The Imperial Menace Podfic Post

[anghraine]

I finished recording The Imperial Menace, the sequel to my f!Luke AU, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker. It’s all uploaded here. The recording matches the AO3 version here, also slightly cleaned up from the original.

Again, I don’t expect most people to be into this, but stuff to know if you are:

• It resolves the cliffhanger at the end of Adventures, then ends on another one.
• It runs parallel to the end of ANH and most of ESB.
• It was first written in 2012 on a schedule, and ran into some difficulties, which is why it’s shorter and more erratic than Adventures.
• As with Adventures, it’s based on the films and (where possible) the scripts, but not expanded universes past or present, official statements, etc.
• Also as with Adventures, it assumes that the extreme male domination of the OT reflects in-world misogyny and patriarchy.
• The page can take a few seconds longer than most to load.

Also, if you want to read this without reading The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, that's mostly doable, but there is one major consequence in Adventures you'll need to know about. Cutting for the spoiler:

That thing I said about the male domination of the OT existing in-world applies to both the Empire and the Rebellion, if to differing degrees. We don't see women in the Imperial military power structure because there are almost none. We don't see female soldiers or pilots running around in the Rebellion because they're not there; they're placed in other, safer roles at this point in time (i.e., the logic is paternalistic rather than the overt hostility of the Empire, but still, not great). The end result in Adventures is that Lucy isn't able to join up with the Rebellion as a pilot, and is restless and discontented enough to take up Han's offer to go and have adventures on the Falcon, though she's not happy. Leia watches them go with an immense feeling of foreboding.