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Barriss and Ahsoka learn that agreeing to disagree is easy. The hard part is understanding what the argument is about. [Or: The girls are talkingggggggg]

#barriss offee #ahsoka tano #anakin #luminara unduli #my fic #ahsoka and barriss #When your teenage angst bullshit has a body count #Redemption is a social construct #Barriss does evil things but is not inherently evil and I will die on this hill #I haven’t watched the tales of the empire trailer yet I was literally waiting to post this #back on my usual /two people in a room talking/ bullshit #the clone wars

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For All Mankind S2

I feel like they re-introduced each of the characters with age makeup, and then forgot to put it on for the rest of the season. None of the women have aged a single day.

Thank God the Baldwins adopted someone with inherent emotional intelligence because they sure as hell weren’t going to hit on that genetically

GUS GRISSOM CALL OUTTTTTTTT

I had a great high school US history teacher and we definitely covered the Cold War and I Did Not Remember the time the USSR shot down a passenger jet carrying a US congressman

Molly & Margo continue to be everything to me with a side of Molly & Margo & Ellen beginning to be everything to me aUsPiStIcEsHiP??

Not to be confused with the Ed-Karen-Wayne-Molly matesprit / moirail quadrangle which is also independently everything to me

Danielle Poole is what happens when you watch too much Star Trek and no one tells you the Soviets are about to straight up nuke Florida

I continue to stan both Karen and Ed even though they are horrible people I just think they should get everything they ever wanted I will not be taking questions

Showrunners: We will not be introducing a lot of new characters this season. However, consider that one of them is Sally Ride and she has a handgun

Drink every time someone has to tell Ed that this isn’t Korea. My guy it has been THIRTY YEARS

There’s something hilarious to me about the s1 finale involving Margo directing two separate missions at the same time and both of them spiral entirely out of control, and the s2 finale has her directing three separate missions at the same time and all of them spiral entirely out of control. Like idk maybe try having fewer missions happen at the same time?

SEE MARGO THIS IS WHY YOU CAN’T LET ANYONE IN

By far the most unrealistic thing about this show is that the music industry from 1969 onwards just obliviously chugs forward along the original timeline

#for all mankind #s2 #spoilers

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oh jeez the margaret keene by mile twelve should come with a side effect warning

NO i am NOT lying on my floor crying to The Margaret Keene by Mile Twelve, LEAVE ME ALONE

#may cause crying and existential panic #just to know we could escape if we were brave enough to leave #my terrible taste in music

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SHIT I gotta post my Barriss fic before I get scooped

#you've heard of everything but the thesis #get ready for everything but the summary #it's been 6 months #tales of the empire #barriss offee

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KAREN NO EW GROSS

I DID NOT MEAN -

I feel like I manifested this into existence and for that I apologize

For All Mankind S1

The music heckin slaps

I can't emphasize enough how great the women are. ALL of them (and I'm including Wayne). What if we made roughly 2,000 female characters and each of them embodied a different wave of femisism. What then

Molly and Margo should kiss

Karen and every other character, except maybe Ed, should kiss

So far miraculously threading the needle of making basically every character just the worst but still getting me to root for them looking at you battlestar

20% of my mental energy at any given time is spent on the fact that Gordo looks and sounds EXACTLY like Trip Tucker it is CREEPY

#for all mankind #s2

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#always reblog ozymandius jokes

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#x coded y girl #for all mankind #season 1 only

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For All Mankind S1

The music heckin slaps

I can't emphasize enough how great the women are. ALL of them (and I'm including Wayne). What if we made roughly 2,000 female characters and each of them embodied a different wave of femisism. What then

Molly and Margo should kiss

Karen and every other character, except maybe Ed, should kiss

So far miraculously threading the needle of making basically every character just the worst but still getting me to root for them looking at you battlestar

20% of my mental energy at any given time is spent on the fact that Gordo looks and sounds EXACTLY like Trip Tucker it is CREEPY

#for all mankind

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Janeway VS Demon Core.

#janeway #star trek voyager #she would tho

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Okay folks, the new season is almost here, which means it's time to play bingo!

Please use, share, and enjoy ❤️🖤

(There's also a printer-friendly version below the cut, in case you're old school like me)

#the bad batch #bad batch s3 #I will be playing this

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Intellectual me: this baton is a very expensive and valuable tool. it is not a toy.

Gremlin me: but even still, me want bite

#hahahahaha

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idk is this anything

#ahsoka tano #luke skywalker #ahsoka and luke #esb #tcw #back on my ahsokaandluke ahsokaandluke ahsokaandluke bullshit #gif

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omigod I forgot how being impaled is nonfatal

Epiphany: The Ahsoka show is just a worse Centaurworld.

Two worlds that are hard to travel between and characters keep getting stuck on one side of the other, a Backstory Limbo Dimension, jumping into sentient whales, a mind controlled black magic army, letting the Big Bad into your universe and trying to convince anyone else to care...

Ahsoka is Horse, Rider AND The Woman, both Anakin and Thrawn are the Nowhere King and Huyang is Comfortable Doug

I would have so much respect if ahsoka s2e1 included the line "and accidentally I released him. whoops-a-daisy"

#spoilers #ahsoka show #centaurworld

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I read vision of the future (hand of thrawn book 2 aka Who Scams the Scammers)

(spoilers) and once again it turned into a liveblog, apologies

Hold up are we doing Warrior Cats? Is this Warrior Cats Planet??

What base is “arm around your waist to serve as a psychic translator conduit”

Omigod I WISH my Warrior Cat name were “Jaded of Mara”

Everything I know about Soontir Fel I learned from x wing but I would not have guessed his primary motivation to be "dirt"

@ luke and mara: the girls are talkingggggg

North Barris Spaceport has me twitching

Ghent not remembering who the president is and just assuming it’s probably Leia. I mean fair

What base is "holding hands to brace yourselves over a swarm of flesh eating insects"

So we’re finally asking why Mara ISN’T actually dark side and the answer is… shrug emoji?

Man Zahn really is stuck on “character bonding hike” as a device huh. But consider I eat that shit up

Oh No Lando is racist

LMAO at “so oblivious you need a child pterodactyl to tell you to just kiss already” to “besides I don’t want my life to be like spiderman three I hated that movie” to “kissing with dubious consent” ALL ON THE SAME PAGE like Zahn finally realized he really needed to get this show on the road

LMAO at Ghent getting a free pass from Pellaeon to hack the empire. Like you’re just going to get the thing you need and not steal all of our military and political secrets right? Riiiight? Even more LMAO at the fact that that would probably not even occur to Ghent

When everyone assumes they're the protagonist so finding this one macguffin is their job personally. Like guys I like the energy but maybe we've got enough different plans to do the same thing (the exception, hilariously, being Luke) (and Oh No it turns out Luke is the one to find the macguffin because You Have to Follow Your Heart and Let the MacGuffin Come to You. I eat that shit up also)

Mara’s just... So great.

Not to make everything about my blorbo but absolutely to make everything about my blorbo I do wonder to what extent Ahsoka’s characterization post-Rebels doesn’t click for me is because a lot of the more obvious directions for Oldsoka overlap with Mara, and the powers that be didn’t want to reinvent the Mara Jade wheel. Not to say they have similar characterization – Mara has terminal sam coded dean girl syndrome – but idk, in dynamic range maybe? Calling out bullshit, weaponizing her own abrasiveness, covering insecurity with humor, being Kind of a Lot with a side of trust issues at any given moment – there are modes Mara and Youngsoka share that didn’t pass to Oldsoka apparently. Idk possibly all this is just me wanting them to TALK

Establishing that you can do evil things for selfless reasons without necessarily being in any danger of falling to the dark side is... Philosophically interesting

We interrupt this tale of political espionage to bring you Jedi Relationship Counseling (spoiler alert: communication is key)

"That part of her life [Mara’s time with Palpatine] had died unmourned" I mean mourned a little bit. Mourned for at least a book and a half

I've been willing to suspend my disbelief on everything in this book until "both Luke and Mara forget that ysalamiri exist"

I will never not be a sucker for The Movements and Transferred Ownership of Emotionally Significant Weapons

Oh No thrawn made a second foundation

The Aing-Tii seem OP but whatever

Oh No the second foundation forgot to close the garage doors

(Re: The Jade’s Fire) I know Mara’s having a Moment, and I promise I’m taking it seriously, but when the warrior cat asked “What is it you want, Mara Jade” my WHOLE BRAIN responded with "I want Hermione Granger! And a rocket ship!"

Moranda has real Kevin from home alone energy and I'm living for it

Is it bad that I’m actually kinda happy the Imperials’ Bothawui shield plan worked? Like, they had a really interesting plan and I’m happy for them. They earned it

WAIT IS MORANDA DEAD FR?

What base is “full mind meld while you’re fighting for your lives”

Who would win: ~1.5 Jedi, 2 sentinel droids droidekas, or Artoo with a sauntering gun

If I had a nickel for every time this duology explicitly established Jedi can’t go completely without oxygen, even when in a trance, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but which makes me feel like the Ahsoka show had a weirdly specific axe to grind with the source material

Luke’s proposal to Mara is Just. The. Funniest. Thing. That’s some Anakin-level cringe and the prequels aren’t even out yet. He truly is his father’s son.

I mean POV there’s this guy and for a couple years you want to kill him, and then you realize that’s more of a You Problem, so then you’re friendquaitances for a decade mostly because you don’t approve of the shit he’s getting into, and then you have one (1) honest conversation and get caught in a death trap and he’s like “so I think the next step for us is marriage”

LEIAAAAAA! Full Jedi Knight Leia is both terrifying and hot. I would run.

“So it is treason” – Some random guy

Lando needs to be on the New Republic payroll simply for being willing to speak to any of the other characters and also he needs a raise. This poor guy getting called on to command the entire New Republic fleet mid-battle and he’s like “I’ve been a civilian for 15 years and also I knew you would pull some horse piss like this steve”

Mara Jade, Imperial protege. Skills include: Identifying load-bearing walls. (Now all I want is Property Brothers: Sith Edition)

Mara please. Luke please. These absolute idiots. This is some pear scene shit. I hope nothing bad happens to them ever

The whole back half of this book has been an emotional rollercoaster for me specifically because I wanted Flim to be Thrawn FR soooooo baddddd. And now I’m sad. His name literally means scam don’t do this to me Zahn

I’ve been amused by all the Star Wars universe idioms but I gotta take a moment to specifically showcase “burned your sky-arches.” Karrde is a delight to have in class

Having an independent intelligence agency that’s supposed to work for both the New Republic and the Empire seems absolutely unhinged but go off I guess

When the New Republic and Empire sign peace accords and Luke can’t even be bothered to show up

Mara is great and her arc is fuckin hilarious to me. The narrative has identified her as The Damaged One and I’m like???? She came to terms with her troubled past, drew her own boundaries regarding the Dark Side, recognized that there are people who care about her instead of pre-emptively pushing them away, and resolved to form deeper emotional connections. Smash cut to ROTS Anakin whose physical and psychic damage has literally turned his brain into oatmeal

Again I know this was before the prequels Mad points for explicitly saying Mara needed to form attachments to become a Jedi. Zahn being pretty gangsta there

OH NO THEMB

#long post #hand of thrawn #vision of the future #star wars legends #mara jade #ghent #timothy zahn #ahsoka tano #because ahsoka just sneaks into all my mental processes sorry

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#ghent came here to hack computers and chew bubblegum #and he's all out of bubblegum #he's also glad he wore his brown pants #ghent #he's such a special little guy #hand of thrawn #star wars legends

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a solid year late to this meme format but here goes if it's already been done we're doing it again

#this may be a cursed take on the doctor sorry #certainly not suggesting this as a replacement for the x coded y girl lens #simply an orthogonal lens #more data is required to determine any possible correlation #star trek voyager #planet of the bass

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#some of these takes feel wild to me but at the same time I can't imagine another way to fit them? #possibly partly because most clones have cas coded dean girl energy #anyway who's ready for season threeeeeee #[chants] TPK! TPK! TPK! #(the cowards will not TPK) #the bad batch #hunter #tbb omega #x coded y girl