i hate that when you try and look up shit for writing purposes it starts linking suicide hotlines and addiction advice articles like bro i just wanna know the information im not killing myself i promise. now tell me what i wanna know

..both thibgs can be true at the same time

I've always wondered about the Star Wars novels because there are so many... are all of them faithful canon to the original trilogy? If not, which subsets are?

George Lucas had to approve every Star Wars novel that was released prior to the Disney era. This does not mean they're all good, but it does mean they're all canon. There are also (no spoilers) two married couples with great, healthy relationships. Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover is a glowing example of what novelizations, and indeed sci-fi, can be. I also liked the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson, which features Luke getting the new Jedi Order off the ground. The Thrawn books by Timothy Zahn are incredibly popular, though I haven't read them myself, and the Young Jedi Knights series was about Han and Leia's kids and their training.

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

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if u make clark kent say soda you are grossly mischaracterizing him and i wont stand for it

Brave souls

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

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always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

This really freaking annoys me. If you’re in charge of a movie franchise then it is your job to embrace every character, to help them grow and overcome their differences. But no, NO! These asshats kill off every single character that they hate and are acting like complete babies just because they don’t like them. If you don’t like them so much then fuck off! Go and work on something else! Just stop ruining the MCU!!!

this is so funny tho

Oh they hated everyone that explains why the movies are like that

No wonder the mcu feels like a slightly better Michael bay franchise

On the bright side, knowing the directors actively hated half the characters they were working with leaves me feeling 0% hesitant to ignore every single bullshit character move they made! 😜

That explains why, despite my incredible geekiness, I’ve been meh about seeing these movies. The contempt showed.

I’m not even a fan of the mcu but I’m fucking livid right now

Three beloved franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, MCU) thrown into the hands of directors who clearly did not respect their source material/characters. Cut to current day, and where are all three of those franchises now? Dead in the water, dead in the water, and drowning so fast the Russos have to bring Robert Downey Jr and Captain America back in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. And these are just the biggest examples–the landscape is filled with the expensive corpses of reboots, remakes, and revivals made by those with indifference or contempt for the originals. The moral of the story is: Hire people who love the thing you’re trying to adapt instead of people who see a beloved property and think it’s their chance to “subvert expectations” and “make it their own.”

They aborted the Yellowstone super eruption because of woke

this is true

You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore

children eleven thousand years ago enjoyed jumping around in puddles made from the footprints of a giant sloth. children loved muddy puddles so long ago there were still megafauna alive

There’s a record of an emperor of Japan in the 9th century talking about his cat - how pretty it is, and how it stalks birds and curls up in a circle and meows mournfully for company and escaped its collar. All completely normal ordinary cat things. And then it ends with him saying “it is superior to all other cats”. I am delighted to be united across 1200 years with this fellow cat owner with exactly the same feelings about his cat that I have about mine.

white people have the sauce sometimes and dont even know it

i just saw a youtube short of brandon sanderson on a podcast. the whole time hes talking hes doing book signings. what a flex. so many bitches on my dick i gotta multitask

brandon sanderson is actually just built different. once on a podcast with patrick rothfuss they were talking about tools to write better and he said "i try to limit myself to 8 hours of writing per day." he took time off of writing during the first year of covid and accidentally wrote four unplanned books. he teaches a class at byu. his wife has a codeword to get him to stop writing in his head because at any given moment you might think he's doing something normal but no he's also writing another novel. stephen king said he's insane

via queenofattolia: #stephen king said he's insane: most damning sentence ever written