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anghraineI just posted The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker to the au_bigbang comm. And AO3, obviously. It's six o'clock in the morning and I have yet to feel the need to sleep, but it's done!
You know, for now. Since it's the first story in a series I imagine will go on a bit.I've already thought of an AU omg what is my brain. And there is art and I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm done omg I can't even work myself up to worrying about the reception because done done done.
Okay, maybe the lack of sleep is messing with me. I've already had to take an inhaler because refusing to sleep generates a creepy asthma cough that bothered my stepfather. But it doesn't matter! Because -- I don't know if I've been too subtle about this -- but I'm done!
Oh, right, links. The story is here. I will link to the au_bigbang entry with the art as soon as it pops up, ha.
Otherwise, no coherent thoughts, except that it was nice not to worry about being too American or not American enough, dialect-wise. I worried about voices, but not nationality! 'Cause this is a galaxy far far away, but it kind of obviously sprang from the mind of an American, so for once I don't have to be self-conscious about my completely inconsistent vacillations between different regional spellings. See, I'm American, but this is my hometown; things got a little muddled for us, maybe because a third of my classmates were Canadian.
(I miss Canada. We used to go over the border all the time. I do not, however, miss very much else about Blaine. Oh wait, the Pacific Ocean. That was nice too. But not anything more local than that. It's not much of a town. It was kind of worth it to grow up there to be taken for Canadian in other parts of the country, though. But all the signs said 'harbour' and 'flavour' and a good many of them said 'centre' but not all, so we mostly just ended up confused.
And I picked up so much of my language from books anyway, which were mostly not American books, that my idea of Proper Spelling and Usage became this hodgepodge of Blaine's Americanadian and random British words that I didn't realize were British words until I was in my teens. Turns out people look at you strangely when you talk about fortnights!)
Anyway, when I'm writing for a fandom that can't maintain its own internal consistency but seems to be basically Americanish but eh, whatever, I don't have to worry about my own meandering American-ish-but-eh-whatever. Yay!
You know, for now. Since it's the first story in a series I imagine will go on a bit.
Okay, maybe the lack of sleep is messing with me. I've already had to take an inhaler because refusing to sleep generates a creepy asthma cough that bothered my stepfather. But it doesn't matter! Because -- I don't know if I've been too subtle about this -- but I'm done!
Oh, right, links. The story is here. I will link to the au_bigbang entry with the art as soon as it pops up, ha.
Otherwise, no coherent thoughts, except that it was nice not to worry about being too American or not American enough, dialect-wise. I worried about voices, but not nationality! 'Cause this is a galaxy far far away, but it kind of obviously sprang from the mind of an American, so for once I don't have to be self-conscious about my completely inconsistent vacillations between different regional spellings. See, I'm American, but this is my hometown; things got a little muddled for us, maybe because a third of my classmates were Canadian.
(I miss Canada. We used to go over the border all the time. I do not, however, miss very much else about Blaine. Oh wait, the Pacific Ocean. That was nice too. But not anything more local than that. It's not much of a town. It was kind of worth it to grow up there to be taken for Canadian in other parts of the country, though. But all the signs said 'harbour' and 'flavour' and a good many of them said 'centre' but not all, so we mostly just ended up confused.
And I picked up so much of my language from books anyway, which were mostly not American books, that my idea of Proper Spelling and Usage became this hodgepodge of Blaine's Americanadian and random British words that I didn't realize were British words until I was in my teens. Turns out people look at you strangely when you talk about fortnights!)
Anyway, when I'm writing for a fandom that can't maintain its own internal consistency but seems to be basically Americanish but eh, whatever, I don't have to worry about my own meandering American-ish-but-eh-whatever. Yay!
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on 2011-09-08 01:22 am (UTC)(And, all right, but this, even more than canon, makes me want a universe with Vader raising his offspring. Because the former Anakin Skywalker with adoring twin tomboys capering about at his heels is so wrong that it comes around to be right.)
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on 2011-09-12 05:57 am (UTC)if there was ever a character who benefits from being written by an Austen-fan it is Leia Organa
<3 <3 Thank you about this! I had a blast writing Leia for both stories -- when my friends and I were working on our bigbangs, I'd be all 'oh, it's going to speed up, I have a Leia section coming up!' The Austen tradition of excellent ladies did rather feed into how I thought of her, so I'm glad it worked.
And then the Rebels being misogynist jerks as much as the Empire at least where pilots are concerned
Yeah. It's -- in a meta-sense, obviously it's the androcentricism of the creators, but I've always disliked dealing with an issue like that by just erasing it. So I didn't want to go with, oh, they do have women, we just NEVER EVER SEE THEM. Though I kept going 'how am I going to make this work without changing the end?' Then the epiphany came, of course (lol, just change it), but it was a rather late change -- originally they let her in when Biggs vouched for her (there are probably still hints of that). But I'm glad it didn't seem too out there, anyway. (And yeah, Han can be a misogynistic jerk sometimes, but not in that rigid way, I don't think.)
Because the former Anakin Skywalker with adoring twin tomboys capering about at his heels is so wrong that it comes around to be right.
This is so much truth. As soon as I started writing, I couldn't help but imagine how it might have turned out if, say, Obi-Wan hadn't stowed on Padmé's ship so Anakin didn't go quite so nuts and she went into labour while they were arguing and he rushes her off to the hospital and she dies and he's a widower with two infant girls. And then I'm imagining how they'd get on with creepy uncle Palps and ... *flail*
ACK! Somehow I missed this comment! *flails*
on 2011-09-20 02:33 am (UTC)Re: Leia: not only excellent ladies, but... that sort of formal upper-class background. (Okay, now I totally want to see Elizabeth Bennett with serious firepower. *facepalm*)
And, yeah, totally with you on confronting the misogyny head-on. And also on Han--- I think it's EU!canon that he was in the Imperial Navy for a while, so maybe he picked up some of the veneer of it there, but it never really took?
*wharlgarble* *flail* *EPIC SQUEE OF SQUEEING* Especially how you put it. "A widower with two infant girls" is somehow orders of magnitude more endearing than just, "he's raising his two daughters after his wife dies". Also Palpatine. (I may have a far too high affinity for fluff, but somehow I sort of want the awesomeness of the Skywalker twins to... mellow him a little? And, um, Leia in particular just wrapping him around her finger. Because he starts out being all gloaty about two budding Sith, but... what he wants also gets him. See: so wrong it comes about to be right. See also: *facepalm* :>)