I had a dream that Star Wars RPers, fanfic writers and fan artists would come together under one banner to effect change on a large corporation to build creative content we felt proud of like we did when we first saw Star Wars. I thought it would be good and just for the fandom and everyone. And that we could use Social Media platforms as a tool to express our ideas.
But I was wrong, so very, very wrong. I made mistakes not understanding fans and their needs and wants. I’m a scientist, the personable stuff is excised from me. I did know how to write. My grammar sucks. And social media is getting overwhelming that I do not understand how to program for it or how to use it, anymore. I needed to monetize what I do for deliverables because most fans need tangibles than knowledge and experiences. I had to teach myself about salesmanship, one of my weakest abilities and I did not understand it and I still do not understand it. Sales and marketing are way over my head. And the dream is lost and I’m getting old.
To get out of ruts, I write fanfics, headcanons and metas. I feel some are sensitive proprietary information and if I’m going to get harassed about them, then those fans should pay me. It is why I have Patreon.
I am not a big corporation. I’m a tiny business. I have to hear fan rage and blame because another creative behemoth does not care. They can afford not to listen to fans. I am so small, I am trampled by enraged fans daily and for some fans, I myself don’t understand their rage. As many credentials I have if I can’t figure it out, the behemoth can’t either and won’t.
So, the one impertinent action that will not change in this business is CREATIVITY. Being creative. Writing creatively. I can do that with my grammatical errors. I have written creatively for over 45 years. I might not be good at it, I might suck, I never did it as a career choice, during the dark times I had to conceal it. And then, one day it could not be contained. But creative entities take a toll on emotions and social media makes emotions worse due to programming in 2 dimensions. I’m too scared to transition into 3 dimensions due to set up costs and overhead, and I’m not young.
My business has a brand that do the maintenance. My brand is based on my reputation. I have a bad one because I demand and expect the best because I give my best efforts. I want to help other fans achieve their creative endeavors.
I have friends. Several are neglected. But they can see how hard I am trying and do not impose on me. If they understand, they will help.
My time and my knowledge is all I can give. And do the best I can given my current health concerns. I hate discussing this because my business is not about me, it is about creativity.
The Star Wars Actors Guild 77 thinks that if events can happen in real-life, then elements can be used to design a fictional setting with creativity.
In a rare event, clouds can descend into a large canyon or land mass and form a “sea” beneath the top. It occurs in the Grand Canyon.
It also occurs in the Venezuelan tepui Plateau in Canaima National Park
In the books SHATTERPOINT by Matthew Stover about the character MACE WINDU who has to retrieve is padawan, Depa Billaba (Legends), from a Dark Side influencer, his brother, Kar Vastor upon the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine’s request on the planet, Haruun Kal.
Mace Windu is from Haruun Kal. He was born there and taken as a baby to train to become a Jedi. He eventually became the second ranking Jedi Master of the Jedi Order during the waning years of the Republic. He loved the Republic and he wanted to see it rise to its Golden Age of glory again to become everlasting. But that all changed in Revenge of the Sith where his lightsaber hand was cut off by Anakin Skywalker turned Darth Vader, and defenestrated by the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine who was the Sith Lord the Jedi were looking for, Darth Sidious.
Haruun Kal, a planet that the Star Wars Actors Guild 77 has a lot of fanfiction writing experiences and headcanons as the basis for the Yuuzhan Vong to start growing their biological technology (biots) on planets than in their worldships called Koros Strohnas.
In the fanfiction, the Yuuzhan Vong needed access to the planet, and required an indigenous person to assist them. Because the original character, Auset was seen by the Domain Lah, as the goddess, Yun Shuno incarnate, and she was born on Haruun Kal, they placed her back on her homeworld in a far location to test the growth of their biots. Since she was an orphan, she had no upcountry Korunnai grasser family to return home. But she knew the Korunnai culture and was apart of the local belief of Pelekotan, a facet of the Force.
She identified the sparsely populated and volcanically active Southern Hemisphere that can be used as the testing ground. In turn, the Yuuzhan Vong allowed her and her daughter, Yemaja Lah to serve as caretakers of the True Way Faith Tabernacle where the Yuuzhan Vong could meet and worship their gods.
Because all Korunnai have the Force, they can take lifeforms and intercalate them into the biotechnology schema of the Yuuzhan Vong to further their growth. Auset created large tree-like creatures to assist her in the care of the Tabernacle and the Isle.
The Yuuzhan Vong are Force Absence. Typically, a Force user would be sickened by the absence of the Force. But Auset knew how to devoid herself from the Force through Force Sever. While the switch was painful, the pain waned and she tolerated the nausea caused by the absence of the Force.
However, her daughter, Yemaja Lah, who was part Yuuzhan Vong, sensed like holes in the Force, she could NOT control her pain and acted out because of it. From what seems like nowhere, the Force would build up in her and she would explode in her strength and power, then collapse from its drain. Auset taught her daughter how to Force Sever, which is forbidden by the Jedi Order — sever cuts emotions from dealing with severe disturbances in the Force. Rather than managing those emotions, the sever leaves a user numb and unable to wield it. It essential leaves a Force user ABSENT temporarily. But every time Yemaja acted out, she was in pain with implementing the sever, then numb paralyzed to do anything, and then when her powers returned, they would explode because of the emotions, and they would be painful. Moreover, Yemaja could not wield the Force by her own volition. Her powers without treatment would explode and she would scream in pain. Those screams can be sensed by other Force users, and they could come and destroy the Isle.
While the Yuuzhan Vong admired Yemaja’s pain transitions because it brought blessing to the gods. But they understood her explosive Force required containment. The Yuuzhan Vong physician scientists, added biot organs in her brain to balance the paralysis to allow her functionality, while also tamper down the return back into the Force.
When Yemaja became quiet by her treatments, she could be taught. She leaned toward negotiation for political science and elections. Therefore, she was taught how to do that. At the time, Auset and Yemaja had to remain hidden on the Isle because the Yuuzhan Vong forbade aliens entering their fleets. Yemaja always wanted to visit her father’s side of the family, the Domain Lah, but her mother, Auset refused to keep her safe from humiliation by them. From the Yuuzhan Vong perspective, Yemaja is meaningless being a hybrid, while she was born with the cartilage of a nose and can become Force Absent. This action caused Yemaja deep turmoil. When Yemaja turned 17 years of age, she seemed to not care and gave up on the notion of joining the Domain Lah. Then one day, a group of elites, the ruling class, appeared on the Isle, and they spoke to Auset about using Yemaja for a new protocol. Auset vehemently refused. But Yemaja’s father interceded and overrode Auset’s refusals. The elites wanted Yemaja to be trained as a spy under the Deception Sect of the goddess Yun Harla to gain access to a new government, the Galactic Empire. Since Yemaja can be shaped as human passing by the Master Shaper’s biots, the Yuuzhan Vong would gain access into the innerworkings of the Empire. Reluctantly, Auset agreed, but claimed it would make Yemaja uncontrollably sick again with the interaction of vile humans hellbent on destruction.
Relevance to MACE WINDU
Before the collapse of the Jedi Order and the Republic, Auset seeds and oviparity Coruscant a mission by the Yuuzhan Vong to transfix and escalate the planet from pollutants, or they will destroy it. While she started, Yemaja sneaks aboard the ship at 3-4 years old and sees the monstrosity of filthy technology which scares her.
Then Auset senses a “doshallai” (cousin) being killed, and she races to save him, it is Mace Windu. She brings him back, while the new Emperor gloats over his new government and takes him back to the Isle to heal him.
Once healed, Auset tells him to find his people, the Windu clan and leave the Isle. Mace begs her to come with him when suddenly she sense the absence of Yemaja and glares at her. Then Auset Force Severs herself from the Force and that sickens Mace, similar having a headache before one turns to the Dark Side. He roils at Auset telling her it is wrong with what she is doing and Auset argues back saying she has lost everything with the Jedi and who are they to judge.
Mace leaves disgusted by a Cloudsea boat and arrives to the main city, Pelek Baw with Balawians, non-indigenous people who live on Haruun Kal destined to destroy Korunnai and their backwards culture. But Mace turns to search for the Isle aboard a starship, and it is nowhere to be found, like it has moved from its coordinates.
The Yuuzhan Vong biots of the Isle can move large landmasses.
Timothy Zahn Kindly Autographed the Star Wars Thrawn Ascendancy Book II Greater Good and Star Wars Thrawn Novel Poster from Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017.
Timothy Zahn Signature on Thrawn Bunny by The Little Rabbit Tree for SWAG77
Timothy Zahn shares a lot with fans; that is awesome. He has great ideas about future projects and wants to write more depending on several factors he might not say. But, it is fun when it is Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Support The Little Rabbit Tree. Not trying to overload them, but their products are one of a kind, and they are accomodating.
I as the owner of SWAG77 supports the basis of #Juneteenth. However, SLAVERY GLOBALLY still exists. Here’s a flyer from @EndSlaveryNow to understand the issue & for this 1st US Juneteenth let’s donate to end all human trafficking.
Here’s why it’s important for all Comic Fans to end human trafficking: Before all this toxic fandom lunacy, fans thought it was okay to talk sexually in DMs. Having accounts showing off as slaves and flirting with people who they thought were of similar age. The slave accounts were all manned by individuals who were underage. But the “pimps” and “Johns” were real, some of them were pedophiles who follow the exact descriptions that End Slavery Now outlines.
Sure, I made mistakes in 2011, too. But I am not an asshole anymore, and I stopped making our mistakes and moved on. But I will never forget the harassment I got when I questioned the intent of “roleplay slave girl accounts” — which was to flirt with someone sexually as a moniker for roleplay in private messages. If sex roleplay cannot be performed publicly on a social media platform, then it probably should not be done privately. And they were not writing fanfiction at the time, so what are they practicing, exactly as fun? To roam around the platform flirting with anyone with a lot of lewd sexual language without context and no account marks and not think they will be discovered for their indiscretions?
The internet is forever, and these individuals said what they wanted to say me to silence me. They never thought I would not be able to use it against them as revenge. Yes, your posts may be 10 years old, and yes, you may have changed your minds. But no. Your real-life character is full of lies, and you will always be that shitty person that hurt me all those long years ago that I will never forget. Forgive. Doubtful. For what you did, I don’t care anymore. But you don’t believe in Juneteeth, Black people, their struggles, and what it is all about based on these 10-year-old tweets.
At least at that time, I already had a life of success. I chose to pursue this field of study. But these attacks are what the screenshots are for. And to think these lunatics tried to attack me on Facebook without me reporting them?
I will never, forget what was done to me. And here’s my proof. Never. Toxic fandom.
Thrawn chuckles, seeing how hot Sabine was after the droids gave her seltzer and whisky.
Sabine tastes the coolness of seltzer water and ice with the stinging flavor of the whisky as she closes her eyes to savor the taste. She hears Thrawn’s laugh and shifts her legs. “It’s your apartment, Grand Admiral, and I need to cool down.”
“Yes, of course.” He smirks and then orders the droids to close all the windows and turn on the air conditioner.
He rubs his large cerulean hand on Sabine’s knee to her thigh and separates her legs. Sabine looks at his red-in-red eyes and is open to him touching her freely. He kneels between her legs as he follows her eyes, then burrows his head into–
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