#choices of one

[starwarstbbfan]

Can’t remember if I ever shared this drawing I did.

My favorite Star Wars pair. I don’t care if Disney made the books not canon, Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker forever!!!!

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Mara Jade: Trooper, the Empire is not in the business of interfering in other people's affairs. Korlo Brightwater: Saberan Macross: Joak Quiller: Taxtro Grave: Daric LaRone: Since when, sir?

[ungimbaledlaser]

Day 5: Droid

Have some Nuso Esva because I am truly enjoying just making glup shitto interpretations of prompts and the mouse droid ballet is one of my favourite parts of Choices of One.

[purringysalamiri]

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

[lgirgeielni]

Doodle bobs while reading choices of one

[legends-expo]

Happy Read Across America Day! Are you currently reading a Star Wars book?

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[electricnik]

I finished reading Outbound Flight, I have now started Choices of One... This novel is also by Timothy Zahn and features Thrawn again.. Here Thrawn is an Imperial officer and is on a mission to stop an aggressive warlord who is a potential threat to the Empire and the Chiss. So far a mysterious robed character a bit like Darth Vader has waslked on to the Chimaera and we get an introduction to Mara Jade who is the Emperor's assasin here.

What we get about Thrawn here is that he spends most of his time with the Empire working in the Outer rim and Unknown regions, presumably working in liason with the Chiss and other civilizations.

[althanair]

Years after his presumed death on Quethold, Nuso Esva contacts his sworn enemy. This time, however, he has a different kind of conquest in mind.

[tygendoughtryss]

Not quite sure what to think about this Loony. *looking down to my LothCat* You remember Vaantaar, the Troukree we met in a cantina? He said he knows Thrawn and an empire lead by him would be an empire of justice and dignity. For all beings. Source: Star Wars - Choices of One, Author: Timothy Zahn

[bornitereads]

Choices of One - Timothy Zahn

Read: May 2023

So this one follows on tight on the heels of Allegiance, like 3 months or something. Which is kind of fun because we get all the same characters with no significant time jump. While I enjoyed the story I have to say, another Imperial Governor trying to pry his sector out of the Empire?? Did we not just do this in Allegiance?? Granted the situations did turn out to be much different, but I was mildly annoyed at Zahn's lack of something new. Still I had fun with the differences. There was quite a lot more going on in this one. The expanding cast of characters include Thrawn, Car'das, and Pellaeon. Quite the round up of Gulp Shittos. Although Thrawn might be too famous for that label. This one also had a lot more action, including a big space battle for the finale. The villian of the whole story was some complete rando, and I say that as a huge EU nerd. So that was kind of meh in the end. New characters are hard in Star Wars unless you really nail them down. And double down with them by bringing them back in other books. Something Star Wars as always had fun with. And maybe this one does, but I don't know about that and so I didn't think he was as successful as he might have been.

Info: Del Rey; 2011

[portraitoftheoddity]

One time in my early 20s I got really drunk at a party where someone handed me a stein full of what turned out to be moonshine from a barrel in some guy's garage and said "try this it tastes like pie" and a) it DID taste like pie, but b) only on the way down, not on the way back up, given it was something like 120 proof -- so my memories of the next couple hours are very vague but involve a bunch of ex-football players from South Boston walking me around the block in circles handing me bottled water trying to sober me up, and eventually because I was too shitfaced to get home but no longer puking my guts up and dying I crawled into the back of my car to sleep it off in a sleeping bag I kept there; but there was a guy at the party who was also sleeping in his car and this was Boston in the fall so it was like 40ºF out at night and anyway this other guy I met at this party who was a middle aged mercenary from liverpool who had served in the french foreign legion or something ended up knocking on my car door asking if he could huddle with me for warmth and I said yeah okay but there's only room for me in the sleeping bag so don't be weird about it, and to his credit he was not weird and we just slept in my car and in the morning he asked if I wanted brekkie and bought me dunkin donuts while I nursed the worst hangover I have ever had in my life then or since and trying to figure out whose heavy metal hoodie I was wearing and how I managed to leave this party with more clothing than I arrived in.

So if someone singing pirate shanties hands you a stein of mysterious liquid and tells you it tastes like pie, probably don't chug that shit.

[cottagedreamy]

God told me to draw this

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[purringysalamiri]

It's here!

[lgirgeielni]

Had a lot of fun w Choices of One

"...as will all those who oppose me."

"Interesting. I imagine the Storma and Quesoth leadership will be interested to learn what their true positions will be should they chose to join your realm."

"I imagine you'd delight in telling them."

"There's no need for them to believe me. They can hear it from your own mouth. In face, they're hearing it right now."