exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Hey, 8 tried to tell a different story. It's a story about how the legend of "Luke Skywalker" is overblown and doesn't do justice to the man himself or to anyone around him. It's a story about how war has a big negative effect on the rest of the world, even places far away from the war. It's a story about how sometimes the world doesn't work the way myths do, with awesome magic powers and heroic sacrifices. It's a story about how everyone is important, and the "great man" idea of history is false. Those are stories that Star Wars hasn't told before.

8 redeemed the mistakes of 5 and fixed Star Wars.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

I prefer to call it the Sokka problem.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

Of course. Everything important that ever happened has to involve a far-off backwater that nobody's even heard of.

(I actually like Tatooine's inclusion in KOTOR purely because it makes the planet an even more transparent Dune ripoff)

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

George Lucas created the Star Wars movies after R2D2 and C-3PO crash landed in an escape pod in his backyard, and they told him the story of the Empire, the rebels, and the Jedi. Earth is the only planet that has Star Wars because it's where R2 and Threepio ended up.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Workplace comedy about Jedi temple guards.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Big caves are called caverns

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's Xitter, pronounced shitter

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But the word "cave" implies a feeling of smallness

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You just contradicted yourself.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

whispersDon't forget that the Tenno defeated the Man In The Wall (for now) with a loving male-on-male caress.

I saw someone theorise that the opposite of indifference is sympathy. Tagfer says the murmur seem like they just want to be involved with what's going on in reality. The Tenno ability to love a monster is the hard counter to whatever the Man In The Wall is planning. Whether the Man In The Wall is the indifference, or the murmur is, or they both are, or neither are, sympathy was the key to stopping Them and it may continue to be. We don't know what motivates Them, but I think winning this battle for good is gonna take some forgiveness and empathy. And also They're queer AF. I dunno what it is but They give off that vibe. Kinda reminds me of the Collector from Owl House, who's a demiboy.

By the way, there's a void that works a lot like the void from Warframe in the books Glitch and The Outside. Both books are extremely queer. So much so that the sequel to The Outside is about "how do you run a queer atheist commune full of mentally ill people who have magic powers". It's brilliant!

Second DreamThe protagonists of both books are basically Tenno

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