#chaorealm lansing

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On People with Galactic Empire / Sith Stuff

I talked about this in a vent channel on a discord server but I needed to get this off my chest publicly. I think I'm going to try and avoid anyone who has PFPs, banners, imagery and whatnot and certain spaces related to the Empire (especially those who are just too blatantly apologetic for what they did) and the Sith as much as I can with the exception of those who are kin, system mates, other things of this sort or are just otherwise harmless (i.e a server denoting its relation to star wars).

I say this because a lot of the people who do are those people who are the typical military fanboys, and some of them are even worse because they can be closet racists, fascists, etc effectively using the Star Wars factions / entities as a platform to..."let that out", I suppose, or are just otherwise unpleasant in these kinds of ways. Some of them you can tell why they have such kinds of interests immediately too, or don't get that they can like a fictitious polity or faction like the Empire without actually condoning them (or worse because they got away with supporting it fictionally they started doing so with IRL things).

I say this as a Vader kin; the Empire fucking sucks and is as illegitimate as the Rebels if not more - tell me, how did Palpatine create it? Undermining a previous government's institutions without anyone knowing to gain exorbitant amounts of political power and then deliberately causing a separatist crisis to trick them into eventually accepting his maneuvers and asinine behavior? And then what, he just starts what is effectively a religious persecution against Jedi, while also killing off or enslaving everyone who helped him get to that point and even those who were loyal to the Republic (Which became the Empire) and weren't Separatists or involved at all? Trying to create a Planet Killer and using a doctrine of rule by fear for it?

Putting aside the fact the Empire was itself formed by what any person with a rational sense and understanding of what's in Star Wars would see as a coup or act of treason, and all the other things I cannot reasonably mention here without it being too long, I see so much sanewashing of the Empire it's honestly pathetic.

Unfortunately SW is one of those series / fandoms that seems to attract these kinds of people more then others.

- Lansing

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I am exploding whichever staff member thought Tumblr TV was a good idea after already attempting it with Tumblr live, or just a good idea in general, using the power of chaos and the force

- Lansing

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Because of the fact I name every being who shows up here after a city or place, I've been considering otherlinking my, uh, namesake (the city of Lansing in Michigan), but I'm holding off on it because I don't know how it'd feel or what would happen if I did. I know there's placekin and countrykin here but what I'm talking about is something voluntary by comparison :/

- Lansing

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Earlier, Taipei flung Belgrade high into the sky with their psychic abilities. Happiest day of my life

- Lansing

You're very welcome.

- Taipei

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YOU. GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. OF. HEREEE!!!!

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If I remember correctly, I think some part of star wars was influenced by the Vietnam War.

Mmm yes, one of the influences and commentary of the Empire was US imperialism during the Vietnam war, with the Empire as the USA analogue and the Rebels to the Vietcong.

It's most obvious in ROTJ where you have the Imperials and their advanced technology on The Forest Moon of Endor, which comparatively looks like a primitive, backwater world that they try to build another horrific superweapon and beat the Rebels into submission on only to be overwhelmed by the Guerrilla warfare tactics and help from the indigenous Ewoks. Similar to the industrialized United States invading and bombing but effectively losing to a more agrarian society (Vietnam) for virtually the same reasons.

It ties into how the Empire is also obviously based off the Axis Powers in World War II - it's comparing US Imperialism to Fascism.

- Lansing

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If, on any of our blogs, you have sent us a note or DM but not gotten a reply, chances are we actually have read it but just didn't have anything to say, wanted to keep it between us, or simply forgot about it. We are not ignoring you.

(Lighthearted tone btw)

- Lansing

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I find it funny that we give every single being who shows up here a name related to a place or a city or something else aside from their actual name, so that we can distinguish them from others outside Chao Realm who may have the same source or identity or etc.

It was actually spurred by our Blaze the Cat, Vienna. Y'see, when she showed up here she suddenly interrupted me and took control of the body. Before that I happened to be viewing cities and architecture, some (Pre) World War 1 stuff mainly, but also importantly the modern city of Austria in Vienna, and in her disoriented state she wondered why I was. So I decided to give her a name after that.

Although I do not hide this reality any more, when I started this blog to document mishaps in inner world I decided to try and conceal my identity since I didn't want people from outside the Chao Realm to know about me sharing my body with others. So I named [REDACTED] Brussels (Capital of Belgium) and I chose the name Lansing for myself (Capital of the US State of Michigan). Then I realized it was a cool naming convention and how it helps distinguish us so I started applying it to others - naming our Cream Warsaw, so on and so fourth, using these names for people and beings we encounter in here.

I had thoughts about it reinforced by people actually referring to me as such, but I eventually decided to change my name completely to Lansing. It was a suiting name and felt better, more refreshed then MajinTails, a alias I finally ditched after about 5 Years of using and which is kind of a remnant of a bygone era, that I now only use for handles and nameclaims. There is also the fact I decided to actually have the actual, physical city of Lansing in its entirety become a linktype, partially spurred by the naming convention, but also the fact I live in and am just partial enough to Michigan itself.

There are like only two oddities or exceptions to this: We have the actual planet of Mars in here (seriously still trying to figure that out) and it obviously is a "place", so it has no other name. But really that means there is only one actually, being the Red Dragon from the Wales flag (yes, really) having shown up in here. He actually refused having a name like what we usually do, and i say good on him for telling me not to give him one, I won't do that if it bothers them or they don't want it.

- Lansing