#star ways

[saphmiu]

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[foolscapper]

FIVE MINUTE DRAWINGS. I had 5 minutes on a stopwatch to draw different prompts given by some pals -- these are a few of 'em I liked most. :)

[himbolukeskywalker]

why must star wars be good? why is it not enough for rey to be on screen?

[blue-opossum]

Solid Tin Coyote vs. Imperial Walkers

        Night of June 17, 2020. Wednesday.

        Dream #: 19,539-14. Reading time (optimized): 2 min 30 sec.

        Before deliberately letting go of my conscious awareness and recognition of being in the dream state (see note one below), I watch the typical rapid morphing of surreal imagery until it begins to slow into something with which I can integrate. I become aware of an audio snippet from "The Solid Tin Coyote" that accompanied the scene where it is striding. (It is a very familiar and nostalgic sound going back to age five when I first saw it in a drive-in theater with my sister Marilyn and her husband.)

        I focus on the imaginary sound, and this results in a vivid vestibular response of being the solid tin coyote. However, during my dream, my viewpoint changes. At times, I am the solid tin coyote, cheerfully striding through a field. At other times, I am inside its head at a panel reminiscent of an aircraft. Additionally, I am sometimes watching it from an incorporeal perspective.

        Soon, Imperial Walkers (AT-AT walkers) from the "Star Wars" franchise appear on each side. They are slightly shorter than the solid tin coyote. As the solid tin coyote, I happily push them over and avoid their attacks.

        Eventually, when cerebral cortex nuances rise above vestibular cortex nuances (that is, thought cohesiveness beginning to overtake the imaginary physicality of the dream state because of higher liminality and more predominant duality), a Boston Dynamics robot dog struts into the scene from the opposite direction. "Mind your social distancing," it says in a strange synthetic voice, yet while walking even closer to my solid tin coyote form.

        "Here's your social distancing," I say, and kick the Boston Dynamics robot dog over a pole vault bar about a city block's distance away.

        After this, vestibular dynamics rise above cerebral, resulting in seeing a herd of zebras running to the horizon. (See note two.)

        It is important to emphasize that this is my first liminal to instinctual dream where a pandemic term was perceived, though it still did not trigger any dream state recall of the pandemic itself.

        Note one: In contrast to "becoming lucid" while dreaming (though I have always been spontaneously lucid in the first half of a sleep cycle since I was a toddler, a fact that most people can neither seem to comprehend nor accept), I often utilize the opposite technique. After building a foundation of repeated specialized affirmations (though I never post more definitively scripted dreams online), I deliberately release my conscious presence, so my dream becomes instinctual (without conscious bias, allowing my dream's narrative to render naturally), which is more intriguing and unique than by way of liminal modulation. (This term includes the sustaining of the duality and knowledge of causal factors between dream space and waking space.) It is overwhelmingly evident that most people lack any understanding of the dream state or its processes, but I try to write as clearly and as honestly as I can. I use specialized software to utilize as low a grade level (concerning readability) as possible for the content, making multiple passes. Despite my AI-reported performance, typically 100% (correctness, clarity, engagement, and delivery), that does not guarantee that my writing is entirely free of errors or ambiguity.

        Note two: Anything in my dream resulting from vestibular-cerebral handshakes and their instinctual, liminal, or lucid management, for example, a car, horse, robot, and so on, vary with which cortex is concurrently most active.

        Robots correlate more with cerebral cortex integration (and my liminal awareness that the physicality of the dream state is wholly imaginary). Physical forms such as animals (in this case, the zebras) correlate more with vestibular-cerebral passivity as I release my hold on liminality. I have experienced these results in thousands of my dreams since childhood, so there is no mystery as to their causal factors.

[oadara]

Do you think Rey is a Mary Sue?

Hi anon,

You know, whoever invented that term did storytelling a disservice. It hurts me in my hurty place everytime I see this used to describe a character, especially a female character, that someone doesn’t like. It’s especially egregious because 99% of people who use the term also use it incorrectly. 

Why don’t we start with what the term actually means:

A Mary Sue is an idealized and seemingly perfect fictional character. Often, this character is recognized as an author insert or wish fulfillment.They can usually perform better at tasks than should be possible given the amount of training or experience.

It’s basically a wish-fulfillment character who’s an author insert and can do no wrong. It was actually first introduced when someone was criticizing a character in a Star Trek Fan Fiction. It’s obviously expanded beyond fan fiction but the elements of being a perfect character who can do no wrong are there. 

So, bringing it back to Rey, while she’s clearly very gifted, her gifts are not beyond other gifted characters we have seen in Star Wars. But more importantly, she makes plenty of mistakes and is by no means perfect. 

Rey is impulsive, idealistic/immature, short-tempered, and frankly gets attached really easily which clearly has to do with her abandonment issues. I mean, she literally kicks Finn’s ass the moment she meets him because she thinks he stile BB8′s master’s jackets and when Finn was able to explain himself they became besties. 

She mails herself to her frenemy Ben Solo after a few Force-skype session because she had a vision. She doesn’t stop to consider anything beyond what she saw, even though, Like did warn her it wasn't’ going to turn out the way she envisioned. And of course, it didn’t turn out the way she imagines because her presence alone was not going to be the magic pill that turned Kylo Ren back into Ben Solo. He got issues, which he needs to work out on his own. 

Which also shows us that she’s still very innocent, idealistic and a bit immature. And that’s not really her fault, she had a rough upbringing and while she’s very mature and thoughtful in many ways, in other ways she’s not. Just like most people can be mature when it comes to one thing and completely immature when it comes to another. 

She’s clearly in the final stages of growing up, leaving the adolescence behind and maturing into an adult. But as with any phase in life, they’ll be growing pains. 

Of course, she’s awesome and amazing, but she’s also the hero of the story and with that comes being awesome and amazing. You’re not going to please everyone but I wish people would be more consistent and try and judge all characters in a series by the same metric. Because it’s true that females by in large get judge more harshly both by male and female fans. 

TTFN

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