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.

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Andor will always be held back by being shackled to the shambling Disneyfied monstrosity that is the entire rest of the Star Wars canon

    You don't have to worry about that. You're free. You can make something much more meaningful and politically coherent while still drawing upon the themes and tone that you enjoyed from Andor. And besides, a piece of media having a similar vibe to another isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially when it's one that actually doesn't have a lot of others like it like Andor. I'm sure there's plenty of people out there enjoying it and being like 'god I want this but More'.