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@mandalorianbrainweasel
if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free
Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!
For me it causes both <3
"Someone, Please come get your General"
Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"
Fenn Rau is such an interesting and hilarious character because he's such a wasted opportunity to bridge Lucas's TCW version of Mandalorians into Filoni's more Legends version of Mandalorians, and instead they just turned him into one of canons biggest contradictions.
In TCW, Satine appears to control the entire Mandalorian system (or at least her government does). She can claim neutrality for her system and her people, separating her government from Death Watch and their connection to the Separatists so that their actions don't incur consequences for herself and her people.
And then in Rebels, we meet Fenn Rau who claims to have actually FOUGHT in the Clone Wars on the side of the Republic. Which... radically goes against Satine's declaration of neutrality, but also doesn't align with Death Watch's more warmongering connection with the Separatists.
TCW also told us that Satine had "exiled all the warriors" to a nearby moon named Concordia, implying that anyone left in the system had agreed not to continue warrior traditions.
So how an entire group of Mandalorians managed to not just BE WARRIORS STILL but explicitly go against Satine's declaration of neutrality in order to fight for the Republic is BAFFLING. It makes no fucking sense. The only way to make any sense of it is to believe that the Protectors and Concord Dawn were never under Satine and her government's control to begin with, so her rules and her neutrality just didn't apply to them.
But they're never brought up in any of the first discussions Obi-Wan has with Satine about a Mandalorian warrior attacking a Republic vessel. You'd think if there was a known group of Mandalorians who still practiced warrior traditions that refused to acknowledge Satine as their ruler, that would be important information to bring up and consider here. Even if the Protectors are already fighting for the Republic at this point in the story, it would still be a worthwhile place to start investigating. So the only way to make sense of THAT is to assume that the Protectors had been in hiding and Satine didn't know about them yet, or they were created only AFTER Satine made her declaration of neutrality and they disagreed with it and a bunch of people ran off to make their OWN "traditional" warrior group that wasn't associated with either Satine or Death Watch in order to help the Republic in the war.
And that's... kinda interesting. The idea of a more "traditional" warrior group that didn't agree with some of Satine's rules but who had no interest in trying to overthrow her or join the Separatists in their more imperialist ways, and so they actually fought on the Republic's side in the war. There IS a way to take that and to try to use that as a bridge between Lucas's Mandos and Filoni's Mandos. ESPECIALLY if we'd seen more of a conflict between Fenn Rau and Bo-Katan, who manages to represent both the Kryze bloodline AND Death Watch, neither of which are things the Protectors should be all that impressed by.
But they don't use Fenn Rau or the Protectors that way. They just throw out that little tidbit that he fought in the Clone Wars with zero explanation or acknowledgement of how little sense it makes for that to be true and we never come back to it at all. So Fenn Rau is simultaneously one of the most interesting Mandalorian characters to ever exist and one of the most ridiculous because of the wasted potential.
Replied to a recent comment on a fic that I wrote years ago and then took the time to revisit previous comments and I say this with complete sincerity:
Leaving a comment on a fic provides compounding delight. Authors will love initially receiving a comment, will love later recalling this and that particular aspect of a comment, and they will love rereading comments and being reminded how readers enjoyed the work.
Comments are not a one-time act of kindness and consideration. They keep giving.
Thank you to those who take the time to give a nice word, describe an excited reaction, point out favorite parts, and generally let it be known that not only has the work been read but it had some effect. :)
Bo-Katan saying she wishes she was good at something other than war is extremely funny when you realize she's actually really bad at war.
While the plan to take over Mandalore via sending a bunch of criminals to "attack" it so that Death Watch can "save" it works temporarily, their leader is immediately killed by one of the criminals and Bo-Katan isn't able to do anything about it so she just runs off. She can't even save her own sister from said criminal and runs off again.
Bo-Katan is then incapable of rallying enough support to free Mandalore from Maul and Death Watch on her own, so she has to recruit a young former Jedi whose last (and first) interaction with her involved Bo-Katan trying to kill her. Unfortunately, said former Jedi Padawan can't actually help save Mandalore either so she has to go back to the Jedi to ask them to send clones to Mandalore to die for Bo-Katan's cause. The only reason Bo-Katan frees Mandalore at all is because a few Jedi feel bad enough for Ahsoka that they allow her to take some of the forces who ARE good at war to fight off Death Watch.
And then the Empire comes in and Bo-Katan is almost immediately ousted from her leadership of Mandalore and seemingly is incapable of getting it back from Gar Saxon for almost 20 years and ends up needing the help of another young kid and a Jedi Padawan to free Mandalore again.
And then a few years later the Empire comes back and Bo-Katan is immediately stupid enough to think she can negotiate with them and it leads to most of her planet being glassed and many of her people being killed.
She then spends the next almost ten years wandering around the galaxy trying to find the Darksaber again and immediately loses it to some random bounty hunter, which causes her to lose what little support she'd managed to gain since her planet was glassed.
And when she finally regains leadership of Mandalore for the latest time, it's due primarily to a series of weird accidents that give her the support of a traditionalist group that branched off from Death Watch who can go in and fight off the dregs of the Empire one last time.
Bo-Katan's experience of war is a series of losses followed by someone else who's BETTER at war than she is coming in to win a battle for her only for Bo-Katan to immediately lose again right afterwards once she's left on her own. She SUCKS at war and apparently isn't actually good at anything else, which leaves her good at essentially nothing but being an insensitive prejudiced bitch most of the time.
So the only thing she succeeded without external forces was saving Obi-Wan from Maul? It's a bit small
I mean, arguably, she succeeds at plenty of things, but those things just don't equate to her being good at WAR, which is specifically what this post is about. Saving Obi-Wan does not constitute war, it's just... a rescue operation that involved knocking out like 2-3 people so Obi-Wan could get himself back to his ship.
She also does succeed at things like: getting Satine out of jail and to a place where she can call the Jedi for aid, convincing Ahsoka to help her, convincing people to follow her at minimum three different times, helping Din and friends take Moff Gideon's ship, etc. But none of these successes are enough to constitute "being good at war" which is the claim she makes in TCW s7.
So if I'm being a little kinder about her skills than I was in the original post, you could probably say that her greatest strength is being scrappy. Bo-Katan is a cockroach, she just refuses to die despite how often she loses, and she's like a dog with a fucking bone about a lot of things and just refuses to give up once she's dug her heels in which DOES lead her to a certain level of success, it's just that that success always seems to need other people's help and then it doesn't last long once she has it and she has to start all over again.
She can't truly win her own battles when it counts, she can never get ENOUGH support to actually take Mandalore back from its enemies, she can't HOLD Mandalore against its enemies once she has it, and she has not truly proven herself all that great of a political leader. So the two things that seem to matter to her (being good at war and being good at leading Mandalore) are things that she has proven over and over again are things she's actually really BAD at. This doesn't mean that she has zero skills necessarily, it's just that the skills she DOES have aren't all that useful in achieving her larger goals.
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Dishes or Laundry?
Laundry, 100%. I do it once a week and have it down pretty well schedule wise. Dishes require way more than my usual laundry.
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What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?
what are you looking forward to right now?
if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?
What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)
What's your hair routine like? Anything special?
what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?
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Write, type, or speak?
what do you wish someone would ask you?
i think because of the whole "writers write for themselves" notion that's becoming increasingly popularized, people forget that we still thrive off interaction and kindness. i write for myself but kudos and comments and bookmarks and really any sort of interaction with my fics genuinely motivates me to keep writing and keep sharing my works.
I write for myself.
I post for community.
do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!
This is absolutely true.
Also sometimes a reader says something so funny or insightful it becomes part of the fic. (Shout out to "dark Trent Ikithon, with, like, tentacles and stuff")
memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made
Love a character who is neither trustworthy nor untrustworthy but another secret third thing.
Guy who can be relied upon to make the right choice 98% of the time but God that 2% is a fucking doozy.
He got your loser, pay up
:)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Jango Fett & Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar & Original Mandalorian Characters, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar & Pre Vizsla, Boba Fett & Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Fenn Shysa, Pre Vizsla, Original Mandalorian Characters, Gar Saxon, Parja Bralor, Boba Fett, and a brief Dooku cameo, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Grief/Mourning, Religious Themes, Family, Mandalorian Culture & Customs (Star Wars), Mandalorian Civil Wars, Politics, War, Invasion, Planet Serenno (Star Wars)
Jango Fett is dead.
Akaani “Spar” Fett, formerly known as Alpha-02, knows it before anyone on Mandalore, but he only has until the rest of the Mando’ade know to make his decisions and plans. With the old Mand’alor dead, a new one will have to be elected. Despite what he might want, Spar is the preferred candidate for the traditionalist clans who elected Jango. The location link to Jango’s beskar’gam moving offers a faint hope at delaying the election and the resulting conflict with the Death Watch clans.
If Spar can convince both sides to prioritise the reclamation of Jango’s belongings and son, he can at least have his last shred of family with him for whatever comes next.
Language: English
Words: 22,663
Chapters: 6/6
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Jango Fett & Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar & Original Mandalorian Characters, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar & Pre Vizsla, Boba Fett & Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Alpha-Ø2 | Spar, Fenn Shysa, Pre Vizsla, Original Mandalorian Characters, Gar Saxon, Parja Bralor, Boba Fett, and a brief Dooku cameo, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Grief/Mourning, Religious Themes, Family, Mandalorian Culture & Customs (Star Wars), Mandalorian Civil Wars, Politics, War, Invasion, Planet Serenno (Star Wars)
Jango Fett is dead.
Akaani “Spar” Fett, formerly known as Alpha-02, knows it before anyone on Mandalore, but he only has until the rest of the Mando’ade know to make his decisions and plans. With the old Mand’alor dead, a new one will have to be elected. Despite what he might want, Spar is the preferred candidate for the traditionalist clans who elected Jango. The location link to Jango’s beskar’gam moving offers a faint hope at delaying the election and the resulting conflict with the Death Watch clans.
If Spar can convince both sides to prioritise the reclamation of Jango’s belongings and son, he can at least have his last shred of family with him for whatever comes next.
Language: English
Words: 22,663
Chapters: 6/6
Illustration done! Fem!Spar x Ghez Hokan arranged marriage AU riduurok party portrait.
