#i don't know what this answer is but ghkdlksl i have spent too much time reading the stanford encyclopedia

[daisychainsandbowties]

So, I'm task avoiding at work, and had a thought about (and you guessed it) the wn star wars au (and I know your focus is more on the Fallen Order side for Luminous beings, but sw Rebels stuff happens at kinda the same time)

In show, Jillian spends season 1 trying to create a portal (or a gateway) to "the other side" so she can be with Michael forever in a place where time has no meaning, and in the Clone Wars/Rebels, we see The World Between Worlds/Mortis, which exists outside of time and space and can only be accessed through specific gateways...

And then this brings up the Father, the Daughter, and the Son, and the Son happens to also be known as the Fanged God, who is worshipped by the nightsisters...

it's such a fantasy/sci-fi thing to have 'doors between worlds'.

mortis i think is based off of narnia, but there are soooo many examples of alternate universes or places where time/space don't operate the same way (how experience would be possible in a non-temporal, non-spacial 'place? <- a concept which itself is dependent on concepts of space and time. a place is a location oriented spatially in relation to others. to say 'a place' is 'somewhere' is to also imply that it is somewhere at a given time) though, to be fair, we're really talking about pathways between discrete locations in space and time, and there's no pressing reason to argue that, taking junctions in time as an 'if x then y' sort of situation, there might not be, in some manner of existence which is, naturally, unavailable to us, a place where the when's to aborted 'if's' do actually exist.

yes i am always repeating this but listen it's so true, from a craft perspective, that the finished version of any piece of art is haunted by a series of absences. lines dropped, the back-key shredding a sentence, rephrasing and swapping this paragraph to here or there. it's an intoxicating concept - the idea that what might have been exists palpably in what is. and probably why we as humans are so obsessed with ideas of a place where time cannot touch us.

we have this trope in his dark materials, in star trek (discovery, specifically), tel'aran'rhiod in the wheel of time (god also The Ways) i guess there's even the yggdrasil pathways in god of war, & obv in wn we have something similar. but like !!! when you think about it, writing an au plays into this idea as well. i dislocate the characters, i put them together again the same but different. sometimes i rip apart the world i decide to put them into so that they'll fit. but like... this idea of doorways connecting all possibilities, & the fact that i have already written a sort of 'maybe' future for the star wars au. it's all juicy in a very meta way.

i am broadly following Fallen Order's (and, soon, Jedi: Survivor's) narrative so i think, in all likelihood, i won't?? bring mortis into it??

mostly because absolutely no one wants to see me talk about the consequences of so much as putting a single toe a single molecule of 'now' into 'if'.

oh and thinking of the nightsisters and how they assign godly visages to the dichotomy of light/dark 'sides' of the force - a power which is, if we quote Obi, "an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."

the appeal of something that connects everything, and probably the necessary elusiveness of that thing. or perhaps the refusal to admit that the only thing linking anything in sequence, or lending sense whatsoever, to a lack of linearity is time itself. and time, of course, is not particularly kind.

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