I call it #tammygate
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I call it #tammygate
Did tros actually ruin the saga? They seem to be fine financially. Yes, sw is comepletely toothless now. Like even the acolate, they just made the jedis bad, not the same as failable (they did not refuse the false dichotomy), but idk. Isn't the franchise fine?
They've cancelled about four billion projects, gave up all their ambitious plans, and are clearly floundering and directionless, but I've always said it could coast on sheer inertia for an indefinite amount of time before it'll become an outright drain. The days of drain will come, though.
Because yes, tros absolutely ruined the saga. It destroyed the universe, the narrative, and most of the characters. They've sealed themselves off into a dead world with a limited past and no future. It didn't tank the whole franchise financially, but it was very embarrassing and it put a damper on enthusiasm in general and nearly entirely smothered it for the ST specifically.
Woke up from a weird nap and saw this reel and it's making me feel like I need to get up and walk for like an hour
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I have posted the first half of the ghoulcy fic I've been writing since October. It was originally for the prompt 'scar tissue' for the Hallowe'en ghoucly week, but I ended up not doing anything on that theme lmao. Maybe I will write that fic eventually, but this became a completely different fic.
I can't skip over the relationship-building part. I just can't do it.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I have posted the first half of the ghoulcy fic I've been writing since October. It was originally for the prompt 'scar tissue' for the Hallowe'en ghoucly week, but I ended up not doing anything on that theme lmao. Maybe I will write that fic eventually, but this became a completely different fic.
I can't skip over the relationship-building part. I just can't do it.
BRING BACK ROMANCE
The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991
THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987, dir. Rob Reiner
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
A few years ago, I was discussing The Last Jedi with a classmate and he said something like āIt was a good movie, just not a good Star Wars movieā. At the time, I chalked it up to the fact that he was a teenage boy who was probably parroting the vague and irritating criticism that the movie faced at the time. Years later, I began to think about that moment more and more. Despite hearing that critique so many times, hearing it from him made me reflect on the concept of āgettingā Star Wars and what fans perceive as āgettingā Star Wars.
What the last few years (and the stream of post-TROS shows) have taught me, is that a large portion of fans donāt actually get what Star Wars is. The same is true for those who are currently planning the future of the franchise. They donāt see the value in the mythical framework of the series or care to understand it, it seems like they overlook it entirely. Theyāre so consumed by the fidelity to āthe loreā that they canāt take step back and see the (mythical) elements that drew them to the story in the first place. It feels a bit arrogant of me to say that, but itās a feeling thatās been bothering me.
Yes, part of the core of the problem is that even the people who actually like SW that DLF hired seem to be mostly fans of the old EU who are fundamentally unconcerned with what SW is actually about. People who prioritise 'lore' and minutiae, who think trivia is worldbuilding or that 'worldbuilding' is what defines the GFFA.
Whereas what actually defines the GFFA is the themes ('love people, that's all Star Wars is' -George Lucas). The universe exists to tell the story and the story exists to communicate the themes. It is character-driven, not plot or setting driven. Things making emotional sense is the only thing that matters in the OT, the logistics are irrelevant and incidental. It's not sci-fi and never has been, there is no interest in explaining the rules of the technology or codifying the Force into a structured system. There is no exploration of the relationship of society with technology because this is an epic fantasy story focussing on the conflict going on in the human spirit between selfishness and love; it's about the coming of age of an individual where the entire setting is established to facilitate that. SW is a story about individuals and their journey to ethical adulthood.
TLJ is written to the mythic archetype and themes of SW, its basic narrative shape is absolutely textbook exactly what anyone who understands literary criticism should have expected. It is exactly what a SW sequel to TFA should and needed to be. Which is why so many people doing that kind of analysis were able to accurately predict its main story beats.
The lore fans who want 'realism', video game power system Force magic, and the kind of moral ambiguity which is foundationally incompatible with SW are not fans of the story, they are fans of the trappings. These are the people who dismiss Vader's redemption as a unforunate incidental that 'everyone' can ignore because the rest of RotJ is good (paraphrase of an actual post I saw).
THE moral victory, the protagonist's moment of vindication, the entire POINT of the story and this dude thinks it's like, an accidental blooper that just kinda snuck into the edit because he wants Luke to be a standard American hero and not to have his worldview challenged.
I am totally comfortable saying they don't get SW no matter how much trivia they've memorised and merch they've collected.
āI hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing ā instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.ā
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Ursula K. Le Guin, āA Left-Handed Commencement Addressā (Mills College, 1983)
this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.
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āWRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what youāre doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.ā
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something I think about a lot -- especially whenever the bit comes up about Bulma hooking up with Vegeta because he seemed lonely -- is how underrated and under-discussed Bulma's loneliness is too. She's not isolated in the same way Vegeta is, but throughout the series she presents herself as an extrovert, while struggling to make friends, displaying a deep frustration toward her relationship with her parents, and then the late-add lore that her big sister just up and left her whole life behind when Bulma was still a little girl, and kind of left Bulma to deal with their parents and their company and all the hard parts of growing up by herself.
The other thing is that Bulma's intellect is largely unmatched, especially in anyone her age. Even including her sister, she doesn't have anyone she can talk to about the things she's passionate about. She can't communicate all the stuff that goes on in her head, because nobody who cares would get it and nobody who gets it would care. Vegeta, due to being a highborn alien raised in a cutting-edge advanced society, is very likely the first person in her age bracket that knows and is actually interested enough in science to talk about it with her, and can follow probable logic well enough to not have his eyes glaze over when she explains something out of his depth. And, it's implied that it was not common in any of his demographics either -- Vegeta's intelligence was something Frieza had to remind even his highest-ranking men to remain on alert about.
All this to say, I think it gets read a lot that Bulma felt sorry for Vegeta and just wanted to fix him, but I don't think that's giving her enough credit as a person with her own life and experience. Rather, I think it's a really cool and interesting part of their dynamic that loneliness and isolation as a direct consequence of being Born Special(tm) is something Bulma can fully understand and empathize with.