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Posting this for no particular reason <3
I mostly agree, but I don't think it has to be an either-or.
See this quite a bit in long-running comics - superman, batman, etc - that go through different waves of good/bad/polarizing/etc. since they've been around for so long.
And sometimes, even the money-driven remakes/reboots in film are good, too.
But sometimes, they are bad.
I would contrast with Star Wars - some of the most interesting pieces in the franchise came from "extended universe" stuff (KOTOR, prequel trilogy, Mandalorian, etc.), but some of the stuff has not been great (don't want to get into details of what I personally dislike for obvious reasons). And it gets even more contentious when "new" stuff overwrites "old" stuff (like with the legends/canon retcon in star wars... though we've also seen this in comics many times as well).
But arguably, the original trilogy itself almost feels like a separate story/universe from everything surrounding it. It's not just a case of consumerist/profit-driven greed, it's an inevitability of having so many different writers work on a franchise (and this is going back to original EU books), even if there is some central direction from one person. Same could even be said for ATLA vs Korra - I didn't dislike Korra, but they are fundamentally different stories, even if they are within the same "universe" and have a lot of the same creators.
Perhaps DC comics being my first "big" fandom has inured me to some of this stuff... not liking a new author or new retcon just means I don't buy the new stuff, it doesn't mean I'm not going to engage with the old stuff any more.
And I can also understand getting frustrated when there's too much "new" stuff in fandom content (whenever I look up Flash fanfiction, I end up excluding everything tagged with CW stuff. And the CW show was well-received, but it wasn't what I saw as Flash).
I don't know when the right time is to "kill" a story/franchise. And that's not even getting into fanfic/fanart/etc. where you are repeatedly beating the "dead horse" of the franchise, albeit for love and not money.
And maybe that's part of it, too - I loved the Mandalorian tv series. And I enjoyed the Mandalorian & Grogu movie - but structurally, the movie was not good. If all of the characters in it were completely brand new (e.g., I didn't already have an emotional connection with the franchise), I probably would not have enjoyed it. There wasn't the same level of detail payed to the emotional/philosophical throughline that I would expect for a good story. Frankly, I struggle to identify what the film's internal conflict actually was.
But it was cool to see a lot of familiar faces. Maybe I'm part of the problem.
As I get older, the entire moral arc of Return of the Jedi irks me more and more, even without getting to see Anakin's actual atrocities in the prequels or the fact that his act of defiance barely even mattered in the sequels.
I remember an Expanded Universe comic set immediately after RotJ where Leia tells Luke words to the effect of "Vader literally had me tortured and blew up my homeworld. What, am I supposed to feel kinship with him just because I discovered he's my dad yesterday?"
The important thing that happens in Return of the Jedi is that the Emperor dies and the planet-killing superweapon gets blown up. Vader spent the last two hours of his life doing something good after 25 years of genocide, mass murder and torture, and even then, it was partly out of vengeful hatred. Vader fucking hated Palpatine for a quarter century and never had the spine to do anything about it. It was only after his own son was being tortured to death in front of him that he chose to act - and he'd cut off the kid's hand like two years before that! That's not a fucking redemption arc.
Darth Vader the fucking child-killing planet-murderer gets to stand there with Yoda and Obi-Wan as a Force Ghost, give me a fucking break.
"My father's name was Bail Organa, actually."
I have a whole other post I did about the original Star Wars trilogy that is relevant to this, but I'll try condense it:
So one, yes, absolutely it is entirely correct to take issue with Darth Vader's apparent forgiveness by the Force, there is no need for Leia to accept him as her father or to feel anything for him besides hate and contempt, redemption takes more than turning back for a couple of hours and then getting out of culpability by dying, all fair.
That said: the original trilogy is Luke Skywalker's story and the story of Luke Skywalker, on a meta level, is about being a young adult in the 60s and 70s who did not experience WWII or the depths of fascism personally, but who grew up with gaping familial wounds - family members who you never knew but who older people refer to or talk around, people they compare you to, figures who other children had in their lives but you didn't. Someone who as a child was given fantasies of heroes fighting daring battles, who was told it was all about nationhood and fighting for your people and the course of civilization, someone who internalized those principles as guiding lights for their own morality and who they want to be... and THEN finding out when you become an adult, and are permitted to know about the horrors, that it is not just honor and glory in your heritage, that you, 70s white boy, may have evil and darkness and the corruption of all your values as a potential to fall into just as your father did, the temptation to hate and cruelty and domination and atrocity. And the absences in your family are maybe not just because of death, of noble sacrifice, but perhaps instead because those people who shared your blood became monsters, severed from their family because of their terrible actions, and still live as awful hateful versions of themselves, enslaved to evil, and that could be you.
And what do you do with that? Will you strike your father down with all of your hatred, when the thing that corrupted him by his hate for its own ends is sitting there grinning and laughing, waiting to do the same to you? Is violence the answer against that creature, infinitely better at taking advantage from violence than you are? Or will you just die - and even just walking away here means death, sooner or later - and let the evil persist?
Or will you, privileged young person with ideals and hopes, with a family member who has done terrible unforgivable things but who still holds affection for you, make use of that affection to tempt them to just turn their back on that evil for a moment, the thing it will never expect from the person it made its slave for longer than you've been alive? Neither you nor he can pay back the crimes of those years, but perhaps you can stop the evil, here and now, from going on.
So you do that. And what is your reward? Is it appropriate for Luke, whose whole story has been about becoming the ideal he grew up admiring and defeating the evil that ideal had the potential to become, both halves of it embodied in the being of his father, to come back to his friends and then have the universe say to him 'your father was unredeemable, and had nothing good enough in him to deserve peace in death'? Or to say there was a darkness lifted from him, and a light restored?
The whole purpose of Darth Vader in the story of the original trilogy is to represent who Luke could be, and through Luke, the audience. He wasn't really supposed to have a character arc of his own, his redemption isn't for his own sake, the story isn't about him - or wasn't meant to be originally, in any case. How you depict the fate of Darth Vader is something that sends a very strong message, and there's a reason why it was chosen as the final message of the original movies, in the context of the world in which those movies were made and who they were intended to be speaking to. If you change that, you change the message. Which you can do! And you can take issue with the original message! But like, there was a message, that was chosen purposefully, and you have to lose the original message to add a new one.
This rebuttal is really good, but I actually think it also works as the culmination of Anakin/Vader’s arc… when you understand the message ISN’T “one good deed absolves years of atrocities”: It’s that it’s never too late to do the right thing, and be a better person.
It doesn’t mean people will forgive you - hell no. The things Vader did were unforgivable, and he knew that. But because of that, he believed the only path left was to keep committing atrocities, to wallow in self-hatred and anger for decades and take it out on the galaxy. He says it himself: “It’s too late for me, son”.
But what Luke shows Vader is that we ALWAYS have a choice: To be a better person, and to choose compassion. Anakin doesn’t kill the Emperor out of hatred, or even because he thinks it’ll make up for anything he did: He knows nothing ever will. He chooses to save Luke, and break the cycle of violence because it’s the right, kind thing to do.
Vader/Anakin isn’t fully redeemed by the end of Return of the Jedi: He simply takes his first step back into the light. Obi-Wan and Yoda chose to give him that second chance, but that was their decision to make. The people you hurt are by NO means obligated to forgive you - but you should still strive to be better regardless.
And I think that’s the message of Anakin’s sacrifice: No matter what we’ve done, we always have a choice to break the cycle and be better, with no expectation of forgiveness.
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Also don’t think a
book is old because it’s in
the public domain
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Want audiobooks instead?
LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.
Public domain works in the US are:
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.
browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30
Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:
And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.
And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.
This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book
in my heart MB had a fake old bleach job for all of platform decay. its scary and i hope it changes its hair back to normal soon. also this was maybe the best scene in the book. maybe it could be a we problem
"The future they want for you"
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Okay I'm gonna break this down real simple like.
The Light Side of The Force is The Force in balance.
The Dark Side is a corruption of The Force. An infection.
The Jedi serve The Force. They are subservient to it.
The Sith subvert The Force. They bend it to their will in an unnatural way.
The Light Side is peace. It is acknowledging your negative emotions without being consumed by them, and living in harmony with The Force.
The Dark Side is suffering. It is succumbing to your negative emotions and being consumed by them.
The Jedi defend life.
The Sith exert their will on those weaker than themselves.
Light = Jedi = Good
Dark = Sith = Evil
Hope this helps.
Also the grey Jedi aren't a thing and the concept is stupid.
I think most of the time this is true, but if you only count George Lucas canon as canon, then 100% of the time this is true.
This may be what's confusing some folks - not everything in the Star Wars extended universe necessarily aligns with one of the core pillars of Star Wars world-building.
In extended universe, gray jedi absolutely are a thing, though it varies whether the gray jedi actually uses both light or dark, or if it's basically just a case of politics where they're a jedi that doesn't align with jedi council. KOTOR and KOTOR II deliberately play with the concept of the Force and arguably contradict things in the main Lucas-verse. My opinion is that KOTOR can get away with breaking the worldbuilding because the result was an excellent source of writing, but that doesn't necessarily mean it should be canon.
I think folks noting the situations where Light/Jedi aren't Good may be missing the point a bit - we live in a world with countless different morality systems, of course there are going to be plenty where renouncing certain attachments (such as family obligations) is immoral. Star Wars morality is heavily influenced by Zen Buddhism - so naturally if your worldview does not align with Buddhism, then there will probably be some things you consider good/evil that do not align with star wars universe's definition of good/evil. However, writing in the Star Wars universe should probably try to align as best as it can with this world-building pillar (unless you're writing fanfic, in which case, do what you want).
"Mandalorians love kids!" Okay? So do most people, you're not special
Copying this from my conversation in the notes because apparently a lot of people don't know that the whole "Mandalorians love kids" thing is uhhhh fascist rhetoric.
This is greatly oversimplified because I'm supposed to be at work and I'm not actually an expert in this topic but hopefully it's a decent overview of the more political side of why I dislike this fanon:
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A lot of the rhetoric that surrounds the Mandalorian fandom is very military by nature, and 'this military/warrior society, which yearns for an imperial past, holds up their children and the protection/care of those children as a symbol of how they are better than others' is classic far-right/fascist propaganda. It simultaneously has them positioning themselves as 'better than other cultures' by implying those others have lesser standards for childcare, smokescreens actual abuse (what do you mean I'm hurting my child? no, my culture CARES for children, unlike yours. and it's for their own good, anyway), and is used as justification/fuel for high-control policies that invade privacy (surveillance state, current IRL online ID age verification laws) and stamp out minorities (anti-trans laws).
Death Watch can justify their high militarism with 'we can't protect Mandalorian children unless we can bring guns everywhere we go.'
Does every fic follow through with the IMPLICATIONS of a highly militarized group like the True Mandalorians (specifically those at Galidraan) espousing a rhetoric about caring more for children than other cultures? No, of course not, most people are just jumping on a bandwagon of fanon about Mandos being really gung-ho about caring for kids.
But unfortunately, it has the mix of 'there's nothing in canon that actually supports this,' 'this is fascist rhetoric,' and 'this is logically inconsistent with the rest of the galaxy.'
It probably doesn't help that the most popular recent Mandalorian media is, like you said, about a fringe group.
Though one thing that I would say is fairly unique about Mandalorians compared to other groups in the galaxy is that their identity isn't based on species. A willingness to care for children outside of the "in-group" isn't necessarily a universal for IRL human cultures, but it's not really a unique trait to Mandalorians, either.
Though even that isn't a universal amongst Mandalorians, like you mention in your other posts - I think in KOTOR there's a side quest about someone wanting revenge after Mandalorians killed their daughter (which would conflict with fanon). Of course this side of Mandalorians isn't universal, either, and KOTOR was ~4000 years before the clone wars, empire, etc., so it's difficult to say if Mandalorian practices back then can be used as evidence for/against how Mandalorian culture "should" be portrayed during clone wars, empire, etc.
Additionally, there's nothing to say that other groups are strictly opposed to interspecies adoptions - the xenophobic groups in Star Wars tend to be the bad guys, most of the time. However, outside of the Mandalorians, I can't really think of any cultural group in Star Wars that has such a clear process for outsiders to join.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Parent/Legends#Valuing_children was also a fun rabbit hole.
Personally, fanon stuff colliding with canon stuff doesn't usually bother me too much, but it all depends on how it's written - and fics that flanderize cultures/practices into "good" or "bad" tend to not be so well written, since all the characters belonging to that particular group will tend to run together in order to make the author's point. This was an interesting post that did get me thinking about some of the common fanon themes I've seen, and I think it is important when writing fic to choose carefully when to break canon.
It would be nice to be able to talk more critically about fics - fanfic is in a weird spot because it is perceived as a gift, and also because we don't necessarily expect the same kind of cultural research to go into a fanfic than we would an original fic. I think if we're being fair, not everyone has the academic background to identify the implications you're talking about, or even know to ask the question in the first place.
At the same time, though, fanfic is a valid creative work, so it can't be "just fanfic" and beyond reproach, either. A lot of the glorification of war/fascism/etc. in general is self-propagating, I think, since folks will read works that glorify it and repeat the message behind what they've read without actually understanding the implications. E.g., how often does the trope of a "rightful heir to the throne" come up in fiction, even if most of us espouse democracy? (Though there is a difference in harm, there - I doubt many people would seriously want to give King Charles full control of England, whereas propaganda encouraging children and young people to join the military is a very real harm)
I definitely get not wanting to name specific fics, even if it does make the conversation more difficult (e.g., I might read ABC fic and think that ABC was a nuanced approach, even if it had the fanon, but you might really be talking about fics XYZ, DEF, and GHI which didn't have any nuance at all).
one of those things you really gotta learn is that it's insanely easy to get people to get mad at anything if you just phrase it the right way. slap the word "woke" on anything you want conservatives to hate. call something "extremism" or "radical" to get a centrist to fear it. say that a particular take "comes from a position of privilege" to get leftists to denounce it (that's right, even us leftists are susceptible to propaganda that uses leftist language). all these are simplistic examples of course, but it's all to say that certain terms, slogans, and phrases just kind of turn off people's critical thinking, especially ones with negative connotation. there are so many words that are just shorthand for "bad." once a term reaches buzzword status, it becomes practically useless.
it goes for general attitudes too. "this piece of news is a sign that the world is getting worse" is a shockingly easy idea to sell, even when the "piece of news" in question is completely fabricated. I'll often see leftists uncritically sharing right wing propaganda that rides on the back of the "humans bad, nature good" cliche, or the "US education system bad" cliche, or even the current "AI bad" cliche. most of the details of a given post will go entirely unquestioned as long as they support whatever attitude is most popular right now. and none of us is immune to this.
(the funny thing is that I'm kind of playing with fire here even making this post. folks are so used to just reacting to shit that I have no way of predicting which buzzword I included here will trigger a negative association in someone's mind and convince them I'm taking some random antagonistic stance on a topic that they've been really fired up about lately.)
Even though I try very hard to keep an eye out for this and to debunk even stuff I should nominally agree with when it fails to pass muster, I know I'm not immune either. So it's not a matter of just trying harder. Stuff absolutely will get past your filter and you need to be able to realize you were wrong about something and then deconstruct that and maybe do an inventory to see if you caused harm while you were holding to wrong information. It's not your fault someone tricked you, but it's still your responsibility to make things right once you realize you were tricked.
thinking about red vs blue is crazy because it's like:
this is a story about how you can't keep chasing ghosts forever. there's alien/human mpreg.
holding onto the past is holding you back - you have to learn to let go and say goodbye. ed robertson from the barenaked ladies plays a guy who (jokingly?) tells his soldiers that if he weren't their CO he'd make them call him daddy.
family isn't always defined by appearances and you may find it in those you least expect. the aliens speak entirely in blargs and honks.
everything we do is driven by love - love for your current companions and loves that have been lost along the way. it has one of the most intense and longest running queer-baits i've ever personally witnessed.
veterans aren't given the proper support to be able to return to a civilian life, and this systemic issue causes problems for everyone in all levels of society. there's a homophobic bomb.
you can't change what's happened to you and the ones you love; you just have to find a way to keep moving forward. one of the main characters only speaks in poorly translated spanish.
everyone has the capacity to change and be better. it has two (completely unrelated) insanely convoluted time travel plots, and they’re both only dubiously canon.
it's an incredible piece of media and proof that you can create something magical with the limited tools available to you. there are chunks of it that are borderline unwatchable.
it's changed the way I approach storytelling forever. i can't easily recommend it to pretty much anyone.
Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:
Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists
Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.
The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID
The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.
The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate
The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.
New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.
Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:
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One of my favorite bits of Pokemon world-building to come out of Pokopia is that nicknames are treated like an informal thing. Essentially, the name of the Pokemon is treated like its "surname", and they only call Ditto by their nickname (first name) when their friendship is high enough.
It helps to explain why in the main games, hardly any NPC nicknames their Pokemon (it could be that they do, but use their "formal" names in matches).
(Potential spoiler under the cut)
"Well I need a wife and I realized why should only noble women get tournaments to find partners." said the king to his advisor. "So I'm holding the first ever royal consort tournament." "My lord, this is a very strange ide—" said the advisor. "Oh it's happening, I was just informing you of it."
Broke: Advisor is opposed because he's against breaking tradition
Woke: Advisor is opposed because now he's going to have to sabotage all the tournament participants to ensure that he gets his rightful place as the royal consort
TWO FACTOR AUTHORIZATION
light thats not how the book works
MICROSOFT TEAMS
I know nobody wants to hear this, but two factor authentication is really the best way to ensure your account stays safe. It's either that or we start scaling to 20-30 character passwords
Look we all talk about how the general public is fucking stupid and that applies to both passwords and security, 2 factor is infinitely harder to break and if implemented correctly is not that annoying, it's better than your parents getting their account stolen because they have exactly 1 universal password and it got stolen because they signed up for some dodgey website offering cheap visa's for holiday, or something or a such. teams can absolutely go into the death note though.
Oh I agree with you there. Both Teams and Windows 11 have mastered the art of getting even worse with each update
TWO FACTOR AUTHORIZATION
light thats not how the book works
MICROSOFT TEAMS
I know nobody wants to hear this, but two factor authentication is really the best way to ensure your account stays safe. It's either that or we start scaling to 20-30 character passwords