when you writing a star wars fic and trying to make it as accurate as possible

missmollyetc:

norcumi:

kdazrael:

lady-starkiller:

Not pictured: the two hours

spent cross

-referencing the map of the outer rim territories with the planet descriptions

so you can fill in one throwaway comment in the dialogue; a ragestroke brought on by how

shitty the categorizing is

JFC I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SPACE EQUIVALENT OF COTTON IS.

Then the added flailing brought on by “HOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE WHAT DERANGED IDIOT THOUGHT – LOOK, IF YOUR CULTURE HAS LASTED THIS DAMN LONG, AND COMPRISES THIS MANY BEINGS, THEN YOU NEED MORE TROOPS/TIME/RESOURCES/GENDERS/ANYTHING“ and trying to not break down and hide under a couch because the EU contradicts itself three different ways on just one topic, and the new canon breaks it at least one more time.

Don’t forget squinting at tiny spaceship specs, cursing whoever the fuck thought a WORKING SPACE SHIP wouldn’t need more than one way to either land or connect to other space ships and also DID NO ONE LOOK AT THE GALAXY AND FIGURE OUT HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE TO GET ANYWHERE OMG WHAT EVEN IS THIS

Aaaallll of this. I’ve pretty much settled for weeding out the worst of the contradictions/retcons from canon and maintaining internal consistency within any given fic or series of ours.

tikkunolamorgtfo:

trans-mom:

eugthinks:

I made a chart.

“fuck” I think properly describes it

I stayed in and berated myself for not being more successful because I didn’t have the energy or focus to get dressed or make plans to go and have good time and I am honestly feeling so attacked right now?

domics:

No short cut.

garak:

garak and bashir become such bffs but as they get closer julian trusts him less and less and eventually it just gets to the point where they’re just

garak (to a visitor): i’m garak-

bashir: (shaking his head) bullshit

team “i know you’re joking but my anxiety doesn’t”

legendary-mole:

I made a thing

Ultimately, you need to know what the story is about in order to write it, but you need to write it in order to know what the story is about.

Scott McCloud

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Damn. Yep.

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Reasons to Join the Tolkien Fandom

anthropologyarda:

– old. like really old. older than star trek old.

– immortal. existed for over half a century before anybody thought about making movies. will keep existing after people forget them.

– full of nerds. hardcore nerds who do good research. A+

– full of nerds. like actual climatologists and geologists. official nerds who publish in official journals about speculative science in a fantasy world.

– high chance they will read your fanfic/meta. Tolkien is not an easy read and they probably have the patience/skills to get through your writing easy

– what is canon? we just don’t know

– appreciates my excessive collection of nature photos. Mostly trees and mountains.

– likes shiny things

– does not approve of keeping shiny things. sometimes approves of stealing them