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Vampires and werewolves and space wizards

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it would be so good if it wasn't bad!

im mud. late 20s queer. freak, pervert, and communist

here, a sideblog for my favourite bad fictions -- star wars and twilight. this is not a crossover thing, just my free-range dump of fandom engagement that i wish to keep away from my cool main blog (@mudwisard btw).

first things first!

Disney+ is a priority target for the BDS movement working against genocide and apartheid in occupied Palestine. i urge everyone to be mindful and deliberate in their fan engagement, and i have every intention of keeping the boycott going for the foreseeable future. i will never condone slinging over cash to the mouse! read more about BDS here, and please donate to Palestinian fundraisers!

stephenie meyer's portrayal of the Quileute people is a gross, stereotypical and racist caricature. Quileute nation have not seen any financial support or compensation despite the overwhelming economic success of the twilight franchise. i think it is our responsibility as readers to learn about actual Quileute culture and society, which you can do here, as well as donating to the Quileute move to higher ground project

i've been a star wars fan since i was a kid, but it got cemented since I began listening to the podcast A More Civilized Age. my star wars engagement generally goes as far as to where AMCA have progressed, and a few of the never series. Anakin can kill kids a little bit, if he wants. maybe the jedi are bad actually. etc. i cheer when talk about space-tax-policies come up.

my first deliberate engagement with the twilight series was in 2022, when I read through all the books in a few weeks, and i've had the vampire brainrot ever since. i am forever on team Bella-should-get-what-she-wants. but i mainly enjoy the series as an aesthetic object-ii too enjoy alt-rock and gloomy forests--rather than for any commentary it may have (smeyer is too mormon-brained for me).

i may post about other adjacent fandoms as well!

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so i finished Resistance. I was getting better at the end of season 1, but season 2 was like, fully a dud. this is the most sw animation has ever felt like it was made purely for kids younger than 10.

it seems confused about its own stakes. for being a show so centred around spying, its idea of intelligence gathering is fully based on sneaking around and hiding behind crates and doorways. it is poorly thought out and most episode conflicts seem to not have been developed beyond the whiteboard pitch. it revolves heavily around the logistics and transportation of people and ships, but it never feels anchored in a consistent set of rules for how things operate. i dont think all sci-fi needs to be hard, but if you get too soft you at least need a story worth telling so that the handwavy use of tech doesn't become a pressing concern.

it is focused on the characters, but they are all very flat and inconsistent. the nuggets that are in there--the relation of Kaz and Torra, capt Doza and Yeager, Synaara--are never delved into or developed. Kaz never stops being pathetic, even as he gets slightly better. in the finale, he is still cartoon running around with his arms in the air while getting shot at by stormtroopers.

l could go on. i would not recommend this show to anyone. no juice, no ideas, nothing to say.

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the fact that Reylo discourse is now almost entirely 'is this ship toxic :)' always throws me off so much because I genuinely think the MUCH bigger issue with Reylo was that it pushed a black man to the side as Not Love Interest Material in favor of a white nazi. Like the issue is that shipping Reylo arrived transparently because people did not care about the black man – which I know, because the ship became popular before we even had The Last Jedi! When they'd barely interacted! If Kylo were black and Finn were white, Reylo would not be popular and it would never have become canon in any way, and I do think a refusal to grapple with that is honestly very embarrassing.

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What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Star Wars Fandom (Part One, Probably)

Few fandoms fill me with the kind of anger that the Star Wars fandom does. In fact, there are times where I’d go so far as to say that I hat

Quick Coverage: John Boyega Ends 2019 With a Bang (And a Hearty ‘Fuck You’ To Rey/Kylo Shippers)

Note: I have an ongoing thread about this entire situation and the fans’ responses that fully covers the majority of what this fandom’s been

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Weaponized White Womanhood

With that much power already, it can’t be a surprise that many white women in fandom will do pretty much anything in order to keep the statu

stitchmediamix documented all the reylo fandom's wretched behavior as it happened, and oh! how they hated them for it!

[nyokoko]

Stitch is still being harassed about this btw.

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kaz actual swag moment 31 episodes in

[byjove]

what do you think the gay nightlife scene is like on Tatooine

[byjove]

Tatooine’s only gay club still misses Biggs Darklighter to this day

[softieskywalker]

how could you leave this in the tags @spocksroomdecor

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[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

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I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[comebackali]

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

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except for andor

andor is excellent

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Clone wars watchlist

it's been a couple of years since i finished seasons one through six of the cw, and as i warm myself up for season seven, i wanted to make a watchlist of the best cw episodes. but that would be rather short, and one of the strengths of cw is that you get to follow characters as they develop through the seasons. thus, i began a list of second priority episodes, that provide context for those exceptional arcs. i ended up with a range of four tiers, which ranges from 18 to 64 episodes of the 121 in the first six seasons. i'll start with the must see episodes and present my reasoning for each strand.

The must-see

the Umbara arc, s04e07-10. which means you might want to see episodes that give context to Rex, and the members of Domino squad.

the Rako Hardeen arc, s04e15-18 which means you might want some context for Cad Bane (join the Baneiacs!) as well as some Anakin and Obi-wan stuff, which you will get from a lot of other priority two episodes.

i'm throwing in s05e16 "the lawless" here with the must-see, with the caveat that it doesn't make any sense without watching the priority two episodes, which includes the Mandalore and the Dathomir strands, with the must-see only being the absolute last one, but wooowie is it maybe the most hype episode.

the rogue jedi arc, s05e17-20. which means you need context for Ahsoka. this is another big commitment, given that Ahsoka is the character that grows the most throughout the show, and thus require a good deal of episodes. unfortunately, this might include the whole Lux Bontari saga, which has some interesting moments, and our girl Ahsoka deserves to have some attachment struggles, but is pretty mid over all. i've marked a lot of these as priority 4, so if you don't vibe with an arc just skip.

the clone protocol 66 arc, s06e01-04. which means you should have context for Domino squad, which hey! you already got the Umbara arc, making this the strand with the highest rate of must-see episodes.

crystal crisis on Utapau arc, unfinished s06 arc, available as story reel on youtube. this might be a hot take, idk, but this arc is peak, idc that it is unfinished. if you care about Anakin and Obi-wan at all, this is a must-see.

with that out of the way, here is the full list.

sXXeXX, priority, strands s01e05 , 2 , Domino Squad s01e10 , 4 , Just an intersting standalone s01e16 , 3 , Rex s01e22 , 2 , Cad Bane s02e01 , 2 , Cad Bane s02e02 , 2 , Cad Bane s02e03 , 2 , Cad Bane s02e05 , 3 , Rogue Jedi , Rex s02e06 , 2 , Rogue Jedi s02e07 , 3 , Rogue Jedi s02e08 , 2 , Rogue Jedi s02e10 , 3 , Rex s02e12 , 2 , Mandalore s02e13 , 2 , Mandalore s02e14 , 2 , Mandalore s03e01 , 2 , Domino Squad s03e02 , 2 , Domino Squad s03e04 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s03e05 , 3 , Mandalore , Rogue Jedi s03e06 , 3 , Mandalore , Rogue Jedi s03e08 , 4 , Cad Bane s03e09 , 3 , Cad Bane s03e10 , 4 , Lux Bontari , Rogue Jedi s03e12 , 3 , Dathomir s03e13 , 2 , Dathomir s03e14 , 2 , Dathomir s03e18 , 4 , Domino Squad s03e19 , 4 , Domino Squad s03e20 , 4 , Domino Squad s03e21 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s03e22 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s04e07 , 1 , Rex , Domino Squad s04e08 , 1 , Rex , Domino Squad s04e09 , 1 , Rex , Domino Squad s04e10 , 1 , Rex , Domino Squad s04e11 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s04e12 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s04e13 , 4 , Rogue Jedi s04e14 , 4 , Rogue Jedi , Lux Bontari , Mandalore s04e15 , 1 , Cad Bane s04e16 , 1 , Cad Bane s04e17 , 1 , Cad Bane s04e18 , 1 , Cad Bane s04e19 , 3 , Dathomir s04e20 , 4 , In case you want to see what happens with Asajj s04e21 , 2 , Dathomir s04e22 , 2 , Dathomir s05e01 , 2 , Dathomir s05e02 , 4 , Lux Bontari , Rogue Jedi s05e03 , 4 , Lux Bontari , Rogue Jedi s05e04 , 4 , Lux Bontari , Rogue Jedi s05e05 , 4 , Lux Bontari , Rogue Jedi s05e14 , 2 , Mandalore , Dathomir s05e15 , 2 , Mandalore , Dathomir s05e16 , 1 , Mandalore , Dathomir s05e17 , 1 , Rogue Jedi s05e18 , 1 , Rogue Jedi s05e19 , 1 , Rogue Jedi s05e20 , 1 , Rogue Jedi s06e01 , 1 , Domino Squad s06e02 , 1 , Domino Squad s06e03 , 1 , Domino Squad s06e04 , 1 , Domino Squad s06e10 , 2 , a good Dooku focused standalone Crystal crisis on Utapau.

i might make changes if i do a re-watch, but this is the state of the last for now!

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this is the mfer who produced Goncharov (1973)

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where is this user now...

[abyssal-ilk]

you ever get so into the whole "it would have been good if it was good" thing that it gets kind of embarrassing. it would have been good if it was good but it's Not and in fact it's maybe worse than anything else but unfortunately. it still could have been good. if it was go

[panshan125]

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Garazeb Orrelios of the Lasat Honour Guard still stuck babysitting an emotionally stunted Mandalorian and force sensitive child that crawls through vents somebody free him

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oh yeah i also went and saw the mandalorian and grogu. it was exactly what i expected lol. though punky muffin played a way bigger role than i anticipated. disappointed that there was no mace windu. it was like two long episodes of the mandalorian and i dont think it needed to be a movie. but hey, i'm glad i got to see Filoni's cowboy hat's debut on the big screen

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i'm so glad that it got better!! the tension with Tam being a FO sympathiser really adds flavour, can't wait for her to become a recruit lol. the FO presence does a lot to add stakes, and that in combination with the experience Kaz has gotten just makes it so much more fun.

i think it was a huuge mistake to not give Kaz a blaster from the start, and at least make him a competent shot. it is Star fucking Wars, everyone always has a gun, and he was in the navy, yet he cannot hit a target or at least hold a gun without dropping it? if they didn't insist on putting him in situations that would be improved by him having a gun, or give him some other way of fighting people, it wouldn't stick out so much. but i don't think i can take him feebly wrestling storm troopers for much longer.

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despite the first order providing security, he is still in control of this platform