People Are Like “it’s So Beautiful No Clouds At All” It Could Use A Little Clouds If I Had To Be

Does anyone else just sit and think about the fact that Six of Crows is literally the perfect book?

Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.

There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.

And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)

And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!

The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.

So basically I don't get why other authors even try anymore cause I'm sorry but no matter how great their books are, it's not going to be Six of Crows.

The idea of Luke coming up with his impression of Din solely from what Grogu tells him before they meet again is hilarious to me because

Grogu, probably: my dad is so cool and smart and calm and good at fighting and a great pilot and

Din in real life:

Sweater town

This is so real.

With SW fic, I always run into what I call, in my head, the Marvel Problem. Not for any super deep reason, but just because I'm also a newcomer into a fairly old, expansive, and well-established franchise. Writing SW fic as a casual fan is always rough because I *want* to respect the source material and keep my work canon-accurate, at least for the most part, but there's just so much lore and so many tangential works that I couldn't possibly keep up with without allocating some serious time to watching/reading/listening to/etc (time that I don't really have). So wookiepedia it is, even though the articles might flatten some helpful details despite their usefulness.

Also trying to figure out flight distance and flight paths is a nightmare.

“time spent writing star wars fic”

🐭🍎❤ Inspired by this video from simon_dell_tog

writing not going well. will be retiring to the countryside to start a life of crime. adieu.

it’s after midnight, time to post about my star wars rewrite [ID: costume redesigns of the main four from the Star Wars sequel trilogy for the replacement of Rise of Skywalker. Rose is in a bronze Mandalorian armor with orange accents. Her helmet is molded like Din's but bronze and tan. Rey is in a sleeveless take on a Jedi Knight uniform, the linen shades of white and grey. She's holding her lightsaber and her right hand in a full grey glove. Finn is in a tan Jedi top that's tucked into deep brown pants with a tuxedo stripe. His lightsaber's strapped to his belt and has a ring on a necklace. Poe's in a dark collared top and grey-tan pants, also with a tuxedo stripe and wearing a ring on a necklace. He has multiple belts and a thigh holster. /END ID]

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

Bothersome beast, comforting friend