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The Living Force Live-Tumbl Part 5

Part 1 Part 4

Chapters 25-32

-Ki-Adi-Mundi is the worst. All my homies hate Ki-Adi-Mundi.

-HMMM Kylah was raised on Chalacta. Where Depa is from. INTERESTING.

-All my homies love Yaddle! I'm glad she got a Tales of the Jedi episode, and then a whole POV in Cataclysm. She's having fun on a speeder bike!

-Everyone should have a Master Piell as a teacher. You know, that teacher who doesn't necessarily stick to the curriculum but somehow you learn more from them than anyone else and remember them better years later. I had that teacher in 7th and 8th grade social studies. We did things like build model ships and put Goldilocks on mock trial.

-It's nice to see some people who love Jedi. Even if they've met one (1) Jedi and it's Master Piell and they are rowdy teens.

-Woostroids are a Legends species apparently! Love bringing them into Canon. And Morna is very relatable.

-Ah Zilastra, you've fallen into the role you don't know is all too common: personally slighted by one Jedi and now has a vendetta against all of them. The Path would have loved you. Ever heard of Axel Greylark?

-OMG the TV hosts are the same species as the podrace announcers from Phantom Menace! I ADORE this concept!

-Tenoo mention! I haven't seen every episode of YJA, but it does look like they celebrated a Jellyfruit Festival in one of the episodes- maybe that's what Yaddle is referring to!

-"There's a light that's within...The Jedi spend their whole lives trying to see that light- in themselves, and in others. It's part of something larger. You are part of something larger." Yaddle may I introduce you to my friend George Fox

-Also love Yaddle being the one to give the opposite of Yoda's warning. Courage leads to peace, peace leads to love, love leads to healing. Queen shit!

-Honestly this whole segment with Yaddle and Morna is representative of why I love reading Star Wars books. You get such insight into how Jedi view the force and how it parallels real-world mental health stuff.

-Yarael Poof!! Love that his attitude is basically "been there, done that, gonna have a good time now" because he's so old!

-"Poof is a grand and historic name among the Quermians. It's not my fault that when it translates into Basic it sounds like the end of a magic trick." (That quote speaks for itself, right?)

-All these other gang members really showed up to this Zoom call with their cameras off lol same

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The Living Force Live-Tumbl Part 4

Part 1 Part 3

Chapters 16-24

-Nobody told me sabacc was also tarot! Now that I look at the cards (which have indeed been made IRL) it makes a lot of sense- there are 76 cards in a deck (tarot has 72) including a sort of major arcana. Has anyone created a sabacc divination guide?

-Partner: "Zilastra is a certified gamer"

-I love the parallel between Captain Baylo's "Do people call you the Mace Windu?" and Zilastra's "Don't call him The Lobber."

-I hope Plo and Saesee unionize these drivers and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement. They've solved this problem, but surely it won't be the last.

-Heezo is really coming up more in this book than I thought he would, as a lil glup shitto from another novel.

-HMMM what is up with Regal Voyager?

-Special shoutout to Eeth Koth's library adventures! As a public library worker, I am WELL VERSED in things not being where they say they should be or perhaps there at all. Commonly stolen items: astrology and other occult topics and The 48 Laws of Power and its like.

-Oppo's conversation with Voh and Eeth about being old made me wonder how it must feel to live and work with species of varying lifespans. Obviously the long-lived ones must see people be born and die over and over, but what about from the other perspective? Oppo jokingly calls Eeth a youngling- how must it feel to be of equal rank to such long-lived beings as him, Yoda, Yarael, etc?

-OK I want a boolah. Eeth is a curmudgeon. They seem like adorable opossum ferret cats. I want snuggles.

-Very ready for Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's hoarder house adventure.

-Baradium-357 is another A New Dawn reference!

-The section with the Sullustan who works at the arena was my partner's equivalent of the library sections for me.

-Who is Lyal's shadowy contact??? Something related to the pirate gangs? A new player?

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The Living Force Live-Tumbl, part 3

Part 1 Part 2

Chapters 10-15

-Maz Kanata shoutout! A pirate queen who has a very special relationship with the Jedi. I wonder if Sav Malagan is still alive and/or if there's still a Jedi temple on Takodana at this point.

-Depa you're gonna know what it's like to be a parent soon enough! I wonder if Kylah was good practice for Caleb.

-Part Two: Good Works! This truly is the coda to the High Republic. I wonder if we'll see a mention of Kwenn in upcoming Phase III books. If the project happened 200 years ago, it must have been one of Lina Soh's projects, right? Maybe before the events of Light of the Jedi?

-Every time they say Sanctuary Mount I think they're gonna say Sanctuary Moon.

-My partner asked "Do you think Oppo Rancisis leaves a trail?" I said no because he's a snake, not a slug lol

-Seneschal Voh is literally a little guy! Seems like this is the first time Bimms have been in canon. They're basically dwarves!

-AVAR KRISS MENTION

-As a library worker, I appreciate that this Jedi library has a book cart. Seems to work better than the ones we have!

-Even Piell is quickly becoming my favorite council member. Marc Thompson has given him sort of a Slavic accent with a 40s gangster lean. And he knows how to listen to teens. We love that.

-Veers is here????? Would never have put him on my bingo card! Wild!

-Captain Baylo isn't my favorite but I do have sympathy for him trying to run a ship that's basically a boot camp for rich kids. Ugh.

-Uh-oh, Plo and Saesee ran into the middle of a labor dispute!!!

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There's an unnamed trope between enemies-to-lovers and friends-to-lovers that's something like two-people-uniquely-created-to-push-each-others-buttons-to-lovers

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The Living Force live-Tumbl, part 2

(Part 1, Part 3)

Chapters 7-9

-Yarael Poof is too much in this book, I love him he's a silly little guy. And anyone who gives Ki-Adi-Mundi shit is cool in my book!

-Ki-Adi-Mundi was so busy saying that using a Jedi mind trick to get other people to protect you is immoral, that he forgot to point out that using children as human shields is also immoral...

-I love that any time Obi-Wan turns up, other Jedi are happy to see him. like Ki-Adi-Mundi is gonna be all grumpy about being interrupted but then he turns around and sees it's Obi-Wan

-The mysterious driver is Depa I CALLED IT (partner was rooting for it to be Deva Lompop because we still have Defy the Storm on the brain)

-Qui-Gon being like "Not to question the Jedi council" and Yoda is like "come on man we know you"

-When that preview chapter was released I replied to an official tweet about it with "Depa 'This meeting should have been an email' Billaba" and both Editor Tom and John Jackson Miller himself confirmed that they made this joke during the writing process!

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The Living Force live-Tumbl

Is that an acceptable equivalent of live-tweet? Maybe Tumbl-Along? IDK

Anyway my partner and I are listening to The Living Force together because he was 1st in line on Libby so I can't just binge it, which gives me time to write down my thoughts along the way!

We listened to chapters 1-6 last night.

-Obi-Wan has never not been cheeky and I love this about him. He just can't help flirting even when he doesn't mean to.

-I read Padawan and Master and Apprentice already, and timeline-wise I think this takes place 3-5 years after those? Love seeing the difference in Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's relationship in this book vs those.

-Gorse mention! Melting someone in acid that was going to Gorse! John Jackson Miller really said "remember how I wrote the first canon novel?"

-Heezo is here as a treat for all of us who read Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade!

-We don't have artwork of her but I just KNOW Zilastra is hot. That Nautolan cowgirl from Jedi: Survivor was hot. I also know that Kor Plouth was hot. therefore Zilastra must be hot. And she's a pirate queen. So there. (Also Marc Thompson's voice for her is similar to Xiri Albaran's)

-I love how distracted Adi Gallia is by Valorum's blue office. Girlie missed a career as an interior designer. Also Palpatine thinks it should be red WINK WINK

-Luke would have appreciated the boots.

-We lost our shit when the one pirate said Qui-Gon was a "brain doctor" because he misinterpreted "he was asked to be on the Jedi Council" as "he's a counselor." Does this mean the pirates have access to mental health care?

(Part 2 here)

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Sometimes a family is a little girl, her big/little brother dads, and a rotating cast of powerful queer-coded aunties

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I love Ventress, once again she showed up, served cunt and then peaced out once things started to get complicated. Iconic behaviour, no choice but to stan.

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Ventress saying that she is on her own side was so powerful. like this woman has spent her whole life being used for her abilities and then abandoned (intentionally or not) by people who were supposed to care about her. So now she's back (still fascinated to see how this happened) and the only person she is serving is herself. Which is not to say she's selfish; she didn't have to do any of that for Omega. But she did it because she chose to, and that's important.

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Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

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saw this and I have to draw them lmao

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Obsessed with how Luke's force projection in TLJ is wearing different clothes than his real body. It's his clothes from the last time he saw Ben. But like of course Luke "chanel boots" Skywalker made fashion choices for his most dramatic moment

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minor Defy the Storm spoilers

Xylan Graf getting his ass kidnapped by Syl and Jordanna:

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Here's the notes on the Medieval Fantasy Star Wars au! I'll add to this as I do more. If you're new here, this is the saga of me drawing Star Wars but like what if it was Fantasy?

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it’s (attempted) murder on the dance floor