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|| STAR WARS || Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire || William C. Dietz, Dean Williams || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

In the first part I talked about the Empired backed Sullustan company named SoroSuub and now in this entry I will talk about how the moon of Sulon tried to secure their own independence from the SoroSuub and with it, from the Empire.

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mamuzzy

It was ages since I uploaded something and this Commander Fox was among my finished art quite a long time I think. I really adore clones in Phase I armor, and I especially love Commander Fox's phase I armor design.

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kradeelav

in happier news: got to personally thank one of the character designers for the old Buzz Lightyear animated show back in the 2000's. :D (He's posting on bsky -- that show genuinely rewrote some of my brain neurons.)

Reminds me when I got to thank the main dev of SW:Starfighter for his amazing physics engine work when i think he was posting on formspring? ask.fm? (one of those); that game also made a substantial chunk of my childhood.

i do have to remind myself the internet can be a really cool place sometimes.

(This feels loosely relevant to a blog post i saw recently how all of the writer's favorite commenters actually never commented and instead sent emails directly to him. Got a chuckle out of that as somebody who sent like, three emails yesterday to webmasters personally thanking them or for similar casual chatting. email is the best social media <3)

neotula

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paperghost

I'm working 37 hours this week! I want to cross-post more shitposts and general blogging onto here, but my brain turns to mush the moment I turn on my PC.

I will say this:

- I start working full-time next month
- I will buy a tablet for portable digital art
- My time off request for TFS was approved and I pre-registered on the 3rd. So I have a mini vacation upcoming mid-June...
- I will become a homeowner... some time in the near future. The situation behind that is NOT GOOD but I'd rather not get into it. But the house I currently live in will be in my name in the coming years.
- I'm thinking about traveling out of state next year? Full-time = I can take paid vacation, which is good for cons and other things. I've been morbidly curious about Mare Fair after attending Harmonycon and this year is trying to clean up on their act and ban the controversial stuff, so if they're still going in 2027 I might see if I can go? (I'm not a fan of Florida but it's very close by state-wise, lol) I shouldn't think about this until after TFS, but I really need to feel like an adult. "Reserving a hotel room by myself" is nothingburger for other people, but it was a big deal for me. So is potentially traveling alone. I guess I'm technically "level 2" autism but I realize I could become level 1 if I had a car/could drive. I don't know, I need to think about it.
- I'm trying to talk to Derpibooru about redacting my DNP so I can upload new fanart.
- I still have a backlog of messages to answer and DMs to send people :(
- I need to paint my mom's birthday present :( The last day of TFS is on my mom's birthday and I plan on coming home from the hotel then, so I need to have it ready by early June. But she wanted me to paint a LPS custom for her.
- Been really into cooking fish for the past month. I eat salmon for breakfast almost every morning. I semi-perfected my technique and everything. I like buying salmon at work that's been discounted because its expiration is today, throwing it in the freezer keeps it good for several days.
- I had a virtual appointment last week for PMDD... But I forgot blood clots run in my family, so I haven't filled the prescription for the birth control I was prescribed. I'm really frustrated. I might have to go to an in-person clinic, but between working 40hr weeks starting May and the con in June, I don't know when :/ TFS will NOT be when I'm PMSing though (unlike TFF), so I'll be safe at least.

queenlua

since there's been some lively discussion about dewitt's the last samurai here on dreamwidth before: i found phil christman's post on dewitt's latest book very interesting, and that post links to all kinds of other very interesting bits and bobs—e.g., dewitt's reflections on david foster wallace's writing. posting here for those who may find such things interesting!

sugarcrayons

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mamuzzy

"If you can't come to love or be loved by everyone over such long periods of time, you'd drown the world in sorrow."
-- Josephus, Genshin Impact

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

kradeelav

>> @hausofdecline.bsky.social When I was 8, I showed my mom the first Jigglypuff episode of Pokémon and she stared at the screen with a Tommy Lee Jones "No Country for Old Men" expression. I didn't understand how she felt right up until the point I saw The Amazing Digital Circus.

‪> @theyoungdoyler.bsky.social‬ I remember so vividly being in my early 20s, watching gravity falls and having the dawning realization a few episodes in: "oh I just like this as a kid's cartoon. it's well made and enjoyable. but I'm not a kid anymore"
> It was liberating not feeling that manic fandom drive for the latest sensation

this is kinda a cool if bittersweet phenomenon.

no shade but i specifically remember feeling this way about homestuck & when vine started becoming popular. realized video was extremely not my Thing, and that hetalia/naruto was really the last mainstream fandom i enjoyed being around as somebody of that generation. i say hetalia & homestuck because they're both web based media works with very sprawling (and infamous) fandoms, but hetalia felt very livejournal, deviantart, and text-ish, wheras homestuck's fandom was... elsewhere.

when was y'alls moment of experiencing this?

mamuzzy

Visited an exhibiton about Emperor Qin's Terracotta army, and it also included the part of bural rituals in general that makes you wonder: people actually cared for the passing of their dead. They worried about their loved ones whether they will have necessities after life, so they made animal figurines, plates for food offering, jugs for drink, they put money for wealth, and generally they put things into the grave they thought their loved ones can use it afterlife.

What do we have now? You are dead, you are God's problem now, lmao. Here is a very expensive flower wreath that will wither after 3 days.

kradeelav

bombcar

> The analogies for these things like "hitting a golf ball into a hole in one 5,000 miles away" are always fun.

> I like starting from the fact that Ptolemy was able to get the accuracy of the "motions of the heavens" down so well that it took more than a thousand years to get observations that showed discrepancies. The math, it maths.

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kradeelav

in my purge spree this past weekend i found a bunch of gamecube games i (a) ordered in the last two years (lol) and (b) never played (double lol). since i am so far behind my FE9 loveblog on tumbr it ain't even funny i figured i might throw one of these in as after-work distraction until my brain can write a long form blog post again (x13).

DA QUESTION: I have metal gear solid : twin snakes (gamecube edition)

tl;dr is it worth playing / experiencing twin snakes as the OG MGS1 game?

i know most people prefer the PS1 version to superior art direction, voices, etc, but alas while i could likely emulate it on the steam deck i don't wannaaaa < don't have the brainwidth to set up emulation properly right now). things lowkey going for it: it's a little easier with MGS2 gameplay ( i loved mgs2, and i am so fucking rusty so i will appreciate that lol) plus i play all games on mute / actually prefer the GC controler over every other controller, so that doesn't count.

if i play this finally large chunks of MGS lore will make sense XD (finished 2 & 3 on the ps3 in college, and had a blast watching a lets play of 4 from start to finish which was genuinely okay because that one was an honest to god movie anyway.)

(other games would be the resident evil on gamecube, OG metroid prime which i distinctly remember renting from blockbuster back in high school and never finished (lol). we goin RETRO baybe)

mamuzzy

|| STAR WARS || Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire || William C. Dietz, Dean Williams || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

Here comes a little lore about Sullust, and Sulon and what lead to the event that is called: The Massacre of Sulon. Based on the book called Soldier for the Empire and the available lore that can be found in Legends sources. The challenge is that I had to keep in mind that when these books were written, The Phantom Menace weren't out yet, so I had to filter out the prequels when I needed additonal information to fill out some holes that the chapter itself doesn't mention.

If you know my taste in fiction then by now you probably know that I'm fond of fictional dictatorships which is why Palpatine's reign is one of my favorite thing to talk about; and what happened here on Sulon definitely aligning with my area of interests.

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neotula

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shinon

Fandom: Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Characters: Irina/Mirnatius
Word count: ~11k
Warnings: Canon-typical Non-Explicit Discussion Of Weird Sex Hangups, canon-typical animal harm, canon-typical misogyny, etc. I have taken liberties with the migratory behavior of the European sturgeon.
Notes: I wrote this in like two weeks in Jan-Feb and then the fic exchange I wrote it for got delayed many a time as pinch hitters kept flaking out! I'm glad I can finally share it. I will note that the recipient had a DNW for animal harm, so the version I posted to AO3 does not contain it. You can consider this the director's cut, with the few affected paragraphs put back in because they were just so... themes-y.

Anyway here's like 10 or 11,000 words of post-canon Mirnatius trauma recovery, "being a huge dick the whole time" flavor. I don't get Dark Fuck Prince/ingenue ships; I think every such evil menacing hotboy should immediately be reduced to a miserable wet cat who lives only at the lady's sufferance. So.... thanks for this ship, Ms. Novik.

( And when have you ever been safe, Irina? )

sugarcrayons

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krad

[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] THE MASSACRE OF SULON part II: Resistance

[FANART] -- Commander Fox --

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phil christman on helen dewitt

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Herrington's List of M/f Media

[GENSHIN IMPACT] Words to think about

The case of the missing notifications

aging out

Death rituals are actually fascinating

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The Friday Five for 10 April 2026

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[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] THE MASSACRE OF SULON part I: The influence of SoroSuub

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A Great Wheel

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