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the scariest part of the adventure zone is how garfield the deals warlock goes from a new hire of one branch of fantasy costco to the sole employee and proprietor with a fucking clone body tank in the back room.

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will anything ever top mozzie hiding a hand-made smoke bomb in his jacket and saying “it’s a smoking jacket”? signs point to no.

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I've been thinking a lot about discworld lately and I've been thinking a lot about star wars too, so naturally that led to thinking about discworld+star wars, so this is what I've come up with (my star wars and discworld are both rusty though so I'll probably forget some important people and add on later). it's not a cohesive universe because let's be real, if sam vimes were around, the empire would not have happened.

rincewind finally gets a break and decides to take a quiet vacation to somewhere where nothing exciting happens

unfortunately for him that place was alderaan

he gets there right after it blows up and the death star tractor beams his ship in, he and the luggage escape with the dianoga. they settle down on a little moon around this planet, you've probably never heard of it, called endor--

death and the force are buds, they have tea on the weekends and share pictures of their grandkids

susan and luke make really awkward smalltalk at a family reunion. guess whose x-wing crashes next to whose classroom a week later

after that she helps him rebuild the jedi order from scratch, and does a bang-up job, too

back when the republic was around, vetinari kept really good relations with people like mon mothma and queen amidala and made vaguely threatening comments at palpatine, but mainly kept to his city (directly at least)

probably talked to qui gon a lot too

the watch once served as bodyguards for a diplomatic mission from naboo

it was perhaps an error to set colon, nobby, and detritus to guard jar-jar but vimes couldn't spare anyone else

carrot and anakin have a weird conversation that's Totally Not About Being The Chosen One, and carrot gives anakin relationship advice while also tracking people suspected of going after the queen. vimes and obi-wan aren't quite sure what to make of all this

padme, angua, and cheery get attacked and stranded, they fight their way back to the city in a series of pretty awesome adventurers and the queen is their friend for life

gaspode takes up residence outside the jedi temple and has the time of his fucking life messing with them

the librarian nearly faints when he sees all the stuff in the jedi archives just...right there, not even chained up or anything. no one knows quite what to do when an orangutan starts lugging one of their shelves out the door

the jedi look down their noses at the uu until the day someone hits mustrum ridcully with a lightsaber and it bounces off

one day a baby is born at tir nanny ogg and the jedi come to collect them. this is when nanny learns about the jedi order's bullshit with family and emotions. from that day forward they live by her whim alone

she sits in on council meetings and sings lewd songs under her breath, no matter how many knights they set to keep her out. it's not long before they all look to her before finalizing decisions, but no one's quite sure how it happened

sam vimes arrests both palpatine and yoda for deploying a slave army. sibyl takes a break from her new hobby of rancor breeding to set up a program to integrate the clones into society and research a way to slow down their accelerated ageing

every single golem in the city volunteers to help

non-fett-clone soldiers like finn also go through this program

after that finn and poe buddy-cop their way up the ranks of the watch

one time they babysit young sam and foil a kidnapping attempt, from that point forward they are the favorite uncles

luke gets trained by granny weatherwax instead of yoda. she claims she only keeps him around because you likes artoo

he brings leia to meet her and they get along like a house on fire. luke is terrified

after granny dies (which doesn't happen for a long long time, shutup) she gives yoda the talking to of his (after)life. all the jedi really. then she goes with death like the old friend he is, with a final cutting remark about how *she* doesn't have to stick around to know her students are doing well

moist and han once conned each other, leaving both of them with basically nothing (except the falcon, not even moist would try for that)

five years later moist ends up working with leia setting up the new republic. it's a miracle he survives with his arms attached

I know the eu isn't real anywhere but in my heart anymore but i feel like moist should meet nom anor. it's been too long since I read anything with him to say how that should go though

and I would like to know what the yuuzhan vong would do if they met the great a'tuin

tiffany and rey are the universe's most unstoppable tag-team

kylo ren, literally any time he opens his mouth: *gets clocked in the head by a frying pan*

drumknott and threepio start a book club

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if anyone ever asks me to find the one tiny part of dark souls that summarizes the entire thing, i’ll just show them that bit in blighttown where there’s a skinless lizard man chilling in a human-sized vase

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so, i just saw a post about jewish characters in primary-world/real-world media, like b99 or something, and it kind of brought something to the forefront of my mind that i’ve been trying to figure out for a while. namely--what’s a good way to get jewish characters/representation in secondary-world fiction?

like, is it weird or confusing to have a character from the kingdom of fan’tusi or whatever talk about their b’nei mitzvah, if there’s no other connection to the real world? i want to say yes, but i don’t know if that’s just because i’ve never seen it done. after all, fantasy with something called “the church” is a dime a dozen, and even stuff that’s not so overt, you can tell written from a christian-centric perspective. christian angels, thinly-veiled christmases, and just the general aura, y’know?

is it better to have an allegory and different words? like have a character talk about the mirup carnival or something, don’t take the words verbatim. that feels weird too, though, especially since language is a big part of things. i don’t have the time to build conlangs to substitute in for hebrew, yiddish, ladino, etc. besides, it’s not like people don’t use latin and greek and christian biblical stuff all the time.

history’s a big thing too, for holidays, traditions, languages, everything. if it’s in another world, it’s tough to just take jewish history whole-cloth and just move it someplace else. particularly since the jewish diaspora is so widespread and different parts of it are touched by so many different things.

does anyone have any input on this? or any examples (good or bad in execution, but preferably not antisemitic) where someone tried?

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everyone who knows me is probably super tired of me telling them to listen to podcasts, but please, please listen to the penumbra podcast. they somehow have both one of the best science fantasy stories and one of the best high fantasy stories running concurrently. the only thing i don't like about it is that i'm all caught up now

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i was not prepared for the veronica mars episode with meg’s family. i don’t get got by tv very much but i am really shaken by that ending, holy hell

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dilemma vs. funzo, fight!