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PSA

Casual reminder that this blog is dead and I’ve moved to a new account. You can unfollow this one ♥  

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PSA

Casual reminder that this blog is dead and I’ve moved to a new account. You can unfollow this one ♥  

#i will probably at some point delete this blog #in the mean time i may simply delete individual posts

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*inhales*

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sigh @ Americans and their Maul’s ethnicity discourse

#ever noticed how all of the people involved are white #have you like... actually paid attention... like ANY attention? #even a little #like a tiny bit #you can't even stop calling him Darth #this conversation is over

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I love how Thranduil is like "I heard you needed aid", as he shows up with romaine lettuce and wine.

#Thranduil #The Hobbit #The Battle of Five Armies

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson 

#LOTR #The Fellowship of the Ring

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Do you think Maul would care about what really happened to his brother before Savage was made into a killing weapon? Sometimes I wonder if the thought about growing up on Dathomir crossed Maul and that Sidious never took him. Surely, he would be no more than a slave for the Sister? Were he took comfort in the fact that the Sister/Brother are a dying breed and he was the last of their kind?

This is kind of tricky. There are several things to consider here. First of all, the various sources across animated series, books and comics are really inconsistent in terms of the introspection they allow Maul (as they are with everything else), and certainly the thought he spares either Savage or Feral. 

He was also removed from Dathomir at such an early age that he wouldn’t have any connection to the culture or an understanding of it that reaches a personal level. For which reason I doubt he particularly cares about either Nightbrothers or Nighsisters or dwells on what happens to them as a culture. Especially given that his alliance with Dathomir is rather a consequence of a darkside affiliation than significant personl attachment.

And his own life has been filled with so much suffering and loss that honestly I think even on this basis alone he doesn’t have much reason to dwell how bad Savage had it being left on Dathomir.

Then of course, there’s the fact that throughout his life Maul has had a hard time seeing the meaning and understanding the value of relationships outside the master-apprentice dynamic. It’s not that he doesn’t want it, but he simply lacks the tools and point of reference. To him even something as basic as having a modicum of trust for someone and their intentions is damn near impossible without that framework. He even subjects Savage to it, calling him apprentice, rather than brother. 

And then of course there’s his singularly focused mind which is programmed to work in this way, but he doesn’t relent either way. For him a lot of the time the big picture is not the big picture, but rather the zoomed-out view of his own plans or focus. So considering Savage falls outside of that picture, especially given that that there really isn’t brotherly closeness between them.

This is something else that really weighs on my heart when it comes to Savage. He is thoughtful, he sees the bigger picture in a way that Maul didn’t until way later. But Maul didn’t know how to be a brother to him, and so he’s also left alone with the burden of being made to kill Feral, of being left behind, of what will happen to Nightbrothers. 

I think that even in the last season of TCW we see Maul beginning to reflect on things that he couldn’t see before. So I would say that yes, he would care. He has the attributes and we see him deal with the weight of what has happened, even though it’s mixed with bitter regret and the awareness that he can’t change certain things. It’s just that again...the writing didn’t give us a chance to see it. 

I don’t know if it’s any consolation, but I definitely plan to adress this in my own writing at least, for what it’s worth. Because in my mind Maul would get there. But up until a point he was even unable to really process what had happened to him.

#Maul #Savage Opress #if you ask me about Maul #be prepared for a long ass answer #you might not have asked for this #but it's what you're getting #lol

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I just found your Maul and Qi'ra fanfic and gotta say I love it so far and looking forward for update! I have never read any Maul fic before but my friend showed your fic to me when we were talking about Wrath of Darth Maul. I have to let you know that i read your fic at 2am and was fighting to not fall asleep because it was so good. I was like "bro, wake up so she can touch your dick already."

I’m so happy to hear that you liked it! And thank you for telling me that. I just realized yesterday that it’s been almost a month since the update already, but honestly I haven’t had time to focus on much else besides work and school. I’m wrapping my last project for the semester this coming week so I hope to be able to devote some actual time to writing.

But I’ve been very slow to write this story in any case. I just love Maul so much and I want to do right by him. Yes it’s a romance and a fix-it, but I don’t want to twist him into some out of character meat suit for this fic, to accommodate what I want to write. Instead I hope to be able to show what I’ve always believed to be true about him, that he hasn’t necessarily been able to express even if there were hints dropped along the way. So I’m also going back to Wrath and Lockdown every now and then. It’s important for me that the whole thing feels as natural of a development as it possibly can.

And I can relate. Even though I’m the one writing it there’s still a reader-voice in my head, commenting everything. It took a while for them to get there, but I can promise that there’s more sexy times ahead 😁

#SLSF #A Secret Light A Sacred Fire #Maul #Qi'ra #Maura

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Conflicted and/or abused/manipulated villains and villain redemption arcs are there to teach about understanding, humanity, forgiveness and the good in people, not about how to love and celebrate your local faschist club you buffoons

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i love night walks. its such a shame im a woman

#same #isn't it lovely how our entire lives revolve around not getting murdered #or raped

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I didn’t think it would end this way. End? No, the journey doesn’t end here.

#no... the journey doesn't end here #Gandalf #LOTR

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quits school to focus on lord of the rings

#quite possibly #about me

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Ian Holm has died. And I’m just...

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*Looks at Maul*

Yes, I do.

do you ever feel like you love a character more than their own writers do

#Maul #and i also love him more #than all those people using him as a meat suit #in those sloppy and out of character self insert fics #I SAID WHAT I SAID

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