Reader Expectations on Updates

Thinking I need to update my 'story comment preferences' to add that I prefer not to receive demands or expressions of disappointment regarding my update speed.  Especially if someone comments on my most recently updated work solely to express this kind of sentiment, it just seems a bit unkind to me.  I appreciate many other kinds of comments, including short comments or comments that include criticism, but this is not a kind of comment I like (nor am I alone as an author in this particular sentiment).  I do not expect readers to comment on or even give likes to my works, and I feel they shouldn't expect me to update on any particular timetable.  Not that people necessarily read any of that kind of thing and it's not as if I haven't mentioned many times in other places that I simply don't do regular updates.

Perhaps a Comm?

Maybe I should make a Dreamwidth and/or Pillowfort community for my fanworks.  That would give me a separate area to post any and all kinds of information  about my writing, including any interaction preferences I have.  And though readers would be free to post anything relevant to my writing there, mostly it would be something I could link to if they cared to find out more about my fanworks.  This would especially help with the issue that ffnet is a nightmare of ads and AO3 doesn't allow long profiles.

How Palpatine Gets Maul in Darth Plagueis

The Darth Plagueis novel gives a lot of background on the Sith, and one detail we learn from it is how Darth Maul becomes a Sith.  And how that happens is that his mother Kycina gives him away to Palpatine as an infant.  Here's the scene in the novel where this is explained:

“Clearly I am not, as I suspect you have already intuited. But you still haven’t answered my question. Why are trying to rid yourself of the infant?”
“To spare the one for the sake of the other,” she said after a moment. “Half a clan pair, this one is. And I want one to live freely, since the other can’t.”
“Who poses the threat?”
“Talzin is her name.”
“Who is Talzin?”
“The Nightsister Mother.”
Palpatine filed the information away. “Where is the infant’s father?”
“Dead—by tradition.”
He snorted. “Will the infant not be missed?”
“Talzin knows only of the one, not the other.”
“You delude yourself.”
Gently, she pushed the shoulder bag toward him. “Then take him. Please.”
“What would I do with him?”
“This one is strong in the Force. In the right hands, he can become a powerful asset.”
“Servitude of a different sort.”
She ignored the remark. “Take him. Save him.”
Palpatine regarded the newborn again. “Have you named him?”
“Maul, he is called.”

Of course Palpatine is the worst parent ever, so Maul never really gets the life his mother wanted for him.  Maul is unusual in that he's the only known Rule of Two Sith who was explicitly raised to be one from infancy.  Which is a pretty horrific childhood to imagine.  This seems like a pretty tragic situation to me, because it sounds like either way his life was going to be pretty awful.  

One thing I noticed reading this over again is that Maul is supposed to be half of a clan pair.  So is that supposed to mean he has a twin?  Who knows?  That never comes up again in this novel.  I guess if you wanted to tie this into The Clone Wars continuity you could say that the twin was supposed to be Savage, though my understanding is that when that character was first conceived, he wasn't intended to have anything to do with Maul.  At the same time, given when this was written and the fact that Legends EU often tied in things from other stories, I'm guessing that probably was the intent.