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nevermindirah · 1 year

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🦋🎈📡 (and a kiss 😘)

Beijos para você! (I'm being so normal about not falling down a rabbit hole about tu vs você right now djksfjdasfjds)

🦋what are you most insecure about when you post a fic?

Are people gonna like it?? (Do people like me??)

Then once I wrangle my social anxiety brain worms back to their rehabilitation corner, I'm wondering about whether the things I was trying to communicate with the fic seem to be coming across to the people reading. Do my understandings of these characters ring true for other people? Did the things I thought were poignant or funny or hot actually feel that way to people who aren't me?

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

I've been told more than once that I have a very distinctive writing style for smut. At first I just blushed my face off whenever I heard that, because oh my GOD I am publishing pornographic writing on the internet!!?!?!? and people are READING it!!?!???!!!?!??? Now that I've had some time to get used to it, I take it as a badge of honor, even when anxiety pokes through that maybe not everybody means it strictly as a compliment. You know what it's a style and it's fun and we're embracing it!

More broadly, my style has definitely changed since BoN first ate my brain. There are some elements of my older fics that absolutely make me cringe now, like the rapid-fire pov shifts (sometimes in the same sentence!) and the explosion of French pet names. No shade on those old fics, I'm glad I wrote them, and I'm glad the people who still enjoy them are enjoying them! It's just that looking back on my older stuff confronts me with how much less practice with writing fiction I had two years ago than I do now.

One element of my fic style that hasn't changed and I doubt ever will is my tendency towards complex, multi-phrase sentences. My professional life has required too much writing about legislative details; at this point it can't be reined in completely, even when I try.

A thing about my style I'm hoping will evolve in the future is I want to learn more from writers like you who are writing so beautifully and effectively in English as a second language. Using my high school Spanish to write anything more complex or poetic than "Booker piensa que Nile es hermosa y tiene razón" (Booker thinks Nile's gorgeous and he's right) feels impossible to me. But English has a much larger vocabulary than Spanish for a bunch of historical reasons, and I have access to several (but importantly not all) registers of that vocabulary for a bunch of personal as well as structural class-and-race reasons, and the significance of word choice as an element of style probably operates differently in a language like Spanish with its relatively smaller vocab inventory so that means other stylistic choices I'm completely unaware of are probably doing super cool things to express the layers of meaning I've been taught to lean on word choice to accomplish in English — this is an enormous area of comparative linguistics but one small example of the ways we can shift our writing styles to more effectively express our ideas to people with different linguistic frames of reference. All that's even more interesting given the staggering diversity of language experience among our immortal blorbos. I don't know what particular stylistic changes might be in the future for me along these lines, it's just a thing I'm thinking about.

📡why is writing and sharing your writing important for fandom?

I love that you asked this because it gives me the excuse to say fandom is important! It's part of our lives! Hobbies we do for fun and stress relief aren't The Most Important Thing In the World but they're still part of our lives and part of the world and therefore what happens in fandom matters! Nile Freeman is a fantastically rich, complex, well-drawn main character and she deserves tons and tons of fandom content about her, and I'm a part of that and so are you! Fuck yeah!

I also really cherish my part in building Jewish Booker. The overwhelming majority of Jewish representation in mainstream US movies and tv comes through filters: Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries being pushed into the entertainment industry by several European countries' discriminatory policies and that tradition carrying over in the US despite legal equality, Euro-descended Jews being model minority-ized by the post-WW2 US that very much did /not/ involve itself in that war to stop the Holocaust but chose to frame itself that way after the fact, lots of individual Jews' family trauma and internalized shame and fear of the next wave of antisemitism around the corner, etc etc. The result is most US media that includes Jews is made either by Jews who feel enormous pressure to represent our entire people in a way that's perceived as palatable and nonthreatening to white culturally-Christian people or more often by non-Jews who've absorbed decades of iterating carbon copies of what previous generations thought was palatable. US Jews invented comic books and the superhero genre and yet the first MCU property to have an explicitly Jewish character was the 6th tv show in Phase 4.

There just isn't much mainstream content about Jews in my country, one of the two places where most of the world's Jews live, made by Jews who uncomplicatedly like being Jewish and don't have big economic and cultural pressures on them to represent all of us in Certain Ways. Wow, I didn't realize this rant was building up in me until I started typing. Anyway yeah I get to be honest about what Jewishness means to me and what I think it would mean for Booker and share it with people through fandom with just a little teeny tiny bit of a filter (my own internalized stuff) compared to the many layers of mess that mainstream content has to go through before it reaches non-Jews all over the world who consume US media and who may or may not know many Jews personally.

#fandom friends #jewish booker #linguistics #why am i like this

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last-level-in-druid · 2 years

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Fair's fair. Four of your choice for Didi, Khalida, Praes, and Sulfur.

Oh no, I gotta talk about my OCs, how dare you do this to me??? (Also you didn’t give me as many blorbos so I’m adding Yezsra the OG disaster Paladin)

Didi

💥 It’s Didi…Emotions really aren’t her thing. But right now she’s having a bit of a hard time with her rage. Hopefully between her dad and her boyfriend they can help her through.

🕷She’s scared of failure. Both failure to protect the ones she loves and just like, in general. She’s one of those people who if she’s not immediately great at something it’s stupid and not worth her time. Being bad at something makes you look weak. So maybe that’s it? Looking weak?

📖 I almost feel like this one’s a cop out, but Deeds’ book collection back home was incredible. Reading was her only form of escape for most of her life, and boy did she need an escape

☁️ When she was super little (I’m talking 3-4) Odo would go to the duck pond in the park, just the two of them, and feed the ducks. Diana and Alfrik both hated it, but for different reasons. It was Didi’s favorite thing for the longest time

Khalida

💢 Don’t know if I’d consider it a habit, but her unknowingly changing shape when she’s not paying attention def takes some getting used to.

🍩 this is based on nothing but she strikes me as the kind of person who goes wild for a good tiramisu

🍁Khalida loves spring. The pretty flowers, the birds come back, it starts to warm up finally…something tells her The Dale springs aren’t the same.

💗 unfortunately for her, the gay panic is extra noticeable. Not only does she unintentional shapeshift into looking more like who she’s crushing on but I’m very concerned about this new wild magic table that’s been teased

Praes

🤥 the weirdest thing? Praes is canonically an EXCELLENT liar. The one time she’s told a lie she rolled a nat20 on deception. Then that night she got pickpocketed and the next day arrested, so she thinks that’s her punishment for lying.

☀️ Praes is absolutely a morning person. If the sun’s up, she’s up! The only person in the Interlopers who may be moreso is Oscar

🍼 I feel like Praes hasn’t been around kids so much, but she loves the few that she’s met. The urchins in Port Callum were nice.

🔫 this poor girl trusts people too easily. Because people are good, right? Who would want to harm others? Someone please help this child see the red flags!

Sulfur

🙈 Sulf doesn’t like to show their struggles. They’re there to pick everyone else up. They need to be in a happy mood

🌌 So in September/October, when the Barovia Brainrot really kicked into Maximum Overdrive, I had a dream that basically boiled down to “yellow tiefling hot”. I woke up and opened up my Didi notes and Sulfur happened

📎 They’re one of those people who are just scary good at every instrument. Like give them 10 minutes and they’ll start banging out the tunes

💧Sulf had their bags packed and ready to go when Didi broke it off. They were planning on leaving that day, that’s how sudden this was.

Yezsra

👊 Yezsra isn’t as quick to violence as she once was. In the Underdark it was “I gotta get out, gotta get home” but now? Now that she’s got a family that she loves she’s content to chill, with the occasional mission

👨‍👩‍👦 Yezsra has her mother, her partner Tezzerin, and their “son” Fissure. They may have had other kids at some point but that’s never been discussed or fleshed out, but cute lil half-drow, quarter-orc babies sound adorable

📣 my only character who’s probably louder is Didi, but that’s mostly because Deeds never shuts the fuck up. Yezsra’s actual voice is BOOMING. The half-orc side really shows there

🌪the biggest change I made to her was that she started taking levels in Paladin at level 5. It was pure happenstance, and it worked really well with her overall story. Also the reason I play Paladin so much

#d&d #didi #praes #khalida #sulfur #yezsra #my blorbos #dungeons and dragons #the interlopers game #dnd #ask meme

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droidmom · 2 years

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Seventh Sister for the ask meme! (because it's fun encouraging you to talk about your Blorbos.) Alternately if someone has already asked about her, I would love to read answers to Pixie Hollow stuff.

thankie! meme here

How I feel about this character:

i love her so much ;-; had a whole lesbian crisis when i met her because i love evil feral women who don't know how to sit properly and i was very unprepared to get that here. i'm really excited to explore her character more even if sw is so intimidating

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character:

kanan (childhood friends to enemies to something, but also sometimes just plain enemies to whatever)

hera (i would have loved to see them interact because it's a little reminiscent of maureen/smith from the lost in space reboot lmao)

minister tua in about 6 different canon divergent AUs because i need them to stay alive and make out and have cybernetic implants to replace everything they lost in their respective ""deaths"" that they work on for each other

a pre-canon oc who i'm still figuring out the details on!! there was a canon comic character who kinda fit this role but the age/personality ended up not working as well, so i'm hopefully going to involve her but not in the role this oc takes on

potentially ahsoka because their fight was A++ but i don't know enough about her character and i can't cope with clone wars just yet

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character:

her and her little parrot droids!!!!!! i love that she loves them more than people and i have a lot of headcanons about how technology is predictable and something she can control.

she grew up a jedi and probably got really fucking tired of the more... vague mysticism vibes with the force, and felt betrayed by it all at a certain point. but technology is something she can understand and use to her advantage without having to open herself up to the turmoil of using the force.

i also think that the little area in the armor on her back where droids sit idle in is also... part of her body. like the droids plug into ports that are literally part of her back. and then maybe she has a mental link to them as well through all that. she honestly tends to move like them sometimes.

i think since fifth brother has a cybernetic hand as a result of a training incident/punishment it's not unlikely that other inquisitors have cybernetic parts to them as well.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

hmmmm so. like her creepier lines and behavior are unfortunate but i also don't really hate that part of her. i feel like there's a lot to read into with them sometimes but that's kind of tricky territory i don't think i can word very well.

once example i've seen some people point out is that flirting is a weapon when aimed at jedi because of the chastity-leaning ideals, and she would know to exploit that or use it to catch people off guard.

there are a lot of potential reasons for it, but it still would be great if she could dial it back a bit lmao.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

i wish she'd lived :') but the fact rebels!maul is really fucking bad at killing people, and kids' show means slightly off-screen death, i can believe she's alive pretty easily. her dying actually gives me a lot more free real estate to work with in AUs where she didn't so... ngl i'm kinda fine with it.

Favorite friendship for this character:

fifth brother!! i wouldn't exactly call it a friendship but there are... little things.

i think a lot about the development of how they basically went from forcibly working together (with her keeping secrets from him!!) to something that happened on malachor. 5th brother was about to go on ahead with 8th brother to attack the protags, but 7th sister told 5th to stay back with her and let 8th brother put himself at risk to give them both together an advantage. it's a little thing that shows her valuing him and their teamwork, or maybe just her knowing she has a better chance with him by her side (look how that turned out hahaaaaaa.)

like they're still awful to each other, or at least would've been if they lived past that point, but i like to think they managed to slightly shake the competition of the rank system and form some weird mutual understandings they weren't ever supposed to.

there's also a comic panel where vader stops by and she has an arm in front of 5th brother protectively, and knowing vader cut off 5th's hand in training makes me think that was drawn that way intentionally.

My crossover ship:

star wars is too extensive for me to wrap my head around crossing it over with anything else :'') so i saved the ships that are crossing over within the franchise for this one

potentially other inquisitors (mainly 2nd sister and 9th sister) but i'm still making my way thru jedi fallen order so i'm not sure how everything comes together just yet.

same applies to jfo's cere. i just want them to meet and see how cere's angst about 2nd sister would come into play.

and i'm probably going to at least ship her with simone kessell's inquisitor character in kenobi because i'm a lesbian trainwreck <3 if simone isn't playing another blorbo of mine then at the very least it is my gay duty to still involve her somehow

#rebels tag

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