tfa_kink | DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

this is my favorite thing, the Old Spice commercials retold in Beowulf-style verse

https://archiveofourown.org/works/143758

I check the Fills page every day (where are you, chapter 5 of Am I Breathing Underwater???) but lately there's been this person who keeps leaving rude comments as replies to someone's fill and I just...

Why? Why do people do that? Why can't they let people create work without coming in and sniping with a rude comment?

Saw someone else leave a rude comment on an AO3 fic I've been reading and it made my blood boil.

I'm so thankful for all of the feedback I've gotten on my work so far, but if someone came into something I've created and commented "You're disgusting" or "You keep trying. Ewww" I'd feel so shitty and discouraged, you know?

Anyway. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! Like, dang!

>:|

Wow, that's NOT cool. People like that should be ashamed of themselves...

Maybe leave a comment to the mod? There aren't any rules against feedback but if they are specifically targeting an author's story and leaving rude comments the mod will likely interfere. I checked the page and yeah, it just looks like someone trying to bully someone and not actual feedback.

Definitely contact the mod. I've emailed them about the comments I saw in the Fills post, but it's always best if multiple people make an effort to point things out.

(As to part 5 of Breathing Underwater, it's about 358 words in and I'm trying to decide if I'm cruel enough to send Finn back to Jakku. Hopefully it'll be up by Sunday after my busy week is over)

Love you. :D

na

If you try to put a link in in HTMl tag code, it will make the full link clickable in tracking emails, rather than a part link.

EG Test link (http://www.google.com/)
The bit that turns up in brackets becomes a full clickable link in the emails page-tracking sends, at least in gmail IME

I mean, he's a bad guy, and bad guys in Star Wars get murdered as a matter of course. It's not a matter of if, but rather when, and how.

So... Is anyone else afraid Hux is going to go the way of Admiral Piett? A minor character who survives mutiple encounters with the famously choke-happy Vader, across two whole movies, only to be killed off in episode six (granted, it's in an explosion, but it's not even a BIG explosion, more like a side-note explosion. An afterthought explosion, even).

I like Hux. He's a big name in the fanatical, genocidal, xenophobic monster that is the First Order. So such a boring death would be huge a letdown. Yet I fear that's what will happen.

I mean, Domhnall Gleeson is a pretty big star now. I'm sure they'd do him justice.

i worry about this too. i just want to see him get a good death scene! i want to watch him die at close range, with some individual person killing him instead of him dying anonymously in a ship explosion or something.

i also want to see the look on his face when someone he recognizes kills him, like anyone he recognizes from the resistance or even kylo. basically i want as much focus on hux's face as he dies as there is on han's. domhnall has shown that he can do great tense multiple-expressions so it could be amazing

Yes, exactly! It's gotta be more personal, more intimate!

Thankfully, Disney has a history of killing villains in terrible, karmic ways, and it gives me hope..!

It'll be pretty ironic if he dies offscreen considering we're getting two new villains. But likely he'll go down with his ship or something not too graphic. I know he has many fans online, but in the context of the film I don't think he was important enough that they're going to spent too much time on it. His role is on pair with the old guy in New Hope and he'll likely get a similar death to him.

OP: Alas, you're probably right...

That's what fanfic is for OP. -hugs-

Yeeep. I love Hux (and Domhnall Gleeson's stupid beautiful face) but he's not terribly important in the context of the film. I 100% think he'll go out like Tarkin.

AYRT - Yep. I enjoy fanom Hux and his sass, but film!Hux is a minor villain at the end of the day. I think people who are expecting an intimate drawn out death are going to be disappointed. At best you might get something similar to Count Dooku. I think he's played his role. Episode VIII has already had to reduce the roles of some characters and that's without including Kelly Marie Tran and the supposed two new antagonists. The last thing they're going to be thinking about is an epic death for a charger who, let's be real, had four minutes of screentime.

OP: Just one of the many pitfalls to enjoying minor characters...

Yeah, but they ARE real. Real people who had real loves and real lives and faults and some of them are recorded for us in primary sources and secondary sources, so there's canon to interact with.

*raises hand*

Baseball has a good following (since 2010 it's been really Giants-heavy though) and every four years look for the swimslash.

I've been in the swimslash fandom since 2004.

I've met a number of the subjects of RPS that I've written, and it's 100% not weird for me at all.

Why?

Because when I'm writing, or reading, I'm fully aware that the character I'm sketching out is just based on a real person. Yeah, I do my research -- like anyone writing TFA fic SHOULD be doing, making sure you're not fucking with canon in unreasonable ways -- and I like to ground my fics in reality, but I know that what I'm writing is fiction. Is it likely the guy will stumble on my fic? No. Could it happen? Certainly. Does that worry me? Not really. Two RPS fandoms I'm active in have been "outed" in mainstream media, and in one, one of my stories was exposed. I didn't face any negative backlash -- all of the sudden, one of my fics was getting WAY more hits than any others. Thanks, Jezebel! Your attempt to shame me gave me more readers. ;)

Are there people in RPS/RPF fandoms who are unhinged? Yeah. But they're everywhere, not just writing RPS/RPF, and there are people not writing anything at ALL who are actual stalkers. I know a lot about my subjects, that's true, but when I go to a baseball game I'm generally the most knowledgeable fan in my section, and all my friends (even the ones who don't know I write fic ...) ask me all the questions they have about the Olympics. It's not harmful knowledge.

If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. No need for anyone to get all up in arms about what others like. And if shit like the 1D fandom freaks you out -- don't read 1D fic. Avoid Supernatural RPS if you want. That's really not that difficult. I've met SO MANY kind souls due to writing and reading baseball RPS, and the idea that people could be missing out on genuine community because of a tangential brush with the heightened crazy in specific fandoms is pretty sad.

I don't want Hux to die, though, as all villains in Star Wars do, he likely will. I just keep thinking back on TFA and think why would they have him have such a big epic moment as the speech before firing Starkiller and go about making him die a minor and/or insignifcant death. Whether it's in the next movie or the third one... I just don't see it happening. As someone else said he'll likely have karma bite him on the ass. I hope it happens in a big way.

In my ideal world he would live but that's me creating a bigger role for villains than George Lucas typically does (unless your name is Kylo Ren or Darth Vader).

I nearly have a prompt that I want to submit but part of it hinges on an animal that could be present in a prison. I'm essentially looking at an animal that could double as a guard dog. There are too many animals to consider in the universe and I'm totally at a loss.

To help with the context, beyond guard dog for hire, I'm looking for an animal that would give birth comfortably indoors - or close to a prison, and would have a litter that could include a "runt of the litter." And enjoy being around humans/humanoids, since the runt will be coming across one of the prisoners.

Any help would be appreciated.

tfaers please tell all of your lesbians to get into the fandom so we can have moar kink posts.

SA I had a wonderful theory/thought. TFA followed in the steps of SW by casting relatively unknown actors in main roles. TFA big name actors are resuming their original roles - Harrison, Carrie and Mark. The two (supposed) antagonists include Benicio Del Toro, considerably well known. It don't really follow with tradition.

Between VII and VIII the cast is getting quite big. One reason is to replace characters who are killed. The other reason would be if characters are doing important duties off-screen.

Would it be too much to ask/get one of the villains killed by another villain? I wouldn't mind Hux being mostly off-street as long as he gets a great return to kill someone else. I wouldn't mind him killing Benicio's character.

You see the people as objects then.

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