A Haunted Hunted Kind

This is a blog for my fic Shades of Tatooine on AO3. A place for both the writer and the readers. You can call me Ace, she/her. FYI: All asks and all submissions will be posted publically. If you'd like to reach out privately, send an ask off anon and let me know to respod privately. I'm more than happy to do so!

[tatooines-ghosts]

Been a few years, I guess I'm overdue to post an "I'm not dead yet" statement.

(I haven't used this blog in so long tumblr cleared out all my activity notifications RIP)

Real life has been crazy over the past few years and my inspiration for Star Wars has drifted a lot. I'll always love it and I still think a lot about this story. However I cannot make any kind of promises about story progress being made.

But my muse has been showing it's face again.

Maybe I'm due for a reread to get the inspiration flowing.

Can't believe it's been 3 years since the last chapter. Can't believe it's been almost 10 years since i started the story. I never thought it would take thing long to tell but *gestures at the real world* look at all the shit we're dealing with.

[love-bokumono-fics]

Was looking through my fic history for the last year and noticed a lot of deleted fics as I was going through and it got me wondering.

This is a judgement free poll. I am genuinely curious. I included as many options as possible to cover a wide base, but there's always room for infinite nuance. Also wording is gonna be short because of character limits.

Why have you deleted one of your own fics? (Or a significant part of one)

I've never deleted a fic.

I was unhappy with the writing quality.

I wanted to rewrite it./I rewrote it and posted it new.

I was no longer in the fandom and wanted my fics from it gone.

It didn't receive the positive attention I wanted.

It received negative attention.

Somebody bullied me about it.

Somebody I dislike interacted with it and it felt tainted.

What I wrote about embarrassed me.

I didn't want it plagiarized or fed to an AI or stolen in other ways.

Multiple of the above reasons.

Some other infinitely nuanced reason.

Voting ended onDec 18, 2024

Reblog for sample size. Feel free to expound on the nuance in the notes. Y'all know the drill 💜

[love-bokumono-fics]

Have a follow-up quiz. This one's for the fic deleters:

If you have deleted a fic, do you still have it saved/preserved somewhere?

Yes, it's saved somewhere.

No, it's gone forever

I used to have a copy but lost access to it.

Voting ended onDec 19, 2024

[love-bokumono-fics]

And now a follow up quiz for the Fic Non-deleters!

Why don't you delete fics? Even if you don't like them anymore?

Why would I delete it? The Orphan Option is right there!

I want to honor who I was as a writer in my past and see how I've improved.

I know others still enjoy it and I don't want to take it from them.

AO3 is an Archive. I'm treating it as such

I like to reread them for my own enjoyment.

It has sentimental value to me.

Cringe is dead and I'm embracing my bad writing with love.

It has some lovely comments I want to preserve.

It's a great time capsule of a Moment In Fandom

I wrote it as a gift or for an event and it feels rude to take it away.

Multiple of the above.

Infinitely Nuanced Reasons.

Voting ended onDec 20, 2024

[love-bokumono-fics]

I came up with another follow up poll 😶

This one is for the Fic Orphaners, and it's a hypothetical.

If Orphaning a fic wasn't an option, what would you do with a fic you don't like or want?

I would delete it. I Do Not want it on my account.

I would keep it as-is on my account.

I would keep it, but I would remove all tags to make it hard to find.

I would put it in a personal collection and set it as private/hidden.

I would abandon the account and start over fresh.

I would send it over to a side account

Some other answer.

Voting ended onDec 20, 2024

[ao3commentoftheday]

Thanks for giving me a chance ❤

[heronfem]

Gentle reminder that often creativity decides to hibernate for a bit.

It’s okay.  You’re not broken, you’re resting, and much like spring, creativity comes back.

[scruffydogcreative]

In Art Therapy we call this incubating.

You’re incubating ideas. Like an egg. There’s stuff growing inside. Your ideas are collecting and culminating and melding, merging into something.

Don’t crack it open before it’s ready. Wait until you hear it tap tap tapping with its egg tooth. Then slowly help it from its shell bit by bit.

Be kind. Be gentle. We are all growing things tender and soft but capable of great power if given the time to grow and change.

[bramble-berries]

the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

[captain-cargoshorts]

do you get upset when a field isn't ready for harvest at all times? your seeds are doing mysterious things in the dirt. but you have to leave them hidden in the dirt or they won't grow

[tatooines-ghosts]

A small miracle has happened tonight. I started writing again!

Granted I'm working on the No Jedi Allowed AU rather than the main story, but after such a long drought I'm just happy to be making progress on ANY story!

Might have another chapter of that ready soon.

Might have some snippets to share, if anyone wants to see some sneak peaks.

[tatooines-ghosts]

Wrote 3300 brand new words for the story. Miracles really do happen!

[tatooines-ghosts]

A small miracle has happened tonight. I started writing again!

Granted I'm working on the No Jedi Allowed AU rather than the main story, but after such a long drought I'm just happy to be making progress on ANY story!

Might have another chapter of that ready soon.

Might have some snippets to share, if anyone wants to see some sneak peaks.

[tatooines-ghosts]

It's been eighty-four years...

I realized it's been months and months since i last posted anything over here. Figured it might be good to send a sign of life out.

I wish I had some news to share with y'all on the story-front. I'm just... I'm stuck on a transition chapter from one arc of the story to the next and I've been stuck for like 2 years now it feel like. And I've been debating just doing a really messy/lazy transition summary so I can get past this part I'm stuck on and move forward to what I already have planned out and a good portion of written. but another part of me knows that there's Important Story Things happening in this transitioning chapter and I don't want to just gloss over them.

Anyways. How have y'all been? Had a good year so far?

[canolacrush]

when you haven't written for a while and you're intimidated by the project Looming in front of you, you feel like those baby otters that are learning how to swim at the zoo, crying and screaming the whole time despite being perfectly adapted to doing this activity,

[kana7o]

Mermay commission!!

[tatooines-ghosts]

This fandom is not being horny enough for Doctor Royce "if sexy why hot?!" Hemlock and I am So Disappointed 😞

I get that everyone is in mourning but I am eyeballs deep in Denial and apparently he is the distraction my brain has latched onto!

Gonna make me have to write the fic I want to read in the fandom that is insstiably horny over every evil character. Gotta do everything myself around here I guess. 😂

[ao3commentoftheday]

Thanks for giving me a chance ❤

[diana-fortyseven]

Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

[diana-fortyseven]

The spam comments have evolved.

They are now also linking to a site they claim is able to scan works and tell you whether they were AI written or not, and that you should do that before reading a fic.

It should go without saying that you should not, under no circumstances, visit a site advertised in a spam comment.

In this case, I'd say there's even a chance that the "scanning" site is actually used to scrape fics and use them for future AI writing. What it definitely doesn't do is tell you whether something was AI written or not. That's a bullshit claim.

Don't use that site. Don't believe these spam comments, whether you get them on your own works or see them on someone else's.

It's all bullshit.

[captainkingsley]

Just got another one, so here's what they look like to anyone curious. They're never real users, either, just keysmashes for the display name.

[everentropy]

Image Description: a screenshot of an AO3 comment by nlaoboh that says HoloAI pattern found in work. To all readers, before you read please scan the work with an AI detector like gowinston.ai and call out all AI using cheaters /end ID

[fixyourwritinghabits]

As someone who works in education, actual AI detectors don't even work well and are rendered obsolete within weeks if not days. Please spread this around to spare your fellow writers and reader!

[tatooines-ghosts]

Very in denial about certain parts of TBB season 2.

But one thing that has moved into my head uninvited.

I think I kinda ship Dr. Hemlock and Dr. Karr.

Only in the most toxic ways.

They're both horrible and they deserve each other.

They both think they're manipulating the other using sex.

Absolutely nobody wins in a relationship like that.

-10/10 bad relationship. Would still be a ton of fun to read tho.

Very much a case of "If evil why hot??"

[write-on-world]

[iamurako]

[spookyrumba]

has anyone ever noticed that obi-wan’s lightsabers match his eyes???

It’s been less than 12 hours since I posted the first one but I wanted to make a jedi alternate version of jar’kai sith obi so here