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ooh i just meant “not a plot device” as a positive “not a dumb Space Deus Ex Machina For Manpain~” kind of thing. (and i didn’t mean to bring any of this up as any kind of criticism or feedback on your kes/shara series, it’s just me in my own brain with my own shara-thoughts unrelated to anything except canon!()
oh gosh I started to write more of a thing there about how awesome it could actually be to use that and how you totally should, and then I got distracted and left like, a half a dismissive sentence there. Not what I meant at all! I totally got where you were going and was there with you! Double thumbs up. On the same page. Bros forever. <3
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You’re not missing a ton of characterization from Shattered Empire. There’s very little of Kes and then just a couple of minor adventures for Shara, once with Leia and once with Luke. It’s decently done but by no means critical to developing either Shara or Kes.
That was what I figured, and every time my finger hovered over the buy button on amazon i was like, I know that I have already seen all the parts of this I actually want to and the rest will probably annoy me, but, for completeness’s sake, i should… mngh blrgh ugh, and so I never bought it.
I have a sort of dirty secret, here, which is that I don’t talk about my fannish interests IRL much at all. Star Wars has been a boon because everyone in the world is very slightly Into It, so making yourself a shirt with an X-Wing on it, and having a BB-8 figurine in your car, is like, baseline normie.
That and Marvel, actually– I get to bond with little kids over my Captain America jammies, that’s as Into It as anyone in my real life knows I am.
Buying a Star Wars comic book would be, like– admitting that I’m into it, kind of. Which is ridiculous. But anyway.
Nobody in my real life has ever read anything I’ve written. I did give the sister whose apartment I stole for Found Cat a link to the story, but I know she’s never read it so I’m glad I didn’t psych myself out about it too much.
It makes for being kind of lonely, actually, but. Maybe that’s why I get so overinvested in online feedback, because I just– that’s it, that’s all I get.
I’m always so jealous when I read other writers talking about their moms being supportive or when readers are like “i read this story with my bestie and we texted about it” and like… I don’t know what that would be like, because I can’t figure out how to open my mouth and talk out loud about these things. I’ve tried– I did tell the farm b-i-l that I write fanfiction sometimes, and i know he told my mother because she said something offhand that made all my insides curl up into excruciating embarrassment and i went to great lengths to be excessively uninteresting about it. My mother would like to be supportive, but her attention is a kind of corrosive thing, to my awareness, and I can’t actually abide it.
There are people who know me IRL who read this, and therefore who must know, but we don’t talk about it and it’s for the best, I would probably melt through the floor with the power of my inability to endure critical attention (even positive critical attention) on my actual self if anyone ever brought it up.
ooh i just meant “not a plot device” as a positive “not a dumb Space Deus Ex Machina For Manpain~” kind of thing. (and i didn’t mean to bring any of this up as any kind of criticism or feedback on your kes/shara series, it’s just me in my own brain with my own shara-thoughts unrelated to anything except canon!()
oh gosh I started to write more of a thing there about how awesome it could actually be to use that and how you totally should, and then I got distracted and left like, a half a dismissive sentence there. Not what I meant at all! I totally got where you were going and was there with you! Double thumbs up. On the same page. Bros forever. <3
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post “aimmyarrowshigh replied to…”
You’re not missing a ton of characterization from Shattered Empire. There’s very little of Kes and then just a couple of minor adventures for Shara, once with Leia and once with Luke. It’s decently done but by no means critical to developing either Shara or Kes.
That was what I figured, and every time my finger hovered over the buy button on amazon i was like, I know that I have already seen all the parts of this I actually want to and the rest will probably annoy me, but, for completeness’s sake, i should… mngh blrgh ugh, and so I never bought it.
I have a sort of dirty secret, here, which is that I don’t talk about my fannish interests IRL much at all. Star Wars has been a boon because everyone in the world is very slightly Into It, so making yourself a shirt with an X-Wing on it, and having a BB-8 figurine in your car, is like, baseline normie.
That and Marvel, actually– I get to bond with little kids over my Captain America jammies, that’s as Into It as anyone in my real life knows I am.
Buying a Star Wars comic book would be, like– admitting that I’m into it, kind of. Which is ridiculous. But anyway.
Nobody in my real life has ever read anything I’ve written. I did give the sister whose apartment I stole for Found Cat a link to the story, but I know she’s never read it so I’m glad I didn’t psych myself out about it too much.
It makes for being kind of lonely, actually, but. Maybe that’s why I get so overinvested in online feedback, because I just– that’s it, that’s all I get.
I’m always so jealous when I read other writers talking about their moms being supportive or when readers are like “i read this story with my bestie and we texted about it” and like… I don’t know what that would be like, because I can’t figure out how to open my mouth and talk out loud about these things. I’ve tried– I did tell the farm b-i-l that I write fanfiction sometimes, and i know he told my mother because she said something offhand that made all my insides curl up into excruciating embarrassment and i went to great lengths to be excessively uninteresting about it. My mother would like to be supportive, but her attention is a kind of corrosive thing, to my awareness, and I can’t actually abide it.
There are people who know me IRL who read this, and therefore who must know, but we don’t talk about it and it’s for the best, I would probably melt through the floor with the power of my inability to endure critical attention (even positive critical attention) on my actual self if anyone ever brought it up.
