If you’re wondering why I haven’t been around much, surprise! | live in South Minneapolis where things have been pretty bad. BUT my South Minneapolis friends and neighbors have been wonderful. I love my neighborhood and my city. We keep us safe.
For Minnesota residents, Defend612 has some great resources in the links.
ALSO if you’re a cartoonist or a comics person, I invite you to journal your experience of how ICE has impacted your life with your own four-panel comics! I’d love to connect with you.
of all the greatest words of tongue and pen none have been sadder than these: total 5e conversion
i hate to put specific projects on blast but i do need to note that what inspired this was a gundam full 5e conversion where newtypes were reskinned clerics and they still had turn undead (now called turn cyber newtype)
Please don’t fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It’s a regular horse, it’s neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what’s actually going on.
Boring: Assigning “levels of canon” to Star Wars media.
Not boring: Construing all Star Wars media as variously motivated propaganda which actually exists in some notional Star Wars universe, ostensibly based on but often only tenuously related to real events, and loudly speculating about what “really happened”.
That one wasn’t motivated by any particular propaganda goal; the studio just wanted to cash in on the fame of the heroes of the Rebellion, but they were too cheap to pay for the likeness rights, so they wrote out all the real humans and just used the droids (who don’t have rights).
I’ve always enjoyed the take that the early (Legends) EU stories are in-universe science fiction.
Galaxy just went through a horrifying paroxysm of violence caused by a superweapon (the Death Star) and the vicious Emperor Palpatine.
So for the next couple decades, pulp stories are full of either “What if another, worse superweapon??” or “What if Palpatine comes back??”
And none of that makes sense, and it definitely doesn’t make sense that there would be five distinct Horrible Superweapons all discovered in an eight-year period. But it absolutely makes sense that many different authors would all write pulpy stories about a bunch of different Horrible Superweapons.
Not quite the same thing, since it accepts at least the original trilogy as “accurate”, but a very fun take.
The original trilogy is a reasonably high-quality docudrama, produced in the early New Republic era. That’s why the rebellion activities get put on such few individuals, despite being a thing that involved millions as a galaxy wide civil war. Luke and Han legitimately did blow up the Death Star and Luke defeated Vader. But some of the other exploits are rather exaggerated.
Leia and Han thought it was funny than hell.
The prequels were a cash grab docudrama that suffered from too many mandates. The stuff in Phantom Menace that folks find boring is *much* closer to the actual events, but the Ken Burns guy got muscled out. The series also really struggled with “humanizing” Darth Vader while keeping scope in check.
The biggest failure was how it treated the Clone Wars. In the real Clone Wars, all sides used clones, and this was part of how awful it was. But, the showrunners realized that it would make the Old Republic look a lot worse if they were using the same weapon as the enemies, so the Confederacy of Independent Systems got to have disposable “battle droids” instead.
Also, the Clone “Wars” got compressed into one four year conflict, from something that spanned multiple conflicts over decades and a ton of regional and galactic powers.
Not to stoke another “Star Wars would be so good if it was good” fire, but this is fun.
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
