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[independence1776]

It's wonderful to see so many people joining. I meant to post this earlier, but life happened. So let's introduce ourselves!

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<strong>How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by:</strong>
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<strong>Favorite platonic relationships:</strong>
<strong>Favorite romantic/sexual relationships:</strong>
<strong>Favorite thing about Star Wars in general:</strong>
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<strong>What I want from this comm is:</strong>

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[independence1776]

Names I go by: Independence1776, but Indy for short
Pronouns (if you are comfortable sharing): she/her
Other Places I Can Be Found: Silmarillion Writers' Guild, Tumblr, Discord (same screenname)
AO3 (if you have one): Independence1776
How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by: reading and writing fic (generally Kanan comics-centric AUs), reblogging and sometimes writing stuff on Tumblr, modding here
Favorite Jedi: Depa Billaba, followed very closely by Kanan Jarrus/Caleb Dume. Original Trilogy Luke Skywalker. Also, I've loved Qui-Gon since May 1999.
Favorite platonic relationships: Uh… too many to list, really, because I'm so gen-focused, but my top ones are Depa & Caleb, Caleb & Cal Kestis, and Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan.
Favorite romantic/sexual relationships: I tend to ship canon, but my favorite non-canon ones are Bail/Breha/Obi-Wan, Owen/Beru/Obi-Wan, and I have a soft spot for Depa femslash.
Favorite thing about Star Wars in general: That it's about choices and found family and becoming yourself and blood family and trust and hope.
A favorite snippet of canon (from a movie, book, comic, whatever): So here is where I laugh at myself for asking this, knowing exactly how difficult it is. So, have a long-term favorite (rather than me going "Depa Depa Depa!"): Luke in RotJ tossing away his lightsaber and saying: "You failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."
What I want from this comm is: An active Jedi-friendly community that operates under the "live and let live" principle

[ermingarden]

That is such an amazing moment - one of the reasons RotJ is my favorite movie!! It's always struck me as a parallel to Obi-Wan's death - you may kill me, but that is nothing. You cannot make me fall to darkness.

[independence1776]

Yeees.

[ermingarden]

Names I go by: I'm Ermingarde in most fannish spaces.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
AO3: Ermingarde
Other Places I Can Be Found: I have accounts on Tumblr and FFN, though I'm not very active on either. I also play Star Wars: The Old Republic, so hit me up if you do too!
How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by: Reading, writing (both fic and meta), and fervent admiration of other fanworks!
Favorite Jedi: Kam and Tionne Solusar, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Barriss Offee (as she appears in Legends), Callista Masana, Cilghal, Syo Bakarn.
Favorite platonic relationships: I generally love exploring master & padawan relationships. Currently thinking a lot about Luke & Kam and Syo & the Barsen'thor. I'm also fascinated at the moment with how living Jedi might relate to holocrons (i.e., holocron personalities) - to what extent is a holocron an extension of its maker, or an echo, or its own separate being, and how might that change over the use-life of the holocron?
Favorite romantic/sexual relationships: Generally speaking, I'm pretty gen-focused. I do love Beru/Owen/Obi-Wan, though, and I have a big soft spot for Cody/Obi-Wan and Alpha-17/Obi-Wan.
Favorite thing about Star Wars in general: Choosing goodness and light, even in the face of oblivion, is worthwhile; the ends do not always justify the means; hope dwells in the most unlikely places.
A favorite snippet of canon (from a movie, book, comic, whatever): Here is a quote from Showdown at Centerpoint by Roger MacBride Allen. That was the first Star Wars book I ever read, back when I was nine, and it took me from really liking the movies into lifelong love of the galaxy far, far away. Here's the excerpt:
Twelve million people. Luke remembered thinking, not so long ago, that in the galactic time scale, what happened here scarcely mattered at all. All of recorded history, all the days of myth and legend before that time, were a blink in the cosmic eye. But twelve million people, twelve million lives. That many hopes, that many dreams and pasts, that many families, that many memories and histories that would vanish as well, as if they had never been. All the unborn generations that would never be born, all the promise, all the potential, that would be gone, stolen from the galaxy’s future.
Surely it was wrong to destroy a star, something that old, that big, that powerful and complex and beautiful, just for the sake of some transient political advantage.
Luke smiled. No one was going to use supernovas as weapons. Not during his eye blink of history. Not if he could help it.
What I want from this comm is: I'm looking for a place to meet other people who love the Jedi, exchange meta and fic, and collaborate in creating fanworks. <3

[independence1776]

That is an excellent passage.

[ermingarden]

Thanks!! I really love the Corellian Trilogy. It's probably because it was my first Star Wars novel, but Allen's characterizations in Showdown at Centerpoint are definitely the biggest influences on how I view and write many characters even today (especially Luke, whose EU characterization is not exactly...consistent.)

Here's another favorite passage, from the same book - and one that touches on Jedi philosophy:
Luke breathed a sigh of relief. That one had been just a bit too close. There were times when the advantages of being a Jedi Master could turn around and bite you, no doubt about it. A regular fighter pilot without the power to use the Force wouldn’t have felt any moral obligation to risk his own life while using the Force to spare his enemies. Luke smiled faintly to himself. One of these old days, his moral obligations to spare life were going to get him killed.

[independence1776]

The Corellian Trilogy are some of the Legends books I kept when I went through my collection of Legends books quite a few years ago.

Yeah… character consistancy is not one of the Legends strongpoints.

<3 Luke

[ermingarden]

They're so good! I also love the whole concept of Centerpoint itself and the "Celestials" - it's like what Skatzaa was saying about the expansiveness of the canon. It adds another layer to the universe.

Yes, and Luke takes the brunt of that - I think the Luke of the Thrawn Trilogy and the Luke of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, for example, share approximately 2 character traits. (I think there's a Club Jade fic poking fun at that....)

[independence1776]

It really does.

The Jedi Academy Trilogy did not survive my purge. One of the reasons I love I, Jedi as much as I do is because it tries to fix what it can from those books.

[ermingarden]

I had the unhappy experience of rereading the JAT over the summer for the first time in a few years and discovering that it is considerably worse than I had remembered. I still have a soft spot for it, though, simply because of Cilghal!

Hi!

[skatzaa]

Names I go by: Skatzaa, Skats
Pronouns (if you are comfortable sharing): he/they
Other Places I Can Be Found: tumblr (skatzaa there too)
AO3 (if you have one): skatzaa
How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by: Mostly reading fic, but writing too (especially for exchanges)
Favorite Jedi: Right now? Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, Depa Billaba, Quinlan Vos... the list goes on and on
Favorite platonic relationships: uhhhh. So many. But I'm having lots of feelings currently about the clones and their Jedi, so I'll just say that as a whole
Favorite romantic/sexual relationships: Also a lot of these. The shiniest ones in my brain atm are Cody/Obi-Wan and Cody/Quinlan
Favorite thing about Star Wars in general: Just how much of it there is. Planets and cultures and aliens... and, of course, the Jedi and the clones
A favorite snippet of canon (from a movie, book, comic, whatever): I'm not sure I have one specific thing, lol. At least not that I can think of right now!
What I want from this comm is: I'm mostly a lurker, but I'm looking forward to lurking in a community that's wholly Jedi positive! :-)

Re: Hi!

[ermingarden]

Ooooh yes, the expansiveness of the Galaxy Far, Far Away!! Both in the in-universe sense of a dizzying diversity of species and cultures and in the our-world sense that, since Star Wars spans books, movies, games, and more, with dozens of different themes and aimed at various age groups, there really is something for everyone! <3

Re: Hi!

[independence1776]

Hi! I also love how expansive canon is; there's so much room to explore.

Lurkers are absolutely welcome here. :D

[rocknroll1968]

Names I go by: RocknRoll1968
Other Places I Can Be Found: DeviantArt (same username)
AO3 (if you have one): RocknRoll1968
How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by: Been watching since childhood, but I'm mostly new to the fandom. Watching eps 1-6 repeatedly, reading fic, enjoying fan art, and I intend to start making my own fan art, fic, cosplay costume(s), and learning to wield a light saber.
Favorite Jedi: Anakin, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Luke, Yoda, Leia (in my personal AU)...hard to choose. So many interesting characters.
Favorite platonic relationships: I'll read most anything if it's well-written and I'm reasonably familiar with the characters. Lots of intriguing possibilities. I'm fond of stories where Anakin and Padme get to be parents to their children.
Favorite romantic/sexual relationships: Very much a multi-shipper for this fandom, though I'm usually a slash fan. Obi-Wan/Anakin, Obi-Wan/Padme/Anakin, Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, Leia/Luke, Han/Leia/Luke, Lando/Han...will read many others, too. Read an interesting Vader/Piett one recently.
Favorite thing about Star Wars in general: The very clear and accurate way it describes the nature of Good and Evil and how they function in the universe and in our minds and hearts. The emphasis on how important it is if you choose Good to stick to it, because muddling around in the grey areas can be really dangerous and a slippery slope to self and other destruction. I'm a huge fan of Anakin/Vader's redemption arc, and how it explores the aforementioned themes.
A favorite snippet of canon (from a movie, book, comic, whatever): The moment Anakin takes control over Vader as he watches his son being tortured.
What I want from this comm is: A fun, friendly place to learn more about the fandom, the canon, share my fanworks and enjoy others', where hopefully drama and B.S. will be kept under control.

(P.S. I'm really excited for the upcoming Obi-Wan and Lando series! Curious about Ahsoka, too. Just wanted to stick that in there.)

[ermingarden]

Glad to have you!! I'm excited to read your fic, see your art and cosplay, and hear about your saber-fighting adventures!

If you like Vader redemption (and Piett!) and you're at least somewhat familiar with the post-RotJ Expanded Universe, then oh boy do I have the fic for you! (Maybe. No pressure.) Meet the Skywalkers by frodogenic is a fabulous gen fic focused on Vader and Piett (with a lot of Luke, too) in a world where Vader escaped the Death Star, headed off in the Executor...and the whole Super Star Destroyer promptly got lost in the Unknown Regions for twenty-eight years. The last chapter was actually just posted yesterday - the fic was first published in 2016, but the wait was worth it.

I adore that moment too. Indy highlighted another part of that scene, Luke's defiance of the Emperor, in her comment. I think in many ways the heart of Star Wars is encapsulated in these two moments. In Luke we see what it means to cling to light no matter the cost, and in Vader we see that anyone, even those who've fallen the farthest, can still turn again toward light - in other words, there's always a choice, and it's not a one-time thing, but a choice to be made again and again every moment.

[independence1776]

I will do my absolute best to keep drama and BS at the least amount possible (hopefully none, but fandom being fandom). I'm looking forward to seeing what you create.

I am over the moon with excitement for the Obi-Wan show.

[andromakhe001]

Names I go by: andromakhe001
Other Places I Can Be Found:tumblr, twitter, theforce.net
AO3 (if you have one):just a reader
How I participate in Star Wars fandom is by:fan discussion, meta(mostly reading other people's, I used to write a TON of it like 20 years ago during the Prequel film era, but I burnt out LOL I'm lucky I can string together sentences that make sense at this point(there may be a lot of sentences as I have a hard time keeping things short, but it doesn't mean they'll make much sense :))
Favorite Jedi:Obi-Wan Kenobi(one of my two favorite fictional characters ever), Yoda, Mace Windu, I pretty much love most of the PT/TCW era Jedi(NOT Pong Krell obviously) and am very pro-Jedi in general.
Favorite platonic relationships:all of them? Can't think of any I dislike.
Favorite romantic/sexual relationships:Not that into shipping, don't even care that much about the canon ones. If they come up in discussion I may have opinions on them but they aren't a focus of my fandom. The friendships and found family ideas are more interesting to me.
Favorite thing about Star Wars in general:It's hopeful and positive philosophy. It isn't cynical and it's based on trying to do what's right because it's right, even if it's hard.
A favorite snippet of canon (from a movie, book, comic, whatever):Gosh, I can't narrow that down. :)
What I want from this comm is:interesting discussions, some good fic recommendations from time to time

[ermingarden]

Hello! Glad you're here!

I'm sorry to hear about your burnout, that sounds rough. I hope you enjoy reading what folks post here, and there's never any pressure to write more than you really want to.

I'm a big Obi-Wan fan too! I'm sensing a theme in people's posts here of centering platonic relationships, and I love that so much.

"very pro-Jedi in general" - then you're definitely in the right place!

"trying to do what's right because it's right, even if it's hard" - that's what it comes down to, isn't it? I love how you phrased it.

[independence1776]

Friendships and found family are some of the best things about Star Wars.