kotic-kryptid

Blog for Flesh & Steel | Darth Maul fic on A03 by grayxpression | You can call me Bre (she/her; 25). No I don't rememebr how this place works

[kotic-kryptid]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 27/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Darth Maul/Original Character(s), Darth Maul/Original Female Character(s), Darth Maul & Death Watch Characters Characters: Darth Maul, Original Character, Rook Kast Additional Tags: Darth Maul Needs a Hug, Darth Maul Redemption, Protective Darth Maul, Set Between Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, Growing Old Together, Maul gets a family, Death Watch (Star Wars), Nightbrother Culture (Star Wars), Darth Maul Lives, Soft Darth Maul, Canon-Typical Violence, Major Character Undeath Summary:

All Khara wanted was a quick job, a good blaster, and a quiet life without the Empire in her flight trails. What she got was an angry Zabrak determined to keep her around and an accidental adoption by a crime syndicate and a coven of witches.

It could be worse.

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

me in April, watching Maul lose everything he has worked toward (again)

[vaders-georg]

me at maul always: who's my little sisyphus?? that's right YOU are

[butts-art]

I need Maul: Shadow Lord to give me a full range of emotion from Maul! Show him crying, happy, content, annoyed! ALL THE EMOTIONS

Like legit. In this show about this evil guy who's now our pov character, i need complete insight into his thoughts and emotions. I wanna see him be friendly with Rook like that's his current bestie and i want to see that!

[butts-art]

Maul loves Ceres

[butts-art]

Dark Side Flowers

[kotic-kryptid]

howdy

i finished f&s like months ago and STILL think about it everyday, so thank for living in my head rent free. i’ve come to ask if you’ve ever thought about bookbinding your fic?? because i have 👀👀 i was wondering if you had any visions for what a physical copy of f&s might look like.

again, thank you for writing such a masterpiece 🧎‍♀️‍➡️🧎‍♀️‍➡️

hullo again! I thought about it just to have a physical copy of my own for funsies but I didn’t think very hard lol. You’re welcome to do so for personal use if you wanted to. Ummmm no thoughts honestly! I’d probably do a basic cover. Abstract design kind of thing

[kotic-kryptid]

hey!! i’m rot enjoying flesh and steal rn, but i can never seem to remember what species saifi is? her pale skin and the glands on her head are always mentioned and i get so confused lol! Thank you!

Oh whoops my bad I havent been online. Saifi’s Mirialan! The same species as Bariss and Master Luminara!

[boromirswife]

Sam Witwer on Maul and Qi’ra.

[nocturnalgremlingiant]

Inspired by a convo I’m having on Discord…

Raise your hand (or reblog or something like that) if you actually enjoyed the Kenobi show (or at least if the stuff you like about it outweighs the stuff you don’t, or even if you don’t love it but think it’s overhated)

[berlynn-wohl]

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

[twin-sun-archives]

Maul my memes❤️

(Got behind posting these so stay tuned for every maul meme Monday for more or find the rest on my ig!)

[puyopuyopopee]

I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…

[ao3-shenanigans]

This is a good thing to keep in mind! It is often and unfortunate that a really good fic doesn’t get love because its formatting makes it too difficult to read!

[asymmetryestablished]

I think I figured out why this happens!

AO3's posting form has two modes: Rich Text and HTML. the vast majority of people write in Rich Text editors, aka any normal word processing software (MS Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, what have you). but when you first open it, the posting form opens in HTML view. if you paste formatted text into HTML view, it erases every piece of formatting, including paragraph spacing.

this is an easy fix. when you go to post your fic, make sure the posting form looks like this:

not like this:

and please spread the word! this is an important piece of computer literacy that nobody is teaching to the new generations and they deserve to know

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Oh, if you're posting by copying from tumblr and pasting to AO3, use Rich Text. It'll keep the paragraph spacing. If you don't, you get the jammed up version.

[razziecat]

Just want to add, if you post in HTML you can still go in there and add line breaks/paragraph breaks.

Sometimes I have to adjust the breaks in rich text, too. Point is you don't have to leave a wall of text as-is. You can fix that before posting. Please do!

[gleaming-glasses]

this isn’t really anything but my roommate and I have been laughing at what a flirt Kenobi is in Clone Wars

Just realized it didn’t post with audio?? Anyway the audio I used was from Gravity Falls season 2 episode 16 “Roadside Attraction”

[ominouspuff]

Would you mind drawing Darth Maul please? With the fool pallete with G10 (or A10 if you prefer). I am a huge fan of your art, thanks for your time!

Fool indeed

Aw, thanks so much, that is so kind of you to share!

I love drawing Maul. Thanks for playing, too, and enjoy!

[kotic-kryptid]

Flesh & Steel: Complete

O.M.GGGGGG it's done! Flesh & Steel is officially completed! It's 340K words, which is insane. Sorry I haven't been very active about posting on here. Life is crazy, and honestly, writing and posting on AO3 were about all I could do. But it's done and posted along with an extensive explanation of the lore.

Enjoy!

I'm off to try writing an original novel now lol.

[plowolffe]

favorite character meme: (2/5) outfits

[butts-art]

Death of a Brother