redrikki: Anakin and Padme about to kiss (Anakin & Padme)
[personal profile] redrikki2018-12-14 12:54 pm
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[sticky entry] Sticky: Welcome to StarWars_Meta

StarWars_Meta is your place for place for sharing and discussing your thoughts on a galaxy far, far away.

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1. StarWars_Meta is the place for meta analysis only. Post your meta directly or links to your meta published elsewhere. Do not post links to other people's meta without their permission.

2. Please use cuts for longer material, especially if it contains spoilers for anything released in the last three months. Warn for spoilers above the cut.

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5. Star Wars can be polarizing, but that's no reason to be a jerk. Be respectful. Right now, this community is unmoderated, but anyone using bigoted language or engaging in bullying or dog piling will receive two warnings before being booted from the community.


This community has a sister community StarWarsMeta over on pillowfort. 

March Meta Matters Challenge 2025

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The kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge is just 4 weeks away! As usual, the challenge involves identifying and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta. ExpandRead more... )

Feel free to ask questions about the challenge, locations, etc. at our announcement post and then look for our opening post on March 1!

March Meta Matters Challenge Returning Soon!



It's less than a month until the kickoff for this year's March Meta Matters Challenge! As usual, the challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta.

Check out our FAQ or ask questions about how to participate. Or just subscribe to [community profile] marchmetamatterschallenge and look for our opening post on March 1!

March Meta Matters Challenge Starts in 2 Weeks!

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The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. Join us in March to start archiving your work!

Participants will be locating past meta work and copying it over to a secondary location to ensure its preservation and improve its access. Everyone will work at their own pace and set their own goals for the month. Prompts for new meta will be offered and check in posts will encourage participants to keep going with their older work.

Visit the community for more information and join in on March 1!

The March Meta Matters Challenge Is Returning...



...for year 3! The [community profile] marchmetamatterschallenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history.

While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site and collection host.

This will be a month-long event kicking off on March 1 with bi-weekly check-ins. March Meta Matters will close on April 1.

Find out more about the challenge through our introduction or the FAQ. Feel free to leave questions on either post.

The March Meta Matters Challenge Reopens for Year 2

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Just a reminder to everyone who has ever created any meta that the [community profile] marchmetamatterschallenge community will be up and running again to help get you going (or started!) on archiving your meta works on AO3.

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them hard to find and particularly vulnerable to loss.

So what if we can make a small dent in getting it saved? The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved.

This is a month long event that kicks off on March 1. There are no signups and anyone can participate, whether here at Dreamwidth or elsewhere.

If you have any questions about MMM, look over how the challenge works, or visit our FAQ or leave a comment!

Also, if you enjoy meta? Check out the over 250 works archived in 2020.
redrikki: Anakin and Padme about to kiss (Anakin & Padme)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-07-21 11:58 am

Skywalkers Ruin Everything?

Earlier this week, I read a joke on tumblr about how the Skywalkers were responsible for everything wrong with the GFFA. But, are they? It's an easy assumption to make. They are the main characters of the trilogies, after all, but let us examine the evidence.

To the meta!

ljwrites: Finn from The Rise of Skywalker (finn_profile)
[personal profile] ljwrites2019-07-03 08:47 pm

Finn's style in The Rise of Skywalker and Its Significance

This may seem like a small detail, but I'm excited and emotional about the fact that Finn's hair is longer in TROS and he is otherwise developing his own distinctive style. It shows how he is growing out of the long shadow of the First Order's brainwashing and is becoming his own person, and implies that the Stormtrooper program itself--indeed, all attempts to turn humans into unthinking machines--is ultimately a failure. I find that to be a tremendously positive and life-affirming message.

Link to full meta
redrikki: Older Leia Organa (Leia Organa)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-06-30 11:34 am

Vice-Admiral Holdo and the Importance of Costuming

I recently came across this  Hollywood Reporter interview with the costume designer for The Last Jedi. Here's the bit I want to talk about:

One of the film’s most feminine looks was a draped, cape-back jersey gown worn by Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern). 

I thought when I read the script that Holdo would be wearing a uniform, so I did some uniform designs and showed them to Rian and he said, "Oh no, no, no, no. She’s flirting with Oscar Isaacs’ character, I don’t want her to be in a uniform, I want her to be unique and almost balletic." He said, "I’d like to see her body and her body language, and her silhouette, and have her be more feminine." So I started thinking about feminine balletic design, and something kind of Greek, which made me start thinking about jersey, and then I started thinking about Madame Gres. So that’s where that came from.
 

On to the meta


redrikki: Anakin and Padme about to kiss (Anakin & Padme)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-03-24 10:17 pm

Discussion Post: How Much Did The Average Jedi Know

I wonder to what extent the Order as a whole knew the Sith were back and that Dooku was one of them. Obviously The Council and Anakin knew by RotS, but did the average Jedi have a clue? Was Obi-Wan sworn to secrecy about who/what he and Qui-Gon had faced on Naboo?

Obviously the Jedi wouldn't want to spread it around to people outside the Order that Dooku was now a Sith. Despite leading the opposition, Mace was defending him as late as AotC and his bust had a place of honor as one of the Lost 20 in the Jedi Archives. Bad enough that the general public thought that the Order (and the head of the Order at that) had raised a traitor. They would never live it down if it got out that they had raised an evil wizard.

How would the knowledge that one of their own had gone so catastrophically Dark Side effect the Order? Especially considering that he was Master Yoda’s former padawan? Would it make them question their beliefs in Yoda and the system or just strengthen them? They had to know he was at least working with Dark Siders considering he had Ventress running around being evil on his behalf. They would have considered it their righteous duty to kill him just for being Dark, but for being a Sith?

Alright, gang, let's get this discussion started!
ljwrites: john boyega laughing (john_laugh)
[personal profile] ljwrites2019-03-17 07:10 pm

Kylo Ren: Mentally ill or just entitled?

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is often held up in fandom as an example of a mentally ill abuse survivor whose prospect redemption is said to be an inspiration and hope for fans who are mentally ill and/or have survived abuse. His bouts of rage seem to be a major basis for this assertion, with the reasoning being that no one would be that irrationally angry if they were sane/neurotypical. His uncontrolled temper, these fans say, must be a sign of trauma, or borderline personality disorder, or some other neurodivergence.

Or maybe it's a sign of a deeply entitled and abusive person?

Link to full text (CW abuse, trauma, Nazis, misogyny, suicide mention)
redrikki: Older Leia Organa (Leia Organa)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-02-24 12:21 pm

Democracy in the GFFA

Politicians in the Prequels-era Republic talked a good game about loving democracy, but did they? Did they really? Obviously Senate operates on democratic principles with the Senators proposing and voting on legislation, but just how democratic is the Galactic Republic at large? Not very.

Let's talk politics.
redrikki: Ahsoka Tano being badass (Ahsoka Tano)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-02-17 12:40 pm

Jedi & First Order Recruitment and the Effects of Child Separation

Thanks to Trump’s horrific and unconscionable policies of separating immigrant children from their parents, the public is learning a lot about the long-term effects of such practices on children. As it turns out, it’s really damaging both physically and psychologically. Within the world of Star Wars, there are two organizations, the Jedi Order and the First Order, which permanently separate children from their parents before the age of five. Let's talk about the implications of that, shall we?

Let's get to it
ljwrites: Finn and Rey's hug from TLJ (hug)
[personal profile] ljwrites2019-02-17 07:24 am

The Kabbalah in Finn's and Rey's stories

[tumblr.com profile] fuckyeahrebelfinn posted two meta posts about how Jewish mystical thought shaped and still may shape Finn's and Rey's journeys, which I am linking with permission.

The first post discusses how Finn embodies Gevurah (judgment, discernment, the power of "no") and Rey embodies Chesed (loving, patience, endurance), and how they move toward each other in the course of The Force Awakens.

The second post discusses the male and female aspects of the Divine. Finn represents Eyn Soph, the male aspect, that enters the tree of life at the top and in light while Rey represents Shekinah, the female aspect, that enters from the bottom in darkness. They move up and down the tree of life, closer to each other.

Star Wars Meta from a Kemetic Perspective

Here is a piece of meta I wrote in 2016, following S2E18 of Star Wars Rebels.

Star Wars and Ma'at - A Rant from a Kemetic Perspective

Warning: possible spoilers for SW Rebels S2E18, and potentially for lots of other things Star Wars.
Also, lots of political ranting, Karl Marx quotes, Sandro Pertini quotes, and me getting angry at some christian thinkers and stoic philosophers. Contains some occasional swearwords

An introduction to Kemetic concepts is provided, but feel free to message me if something is not clear or you want further information.

A Series of Meta on the Jedi

Meta on Jedi History, Organisation, and Culture:

Pros and Cons of the Jedi Order: Their Intent and Where They Lost Their Way
An analysis of the Jedi Orders doctrine, their hierarchy, their relationship with the Republic, and their relationship with the general populace to analyse what they did well in achieving that goal, and where they finally failed.

Nepotism in the Jedi Council

In my post Pros and Cons of the Jedi Order: Their Intent and Where They Lost Their Way, I discussed the problems that come with a Council that choose their own members with no external sway. Hence, I decided to look a little further into Council Members in TPM and identify the lineages therein. I noticed some very interesting things.

Let's Free the Slaves

The issue with the Jedi Order's handling of slavery on Tatooine, or in general, is not that they did not immediately rush to free everyone when they heard of it, but that they did not pursue the means to do so properly due to the interests of power, greed,, and the biased "greater good".

The Development of Jedi Schisms

How Jedi, or groups of Jedi, might interact with the Council. What was tolerated and what wasn't? How authoritarian were they?

The Duration of Human Jedi Apprenticeship

Just an observation of how odd it seemed to me that Obi-Wan was twenty-five in The Phantom Menace.

Flesh and the Force

Whether or not violent injury, and cybernetic replacements will truly impact your ability to touch the Force as has been suggested.

This Weapon is Your Life

An apologetic's perspective of Obi-Wan's oft-quoted "This weapon is your life." That phrase is actually pretty neat.

The Origin of the Jedi Recruitment of Young Children

A look at the history and mindset that might have lead to the Jedi insisting on taking children to the Temple so young.

This Attachment Foolishness

How the Jedi in the prequels held a warped view of "attachment." Did it really mean "no love"? Or does it just mean "letting go?" Is there a difference?

Titles for a Jedi Knight

Just some nit-picking about my pet peeve: What do you call a Jedi Knight?












sathari: OT!Ben with the Mustafar duel as background and the "betrayed and murdered your father" quote as caption (Anakin was betrayed)
[personal profile] sathari2019-02-10 09:27 pm

A Question of Allegiances: On the Jedi Order's Attachment to the Republic

I'm joining the party in sharing some of my thoughts on the Jedi Order and specifically its relationship to the Republic.

The TL;DR version is, "Everything that went wrong with the Jedi Order can IMO be encapsulated in Obi-wan's line at the end of ROTS: 'My allegiance is to the Republic---' as opposed to the Force."

Follow the fake cut!


redrikki: Clone troopers in formation (Clone troopers)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-02-10 12:42 pm

An Orderly Upbringing

According to the Disney tie-in material, the First Order's recruitment and training program was based on the Jedi recruitment and training program by its creator, Brendo Hux. There's a lot to unpack there, but let's start with the basics. How are the training programs of the Jedi Order and the First Order similar and how did they differ? What do those similarities and differences say about them as institutions?

Let's break it down

Anakin Skywalker's Character

A series of Meta Essays on Anakin Skywalker:

Anakin's Intelligence

An essay that explores how Anakin is not unintelligent, but rather is a victim who was taken advantage of from childhood.


Anakin Skywalker and C-PTSD

An examination of Anakin's mental and emotional state through the lens of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Anakin's Pendulum of Self-Worth

How Anakin's confidence is directly tired to how valuable he believes people find him.
 

Anakin's Training: Implications of a High Midichlorian Count

Speculation on what Anakin's training, childhood, and potential must have been like if he has a higher midichlorain count than Master Yoda. What does that even mean?


Mechu-Deru: Anakin's Relationship With Machines and the Force

Why Anakin might have liked tinkering with droids, and how the Jedi may have viewed it.


A Nurturing Environment?

An analysis of the apparent emotional abuse leveled on Anakin as demonstrated through the contrast of his behaviour in The Phantom Menace vs. Attack of the Clones.

A Nurturing Environment? II

How the theme of Anakin as a victim of emotional abuse is consistently portrayed throughout the prequel trilogy.


The Development of Fear

Why fear of loss, specifically of loved ones, has always been Anakin's worse fear over any other. This essay discussed how it might have developed in the midst of slavery.


Is Anakin Vain?

This post was inspired by a comment I heard someone make that Anakin is unaware that he is attractive. (Which was supposed to be doubly ridiculous when everyone raves about how hot he is.) So is Anakin aware of his looks and does it matter to him?

 


redrikki: Sabine Wren with the Darksaber (Sabine Wren)
[personal profile] redrikki2019-02-05 02:50 pm
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Get your meta on

Hey, Star Wars meta fans. It turns out there are actually two other active DW communities focusing on Star Wars meta and world building. If you need another source for your meta fix, check em out.

[community profile] sw_meta_prompts posts discussion prompts on everything from the Dark Side to GFFA medicine.
[community profile] starwarslegends primarily focuses on meta and world building in the old EU