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Asha, née Larkin, in trying continually to break with her mother, living only ever as an inversion of the child she would have been. Unable to admit her mother any warmth and yet searching for her endlessly. Faulting the spread of Earthseed for what happened to her, and yet compiling the work which spreads Lauren's story and Earthseed. Refusing her mother's beliefs, branding them a cult and yet leaving behind her obsession with her mother's story as her own legacy. Never being able to grow a new connection, a new perspective between them that is free of Marc's hateful presence, and yet not able to stop writing about their relationship even after Lauren's death. Asha unable to move on, unable to form her life into anything other than the shadow of Larkin, a lost child never found; failing Lauren Oya Olamina's core principle of accepting change as an opportunity to shape your own destiny, over and over and over again every second of her life. Failing her not because she departs from the path set for her but because she refuses to shape her own. Where Lauren burns and buries Acorn and learns to see a different future for Earthseed, Larkin is still there, looking and studying and obsessing but never acting, never growing, never living. Asha as the foil to Lauren not because she is changed but because she isn't.

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I think the obvious solution to the "How long does Luke train with Yoda?" problem is that either [Dagobah] or [the Millenium Falcon during the journey from Hoth to Bespin] experience some super fucked up gravitational time dilation so that Luke spends a fun few weeks? months? trapsing around the swamp while Leia and Chewie have the most stressful weekend of their lives.

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I can't stop thinking about Dedra Meero in the Andor finale. It's so satisfying, such a deserved punishment, but also - how long do we think she is in that prison? It's the last days of the empire that's sent her there, but surely no rebel would free her, after Ghorman? Do empire prisons get dismantled and shut down or do the new republic just blindly accept all judicial rulings of a totalitarian regime? Surely reassessing every inmate's case in every prison would require an incalculable beaurocratic effort. So does she stay imprisoned forever? We know she's not very old, is she still there by the time of the sequels? Does she die there?

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I just can't believe in this whole show about star wars space pirates there is not a single mention of the icon that is Hondo Ohnaka. I keep waiting for him to pop up out of nowhere.

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I had (naturally) assumed Vi is called Violet because of her hair but apparently Vander just has a supernatural ability for baby names?

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Learned today that a sparrowhawk is an actual real-life bird and not just some avatar the last airbender-style hybrid beast that ursula k le guin made up for the vibes

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What I love about Dave The Diver is how many different sea creatures you get to interact with and how beautifully detailed the design of every single one of them is. The soul of the game is the ecology and life of the sea and it permeates every part of the gameplay.

What I hate about Dave The Diver is that the same fucking shark just killed me twice in a row while I was minding my own business and now I have no fucking fish to bring back

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I'm sorry, but other than the egg one, all of Bilbo's riddles suck so bad. Gollum is coming prepared with five lovely, deeply disturbing little riddle-poems. They're guessable. They rhyme. They've got clear well-defined answers like 'time' and 'fish' and 'darkness'. The answer to one of Bilbo's riddles is literally "Fish on a little one-legged table, man at table sitting on a three-legged stool, the cat gets the bones" which is outrageous. That's not a thing. And then the actual winning riddle of the contest (albeit accidentally) is 'what does Bilbo have in his pocket?' which is obviously unfair. So I'm sorry, I know he's disgusting and a creature of the dark but Gollum should have won that contest fair and square and the story should have ended there and that is why you need an impartial referee to uphold a minimum quality level for your riddle contest lest you be robbed and ultimately die in a fiery death because of it.

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I simply do not believe the wingspans in house of the dragon. You are telling me that creature can carry a huge saddle and one or two humans on it's back? Have they checked the physics. Can they show me a simulation of how wingspan changes with carrying capacity.

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No film costume has ever stuck with me like that white gown Sarah wears in that one dream sequence in the movie labyrinth. I haven't seen labyrinth in a decade but I still remember how dreamy and ethereal that dress was, she looked like what dreaming of being a princess felt like as a child, spun out in front of me. I think its the intricacy of the costume design together with the slight graininess of the film, just enough to give everything the faint glossiness of imagination. Even when I've seen pretty dresses in more modern films it hasn't had the same hold on me emotionally, I think I just can't romanticise something in crisp HD in the same way. But god, what I wouldn't give to live in the fantastical beauty of that aesthetic world.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (the book): We're in the future on a journey to Saturn! Beware, it gets pretty hazardous!

2001: A Space Odyssey (the film): eeeaaeaeeaieyeeiiaeiaAIIIIEAAEEEEYYAAAA!!!!

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I think the high republic novels/comics work so well because there are so many great protagonists, they really capture the sprawling interconnected nature of the star wars galaxy with dozens of actors influencing every event - there is no main character with plot armour who you already know will fulfill their destiny in one way or another and cannot be killed. Unfortunately however I have instead grown attached to ALL the characters and if any of them get hurt in any way whatsoever (which they do, all the time) or god forbid die or sacrifice themselves (WHICH THEY DO, ALL THE TIME) I will absolutely lose my mind.

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Denis Villeneuve is a coward for cutting out the fact that Paul wakes up from the near-fatal spice agony and immediately comes out as non-binary to his mum and girlfriend.

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It's so embarrassing to love something, all my family members are asking me if I had fun seeing the new dune movie the way you ask a child if they had fun at kindergarten today. And I can't help myself I come to like 20 minutes later halfway through explaining what I think about the fact they chose to cut out creepy toddler reverend mother st alia of the knife and how you must know of the tripod political structure of the Dune galaxy to understand why the Shaddam IV has to agree to abdicate and to understand why the guild would roll over so easily you really have to understand the life cycle of the worms and their connection to the spice melange and Pardot Kynes was

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This is a bit niche but I think Tenzin from Legend of Korra and Stellan Gios from The High Republic would actually be besties. They could talk about council jobs and beard care and being monks and jumping really far and working really hard to take care of those around them and being the only responsible people in a friendship group of reckless goofs.

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I love Tenzin. He is so tired. He is so earnest. Everyone in his life thinks he's a huge nerd. Tenzin would love those eldest daughter/gifted child/burnout tiktoks and he is not even the oldest sibling.

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Kit Fisto is peak character design for me. I think if I looked like that it would heal something in me. That's why he's so confident, he knows he's eating everyone else up. I love him.