#star wars is science fantasy!!!

[voidartisan]

you know what screw it i'm gonna say it:

every time i come across a post claiming that andor is the only good live action star wars content we've gotten since 2005 it makes me want to fight someone. i'm ready to start throwing box sets of the hobbit lotr and the silm at people. i am going to Scream

[machetelanding]

[thepromptfoundry]

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1 Five Minutes Into The Future 2 Flying Cars 3 Starships 4 Virtual Worlds 5 Blending Nature And Tech 6 Androids 7 Space Pirates 8 Laser Swords 9 Aliens Among Us 10 Total Automation 11 Ghosts In The Machine 12 Post-Apocalypse 13 Guardian Robots 14 First Contact 15 Government Secrets 16 Time Travel 17 Mutation 18 Universal Translator 19 Cyborgs 20 Raygun Gothic 21 Medical Experimentation 22 Genetic Recombination 23 Precognition 24 Technobabble 25 City In A Dome 26 Robot Rights 27 Transporter Malfunction 28 Clones 29 Suspended Animation 30 Ancient Super Technology

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The thing is, when you take Rebels and Ahsoka together there is a very clear pattern of Thrawn making perfectly sound military decisions only to have Weird Force Bullshit smash into it, so after getting warped to another galaxy by Space Snow White and his whale friends he decides enough is enough and teams up with the Weirdest Force Bullshit he can find. Like, these women can bring back the dead and have ominous coffins and pull swords out of nowhere. Even Ezra, previous conveyor of Weird Force Bullshit, seems to avoid them. So of course Thrawn thinks he’s finally won the Weird Force Bullshit arms race.

The thing he doesn’t realize is that Weird Force Bullshit is a spectrum, not a ranking system. He hasn’t even gotten to the teleporting fairy wolves or the dead owl goddess or the flashback dimension or whatever Luke is digging up on his Jedi archeology missions. Sorry Thrawn, it’s the GFFA, no one is safe from Weird Force Bullshit.

[nickandcharlie135]

So I hear The Acolyte has been cancelled after only one season.

Not a happy individual at this moment in time.

[blogfanreborn777]

Star Wars 28 by Jon Foster

[holoki-mistletoe]

have fun y'all

completely unbiased bingo card where i fit all the boxes

[browsethestacks]

Marvel(ous) UK Editions Of Marvel Comics

[arcadebroke]

[driveintheaterofthemind]

The Comic Art Films Of Dan Hipp

[machetelanding]

Deleted sandstorm sequence from Return of the Jedi (1983)

[theartisticendeavor]

Art by Peach Momoko

[oldtvandcomics]

Dear People Who Read Novelizations

I'm looking for books published under one of the big scifi brands (Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel) with good queer representation. I want it for a Trojan Horse-like situation, where I can propose them to people, and they would read it, because it has Star Wars written on the cover. So they should be.

New enough to be easily accessible

Have one or more main characters be queer

Ideally have said identity named

Their identity should play a reasonably big role in the story (not necessarily the most important, but it should be present)

Prose novels (no comic books, that's a different post for a different time)

Bonus if it has been translated to German or to French

Thank you! <3 I know that these books are out there, but I would never be able to wade through every novel in order to find them.

[nocternalrandomness]

"The call of the Dark Side" by nhoeskape

[whereserpentswalk]

It really sucks how a lot of media enjoyers seem to equate genre or tone with politics. Like the way some people so vehemently think certain sub genres of scifi have political messages preloaded into them when they really don't.

Star Wars is a great example of this problem. So many bad Star Wars takes are either from people who think the fact that it's a fairytale in space makes it so it can't be an anti fascist text, or from people who think that it being an anti fascist text makes it so it can't be a fairytale in space. It's even leaked into movies, 1, 7 and 9 seem to think it's an apolitical story because of it's tone, while 2, 3 and 8 all seem to think that the silly elements have to be removed to make the politics work (and end up creating new, less intentional silly elements).

It really sucks when people refuse to take a peice of media as it is when they analyze it. Literally any tone or genre can be used to tell a story with almost any political leaning, but they'll still be using the conventions of that genre to tell it. To go back to our star wars example, you have to accept it both as a fairytale and as a political text to understand the symbolism behind things like why there are no grey jedi, or why stone age dog people can defeat an army with mechs and laser guns. Not to harp on the Star Wars example for too long but you can understand the dark side better from that one cave scene than you can from a thousand pages of information on a wiki.

Like, cyberpunk has this problem a lot, where people think cyberpunk is inherently leftist because it has leftist origins. But a lot of cyberpunk works are just kind of reactionary, especially when you look at the way a lot of works in that genre deal with disability or depictions or non western cultures. Or the countless conversations about weather superheros are fascist, when it just doesn't make sense to assume something like the original Xmen has the same politics as a multimillion dollar crossover movie funded by the US marines. It also goes for themes across tones and genres, like how the Cthulhu mythos and Lotr have very diffrent vibes, but their fucked up racial politics are the same, so they kind of came together to create modern fantasy's ideas about race.

Idk if any of this makes sense. The star wars part of this essay thing ended up longer then expected. Feel free to get mad over my hot takes because of things I implied about your blorbos. I don't know how to end this. Please reblog with any opinions you have, or just if you agree.

[blogfanreborn777]

Badge of Honor by Alexandr Elichev