queerer than we can suppose

Dear Sirs,

All is, provisionally, forgiven. ( spoilers )

Cordially,
Guin

Can we p l e a s e stop talking like poor little rootless Bo-Katan is being preyed on by these unscrupulous extremists and won't someone save her from the trap she's walking into? Bo-Katan is a MIDDLE AGED WOMAN who was a central figure in the movement these people SPLIT FROM and she is not a reliable narrator.

"Your cult fractured our people"? Lady, you were the one who co-led a Sith-backed coup and only had second thoughts when they literally murdered your sister in front of you, like it was always patently obvious they were going to do. You were the gung-ho hardline Mandalorian traditionalist all fired up about Warrior Virtue and the Ways Of Our Ancestors and thinly veiled human supremacy. You were the one who, as lately as last season, went out of her way to denigrate Boba Fett based not on his character, deeds or even family, but on the method of his conception. And Din's people are the divisive fruitloops? Pull the other one.

Now the community she repudiated for being too cringe or whatever is offering her sanctuary and solidarity despite her long history of throwing her allies under the bus, and they're the bad guys?

Yes, they're a highly-insular fringe religious group with weirdly intense modesty taboos. They're a cult, if you like, but they're not frickin' space Scientologists. The Armorer laid it out very clearly in the last episode: if you're willing to abide by our rules, you're welcome here; if you won't or can't, we part ways with no hard feelings. Din didn't bring Bo-Katan home to recruit her by exploiting her insecurities; he brought her because she did him a solid in the Mines and she needed somewhere to go.

And, again, she is a GROWN WOMAN with considerable political experience and acumen, who is more than capable of being sneaky and manipulative and ruthless herself. She is not a naive baby who'll do anything for a pat on the head. If she's becoming more accepting and less disdainful of these people, maybe that's because she's finally growing as a person and not because they're somehow indoctrinating her.

I am carrying on, as best I know how, in this fucking surreal world. How about you, three people actually reading this?

Things I made:

• a few 3 sentence ficlets
• use what you have (Cassian/Jyn drabble, T)
• for the drabble flash exchange: Backup System (Bodhi/Cassian/Jyn, G)
• for the Party In The GFFA exchange:
  • Forging (The Mandalorian, G, drabble)
  • For The Record (Rogue One, Cassian/Jyn, 675 words, T)

the latter being my actual assignment, even though I got defaulted because I missed the deadline because I apparently can't read, so I wrote it in like an hour and was pretty sure it sucked, but people have left very nice comments and I have mellowed on it.