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Starkiller: Red Giant Breakdown
Apr. 18th, 2019 09:08 pmIntro: Alright, alright, alright! It’s Phasma time—and what a time that was. Nobody is really at their best here, except for Finn, who is absolutely still doing his best, just the same as he was in the first chapter. I’m very proud of him, he’s come a long way in the time he’s been with Black Sun.
As with last week, we’ll break this down into technical details, and story details, and see what we end up with. (At best, I have maybe two topics in mind when I sit down to write these entries, and I always write them immediately after I’ve finished the final pass of edits, so my filter is low, and my exhaustion is high, and I have absolutely been marinating in my own words.)
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So, that’s about it for this week! As always, if you have any questions or anything, feel free to comment here or on any other venues that you like. I hope you’re enjoying the piece so far—the last chapter is Mitaka POV, and it comes out next Thursday!
So, that’s about it for this week! As always, if you have any questions or anything, feel free to comment here or on any other venues that you like. I hope you’re enjoying the piece so far—the last chapter is Mitaka POV, and it comes out next Thursday!
Fic Update: Starkiller
Apr. 11th, 2019 06:33 pmStarkiller (6558 words) by ktula
Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Armitage Hux/Dopheld Mitaka
Characters: Finn (Star Wars), FN-2003 | Slip, FN-2000 | Zeroes, FN-2199 | Nines, Armitage Hux, Dopheld Mitaka, Phasma (Star Wars), Original Male Character(s), Bastian (Star Wars), Moden Canady, Snoke (Star Wars), Kaplan (Star Wars), Thanisson (Star Wars), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Hitaka - It's Casual and No One Is Happy, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Dance, Alternate Universe - Ballet, Financial Issues, New Beginnings, audition, The Grand Mythos of Armitage Hux, Questionable Fashion Choices, Casual/Consistent Use of Hard Drugs, BDSM - referenced, Sex Work - referenced, A Stunning Lack of Morality, isolation tactics, Phasma's Ring of Keys, Steadily Worsening Mental Health, Armitage Hux is Not Nice, Phasma Has No Empathy, Mitaka Trusts Too Much, Finn is Doing His Best, Unrequited Crush, Unlicensed Physiotherapy, excessive use of alcohol, Irresponsible Use of Prescription Drugs, Threats of blackmail, Smoking, Manipulation via Written Contract, Canon First Order Aesthetics
Series: Part 4 of Come As You Are
Summary:
Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Armitage Hux/Dopheld Mitaka
Characters: Finn (Star Wars), FN-2003 | Slip, FN-2000 | Zeroes, FN-2199 | Nines, Armitage Hux, Dopheld Mitaka, Phasma (Star Wars), Original Male Character(s), Bastian (Star Wars), Moden Canady, Snoke (Star Wars), Kaplan (Star Wars), Thanisson (Star Wars), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Hitaka - It's Casual and No One Is Happy, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Dance, Alternate Universe - Ballet, Financial Issues, New Beginnings, audition, The Grand Mythos of Armitage Hux, Questionable Fashion Choices, Casual/Consistent Use of Hard Drugs, BDSM - referenced, Sex Work - referenced, A Stunning Lack of Morality, isolation tactics, Phasma's Ring of Keys, Steadily Worsening Mental Health, Armitage Hux is Not Nice, Phasma Has No Empathy, Mitaka Trusts Too Much, Finn is Doing His Best, Unrequited Crush, Unlicensed Physiotherapy, excessive use of alcohol, Irresponsible Use of Prescription Drugs, Threats of blackmail, Smoking, Manipulation via Written Contract, Canon First Order Aesthetics
Series: Part 4 of Come As You Are
Summary:
Finn is looking for a new start—and this audition is going to be it.
Phasma is refining her exit strategy. After all, nothing lasts forever, and this opportunity is burning itself out faster and faster as the days go by.
Mitaka is managing what he can, and gritting his teeth through the rest. It’ll be okay in the end.
And Armitage Hux?
Hux is consumed with bringing Starkiller to life on stage, but he’ll bring them all down with him if something doesn’t give…
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Black Sun is hiring dancers between the ages of eighteen and twenty four for the debut performance of Starkiller, set to premiere later this year. Black Sun is a contemporary dance company based on the technique, rigour, and aesthetics of classical ballet, and focused on producing works that are expressive and demanding, with a distinct personality…
Starkiller: Fusion Breakdown
Apr. 11th, 2019 06:09 pmIntro:
Well, here we are again. Back for another series of blog posts/director’s notes/however you’d like to phrase this, and also back in the Come As You Are au, which is the site of my very first longfic! It’s possible this is the first piece in the AU you’ve read, and if so, that’s totally cool—the pieces are meant to be stand-alone, so you can start wherever, and then read whatever you like. Come As You Are is my most self-indulgent kylux fic—it’s a dance/ballet/burlesque/BDSM/sex work fusion, that deals rather intensely with themes of mental illness, recovery arcs, overcoming trauma, and being an authentic person/pursuing acceptance and all that fun kind of stuff.
I’ve refined my tagging strategy since writing Foxtrot in the first place, so you’ll note a bunch of tags on the piece that are applicable to the piece as a whole, but specific chapter warnings will always be at the bottom of the chapter notes. As always, if you have concerns or questions or comments or anything, you can reach out to me here, on Twitter, on Curious Cat, or anything of the like, and I will give you more information, redact triggers if I can*, and all that type of thing.
*(I know that sounds bizarrely vague—but let me put it this way, I can give you a version of Foxtrot with the lead-up to some specific off-screen self-destructive behaviour that Ben is involved in redacted out, because that’s a specific event in the story. I cannot give you a version of Foxtrot in which Ben does not have mental health issues, because that is the story.)
I generally use these behind-the-scenes entries to both deconstruct the things that happened in the chapter that was just posted, as well as talk about themes for the work, why I made the choices I made, include Easter eggs that couldn’t make it into the text, talk about some trivia, all that kind of stuff. If you have any questions about any of this stuff, feel free to reach out, and I can elaborate on my thought process. For Dollars to Donuts, I broke the blog entries down into technical considerations, and story considerations—and I’m going to do that here too, because I like the format.
With all that wanking aside, on with the show!
Chapter Intro:
So, that's about all for the first chapter here! The second chapter will be up next week, and, as always, I'm always happy to chat about the piece, or hear what you have to say about it.
