Oh! I read the whole of this story a few weeks ago! Now I'm back at it, and this time I won't forget to leave my comments! The first chapters is a great start for the story. I'm intrigued to find out more, where you're going with this and what'll happen. I also love how you're using the beats of TROS that worked.
You're reading it again?!! Oh thank you so much, that's so lovely!! Honestly it warms my heart to know people are still reading this story and liking it! And as I'm in the throes of finishing my second Reylo long-fic, this is exactly the blast of encouragement I needed! Thanks again! 💞💞💞
Yup, I'm re-reading it. Honestly, the first time I was rushing through it, now I can take my time and really appreciate it for what it is. Another Reylo long-fic? Oh my. I just recently re-discovered my love for this pairing after putting it on the down-low after TROS. Which means I'm ferociously consuming all there is about Reylo. So thanks for the heads-up, I will sure try to give it a try once its done!
Haha. that wasn't a hint on my part! It's just a coincidence that you left your comment at this particular time! And I totally understand why you put Reylo on the down-low after TRoS! 😭 We were all flailing after that disaster! I flailed in the opposite direction and started writing in earnest so I could give them the Happy Ever After they deserved, fuelled by despair and fury! 😅💖💖
No, no, I got what you meant! I just like to pretend you gave me a broad hint, or as we say in German: " to wave with a fencepost". =) But coincidences like this are sometimes what keep the muse well and fed, innit? I remember being discouraged after working on my fic for a few years and feeling like interest slowly fizzled out but then I got a new enthusiastic reader who pushed me to push through it. It worked! YAY! *does dance* Yeah, TROS was ... a beautiful disaster. I just watched it recently and there's a lot of things that I learned to forgive - honestly, Rey Palpatine is the least of my problems with this movie-esque behemoth. Up until Ben Solo was cast off into a pit, I actually enjoyed the movie. Yeah, it was clunky and trying to shoe-horn in a lot of stuff to tighten up "loose" ends but I could forgive all that. What I could not forgive - and never will, as a writer! - is that they build up this idea of the DYAD and then showed them side by side (!), ready to take on the Big Bad, which got me all hyped up ... and then they just split up the DYAD and let Rey handle it by herself. Like what? Excuse me, like what the fuck? Who thought that was a sound idea from a story-telling, character-driven, theme-driven point of view?! Because to me it makes no sense. Where was the fucking balance in that? Who was Rey in that moment supposed to be? Luke? Or Anakin? Why could she not be Rey of the DYAD, kicking ass and taking names with her whump husband Ben Solo? It's like a red-herring, except that's not what is was supposed to be. Also, the line "Be with me" - why did they not connect the two sides of the DYAD?! *takes a deep breath* I'm fine. So, yeah, reading this story is pretty much therapy for my writer/reader/audience self and I am immensely enjoying it!
Oh HOW I relate to that rant about the dyad!!! It was such a strange choice to make that connection seem so important and momentous only to have it come to absolutely nothing in the last sequence with Palpatine! I'll never understand it, or forgive it! I think it's my fury about that part of the plot that makes it hard for me to forgive any of the other retcons of The Last Jedi because TRoS just seems so poorly planned and superficial in contrast to the movie that came before. It's the sheer NERVE of JJ and Terrio thinking 'Nah, not for me, we can do better than that' and then face-planting so badly by just shoehorning tried and tested OT 'twists' into a slapdash plot that ultimately made no sense that gets me riled. I just can't take a lot of it seriously at all, including the Rey Palpatine stuff, partly because I don't want to, and mostly because it's so badly done I just can't be convinced by it! Sorry for the rant, my disappointment with the whole thing runs DEEP! Haha, the only reason I wrote this was to create an ending I could stomach so I could try to forget so much of TRoS ever even happened!
German, eh? My grandmother was German, and I learned the language in school (I've forgotten a lot of it now sadly!) but I have never heard " to wave with a fencepost" before!! I love it!! And yay, I'm delighted you got a similar boost for your writing!! It really is so great to be reminded it is worthwhile which is so easy to forget when you're struggling through the difficult times when the muse appears to have deserted you! 💖💖
Oh, well, I sometimes wonder - if we hadn't had the wonder that was TLJ, would we have been able to swallow the bitter pill that was TROS more easily? The light, I think, was so bright that it was just matter of time before it threw a dark shadow. A shadow in the shape of JJ Abrams! *Brienne of Tarth battle-cries in the distance* I can totally understand your ranting - it matches mine! =)
Well, "to wave with a fencepost" is meant in an ironic way. Like, "Yeah, I'm totally, obviously not giving a broad hint here!" *wink wink* I use that tactic with my students all the time. Like, "Yeah, you guys might wanna take a closer look at the particulars of long division until next week." *silence* Students: "WHY?!" ME:"Oh, I dunno, just waving with a fencepost here!"
I feel ya. I had French in school, but most of it didn't stick. English more so. But, well, I'm an English teacher, so there's that.Learned Latin in University for teacher's trainer (it's a prerequisite to becoming a history teacher in Germany). I'm currently trying my hand at Turkish.
Holy smokes! Your English is amazing, but THREE other languages on top of it?!!! I'm so impressed! 💖💖 And snap! I'm a teacher too! Mostly art, but I've been drafted in to teach English too some years because I wrote an art textbook in the past. I'm not so confident teaching it because it isn't my main subject, but I do love it. And now you mention Brienne of Tarth... I'll NEVER get past the miserable ending she was given in GOT. 😡 I couldn't even bring myself to watch the last episode of that series when I heard what happened.
Well, thanks! I'm pretty bilingual by now - although when it comes to the written word, I'm much more expressive in English now than my own mother tongue. *gasp* Ooooh! So nice to meet a fellow teacher! And I can totally feel ya with the uncomfortable feeling of having to teach subjects I wasn't trained to teach in. I studied English and History for Secondary Schools, i.e. high schools or grammar schools. But after I finished my teacher training, I got a good offer from an elementary school in my district and so I now teach students aged 6 - 12 rather than 13 - 19 year olds. Also, besides English and History, I also teach Geography, Political Science, German and Maths. Oh, and because one of my colleagues had to drop out on short notice, I also had to teach Art for half a year. Lemme tell you, not my favourite. Ah, regarding Brienne. You know, I'm not a hyper-theorist, but ... somehow I see some similarity between Brienne and Rey / Jamie and Ben in how their stories ended. You know, pitted against each other but reluctantly learned to feel for each other, a shot at redemption, a fake happy-end that ended not very happily and our heroine ends up alone. I feel like D&D and JJ Abrams exchanged some notes there ... *sips tea contemplatively*
OMG!! So many subjects!!! I would definitely struggle, particularly with Maths and Political Science! I've had to teach CSPE (politics and social stuff) in the past and I was completely lost! I haven't watched the news in years so I scarcely know anything about what's going on in the world (apart from the odd thing I see on Twitter). There's a saying 'no news is good news' but I'm afraid I take that very literally indeed! 😅🙈 Quick question, because I've always been curious - do you think in English when you're writing or do you think in German and then translate it in your head?? I'm very far from bilingual in any other language (I've learned 3 others) so I've always been intrigued by that!
I have to say I do agree about the Brienne/Jaime and Reylo parallels, and I'm even willing to get on board with the idea of the directors exchanging notes😅🤭. I'm more invested in Reylo (obviously) but I did love the Brienne/Jaime enemies to lovers vibe. At least Briennne got to boink Jaime, but in a way I think it was an even worse ending for her. At least Ben didn't want to leave Rey to be with... I don't know, General Pryde or someone at the end!! Jaime's defection was such a betrayal, not just to Brienne, but his entire character arc as a whole. It was just plain cruel and very shoddily written. Grrr.....
To be honest, I struggled with German a lot more than with Maths or Politics, but in Germany, when you train to be teacher now, you're expected to be able to teach interdisciplinarily - for example, as I am teaching Maths and we have decimal fractions, I like to combine that with some physical activity, like running a race and taking everybody's time ... and that, in turn, can be used in the next math lesson. So, that's why it's not so much of a big deal. But German? Grading all those essays / papers? I might not be very expressive in my mother tongue anymore, but I am still a Grammar Nazi and, boy, does it get a rise out of me when I see people refusing to use a fucking comma properly! Regarding your question: I read / listen to the news every morning during my breakfast (i.e. my morning cigarette), so, yeah, no biggie.
Regarding your other question: I do think in English. More often than in German. Oftentimes I tend to forget German words and expressions. Also, I do code-switch / tag-switch a lot. Often I start a sentence in German, only to realise in the middle that I cannot really finish it in German, as I might have used German words but unconsciously I was using English sentence structure. My students got used to it by now. They think it's fascinating. I think it's annoying. So, no, I don't translate anymore. I think in English most of the time, and when I need to express myself in German, I think in German - if I can.
Hm. *strokes chin intellectually* I can sort of understand Jaime's character ... arc? Full circle? Roller-coaster? I think if the writers had taken more time with the last 2 seasons, we could have given more time and space to understand his reasoning. Maybe Bran could have contributed more to the story than exposition dump and would have given Jaime the character-driven nudge he needed to think that he would never be a good person? In the show, I just don't why he got that idea, so it would have been nice to see it given like that.
Oh, dear, I'm so over "redemption = death of the character". It's so ... simple. Clean-cut. Boring. There is a reason that Zuko from Avatar is such a brightly shining example of a villain redemption arc. The writers on that show must have really thought: "We're gonna give the audience a real villain. But then we're gonna show that he's actually a victim. He's gonna make shite decisions but you'll love him anyway. You'll root for him to redeem himself ... and your faith will be rewarded." After TLJ I was hoping for something along those lines ... but, alas!
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