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.
Please keep writing and gradually make it so leftist that it makes Andor seem conservative. Just lead the reader down a path that starts lib but makes such undeniable sense so that they're blasting The Internationale before they even realize they've become communist.
Lol this is my new inspiration, thank you
:fidel-salute-big: Looking forward to it!
edit: If I may, really try to drive home the fact that social murder is violence. That seems to be the missing piece that libs have a hard time wrapping their head around. If you can nail that, then revolution is an act of self-defense.
That's a great idea! I'll do my best to make sure I get that right
The Star Wars Cantina Band launches in to a jizz version fo Bella Chao then the bartender pulls out and uzi and starts blasting imperials.
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