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gffa · 5 years

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Do you think it would be possible for Obi-Wan to go back in time after dying on the Death Star and then Falling? If so how do you think Dooku, Anakin, and the Council would react?

If we’re talking staying-100%-true-to-canon, it would be possible, but I don’t think Obi-Wan would do it, because it’s not a great idea, according to word of god. When talking about why Ahsoka didn’t jump through the time portals when she had the chance in the World Between Worlds, Dave Filoni said this:

“Because the reason why [Ahsoka] doesn’t go [through the portal with Ezra] is that she’s savvy enough to know that you can’t. You can’t just leap out of your time. “Unfortunately, in the middle of this running, I had different bits of exposition–‘ButEzraIcan'tgowith youbecauseifIdothisisreallybad–!’ It’s, like, no! We need to just get away from the fire! Sometimes you write this stuff and then you stage it and you’re watching her running and you’re like, ‘No! When I’m running from fire, I’m just like, "I CAN’T GO! I’LL SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK!”’ and you have to distill it down to, okay, that’s very real, because if she stops to have an exposition, she could burn up in a blue ball of flames.“So [Ezra] doesn’t get the explanation, but I tried to portray her– When I talked to Ashley, I was like: She doesn’t know what this place is, but she has kind of instincts about it because she’s older and has experienced more. And she’s been on the weird side of things before, especially. So this is probably, 'Oh, this is like that weird place I was where they were putting Anakin in a star machine to see if he was the Chosen One [on Mortis]. I’ve been down this road before.’“She knows that you can’t break those type of continuities, for the lack of a better term. And so she’s pretty much figured out that 'I have to go back where I came from, you have to go back from where you came from.’ […] If she leaps in there to service the Rebellion where Ezra’s at now, I get that that might be a good idea as a good person, but it’s also cheating. Because she doesn’t know what she’s skipping and who then she’s not going to help, or what she has to do independently of all that. So the only things that were a constant were that she went down that staircase.”

Time travel is possible in the GFFA, but doing so via the World Between Worlds seems like it would actually destroy a lot of the continuity, that it’s cheating and that implies there’d be a really bad price to pay for it. One that I don’t think any good person would do–which is the whole lesson Ezra had to learn, that he could change the past and what happened to Kanan, he could undo this horrible thing that hurt him so much, but there would be a price to pay in the greater galaxy, that he would be shredding the contiuum for it, and instead he had to accept what reality was, process it, and learn to let it go.That’s at the heart of being a Jedi, every Jedi from the prequels with Obi-Wan and Yoda and Qui-Gon, to Ezra’s journey, to Luke’s journey all across the galaxy before and after the Empire fell, to learn to accept what the reality of the situation is, and work on letting go the personal desire to change it, no matter how horrible it is, because it would shred the galaxy apart.Now, if we’re talking the kind of time travel where the Force just goes, “Yes, but I know what I’m doing, as all-knowing energy field that is as old as the universe itself.” and just dumps Obi-Wan back into his previous self? (Which, btw, GIMME GIMME GIMME ALLLLL OF THOSE FICS.) Or a fic where he falls into Darkness and it changes the course of things? GIMME. GIMME GIMME GIMME THOSE FICS. GIMME.But one of the biggest themes of Obi-Wan Kenobi of canon is that he rose above those things. He rose above the horrible betrayal of Anakin. He rose above the genocide of his entire people and culture. He rose above the long exile in the desert. He rose above his loss of duty and purpose. Obi-Wan stumbles sometimes, he has trouble bearing the weight the galaxy has placed on his shoulders, but he never truly falters on the path of goodness, he always finds his way again. He always finds kindness, he always finds love, he always finds compassion again.Regardless of whether he has the Jedi Order’s structure to help him (and Obi-Wan is very much a Jedi in that he takes the teachings of mindfulness to heart, which psychologists say is really beneficial to people dealing with PTSD, so even if the Jedi Order isn’t there anymore, what they taught him is still there and it’s still helping him), Obi-Wan lived by those principles. Obi-Wan believed in and was faithful to the Jedi Way all of his life–and was rewarded with becoming a Force Ghost for it, was rewarded with the Jedi’s light returning to the galaxy, was rewarded with the return of Anakin.Yeah, a lot of the stuff in there along the way really sucked, but Obi-Wan was someone who rose above those things, he’d been taught to face his fears and hurts, he’d been taught to find compassion again and again–and he does. If the events of canon can’t break Obi-Wan, if what Anakin Skywalker did can’t break Obi-Wan, then I have faith that Obi-Wan Kenobi can rise above just about anything.

“Fewer still could have done so without turning to darkness. Sometimes, when Qui-Gon considers it, he is awed by his student’s steadfastness. Every person Obi-Wan ever truly loved—Anakin, Satine, Padmé, and Qui-Gon himself—came to a terrible end. Three of them died before his eyes; the other fell to a fate so bleak that death would’ve been a gift. The Jedi Order that provided the entire framework for Obi-Wan’s life was consumed by betrayal and slaughter. Every step of this long, unfulfilling journey is one Obi-Wan had to take alone… and yet he never faltered. As the rest of the galaxy burned, his path remained true. It is the kind of victory that most people never recognize and yet the bedrock all goodness is built upon.” From a Certain Point of View - Master & Apprentice

(But let me be clear–anyone who wants to write a Fallen!Obi-Wan? I am going to be there to pick up that fic and see the cool details and bits of character insight that they put into the writing! Because people have done brilliant things with it in fandom and created amazing stories that are some of the best I’ve ever read! But this is the point of canon!Obi-Wan Kenobi and I don’t see that changing within canon.)

#Anonymous #obi wan kenobi #meta #i want to be REAL clear that i'm not insulting the concept of sith!obi-wan or what have you #because i fucking love sith!obi-wan and the chance to explore what that would be like #and people genuinely have done awesome things with the concept!#but when we're talking about straight up canon #obi-wan kenobi is fucking rock solid and it's one of my favorite things about him #and i will yell CONSTANTLY about how he has the kind of emotional and mental fortitude that the bedrock of all goodness is built upon

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littlethingwithfeathers · 5 years

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Writing Update 7-29-19

Publishing now!

The Girl in the Garden (Complete!): a post-Endgame fix-it fic for my series “Friendship is Unnecessary.”

It’s finished! It’s finished! You can all come out now! The angst is over! It’s safe to read it! <3

Seriously… thank you to all of you who read, commented, and cheerleaded me on this one. I’ll be honest… I second-guessed myself a lot as I was writing it just because I was curious if my “fix” would be satisfying. But seeing everyone’s reactions just gave me such a confidence boost. So thank you!

Even though this is the final fic of the story, there is definitely more to come for this series. Keep your eyes peeled August 5!

Excerpt:

Natasha sees it before the end. Whether it was the magic of the temple allowing her a glimpse of her good work, or just the last wishful gasp of a dreaming and dying mind, she can't say. But she sees a rolling wave of brilliant white light rushing up to the temple's height, and then there's Clint on his back in a pool of water. He's some distance, she knows, from where she now lies in a broken heap. His eyes are closed, but he is breathing. And there is a muted, brassy glow in his left hand.

And she feels a fleeting flicker of pride. It's a single stroke of black across lines and lines of bloody red. This part of the plan, at least, had worked. She had bought them a chance to set the universe right.

Whatever it takes.

She had been what it took. Her life for theirs. For his. And it had worked.

But her last thought, before the slipping blackness swallows her whole, is Steve.

Let him be okay…

Please…

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Other “Friendship is Unnecessary” fics at various stages:

Stolen Season: Steve/Natasha vignettes during Endgame’s five year jump. I thought I would do a set of scenes, some sexy some not, of how we get from Steve and Natasha working together at the end of IW, to them halfway living apart at the end of the five year jump. It also covers some of the hunt for Ronin!Clint, Steve taking up the mantle of group therapist, and Natasha stepping up as a sort of hybrid of Cap and Nick Fury. Definitely a trip to angsty-town, but I promise to fix it in the end. The rough draft is FINISHED and the first pass of edits is nearly finished. The word count currently sits at 28k. I plan to start publishing next week!

But Most of All Because They Offend Thee: Based off this post. Probably just short, upbeat, porny little one-shot of Nat being a shit and teasing Steve. Because honestly… this series needs some levity.

One of Those Things (Prologue): Since I’ve written this beast of a series completely out of order, and thus all my author notes are no doubt VERY confusing, I thought I’d put a short prologue on the front. Just a couple of short scenes to plant some seeds and give an actual starting place to this whole sprawling, intertwining mess, but also to give me a chance to address new readers so my forewords on the rest of the fics don’t seem weird. I’ve got a little more than a thousand words written on it which is probably about a third to half way.

Untitled Pre-War Steve/Bucky and Pre-Avengers Phil/Clint/Natasha: Partially a request from @crazyevildru that I’m toying with. Probably a flashback or a memory. This series really does need more Steve/Bucky, and I feel bad about it. I’m thinking of also adding a prequel/flashback of Clint/Phil/Natasha as well… maybe have the whole thing be a discussion over dinner.

Sweet and Honorable (Title pending): Set post Civil War. Bucky insists on coming with Sam and Natasha to rescue Steve when he gets captured. This is starting to take shape in my head as a sort of work through for some of the issues that get raised in “Echo in my Soul.” Given what we know about the new Black Widow movie, I may hold off on this one for a bit. At least until I can figure out how I’m going to squirm around or ignore the added canon. (can’t wait for that movie BTW)

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Other works coming soon!

Intercalation: A Ulana/Boris/Valery fix-it fic for HBO’s Chernobyl. 50k words and counting. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT. This will be the next big thing coming after “Stolen Season.” And it’s looking to be very big. Ten full chapters and an epilogue. 60k words is a rough estimate? I have about a chapter and a half left to write, and some scenes to finish that I left undone while I worked out the plot. It’s been challenging. Lots of moving parts. It’s a continuation picking up just after the trial and that arc is studded with flashbacks. There’s a lot of character work... and a lot of honest to goodness physics lectures which I’ve been getting help from an actual physicist, @cactusowl, to write. No solid ETA yet, but I’m hoping to be finished by the first couple of weeks of August and publishing before September.

Hymn of Acxiom: Scarlet/Vision. I’m really just toying with an idea so don’t get too excited. It would be post Endgame, with Wanda helping a newly reconstructed Vision who has no memories and no personality without the Mind Stone to network all the pieces and facets of his personality. Again… I make no promises… but I have an idea.

A Maelstrom Whirls Below: I’m toying with the possibility of a sequel to my Darcy/Eddie/Venom fic “A Room for Rent in the Fourth Estate.” A rough outline is in place, and I’m starting to sketch around on a few scenes. But right now it’s just some ideas and a few zippy one-liners. It’s starting to get some traction though! Likely won’t start work in earnest until all this Endgame fix-it stuff is done, but I’m definitely letting it percolate.

Hang By Every Word: The outline for my Stucky fic is still coming along but it will be awhile yet before I start writing on it in earnest. The basic theme (and I’m sure this has been done, but fuck it) is the undoing of Bucky’s conditioning one trigger word at a time. And each trigger word locked down a memory that HYDRA deemed integral to Bucky’s personality. And of course… they all involve Steve. So I have to write things from Steve’s point of view, and all ten memories have to be written from Bucky’s point of view, and they have to tie together into a cohesive narrative. The memories are out of order, but Steve’s timeline isn’t and… It’s a challenge. I’m still largely in the brainstorming phase… writing little snippets here and there. Nothing’s solidly taking form just yet. Again… just letting it percolate.

Untitled Sarge/Melinda May fic: I know. I KNOW! Don’t give me that look. You’re watching the same show I am and you’re seeing what I’m seeing. This shit writes itself. I’ve been sketching on a few things, but I’ll probably wait until this season wraps up before I start planning in earnest. There will likely be some canon divergence, but I want to know if I’ve got to just wiggle the canon around a little or just do a full table-flip.

#writing #writing update

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the-cryptographer · 7 years

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Thank you so much for the ask! ;^;Also, sorry, these are extra long emblematik. I tried to double answer on them because I got double asked on both of them.

For the Fanfic Ask Game. Send me stuff if you haven’t already.(Or send me stuff if you have already. Not picky.)

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) toany fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Although I often am inspired to write in response to the themesand tropes in other people’s fanfic, I don’t often think of doing directsequels or prequels.

(For some reason though, I thought of As Clever Does (Harry Potter) I thinkit was a pretty clever bunch of snippets. I wouldn’t mind continuing the linewith a couple more. Also it may havealso started my interest in Pansy and Luna interacting further, which is kindof a thing in my drafts for Built Out of Whole Cloth, so maybe I’ve already startedwriting a sequel to it in that sense, heh.)

OKAY, but here’s a realexception. And, even more amazingly, I might actually write it:Since Animomactually put out an open challenge for sequels to Snowblind (ygo), I kinda gave thething too much thought and ended up with a plot, and told her about it. Andsince I think it could also kind of work as a standalone with some minimalexplaining I might do it.

The gist of Snowblind is that Kaiba and Jounouchi pile ontoan airplane after something happens to Yuugi. And then the plane crashes in amountain snowstorm and Kaiba has severe eye trauma. And then they bitch at eachother and make moves on each other (while quite possibly being steeped in regret for not making moveson the people they actually liked) as they huddle together to stave off impendinghypothermia. Then they may or may not die. (It’s a really good fic, btw.)

I think the ambiguous ending does more for the fic than anyconclusion could- But, during the fic, Kaiba says, ‘Blind and alive would bepathetic, but blind and dead won’t matter,’ which is just tempting fatesadistic authors, lbr. It wouldn’t necessarily be a continuation in a thematickind of sense, but just following from the concrete series of events laid outin Snowblind I thought it could be fun. Me in comments section:

I admit I kind of considered doing a [sequel], followingfrom Mokuba being on the case of saving them. Something where Kaiba was blindand Jou was a couple toes short, and Kaiba had hooked his sensory system up toa kind of constantly updated virtual reality that was synched with camerasaround his office and house. And then Jou kind of bursts into his life andforces him not to be a shut-in and drags him outside and out of bounds of hisvirtual reality sensor field. And probably Yuugi’d still be around andeveryone’s uncomfortably unsure about how everyone else feels.

I think I wrote this thinking it would theoretically be a JouKaific, since it was based on one. But tbh I’m kind of feeling now that it wouldwork better as a friendship fic with some other ship (rival? polar? buddy?) onthe side. JouKai as friends that slept with each other once in extreme (andextremely awkward) circumstances is honestly just about as good as foreverromance JouKai. I (friend)ship it.

Anyhow, I still don’t know if I’ll write it but, yeah~

On an unrelated note, do you know what needs a sequel, emblematik?Your sightshipping drabble. I would read all the fic about Isis and her babyhaving brunch with Pegasus. Love it~

F: Share a snippet from one of your favouritedialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

From Missed Signals, Lost Lines(pkmn)

“Silph’s using you, you moron!”Green shouts. “Team Rocket paid them off, and now that the Silph bigwigs havecashed their checks and realised what a shit deal they got, they’re using youas leverage. As a fucking bargaining chip.”

Pikachu sparks dangerously, inwarning, and Green withdraws his hands.

But it’s enough to get a riseout of Red.

“So that’s what?!” Red shouts.“Just now leave?! We walked out?! Letting Rockets now do what they want?! Theysteals! Killing!”

“No, that’s not what I meant!”Green protests. “Fuck Team Rocket, and everything they do, it’s just…”

Green sighs. “You can’t fightthem here, on their terms. This is bigger than just you and me. You can’t Red.You…”

Red ignores him. He chargesforward.

Green reaches out to grab hishand and yank him back, ignoring Pikachu’s warning sparks.

“Stop, Red!” he commands. Thenhis voice goes soft. “Your Pokémon could get hurt. Seriously hurt. And…you. You could get hurt Red.”

Red huffs, because he knows hisPokémon are strong at this point. Giovanni can’t touch him.

Green feels Red’s disaffection,though. And he reacts to it.

“Dammit, Red!” he flares up. “IfI tried to go traipsing off to Unova, you’d stop me! Wouldn’t you?! Or at leastyou’d come w-”

Green stops abruptly. He letsgo of Red and steps back. He raises his hand to his head and laughs bitterly.

Red feels the steady tug on hisheartstrings, softening his hard expression. He wants to tell Green he’llfollow him to Unova or Kalos or anywhere in the world, if he has to.

The impulse is too weak,though. And it’s not true, besides.

Red doesn’t say anything.

Green has his eyes covered withone hand.

“No. Never mind. You’re right.How would I know what the fuck you’d do?” Green spits.

That’s not what I said, Red thinks.

Green swings his arm down offhis face and grins.

“Fine. So, you are readyfor Boss Rocket!” Green says. “Well, Red! I’m moving on up and ahead! AmI a genius or what? I’m going to the Pokémon League toboot out the Elite Four! I’ll become the world’s most powerful Trainer!And you can do whatever you want. Don’t sweat it!”

Okay, maybe this exchange is an odd one to choose forseveral reasons

Red barely talks.

When Red does talk – broken English, because languagedisorder fic.

I didn’t even write that last line of dialogue. It’s lifteddirectly from the game text.

But it’s maybe because I’m working around all those thingsthat makes me like it. I feel like there’s a clear sense of a back and forth –action and reaction – between the characters, and even in how Pikachu does and doesn’t intervene.And I think that’s captured even despite the fact that only Green is reallytalking.

It was also a strange because the context and tone of thefinal quote isn’t very well established in the game itself, so distorting itinto this really sarcastic context in a way that made sense made me prettyhappy.

And also this conversation marked the first real break inGreen’s arrogant/cocky façade in the fic, and writing the way his anger andconcern radiated out beyond his control felt really significant and I hope Icaptured that well. I like the next big dialogue scene with Green, right afterRed defeats him at the Indigo Plateau, for the same kind of reason.

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But, idk, sorry emblematik, Iknow you probably care more about ygo. I really liked a lot of the dialogue fromthe Wepet Renpet SetoKisa drabble. From Set’s conversation with Isis:

Set turned his head down.“That’s not what I-” He huffed and abruptly steered the conversation around.“Why is it, Isis, that you must always butt your nose into my affairs?!”

“Well, it’snot as if you butt into my affairs,” Isis said. “If I didn’t do it, what elsewould we talk about then?”

It would have been an easystatement to rebuff, had Isis made it to anyone other than Set. He frowned,crossed his arms, and returned to staring moodily at Kisara.

“Ooooh, I’vehad enough of this!” Mana announced. She stuffed the last of her cake loaf intoher mouth, pushed the rest of the bowl away, and licked the crumbs off herthumb. She stood abruptly and swallowed heavily before speaking. “I’ll takecare of this!” She jumped up on one foot, winked cheerfully, and began to skiparound the table.

Sorry, Iknow I’m not funny but the idea of Isis calling out Set on the basis of himbeing not nosy enough and being uninterested in her affairs (read:self-absorbed) just really gets me giggling. And Mana’s dialogue was alsoreally fun to write.

Also I think the combined conversation between Mana, Set, Atem,and Kisara later on also came out astoundingly well. I wouldn’t say it’s my best work,but just-

Anytime I get more than four characters into the same conversationtogether it becomes really, reallyhard to decide who speaks up when and how much. And, naturally, there arecharacters you want to focus on, and it’s hard to decide if it’s natural forthem to be one of the louder voices in the conversation, or if you’re shuttingthe other characters up too much. Anyhow, I find it so difficult, I can’t helpbut be proud even with passable attempts at group dialogue.

Thank you for reading~

#the process #my writing #ask #haha i chose a bad time to post an ask meme yesterday #right afterwards there was a blackout and the wifi cut out and then i went out with friends etc etc

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