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I just want you to know that I love this soundtrack. It's been a while since I've watched the show, but I remember loving the music a lot, so this is right up my alley.

(Oh! If you're into that 80s synth sound, there's a synthwave/cyberpunk playlist I listened to recently on youtube, maybe you'd enjoy it? Vae Victis)

 

@RX_Sith Your track is The Week is Long from Season 3. Happy writing!

The music is so good! They've really done an amazing job with it. I'm glad you like it, and I hope it's inspiring!

Ooh, cool! I'm bookmarking that for study music. Thank you!

 

Post 13 for my Kyp DDC includes the Islamic Architecture Roulette from @Chyntuck .



https://boards.theforce.net/threads...-ddc-half-year-challenge-kyp-others.50059331/

 

I have your story indexed @WarmNyota_SweetAyesha!

And just a reminder that there are still 3 slots left in the Islamic Architecture Roulette. I have a standalone building, a building complex and a city available for anyone who needs a grand setting for a story

 

I have posted my Palpatine Babyfic fluff story for The Abominable Bunny Challenge below:

https://boards.theforce.net/threads...-for-the-abominable-bunny-challenge.50059566/

 

Yay! I have added Unlimited Pow-Wah! to the index!

 

For the Disney villain song challenge by @Raissa Baiard I have mother knows best It is also mentioned in my large story a need for protecting

 

Yes, you can always trust in me. Trussssst in me…. Speaking of which, you get one of my favorites, “Trust in Me”, from The Jungle Book

Fun fact: Kaa the python is voiced by Sterling Holloway, best known for providing the voice of Winnie the Pooh!

 

Great! I’ve added it to the index.

 

My entry for @Thumper09 's "Putting the Star in Star Wars" prompt is posted: it's chapter 3 of If This Is a Man.

 

For the bingo of obscure sorrows by @Mira_Jade I have home for me but for him?

 

@Findswoman Pandora, my friend, guess what: you have received the very exact song I was (now not so) secretly hoping to be able to give you (which I mean as a compliment, because I think it suits several of your characters), which is Rescue Me (1990).

I wonder which characters those could be...

[For myself, whilst I was typing out my request, I figured that whatever song I received, I could find a way to write something with Florian.]

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@Chyntuck: And just a reminder that there are still 3 slots left in the Islamic Architecture Roulette. I have a standalone building, a building complex and a city available for anyone who needs a grand setting for a story

All right--I'm convinced.

With the caveat that I might actually produce a story in 2030, I'm going to go for #4.

 

@Pandora I can think of ways you can make this one work on two different planets at least! Your pick is the Old City of Sanaa, Yemen – Situated in a mountain valley at 2200m altitude and continuously inhabited for 2500 years, the Old City of Sanaa is notable for the large number and density of burnt brick and rammed earth tower-houses enclosed within its walls. While most structures are relatively recent, dating back to a series of reconstructions of the Old City during the Ottoman era, the spatial organisation remains faithful to that of the early centuries of Islam, with a goal to provide spacious living quarters to a large population within easily defensible fortifications. Here is a picture; Bayt al-Fann has a photo gallery with many more pretty images.

 

@Chyntuck : So: I was hoping, as I selected my number and mentally crossed my fingers, that I would get the city. Sometimes, the luck of the draw really is on one's side. Also, I live in a mountain valley (well technically speaking, I live on a bench on a ridge above the valley, but that's close enough) so even though the climate is different I might know a few useful things.

Also, I'm curious as to the identities of the two planets you mentioned as possible locales. Just in case that should provide additional inspiration.

[Though I solemnly swear that if I wind up setting my story on Kiffu, I will not muck about in yours and Mira_Jade's fanon and write a story focusing on the members of the Forgotten. My word of honor.]

 

I'm glad Sanaa works for you @Pandora!

The planets I had in mind were Tatooine and Alderaan, the former for a version of it in its heyday in the distant past or the far future (if you have a look at the photo gallery I linked to, you'll see that dramatic landscape of a barren mountain in the background), the latter for a mountaintop counterpart to Crevasse City. But Kiffu is probably a better idea, now that you mention it! And for my part, I'll say that you're certainly welcome to "muck about" in any and all aspects of my fanon; however, because it intermingles so closely with @Mira_Jade 's, you'd need permission from her too (the Forgotten in particular are her brainchild, as are the description of the capital city, a number of the High Clans, etc etc.). Whatever you end up writing though, I'm sure it will be glorious and I can't wait to read it!

 

@Chyntuck : It might take a while (as in literally years) but I think I will come up with something.

Interestingly enough, I did consider Tatooine in the far future as a possibility--though right now, it is a scene without even a hint of a story. But I wouldn't have ever thought of Alderaan, even if it does have mountains. (For various reasons involving both my long dead first fanfiction set on Alderaan and Disney's taking it on in the new EU, I consider that world off-limits to my imagination altogether. I just cannot write about it, and that is that.) Or I might well go with something on Kiffu. Which would be a whole new planet/culture for me, and having a city there mostly of my own creation to start with could be interesting. And thank you for your kind permission to "muck about" with your fanon. I have been reading your Kiffar fanon post in the Fanon Thread, and even if I only take inspiration from it, I find it to be quite interesting.

But as I wrote, I shall not write about the Forgotten in particular. I can admit that what I have read about them in your stories (while I read Mira's "So Few Things" a while ago, I'm afraid I don't remember anything about them there) interested me enough to want to know more about them and their stories--which is why I have most sternly, and publicly, talked myself away from it. Overall, with the occasional exceptions, I have found that it's usually best to just make up my own stuff as needed when it comes to fanon. Write my own songs, as it were.

[That and since I'm a Scandinavian-American cliche--in this respect at least--I find it nearly physically painful to ask for something, and will go a mile out of my way to avoid doing so.]

 

For @Mira_Jade 's Obscure Sorrows mini-game, I feature Han/Leia in this "The Only, Real Answer".
https://boards.theforce.net/threads...-for-the-obscure-sorrows-mini-games.50059608/

 

Posted my response for @ViariSkywalker's Starset Roulette: The Walls We Hide Behind

 

My First Completed Response Stories Since This Thread Began in 2020:

Heroes [for Briannakin's OC Name Challenge]

“Every star is a sun waiting for you to arrive” [for Thumper09's Putting the "Star" in "Star Wars"]

 

Finally have a response for @Chyntuck's amazing Greek Island challenge (which had me researching so much about that Island - it's really beautiful!) which I combined with the OTP challenge because it then became the perfect setting for a stumbling Obi-wan

May I present the longest titled fic I ever came up with - Word Smith - Or - The Three Times Obi-Wan Tried To Tell Satine He Loves Her And The One Time He Succeeded

 

@Chyntuck I like to get number 1 from your the Islamic Architecture Roulette

 

Hello @earlybird-obi-wan! Your pick is the Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali.

Possibly the largest mud brick building in the world, the Great Mosque of Djenné is a prime example of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style. It was first built in the 13th century, although its current form dates only to the colonial era, and it is a constantly evolving structure due to the annual crépissage (plastering). Every year in April, the residents of the city get together to re-coat the outer walls with adobe over the course of a single day and thus protect the mosque from the elements during the rainy season. The entire town participates in the crépissage, whose purpose is the maintenance of the mosque but also a celebration of faith, history and community. Here is a picture, you can see a great photo gallery of the crépissage on the Bayt al-Fann website.



@Kit' Awesome that you finished your story for the Island Challenge! I got you in the index, and I'll be heading over there to read and review asap.