Text displays "The Star Wars Holiday Special." Voiceover: "The Star Wars Holiday special!" Thank you, that was helpful. Good start.
Chewbacca's dad carves mini X-wings for his grandwookiee :)
The external view of the treehouses, establishing that they're actually high up in the trees, looks like it's literally just concept art.
There's an oboe remix of the Force theme just idly playing in the background while the Wookiees are talking.
Grandpa plays a hologram for the kid, I'm assuming this is the in-universe equivalent of The Nutcracker or something. Like, it's almost Life Day, so we watch the traditional ballet.
Luke and R2 Skype with the Wookiees.
Nervous trader trying to make small talk with the Imperial officer, babbling about the allure of his mini-aquarium. Officer (curtly): "I hate fish."
Trader continues talking about all the things this super-toothbrush cleaning device can do, finishes with "I use it regularly." Officer (looking him up and down, skeptical): "Really." Points for deadpan-ness.
Cooking show lady has surprise extra limbs so it's easy to prepare the recipe.
These (music video) special effects were probably good for 1978.
"Friend of the rebellion and of the alliance" pretty bold to identify himself like that on screen, but I guess maybe they all know who Leia is.
What's the officer's porn fantasy going to be? (Apparently, a rock concert. Or maybe that was just Malla's gift.)
The little kid is watching an animation about the rebellion on his TV. Is this an in-universe fictional work? Are the rebellion that famous? What is this.
Is this Ackbar with Leia?
Boba: "We'll meet again, 'friend.'" *jet-packs into space without even trying to capture them*. Lol.
Maybe they're just showing off their 1978 special effects again.
"You only said six words" *counts on the six fingers of his glove*
The bartender shares Boba Fett's overuse of "friend."
Hahahahaha the kid is using his hacker machine to tell them to return to base.
The Life Day celebration consists of holding snowglobes for some kind of candlelight ritual.
"R2 and I wish we were more than just mechanical beings and we could share our feelings with you." Oh no, robots are valid and have complex emotions just as they are!
I'm assuming that Life Day is some kind of old Wookiee tradition that's become more a symbol of freedom/hope/peace under the Empire.
--
And that was...stupid, yes. But more so in a "wow, those 1978 special effects" way than "retroactively ruined Star Wars" way. I mean, this decade has Matt the Radar Technician and Palpatine's return appearing in Fortnite, that's a pretty low bar to clear.
Warder thoughts
Jan. 17th, 2021 01:35 pm( spoilers ) Edit: I just asked Reddit for their opinions. I may regret this.
The power to destroy a planet...
Jul. 29th, 2020 10:26 pmVader: Tell me what you did with the Death Star plans.
Leia: Never, you'll have to kill me first.
Imperial mooks: Sir, we've searched the whole ship and the computers, we found no trace of the plans.
Vader: this ship is the only one to have made contact with the Scarif fleet who I killed, I know they're here.
Mooks: Well, they did send an escape pod down to the planet.
Vader: What planet?
Mooks: We're in orbit above Tatooine, sir.
Vader: ...Get me Tarkin.
Tarkin (on the phone): What now.
Vader: I found a planet for you to test the full-powered planet-killer on.
Tarkin: yessssssssssss.
Directed by George Lucas.
Fic: Changelings/Writing Rainbow
Mar. 6th, 2020 07:07 pmFor the flash exchange:
Red Letter News (695 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad/Mertil-Iscar-Elmand
Characters: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
Additional Tags: Advice Columns, Character Writes Advice Column Despite Being Ludicrously Unqualified To Dispense Advice
Summary: The anonymous aristh can't tell you his name. Or where he lives. But he can tell you how to live your life.
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I used that exact same freeform when it was nominated in Galavant, no regrets at being slightly identifiable. (It's a good tag.)
Mark As Red (354 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Lando Calrissian
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Cassian Andor, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Chatting & Messaging, Cast Has Groupchat For Complimenting Each Other's Attractiveness in Increasingly Aggressive Ways, Post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Extra Treat
Summary: Even my autocorrect doesn't think ur dustball is a real planet lol
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Okay, so Cassian survives Rogue One, and then Leia adopts him into the Falcon's groupchat because, uh, he needs a social life. I don't know. Then ESB happens.
The Guide (7013 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Characters: Baze Malbus, Chirrut Îmwe, Wicket (Star Wars), Yoda (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Book 13: The Change, Animorphs-typical speciesism, Animorphs-typical weirdness about disability, Ensemble Cast
Series: Part 3 of Changelings
Summary: With his health fading and his shorm annoyingly faithful to the Force, the last thing Baze needs is to be saddled with a pair of fugitive Hork-Bajir. The galaxy, or at least Yoda, has a weird sense of humor.
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As with my Les Mis/Animorphs crossover, the characters aren't completely one-to-one. Like, Leia is kind of Jake, but she's also a little Rachel at times. Both Han and Lando take on the Marco role. Etc.
Baze/Chirrut aren't identically Gafinilan/Mertil, but they're pretty darn close--in particular, I've co-opted the latter's disability/stigmatized statuses, rather than Chirrut's blindness.
I kind of understand why book 40 had to end how it did from the perspective of "you can't disturb the status quo;" if you suddenly introduce two new Andalites who survived the Dome Ship and have never been heard from until now, they can't actually join the long-term fight. But from an in-universe perspective, the taboos around the morphing technology don't make a lot of sense--we see in book 8 that Andalites are shocked by the scale of human technology progression. The Escafil device shouldn't have even been around long enough to have taboos!
(Of course, with that kind of slow-timeframe in mind, the real tragedy of the series is that morphing technology it came just a blink after Seerow's Kindness, albeit precipitated by the war. If Seerow had just shown up with an Escafil device we could have saved a whole lot of trouble.)
Anyway, that's why I had Baze monologue to Lando in the previous installment about where his aversions might have come from, and why I took the route I did here. (Which is also kind of paralleled with Mertil's "come onnnnn" attitude in the flash fic.)
Past Imperfect (and more flashiness)
Feb. 14th, 2020 06:15 pmFandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Colin Templer, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Time Travel for Historical Research, One-Sided Attraction
Summary: Colin has an admirer. A not-very-secret one.
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Shakespeare crushes on Colin. That's it.
Stranger Times (1396 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Refugees from Multiple Doomed Dimensions Flee to the Same Sheltered Timeline
Summary:
El made it almost two weeks through the third timeline before the demodogs showed up.
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This isn't strictly time travel so much as "parallel universes gone wrong," but close enough. My recip had a lot of cool prompts for who El might run into so I tried to combine some of those.
Yellow, or, Your Skin and (Undead) Bones (430 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Poe Dameron, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Sort Of, Crack Treated Seriously
Summary:
Luke Skywalker has reappeared.
Almost everyone is happy about this.
--Don't think I ever crossposted this one, it's some post-TLJ crack.
Unconventional Fanworks Exchange
Oct. 31st, 2019 08:15 pmAlso me: but these format prompts though
Private Bookmarks for User TonyGwynn19
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: In-Universe RPF, Documentation
Summary:
San Diego Padres RPF is the next big thing in the fanfiction world.
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My recip prompted "what would be the most popular ship? ...it's Mike/Livan, isn't it." And I was like "yep, it sure would be."
Blame It On My Juice(d Balls) (387 words)
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:
#InspectTheBall2K19, and other hashtags
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If Ginny was still pitching in 2019 she'd absolutely be angry about the home run totals and sense a conspiracy theory.
The Force of Others (856 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lor San Tekka
Additional Tags: reddit, Documentation, Extra Treat
Summary: My name is Lor San Tekka, ask me anything!
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Lor does an AMA, pre-The Force Awakens.
In Praise of Poland (1878 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Ship Manifesto, Format: Meta, Extra Treat, Embedded Images
Summary:
An exploration of the Star Wars ship Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron.
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Guardian of the Wills (702 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Mon Mothma, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Wills, Extra Treat
Summary: Cassian and K-2 left an intangible legacy behind. They also left a literal one.
--
One of those silly and usually morbid "lateral thinking puzzles" is like "A woman killed her husband, the authorities knew about it, but they never did anything. Why?" And the convoluted answer is "they both had children from previous relationships and both hated their stepkids. Then they were in a fatal car accident together. By making sure he died ever so slightly 'before' her, she inherited all his money, and then passed all of hers and his down to her own kids." Which might not actually happen IRL but that's how these puzzles are. And then I was like "...would anyone have even known what order Rogue One died in??"
I was on the fence about making an entire fic out of this idea but then I came up with the title and I figured I had to do it.
Wikipedia: Guidelines for Covering Extraterrestrial Topics (1501 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: wikipedia - Freeform, Documentation, Post-Canon, Extra Treat
Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free intergalactic encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia editors arguing over notability guidelines and capitalization standards after the Animorphs' history gets revealed.
Admiral Ackbar Memorial Water Fund
Oct. 15th, 2019 06:26 pmFlash fic - Star Wars
Oct. 14th, 2019 08:06 amFandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker
Additional Tags: Force Ghost(s), Force Visions, That's Not How The Force Works, That's Not How Time Travel Works Either, Grumpy Old Men
Summary: The Force transports Obi-Wan to a remote world called Ahch-To. He's not the only hermit there.
Tags are fun.
The Orange Crystal (1680 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Galen Erso/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Galen Erso
Additional Tags: Soul Stone, Self-Sacrifice Scheme, Crossover by Osmosis, Extra Treat
Summary: Galen is an engineer, meticulously plotting every stroke of his plan. Bodhi is caught in his gravity.
I've never actually seen MCU (actually I've seen one installment, but not a relevant one). I am, however, a sucker for a good convenient plot-induced sacrifice.
I was also amused that these inadvertently came out so close in word count. (I might even have a bonus fic in the same vicinity.)
A post that isn't about flash exchanges
Aug. 26th, 2019 06:25 pmOne way you can find this out is go to their Ao3 tag, and then pop open the "relationships" filter--that will give you a top 10. But it's possible that some of those are B/C, or A&D, so you can try exclude, exclude, exclude, and iterate until you get only A/B or A/B/C. Even then the relative order might be imprecise because some of the A/B fics will also be tagged with A&D, so they'd get excluded, but at least this gives you a more complete list. (You can also go to Character A's tag page without the "works" selection, which will pop up every single A/B, A/Z, A/B/C/Q that have been wrangled but then you have to individually click on those to get counts.)
Anyway, for Lando Calrissian, the top 10 is something like:
-Han
-Luke
-L3
-Leia
-Poe
-Bodhi
-Leia/Han
-Wedge Antilles
-Leia/Luke
-Boba Fett
and I'm not sure whether to be more surprised that my tiny pool noodle is at #5, or that L3 is so low in overall terms.
I mean, in part Solo was just...not a good movie, but L3 won a place in my heart despite that.
May the 4th 2019
May. 11th, 2019 10:48 amFandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks
Summary: Lando wears as many layers as ever. Some of his old uniforms and capes no longer fit, but the same bright colors are always in fashion, stark blues and resplendent yellows. There is always more than enough to cover up the text on his wrist.
Aristocrats in Foxholes (1288 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bail Organa/Breha Organa
Characters: Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Han Solo
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alderaan lives, Secret Test of Character, MayThe4th Treat
Summary: Bail and Breha live to see the destruction of the Death Star--and their daughter's unusual choice of companions.
Lullaby (1432 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: discussion of suicide, Interspecies Awkwardness, Trust Goes Both Ways, MayThe4th Treat
Summary: There are a lot of contingencies Cassian has prepared for, but K-2 can still catch him off-guard.
The General's New Planet (7395 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Poe Dameron/Armitage Hux
Characters: Poe Dameron, Armitage Hux, Finn (Star Wars), Kylo Ren
Additional Tags: MayThe4th Treat, Crack Treated Seriously, Tauntauns, Fusion, Alternate Universe - The Emperor's New Groove
Summary: Infiltrate a secret First Order base, destroy their plans, save the galaxy, find true love. All in a day's work for Poe Dameron.
He just hadn't figured on the tauntauns.
--I haven't consumed any of the secondary canon featuring Kes Dameron so I'm wary of making him too prominent a character at the risk of getting him OOC. But he popped up for cameos in both of my Poe fics. :)
Apparently the Rogue One visual dictionary mentions that Cassian and the other agents carry suicide "lullaby" pills in their uniforms and there is not enough fic for my angst-loving self??
My recip also prompted Disney fusions and Emperor's New Groove is one of my favorites, so I gave it a try. I figured it would either be very funny or ripped to shreds, thankfully it's been received well (so far). I guess shred-rippers aren't into Poe/Hux anyway (which was a surprisingly large ship, over 400 works on Ao3! Though apparently a lot of those are multi-ships, it's still eligible for the "rare male slash" exchange which is starting up.)
Past Imperfect reveals
Feb. 9th, 2019 04:54 pmThe Manipulation (3210 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rachel (Animorphs), Marco (Animorphs)
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Non-Time Traveller POV, Iskoort
Summary: All the Animorphs have secrets to keep. But Marco seems even more secretive than normal, and his secrets hold promise--or peril.
Grave Accents (1540 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mace Windu, Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Extra Treat
Summary:
In retrospect, Mace decided, it had mostly been Qui-Gon’s fault. He was measured enough not to blame the master for the entire state of affairs; after all, it was not Qui-Gon but chance or the will of the Force that had brought young Leia to Jedha.
--Post-canon Marco goes back to his younger self (and body) to diverge the Animorphs' future; young Leia accidentally goes back to the PT era and becomes Mace's Padawan.
I feel like a lot of time travel stories (including these!) can find themselves wanting to be epics, and explain every divergence and the ripple effects...and that's not the kind of story I can write as an exchange gift with a fixed timeframe. (Or possibly ever, given my energy levels. :p ) So it winds up being like just a few "snippets from this universe," which I hope doesn't leave with a "but it ended just when it was getting good! :(" feeling. If so, sorry!
(I have a few self-indulgent and poorly thought out headcanons from down the line of "Grave Accents," but no idea how to explain what happens in the immediate aftermath.)
Stars Keep the Watch
Dec. 29th, 2018 10:28 pmChapters: 16/16
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Ficlet Collection
Summary:
Ficlets for Star Wars Advent Calendar prompts.
---Basically what it says on the tin, mishmash of many characters and eras!
I'll be going out of town with my family soon, may check in, but in case I don't get to it for a while--assortment of Yuletide fics (and one non-Yuletide mystery one) should be revealed soon. Several new fandoms and styles for me. Stay tuned! :)
Star Wars Rare Pairs 2018: Reveals!
Dec. 8th, 2018 01:21 pmThe Noble Tale of the Force Tree (4866 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars), Enfys Nest
Additional Tags: Fusion, Alternate Universe - Arthurian Setting
Summary:
When the soldiers of the Rebel Alliance embark on a quest, Cassian called Andor grapples with moral dilemmas and daring marauders alike.
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Cassian/Enfys was the ship I came out of Rogue One wanting--child soldiers! Sad parallels!--and I'm glad I got a chance to write for it here! My recip suggested Arthurian settings as a general like so I riffed (very indirectly) on the tale of the Grail quest (Vagon, the name of one of the moons, is a castle in the Malory source). K-2 almost wound up taking over the fic, I had to work to get to the shippy part.
Where We Want To Care (2404 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest, K-2SO/L3-37
Characters: K-2SO (Star Wars), L3-37 (Star Wars), Enfys Nest, Cassian Andor
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Matchmaking
Summary: When Cassian is too busy with the Rebellion to admit his feelings, K-2SO takes matters into his own hands. Or tries to.
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Epistolary shenanigans with droids!
Maelstroms (3110 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Autistic Bodhi Rook
Summary: Surviving the Death Star (or two) is one challenge. Figuring out how to live in the galaxy is another.
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Bodhi character study and eventual Bodhi/Lando. I'm autistic so it was an interesting challenge to try to imagine some of Bodhi's canon traits in that light, while (hopefully) not being too issue-ficcy. I think I struck a balance?
Fortunate Harvest (3779 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rey (Star Wars)/Original Character(s)
Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Caretaker(s) (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Lanai - Freeform, Ahch-To, Alien Culture, Extra Treat
Summary:
Luke wasn't the only one Rey met on Ahch-To.
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Rey/OC Caretaker. Even though Luke isn't really "on-screen" in this fic it sort of turned into an outsider POV on him, and how the Lanai might see him, which also pushes back a little at some of the TLJ parts that didn't really appeal to me.
I didn't think it would be a good idea to go into it but I now headcanon the Lanai as speaking an "ergative-absolutative language" (like Basque) so their ideas about agency and taking action are a little off-kilter. ;)
Star Wars Rare Pairs 2018
Sep. 23rd, 2018 05:11 pmLando/L3
K-2/L3
Star Wars Rare Pair Letter 2017
Sep. 26th, 2017 10:38 pmStar Wars Rare Pairs Treat Run Prompts
Nov. 20th, 2016 06:07 pmI love the grand themes of Star Wars, with its sweeping scope of good and evil on galactic scale. And I love all these characters, who aren't completely committed to one single regime throughout their lives but who make choices that matter and through their lives, gradually or decisively, move in hopeful directions. I'd love to read about anything that brings out these themes, explicitly or implicitly. I chose single characters rather than preset relationships because I'd rather you have the freedom to make unexpected connections--set a story in an era we didn't see onscreen or bring in other characters if you'd like! (I'm not familiar with most secondary canon, though.)
General likes: happy endings, sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama), gen, friendship, enemy-ness. I'm also fine with total crack, so if you want to write something with a really nonstandard format (I've listed a couple examples before) go nuts.
General dislikes: ambiguous endings, issue-fic, explicit sex, rape/non-con.
Here are just a few suggestions for each character to get an idea for the range of plots I'd be interested in, really anything goes.
Anakin:
- Vader and his subordinates on the Death Star. Could be bureaucratic humor, or maybe he's impressed by Leia's unyielding under torture...sensing her potential?
- Force-ghost Anakin trains Rey in the ways of the Jedi
- Backstroke of the West-inspired silliness
- Any stage of the Anakin/Padme relationship would be great (no other romantic relationships for him, please)
Lando:
- How Han got the Millennium Falcon from Lando
- Vader first convinces Lando to set a trap at Cloud City
- 5 (or some other number) of responsibilities Lando conned people out of, and one he didn't
- Lando and Poe work together on a project for the struggling republic (gen or shippy)
Finn:
- JB-007 and Finn work on the same sanitation unit
- BB-8 helps Finn decode some First Order messages
- Finn and Rey's wedding night involves unceremoniously kicking Chewbacca out of the Millennium Falcon
- A William Shakespeare's Star Wars-style retelling of any Finn scene in The Force Awakens