Chat corner: Free Friday

[annathecrow]

Welcome to Free Friday, your weekly free-for-all chat post. Anything SW-related is fair game.

Have fun!

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[extrapenguin]

1. swrarepairs sign-ups are OPEN! It's a fanfic & fanart exchange for all Star Wars rarepairs, incl. crossovers internal and external.

2. I promo'd this on Monday as well, but I wrote a post on Anakin, the Tuskens, and (rehabilitative) justice. There's also some interesting discussion in the comments!

3. Due to the aforementioned discussion, I'm planning to write an Anakin & A'Sharad Hett fic about, well, Tusken mores and restitution. (No action, just philosophical discussion.)

[atamascolily]

Woo! I'm so excited about #3! I assume you'll post a link either here or in your own journal when it's finished??

[extrapenguin]

Don't worry, I'm definitely linking it here once it's done!

[yourlibrarian]

I must have missed that post. Will pop over and read.

[atamascolily]

I stumbled across "The Lost City of Tatooine" by David West Reynolds, which was a short story about the Tuskens originally published in Dig magazine in the late '90s. I've been a Star Wars fan for most of my life, and yet I'm still encountering things decades later that I have never seen or heard of before!

It's unclear to me how canonical this particular story is in the wider scheme of things, but there are a few interesting worldbuilding details about the history of the Tusken people that I don't think I've seen elsewhere. That said, it was written for an audience of archaeologists and it shows.

[yourlibrarian]

Interesting find!

[extrapenguin]

Oh wow! I do not care if it is canon. It is canon for me now. I really like the archaeology and the stories about the Ghorfa that the settlers tell.

[atamascolily]

The interesting part for me was that Luke exploring an ancient city created by the ancestors of the present-day Tuskens is very similar to the worldbuilding in one of my own fics. I wish I had seen this while I was actively writing those particular story and its companion--I don't know if it would necessarily have changed anything, but I always like seeing official/semi-official takes to compare with my own headcanons.