#vision of the future

[jedimandalorian]

If you are a Sabezra shipper who isn’t familiar with the Star Wars Legends novels, there’s a ship you should learn more about: Luke/Mara.

Think about these parallels:

Luke Skywalker gave Mara Jade his blue lightsaber because he had built himself a new green one.

Mara loved teasing Luke, using banter to hide her true feelings for him.

Luke was adorably awkward, sweet, and encouraging to her all the time.

Mara’s Force powers increased dramatically after teaming up with Luke.

They were one of the most epic battle couples in the Legends universe.

Ezra gave Sabine his green lightsaber and built himself a new blue one.

Sabine loves teasing Ezra, using banter to hide her true feelings from him.

Ezra has an adorably awkward crush on Sabine and he is always incredibly sweet and encouraging to her.

Sabine’s Force powers dramatically increased after teaming up with Ezra in Ahsoka episode 8.

Sabezra is definitely one of the most epic battle couples in the Disney SW universe.

Disney keeps copying the Star Wars EU and changing it a little thinking that we won’t notice that they cheated. 😏

In Timothy Zahn’s novel, Vision of the Future, Luke and Mara, who have been mutually pining idiots for years, join minds through the Force to fight as one in order to survive a battle against overwhelming odds. That’s when they both realize that they have been hiding their true feelings for each other for all those years. They are in love and can no longer deny it.

In the immediate aftermath of that battle, this is what happened:

I’m predicting an emotionally charged Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger reunion, more Sabezra battle couple action scenes, and a Jedi/Mandalorian wedding in my vision of their future. 😉

The Prophet of the Church of Ezrabine has spoken.

[starplusfourletters]

I read vision of the future (hand of thrawn book 2 aka Who Scams the Scammers)

(spoilers) and once again it turned into a liveblog, apologies

Hold up are we doing Warrior Cats? Is this Warrior Cats Planet??

What base is “arm around your waist to serve as a psychic translator conduit”

Omigod I WISH my Warrior Cat name were “Jaded of Mara”

Everything I know about Soontir Fel I learned from x wing but I would not have guessed his primary motivation to be "dirt"

@ luke and mara: the girls are talkingggggg

North Barris Spaceport has me twitching

Ghent not remembering who the president is and just assuming it’s probably Leia. I mean fair

What base is "holding hands to brace yourselves over a swarm of flesh eating insects"

So we’re finally asking why Mara ISN’T actually dark side and the answer is… shrug emoji?

Man Zahn really is stuck on “character bonding hike” as a device huh. But consider I eat that shit up

Oh No Lando is racist

LMAO at “so oblivious you need a child pterodactyl to tell you to just kiss already” to “besides I don’t want my life to be like spiderman three I hated that movie” to “kissing with dubious consent” ALL ON THE SAME PAGE like Zahn finally realized he really needed to get this show on the road

LMAO at Ghent getting a free pass from Pellaeon to hack the empire. Like you’re just going to get the thing you need and not steal all of our military and political secrets right? Riiiight? Even more LMAO at the fact that that would probably not even occur to Ghent

When everyone assumes they're the protagonist so finding this one macguffin is their job personally. Like guys I like the energy but maybe we've got enough different plans to do the same thing (the exception, hilariously, being Luke) (and Oh No it turns out Luke is the one to find the macguffin because You Have to Follow Your Heart and Let the MacGuffin Come to You. I eat that shit up also)

Mara’s just... So great.

Not to make everything about my blorbo but absolutely to make everything about my blorbo I do wonder to what extent Ahsoka’s characterization post-Rebels doesn’t click for me is because a lot of the more obvious directions for Oldsoka overlap with Mara, and the powers that be didn’t want to reinvent the Mara Jade wheel. Not to say they have similar characterization – Mara has terminal sam coded dean girl syndrome – but idk, in dynamic range maybe? Calling out bullshit, weaponizing her own abrasiveness, covering insecurity with humor, being Kind of a Lot with a side of trust issues at any given moment – there are modes Mara and Youngsoka share that didn’t pass to Oldsoka apparently. Idk possibly all this is just me wanting them to TALK

Establishing that you can do evil things for selfless reasons without necessarily being in any danger of falling to the dark side is... Philosophically interesting

We interrupt this tale of political espionage to bring you Jedi Relationship Counseling (spoiler alert: communication is key)

"That part of her life [Mara’s time with Palpatine] had died unmourned" I mean mourned a little bit. Mourned for at least a book and a half

I've been willing to suspend my disbelief on everything in this book until "both Luke and Mara forget that ysalamiri exist"

I will never not be a sucker for The Movements and Transferred Ownership of Emotionally Significant Weapons

Oh No thrawn made a second foundation

The Aing-Tii seem OP but whatever

Oh No the second foundation forgot to close the garage doors

(Re: The Jade’s Fire) I know Mara’s having a Moment, and I promise I’m taking it seriously, but when the warrior cat asked “What is it you want, Mara Jade” my WHOLE BRAIN responded with "I want Hermione Granger! And a rocket ship!"

Moranda has real Kevin from home alone energy and I'm living for it

Is it bad that I’m actually kinda happy the Imperials’ Bothawui shield plan worked? Like, they had a really interesting plan and I’m happy for them. They earned it

WAIT IS MORANDA DEAD FR?

What base is “full mind meld while you’re fighting for your lives”

Who would win: ~1.5 Jedi, 2 sentinel droids droidekas, or Artoo with a sauntering gun

If I had a nickel for every time this duology explicitly established Jedi can’t go completely without oxygen, even when in a trance, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but which makes me feel like the Ahsoka show had a weirdly specific axe to grind with the source material

Luke’s proposal to Mara is Just. The. Funniest. Thing. That’s some Anakin-level cringe and the prequels aren’t even out yet. He truly is his father’s son.

I mean POV there’s this guy and for a couple years you want to kill him, and then you realize that’s more of a You Problem, so then you’re friendquaitances for a decade mostly because you don’t approve of the shit he’s getting into, and then you have one (1) honest conversation and get caught in a death trap and he’s like “so I think the next step for us is marriage”

LEIAAAAAA! Full Jedi Knight Leia is both terrifying and hot. I would run.

“So it is treason” – Some random guy

Lando needs to be on the New Republic payroll simply for being willing to speak to any of the other characters and also he needs a raise. This poor guy getting called on to command the entire New Republic fleet mid-battle and he’s like “I’ve been a civilian for 15 years and also I knew you would pull some horse piss like this steve”

Mara Jade, Imperial protege. Skills include: Identifying load-bearing walls. (Now all I want is Property Brothers: Sith Edition)

Mara please. Luke please. These absolute idiots. This is some pear scene shit. I hope nothing bad happens to them ever

The whole back half of this book has been an emotional rollercoaster for me specifically because I wanted Flim to be Thrawn FR soooooo baddddd. And now I’m sad. His name literally means scam don’t do this to me Zahn

I’ve been amused by all the Star Wars universe idioms but I gotta take a moment to specifically showcase “burned your sky-arches.” Karrde is a delight to have in class

Having an independent intelligence agency that’s supposed to work for both the New Republic and the Empire seems absolutely unhinged but go off I guess

When the New Republic and Empire sign peace accords and Luke can’t even be bothered to show up

Mara is great and her arc is fuckin hilarious to me. The narrative has identified her as The Damaged One and I’m like???? She came to terms with her troubled past, drew her own boundaries regarding the Dark Side, recognized that there are people who care about her instead of pre-emptively pushing them away, and resolved to form deeper emotional connections. Smash cut to ROTS Anakin whose physical and psychic damage has literally turned his brain into oatmeal

Again I know this was before the prequels Mad points for explicitly saying Mara needed to form attachments to become a Jedi. Zahn being pretty gangsta there

OH NO THEMB

[emperorsfoot]

I really love how there is a niche in the older Star Wars fandom that basically is just “Timothy Zahn was the best writer for Star Wars and we’re gonna WILLFULLY disregard everything made by Disney”

[cohborikardok]

trying to explain any of wedge’s plotlines in timothy zahn’s legends books

[rarepears]

PIDW! Luo Binghe gets a peek of the "future" except it's really a look at SVSSS happily every after world

Stuck in the Endless Abyss, Luo Binghe is given the chance to view a future.

Unbeknowst to him, the Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe that he's watching is not exactly the future but an alternate dimension. That Shen Qingqiu isn't the shizun that he had; Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are fundamentally two very different souls.

But Luo Binghe doesn't know that. He instead sees that this future - this vision where an older version of himself mentions how he survived the Endless Abyss to marry his shizun - is his future. And that he will certainly survive the Endless Abyss.

Cue Luo Binghe's planning on his reunion with his evil shizun after he gets Xin Mo and how he will begin his courtship.

It's totally was marriage life that softened his shizun up into such a blushing bride like that. After all, one treats a disciple and a husband very very differently.

(And the vision showed just how thinned-faced his shizun was, smacking future!Luo Binghe with a fan for speaking of their nightly activities, but not denying the claims of just how... long and passionate it was. Nor of how much he enjoyed it.)

[thoughtfilledcuckold]

Vision Of The Future

Being a cuckold and raising a daughter is one of the most amazing things a cuckold can do.  From the moment he sees her form on the sonogram and the technician tells him it is a girl, the cuckold knows his future.  

It is a future of being close to her, but sitting back and letting other men objectify and lustfully desire his daughter. 

It is a future of watching her mother guide her and develop her in the tools most useful to her, fitness, beauty and fashion.

It’s a future of watching her learn to enjoy, crave and bask in the attention of men.  

It’s a future of telling her that she is beautiful while your mind is begging her to put on more clothes.

It is a future of drying her tears when boys and men frustrate her and take her for granted and she turns to the cuckold to comfort her.  

It’s a future of being called by the school to bring more clothes because your daughters attire is a distraction to the students and the staff.

It’s a future of rubbing her shoulders and comforting after she purges to maintain her weight.

It’s a future of watching her curl up and cuddle in laps of men just before they take her to bed, just as she did with you at story time before bed as a child.

It’s a future of spending 10’s of thousands of dollars on hair, make-up, nails, lingerie, and skimpy swim suits which the cuckold only gets a fleeting glimpse of or he sees as he does her laundry.

It's a future of watching my friends, coworkers and boss pay more attention to my daughter than me.

It’s a future of exchanging her princess bed for a king sized bed to better accommodate sleep-overs.

It’s a future of ignoring the sounds from inside her bedroom when the door is closed and she is with a friend.

Because of views like this and so many more, a cuckold supports his daughter to enjoy pretty clothes and to enjoy being the center of attention.  

The cuckold knows that just like her mother, her body will be used and enjoyed by men for his pleasure and hers….The cuckold knows that the men she will desire and will attract will not be like him.  The men she wants will fill her body and mind with both pain and pleasure…  And that is nature’s price to pay for being born a beautiful, desirable girl..  I am thankful for the men that can satisfy her needs in ways I never am able to, fulfilling my destiny as a cuckold and my daughters.

[jedidryad]

WIP:I could sense  he was not as serene as he looked

One of the challenges in writing Lightsabers are Always Loaded has been writing Luke and Mara constantly feeling alienated from one another and speaking at cross-purposes. Writing a broken relationship hurts, and it might hurt to read. So, as an antidote, here’s a bit from part 5 - during Vision of the Future when they are slowly recognizing how much they care about one another. This is an excerpt from negotiating with the Qom Jha, who had “captured” Mara on Nirauan. She needs Luke to help her  understand them, and they have to work together for the first time in a long time…

He then announced the arrival of the Bargainer and I grimaced at the realization that I would need a translator. Why couldn’t I understand them?

“It sure would make things easier,” Luke acknowledged when I expressed my frustration, and then, after a beat, he asked for my hand.

I held out my left to him and asked what he had in mind.

“I can sense them and we can sense each other. If we can make that connection strong enough..”

His grip tightened on mine and I strained to hear if it made a difference. After a moment, it became clear that hand holding wouldn’t do it. Luke murmured a nearly silent apology as he slid behind me, slipped an arm around my waist and dropped his head down to mine. Had I been facing him, we would have held the primary position of a Hosnian Bolero.

I fought the instinct to stiffen, and realized my heart was pounding harder than was necessary. His arm was warm on my waist, his breath soft in my ear.

Since when did another person affect me like this? Since when did Luke?

And then I gasped as I realized the jumbled sounds had coalesced into separate voices that I could understand. It was like a transmission finally syncing on the right frequency.

Luke tightened his arm briefly in a celebration of success and I settled in to follow the conversation.

The conversation was remarkably disturbing. The Qom Jha didn’t want me there. Apparently they had attempted to contact Luke and warn him to keep me away from the planet – although I couldn’t imagine why they thought that would be a useful approach, and the Bargainer who called himself “Eater of Fire Creepers” seemed less interested in explaining why I was in danger than in finding the right being to blame for Luke not receiving the messages. This did not bode well for a productive discussion.

And Eater of Fire Creepers did not seem to care, as he settled on blaming Luke’s guide on behalf of all of the Qom Qae. Kriff, couldn’t we go anywhere without running into hostility and skirmishes?

I sensed what might  have been wry sympathy from Luke, but it was quickly subsumed in concern as he ordered the Qom Jha to leave Child of Winds alone.

They did not, and with an obvious reluctance, he stepped away from me and into a defensive stance as he ignited his lightsaber and repeated his command.

“Leave him alone and I will question him.”

That should do it. After so many years, Luke had perfected the tone and pose of power and intimidation. His words seemed to reverberate through the Force and against the cavern walls. It was impressive, I had to admit.

But it didn’t work. They continued to harass Child of Winds, and I watched the avian pull further into his crevice. Either the Qom Jha didn’t know Luke was the real deal, or they didn’t care. Neither possibility could be tolerated though. They needed to be shown.

I waited for Luke to advance on them, to throw his lightsaber, to do something. He didn’t. Why not?

Reaching out, I could sense he was not as serene as he looked. He was frantically trying to come up with a nonviolent way to intervene on behalf of his guide. Of course, I suddenly realized, his every act was being judged against the mantle of the Jedi Master that he always had to wear. Whether he wanted it or not, everything he did reflected the Jedi and needed to match how he wanted them to be perceived in the galaxy.

I, ex-assassin, smuggler, semi-redeemed war criminal, had no such strictures.

I grabbed my holdout and fired. I sent three bolts into precise locations around Child of Winds’ hiding place, close enough to almost singe the beaks of the harassing avians without doing any actual damage.

They backed off and silence rang in the echoes of my shots.

I had everyone’s attention.

“A minute ago you called him Master,” I reminded the insolent crowd. “Is he a Jedi Master to be respected, or isn’t he?”

I settled into a combat stance and allowed the threat in my tone and words to communicate the danger they would be in if they continued this sort of disrespect.

Luke’s emotions drifted from embarrassment to disapproval.

Ungrateful of him.

The birds were speaking again and, having stepped away from Luke, I had no idea what they were saying.

“Translation?” I muttered, trying to keep the redness out of my cheeks as the weakness of my strategy became apparent. This was beyond frustrating and I was certain Luke could tell.

“He said, ‘You have no place to speak thus to the Bargainer for the Qom Jha’,” Luke gallantly translated as he slid his arms back around me and I tried to focus on what he said, despite the sudden warmth of his breath against my neck. What was wrong with me?

[autismmydearwatson]

I know I said I hope they would bring back the Heir to the Empire plot line to Canon, but at the same time I hope they don't do the attempted cloning of Thrawn again. That would not work. That is canonically not how cloning works

[genderfluidcrowley]

Vison of the future

when the last drops of oil have been burnt

i will feel all that never was

like an aching in my bones

and the thickest smoke to ever be

will wrap its tendrils tight around us

clogging up our lungs

till all that can be uttered

is a prayer to a silenced god

[mayhaps-a-blog]

I’ve now finished Vision of the Future, and something I noticed is that both Thrawn and “Thrawn”‘s plans collapsed at least in part because Talon Karrde decided to show up somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be.

I mean... he did it TWICE.

Wild Karrde indeed!

[angelus-a13]

vision of the future

watching, watching, waiting for the mist to clear for eyes to see what’s up ahead their sight is swimming, swirling screams warping their senses the smoke creeping in it’s loud, so loud they’re found on the marsh crumpled, a silent scream on their lips a frozen vision beyond their sight

[flugsvamp88]

vision of the future

(1/4/23)

hey love, here’s a letter before i vanish hear me out, let me go ⠀⠀⠀i am drained and worn out hear me when i call see me when i call for help crying in the rain steamed up windows ⠀⠀⠀see me when i call

c.m

[godreallyisawoman]

Vision of the future

There's something in the water that's killing us all off and it's inside my blood. It's inside my head. It's inside everyone I have ever loved and it's inside every child. I’m knee deep in a rabbit hole wondering if anyone will ever touch me in a way that doesn't hurt. I'm falling down and spinning out. The sky has caught on fire. The trees have caught on fire. The firefighters are catching on fire. 

I’m standing in my kitchen hoping someone will wander into my life and fix something. It doesn't have to be a big thing. The bathroom tap has been dripping for weeks. Can anyone help me? The thing inside the water is now in my sink. It's in my house. It’s down the rabbit hole and it's in the dirt. The beach has caught on fire. The ground has caught on fire. The last of the snow has melted.

[nsj648]

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