The creators of the Shadows of the Empire video game have actually said they had to be restrained with what they included as easter eggs because they basically couldn't trust the chucklehead EU writers to not mindlessly take said easter eggs at face value.

But then that kind of media illiteracy & reluctance to challenge others' obvious stupidity/mistakes was a massive problem with SWEU stuff in general (these chuckleheads couldn't even correct two guns blatantly having their names swapped). Ditto toxic Watsonianism (Looking at *you*, Death Star novel)

I figured that out when I was a fucking three-year-old. Autism may admittedly have given me an edge there, not sure, but STILL.

It is obvious. For multiple adult writers to either not figure it out or *fail to challenge the ones who didn't get it* is ungodly aggravating.

As for the second one... Well, AFAIK Solo: A Star Wars Story is the most intelligent Star Wars work and I will continue to hold it as such until a bunch of people own up to their stupidity in not parsing the obvious conclusion that "Big Corellian Ships = Star Destroyers" or ever trying to work it in

I feel like a dramatic protest of some sort has been necessary ever since Rebels - for all that it's a good show - decided to double down on and perpetuate this first particular bit of stupid instead of leaving it to rot in Legends like they really should have.

Make a big show of it.
Assuming I'm right about it being the original sinner there, of course.

The original perpetrator of the planet Kuat needs to likewise be defaced.

Are you familiar with how they work in World of Horror?

queerness, for my obvious example, has often been relegated to the sidelines or subtext or personal interpretation in popular fiction so that conservative audiences can ignore it, so it's often a breath of fresh air for me when a story is very blunt about its queerness in a way nobody can miss

Get well soon

Part of the hope is to exhaust the Trump regime and ideally splinter it. The stalling in the Senate has also been gumming up the legislative pipeline and helping delay Project 2025 bills from advancing further, and idk if the House will have the same effect on that front.

You know what else sucks? Not being able to afford healthcare. Having your freedom of expression taken away. Being wrongfully classified as a sex criminal just for existing.

And, y'know, SNAP eventually getting done away with *anyway* because people who need it are "leeches" and "welfare queens"

Well, you better hope those friends don't need to see a doctor anytime soon because if they're reliant on SNAP for food they were probably also reliant on Affordable Care Act subsidies for healthcare.

Because that's what ACA subsidies are: *healthcare funding* for the needy.

The shutdown was being an optics nightmare for the GOP despite their best efforts to pin it on the Democrats. We needed to keep pressing that advantage. But no, we caved because of the stupid air travel bs.

And the shutdown ending also frees up Project 2025 bills that had been held up and slowed.

Sorry, no, persistence was better. We were making headway & forcing cracks to show. Keeping the Senate gridlocked also held up progress of other shitty bills.

We could've organized to provide alternate relief if SNAP contingency funds weren't activated, and caving has squandered valuable momentum.