Sadie

Writer, artist, former punk-ass book jockey. She/her, queer, Ace, 40s

[sadiebwrites]

Broken Threads master post (2023)

Updating this again, now with new cover art! I wanted to make it look like a 90s EU/Legends novel, so I even tracked down the font for the title like a NERD lol:

summary:

Broken Threads is a 3-part DinLuke series that begins just after ROTJ and goes through the current time-period of The Mandalorian. Most of the series was written pre-Book of Boba Fett, and the 3rd part (currently in progress) will not be season 3 compliant as a result. Overall, I stick to canon as much as possible, with a little poetic license and a lot of EU cameos!

some tags:

alternate first meeting, Ace DinLuke, Jedi-positive, force lightning, seizures, hurt/comfort, enemies-to-lovers, Mand'alor Din, found family, Din struggles with his Creed, angst with a happy ending

links:

Part One: Broken Threads (T, 78k words) Chinese, Spanish

alt chapter: Sister (G, 2,700 words) Chinese

interlude: Game Night on Bogano (G, 871 words) Chinese

Part Two: Chasing the Dawn (T, 186k words) Chinese, in progress

Part Three: The Starbird (in progress)

Detail of a few of my favorite parts of this cover art. I'm most proud of my aged-up Merrin:

[sca-nerd]

[inmyvampireempire]

I love tumblr because somehow I can end up being mutuals with a celebrity (someone that wrote a fic that I loved)

[theowlseye-deactivated20240403]

Obsessed with how some people get so attached to their own headcanons that they get mad when they see a character presented as they are in canon

[poetikat]

via @ourlordapollo

[plattenbauprinz]

Let me spam your timeline with all the Dinluke fanarts I gonna draw

[s1udgebeast]

[ngrogu]

Luke: we’re not allowed to marry in the Jedi Order

Din: that’s bad for us

Luke: but I’m the last Jedi so I make all the rules.

Din: oh, that’s good for us

Luke: But based on old literature and teachings I’m not sure if, ethically, I should make it permissible.

Din: that’s…bad.

Luke: but I really like you

Din: that’s good

Luke: but if something were to happen to you or Grogu there’s a chance I’d go on a never-ending homicidal rampage fueled by the dark forces of the galaxy, the fires of my mourning sated only by death and suffering

Din:

Luke: that’s bad

[depsidase]

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[tatooineknights]

"I know. Somehow.. I've always known."

inspired by.

[speedlimit15]

why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

[speedlimit15]

like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

World's most tense egg and spoon race

[green-great-dragon]

this somehow became the funniest thing on earth in my head and I had to draw it so

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[sadiebwrites]

More adventures with Finnegan at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens

[sadiebwrites]

[sadiebwrites]

Ok I made an alt version of my art from last night, because I forgot the face-painting!

So in this chapter, the Mandalorians have all gathered on Yavin IV and they’re throwing a great big “family reunion.” Which I decided would look something like the Highland Games, a festival with music and competitions and booths… And Sabine of course was doing face painting for the kids, so Grogu gets Tooka stripes! Luke got into the spirit by getting a star bird on his cheek.

Din said “Don’t touch my face.” 😅

Closeups:

[rederiswrites]

I think that media literacy step one for any video is "why is a camera pointed at this?" If there's no obvious reason for a camera to be pointing that way all the time, someone filmed the video on purpose. We aren't a fly on the wall, we're a deliberate audience.

[the960writers]

A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas

In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers

Chuck Wendig:

We can cut out the unnecessary parts, we can let artificial intelligence handle the rest, and all we have to do is feed it our Very Good Idea. We don’t even have to split the profits with some stupid fucking “author” anymore! We can just have ideas and that is all that matters! We’ll burp them up into the world, and an AI will run with them, creating only Necessary Fiction that has the Proper Ratios in it. A perfect narrative gumbo, every time. (Admittedly, with too many fingers and too much plagiarism.) WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY. Except, of course, you and me, we know that’s all bullshit, right? We know that stories are more than just their inception. Stories are the author. Stories are the execution. Stories are in the human experiences, the unexpected parts, and as Michel notes, the unnecessary portions. They’re the most flavorful bits. Everything isn’t just pure protein. The flavor is in the fat, okay? So, fuck off, AI.