FINALLY receiving some validation for my Catholic Boba Fett headcanon !
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who wrote the book.
Daniel Keys Moran, it’s from a collection of stories called “Tales of the Bounty Hunters”
I am SO happy with Catholic Boba. I am SO pleased that Boba Fett is a PAPAL LOYALIST. Thank GOD (And the Pope) For this.
Okay, but can we just appreciate the fact that this scene is Boba being handed Leia in her slave outfit to rape as a gift from Jabba the Hutt, and Boba’s response is not only to refuse touching her but handing her a sheet to cover herself and even offering that she can sleep on the bed while he sits in a chair across the room?
Boba tells Leia, “Sex between those not married is immoral,” which is a Mandalorian cultural thing
because children are everything to Mandos and sex which might result in
pregnancy is a big no-no unless both parents are ready and willing to
raise that child; marriage to Mandalorians is two people making a mutual promise to help each other, particularly helping each other raise any children they might conceive or adopt (adoption happens a lot in the heat of the moment, apparently; it canonically appears to be a bigger risk than unplanned pregnancy – “whoops, honey, I accidentally adopted this kid I found on the battlefield” “oh. well. we knew that might happen having unprotected combat and all”).
It just says a lot about Boba, and Mandalorians in general, that they’re big buff armoured warrior types who apparently canonically have a very strong cultural bias for responsible sex. I mean, how many times do we see the fantasy/sci-fi warrior soldier stereotype = rape, or at the very least coercive sex, in pop culture? In so many movies and comics and novels, the female heroine/hero’s woman is captured by bad guys and offered as a “gift” to some big hunk of a warrior/gladiator/what have you who either does whatever he wants with her (explicitly on screen or implied off-screen by her ruined makeup and torn dress) to further the hero’s rescue-and/or-revenge-journey or maybe seduces her with his ~manliness~ and huge muscles/weapons even while there’s still that element of power imbalance as she surrenders helplessly to the ~instinctive urge~ to mate with the alpha male. Sex, or they-were-going-to-but-last-minute-interruption/rescue, is the inevitable outcome of a sci-fi/fantasy woman in a gold bikini being shoved into a soldier/warrior/gladiator dude’s quarters/cave/den/hovel.
And Leia is genre savvy and knows this. She fully expects Boba to rape her, and says as much. But his response to her threatening to kill him or kill herself if he touches her is just “woah there, lady, have we entered a culturally binding contract to conceive and raise children? no, we have not. so don’t flatter yourself thinking I’ll get my gametes anywhere near your uterus, thank you very much!” And Leia is a bit offended and wrong-footed, telling him “um, rape is immoral too, y’know,” but Boba just dismisses it all, “well, yes, rape is bad, but like it’s so far off the table here that it’s basically a non sequitur, why would I rape you when I don’t even want to have consensual sex with you, come on.”
I just love the fact that in Mando culture, consensual sex is EVERYTHING, it’s even CONTRACTUALISED. You know how all those MRA anti-feminists are all up in arms about movements like #MeToo and whining about how totally unreasonable it is to expect everyone involved to consent to sex, what, do femi-nazis want everyone to fill out consent forms before sex haha how ridiculous – and then we have Mandalorians, the most alpha of alpha people of all genders, all fake nerd boy incels’ epitome of badassness, literally contractualising consent. Boba Fett, pop-cult bad guy extraordinaire, not only refusing to rape Leia in her slave costume (unlike every single incel in the world who has masturbated to that scene of her on her knees in chains) but being genuinely offended at the thought of having sex with someone without pledging himself fully to her safety and welfare.
This short story was the moment I fell in love with the EU’s Boba Fett and Mandalorians in general. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
This is amazing, I had no idea of the context! Thank you for writing this!
One of the hardest parts about writing Star Wars fanfic (which is true of any story set against a massive stage) is working around travel times. SWTOR never really addresses the fact that it takes about 9 days to get from Tatooine to Alderaan (according to one source I have; 5 days according to another; 6-7 according to a third and oh my god could I just find consistent resources somewhere?!?), you just hop on your spaceship, hit the galaxy map and zoom, there you are and no one says anything like “Wow, took you long enough!” or “Gosh, you sure made good time!” So having an idea for something that occurs in Wild Space and would logically progress to Dromund Kaas means people are sitting on their heels for a loooong time while shit is going down.
Chapters: 54/? Fandom: Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Vector Hyllus/Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Theron Shan, Vector Hyllus/Theron Shan, Theron Shan/Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Vector Hyllus, Felix Iresso/Jedi Consular | Barsen’thor, Malavai Quinn/Female Sith Warrior Characters: Theron Shan, Vector Hyllus, Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Bounty Hunter (Star Wars), Lana Beniko, Male Smuggler (Star Wars), T7-O1, Female Jedi Consular | Barsen’thor, Qyzen Fess, Felix Iresso, Male Jedi Knight | Hero of Tython, The Outlander (Star Wars), Kaliyo Djannis, Koth Vortena, Senya Tirall, Malavai Quinn, Female Sith Warrior, Male Sith Warrior Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Polyamory, Mutually Supportive Partnerships, Past Torture, Shameless Smut, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Strong Language, Whump, Rape Recovery, Rape/Non-con Elements, Aftermath of Torture, Polyamory Negotiations Series: Part 3 of Fire Meet Detonite Summary:
The ongoing relationship between Republic SIS agent Theron Shan, Imperial Intelligence agent Miranza Gerrick and Joiner Vector Hyllus, set against the backdrop of Knights of the Fallen Empire/Knights of the Eternal Throne.
Chapters: 54/? Fandom: Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Vector Hyllus/Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Theron Shan, Vector Hyllus/Theron Shan, Theron Shan/Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Vector Hyllus, Felix Iresso/Jedi Consular | Barsen’thor, Malavai Quinn/Female Sith Warrior Characters: Theron Shan, Vector Hyllus, Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine, Bounty Hunter (Star Wars), Lana Beniko, Male Smuggler (Star Wars), T7-O1, Female Jedi Consular | Barsen’thor, Qyzen Fess, Felix Iresso, Male Jedi Knight | Hero of Tython, The Outlander (Star Wars), Kaliyo Djannis, Koth Vortena, Senya Tirall, Malavai Quinn, Female Sith Warrior, Male Sith Warrior Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Polyamory, Mutually Supportive Partnerships, Past Torture, Shameless Smut, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Strong Language, Whump, Rape Recovery, Rape/Non-con Elements, Aftermath of Torture, Polyamory Negotiations Series: Part 3 of Fire Meet Detonite Summary:
The ongoing relationship between Republic SIS agent Theron Shan, Imperial Intelligence agent Miranza Gerrick and Joiner Vector Hyllus, set against the backdrop of Knights of the Fallen Empire/Knights of the Eternal Throne.
write about 5000 words of porn or more – 3000 or more also acceptable, but you don’t really want to go under that. don’t tab to indent, i swear to god, it fucks with amazon’s formatting so bad. don’t write any porn that’d send you to jail IRL, amazon naturally (and thank god) doesn’t accept that shit.
on the ‘bookshelf’ tab, you click ‘add new title’, fill out everything, upload a cover – you can get one free image a month (or maybe a week now, i dunno) from bigstock.com if you need some stock images of people’s abs and stuff but can’t put cash down for anything just yet – and amazon has a cover making application built right into the process too to make things easier or if you don’t know shit about photoshop or whatever.
then you upload the document itself. click save and continue. choose how much you want your title to cost – 2.99 is generally what most people price theirs at, because that’s where amazon’s 70 percent royalties starts at. enroll in kindle select if you want that 70 percent royalties to apply to the whole world, so you’re getting the same royalties no matter where you sell.
then you hit publish and wait and wait and wait and wait for amazon to actually publish the fucking thing.
then you wait 60 days after the end of the month to get your royalties! don’t know why, but that’s how amazon rolls.
and you just keep making more and more titles in the meanwhile to build up that income cuz you’re not likely to make a lot from just one title.
there’s no real ‘gatekeepers’ in kindle erotica – you just start writing and publishing and you keep doing it and building up a library. some genres/kinks/niches sell better than others, and trends come and go, but it’s really all up to you – to do the writing, the publishing, the marketing, and then more writing and publishing. you just keep at it, bit by bit. this is a market where it’s really all about quantity… the bigger your library is, the more sales you’ll start to rack up, building like a snowball. even better if you release titles on like a regular schedule. ideally you want to put up like 2 titles a week, but 1 a week is a good initial goal to shoot for.
you can also go to amazon’s author central to set up an author page to get all your titles in one place and help build a reader base/link readers and buyers in general to.
godspeed anon!
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… I am seriously considering this. And also considering getting a proper pen name
Okay literally I’m reblogging this for the erotica how-to but also this is how Amazon self-pub works no matter what you write, like subject-wise, this is it for everything. OFC it doesn’t cover stuff like editing, cover art, marketing or pre-orders (Amazon used to have a pretty brutal pre-order deadline system, but they seem to be relaxing it after the last update? I can’t tell for absolute sure?), but in a bare-bones nutshell, yes, this is universal, and good information.
(I haven’t done Amazon Select because I like to get my stuff in with other sellers like Barnes and Noble/iBooks/Kobo – bc some people don’t buy from Amazon, and Select means you can’t sell anywhere but Amazon, in exchange for some extra promotional tools. If you want to do this, I suggest looking into the distributor ‘Draft2Digital,’ it’s a very easy all-in-one free service. Smashwords is also an indie standard, but more difficult to work with; I feel Ways about Smashwords.)
But yes, if you just want to do Amazon self-pub, this is a very good basic start.
So just a heads up for anyone who may not be familiar with taxes!
Amazon pays you as an independent contractor/self-employed, which means a couple of things. First, it means that the income you receive from Amazon will not be taxed! You’ll receive the full amount of whatever you earn from your sales, instead of the chopped up paycheck most employees are used to seeing.
This does not mean you don’t owe taxes! Sometime in January following the year you earn money from them, Amazon will send you a 1099-misc form listing the total amount of income you received in the previous year. If you use TurboTax/etc, it will walk you through how to input that, so don’t worry about that!
Here’s the stuff to note: If you makes less than $600 during the year, Amazon is not required to send you a 1099, but you are still supposed to report the income. The chance of you being audited for owing the IRS less than $100 is probably slim (it is barely worth what it costs to audit someone), but please take note and report the income as needed!
And the biggest thing!!!! Because your income is not being taxed upfront, it means you will OWE taxes come the following year!!! Self-employment tax is 15.3% (which you will notice is MUCH LOWER than what gets taken out of your employee/W2-based paycheck), so you will owe AT LEAST that the following year (more if you make TONS of money). Now if you are working as an employee, there’s a good chance that any money you owe will be cancelled out by whatever extra money the government took from your employee paycheck during the year.
BUT. If you earn a significant amount of self-employment income, or self-employment is your ONLY form of income, you will owe the government money in April!
The smartest thing to do when you earn any sort of self-employment income is to put 20% of that paycheck into a separate savings accounts. Just put it there and leave it there. If you can get a savings account with good interest, even better, but not necessary! That way when your taxes come due in April of the following year, you aren’t scrambling for money to pay them; the money will be sitting right there in your savings account!
Also, being self-employed allows you to report deductions for stuff, so you might want to look into that too, because it’ll save you money. After you pay your taxes, any money left in the account is yours to do whatever you want with!
source: I’ve been filing a 1099 as my sole source of income for about 4 years now (about to be 5)
My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.
A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness – they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)
Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.
Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.
Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.
But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.
Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.
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