This appears to have been a relatively common reaction to the Disney film that revived the Star Wars franchise with one of the highest box-office grosses of all time. “Kylo and Rey stuck in my mind like popcorn kernels in my teeth,” Rosie said. But both women walked out of The Force Awakens fascinated by the same two characters. Rosie’s history with Star Wars was very different from Ricca’s: She remembers scribbling down her own tales about Qui-Gon Jinn, the Jedi played by Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace, at age 9. The very first user to leave a comment on the story (“I was snorting up fan fiction like cocaine from my phone,” she remembers), she soon joined Ricca as an editor and co-author. But then Ricca started adding new chapters, at the rate of one a day, expanding the scope of the story in directions both sexual and not, spinning a narrative about what might come after The Force Awakens ends.Īmong the many readers was a 25-year-old named Rosie. REY FORCE AWAKENS MOVIEHer opus began as a short piece of erotica in which Rey, the heroic character played in the movie by Daisy Ridley, and Kylo Ren, the villain played by Adam Driver, use a psychic bond accidentally forged in combat to conduct a form of telepathic phone sex from across the galaxy. “I started writing fan fiction pretty much as soon as I left the theater,” she said, explaining the origins of Interstellar Transmissions, a 55-chapter saga that’s the length of an average Harry Potter novel and now stands as the most popular Star Wars-inspired story on the fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own. What the New Kids on the Block Taught Me About Social Networks Courtney Klossner
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