sunrise 🌅

connoisseur of twins, bad jokes, and drawn out metaphors | serial apologist | fic author for Star Wars, ASOIAF, Cosmere, and others| she/her "Wait for me where the trees clear and the water's sweet. I'll come to ye, ay, as sure as dawn makes shadows run west." - Steven King, The Waste Lands

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a definitely not exhaustive but quick guide to my many. many. series and works.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

domino -- that one about fives and echo

Soldier, Senator, Spy -- domino's sister series.

a thousand suns -- mandalorian!clones au. primarily focused on jango.

The Joshua Tree -- a bad batch modern AU series

that which they defend -- a shorter series about echo during the events of tbb

sunrise writes star wars -- all of my assorted, non series related, star wars stories

A Song of Ice and Fire

till the walls did crumble and fall -- my asoiaf some people live au.

blood of the dragon -- a series focused on jon/dany/faegon

you can never go back -- modern!westeros au, focused on house stark

The Mandalorian

time comes around -- Mand'alor Din Djarin series

Red Dead Redemption

the skin heals where the pain enters -- Series focused on John, Arthur, Tilly and a bit of Jack

Cosmere

sunrise writes the cosmere -- all my cosmere (really just stormlight) fics

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thought you would be amused to know that last night I reread your hotel california fic (so good!) and then this morning at work (I work custodial), the room I was cleaning was playing an instrumental version of hotel california

I summoned the Eagles, and honestly I’m happy to know I now posses that power

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the best way to play pool is slightly buzzed and with a group of people who are all not that good at pool

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

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you don’t get to say “I hate country music” if your only experience with it is Morgan Wallen. Like babe, we ALL hate Morgan Wallen

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just finally saw project Hail Mary and yall were right wow

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Could you personally navigate a cross-country road trip, door to door, without your electronics (phone/computer/tablet/etc)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 29

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see the true power of rings of power is that it’s somehow the one damn lord of the rings adaptation that has ever acknowledged that anárion does, indeed, exist

[numenor-lineofdumbassery32]

Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize the statues (Argonath) in the Fellowship are Isildur and Anárion :/ would’ve been cool if they had name dropped them in the movies when we see them

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BUT HERES THE THING. ITS NOT EVEN ANÁRION IN THE MOVIES. THEY CANT NAME DROP HIM BECAUSE ITS NOT HIM!!

okay, so here's the argonath in FOTR. note the one with the beard, (on the right) and how pointed it is...

now look at elendil in the fotr prologue. notice the beard. again. notice how pointed it is, especially compared to isildur.

PJ made the argonath be Elendil and Isildur. And yeah whatever i get it you can't go into all of the lore, but they def changed the argonath to be these two, not Isildur and Anárion.

So. Justice for Anárion.

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Movie compression of lore is always so interesting to me, thank you for clarifying!

This feels like it could be another fun fact like the toe helmet scene

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I think one of the worst things a story can be is unproblematic.

Nothing makes a story more unreadable than being able to see the author squirm apologetically for the story they actually want to write—wringing their hands and imploring the reader please, please don’t be mad, I know it’s ideologically questionable but I need you to not be mad at me!

For example: a Good King™️. It’s one thing for a story to present a fictional monarchy and ask me to root for it. It’s another thing for a story to say, hey, I know what you’re thinking—but don’t worry! I can justify this premise! I have introduced a lot of convoluted self-aware political justifications for why my king is good and likable without actually asking any risky ideological questions! These characters aren’t actually problematic! Don’t be mad at me!

Commit to the bit. Apologetic, defensive writing designed to bypass obvious criticisms often winds up offending me far more than stories that are just kind of surface-level problematic. If I’m gonna be a hater you cannot stop me; the more you insist that a character is actually a good oil tycoon because of all these exceptional situations and beyond my reproach, the more I resent you and hate your stupid book.

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This is one thing I deeply appreciate about Stephen King (despite his many, many flaws that reflect less than well on his books, sometimes)---he is unapologetically willing to make his characters, especially his protagonists, objectively bad people, when viewed from a moral standpoint. They curse. They kill. They hurt other people, and he doesn't spend a million pages justifying it.

Take Roland---the "hero" of the Dark Tower, the story that is the lynchpin to most of King's works. In the first book alone, he is defined by the Battle of Tull---where he kills a mob of innocents (a mob that was trying to kill him, yes, but the conjecture remains), that includes children---and the abandonment of Jake, another innocent (ish) child (who will soon not be, thanks to Roland, again.) Throughout the series, Roland is vicious, cruel, and often violent. He's got his moments of goodness, and he's certainly a hero, but he is not entirely a good person. And King does not try to make him one.

(I mean, take how he treats initially Eddie--who definitely needed the come to jesus moment--it's violent and it's got no pretences of nicety or care. but part of what is so interesting about roland is how he changes into someone who can love eddie, who cares for and respects this person he initially thought of as a fool and a waste of space)

This is part of my issue with so many "morally grey" characters you see in modern fantasy. They don't do bad things, they aren't actually wrong in a way that extends beyond being vaguely unkind to one person once. So, they end up as characters that are propped up as morally complex, all the while still being palatable and not creating any tension or unease in the reader. If you want them to grow into a person who is all of that, that's fine. But they have to grow into that person--if that is who they are from the start, they aren't morally grey.

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i was just writing and suddenly remembered how stupid sansa telling arya to call her "lady stark" is

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i can tell i am going insane because i have developed a sudoku addiction, of all things

[lettucemakar]

he's the lyricist of a generation

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sometimes you have to just accept you’re not going to get any sleep, open a caffeinated beverage of your choice and randomly start your day at 5:30 because your body decided sleep is unnecessary

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oh what the fuck noah

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oh, that's cool

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so i am already pretty much halfway through the next domino chapter...no promises, but i may try to get it out tonight or tommorrow!