Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

because I HAVE AN ENGLISH DEGREE, THE NAVEL-GAZING IS REQUIRED, here's as best i can figure out the major statements i'm making with my fanfictions

masquerade: recovery is not linear and there is not any one state where someone is fully good forever now. it is a struggle but it is one well worth watching

harry potter and the hangman's riddle: parentage and circumstances of birth do not define you even if they give you hard burdens to carry

@InspectorCaracal tbh i feel like a lot of the 'morals' of my stories only really coalesce when i'm at least a couple of chapters in

it's like the characters mill about and in that direction it all goes in, it gets clearer and clearer, and suddenly it snaps into focus and i realize the undercurrent that's been driving it all, if that makes any sense

@InspectorCaracal i mean

that's also a good point to have for a lot of things honestly

not that every single piece of writing needs to be didactic, but... i still feel like having a core moral or statement there makes my fanfiction stronger, or at least more interesting for me to write

that writing advice is extremely validating because i am absolutely that asshole who sits around thinking about what she is Saying (tm) with her dinky little fanfiction

sometimes i miss roleplaying my SWTOR characters a lot, then i remember how the game itself has become distinctly ehhh to me, and also the fact that i neatly laid out my characters and worked to establish goodwill with others and was all excited to finally do *my* character's story arc after helping everyone else's, only to have the guild utterly implode because of other people being assholes

twice.

so, uh, i guess inquisitor achates is just cursed. sorry, dude.

"that was a long tea break, is the kettle on the fritz again?"

"no, just that sith ghost talking at me"

"ah. did he read you his manifesto again?"

"only partially. but it's fine, since i got a really good recipe for vegan buttercream frosting out of the deal"

(force ghost of achates pachai, sith inquisitor voice) you've absolutely fucked up that cup of tea, by the way. don't pour boiling water straight over green tea leaves, you'll burn it horribly. no really, taste it, you see how bitter it is? exactly. you've absolutely messed it up. and you know what's also absolutely messed up is jedi philosophy -

on the plus side, if "uhhh idk sith ruins underneath jedi temple" is canon now for trying to explain that plot hole, it means i have even more justification for declaring that my SWTOR sith character persists up to prequel era at least by being the reason that somewhere in the jedi temple there is a sign in comic sans in a breakroom somewhere reading:

"DO NOT TALK POLITICS WITH GHOST!!!!!!!!!!
(recipes ok)"

@CornishRepublicanArmy@hellsite.site Y E P

this is why i feel completely fucking free to ignore canon minutiae at my fuckin convenience when writing fanfic. if it doesn't bother george lucas, it sure as hell ain't gonna bother me none. i'll just take the tasty bits and move the fuck on. MY CITY NOW

this is where i could get on my soapbox again, spurred by @CornishRepublicanArmy@hellsite.site 's own star wars thoughts

but it's just gonna be me applying this song to the prequel era jedi order more and more emphatically

@CornishRepublicanArmy@hellsite.site YOOM TAH

@CornishRepublicanArmy@hellsite.site honestly i feel like the given explanations are frustrating because they ignore far tastier explanations:

for example, that the jedi had ceased really looking at the "light" awhile back. their own visions were "clouded" not by anything palpatine did or ancient ruins or whatever, but because they morally jumped the shark by kidnapping children, training child soldiers, and supporting the republic raising a slave class of cannon fodder

@CornishRepublicanArmy@hellsite.site YOU'RE RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT

@Hulex@snouts.online @Proxy@snouts.online oh yeah they def don't taste like actual burgers.

but honestly they are a pretty fantastic canvas to sop up some bacon drippings and have cheese on them

@Hulex@snouts.online honestly 'hypocrite burgers' are great, though i think they're better with black bean burger patties tbh

@InspectorCaracal oh yeah. eventually my shoulder will get better, but it's the bursitis doing it mostly from what i understand - since that's when the bursa, the like... squishy fluid pad in your joint, gets inflamed. and that sucker likes to yell about barometric pressure changes.

well, i'm sure everyone will be pleased to know - despite surgery, my shoulder is still an EXCELLENT barometer, and by that i mean "how do i get insurance to pay for the new therapy that involves building me a porch and a rocking chair so i can squint into the horizon and declare 'storm's comin', i feel it in my bones' when it plays up"

@jocelynk ok but a lot of purses are kind of bullshit. especially if the strap is just a little too short and it's cross-body so you gotta like.... wriggle into it

i have mostly taken this as more motivation to use tiny cute purses tbh and not even try to wear them cross-body