSi, nspx, virusq, Elsajeni, beautifultoastdream, taramidala, 

[jem55]

May the fourth be with you!!!!

And a special shoutout to all the creators on ao3 writing about the rebellion and new republic era of Rouge Squadron. You guys mean so much to me 🫶🏻

Fic recs if anyone is interested:

- The Jaded trilogy (JediMara77)

- Interregnum (Admiral_byzantium)

- Mind Marked in Inedible ink (yunmin)

- Calm before the Storm (F117_Nighthawk)

- Even in the sky does fall (F117_Nighthawk)

- X-Wing Knights of Plooma (JediMara77)

- Obvious and intractable (SassySnowperson)

- Book 3: Homecoming (JayaLynne)

- Living legend (CassEastham)

[writerxwren]

Convinced that still not enough people in this fandom have read the Heir to the Empire trilogy (aka Hat Man's favorite piece of EU media to pull from) because being one of the biggest Mara Jade stans on the planet, the way everybody is Big Braining their way through predictions and analyses right and left and yet has somehow failed to clock what may actually be the most obvious parallel out of all of them is both astounding and also annoying me

Mara Jade

Palpatine steals her from her family at a young age to serve as his personal assassin and manipulates her into being unflinchingly loyal to him. For her whole life she mistakenly believes that he took her in for more altruistic reasons instead of literally kidnapping her to mold her into a human weapon. Despite being interested in her power he also purposely prevents her from ever fully harnessing it to keep her from becoming a threat to him - she is trained only to the point where she can be useful to him without compromising his control of the situation. Thanks to him being a master manipulator, she develops a warped relationship with him in which she sort of sees him as a pseudo-father figure.

Fast-forward to years later, and she finds out that he lied to her and used her and it completely breaks her adherence to the false narrative he created for her. Once she realizes the truth, she abandons her allegiance to him (or the version of him that still lives in her head) and teams up with Luke Skywalker, who not only is her path back to the Light but is also the one empowering her to detach herself from this unhealthy codependent relationship that almost destroyed her. However she is deeply traumatized by this experience, and even a decade on from when she finally leaves him in the dust she's still haunted by it to the point that it has a significant impact on her decison-making (later outlined in the Hand of Thrawn Duology and Survivor's Quest)

Devon

Maul manipulates events so that she is now cut off from the only family she has ever known and in a perfect position both situationally and emotionally to become his apprentice. She has no idea of his role in Daki's death and mistakenly believes by the end of season 1 that they are simply kindred spirits brought together by shared feelings/goals. She also sort of sees him as her default pseudo-father figure. We know that part of his reasoning for taking on an apprentice is because he "needs" her (and her power) to help him in his personal goal of getting revenge on Palpatine. Again, Devon is unaware of the conversations he's had with Rook (RIP) on the subject and that she is sort of being used as a weapon for his own purposes.

Although not yet confirmed, it's likely he will train her only to the extent that she can be useful to him (we've seen this with Ezra in some capacity so it started somewhere) but not to the point where she's powerful enough to truly challenge his authority because then that would compromise his control of the situation. She has yet to learn the truth about how Daki really died and at some point this likely-not-a-throwaway-detail is going to circle back around and potentially be instrumental in breaking her adherence to the false narrative Maul has created for her. She may also throw this line back in his face once this happens

and abandon her allegiance to him. There is also a third party (Rylee) who may or may not be the Luke equivalent in this scenario. Even if/when she leaves Maul she will likely be traumatized by this collective ordeal for the rest of her life

This is literally just Hat Man copying off Timothy Zahn's homework again like he has already done 30 million times in Rebels, the Mandoverse, AND The Bad Batch. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it's a pattern at this point and I don't think the story is going to go the way a lot of people think it will go primarily because 🤠 just really likes cherry-picking from HTTE and incorporating it into every project he has a hand in. He won't re-canonize the actual Mara Jade (yet?) but her fingerprints are all over the place (e.g. Sabine being an Imperial defector who was manipulated by the Empire as a teenager, Shin Hati being a Dark Sider who starts to become disillusioned with her Master, Omega getting kidnapped as part of Palps' personal project but eventually escaping his influence). Girl has been haunting the canon narrative this entire time and she still is