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I love your alternate ending to TROS! I'm still not quite sure where I stand on Ben, but you totally nailed his characterisation, and everyone else's! Everything felt exactly how a Star Wars movie should go. Great job!
Thank you so much!! It’s the first fic of any kind I’ve written in like 15+ years so I’m so glad and honestly surprised by the positive reaction, lol
First of all, why is your AMA named "Let's have a Kiki!"? Secondly, concerning Sansan, a friend of mine finds the concept of romance between a much older man and a teenage girl gross. I personally find the idea really intriguing and just wanted to know if you have any points about the age gap not mattering to the duo.
Heya Kopaka! To answer to your first question, “kiki” is slang for “conversation” or “discussion”. I watch a lot of RuPaul’s Drag Race, okay? ;-)
Secondly, I’ve spoken a lot about the SanSan age different before; you can read one post here and another here. And as it should happen, this week’s installment of @mcgani‘s and my SanSan MegaMeta will be directly addressing this issue! It’s posting on Saturday, so keep an eye out for it!
I've been looking at this blog for less than a minute and I love it already.
I’m so glad :)
Hi! I'm an aspiring author, and after reading one of your posts I realised that my conception of generals and soldiers and how they behave is very clouded by the media and popular fiction. Could you tell me about the reality of people who work in the military? I know that every person is different but some general statements would be great, like how much they care about collateral damage, racism, being trigger happy, concern for locals, etc.
Collateral damage is HUGE. There is actually a full report you have to do before certain events just to make sure civilian impact is minimal (at least, there was in my job. That happens on different echelons, so not everyone will have to do that.)
There is an entire job -- Civil Affairs (CA) -- whose focus is on “Winning the hearts and minds.” They care about the locals, about loss of life, about collateral damage, and repairing the economy and infrastructure of the places we enter. For example, if one of our guys kills someone’s camel, CA has to pay blood money not only for the camel, but for the offspring it would have had.
Generals care, but they’re at a much higher level than TV and movies portray. It is not common for them to interact with the regular joes. They’re not following what an individual unit does; they tend to oversee commands, corps, and other high levels, not companies, battalions, and brigades. They’re looking at the big picture; macro, not micro. So really, if your stories are military-based, and about regular, everyday Soldiers, the chance of them encountering a general is pretty slim. It happens, of course, but not often enough that people wouldn’t make a huge deal out of it, to the point that you’d need very detailed writing that would probably bore you to bits.
There’s an ever-growing emphasis on getting rid of racism, sexism, sexual assault, and other discrimination in the military. We have many annual briefs to raise awareness on the matter, and Equal Opportunity advocates in each unit.
I hope this answered your questions!
