Tumblr crosspost (1 January 2021)

I reblogged prayers and proclamations, a section of my Jyn/f!Cassian fic originally posted on Tumblr on 9 May 2018, then a few days later on AO3.

In 2021, I added:

It’s weird to think this is some two and a half years old, but idk, I was feeling it again today. My girls!

Tagged: #i really should get the master fic all put together—i think it had extra bits

[ETA 3/20/2024: I actually did eventually revise and assemble the various pieces of the fic into a single, more or less coherent one, last year. I haven't backed it up on AO3 yet because I didn't want to delete the nice comments etc on the serialized version that I originally put up on AO3, and I think you're not supposed to duplicate fic there. Still figuring out how to preserve the final version!]

Blogkeeping: 2012 feminism discourse tags

I'm cleaning up old tags because I'm finally running up against the max even for an upgraded account. And there was a period around 2012 when I'd started using tags on livejournal/Dreamwidth in a Tumblresque running-commentary-under-my-breath way even though 1) they don't work as well on LJ/DW in that way, because they're automatically alphabetized and 2) I wasn't likely to reuse those specific tags, so it's ultimately kind of a waste.

At the same time, I (obviously) prefer to preserve old posts and such as a kind of record of what I was doing and thinking and saying at the time (really putting the "journal" in livejournal!), so I haven't wanted to delete these Tumblr-style tags. They were part of what I was doing back then!

This is especially glaring for an admittedly very wanky series of posts I put together. For context, the liberal-leaning Star Wars blog fangirlblog had recently posted defenses of slave Leia and Padmé Amidala from an allegedly feminist perspective that were making the rounds at the time. I found both takes ... objectionable. It was difficult enough to put together a coherent response that I ended up simply recording myself reading it and responding in real time, and then transcribed that recording into text, ultimately spread across nine different posts. It's very 2012 in a lot of ways—including my much more overt hostility towards the prequels and the OP's extremely binary concept of gender—but also, I do still think the defenses of slave Leia (and even of Padmé in some ways) are short-sighted at best and deeply rooted in fucked-up concepts of gender at worst. In any case, I decided to preserve my tags before deleting them as organizational tags by making a new post (this one!) with the old tags listed.

Part 1: Intro (touches on gender, representation, diversity, marginalization of women in the OT and PT, and over-reliance on "Watsonian" or in-world explanations for choices made by overwhelmingly male creators in constructing narratives). Tagged: #ahoy false catch-22 #feminism marches on #i try to be fair but i hate the prequels #strong female characters

Part 2: Slave Leia and constructed narratives. Tagged: #fanservice for great justice #reading comprehension failure #rotj makes me cry inside #stories don't come from shangri-la #strong female characters

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Tumblr crosspost (1 January 2021)

A few people responded to the f!Cassian/Jyn fic referenced here. That was a reblog of the original post and it's a little difficult to determine when people originally responded, so I'm just putting all the responses to the original prayers and proclamations post here:

rain-sleet-snow said:

<3 <3 <3

elperian reblogged it and added:

#yessssss #go read it now!  

brynnmclean tagged it:

#oh good!

oh-nostalgiaa tagged it:

#yessss so good

And incognitajones responded:

ah, thank you for the lovely flashback!

I replied:

Thank you!!