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love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.
“What you experience here is free of outside influence. The only voices you will hear are those you bring with you.”
I re-read Legacy of Vader this week, in preparation for The Fall of Kylo Ren. Per usual, I have thoughts.
Disclaimer: I’ve seen some less-than-charitable takes on this run. Fans have variously (1) praised it for casting Kylo Ren as a “self-pitying incel,” (2) criticized it for sidelining Hux, (3) loved it solely for shipping reasons, (4) hated it solely for shipping reasons…the list goes on. If you, gentle reader, fall into any of the aforementioned camps, please know that I’m not here to tell you that you have to like Legacy of Vader. You’re not obligated to like anything. I am, however, here to make the case that Legacy of Vader is valuable to fans interested in the interiority of Ben Solo.
Kylo Ren is a liar. He lies to others, and he lies to himself; often, he does both at the same time.
Legacy of Vader spends much of its time on this idea. Issues #1-11 see Kylo Ren receiving and rejecting others’ assessments of his raison d'être, unwilling to do the introspective work required to test their validity, while Issue #12 presents him with a mirror and holds his face to the glass. The sequence illustrated above is from the series’ final confrontation, a duel between Kylo Ren as he is and Ben Solo as he might have been, set meaningfully in (emphasis mine) “Fortress Vader. Within.” This place, we’re told, is true. What might we learn from its honesty?
Interpretations below. Please note that truth is being used here to mean “character’s sincerely-held belief” and not “objective fact.”
“You’ve destroyed your relationships with everyone you could plausibly call family. You’ve methodically destroyed every connection in your life.”
Lie: Kylo Ren is content to be alone. The only relationships he’s interested in are those that aid his pursuit of power. (Legacy of Vader #3)
Truth: Kylo Ren has betrayed everyone he’s ever loved. Despite his ongoing pursuit of power, he’s lonely. He has no one to blame but himself.
“You brought destruction, chaos, and death to everyone you met. At least Vader had reasons for the things he did. You…you’re just an explosion.”
Lie: Kylo Ren's actions are justified by his pain. The galaxy deserves to suffer because he's suffered. (Legacy of Vader #2)
Truth: Kylo Ren doesn’t know why he does the things he does. He thinks he might be cursed, or broken.
“You’re so scared. Scared of moving forward, scared you have no future because of how thoroughly you’ve ruined everything you’ve ever done.”
Lie: Kylo Ren has defeated everything and everyone that once held power over him. He has nothing to fear. (Legacy of Vader #10)
Truth: Every choice Kylo Ren has ever made for himself has been wrong. Without a master, he feels paralyzed.
“That’s why you’re obsessed with your past. That’s why you want to kill it. Because maybe if you weren’t who you are, maybe if you could just erase it…then the Jedi girl would have taken your hand.”
Lie: Ben Solo is nothing but the sum of Kylo Ren's mistakes. Once Kylo Ren removes the memory of who he used to be from the galaxy, he'll be able to move on. (Legacy of Vader #5)
Truth: Kylo Ren spares his mother and his rival—both of whom know him more intimately than anyone still living—because losing them will mean he's truly alone.
“You can’t kill your past. But you already know that, don’t you? It’s the truth you can’t escape.”
Lie: Kylo Ren's past is something external he can kill. (Legacy of Vader #1)
Truth: Kylo Ren's past dies with him, or not at all.
“This could all be over. I could make it all stop for you. But that's not something I would ever do. I'm a Jedi.”
Lie: Kylo Ren has no limits. Nothing is forbidden to him. (Legacy of Vader #4)
Truth: Kylo Ren wants to die. He cannot kill himself.
Kylo Ren spends the majority of this comic run demanding a worthy opponent. Why? Because he wants to lose. Vader’s legacy, Charles Soule reminds us, isn’t glory—it’s this: “Dying to fight. Dying to die.”
It’s a shame that Disney/Lucasfilm couldn’t conceive of an arc for Ben Solo that didn’t boil down to “passively suicidal character is better off dead,” but I’m curious to see where this next installment will take him.
free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business
every time I think about how they apparently made yoda's swamp hut an instinctual thing that his entire species crawls off and builds I fucking lose it again
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I agree with all of this. But! I think it is also important to recognize that there are subgenres where it is significantly harder to find certain things, and it's actively unhelpful to readers to pretend that you can just find whatever type of book you want to read if you just know how to look for it, especially if you are sticking to trad publishing.
It is possible to find both sapphic SFF and M/M fantasy. It is significantly harder to find, say, aro urban fantasy. Or trans romantic suspense. Or intersex mystery.
A lot of the advice above only really works for trad published or popular books and for identities/subgenres/content that aren't too niche.
So here's some advice if the advice above isn't working for you (either because you can't find books with what you want or because the books you are finding don't end up being the vibe you want), from someone who reads a few hundred books a year:
Find websites or lists dedicated to the specific thing you are looking for. They will generally have more variety and will post you to examples that don't show up in regular rec lists. (ex: aro book recs, ace book recs, intersex #ownvoices database, sapphic books). Goodreads lists can (sometimes) also be your friend.
Get comfortable reading self-published and small press books. Trad publishing has its blind spots.
Check Reddit for recommendations
Start figuring out what it is specifically that you like and then start making your searches more specific. This can be subgenre (if you want urban fantasy, you're rarely going to find it just searching "fantasy"), tropes, plot devices, vibes, etc.
Look at the "readers also bought" on Goodreads/Amazon, similar books on Storygraph, etc. if you read a book you like. Even if you don't end up reading the one you click on, it can show you similar authors (similar to looking at the blurb on a cover), especially because far fewer books have blurbs now.
having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.
this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.
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