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Aisling in Outer Space

@starkillerscience / starkillerscience.tumblr.com

Aisling. 27. Writer, Artist & Student. This is my Star Wars blog.
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oh, hi...

It’s been a really long time since I was last on Tumblr (the last I posted on this blog was in 2019?), and I haven’t written a word of fanfiction since August of 2016 when I entered my cognitive neuroscience PhD program. (It was a horrible experience. Don’t do a PhD.)

Anyway, I was active on Twitter for the past few years, but that website is quickly going down hill. I want to at least restart my presence on Tumblr after the years away, so here’s a quick summary since last we left off:

I got married in March 2019, nearly died from Covid in March/April 2020, left my PhD program summer of 2020, moved to Minnesota, started working as a program coordinator and education specialist in my fields (gerontology, cognitive neuroscience) in 2021, and had a baby in September 2022.

Yeah, an entire baby. She was a preemie, and it was a really difficult pregnancy for both of us, but we are doing remarkably better now. Here’s a picture of us when we were getting released from the hospital. She was 3 days old and only 4 pounds, 12 ounces. Truly the tiniest nugget.

I don’t see myself writing any more fanfiction, but I’m blessed to have made so many friends from this experience. Literally, some of you whom I met through writing weird Star Wars fic were in attendance at my wedding. That’s incredible.

If any of you would like to reconnect, I’m trying to become active again over on my main blog (houseoftombombadil). I’m also still on Twitter (HoneyBeeRock), though not as much as I used to be--I tend to just retweet political articles and post pictures of my baby interacting with our kitties. As you can see, THEY ARE SISTERS.

I want to thank all of you for joining me on this weird journey through life. I hope that the past few years have been rewarding for you.

See y’all around.

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And for the record, I'm no longer active on tumblr due to the app not having worked on my phone for the past 8 months, everyone having migrated away, tumblr basically being unusable, etc.

However, I am very active on Twitter. You can follow me @ HoneyBeeRock

That's where I post all the hot takes about cognitive science, academia, religion, politics, disability, and history. Plus a thing or two about a good old star war.

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Crescent Base Captives

The Sequel to Starkiller Science (that apparently y’all’ve been asking for) Chapter 1

“They keep killing themselves.”

There was nothing all that passionate in the way that Talia mentioned the statement—not overwhelmed or frightened or sad—just with more of a question than anything else.  As though she had said that sentence many times before in her head before saying it aloud to you.  It was like a matter of fact that she couldn’t quite comprehend, and so it had kept her up at night.  Not because Talia was particularly concerned about the fate of others, but because it was a mystery that she had no way to solve, and so it hung there in her brain, night after night.  Was she even sleeping anymore?  Or was this the thing that kept her up?

“A ‘hello’ is also sufficient,” you replied, holding the comm loosely between your fingers.  Your other hand was fast at work untangling a section of hair as you glanced into a tiny mirror.  The Resistance barracks were bare, pared down to only the necessities due to lack of funds.

#starkiller science#crescent base captives#aisling writes#I can't believe I've fucking done this
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Anonymous asked:

im like 10 chapters into starkiller science and i feel like i've learnt sooooo much about disease! thanks for making such an interesting and educational fic

Huzzah!  I’m glad that your learning about some of the disorders I find so fascinating.  That was one of my goals for writing this fic was to educate and be an outlet for all of my nerdy interests. :)

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Anonymous asked:

I just want to thank you for letting us know how the sequel would have turned out. You didn’t have to do that, but you did so I appreciate it! I’m wishing you the best for you! :)

You’re welcome!!!  I’ve had it all mapped out for like 20 months, and I just wanted it to be out there.  I know that I’ll never have a chance to write it, but I think you guys deserve to have the ending--even if it was just 6 pages of my typed notes in a bare-bones draft.  Starkiller Science meant so much to me while writing it, and I know that a lot of you guys enjoyed it.  So it’s kind of the least I can do rather than leave you all at the edge of a literary cliff for all of eternity.

I hope that the sequel’s notes were satisfying and answered some questions.  Or at least I hope that it gives you all a platform to now use your imagination about how things could have gone.  I’m happy I could share it.

Thanks!  And best wishes to you, too!

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HELLO. THIS IS YOUR SPACE TRASH MOTHER, CURRENTLY AT A TALK WITH BUZZ "SECOND MAN ON THE MOON" ALDRIN. I'M NOT EMOTIONAL. YOUR EMOTIONAL. SPACE.

#buzz aldrin
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darkspring asked:

Hi! So, I remember when you were still writing that amazing Kylo fanfic that made my days a lot better. I used to send music recomendations for the chapters hahaha it's been a long time and I decided to come back to see how you are doing and I found out you are engaged?!?! I wish you all the best!! You are special to me because that fic was something that helped me forget about the outside world for a while and just be happy so I am really really happy for you. You are amazing

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I’m so glad that my fic could help you out!  Similarly, I wrote it as a way of escaping into something new and exciting as I played with my own imagination.  I loved creating playlists and hearing what kind of music you guys thought fit the chapters, because it exposed me to new bands and inspired me as I wrote.

And, yes, I’m engaged as of about a week ago!  It’s been super exciting, and now my fiance and I are planning out our wedding.  We’re thinking of going with an earthy, Lord of the Rings theme, but Star Wars or outer space was the runner up idea.  I’m sure that I’ll post pictures when the time comes, because it’s going to be very special for the both of us.  Thanks for your well wishes!  It makes my heart happy to still have such amazing people around!

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Where has Aisling been for the past year?

Hi everyone!

So, I disappeared last year when I started my PhD programme.  Rather than thinking that my writing would pick back up as a result of me procrastinating doing course work, I’ve actually had very little time at all to even take care of myself, much less procrastinate.  So my writing has more or less completely stopped.  These days, when I write for fun, it’s only in my diary.  And even that, I’ve fallen quite behind on.

But here are some general updates about my life and whatnot:

  • I’m now in the second year of my PhD in cognitive neuroscience.  At the moment, I split my time three ways between memory and learning research in the lab, teaching undergraduate research methods and statistics, and taking classes and workshops.  I usually work upwards of 60 hours per week, but whilst writing my masters thesis and during some weeks of heavy research, I’ve hit 80 hours.  It’s a lot, but I have a lot of fantastic friends and professors in the department.
  • My health has been seeing decline over the past year due to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.  I’ve had increases in pain, depressive symptoms, and join immobility.  So I haven’t been feeling quite myself as much.
  • In good news, though, I started dating this amazing man back in April (the one to whom I alluded had read my Kylo Ren fic and yet still wanted to be with me).  As of a week ago, we are now engaged and planning our wedding for early 2019, i’A!  (There’s also totally a chance that our wedding will be outer space themed.)

Life has been really crazy and busy for me.  And I wish that I could have continued writing Star Wars fanfic--especially since so many of these stories are still alive in my head.  But I wanted to let you guys know that things are okay for me.  I’m still around, still nerdy as ever, still looking forward to the next Star Wars film that comes out in two months.  And now I’m blessed to have an amazing fiance and future husband alongside me.

I wish all of you the best.  And whether I post here again or not, I don’t know.  But you all gave me such a wonderful adventure as I wrote for an audience for the first time.

Thanks!

-Aisling

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Anonymous asked:

I miss you xoxoxoxo so so much!

I miss you guys, too!  I still think about my fanfiction a lot, especially what I’ve left unfinished and all of the amazing experiences I had getting to grow closer to a lot of you.  I wish that I had time to write more or even at all, but my PhD programme has pretty well sucked the life out of me.  I still have so many outlines, both for a sequel to Starkiller Science as well as the rest of The First and Final Armament.  If I never get around to finishing those, maybe I can at least post the outlines that I had so that you all know what directions the plots were going to take.  But it’s something I think about a lot, because I feel bad abandoning you all.

Sending lots of love and hugs.  Best of luck to all of you starting school again (my classes start next week, both the ones I’m taking as well as the ones I’m teaching).  And if you ever want to see what I’m up to, I’m still fairly active on my personal account (houseoftombombadil).  

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