“Force users, they’re so arrogant. They think this war is all about them.”
Rey and Kylo Ren – two halves of the same protagonist. But if they’re both right, then who is wrong?
What if the face of true evil wears an entirely different kind of mask? What if it’s something with impossibly deep roots – a corruption so insidious, it could hide itself in plain sight? What if it’s the very same military industrial complex needed to fight this war in the first place?
What if it’s simply… greed?
War is a Machine, internally combusting and turning itself over. Is balancing the Force enough to stop it?
Is saving what we love even enough?
Doesn’t mean they’re not going to try…
Rating and Tags: Fandom: Star Wars (Post TLJ) Canon Compliant Chapter Rating: GA, Teen & Up (eventual smut will be in a separate piece) Relationships Kylo Ren (Ben Solo) / Rey, Finn / Rose Tico Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Eventual Romance, Sexual Tension, Redeemed Ben Solo, Plot Driven, Adventure, Episode IX
“So it comes down to that, does it? That’s what this war is all about now. This is what we’re fighting for. Bank ledgers. Profit margins. And one stupid artifact.”
Would you like for me to tag you in future updates? I’m beyond thrilled to do so – just give me a holler and I’ll slap you on the list in a very sexy-yet-consensual sort of way!
There was absolutely no way his wife was stepping out of the turbo lift. No way she was walking slowly towards them, her saber in front of her, as the shocked crowd parted to let her through. There’s absolutely no way she’s reaching behind her back and grabbing the blaster he knows she keeps there, nor is she pointing it and shooting at the witch…
I’ve read the first three chapters of this, and I recommend this as a wonderful holiday Fick to get caught up in. The chapters are of a shorter length, which really helps my tired brain, and it’s very engaging and dialogue-driven. The Maine synopsis is on the first AO3 page. Rey and Ben are married and have two children. They are very much in love and the children are cute and precocious. However, Ray has a lingering sense of I have a really bad feeling about this!
The story is told from the present with flashbacks thrown in as to how Ray and Ben got together, which is an interesting style, but I like it. It gradually and veils more and more.
The other upside to this is that it is nearly complete, so you might want to download it. However, as an author myself, I would hope you would go back and leave some comments on the chapters. It could use some reblogging for a signal boost. Please give it a chance and if you like it, leave Kudos and a comment, even if it’s a short one. That really feeds the author when we do that.
So that is my next recommendation. I need to do a list! But those take me all day, so I think I am just going to reblog and recommend the stories I’m finding I like. This makes the cut! Subscribe and enjoy. And no, I don’t know this person.
This looks like something I would enjoy – reblogging to share the love before I get it added to my bookmark list!
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As a very special gift to the Reylo fandom, our e-book sampler featuring excerpts of all 50 pieces and their mystery moodboards is available for viewing and download here.
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of November 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
I’ll still be here, although I’ll probably try to post cross platform.
I don’t put out nsfw content, but I do enjoy it and, most importantly, my readers do.
This move is removing my readers from me and other struggling authors, even if nothing happens to me. This touches everyone. So I’ll do my best to try to make myself available to all of those I’ll lose.
As a T rated author, this hits really hard. It’s harder for us to gain readers, and I’ll lose, like, 90% of them. I don’t know what else to do. I sure hope people are vocal about where they’re going so I can stalk them shamelessly……..
This is just so heartbreaking. We’ve all worked SO HARD to build this community, and it’s something that’s really come to mean something to me – to us all.
And it’s getting flushed. For this. What a complete shame. Shame on you, @staff .
Anyhoo, I’d love to know where you all are headed, and I’ll post soon too, when I decide, if any are interested.
Lol… be funny if LiveJournal became a viable option again…
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
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