cylstar
mostly star wars. she/her
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I loved Skeleton Crew but I can't be the only one who feels like it needed more episodes. More fillers. More whacky side adventures. More Rebles kind of shenanigans
One thing I am very excited about for season three is revisiting the trial but from Lestat's perspective. At least I hope they will revisit the trial lol. I think they said they will.
I just really want to see what happened to Lestat leading up to the trial, during the trial, and afterwards. Because what we saw in the show was from Armand's perspective and Louis' perspective, but clearly Louis' memories of the trial were tampered with by Armand. So, can we even trust a lot of what we were shown? No! Because Armand is a sneaky bitch.
I'm just excited to see if they will stay true to the books for this storyline or if they will do something else entirely.
… you can take me hot to go!
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All these fics incorporate events from Jedi Apprentice, but what really happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi in Legends?
How do the stories in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars mesh together?
Which characters are LGBTQIA+? Who are some LGBTQIA+ creators who have worked on a Star War? How about a timeline of LGBTQIA+ people and content?
BBY/ABY, BrS/GrS, BFE/AFE... what's the difference between these and all those other calendars? What calendar do characters use before the Battle of Yavin?
What are some idioms or kriffing swears this character could use to sound more Star Wars-y?
Does the GFFA have its own version of a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup?
What could be used as a pack animal in one of the many, many deserts?
Why does this fic call him "Yan" or "Glamnor" Dooku? Is her full name Padmé Amidala Naberrie or something else?
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Don't get involved with Wookieepedia
We all know Wookieepedia — it’s the Star Wars wiki, and an invaluable resource for fic writers everywhere. I’m not telling you not to look at Wookieepedia, but I do need to warn you not to get involved with the community. If you do want to edit it, then never join the discord or get involved with the forums (Senate Hall). It’s a cesspit of bigotry, and you cannot change it.
I tried. Along with a very well-known and vocal user named Immi Thrax, we tried to push back against misogyny and queerphobia. We thought we succeeded. You might have seen supposed “progress” on Wook: the addition of pronouns in the infobox, the addition of an anti-discrimination policy and an apology from the male wook admins for historical abuse towards marginalised editors. We did this. We, along with a small group of queer women and nonbinary editors, badgered the admins to write that apology for months, spoon-feeding them the things they needed to address and telling them that the early piss-weak drafts were unacceptable. We demanded infobox pronouns. We demanded an anti-discrimination policy and worked with them to add a glossary.
And then they ran us off the website.
We had a side server specifically for women and nonbinary people, with a few channels that also contained men we trusted. A woman (who was voted in as an admin after Immi) took screenshots from this private server and then posted them publicly. The screenshots were taken completely out of context and misrepresented their contents. The woman who took the screenshots deleted messages in them to make us look worse. They slandered us and put us in danger, because Immi has been targeted by dangerous corners of the internet before (which they were well aware of), and we were terrified we would be doxxed. All of the men approved of this, forced Immi to resign, and spread blatant lies about us. Wook users attacked us, and it was deemed perfectly acceptable to do so.
When I wrote the initial forum post about sexism and misogyny on the website, Master Fredcerique, one of the admins, told me that he was in fear of losing his job during 2021 because of discord screenshot leaks, and that "Safety for everyone was of utmost importance" to him, hence requesting I not provide usernames for my examples of bigotry. It is clear that Immi, myself and others in those screenshots do not count in this 'everyone'. I wonder why he wanted to protect the perpetrators of misogyny but was happy to endanger women!
As a result of this horrific breach of trust and privacy, every single queer woman and almost every nonbinary wook editor has left the site. We were too radical, and they had to destroy us. Sure, a woman did this, but I don’t think it’s an accident that a cishet woman who self-describes as a Republican in Florida forced the two loud leftist lesbians off the site. And the men approved of everything she’s done and contributed to it. One (1) man (notably not an admin) stood up for us, and he was banned for doing it.
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Star Wars Rebels → 3.18 “Double Agent Droid”
AP-5 floating blissfully in space and ♪ singing ♪
finished THRA 13 and i have feelings-
Me: *Watches latest episode of the Book of Boba Fett*
Me: Time to rewatch Trials of the Darksaber!
“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think it’s forever, that you’ll never be unhappy again.”
— Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
everybody shut up and look at star wars’ canonically nonbinary human jedi whose master was yoda. look at kantam sy. look at THEM.
i both really want to see and am dreading the moment Vern finds out about Stellan
⭐️ We have hope. Hope that things will get better. And they will. ⭐️
First time jumping into Star Wars Rebel’s fanart, but seriously love how this turned out.
I approve of Imri's priorities in life.
imri cantaros, making his way onto my list of Most Relatable Characters
The Fallen Star spoilers
Orla and Nib's deaths were so disappointing, especially when Orla had such potential.
sometimes when ahsoka feels lonely, she turns on her old holoprojector to see her master’s face once again.
