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I blame Friends at the Table for the fact that I keep subconsciously capitalizing random attributes like Integrity and Loyalty on otherwise unrelated documents

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Jack (as Fourteen): Tender?

------------------------------------ BG Music is "ただいま。" by Akiko Yano

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captain brnines no good very bad day

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As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

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In-progress, incomplete list of austin_walker NPC archetypes:

the "Austin Walker's Boyfriend". (Lenin-esque populist idealogue and figurehead. often ambitious, abrasive, smug, and machiavellian, though not always. driven by a deep idealistic love of the people and a belief that a better world is possible, but also inescapably bound to the cruel materialism and pragmatism of leading a movement, a contradiction which ultimately crushes him. most (though not all) of these characters also qualify as Char Clones.)

the "Ali Acampora's Girlfriend". (powerful and intimidating, very flirty, maybe not a very good person)

the "Keith Carberry's Improv Partner". (deeply weird, very friendly-but-aggro guy who exclusively exists for keith's character to bounce off of)

the Nice Boy (sweet and conscientious and funny, and bearing a burden of grief far too heavy for him which will ultimately change him)

the ~Who's That Big Man~

the Tired Mid-Level Bureaucrat

the Heterodox Historian/Theologian

the Nebbish But Energetic Assistant

the Plucky Unattended Child

the Surprisingly Malevolent Priest

the Dangerous Libertarian and/or Fascist Demagogue (twilight mirage alone has like 6 of these. it gets confusing who believes what.)

the Feckless Liberal Politician

the Arrogant Unserious Rich Fuck

the Eerie Posthuman Presence

the Awe-Inspiring Mechanical Horror

the Likeable New Jersey Huckster

the Sad Crotchety Grandpa

the Trickster God

the Haunting of History Itself

the Divorced Gays

the Smartass Robot

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down with found family. UP with FOUND DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sheev's Plan:

get elected to senate for naboo

start new sith order

work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.

(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)

PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.

make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack

(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.

Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.

(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then

build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot

(clone son runs away but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan

let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later)

LET those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one themselves. very cute!

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL (only via proxy tho. not done yet)

let(??) vaders grandson ("ben"?? ok) usurp failed clone and rule galaxy. wants to “kill the past” but whatever. can still make this work. NEED to keep this kid in the mix (will make sense when we get there)

drop the big news. Im not dead! Fortnite. awesome moment.

lead kylo ren to my base using complex scavenger hunt. puzzle knife.

tell him he’s always actually worked for me. big reveal. big moment. He's my lackey now. a little traitorous and unreliable, but this will pay off later trust me

use death star ships to take over galaxy even more

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL (awesome... but not enough. something missing)

let kylo ren lead clone granddaughter to home base using complex scavenger hunt (?)

taunt her into killing me so i can possess her un-janked body.

Endgame achieved. (??)

(kylo ren betrays me)

PIVOT: Possession stupid plan anyway. Instead, use ben and reys Horny Essence to make my nasty old body normal again…might as well pimp my robes out a bit while im at it...i deserve a treat

throw ben in hole (grandson purpose revealed)

destroy resistance with lightning powers. shooting spaceships down with magic lightning basically a solved problem at this point.

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

kill the granddaughter actually. dont need her anymore. lightning powers classic for a reason. ive got this thing in the bag as long as she doesn't bounce the lightning back at me off her fucking laser sword

Endgame achieved.

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perennial ☺️💗

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It is romantic, in every sense possible, to think of us as just a couple of do-gooders on the edge of the Principality’s border. A couple of gals on the frontier, keeping the world right-side up. But we are more than that, and less, too. I love you, Satellite. I love us. But we are a loaded gun. And the second that you start thinking that a loaded gun is romantic, is the second you stop being like us, and start being like them.

twilight mirage 20, bits left behind

And it’s stupid, but—[laughs softly] when I first started learning about this place, I got it in my head that you and me were like a Primary and a Satellite, the person who could like, be on the ground and get things done, and the person who could see everything. And I’d excised the bomb from the equation. But here we are, and you’re gonna go climb into the bomb. I’ll send over the blueprints. Good luck.

palisade 21, in their fear pt 2

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Thinking about her. Happy shut the fuck up friday

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The Long Way Around for guitar by madamdata

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Thinking about her. Happy shut the fuck up friday

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she's a child soldier. she's covered in blood (her own). she's a go-getter. she is a grenade who will destroy us all. she's got fallen angel imagery. she's covered in blood (civilians she killed on accident). she posed for an instagram photo at a critical moment. she grew up in a cult. she's covered in blood (civilians she killed on purpose). she has a girlfriend, who is unfortunately part of the gig economy. she even loves movie night. i didn't say her name but you thought of her didn't you

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phrygianlikers are stronger than all the other likers because we know they would be a swiftie and we fully comprehend this and we go on loving them anyways

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day 6 - RADIOSTATIC. HIATUS. REDSKY.

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fucking forgot which fics on ao3 I liked as comfort fics kill me now