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There’s been an uptick in the… diversity of notes in my daily-digest AO3 email about kudos lately. It’s fun to see what people are scrolling back far enough to find, you know? And I’ve fallen behind on answering comments, as I perpetually do, but do understand they’re all quite treasured. No, there is no work of mine too old for me to appreciate a comment on, though of course ones that are like “omg when is this updating” on something I very clearly haven’t touched in five or six years are a little… eh, maybe read the room, a little? I’m not saying never but you’re also not convincing me much, there.
Anyhow, my dearbeautifullights1 is clearly rereading my Star Wars shit from just after TFA came out (oh, those halcyon days. Pity they never made a sequel), and got to the part where… well, in my version of the story, Poe Dameron’s dad was the harbormaster at Yavin IV and had avoided getting involved with the Resistance, despite his prior service in the Rebellion, due to his fear that the planet might be attacked in retaliation, and at this point he has had to make the decision to involve himself, and he is sending a recorded message to his people to let them know that the worst might happen. And, looking back, yeah, I did give him a pretty good speech, there. (I’d made him a survivor of Alderaan so he had a lot of firsthand experience with this sort of apocalyptic survival shit.)
So… thanks for reminding me of this, Lights, and even copy-pasting it for me in excerpts.
“So,” he said heavily, after a short pause. “I tell you this not to frighten you, but to convince you: you need to make plans. You need to prepare. Decide what you can give up, and what you’d rather die than lose, and make your plans accordingly.”
He leaned in, intense. “I have not made this decision lightly,” he said. “But I have lived through this before, and I know what is at stake. The most important thing is that you know, in your heart, who you are and what you can survive, and you prepare to survive it.”
“[…] The last thing I will urge you to do, in your planning, is to make your plans for after this is over…. Even if all is lost, someday someone will rise from the ashes to continue. Do not despair. Try, where you can, to leave something for the survivors. They will persevere. It may be that most of us survive, and can resume the lives we are leaving now. It may be that we don’t. But life will continue. Make what preparations you can, and in the meantime, we will fight together, and accomplish what we can.”
There’s been an uptick in the… diversity of notes in my daily-digest AO3 email about kudos lately. It’s fun to see what people are scrolling back far enough to find, you know? And I’ve fallen behind on answering comments, as I perpetually do, but do understand they’re all quite treasured. No, there is no work of mine too old for me to appreciate a comment on, though of course ones that are like “omg when is this updating” on something I very clearly haven’t touched in five or six years are a little… eh, maybe read the room, a little? I’m not saying never but you’re also not convincing me much, there.
Anyhow, my dear
beautifullights1 is clearly rereading my Star Wars shit from just after TFA came out (oh, those halcyon days. Pity they never made a sequel), and got to the part where… well, in my version of the story, Poe Dameron’s dad was the harbormaster at Yavin IV and had avoided getting involved with the Resistance, despite his prior service in the Rebellion, due to his fear that the planet might be attacked in retaliation, and at this point he has had to make the decision to involve himself, and he is sending a recorded message to his people to let them know that the worst might happen. And, looking back, yeah, I did give him a pretty good speech, there. (I’d made him a survivor of Alderaan so he had a lot of firsthand experience with this sort of apocalyptic survival shit.)So… thanks for reminding me of this, Lights, and even copy-pasting it for me in excerpts.
“So,” he said heavily, after a short pause. “I tell you this not to frighten you, but to convince you: you need to make plans. You need to prepare. Decide what you can give up, and what you’d rather die than lose, and make your plans accordingly.”
He leaned in, intense. “I have not made this decision lightly,” he said. “But I have lived through this before, and I know what is at stake. The most important thing is that you know, in your heart, who you are and what you can survive, and you prepare to survive it.”
“[…] The last thing I will urge you to do, in your planning, is to make your plans for after this is over…. Even if all is lost, someday someone will rise from the ashes to continue. Do not despair. Try, where you can, to leave something for the survivors. They will persevere. It may be that most of us survive, and can resume the lives we are leaving now. It may be that we don’t. But life will continue. Make what preparations you can, and in the meantime, we will fight together, and accomplish what we can.”
