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mooifyourecows · 4 years ago

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hi moo!! I am also in distress bc of stress :/ just came here to say that ur posts throughout the day give me life. tell me more about ur stories! idc which one. u choose. it’ll make me happy either way :)

hey there anon, i woke up in the middle of the night, immediately stressed myself out (ayy solidarity), and haven’t slept since so let’s talk about ‘Force of Impact!’ 🤙

Okay so ‘Force of Impact’ is actually one of the first original stories I began in this era. (we don’t talk about Moo’s previous eras of writing okay shhhh just move on)

So let’s start with the characters of this story and some basic info on each of them:

Conrad Savage (main)- 24 years old, half Korean/half Jamaican, born in Boston, professional MMA fighter (injured)

Nash Boone (main)- 20 years old, Caucasian, unemployed, student

Peyton Baines (side)- 18 years old, Caucasian, student

Layla Love (side)- 18 years old, African American, student

Milos Love (side)- 30 years old, African American, big brother of Layla, professional MMA fighter

Cassie Leigh (side)- 34 years old, Caucasian, police officer

Mani Najafi (side)- 69 (nice) years old, Pakistani American, retired vale tudo fighter

Lane Gage (side)(derogatory)- 28 years old, Puerto Rican, Professional MMA fighter

+others

Also, here is the Playlist for this story in case you’re interested. I really like this playlist because I used a lot of Nick Murphy and he just VIBES HARD with the mood of the story, especially Conrad as a character in general (i can’t listen to Dangerous or Believe (Me) by Nick Murphy without thinking about this story and hnnnnnnn help):

Force of Impact Playlist

Alrighty, alrighty

So, the story begins with Conrad moving to a new house in a different state... right across the alley to his old coach, Mani, in hopes of convincing him to coach him again. Mani had been Conrad’s old high school wrestling coach who also trained him in other various martial arts outside of school and is basically the sole guy that got Conrad into the UFC world. He retired from coaching when Conrad turned twenty and earned his first Championship middleweight win, making him the youngest champion since the establishment of weight classes. 👀 Mani was like “wow, i trained the youngest champion, time to retire before things go downhill”

But nuh uh, like Conrad was gonna let him go that easily. He held his title for the next three years and then suffered his first loss against Lane Gage in a fight where he also injured his shoulder. The injury put him outta professional matches for the next year and he now thinks he’s ready for a comeback. But he blames his injury on his previous coach and wants Mani back because the old coot was like... aggressively about that personal upkeep/health stuff and always made sure Conrad wasn’t overexerting himself and yada yada

Alright so Conrad moves into the house literally right across the alley from Mani and is like “be my coach” and Mani is like “no” and Conrad is like “be my coach please” and Mani is like “no” and Conrad is like “be my coach or i’ll never ever leave you alone ever again” and Mani is like “ugh fine.”

But who lives right next door to Conrad’s new house? That’s right.

Nash.

Soooooo, Nash is a twenty year old guy who just so happens to still be in high school for personal, tragic backstory reasons. He’s got ADHD and has a problem with getting REALLY INTO something, swearing it’s something he’s gonna do for the rest of his life, maybe as a career, but then completely drops it a week or two later. That’s just his thing. He comes home like “I’ve decided I will be a professional baseball player” and then quits the team two weeks into the season. Then he throws all his money at painting supplies like “I’m the next da Vinky, just watch” and they wind up growing mold and dust in the corner of his room after just a few failed attempts.

Nash is a quitter. He knows he’s a quitter. Everyone does. Nobody really expects much from him at this point. It’s fine. Don’t worry about it.

First thing Conrad notices about living next door to the Boones is that they’re fuckin LOUD. Right from the get go, Nash is yelling and his dad is yelling back and doors are slammimg and glass is breaking and holy shit Conrad is like “should i call the cops?”

But it’s fine, it’s okay, that’s just how they communicate. Seems pretty toxic but hey who is he to judge? He hasn’t spoken to his parents in years so he’s not really in a position to judge other people’s familial relationships, is he?

Anyway, Nash and Conrad bond pretty quickly. They’ve got really similar personalities, even if they express them differently. Nash is loud and unabashed and Conrad is lazy and relaxed but they are both mentally and emotionally immature and overly passionate. They’re both well-intentioned but flub the landing more than stick it.

So Conrad begins training with Mani and Nash insists on watching/participating because why not, he’s interested and has nothing better to do anyway.

Thus begins Conrad’s journey into getting back into shape in order to redeem himself after his humiliating loss to Lane.

But it’s not easy.

Like, not at all.

Because on top of having the shoulder injury that threatens to come back at the first sign of strain, Conrad is also like, kinda, really, depressed.

He tries to hide it. Like ahaha ain’t nothin’ to see here, buddy boyyy, just a sexy man growing a beard and drinking lukewarm beer in his back yard at ten a.m. like sexy men sometimes do hahaha...

Turns out, the shoulder injury did more than kick him outta the fighting world for over a year. It also reminded him that he’s a high school drop-out who has dedicated his entire life to a career he’ll be too old for by the time he’s in his thirties to early forties. And then what? What next?

Nothing. There’s nothing next. Because since Conrad first started fighting, that’s been the only thing he’s cared about. Fighting and winning and fighting some more. It doesn’t matter that he’s just 24 years old, got his whole life ahead of him. Fighting is his life and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. The thought of giving it up terrifies the shit out of him.

So while Conrad is training, doing well, getting fit, feeling great, everything is awesome.

But at the slightest hitch... it’s time to spiral.

Mani is careful not to let Conrad push himself too hard and aggravate his injury but the idiot is a little desperate to get back into the game. He can’t help it. If he’s going to make it back to that level of prestige he held for three years, he needs to start winning. He needs to get people talking about him again. It’s the only way to make it up in the ranks. That’s how the UFC works. You need connections, you need a record, you need to win and garner people’s favor to even qualify. Since he’s been out for over a year, he has to prove that he’s still worthy. Granted, he was a popular fighter before his break. Fans loved him, his fights were entertaining, and he was good.

Honestly, he’d probably make it back in, easy peasy, without too much effort. But he wants to be extra certain. So he starts accepting fights against rookie fighters trying to make a name for themselves.

It’s just to get him used to it again, he swears.

On average, UFC fighters only do a small handful of fights a year. But Conrad is like lol nah I can do more than that.

So dude just starts winnin’ left and right. Look at him go. Good as new. It’s like he was never injured. People start noticing. He’s being talked about again. Everyone is excited for his comeback.

He gets confident and accepts a fight against Milos Love, a trans man who has been makin’ waves in the MMA world.

Aaaaaaand Conrad gets his ass kicked. Damn. He forgot how it felt to lose. Sucks man. But it’s alright. Because even though he lost, the fight was a good one and everyone is buzzing about both Conrad and Milos. They would loooove to see a rematch one day.

So Conrad has pretty much secured himself a spot in the UFC again.

Sweet. Things are going so well.

So well.

Until...

Welp. One day in training, Conrad injures himself.

Fuck.

He’s so frustrated and pissed at himself that he goes to a club and gets drunk. Nash goes with him to try and keep him out of trouble but Conrad refuses to listen to reason. He blows up at Nash, calls him a child who needs to keep his nose out of adult business. They cause enough of a scene that Nash gets kicked out of the club. Instead of going home though, he sits on the curb and waits, stewing in his anger, swearing to really give Conrad a piece of his mind when he finally comes out.

Well, all that planning goes out the window when Conrad does finally stumble out onto the sidewalk, drunk, in pain, crying. Nash sets his anger aside and helps get Conrad home. He gets him inside and into bed and just as he’s about to leave, Conrad apologizes. “You’re not a child. Sorry. I’m sorry. You’re more of a man than I am.”

Because see... this is a sore subject for our buddy Nash.

He’s stuck in between, after all.

And there’s some tragic reasoning for this.

First of all, when Nash was in the first grade, his ADHD was misdiagnosed as being “not emotionally prepared for second grade” and he was held back. Okay, no big deal. Whatever, right? He didn’t mind being a little bit older than his peers. He was immature, after all. He had fits of anger and got into fistfights on the regular, even though he’s weak and always got his ass handed to him. It was fine though. He bounces back quick.

Then, in the summer of what should have been his senior year of high school, Nash and his little sister were staying with their grandparents for a few weeks. One day, he argued with his grandparents and decided to stay behind as they took his younger sister to the zoo. Unfortunately, on the way there, there was an accident on the bridge and their car was sent over the side and into the river. None of them survived the accident.

Due to the traumatizing nature of the accident and the events surrounding the accident, Nash was plagued with survivor’s guilt and had to miss the first several months of his senior year of high school. He decided to take the entire year off instead of try to make up for the lost semester, thus making him twenty years old and not yet graduated from high school.

Nash now feels torn between adulthood and childhood. He’s still treated like a child by his teachers and the other “adultier” adults he faces because he’s still in high school. But he’s also treated as more of an adult than his classmates. Not to mention he’s had to “grow up” following his little sister’s death in order to be there for his parents, who did not take the loss well at all. In a way, he had to be their caretaker over the year following the accident, all while still being infantilized by pretty much everyone else.

He’s in between. Not quite an adult but so much more than a child. He doesn’t know what he wants or needs. Ideally, he wants to erase the past few years, go back, have a do-over to do it right, without the trauma and growing up too fast. But he can’t do that so all he asks is to be recognized as the adult he is and respected as adults expect to be respected.

“Just drop out then. Get a job.” is what he’s been told, over and over again by adults he calls out for treating him like a child. “don’t be playing a child’s game if you don’t want to be seen as a child”

But he perseveres. Nash is a quitter, but he can’t bring himself to quit this. He wants to finish high school, no matter how long it takes him. If for no other reason than to prove it to those stupid adults that look down on him that he’s not stupid, he’s not pitiful, he can do it, so shut the fuck up.

Conrad is different though. He’s not like other adults. From the beginning, there was solidarity and understanding between them. Conrad never treated him like he was some naïve little kid who doesn’t know anything about life. But he didn’t treat him like an old, jaded adult either. He was just... Nash. A guy he had a lot in common with. Who he enjoyed hanging out with. Who he respected as someone also in his twenties, just 4 years younger than him, facing his own, important troubles.

So hearing Conrad call him a child hurts more than when other people say it.

He hates it way more.

Especially when his feelings for him start budding romantic. He doesn’t want to be seen as a kid by the guy he wants to kiss, man. That sucks.

When Conrad calls him a child, he thinks, “ah man maybe i don’t have a chance with him like at all.”

And that sucks. It triggers his defense mechanism of alienating people before they can disappoint him first. Following that night, Nash tries to separate himself from Conrad a little bit, even though he apologized and took it back.

Still.

Damage was done, homie.

So Nash decides to be a prick. Says some shit to piss Conrad off. But Conrad sees straight through him. He can feel the insincerity. And he refuses to take the bait.

Stupid hot bastard.

Well fine. Nash will continue to be his friend. But he won’t expect anything more than that. It won’t happen anyway so-

And yet.

It’s inevitable, ain’t it? They’re better together. Do not separate.

Anyway, through their relationship, they develop as humans, of course. Nash finds passion for something he considers worth sticking with. Conrad finds the relief of letting go of something he used to think was the only thing that mattered.

There are twists and turns, obviously. Nothing good comes easy.

And the other side characters have their own little journeys.

Milos falls in love with Cassie and works to woo her. Peyton challenges her personal view of feminism after growing close with Layla, who represents everything Peyton’s internalized misogyny rejects. Mani finds joy in coaching again and realizes it doesn’t matter what note his career ends on if it never ends in the first place. Lane gets his ass kicked. Maybe more than once. Nash’s parents take steps to moving past the mourning they had been holding tight to over the past year and a half after the death of their daughter and are able to support Nash the way he deserves.

Etc. etc.

Obviously there’s more story stuff I’m leaving out for the sake of not giving it ALL away... but that’s the gist of the story!

Okay okay okay okay I dunno how good this explanation actually is but ehhh don’t mind me, I’m tired but drank coffee so I’m up for the day now.

Hope you like the synopsis, Babe! Thanks for your interest 🖤 I kinda wanna go make Conrad and Nash on artbreeder now 🤔

#force of impact

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x-exo · 3 years ago

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*slides into your asks with a rose in my mouth* why hello, tis me!

Apologies for the long wait but your favorite long asks anon is here and OOF so much has happened. Let us break it down one by one lol

Monsta x our beans, welp we can officially say we are army wives for them because shownu is now at the military and just welp this feels weird lol. I lowkey forgot he was meant to enlist so when the news came out I went through so many emotions. Its why the latest comeback feels a bit bittersweet to me. It is their BEST for sure and for this year, I agree so to not see him perform right before he left is a bit sad. I don't blame him of course (if anyone does i am fish slapping you) but just a shame. I'm happy we do get content with him still? Seems pre-planned so that is nice!

Onto legends exo, fantastic comeback. I cannot stop listening to the album, its just bops full of bops to me. They broke so many records and I'm over here sipping my tea because fudge yes. It isn't a full member comeback, 2 of the members featured in the comeback are off playing call of duty and they still did THAT. While having lay properly in the comeback!? (Or at least some form, better than tempo era!) Kyungsoo my beloved, the man that can swoon you off your feet, his proper solo album. Omg I am just in love? The album feels like a Playlist that you hear while taking a walk or on a raodtrip? I love it, I just love everything about this with how much thought was given. It makes me feel warm and I'm so proud of him (I think he even got a first win) but sadly xiumin got the it shall not be named virus D: I feel so bad and I can only hope he gets better! It makes me worried because I keep seeing more and more idols getting sick and I can't help but wonder why don't the kpop entertainment just put a pause with stuff? Of course that is VERY unrealistic, I am aware that is naive for me to think but its just so idk how to word it properly (my English brain is not working I am sorry) I cannot help the feeling of while I get people are being safe and yes we need to still live like normal beings, is it worth risking idols health just for some entertainment? Idk how to explain my thoughts properly but maybe I hope I made sense!!

Onto svt! That is perfectly fine to not vibe with a comeback! I will admit, I didn't fully vibe with this comeback and it shocked me because every comeback was a hit to me. Even fear, left and right or homerun where I know many fans were split on, I liked but RTL was a grower. For me, listening to it without watching the mv, helped it alot and it is a song I like. Is it their best? No I don't think so but it is alright to say "hey I didn't bop to this, not my cup of tea" (imo I blame the mv? The mv REALLY didn't do the song justice at all, I am sorry if I sound like a fake fan but this mv Just is bad in all aspects. Sure we have some pretty shots but like it just doesn't fit at all?) So if anything listening to the song or wishing the live performances does it better. Seeing the choreography amps the song up more, cannot go wrong with their dancing. As for the rest of the songs, I admit game boy is my top favorite? Idk if it is because I am a gaming nerd and found all the production of the song so creative but yeah. We can wait for the next comeback! Svt always have something up their sleeves, plus we do have their music projects to look forward too (I wonder when we will get one? Seeing as RTL promotions stopped) some positive news with the boys is they resigned like a year before their contract ends and I'm a bit emotional :') I'm excited to see the boys future projects. We did have caratland recently! Did you watch it if I may ask? We did get in the soop confirmation so I'm excited to watch that, the boys deserve that nice break (even if it was filmed for a show fjsbsns)

Ok I think that is it for kpop updates? XD I do hope life has been treating you kindly! Life has been a bit all over the place sadly so I hope it wasn't like that for you as well! Until next time my bean!

hii!!!! omg sorry for the late reply i've been pretty busy these days 🙈

indeed so much has happened! and much more since you sent this ask omg!!

our shownu is at war *looks into the distance* *wipes away tear* *sighs* by now I got used to enlistment news (see what happens when you stan 2nd and 3rd gen groups) but STILL [[IT HURT]] when they uploaded the monchannel videos of his goodbye day like ????? what kind of twisted mind diuhdfuihdifuhs but the boys were all so cute and soft but they seemed so sad they didn't want to let go of their super leader :(( I hope he's learning lots and making new friends (and also we've got our international super spy yoo kihyun giving us small updates on him every now and then so everything's fine!). Yeah I totally get you it felt empty without him this comeback and at first it didn't really clicked with me but when the enlistment news came out i understood he had to take care of his health and thoroughly check on his eye sight in order to be 100% ready for the military so it made sense he had to be absent :( everything was so close (the comeback and enlistment) that I'm sure there was no other way for doing it I'm pretty sure he couldn't maybe postpone the enlistment day any further

onto exo! my ksoo my soft boi my romantic boi 🥺 his album is so him SO HIM i can't explain it bur it's just HIM you know it's the type of album you'd play on loop on a summer afternoon when you've taken your papers and paints outside in the garden to paint a bit with the warm soft breeze moving the trees lightly 🤧 and he signs in English and SPANISH (he did it for me) my multilingual king he's a native. Also I've been watching Honeymoon Tavern with Jongin these days and OMG i could d word for him really (if you haven's watched it go do it when you have time) he's SO SOFT and SO CUTE and he works as a waiter and a wedding planner and helps with the room preparations and is also a tour guide and he's just so cute so happy al the time the way he interacts with everyone is so 🥺🤧😭 onto more serious stuff now: yeah i was so worried about minseok catching covid omg but i'm glad he went through it with our any major complication and the rest of the boys are safe too! I guess the industry doesn't stop bc that would mean a huge loss of thousands and thousands of dollars/won/etc so as long as the gov doesn't prohibit going out or gathering like at the beginning of the pandemic, they'll keep on going with the idols' schedules otherwise the industry would just shut down having no way of earning money to sustain all the companies and idols.

as for seventeen! yeah i like the songs too! the mv sure ruined rtl and listening to it without watching it has really helped it grow on me more but still it feels kind of meh to me idk i really like anyone i think it's my favourite from the album. AND NOW WE'VE GOT A COMEBACK IN OCTOBER!!!! yayyyyy i can't wait they seem to be preparing very diligently (i hope they release a sexy bop) it's a shame junhao aren't gonna be present for this comeback but i'm soooooo happy they have the opportunity to visit their families again omg they have spent 2 whole years without seeing them in the flesh they must be so happy to get back to them again!!! it's so funny seeing them be bored at the quarantine hotel and doing lives every day duhdfiudhfiuh i hope it passes quickly and they can see their loved ones finally! and I did watch Caratland!! omg the unit switch song was the best thing ever hhu doing lilili yabbay and not being able to stop laughing idfuhdifuhs perf team doing chocolate and owning it????? hello??? performance team more like main vocal team wow! and the vocal team being a complete mess during check in lmaooo i loved it! In The Soop has finally started!!! I love these kind of "normal life" concepts I love seeing the boys being themselves cooking and relaxing I've watched the first and second eps as of today and also few clips from the third and omg mingyu and jeonghan drowning in the pond dfuhidfhidfs lmao they're so dumb i love them 🤣 i'm glad they could go away for a few days and spend time together away from their hectic schedules!

I hope you're well now and if not hang in there it'll all pass soon enough! 🥰💕 bye bye!!

p.s.: I got your request for the svt this or that gifset and i promise i’ll do it one day i just don’t feel like giffing these days dhbduusi i’m out of energy

#ask #my super nice lovely anon

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fymeetrasurik · 8 years ago

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Exploring Star Wars: Heir To the Empire, Chapters 1-10

I will come up with a better name then that I swear. Anyway, I like to ramble about things I like, and sometimes indications from my other blog is that there are at least some folks who like to hear the ramble. So as someone who deeply loves star wars as a whole to a scary degree, I thought I would voice opinions here and there. And what better place is there to start besides Heir to the Empire? (Besides Splinter of the Minds Eye) Other posts will be from memory but I’m reading this for the first time so I thought it would be fun to make posts as I go.

So before we start with the book, brief background on my experience with the EU or Legends as it is more fancilly called. The EU was never something I intentionally got into. I watch the movies when I was so young that I don’t even remember my initial reaction to them other then liking them. From there, I played a few of the video games and really enjoyed all of them. Rogue Squadron was my first, and from their KOTOR and beyond. Then in elementary school, the local library’s bookmobile would stop by now and again and I’d usually grab a collection of the Star Wars Tales comics or the visual companions that detailed the creatures and ships and were just so much fun to read as a kid. So I never said, “wow i like star wars, so I will intentionally dive into this ocean of material and give in to my nerd and let the geek flow through me”. It was more, “hey I like star wars and oh this looks cool so I’ll check it out.” Putting it like that makes it sound like the years slowly indoctrinated me into this cult. So I was never deep nerd level material nor would I have called myself a fan in the sense that fan usually means involvement in fandom. Then one day I looked at my game shelf and noticed wow I have dozens of star wars games. Is that normal? And of course with the resurgence of star wars with the disney buyout I’ve had my own interest kind of ignite. And in the last two years I have consumed soooooo much. Just so much. Mostly from old republic era (Nomi Sundrider fo life!!!) But with dozens of clone wars era comics and books along with several legacy era stories. So I’m very well versed in the universe by now and know stupid things like why Porkins is fat and that Zombie Gungans were a thing. That said, this book is really my first experience with the years close to Return of the Jedi so this will all be new to me. So with that said, my thoughts of note:

This book is a fascinating thing to observe in a post prequel world. As several little details and plot points conflict with what we now know events to be. Of course this is because the book was made before. So when Admiral Pellaeon announces he was a 50 year veteran of the Imperial Navy, or that the first clones that he fought were crazy and unstable, it’s interesting to think of what this books history of the galaxy would have looked like. That bit with the clones I found especially interesting, because either we are to assume that the empire was around during the clone wars, or it’s like canon in which Officers of the republic would carry over into the Empire. But more interesting is the idea that either way, the clones were the enemy of the republic or the empire, not the foot soldiers of it. What’s more, the clones were seemingly not of the same person, and possibly were clones of force users but that’s speculation. Just interesting to look back

Joruus C'baoth is also kind of awesome but also weird. Granted I’m not done with the book yet, but it seems this character exists before the idea of the sith was really fleshed out. Calls himself a Jedi master but seems to have no issue with throwing lightning out to solve his problems. And so far no lip service has been provided that this is not an ability a Jedi Master would usually use. But he’s crazy so what are you gonna do? But he’s fun and I like the more exposure of battle medidation or at least I’m assuming that’s what he’s doing. Again I think the implications of him being a clone and for what purpose that was done is the most compelling part about him so far.

And then there’s Thrawn. Hell yes. Even without having read this trilogy, Thrawn’s Legacy hangs over the Star wars fandom like a shroud of doom and awesomeness. Love that he’s a chiss, cause we need more aliens in star wars lol. I like how his very existence expands on the state of the empire and it’s social structure. It’s funny cause immediately it makes him a threat, like he’s so good, not even the racism could hold him back. Or is it speciesism? Oh well. Just every scene with him is gold, his bearing the way he talks the way he is so in control of every situation. It’s threatening and compelling.If there is one thing star wars does right it’s villains (usually at least). And is it bad to say i look forward to his scenes more than the stuff with our classic trio?

Which to be fair is saying something because I really like where the trio are at. You can see Han has developed, using his smuggling ties with a bit more tact and diplomacy which he no doubt got from Leia. And it’s to see how much the new republic relies on Leia, giving her more of a defined role than she had in the movies. I also love that she’s really skilled at the empathetic abilities of the force. Like how she can sense Luke’s depression, I just love that sort of thing. Differentiating her and Luke’s strengths in the force I think is wise. I also love how he teaches her, and that she is frustrated with giving herself to the force just like Luke was in a new hope. Symmetry like that is fun but also provides insight into Luke’s character in that he’s nervous as hell about the future. He’s not a Jedi in the traditional sense. He’s been trained by two masters sure but in very unique circumstances. So the prospect of being a teacher is daunting to him because half of the time, he doesn’t even know what he’s doing and is just making it up on the fly. Later I think this is part of the reason he becomes such a good teacher especially for this era. Cause everyone he recruits into the new Jedi Order is not a child (for the most part) so he can work with each of them on an individual level and understand their frustrations and struggles. Unlike clone wars era Jedi who just indoctrinated kids. (Me no like the Jedi in clone wars era. But that’s actually a plus cause I don’t think you’re entirely supposed to. But I’ll talk about that in a different thing.)

Also I love how the beginning of this book is all about the politics of this new government. As opposed to the force awakens which in my opinion gave way too little info about the new republic and first order. In this book you immediately get a sense of what’s going on.The new republic is strong but not dominant, and it’s really them kind of scrambling for every planet and advantage they can get, and struggling to prove they can fill the void. Whereas the empire is scattered as of course each of the moff’s took this as their chance for power. And so far Thrawn is not in complete command of the remnant. Makes logical sense. I also like that this has been going on for 5 years. In current canon, it frustrates me that the empire lost within a year of endor. Like I get that it became divided and crazy but you still have enough firepower to last longer than that unless the rebellion found a shipyard with a hundred star destroyers ready for the taking. Also Mon Mothma is awesome, love that she’s the leader and her perspective is so different from the other leaders. Glad that she still got to be leader in the new canon.

Final note I wanna leave on is the Ysalimar confuse me. If you don’t know they’re lizards that as Thrawn explains are like air bubbles to the force, pressing it away from them. Given how I understand the force, is this not freaking weird? Like, the force exists in all life, even more than life lol. People, the trees, the rocks, yet there are these lizard things running around that are like naw screw the force we push it away. That is a weird concept to me. But oh well it’s also cool. And pimp cause Thrawn just stands there with this thing draped around his neck as the mad jedi shoots lightning at him and he doesn’t even flinch. We can only only hope to one day be even half as awesome as Thrawn. So yeah, hope this was a entertaining perspective to at least a few people and stick around as I finish the book then find something else to talk about.

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