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thank you!
Your dog rant is EVERYTHING to me. I just do not understand people who let dogs lick their faces and jump all over them and their furniture. When I tell people I don't like when dogs lick me they stare at me like I've just told them I kick babies for a living. Dogs eat so much gross stuff and their tongues are like humans it's DISGUSTING. They also just stink in general so I do not know why people let them up on furniture. Our dog always had his own bed and was not allowed to jump on people because honestly? Super rude. Just shows you haven't trained your dog. If you have an opinion that isn't DOGS ARE FLAWLESS people want to skin you alive it's so bizarre to me. I'm from a western country so people are way too into their dogs haha. I also do not like how people refuse to put their dogs outside when I ask...when they've invited me to their place? Like I'm your guest and I don't feel comfortable with your dog jumping and licking me? Please put him outside? I like dogs but people are very blind and irresponsible when it comes to training and I don't like how I'm the bad guy for wanting to be hygienic.
IT'S TIME... PETLESS ENVIRONMENT ENJOYERS RISE UP
Hey so your dog opinion is so valid. My family had a dog but he stayed Outside. He was a very good, very lovely dog and his job was to be a guard dog and he was very good at it, but under no circumstances was he allowed in. He was NEVER allowed to lick our faces (thats so disgusting when I see people let their dogs do that) and we trained him not to jump and rub all over us because yeah, dogs are not clean. If we did play with him where he did get on us more, you can bet we changed our clothes when we came inside. I really dont get people who let their dogs all over everything and i also dont feel comfortable visiting houses where people let their dogs run all over. Its so unhygenic. Anyway just thought i would chime in, and also there are so many other people who would agree. Im Muslim and basically that whole population would agree with you lol. Dogs are wonderful companions for people and have been trained to do amazing things but they are not clean creatures and unless you need the dog for service animal reasons i just dont get having them in your house like that.
Yeah I honestly like to pet other peoples dogs! I've met some dogs that are super funny and cool (and trained)! Guard dogs, seeing eye dogs, bomb dogs, sheepdogs, etc. are awesome. But I do think there's undeniable "dog blindness" that lots of people who've had dogs their whole life develop where something that's disgusting to me is just normal to them. Like smokers who think they don't stink, because they're so used to it.
My family also had outside pets and we kept a sticky roller and hand sanitizer in a basket by the door so we could immediately clean off after playing with them. I had a special hoodie that I would put on for that exact purpose to protect my other clothes lol. Which sounds fully INSANE to most people I have talked to, so I get that there's a spectrum of pet mess tolerance and my experience has been extremely far to one side of it.
The cultural part is pretty interesting. Do most Muslims feel differently about other animals like cats? Or is it pretty across the board? I also wonder if there's any general differences between the "we wear our shoes inside the house" cultures and the "take your shoes off at the door" cultures and their expectations for pets.
Are you queer?
no sir
Hi!
I just really wanted to say, I love you. Or at least I love your writing which just phenomenal and awesome, so I can only assume you are the same. I read Life and What Comes After over the course of a day (I think it was a single day, it might have been two) about a month ago now, and it was hands down one of the greatest fics I have ever read. It is very very rare that anyone can satisfy my desire for hugs and softness in a story (probably because all my favourite relationships are bromances), but you knocked that out of the park. I keep meaning to leave more detailed comments on the fic, as I am constantly going back and rereading, but then I just sit there wondering what to say beyond, "I absolutely love this, I am rereading for the nth time" which I suppose is a nice thing to hear as an author, but I usually like to be more eloquent. ^^"
Ugh, there's so much I want to say, want to thank you for. The nudge to read Shatterpoint. Some practical life inspiration from Anakin. But most of all the push your amazing writing gave me to actually start writing my own fix-it AU.
I haven't started reading Sometimes the Light yet, just because I want to save for some point when I desperately need a boost. (Speaking of which, what are the odds of there being more for that...?)
I hope this puts a smile on your face!
And I will absolutely be giving you a thanks in my author's note whenever I publish my baby.
Thank you so much!!!! This is an incredible message 😭
LAWCA was born of purely my own desire for 100k words of incredibly slow angst and fluff so honestly to this day it surprises me that other people enjoy the same thing. I'm so glad!
Shatterpoint is amazing. Everyone should read it. The lore? The philosophy? The Mace Windu being incredible? Truly changed my Star Wars experience. Alsooooo what is your fix-it AU? 👀 There can NEVER be enough of those.
When it comes to Sometimes the Light... after going nearly 3 years without an update it sounds stupid, but I have NOT abandoned it. I have 2 more chapters written than what's actually published, and wrote 2k more words of it as recently as last week. I have most of the rest outlined and know where it's going.
I have hesitated to start actually posting again though because if I do, I can almost guarantee another lull will inevitably happen given all the obligatory excuses (real life job, prioritizing original fiction, etc. etc.) and I don't want to get people's hopes up and then disappoint again.
Funny thing, in the old EU, there is only one time we see a member of Yoda's specie talk like him-and at the end of the story, it's implied it's actually just young Yoda.
Legendary. I love this controversy, honestly.
Would you ever roleplay as Anakin or Kylo?
What an interesting ask.
No, I don't think so, Anon! RP is very much not my thing. I'm way too much of a control freak when it comes to my stories.
FIGMENT! i'm so glad someone else remembers that site
BRUH.
The Inkpop/Figment merger drama?? The Gen/Ran forum? The "swap" requests? I think about Figment probably a weird amount still lol.
Honestly though, I do miss it. There was such a culture of constructive criticism. If you reviewed someone's story and only praised it, they would get upset because where was the useful concrit? I wish there were someplace now where I could go to get that kind of aggressive beta-ing for my original fiction.
hey there!! sorry to bother you but would you mind tagging for g*na c*rano please so I can blacklist posts she's in?
Hi! I am happy to do that for you going forward.
However, bear in mind that I have 200+ posts in my Star Wars queue. I don’t remember all of what’s in there, and I don’t intend to sift through and re-tag 200 posts. So there’s a chance something untagged could still be thrown up by the queue, and if you need to unfollow me that’s totally okay.
I’ll have you know I started reading the Queen’s Thief solely because I wanted to know what you were posting about. I’m enjoying it so far so thank you!
OH MAN, ANON THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!!
Okay so, ever since your post about Ani's nickname, I've been haunted by the question of whether or not anyone uses the nickname Obi. Thoughts? :3
[rises from the dead to answer this question and this question only]
I’m in the camp of PLEASE NO regarding Obi.
In general no, but ABSOLUTELY no when it comes to third-person narration in fic. If a fic starts saying things like ‘Obi spun and ignited his lightsaber’ that is the point at which I have to immediately shut it down. I wouldn’t even say this is a pet peeve so much as my body rejecting it at a cellular level.
Why would you do that? Why? There are so many fics that do this. It hurts.
The only exceptions to this that I see are:
1. Obi-Wan’s agemates. If your name is Bant, Garen, Quinlan, Reeft, or Siri... then you can get away with Obi. If not, it’s probably out of character. Special dispensation for Bant, who probably uses it 3x as much as anyone else and Obi-Wan doesn’t even mind. Quinlan probably does it the second most and Obi-Wan does mind, which is why Quinlan does it.
2. Jar Jar Binks
For Anakin specifically, I think it’s a hard no. The only way I can maybe see it is if Anakin were trying to be purposefully provoking and embarrassing and was also super drunk and/or drugged.
yeah i feel like i would've bought the obi-wan flying thing if he'd like messed up that terrifying flight somehow and caused someone to get really hurt ?? not that obi needs more angst in his life but i think that would have been more convincing
Exactly! Given the stakes Obi-Wan deals with every moment of his life as a matter of course, the stakes of this experience were just too low to produce the supposed reaction.
I... always assumed Obi-wan never ever liked flying at all? He's not afraid of flying, he just really really dislike it. The book explanation is kinda of a let down for me.
Yeah, I think that assumption makes total sense given like 99.9% of the media we have. The only real hint we got that Obi-Wan had a more complicated past as far as flying goes comes from Rogue Planet, a Legends book from 2000.
This is the excerpt that I posted about a while ago, which I think is what the original anon was referring to. It’s literally just this, almost an easter egg, but I was kind of hype to see it come up originally in Master and Apprentice.
I also think it’s fun to think about padawans doing the bulk of the piloting being a tradition Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had, that Obi-Wan followed with Anakin despite being traumatized by Anakin’s style. (Even in TPM, Obi-Wan is the one looking after the ship, installing new hyperdrives, and piloting the bongo.)
But I still find the phrase “integrated these impulses into a larger vision of duty and self” to be DEEPLY suspect. What does THAT mean, Obi-Wan??? I’m sure there’s a story. It would be funny for him to be using that pompous phrasing just to cover up his embarrassment about the Master and Apprentice debacle, but also I really feel like there’s got to be a reason greater than just a risky flight at the age of seventeen.
So I have recently discovered that there's actually a canon answer to the question "why does Obi-Wan hate flying when he clearly knows so much about it, implying he once liked it?" and it is MY FAVOURITE THING EVER. According to the book Master & Apprentice by Claudia Grey, when Obi-Wan was seventeen, while on a mission, he ended up having to pilot a starfighter THROUGH THE INNER CORRIDORS OF A CARRIER SHIP and the experience pretty much scarred him for life
Yeah! This was one of the things that definitely jumped out to me when I first read Master and Apprentice.
Here are some relevant passages:
And then:
I might just be unrealistic, but this just doesn’t... convince me?
Obi-Wan has done scarier things on basically every other mission in JA. He’s done some borderline scarier things in this book. I’m really stretching to see how this one heart-pounding flight somehow put a starship-obsessed Obi-Wan off flying FOREVER.
Anakin can play being confident, but against someone who knows him well, against Obi-wan...My guess is Obi-wan is not reying to win there.
Right??? It’s hard for me to imagine Anakin being able to fool Obi-Wan with his posturing. But then again, they both know each other so well.
Haha, my guess is that Anakin learned quite a bit growing up on Tatooine - and there's a difference between bluffing in a card game, and saying things that aren't true. I bet Anakin's pretty decent at playing up his swagger and pretending to be on top of things, at least in the short-term
i GUESS
idk if you're one for song recommendations but young fathers by typhoon makes me Big Sad about freshly knighted obi-wan and having anakin as his padawan while still trying to move on from qui-gon straight up dying so ("and it wasn't all we hoped for/but we shake it off and we say/'here's your yellow ribbon/i am your consolation'" hello????)
I had never heard that song before but... you are absolutely right, anon.
That song has like TWO different horribly painful angles, because of the way it looks at things from the father’s perspective almost and then from the son’s.
The lyric you quoted is very young knight Obi-Wan and reminds me of the exchange in Rogue Planet where Anakin asks, “Where would you rather be, if you didn’t have to be my teacher?” and Obi-Wan responds, “We are where we are, and our job is important.” He’s trying so HARD to go forward and do the right thing and accept the present but he’s struggling and Anakin can sense it.
And then the part that says “when you’re young / you have your whole life before you / everyone will adore you / grow up you’ll be an astronaut” and then “what goes up, goes up in flames / and now your choices surround you / and decision confounds you” reminds me a little bit of Obi-Wan on Tatooine, but more of Anakin himself and his boundless potential as a child which he burnt down in flames as an adult.
So overall... 10/10 excellent material and also pain, will listen again.
