#the real sequels

[myevilmouse]

One of the many fun aspects of reading Star Wars fanfic is figuring out from whence came the inspiration: EU (Legends) Canon, Clone Wars & Rebels (animated), Prequels, Sequels, Original Trilogy. I will offer up that I am from the Rebels camp, Clone Wars, and then I took the Thrawn Off-ramp, which led me to wander into EU/Legends. (I go where Thrawn takes me 🤣) all of this has taken place in the last 18 months.

Since I have dove heavily into one aspect of your catalogue - Thryce - I was initially under the impression that you may have come from the Rebels camp, too, but alas! An enormous portion of your writing includes Luke! Add to this, the most recent fic that I am reading of yours mixes both EU & Canon characters. Queries:

What are your Star Wars genre influences?

Where/when did you become interested in Star Wars

Which character do you like best (My guess was Luke)

Thank you!

Hello my friend @beebee-76 and thank you for this wonderful excuse to shriek about loving Star Wars this evening! This got very long, so let's go below the cut!

So the best way to start is with your second question, and I think you may enjoy reading a couple posts I made a while back, one about how long I’ve been in SW fandom:

and one about the experience I had as a young kid seeing Ep V in the theatre:

In summary, I grew up with Star Wars.  My family was a Star Wars family.  My brother had the Darth Vader action figure case, the bed sheets and bedspread (which I have now muwahaha) and stacks and stacks of Star Wars comics, the old ones, with He-Man Luke and all that late 70s madness.  I had the vinyl read-along storybooks

and all that.  My parents loved Star Wars too, my mom adored Han, and my sister wanted to be Princess Leia.  It was a family thing. 

So the where? At home.

The when is…as long as I can remember.

Next to your character ask, which absolutely you are correct ma’am, Luke Skywalker is my main squeeze. 

he's so gorgeous amirite

I love him so much it fills my chest with bubbly squee just to contemplate the extent of my adoration.  Luke Luke Luke.  He’s the hero!  He’s handsome!  He’s kind!  He looks soooooo good in black!  Nnnnggghhhh.

You know me primarily from Thrawn/Thryce fic, but Thrawn was never a huge interest of mine apart from being a good villain in The Thrawn  Trilogy.  I always LIKE the bad guys but I didn’t find him particularly sexy or anything. 

Evilmouse’s idea of a sexy bad guy is more typically like:

(pretty much anything combining naughty + Kiefer Sutherland)

It was fanfic, actually, that turned me on to the “new canon” Thrawn and I started with the 2017 book (which I read I think in 2019? Or late 2018) and then I -had- to see Rebels. 

My sisters’ kids went through a Rebels phase, they dressed up as Ezra and Sabine for Halloween, stuff like that.  I remember being like “Who?!  What?!” but I am the cool aunt, the one who knows more about Star Wars than they do in most respects, so they told me about the exploits of the Ghost crew and I sort of listened without understanding anything about the characters and I was the only person my nephew knew that he could talk to about Jacen and Ben and all was cool. This was before our man showed up in Season 3...

Therefore, after reading the Thrawn book, and before the other “new” Zahn books came out (which is a discussion for another day), I had to see what the cartoon had done with this intriguing character.

Which leads us to your first question, about my genre influences. 

First of all, as mentioned, I grew up with the OT.  The OT is the unchangeable, unalterable, untouchable and all others are subordinate to the OT (original theatrical release, natch) canon.  Also of course all the Ewok Adventures are canon and don’t you dare tell me Cindel isn’t real. 

(ahahah you can tell I’m old cause I just unironically wrote ‘natch’)

Second, the Thrawn Trilogy are the real sequels.  Forever and always.  When Heir to the Empire came out, everyone including my mom freaked out at the fact that Lucas had PERMITTED a continuation of his saga.  A continuation that felt real, true to the characters, and took us further into their galaxy and timeline where real growth and change had not made them unrecognizable, cynical caricatures of themselves, where love and kindness still triumphed, and we had a ‘hey the gang’s all here’ wonderful adventure against a worthy adversary.  So yeah, The Thrawn Trilogy comes second to the OT in ‘my canon’.

You can’t erase Jaina and Jacen or Anakin or Ben or MARA or WINTER or any of these wonderful characters that lived and breathed in that galaxy Zahn allowed us to experience anew.  They are and will forever be!

OK enough of that. 

I stuck with the EU books for quite a while.  I wanted to stay in that galaxy. I am one of the weird people who don’t absolutely hate the Jedi Academy books, mainly because I think when I read them I was like a vacuum just sucking up the worldbuilding and it’s SUCH a fabulous era for our hero.  As a Luke devotee, I both wanted him to find love but was jealous of any potential mates that were presented.  I remember when I finished Children of the Jedi and I was like…uh…ok so Luke’s found love but it’s suuuuuper weird and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Things were fixed what felt like 100 years later with the return of Thrawn in the Hand of Thrawn Duology. Luke recognized his soulmate at last and all was right with the world (even though Zahn still sucks at writing romance, I forgive him cause he was good at so much else).

I read a LOT of the EU books.  A lot.  Tales from Jabba’s Palace was one of my faves and all of those became canon in my heart too.  God I love the Rancor Keeper’s Tale. 

Bless you Paul Brooke.

But the numerous books started to blur and real life started to prevent me from keeping up with them.  I eventually gave up I think with the gazillion Jedi Apprentice novels (I couldn’t keep up), although my mom was still reading them!  She’s a major fan, guys.  Major.  And then the prequels came out.

I like the prequels alright, and certainly what came after put their perceived failings into a kinder perspective.

Slight tangent: I admit to being annoyed sometimes by this need to make everything in the OT "make sense" and explain it in the prequels. Like... no. Why did Leia say she remembered her mother's face? Because when they wrote that scene they didn't know ANYTHING ABOUT LEIA'S MOM AND IT SERVED THE SCENE. I understand some people need to explain things for themselves, but as someone who is old and cranky, I dislike uh...I'm not thinking of the word cause it's late, but this need to explain things in the context of "canon" that was written long after the OT was perfected. I think that's backwards. It shouldn't be like "Oh Obi Wan let Vader strike him down because of X that happened in the new TV show" it should be "X is in the new TV show because Obi Wan let Vader strike him down." Does that make sense? Maybe not. I stop before I make less sense.

More genre influences...Rogue One is good.

Video games too, bear inclusion.  Star Wars video games have typically been more engaging to me than many of the books, and feel more authentic than some of the disjointed canon or EU out there.  Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and Jedi Outcast, Fallen Order, Battlefront II to this day is one of my fave SW stories EVER.  Del Meeko my beloved.

Hmmm….am I going off on another tangent?

So I guess here is the TL;DR because it’s already late how did this happen?!

For writing Luke Skywalker, I focus on the OT Luke and the EU Luke we find in Zahn’s books—that’s what informs my writing the most.  I am not immune to Stover’s Luke either.

For writing Thrawn, I focus on 2017 Thrawn and EU Thrawn, who I believe are not mutually exclusive.  I use Rebels Thrawn to inform my dialogue choices sometimes, and that voice mmmhmm thank you for the voice Lars. 

I tend to think of Rebels Thrawn as like…the kids version of EU Thrawn, if that makes sense?  Like he’s not entirely removed from the character but he certainly is different in many ways, mostly to simplify the good v evil aspect of the cartoon and be just incompetent enough as an antagonist that our heroes can always escape/save the day.

I don’t have a problem with him, but I think “my Thrawn” is more 2017 than anything else, since he’s most romantic version and I write primarily smut.  EU Thrawn has his sexy moments and definitely has an influence on my take, though.  Anytime I start thinking 2017 Thrawn is too heroic, EU Thrawn shows up to demonstrate what a bastard he really is. And he certainly has sexy bastard scenes sometimes….Anyway, I have written a couple fics where I consciously merge the two and those are some of my favorite fics.

Now I definitely have rambled too long, because this document says I’m at 1400 words so I thank you so much as always @beebee-76 for the distraction and the ask and am sending you happy thoughts and love this evening.

#luke skywalker #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #star wars legends #legends for a reason #the thrawn trilogy #the real sequels #heir to the empire #hand of thrawn duology #star wars #original trilogy #just say no #jake skywalker #asks #i like asks #fandom #my thoughts #del meeko

[starboundsingularities]

the jurist system seems really cool i hope they keep using it :-)

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they called me to the witness stand and the defense attorney just shouted "BOOOOOO WE HATE YOUR PUSSY"

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do you know the difference between a prosecutor and a defense attorney

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STOP TAGGING THIS WITH LAWYERS?????

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they hired a guy to stand in court and shout "GET A ROOM YOU TWO" whenever the lawyers start getting a little too homoerotic

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mia fey when they had phoenix wright on trial

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ok hot take but i feel like these lawyers should maybe not be allowed to drag literal children to court with them?? how many people have gotten genuinely actually fucking SHOT in court and they're just ok bringing fucking 8 year olds in?

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he didn't forge the evidence, though. it was kristoph gavin who ordered the forgery. this was covered in the trial of vera misham. if you're going to try to compare yourself to well known figures, you could at least check the veracity of your claims.

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yeah well. he might have. on a different case or something.

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i tried to take the bar exam but they didnt let me because i wasnt cunty and traumatized enough

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why is it always murders with lawblr. why don't we ever talk about divorce or something

#ace attorney #ace attorney spoilers #dashboard simulator #dash simulator #dashboard sim #dash sim #unreality #fake dashboard #fake dash #post simulator #long post #this is just going to be a series now /lh #well. if i make any more. who knows #timeframe is sometime after the end of aa4 but before the start of aa5 #the timeframe for these posts is of course always the exact point i'm at in my own playthrough /lh #some of these are based on real posts. but i'm hoping it is more inspiration rather than outright copying #if it is though i'm always willing to remove them #though i will not be removing the one that's based on my own post because that's mine /lh #i worry this may be an unnecessary sequel but who cares. who cares.

[dhmis-autism]

DHMIS doodle pages that I managed to cut and paste together and color! I personally like them a lot haha.

2nd doodle page is sorta inspired by @mariaisshiki ‘s piggyback trio drawings.

 B/c it reminded me of the time I tried to carry my baby cousin on my back and I am SO short that even though I got her body off the ground,both her feet were still firmly on the floor. That memory was so horrific I had to project it onto the smallest one.

#dhmis #dhmis duck #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis red guy #dont hug me im scared #i really think he'd try it lol. he would be indignant at the idea that he couldnt #like HEY. I AM NOT WEAK AND IM ALSO A GREAT FATHER FIGURE I COULD CARRY HIS YELLOW ASS FOR MILES ILL SHOW YOU ALL RIGHT NOW #then it would just be. the saddest thing anyone has ever seen. #which is what it was exactly when it happened irl to me amen #top ones just a doodle page that i liked a lot honestly looool #there was a comic in there too but um. i made a lengthy sequel to it it got away from me real fast man. you guys will see soon lol #me art #my dhmis postings

[kurozu501]

ideal gwitch movie sequel is like. yeah theres a new conflict, suletta pilots a new gundam aerial 2.0, they put eri in it to help her and its just like old times, etc etc but most importantly is that the comedic subplot of the movie is kicked off when nika or one of the other earth house kids asks miorine about their wedding and why they didnt get invited only for miorine to be like “oh we never had a wedding ceremony i was too busy and suletta was stuck in physical therapy and rehab” and lilique is like GASP and for the rest of the movie earth house is planning a proper wedding ceremony/reception for them which is how we finally get the onscreen wedding and kiss at the end of the film.

#come on sunrise do it #gundam the witch from mercury #gwitch #sulemio #miorine rembran #suletta mercury #lilique kadoka lipati #nika nanaura #honestly the eri still being around is the one thing that makes me think they might do a sequel #bc like i said it'd be real easy to put her back into a gundam and have the sisters fight together again

[testosteronetwunk]

#this is so real like scream 4 was supposed to be a reboot of the franchise and then flopped #and then scream 5 like 11 years later is a reboot-sequel/requel of the reboot #and now they’re rebooting the requel to the reboot 💀 #all this bc spyglass hates palestinian people #scream #scream 7 #melissa barrera #jenna ortega

[heartisbrave]

bottoms doesn’t need a sequel but I need another movie with the exact same cast and crew. time for gay people to have their own brat pack

#emma seligman if you can hear me i believe in your power to be gay and funny #i also just want to see this group of people make something new now that they’re more comfortable with each other #that’s the only real benefit of franchising a comedy #so i just think this would be a neat alternative #all the benefits of a sequel without any risk of ruining the original story/alienating existing fans #anyone else feel this way or am i on crack #also bottoms was so good it ruined most other movies for me #there’s nothing else like it but there should be #bottoms 2023 #stella speaks

[emeraldspiral]

Girls don’t want to see another attempt at rebuilding the Jedi Order. Girls want Ben Solo back.

#reylo #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #star wars #for real tho #fuck the jedi #they fell for a reason #the entire sequel trilogy happened #because people didn't learn from the mistakes of the past #and just tried to recreate an already failed system #and tros's greatest sin was throwing that theme away #in favor of embracing mindless nostalgia #and rejecting the need for growth and change #if the movie isn't about rey either learning that she needs to modify her new jedi order #to make it actually work this time #or failing spectacularly because of her blind faith in something she should already know doesn't work #this movie will just be doubling down on tros's trashiness

[juliaaadoodles]

Highest score

#disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #w-w-w-wildest cops in revachol #before you ask i have heard the sad za/um news #how ironic #and how devistating #but on the bright side my friends #disco elysium is real #you can go play it as much as youd like #maybe it doesnt need a sequel #maybe it never did #sometimes you are only ever meant to visit a place for a brief time and though you may want to return again it will not have you #and that is okay #this news doesnt change how meaningful the game was for you #be vigilant. i love you

[delta-pavonis]

Fic: Special Exhibition

Dreamling (human AU) || Rated E || 10k words || complete Alternate Universe - human, sequel to Placebo Effect, Doctor Hob Gadling, museum curator Dream, sequel to fake relationship to real relationship, Dream was an unrepentant slut in college, Hob is still an unrepentant slut, getting too deep into a relationship too quickly, Bisexual Hob Gadling, Lust at First Sight, Top Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Bottom Hob Gadling, Genital Piercing, Cock Piercing, Frenum piercing, Cock Rings, Cock Slut, Chaps, Face-Sitting, fluid bonding, Safe Sane and Consensual, Barebacking, swearing fealty, Leather, leather harness, Hob gets railed, deep dicking, Coming Untouched, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Multiple Orgasms, Prostate Massage, Rimming, Dirty Talk, Oral Sex, Anal Fisting, Cowgirl Position, Finger Sucking, Ass to Mouth, Impact Play, minor impact play using hands, Orgasm Edging, Orgasm Denial, Orgasm Delay, Light BDSM, Dom/sub Undertones, Porn with Feelings

Hob responded to the DM he got from @.TheArtofDreaming because it was by far the most interesting response he had gotten within 48 hours of posting that video with him saying he would do a fake relationship call. Wordsmithing aside, the fact that Dream had just laid out what was pretty much the exact kind of gig Hob had wanted when he made the silly thing was just serendipitous. Honestly, at first pass Hob had not at all expected @.TheArtofDreaming to be AMAB. It had been a pleasant surprise. Not that Hob had lied about his sexuality–no, he was as 3 of a 3 on the Kinsey Scale as one could get–but after Eleanor it has just been… harder. With people who presented more feminine. Not for lack of interest, but there was a lot of baggage to sort through. In contrast, texting with Dream was easy: he was engaging, responsive, thoughtful, and quick-witted. They were both passionate about what they did, for work and for play. So, yeah, lunch seemed like a great idea and maybe he could end up being friends with one of his favorite museum’s curators! Maybe he could even get a behind-the-scenes tour someday. Oh, what simple goals that naive Hob had set.

Read on AO3

#dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #curator Dream #museum curator Dream #medical doctor Hob #sequel to “fake relationship to real relationship” #ridiculous smut #Pavonis writes

[saquesha13]

raise your hand if you want a sequel where these two have their own royal wedding 🙋‍♀️

It would involve cake, smoochin’, vacations in texas, and some modest husband sexy times

#rwarb #red white and rooster #red white and royal blue #rwarb movie #rwarb alex #alex and henry #alex/henry #rwarb henry #rwarb book #red white and royal blue sequel #i need to see more of them #the obsession is real #they are everything

[marypsue]

Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

#the plot still revolves around trying to figure out who the very real head vampire is (but now including everyone in the cast and crew) #but also trying to figure out what bits of vampire lore (from various sources) are actually applicable #('no that doesn't count!' 'it was in the sequel!' 'exactly why I said it doesn't count!') #and of course there's a little sister. there's got to be a little sister. #i don't know enough about moviemaking to do a story like this justice and yet. i always so badly want to #it's an all-girl remake because i'm queer and driver picks the music. hope that helps #(ngl any kind of remake/reboot made in the late 2010s/2020s would be aesthetically toothless. see the Flatliners reboot/sequel/whatever) #(so part of the happy ending on this one is the movie getting scrapped) #(the world's not ready. hollywood's not ready.) #(wait until the costume designers and makers strike and get better conditions. then we'll talk.) #the lost boys

[writeouswriter]

Bro, bro, there is no second Pacific Rim movie, bro, it was just a bad dream, go back to sleep

#i didn't even know it existed before 2022 #pacific rim uprising dni #pacific rim #the thought of it genuinely just makes me sad especially for this one lovely writer i've spoken to who was able to perfectly pinpoint why #anyway it's one of the few things i genuinely don't accept as canon i reject your reality and replace it with my own or whatever #the real pacific rim sequel is actually these two lovely series of fics i've been slowly continuously reading since 2022 #i don't even care that much for pacific rim but i care for aspects of what they created that i feel the sequel f*cking spits and steps on #and i care for the characters which they do so dirty :/

[obsob]

happy autumn!!!

#mine #original #heeheh ordered some new prints yesterday..... #i went to th library also! got a book ive already read to read again before reading th sequel #and also a new book...hehehe...... #ive been reading on my kindle so much it will be nice to read a real book #if anyone wants to send me £30 so i can buy th hands of the emperor by victoria goddard that would b great #why so. why costs so much money. relax #th second book comes out in nov heheheHEHEHE #book im reading rn is pretty good but also these guys are rock hard at like any given moment #theyre like we need to be sneaky...people cant know...anyway want 2 hve loud passionate sex behind this tree #which. i mean im not complaining. #th last book i read was pretty dull but all the reviews are like 5 STAR CHANGED MY LIFE did we read the same book #anyway. happy saturday! #also they updated how u do posts n i gotta say......being able 2 edit tags? godsend #gods know i cannot spell

[tarczar]

realized way too late that pongorma's head is actually a helmet (skimming the fandom wiki trivia page when I got distracted) meh. I does what I wants and I personally think the party having a wrinkly old bum in it is awesome

helmet gormas

#i also interpreted his new helmet in the sequel as like a snail shell type deal #his head mushed up inside of it and if you crack it you get real sad #speaking of the sequel my good friend braxiations bought hylics 2 #for me!!! yow!!!! #she's fueling the tire fire in my junkyard mind isn't she nice for that #hylics #pongorma #FAN-WORKS

[blocksruinedme]

My tumblr numbers are insane today, glad I'm bringing people so much joy. But now, Docm77

https://x.com/docm77/status/1753488284498686063?s=20

Remember, ship writers, we have the power to influence what people ship by getting in early.

....and then there's doc.

#smallishbeans #smallishhermit #hermitblr #HERMITSHIPPING #SKIZZ/JOEL IS HERMITSHIPPING #JOEL IS HERMITSHIPPING #JOEL IS A GERMIT #JOEL IS A HERMIT #HERMITCRAFT #DOCM77 #HERMITSHIPPING BUT REAL #ahem #“luckily” i'm snowed in on my vacation today so i'm screaming on vc a lot and writing a sequel to my first hermit joel fic

[astraskylark]

So what am I supposed to do next week? Have a regular Sunday????

#miorine rembran #suletta mercury #the witch from mercury #g witch #gwitch #gundam witch from mercury #gundam the witch from mercury #THIS CANT BE REAL #i really thought they'd announce a sequel #bruh i already miss them #suletta sunday you will always be famous