I'm a big Star Wars fan. There's tons of anti imperialism and I love the visual aesthetic, but I always felt we should see the empire doing some actual imperialism, with actual atrocities and the effects of financial imperialism like america does today. I wanted to try my hand at world building so I began writing a story that I felt scratched that itch with a 21st century understanding of technology. So andor comes out and I'm three episodes in and it's exactly what I wanted from the franchise so far.

I hardly felt like my story was going anywhere in terms of publishing or anything. I'm not a great writer, my allegories aren't elegant, and I'm sure it's unintentionally full of liberalism. Plus, like I said, it's almost Star Wars fanfiction. But I'm enjoying writing it and I would like to try to publish it since it's kind of written for bazinga brained libs to try to get them to look this stuff in the face, but I fear it's just going to be called derivative or compared to Andor.

I don't know, I'm going to keep at it. Worst case scenario I'll post it online. This was mostly a vent about losing my inspiration in a way.

Edit: I should be clear, it is not set in the star wars cannon, I'm just worried about it being compared to star wars and losing my own ambition.

  • Phew [any, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    If it makes you feel better the takes I've been reading on :reddit-logo: is that the depiction of the empire in Andor is just like the soviet union.

    • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      There's so many dogwistles to fascism (by the bad guys) in that show I'm surprised they don't root for the empire

      • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Comicbookresources had an unironic article about how the ISB is good because of how cutthroat everyone is and you want your intelligence agency to be 'the best of the best' so you don't get space 9/11'd or whatever