#keeper0fthestars

[alwaysbethewest]

Cindy loved poppies, and I often thought of her and snapped a picture to send her when I walked past a cluster of the California poppies that grow here where I live. They will always make me think of her.

Cindy (@keeper0fthestars) passed away this morning after a lengthy and serious illness. Her husband shared the news directly with a few of her fandom friends and asked us to help share it more widely.

I am heartbroken to lose my sweet, funny, smart, talented-off-the-charts, passionate, and always supportive friend. Her presence was so bright and warm, I think even people who never spoke to her one-on-one here could feel it and will be touched by this loss. She was an inspiration and a role model to me and I feel so lucky to have gotten to know her and spend time with her online over the last couple years. I don’t know what more to say right now other than that I loved her and I will miss her so, so much. I wish I had sent her more flowers.

Please keep Cindy’s family in your thoughts as they grieve this devastating loss.

#💔 #cindy ✨ #keeper0fthestars

[magpie-to-the-morning]

Hello friends. As a lot of you have heard, our community lost one of its leading lights yesterday. Cindy, @keeper0fthestars, passed away after a long, hard-fought battle with cancer. It’s still so hard to believe our warm, kind, smart, funny, talented and endlessly encouraging friend is gone. 

If you are seeing this news for the first time, I’m so sorry. Know that you are not alone in your grief and while of course we can’t fathom the loss her family is dealing with, we loved her too and our own grief is very real. Hold your friends and loved ones closer today, literally or metaphorically. I know I am, and I know I learned how from Cindy. 

She touched so many of our lives here. Welcoming new fans and creators with open arms and a kind word. Encouraging fledgling writers to take the plunge. Laughing and crying with us, even when she was fighting like hell. 

Some of her friends have been in touch with her family, offering support and sharing news. I know people have been looking for ways to support her family, share how much we loved Cindy, and come together to mourn this staggering loss. If you would like to be tagged in any updates, whether about sharing kind messages with them, or potentially donating to a charity in her name, please let me know and I will do my best to provide that.

I’m tagging a few people in no particular order here but feel free to share so this can reach everyone. ✨

@alwaysbethewest @the-chocolate-bunny @songsformonkeys @iamskyereads @letterfromvienna @miranhas @hiscyarika @radiowallet @jazzelsaur @yespolkadotkitty @miceenscene @skeletoncowboys @oonajaeadira @zinzinina @frannyzooey @lowlights @pettyprocrastination @astroboots @absurdthirst @quica-quica-quica @moonlight-prose @heythere-mel @cinewhore @littleferal @sp00kymulderr @cheesybadgers

#Mi media naranja 🍊 #Keeper0fthestars

[skyshipper]

A GIFT FOR KEEPER OF THE STARS

#pedro pascal #javier peña #din djarin #ezra prospect #frankie morales #the mandalorian #triple frontier #narcos #prospect film #skyshippergifs #keeper0fthestars #i felt like making a little something for cindy #she was one of the first people to chat with me here #and one of the first to be super supportive of my gifs when i was just learning #she'd reblog my sets and send requests #that meant so much to me when i was new to this fandom and still learning how to gif #i'll never forget that kindness #she even gave me the nickname sky which stuck #i see many others shared the same sentiments.... #how she was one of the first people to say hello and welcome others to this fan space #what a great reminder to welcome others at all times and in all aspects of life #sending hugs to all of you whether you knew her well or just had an occasional chat #i'm really going to miss her here #sending her family and all of you who know her casually or close lots of love #the stars to my sky

[thirstworldproblemss]

Ficlet: Kindness

Pairing: Din x gn!reader* Fandom: The Mandalorian Words: 645 Rating: Teen ...maybe? Content/Warnings:  One (1) very oblique reference to sexual arousal/yearning. *Also: while this fic is technically gender neutral—(I think? let me know if you spot any gendered language that I missed)—it was written with a specific (female) "reader" in mind

Summary: A Mandalorian (ficlet) for Cindy ✨

Notes: This is a short little thing that I wrote for Cindy (@keeper0fthestars) once upon a time in response to a 'who would you ship me with and why?' ask game that was going around. I considered expanding or reworking this before posting, but somehow it doesn't seem fair to take it any further now that C's no longer here to see it… So here it is, exactly as I shared it with her. It's not my best work ever or terribly polished—it was never intended to be anything more than a silly little blurb for a silly little ask game—but it was fun to write, and sharing it with Cindy brought us both joy.  In the end, I think that's enough. In the end, I think that was everything.

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Din doesn't quite know what to make of you at first.

You are…. Kind.  Consistently and deliberately thoughtful in a way that’s unfamiliar to him.  You’re other things too: funny and pretty and smart, and so much braver than he gave you credit for in the beginning.  But somehow it’s your kindness that always catches him off-guard.  He’s not used to people offering to help him without strings attached or being kind just for the sake of kindness.

He hires you to take care of the kid, and you do, but somehow you wind up taking care of him as well.

When he returns to the ship with a bounty, you’re there to greet him, always checking in to make sure he's okay.  The first time it happens, the attention makes him feel uncomfortable—oddly… exposed—and he brushes off your inquiries with a brusque, "I'm fine; save it for the kid,” before ingrained politeness makes him follow up with a soft, "thank you" a few moments later.  You smile at him, and he has to look away.

You are kind, always smiling at him or offering him a share of the meal you made for yourself and the kid.  He thinks at first that it's the unfamiliarity of being cared for that makes his breath catch.  And if his heart beats a little faster when you lay a concerned hand on his arm, it's just the novelty of a gentle, non-threatening touch.

The problem is that it doesn't stop happening. 

The warm smiles, the kindness, the gentle touches, the sharing of food and stories and space eventually become routine.  But it never stops affecting him.  If anything, it gets worse or maybe better.  A look from you is enough to leave him flushed, skin prickling under his armor.  The smallest interactions make his heart beat fast like he’s chasing down a bounty in full armor.  Even just watching you with the kid—loving yet firm in a way that somehow, miraculously works—leaves him breathless, yearning for something he doesn’t fully understand.

You are kind, and he grows greedy for that kindness.  Cataloging every smile and touch and glance from you. He hoards them away in his memory like precious treasures, reliving each one alone in his bunk at night and savoring the remembered warmth of your attention.  But still he wants more. Can’t help but think of all the different ways you might touch or look upon each other. Dreams of your eyes on him, your hands, your bare skin against his, unstymied by armor or helmet, and wakes hard and aching.  Wonders if he could make you ache for him in return.

You are kind.

You are kind. 

You are kind, but it feels like more. Like something half-remembered from another life, from before the culvert and the mandalorians and the droid attack.  He wants it to be more.  He wants that feeling, that life… with you. He thinks sometimes that you might want the same.  But you're so thoughtful. So good.  So consistently nice to everyone you meet.  No matter how long he watches you, he can't tell if he is special to you or just one of many.  (Maker, he wants to be special.)

You are kind, and he cannot find the words to tell you how much that means to him, so he gives you the ones he has.  He says, “thank you” and “you’re good with the kid” and “let me help you, please” and tries his best to repay a little of that kindness, to give you back some small part of the happiness and peace you bring to him.  He hopes he’s managing it.  His heart soars like a rising phoenix every time he manages to make you smile.

Maybe someday he'll find the right words and the courage to say them, but for now? 

You are kind, and it’s enough.

.

The Beginning.

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End Notes & More About Cindy:

Cindy (@keeper0fthestars) passed away on December 25th, 2022—one month ago today. She was a bright light in this fandom, and she was my friend. You can read the announcement posts here & here; and more about her here (w link to her obituary), here (w link to donate in her memory), here (w her eulogy), and here (soliciting t-shirt design ideas to raise money in her memory).

This is probably as close to a memorial post for her as I’ll get, so I guess I better say what I need to say.

...And what can I say about Cindy?

Only a few weeks after she and I first traded shy DMs full of mutually admiring fangirl flailing, she spotted a single panicked post of mine (about not being able to get in touch with my seriously ill husband who I'd sent to the ER alone at the height of the pandemic because there was no one else to watch the kids).

He was ultimately fine, and I honestly don’t even remember why he couldn’t contact me. But what I do remember is that Cindy was one of two people to reach out, and she spent hours chatting with me, distracting me, and keeping me company while I waited to hear from him. I remember she stayed up long past both our bedtimes so that I wouldn’t have to be alone with my worry. 

That right there tells you what sort of person Cindy was, and I doubt that story would surprise anyone who knew her.

Cindy was a lot of things: She was smart and wickedly funny. She was humble and so, so very brave. And I think anyone who’s read her amazing stories knows that she possessed both mind-boggling talent and a gloriously debauched imagination.  But what always stood out to me was the way she was unfailingly thoughtful, supportive and kind, even in the midst of her own harsh struggles.

It was Cindy's kindness that I thought of when I started to write out some ideas for that long-ago ask game request. And of course I had to chose Din—both because she loved him and because… if anyone needs a little kindness in their life, it’s our favorite tin can space man dad. In typical hot mess™ twp fashion, it quickly got out of hand, morphing into this little ficlet, which then languished, mostly finished, in my drafts for... quite a while.

I finally, belatedly, got around to finishing and sharing it with her months and months (and months ^^') after the fact, in an attempt to cheer her up after yet another round of bad news. By that point it had been so long since the original post that I felt silly and a bit embarrassed even to show it to her. But of course... feelings like that could never survive an encounter with Cindy. Somehow, despite the fact that I was trying to do something nice for her, she was so enthusiastic and effusively grateful that I wound up feeling special too. 

Cindy was just... like that.

You know that Maya Angelou quote? The one that ends with, "People will never forget how you made them feel." Well Cindy was a master of that: she had a way of making everyone she talked to feel heard and welcome and supported. She made you feel special.... Because to her, you were. We were. Each and every one of us.

She never stopped saying how much she loved this fandom. How glad she was to have found a refuge in it. How grateful she was for the friendships she made here.

And I will never stop being grateful for my friendship with her.

Rest in peace, my love 💕

#din djarin #the mandalorian #din djarin x reader #gender neutral reader #(kind of?) #fanfic #ficlet #thristworldproblemss #sfw #in memory of #keeper0fthestars #cindy ✨ #fluff #it's not spelled out within the fic itself but this is definitely #mutual pining #*my fic

[pedropascalito]

Would you be able to give us some expert insight on which Pedro boy you think is the best kisser? Or maybe a top 3 (if applicable)?

It’s for science. 💜

Cindy! You have made my fucking month asking me this question!

I have many opinions about this. (No surprise there, I am sure.) My 'best kisser' criteria:

Sensuality

Engagement with their partner

Passion

My #1 is Oberyn Martell, without question. He is so focused on sensual pleasure and his partner's pleasure, kissing him would be a full body, full senses, full physical- and emotional- pleasure experience. Not sure I would ever be able to kiss anyone else if I had kissed Oberyn. Spoiled for life!

#2 is Javier Peña. Javier is here for a good time, not a long time, but fuck, it's a good time. His sensuousness and passion are off the charts, and he is down whenever, wherever, you need him to be. He is not as in tune with you as Oberyn would be, and sometimes it WILL be more about his needs than yours, but when he's made you come for the 3rd time, you don't mind. Javier uses his body, not his words, and his body is aching and screaming for you. His kisses do the translation work. Also, he bites. 🥵

#3: Francisco Morales. We don't see him kiss anyone, but we see him with high emotional intelligence towards his friends and the situations they are in, and I believe that would translate into emotional intelligence about his partner's needs, and he would be very much about making sure you are both enjoying yourselves, and in tune with each others' pleasure. Just...sigh. It would be so good.

Honorable mention:

Marcus Pike. He's just so damn sweet and cute and earnest. He'd make you feel treasured and safe and beloved, and that passion for you would be sustained, not just in the moment; anyone can be passionate for 20 minutes, but for Marcus, it's 24/7, and he expresses himself physically but gently, with your consent. You'll never want for either sweet or passionate kisses with Marcus.

Thank you, Cindy!! I loved thinking through this. What about you??

#pedro pascal #francisco morales #frankie catfish morales #oberyn martell #marcus pike #keeper0fthestars #OG MVP

[fromthedeskoftheraven]

Many of you have already heard that we’ve lost our beloved @keeper0fthestars. I knew this day was coming, but that just never makes it hurt any less, does it?

Cindy was one of my first friends when I joined Tumblr seven years ago (she was peonies-and-poppies then, and I never see either of those flowers without thinking of her). From the moment I met her, I’ve looked up to her as a friend, writer, wife, mother, and human being. She had an incredible gift with words and an understated, effortless coolness that I always admired and could only aspire to. Her kindness, humor, grace, and generosity of spirit were unmatched, even when she was dealing with the worst of her diagnosis. Any words I’ve got feel so inadequate to describe how much she meant to me, but her friendship is one of the best gifts this site ever gave me and I’m so, so grateful that I was lucky enough to have existed at the same time she did.

I realized I’ve never been on Tumblr without Cindy, and now I don’t really know how.

Rest easy, my friend, and know how deeply loved and missed you are. ❤��

#keeper0fthestars #✨cindy✨

[rosethornxs]

Helllo you! 🌸✨Black nail polish, white sheets?

Hello, dear Keeper!

black nail polish: what do you do to pamper yourself? 

Well, just this evening I took a bath with a lavender bathbomb and lavender bubble bath. That’s pretty standard pampering for me. Plus I usually practice some self love in the tub, if you get my drift.

white sheets: where’s somewhere you would love to travel to? why? 

I wanna travel all over but right now I really want to go to southern France around Provence. I want to see the lavender fields in full bloom. It seems so beautiful and serene there and I absolutely must experience it.

Thanks for participating, love! Have an amazing day/night/whatever.

✨happy asks✨

#ask game #keeper0fthestars #ask #rose answers #happy asks

[littleferal]

*hugs you real tight* would you please send this to the first ten people on your dash? make sure someone gets a big squishy hug and a forehead kiss 💞

oh. thank you 🥺🥰

#keeper0fthestars #asks #i see you have uno reversed me

[javierian]

*hugs you real tight* would you please send this to the first ten people on your dash? Make sure someone gets a hug today, and stay safe 💚💚💚

kisses, hearts, hugs and more kisses right back at you 🥺 thank you! 💖

#keeper0fthestars #<3 <3 <3

[ifimayhaveaword]

Not organized thoughts, but thoughts. For @keeper0fthestars

Cindy was such a delight of a human being- snarky but supportive, firm but kind, generous and sincere with her time and her friendship.

She was one of those writers I’d admired constantly from afar- read and reread her works before commenting, lurking on her blog, amazed by what she decided to share with us on here. That we struck up a small friendship was luck and circumstance, as can only really happen on a site like this, and I’m so grateful that it happened. I looked up to her, I would not be the writer or podfic-recorder or approach fandom the way I do today without her— and I know I’m not the only one she’s impacted like this. I think anyone who’s read her works or talked with her even once feels the same.

Cindy, I wish I responded to your last DM. I’ll see you in rolling beach waves and oversized margaritas and kittens with Christmas tree tails, in well-written heartache, in oranges and dim-lit kitchens and the italicized oh.

💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

#keeper0fthestars fics

[alwaysbethewest]

Remembering Cindy

Our sweet friend Cindy (@keeper0fthestars) passed away last Sunday.

Cindy's family is holding a Celebration of Life for her today, and her husband Rob reached out to Hará (@the-chocolate-bunny) to share a copy of her eulogy and ask that we share it with her friends here on Tumblr. Hará asked me to post it here for you all. We can be thinking of and remembering Cindy today alongside her family and other friends.

It is difficult to put into words how special Cindy was. She was kind but funny, talented but humble, mature but fun-loving, and always thoughtful—no buts. She had such big sister energy to me, with her wisdom and empathy and support. I had so much respect and admiration for her that it always blew me away when she paid me a compliment—somehow it felt like an honor to hear that I had written something she liked. I wish she could have stayed with us longer, because there are still so many things I want to share together—fic ideas and celebrity thirst trap meltdowns and TV series and jokes and pictures of poppies and otters and babies and cats—and because I will so miss her warmth and her authentic, caring self. I have cried a lot this week, missing her, trying to wrap my brain around her being gone, and each time I keep coming back to a feeling of sincere, deep gratitude to have known her for the little while that I did. I am so grateful for that. I know that I will always remember her and feel her impact.

I am posting the eulogy her husband shared under the cut. Please share your own thoughts and memories in the comments/reblogs, if you feel moved to do so. And if you don't have any words right now, that's okay too. We are all holding this space together, with and for each other.

(This is the format in which Rob shared this document; if you have difficulty reading it and need a plain text version, let me know and I will try to type one up.)

If you have not already seen the post with links to sign a condolence letter and offer donations in Cindy's memory, please click here for that.

(will be reblogging with a taglist momentarily)

#cindy ✨ #keeper0fthestars

[magpie-to-the-morning]

Hey friends. Rob, Cindy’s husband, reached out with the following message:

“Thank you. This is her husband Rob. I’m humbled by your thoughts and support. For my children and I, she is a hero! I hope this obituary link works. She dreamt of somehow contributing to our local hospital and palliative care team.”

He provided a link to Cindy’s obituary, which includes a biography for our girl, information about her service, information about donations that can be made in her name, and a way to send condolences to the family. 

I believe @alwaysbethewest and @seawhisperer will have additional information about ways to show your support in upcoming posts. They both have access to the taglist I’ve been putting together, so if you have not already, please let me know if you would like to be included on any further updates. 

Sending you all lots of love. 💫

Art by @miranhas-art

#Keeper0fthestars #Mi media naranja 🍊 #Taglist reblog to in a sec #TW: loss

[moonlight-prose]

dropping by to say hi and i love you 😘🖤

My beautiful keeper. Not going to lie I did keep this for wayyy too long, but that's not new for me. I'm an ask gremlin first and foremost.

Let me just say HELLO HOW ARE YOU?? I miss you and I hope things are going wonderfully within your life. I'm sending you heaps of love and hugs, because you're spectacular. It's in your username. You are the keeper of the stars. That certainly explains your talent and the way you shine.

I love you more darling!

#witch aunt responds #keeper0fthestars darling✨

[thirstworldproblemss]

Another day and another absolutely amazing writer and human being for your celebration event: One of my absolute favourite people on here, one of the first people I befriended, and just thinking of her gives me such joy: @keeper0fthestars

Not only is she a bundle of warmth and kindness and always supportive of those around her, but that amazing warmth of hers is always reflected in her beautiful writing.

Keeper is not just the keeper of my heart but also my admiration and love which is boundless for her. Her writing was so influential in my own writing and I will always be so eternally grateful to have met her on this little hellsite.

I'm going to cheat by recommending not one, not two but three of her works but truthfully I'd also just want to recommend the whole of her masterlist if I can get away with it.

Midnight Cravings & Other Starry-Eyed Confessions - A Frankie fic that in retrospect turned me into the Frankie freak girl I am today. Keeper must be sick to death of me pimping this one out and constantly screaming about this one, but there is not an ounce of exaggeration when I say that to this day, this is one of my favourite Frankie fics that I consider formative to my experience in this fandom. It shaped so much of my love for Frankie and my own depiction and version of Frankie and the way I write him, and I have often said that my Frankie works are essential fanfics of Keeper's Frankie.

You Were My New Dream (And You Were Mine)* - a Din Djarin fic that made me look at writing a kiss in an entirely new light, the emotions infused in this steals the breath in my lungs and the whole of my inner organs away. It is so beautiful, vivid and ethereal, I have never been the same and still think of the kisses in this fic on a daily basis.

Show Me Give Me - a Javier fic that is just hng ölaskdjöalksjd and gaaaah and ooof and awoga. But also as always the heat is all the more powerful for the love and emotions that is infused in every single sentence.

Favorite Fanworks Author & Fic Rec:

Fanfic by @keeper0fthestars:  -  Midnight Cravings & Other Starry-Eyed Confessions [Triple Frontier: Frankie x f reader, oneshot]  -  You Were My New Dream (And You Were Mine) [The Mandalorian: Din x f reader, long onshot]  -  Show Me Give Me [Narcos: Javier x f reader smutty oneshot]

(Last chance to send in a rec for twp’s “Show Me the Fanworks!” Celebration)

You’re so right, ‘boots, and I second all of this 100%!!  Thank you sending in some love for one of my favorite creators on this site <3 

Keeper is both an immensely talented writer and one of the kindest, most thoughtful people you’ll ever meet.  She writes gorgeously evocative fic that hook right in under your ribcage and pull until you’re so immersed in the stories she creates that returning to the real world is like surfacing from underwater--reality too harsh and sharp and bright after the beauty and off the charts sensuality of the images her words creates.

[Edited to Add: All recs now compiled on the Fav Fanworks Rec List]

#fav fanworks rec ask #frankie morales #din djarin #javier peña #frankie morales x reader #din djarin x reader #javier peña x reader #keeper0fthestars #twp's show me the fanworks celebration #astroboots #q #(not me forgetting this was in my queue and letting it go up without additional love for c… 🤦‍♀️ #*unacceptable* bc keeper deserves ALL the love!!)

[pedropascalito]

@keeper0fthestars Tumblr just notified me you tagged me in a post on….May 7, 2020. Or the comment reply in January 2021. Tumblr 🤦🏻‍♀️

But it gives me a good excuse to read it again and I highly recommend for anyone who needs a sweet pick me up.

#pedro pascal #francisco 'catfish' morales #francisco morales #frankie catfish morales #keeper0fthestars

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As PPCU fanfics don’t have a universal tag we could track, we would like to ask you to please tag @pedrostories in your post, or if you’re not using taglists anymore, #pedrostories in your tags under your post so the blog members won’t miss any of your updates. 💚

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