A Changing Public Consciousness about the role of Droids in SW fanfic
^^^ i came up with a nice title but I'm actually just annoyed
Had a moment the other day when I was writing a droid character and realized they were being creative and that the real world setting around fictional droid and robot characters being creative has changed so much in just a few years because of AI that I need to add a note about my character's existence not being intended as a commentary because I was not thinking of real world AI when I made them. A couple years ago this would've just been a little droid and now someone's gonna (kinda validly) see all this crap surrounding it. Honestly I'm kind of mad about it tbh. Just wanted this droid to be a linguistics nerd and now I have to do politics in my author's note?
get out.
(idk if it's less or more of a problem when playing in Fialleril's double agent vader sandbox, since droids are fully people in their hc. KD-7 (Kadee) was first posted on ao3 in like 2016 when this shit was not a fucking problem)