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can you talk more about your latino alderaan headcanons!! ive been thinking that bc the planet is so huge and some alderaanian names sound distinctly french (i.e. verlaine) they traditionally speak a western romance dialect continuum with spanish as the standardized dialect

hi!! sorry it's taken me literally ages to answer this, it's been a very hectic few months for me xD

that's such a cool idea! when i write about alderaan i tend to take a lot more inspiration from latinoamerica than europe -- this is mostly just based on my own background & interests. really our only evidence of alderaan being hispanic or latino is the original casting of leia's parents, and the original stylistic influences of leia's buns, which to me both point towards latino influences.

i LOVE what you're saying about dialect continuums because yes, it would be absolutely ludicrous for an entire planet to speak the same language. (then again, star wars claims that almost everyone in the entire galaxy speaks the same language, so maybe ignoring linguistic diversity is canon typical...) i've sorta hesitated to sit down and figure out what dialects i think are spoken on alderaan / what leia might've grown up speaking, mostly just because i don't have a ton of faith in my own ability to come up with anything realistic lol.

admittedly that's sorta a fallacy because, regardless of "realism", the majority of star wars already assumes a WASP american perspective / cultural default. with that in mind i feel like it's kinda our responsibility to challenge those assumptions and bring in other perspectives, even if we do so imperfectly. so maybe i should write about leia's specific accent and how it absolutely 1000% would nail her as being the daughter of both the capital city and the mountains where bail grew up. maybe that's praxis, actually.

#idk you can probably tell i'm winging it in my fanfics lol #the most important part for me is really talking about leia as someone who feels an immense amount of responsibility to preserve--#--her culture even when she feels extremely unqualified to do so. which is important to me because uh. anyway. moving on #i think there's a lot that can be said! i would love to sit down and hash it out someday #but for right now this is all i have to say lol #jeanritchie #sb and l rambles #sb and l answers #sb and l watches sw #star wars #alderaan #sw worldbuilding #the house of organa #leia organa (last of alderaan)#latina tag

top 5 musicals :)

in no particular order

HAIR

company

waitress

on the town

shows are always rotating through the final spot but it's usually fiddler on the roof

#thank you avi!!!!!!#i think i did answer a similar ask yesterday but i loooove to talk about musicals (big surprise there lmfao)#shoutouts also to a little night music les mis (real ones know) and also jesus christ superstar LOL #jeanritchie

top 5 local fauna!!

oh no i don't even know where to start

small spotted genet! they're long, they have spots. really not much more that needs to be said. i'm not sure exactly which species of genet it is we get in the area, but i once watched one slink over the top of our gate at midnight, with the only thing i could see being the reflection in its eyes

rock dassies. how could i ever not. they make the most unsettling noises at night, but i swear only ever the same noise once so you sit in the dark wondering what the hell it is that's in your garden. we had one we used to call alfie - sorry, i called alfie, my dad and my sister insisted upon 'fat bastard' - who used to live in the drain across the road. the babies look like ice cream scoops

there is something so primeval about eland. there's a herd in the mountains where we camp every year, and watching them slowly amble through the grassy slopes is. idk it makes you feel like it was twelve thousand years prior. here's a pic i took this year of that herd in the late afternoon light

look at heeeerrrr. look at those ears! i've seen caracal twice, once while stuck in traffic on the outskirts of mthatha and once in addo elephant park. she's a cat. she's red. i found out i'm down in at least one person's phone as 'caracal'