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when you finish the pitt episode and can foresee the discourse that the episode will spawn

@jadexskywalker yes!!! you put it perfectly it was such a stereotypically misogynistic way of writing her

@forceplague Me the other day:

Returning to the book that I burnt out on a few years ago. No promises on a review for this one, I did drop it at 300 pages originally. Got the SFBC hardcover this time, which is cool. Love the cover on this.

@forceplague There are SFBC editions like this for a lot of older SW books. Either trilogies like this, or other standalone books that never got a hardcover release. They also just did hardcovers for random books sometimes anyway.

@jadexskywalker that and it felt unnecessarily slow at points. the build up is necessary for the pay off in tyrants test but i think i would’ve enjoyed it more if it was a duology instead

@jadexskywalker it definitely has some good moments. i liked tyrants test a lot more than the other two. my main critique is the way the women (leia and akanah) were written, which i would argue is misogynistic

fighting the urge to reply to every single oomf’s tweet

@jadexskywalker that’s cool i haven’t seen that before for this one. i kinda had to force myself through the first two books in this trilogy 🥴

@forceplague Hardcover, yes!

@JAYAS0L0 thats all i ask for truly. that and it’s too much to ask for her character to be developed in any significant way

@forceplague It would be great if this was shown to be flawed thinking and makes her blind to attachments of the non romantic kind but we could never be so lucky for someone to realize that

and again i would be fine with this if it was actually deconstructed later in vernestra’s perspective but its not. she doesn’t realize how she’s wrong because the author doesn’t realize they are wrong

being aroace doesn’t make the order’s attachment rules any easier because platonic attachments are just as significant. vernestra struggles with attachment but they don’t have her acknowledge her initial perspective on it was wrong bc they still think she has it easier

so about that luke…

wait they’re MERMAIDS??

cr: lyric’s world

@rogue_om right :/ i wish people were more mindful of their language. it feels like it’s gotta a lot worse lately but that’s prob just bias of what i’m seeing

@forceplague It sucks being part of both groups ppl horribly talk about

i don’t think people realize the way they talk about fictional characters that struggle with mental illness or addiction is often ableist

getting sick when i have exams all this week and the next

mind you her hands were described calloused even in yjk

anakin is so funny 😭

“hope that even when a jedi uses the force for the dark side he can choose to turn back to the light.” ☹️

cr: the golden globe