Author: techiehux

cold iron, warm flame – technorat – Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]

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gaygalaxyguy:

My and @niibeth‘s kylux Big Bang fic is live! Very excited to share it 😀 Thank you @darthkylorevan for beta-ing!

Summary:

Every Fae’s boon comes with a price. Brendol sold his heir’s sight and sense of pain for beauty and talent with his hands. Curses, however, come free of charge. Armitage races across the kingdom, in search of his beloved brother’s true love, the only person who can break the sleeping sickness that falls across the land. The only problem? Prince Ben Solo is presumed dead and Armitage has no voice to use to scream.

Kylo Ren is a servant to Supreme Leader Snoke of the Fae Lands, one of his exalted knights. He is charged with the task of killing the sleeping Prince and bringing Snoke back his heart. He finds himself stealing away the heart of another man, a heart that he’d like to keep.

@kyluxbigbang

cold iron, warm flame – technorat – Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]

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kyluxtarotproject:

We are well on our way to a full compliment of artists for a Kylux tarot deck and nearing the optional card back submissions window! 

If you are interested in participating in this optional mini event, please download the card back template and info here. Only submissions meeting the design requirements will be accepted, and each artist is allowed to submit up to three designs to be voted on beginning January 19th. Submissions for the card back design event are due December 28th-Jan4th. 

The winner of the vote will have their design included in the final deck download.

Happy creating!!!

New Star Wars Movies: Ratio of Screen Time to Fanfictions

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darlingofdathomir:

icedaquarius31:

(Data collected at 11:32pm on 11/13/2018)

Okay, so I’m a huge ass dork. Which means I should be doing school work right now, and instead I’m doing this. So I’m tumbling through Tumblr (as you do) and I notice a huge amount of Armitage Hux stuff; makes sense he’s a cool person and super fun to mess with, and there is a ton of potential locked within his character, and we fandom nerds tend to capitalize on that. Anyway, so it got me interested, because to be honest we don’t have a ton of footage of the guy from the movies just a huge amount of fanart, fanfiction, and posts about him. 

Point is, what is the ratio of fan stuff to the actual amount of screen time that the new Star War characters have? Well, the answer was surprising. Unfortunately, I can’t use fan art or fan posts because they are too innumerable to count, but do you know what does have an easy sorting system and convenient number stats? Fanfiction!! Specifically, I used Ao3. People do tend to over tag, but it’s far more accurate than the tagging system on Fanfiction.net and I wanted to have a lot of data. I also used IMBD screen time for the breakdown. I have achieved the following results:

Out of a total of 80,325 fics under the Star Wars – All Media Types Tag; 

Coming in at the highest amount of character tags at 17,199 fics is Rey. In the movies, she has been in, she has a total amount of 1 hour, 15 minutes, and 15 seconds of screen time. Rounding down that’s 229 fics per minute of screen time. 

Now Kylo Ren was a little bit trickier because he actually has three damn tags; Kylo Ren, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, and Ben Solo. Doing a little bit of moving around with the tags, I discover that he has a total of around 28,126 fics with him mentioned as a character. In the movies, he has 34 minutes and 15 seconds of screen time. Rounding down once more that’s 827 fics per minute of screen time. 

(sneaky sorting system) 

Our lovable ex-stormtrooper Finn has 12,020 fics he’s tagged in as a character, and he has 49 minutes and 15 seconds of screen time. That’s 245 fics per minutes of screen time. 

Poe Dameron has 14,286 fics, and 21 minutes of screen time. Which makes for 680 fics per minute of screen time. 

All of this is all well and good, but I want really juicy numbers; give me something exciting. 

All right, so the aforementioned Armitage Hux is what started this little post, let’s see how much screen time he has… huh… he has a total of 8 minutes and 15 seconds across 2 movies. That’s pretty low. How many fics does he have? 

16,535 fics 

Doing the math, that’s 2,066 fics per minute of screen time. Ladies and gentlemen, we might just be insane. Where is all this attention coming from! He’s supposed to be an unlikable space nazi!!! 

*deep breath*

In comparison, Luke Skywalker has 10, 839 fics, but has 2 hours and 14 minutes of screen time. That’s roughly 80 fics per minute of screen time. I mean I know ao3 is a relatively newer site, but even taking in some data from fanfiction.net only adds 5,000 + fics (maybe) to the count. He’s supposed to be the main character of three movies. 

Anyway, the point of all this was to see where our hearts lie with the fictional characters that we adore. I think that it is pretty plain to see that for some reason we have decided Armitage Hux if too much fun to be relegated as a side character. 

Happy night posting. 

I ❤ my salty space ginger, I hope we get more of his sass in the next movie!!!

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drst:

kirabook:

Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:

As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.

Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that. 

Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult. 

If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there. 

If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably. 

We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more. 

Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations. 

Seriously be patient with Pillowfort. They’re undertaking something enormously complex on a tiny budget. Y’all come in demanding it work just like Tumblr immediately – especially if any of the whingers start in with the “well where is all that money going!?!” bullshit – and it won’t happen.