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ღ - Thanks to trickytricky's recommendation, I've been listening to the Blueprint for Armageddon podcast, which is about the lead-up to World War I, as well as all the other political and historical context that led up to it. It's definitely a bit on the rambly side, the host has some inflections that took me awhile to get used to, but as promised it's utterly engaging and really interesting to look at, in the context of how Star Wars is a reflection of reality in some ways, in the sense of all these complicated moving pieces contributing to a bigger whole.

It's interesting for it's own sake, rather than for giving context to SW, I would say, but I would recommend it so far, even though I'm only an hour into the first one. Even if history isn't usually your thing, the host is compelling enough that it's still really cool to listen to.

ღ - I feel like I either go 1mph or 100mph when it comes to Star Wars lately (to be fair, I set up this journal and my tumblr specifically to be Star Wars-only, with some minor personal stuff sneaking in occasionally) and a lot of that comes down to whether or not the thing I'm reading is something that really speaks to me. I've been a little anxiety-ridden lately, so upcoming canon is stressing me out, so I'm embracing something more of a "Fuck it, then I'm just going to read the things I want to read and try to have fun for five minutes!" attitude, which worked out pretty well when I reread Shipyards of Doom and had all the Obi-Wan feelings again.

Anyway, my point is, HERE HAVE SOME ARCHIVE META AGAIN. (Tagged as #canon because some points are ones that are relevant to canon that I'll want to revisit, even though the comics themselves are very much Legends and anything they add is not canon.)

( Attack of the Clones comic [Legends] - Obi-Wan and politicians )

ღ - ( Obi-Wan and Yoda, TPM Comic [Legends] )

ღ - I've had a bit of the return of what I think of as my "gray" days, where everything seems colorless and lifeless and nothing seems fun anymore, everything is just gray. I'm not in a miserable place mentally and I think today seems better, it might just be that I was having trouble finding something to read that really sparked me + coming down off the high of the Obi-Wan comic + some RL stuff, but if I ghost on some stuff, you'll know why.

ღ - In brighter news, I finally got the Join the Resistance audiobooks! They're ones I don't think I could read because my reading time is fairly limited, so I have to prioritize the things I really want, but I have more listening time, so this is perfect. I am excited to care about more adorable kids fighting back against a fucked up world!

ღ - An older meta piece (mostly in that I've found far more examples of it being used in Legends especially, rather than just this small handful, but I maintain my point that it's not nearly as prevalent as fic makes it out to be) but one that I think still shows an important evolution of Jedi worldbuilding and how fanon runs with something a lot more than canon itself does.

( The Jedi Code )