Cyrus Draegur

i love seeing others ask that same question!

one possibility i particularly like to consider, though…

is what if the force is all dark-side?

What if the so-called “light side” and all the jedi teachings exist solely as mechanisms of internal defense against a phenomenon that is inherently ontologically evil and absolutely would take any opportunity whatsoever to corrupt anyone it can?

I like to imagine that the force is, on the whole, a weapon. The way it fucks with probability on the quantum scale and can even rest an elbow on the scales of free will… look at all the technology we see in star wars: despite all its incredible capabilities, it’s all chonky, thicc, and analog. I for one think that digital microcomputing as we know it in our galaxy would be rendered impossible by the interference of the force… on purpose. my wacky zany headcanon proposes The Force was created to render a ‘grey goo’ nanite swarm inert and incapable of functioning wherever it is present, because it ruins the deterministic phenomena upon which nanoscale computational systems rely.

anyway, outside of that, even if it WEREN’T like that, i’m rather a fan of morality being something that sapient minds manufacture. Not to say that it isn’t real or valid or useful, but that the universe–or at least the living beings within it–benefit from the imposition of this abstract framework of right and wrong. it’s not intrinsic, but rather the gift that sapience delivers upon the causal volume within which it lives. the meaning of life being to create meaning, to put it another way. And when we take that abstraction too far into absolute/fundamentalist/puritanical extents, that TOO is an overwhelming imbalance that causes harm. Exploring the boundaries of benefit and harm in this environment we’ve created is itself a compelling narrative hook.

I wish the libraries around here were open overnight…

Nobody wants to hire anymore

I thought it would have been cool if rey fell to the dark side and that this pushed kylo ren back into the light.

Like, he was clearly struggling to even UTILIZE the dark side. He was begging for guidance from the totem of Anakin’s mask, and Anakin wasn’t even fallen anymore.

Rey, meanwhile, seemed to demonstrate clear dark side aptitude and compatibility. While kylo had to STRIVE to act out and push himself for emotional volatility and it turned out kind of pathetic, Rey just easily slipped right into emotional impulsivity.

If Kylo watched Rey descend, attain what he thought he’d wanted, only to discover that it’s horrifying and painful, and that he doesn’t like what it does to her… That could have not only scared him straight, but also driven him to try to save her.

There were relatively few people left in the galaxy who were still even receptive to the force after decades of Anakin slaughtering every force sensitive individual the empire could find AND THEN Luke’s little failed attempt at reviving the Jedi order turned into a honey trap that lured the ones that remained into one place where they were all murdered right under his nose

Rey and Kylo were two of the only few people in the galaxy left who were force sensitive and ALL THAT POWER was trying to flow through them. Kylo struggled to overcome his inner good, what with the training he HAD received having been focused on the light side and therefore interfering with the dark’s influence. Rey on the other hand was just raw unfiltered potential, a big ole unregulated CRACK in the dam–as perfect a tool for the dark side to possess and manipulate as there could have ever been.

Kylo had family who loved him and were still alive, he had a home, he had a future, and not only did he have to struggle to throw that all away, his parents KEPT trying to reach out to him, right up to the moment just before killing his father lamenting that he WAS indeed struggling. Killing Han didn’t even measurably empower him in any way for fucks sake–he went on to LOSE a saber battle against a literal nobody!

Rey meanwhile had had EVERYTHING TAKEN FROM HER. she was isolated, lost, questioning, unguided, no prospects, and nothing to lose. Even Luke saw how she didn’t resist the dark side at all.

It still feels like how these films turned out was just a bad dream and part of me is still waiting to wake up and find out things were going to head in a more meaningful direction. Instead, everything that COULD have happened inverted completely.

At the end of TLJ, on top of all the other pointless house shit that happened in that movie, REY AND KYLO SHOULD HAVE DISAPPEARED TOGETHER because it would have opened up possibilities that would have been very satisfying

HUX seizing the power vacuum of the first order instead of literally the opposite, which was becoming even more of a sniveling nitwit liability

Finn, Poe, and the other members of the resistance crew would be in a position to actually be fucking USEFUL instead of mere comic relief–i especially despite how TLJ did them all dirty. Kelly Marie Tran’s character Rose Tico could have been a fantastic everymanperson POV where she grows in competency, agency, initiative, and leadership…

Instead of palpatine we could have had something actually interesting as a bigger bad behind the scenes.

Now I know this is controversial but … While most people only joke about the concept of a Darth Jar Jar, i think it could have been a worthwhile twist. Without that stupid childish vocal affect and dopey weaponized pretend-incompetence, he could have been legitimately sinister. Imagine the way the temperature drops in a room when a cynical sociopathic manipulator discards their charade and shows their true colors.

… oh well. It’s just going to suck forever now. Just gotta accept it, live with it.

I wish those glasses could get embedded in his skull in multiple jagged pieces.

In the past, Russia won many military engagement by sending a massive overwhelming number of troops to their deaths.

Ukrainian troops.

Most of those “Russian” military victories in the past (especially “Soviet Union”) were Ukrainian.

Russia is still not used to shedding its own blood.

Gods how i wish the pain would stop them already. Nearly feel like Russia is willing to kill its entire population in pursuit of this lost cause.

Good.

Make them suffer.

Thank you for helping us punish the cancer that has grown over our entire nation… I wish we could just become part of Canada ;~;

All Russia has to do is get the fuck out.

This is quite apropos of what I’ve been trying to tell people all along:

When it’s no longer possible for the oligarchy to extract wealth from the population(because we’ve run out of money), they’re going to shut off the water, the gas, the electricity, and the telecommunications networks. They’ll start issuing leins to collect the “debt” the population “owes” and when people start to panic, they’ll cry “THEY’RE GETTING VIOLENT!” and send in PMC shock troops to “secure the property”.

How can this demonic scumbag continue to be SO out of touch. Fuck. Practically their whole fucking generation has been a blight.

I wish someone would step up and take care of this problem.

Was this bathroom designed by a generative pertained transformer large language model?

I had no idea “the call of the void” originated from French! Neato!

The void calls out to me constantly.

Every day.

All Day.

… I figure it’s just self-test diagnostics:
“hey, we’re still nominally functional and sane, right? Thinking about <AWFUL HIDEOUS HORRIFIC THING> gives us the badfeels like it should, right? Okay. Good.”

Yeah only Elon Musk can openly sieg heil ._.

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RAWR XD >w<

*holds up a spork*

…She thinks this is a problem only just now.

This is a really fucking weird time to board the trump train. Like, right now is ESPECIALLY a weird time in particular.