you sound hollow, this upsets me

I have and it was designed by cowards. I feel only contempt for it. What i hate most about the baby Yoda, I will be honest here, is the lack of originality. Yoda is supposed to look like he does because he is unfathomably old. He is, like, 600 or something and iirc this is supposed tp be a fairly big deal even for his species. And yet here is baby yoda looking eaxctly the same as regular flavor Yoda minus like 3 wrinkles and a liver spot and plus shiny baby eyes??? Its like if someone tried to reverse engineer Stan Lee's species as a baby using only a pic of him at 95 and just made a small elderly Stan Lee with 1 less wrinkle. I loathe it. What it is is a transparent attempt to grab at both lazy recognizability of Yoda as a marketable character, and also + slapping on some generic 'cute' markers again very transparently for marketability. There is no thought to what makes a good design or to worldbuilding or character or to HOW AGING WORKS UPON ANIMALS. HERE IS THE BALD FACED TRUTH: BABY YODA SHOULD LOOK LIKE A MY LITTLE PONY SPINOFF ABOUT A GREEN PUG DOG WITH LUSCIOUS FLOWING LOCKS OF HAIR. YODAS SPECIES SHOULD LOOK LIKE THEY WERE DESIGNED IN A POOR ATTEMPT TO ELBOW IN ON THE LITTLEST PET SHOP MARKET WITH A "LITTLEST ALIEN DUDES" LINE IN 1998. They should look like they each come with a special personalized plastic comb. Why no one ever consults me on matters like this I will never fucking understand

*sees something blue wriggling under a plate in the sink while running water*

*lifts plate to find a blue tailed lizard now getting watered*

*turns off the water and stares at lizard very confused at how it got there*

*lizard manages to wriggle around even more until it goes through the drainage of the sink and disappears*

*lifts plate again*

*lizard is staring at me*

*stares back at it*

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Speculative fiction is big money, and I want to get in on it. Harry Turtledove has been writing crazy shit for years, and now he's run out of Civil War alt-histories and gone directly into "what if aliens helped Abraham Lincoln invent crack cocaine?" territory. That leaves a big gap for yours truly to fill, and filling gaps is what I do. Unless you're looking at my welds. Don't look at my welds. I'm an author now.

The very first book of my new series will be about AMC. Since its collapse, AMC has seized the popular imagination. How could a company make so many promising cars, with so few parts, invent the fucking Jeep Cherokee, and still go under? The only answer is government conspiracy. Everyone had the knives out for AMC, and nobody had the power to do the right thing and save it.