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Nuso Esva / Lord Odo in Choices of One p.1 (I like the small mention of Nuso casually grubbing on various foods.)

#star wars Legends #Choices of One #nuso esva #reblogging for future reference

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History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance. And those who stand in our way will not watch at all.

Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (1991-1993) by Timothy Zahn

#legends thrawn #expanded universe thrawn #Grand Admiral Thrawn #Gilad Pellaeon #Heir to the Empire

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just as much as a man can.

#lumiya #vergere #danni quee #mirta gev #jaina solo #mara jade #mon mothma #nen yim #tenel ka djo #leia organa #natasi daala #vestara khai #tahiri veila #alema rar #women of SW Legends #I'd love to redo this meme with my OCs and the other women of the Empire of the Hand #wish I could draw

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Thrawn and Che'ri eating ice cream 🍦

#thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #che'ri #awww this is cute #I like Che'ri's little uniform #girl Dad!Thrawn

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I feel this as a Chiss fanfic writer who started in Legends, came back to the same, unfinished story after a gap of over a decade, and now has to reconcile the different "versions" of the same aliens. I had my main PoV character act more formal among humans and other "aliens", most of the time, only allowing her emotions to show around those she was closest to or in private. I think that protrayal still works even with the "new" information gained since then, since there's more than just attitudes to consider, but also the individual circumstances surrounding those attitudes. My OC is a member of the Empire of the Hand, and her circumstances would of course be different from a Chiss in the Ascendency.

Also, a secondary character, my main OC's son, was supposed to be notable in his lack of formality as a Chiss, since he grew up around humans. Now that easy motivation for his character is a little more lost, but is also makes me work harder as a writer, and I think his character has been improved as a consequence of that. Now, he's less formal because of his upbringing and because he chooses to be that way, as a way of sticking it to the more "old school" Chiss who rejected his parents and their way of thinking.

In a side fic of mine, Chiss ruthlessness is very much on display. There's a reason my main OC recruited a Chiss-only team to "deal" with the Noghri after Thrawn's death.

However, I think a compromise can be reached. When we see the Ascendency trilogy and the "new" Chiss, we're seeing them interact with each other, when, except for Outbound Flight, in earlier books we mostly saw the Chiss interacting with outsiders, and then, mostly through the lens of a single character (Thrawn) whose point of view we never got to see directly. It's also directly stated in the Ascendency trilogy that Chiss will deliberately mislead aliens about their culture, like where Thrawn makes up the whole "Family hostage" idea to mislead his enemies. A lot of the more extreme inconsistencies in Legends (like the idea that Chiss reach adulthood at age 10 -- disproven in the new books), could likewise now be retconned as more of this kind of deliberate misleading.

The group-before-individual attitude is still strongly present (most notably with the entire sky-walker program), but perhaps not as jarring when it's not being "translated", per say. The other cultures in the Chaos (their region of space) still see the Chiss as aloof and arrogant, so that coldness and ruthless reputation is still there. We just need to look a bit harder to see it.

Just as later Trek shows and series showed that Spock is an outlier even among other Vulcans -- that Vulcan is not just a "planet of hats" and Vulcans are just as varied, in their own way, as humans, I think it adds to Thrawn's character that he is unique even among his own people.

As a fictional culture gets further explored, of course it will become different from earlier portrayals and expectations. I think the Legends and Mouse Canon portrayals of the Chiss can be reconciled, and indeed, should be. If Timothy Zahn sees no difference between the two "canons" -- he told me at a con I attended last year that he writes all his new books with the idea that the Legends stories can be "re-canonized" at any moment -- why should we as readers?

I get that this is an unpopular opinion, but I’m really not a fan of how the Chiss were retconned from being formal and professional, cool, and a bit stuck up in legends to being #relatable and essentially human (read: American) in canon. For one thing, I liked that they were alien and “other” and lived according to their own mysterious moral code outside the light/dark binary. The other issue is that now Thrawn’s personality, mannerisms, fears, and motives make no sense.

For years, Zahn said that Thrawn is the way he is because he “has an alien mind with alien morals.” Now we have the Chiss doing the pearl clutching over Thrawn’s “colder” actions, actions they wouldn’t have batted an eyelash over in legends (with the exception of his over-involving himself in the affairs of non-Chiss). Rereading Outbound Flight it’s clear how very typical his manner was among his people. His entire demeanor of formality, solemnity, hyper-pragmatism, and capacity for cool ruthlessness was due to his Chiss biology and cultural upbringing. His attitude toward preemptive strikes, his open-mindedness, and his incredible tactical skill were the only things that separated him from the rest of his kind.

I understand that they were trying to make sure that the reader would relate to the POV Chiss characters (as per a Q&A with the editor of the Ascendency novels), but what they’ve done is basically the equivalent of taking Spock, whose behavior is largely due to his (half) Vulcan biology and cultural background, and then decided “you know what? Let’s make every Vulcan but Spock Midwestern Americans in space.”

#Chiss #Chiss culture #my writing #personally I see the Chiss as kind of a mix between the Andorians (physically) and Romulans (attitude) if we're using Trek analogies #Legends vs disney canon

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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

#Voyager 1 #Holy crap #these probes were launched in the late 70s! #the fact they were able to access the onboard computers #and still have programmers who know *how* they work #just wow #space is cool

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Let's do it...

... let's break the law

#admiral ar'alani #admiral dy'lothe #dy’lani #just admirals #chiss expansionary defense fleet #chiss defense force #friend's art #I love this so much! #they'd both be getting job offers from the Empire of the Hand!

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Man I got to the end of just an amazing dragonriders of pern fanfic series and the very last chapter of the last fic has a notice that the author died over a year ago and now I'm just. Fucking sad about it. He was incredibly talented and brought the world of pern to life and if you like the series you should definitely read his fics too

#dragonriders of pern #fanfic series #I read this series and I had no idea what happened to the writer #so sad #RIP

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And if you want to "light it up," please do red, not blue. When we see the puzzle piece or "light it up blue," both of which are promoted by anti-autistic hate groups, that tells us you don't actually care about or respect us.

Not gonna argue about this; I'll just block.

#actually autistic #autism acceptance #neurodiversity

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So elves now sound like this guy? With or without the static?

Yaaaaas 😍

#fantasy accents #Alastor #Hazbin Hotel #well he is a deer and elves often have this woodland thing going on

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Fun fact: I’m autistic I’m gonna do a thing inspired by another person

Reblog if your blog is safe for autistic people or is ran by an autistic person!

oh and

Reblog if you stand against Autism Speaks!

#Actually Autistic #Autism Speaks can go to hell

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I want them to put a Thrawn in the Disney parks, but they never will because they know we can't behave ourselves.

#Grand Admiral Thrawn #you know we would #even Chris Hemsworth wouldn't stop us!

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F U T U R A M A "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"

#Futurama #Star Trek #that last panel #I can relate Fry

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Nightdragon Man-of-War Vigilant

“I am Admiral Ar’alani, currently in command of the Vigilant and Picket Force Six of the Expansionary Defense Fleet."

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising

Csilla

Team Vigilant

#admiral ar'alani #team Vigilant #friend's art #this is so cool! #such a beautiful ship! #and awesome crew portraits!

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Brought to you by the Seswennan Social Club, we have another Imperial-themed creative event in honor of May the Fourth, the unofficial Star Wars holiday.

For the May the Fourth week (4 May - 10 May), we will be accepting submissions in the curated AO3 May the Fourth collection for fics or art related to our three prompts:

Anniversary

Empire Day

The Force

Please choose at least one prompt as inspiration for your work, and please make sure it focuses on the Imperial officers (Thrawn, Veers, Piett, Motti, Jerjerrod, Needa, Krennic, Pellaeon, etc.) and related Imperial OCs. Remember, we're here for the Imps who serve the Empire, not the Sith.

Any Imp ships are allowed, and all ratings (from G to E) are encouraged.

If you have any questions on content, feel free to shoot me a DM.

Good luck and May the Fourth be with you

#may the fourth 2024 #reblogging because I might think of something

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Neurotypical Person: "Just talk to people. Stop being afraid of rejection. The only way you'll fail is if you don't even try. Have some confidence."

Autistic Person: (asks whatever questions they can think of from a prepared list and the conversation ends up being awkward and forced)

Autistic Person: (infodumps about their special interest and gets labeled as annoying)

Autistic Person: (comments on something they observe and gets labeled as judgmental)

Autistic Person: (approaches random people in random places, not realizing that there are some places where people don't expect to be approached, and gets threatened)

Autistic Person: (talks to someone, misses a subtle cue that they want to be left alone, and gets labeled as disrespectful of boundaries)

Autistic Person: (tries to join someone's conversation and gets labeled as an eavesdropper)

Autistic Person: (teases someone as a joke because they've seen that that's how a lot of people interact with each other, not realizing that they don't have enough of a connection with this person to do that, and gets labeled as mean)

Autistic Person: (tries to talk to someone who's already talking to someone else and gets labeled as rude for interrupting, and waiting until they're alone to avoid interrupting isn't an option because that rarely ever happens)

Autistic Person: (approaches someone or faces in their general direction while trying to think of what to say to them, and gets labeled as a creep for hovering or staring)

Autistic Person: (talks to someone too often and gets labeled as clingy)

Autistic Person: (talks to someone, by some miracle it works and this person actually enjoys the conversation, but now they have to do it again and again and again, and they eventually run out of things to talk about or do something wrong)

Autistic Person: "I don't get it. I talked to people. I did exactly what I was told to do. And I didn't say anything sexual, anything gross, anything about death, or anything else that would be considered 'obvious'. But it didn't work. It can't be because I did something wrong, because I followed the advice exactly and so many people insisted that that's all I have to do. There must be something wrong with me. Maybe I'm just unattractive."

#I infodump about my special interest anyway #some people actually do like it #that's how I met my husband #actually autistic #people can take me as I am or bugger off

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It's important to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick so that your body has the raw materials to generate gallons of snot.

#Getting over a flu or something right now #feeling this