Sorry, I misread your post and was responding to a point you didn’t make.

You’re right about the ideas - an older Jedi and his apprentice discover a strangely powerful, force-sensitive youth on a backwater planet, the younger Jedi must take on the burden of training the youth when his master is killed but then fails in that task when the youth grows powerful, is corrupted by another more…

Except that Anakin is revealed to have been a virgin-birth Christ-figure chosen one, and Luke is his son. The fact that both of them were raised in a backwater in the Outer Rim doesn’t change the fact that they were basically Force royalty, not actual random farmboys or slaves.

Vader’s reveal has nearly two full movies of build behind it; it recontextualizes a clearly-established dynamic and further escalates the increasingly personal stakes Luke has in the fight against the Empire.

Where did the common people of Theed live? In the palaces? Where did they eat? What did they do all day? None of that was even hinted at in the production design. It was exactly as you say, completely soulless CGI. Just a pretty picture of one fantasy city on a planet covered in nothing but grass and waterfalls. It…

Because there are no consequences for right-wing liars. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain by just making up whatever shit they want.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a comic store that actually prominently featured comics. These days they’re just all-around geek-culture shops.

Exactly. That was one of the side-effects of the speculator boom of the nineties; comics started being printed on higher-quality paper, which ramped up the price dramatically in the space of just a couple of years, and when newsstand sales dropped (along with new readership) they just sort of shrugged it off and…

The reason comic sales are in the toilet has very little to do with the decades of continuity. It has everything to do with the combination of the death of print media and the speculator boom/bust of the nineties severing the new reader pipeline. No hard reset is going to fix that.

Your marriage sounds a lot like my marriage, only mine didn’t last. I was only nine years older, not 14, but it turned out to be a really big deal. I think a lot of people in relationships with larger age gaps don’t grapple enough with the reality that younger people change in different ways from older people.

There is no good-faith discussion to be had here. Trans advocates have already explained why and how that is considered harmful. No one is going to send anyone to jail over deadnaming, but if you don’t want to be an asshole, you won’t do it. It’s not necessary.

No, they’re actually pretty similar. They’re both offensive ways of referring to people.

You must be a real hit at parties.

That’s horrible. I’m sorry that your teachers put you through that. It definitely goes against the advice in this article though. It sounds like you were taught that spelling is a cause for anxiety.

Here’s one: journalists shouldn’t use the n word to describe Black people. Here’s another: journalists shouldn’t deadname trans subjects.

With all due respect, isn’t it possible that your spelling anxiety stems from being taught that spelling mistakes are cause for anxiety, rather than from not having a way to check your spelling?

I hadn’t heard of “JAQing off”, but I’m keeping that one.

YES

We need to find some way to eliminate “I’m just asking questions” from the discourse. It’s not because asking questions is bad - it’s good. The issue is that “just asking questions” doesn’t really do any good if you can’t understand the answers.

I thought I was the only one. The obvious crazy definitely increases the attractiveness. I’m not proud of it, or happy about it. It just... explains how a lot of things in my life went the way they did.