Afsjshs u posted about Wild Space again! Its been a while since Wild Space was last talked abt in ur blog, a little surprising because it is Prime Prequel Content™. Literally the best most wildest fantastic ridiculous and greatest star wars book to ever be written, period.
This is highly entertaining because I feel like I talk about it A LOT. 😄
That said, I agree. It was high time to bring it up again, even if I didn’t have new content to share. What a joyride that book is! I laughed out loud rereading those recap entries I wrote because A) we all know I make myself laugh, and B) I had totally forgotten about this part where Obi-Wan does some Shirtless Hot Yoga:
😂I mean…honestly.
Oh ALSO: every person in this book is The Worst and I am here for it. Obi-Wan almost dies on every other page and yet keeps refusing to sleep for 15 minutes or take Advil (and he is COMPLETELY preoccupied with Anakin every second of his life, and eventually WAKES UP SCREAMING ANAKIN’S NAME at one point while Bail Organa understandably almost dies of amusement), Padme spends pretty much the whole book with her hand thrown dramatically against her forehead as she vows that her Special and Powerful Wuv will fix all of Anakin’s Bad Choice-Making, Those Mean Naysayers Be Damned! (spoiler alert: NOPE), the Order gossips about eeeeeeeevvvvvveerryone, Palpatine spends EVERY CONVERSATION HE HAS WITH ANYBODY thinking about how great it’s going to be when that person is dead, and Anakin. ANAKIN. He wins Best Worst, including:
the scene where he rushes to Obi-Wan’s bedside after one of the times when Obi-Wan almost dies and is like “hey fuck all this I hate everyone why are you all always asking me to do stuff but also HOW DARE YOU insinuate that I CAN’T do all the stuff and also remember when my hand got cut off BECAUSE I DO” and his tantrum causes Obi-Wan to like, almost have a heart attack on his already-death bed and then Anakin is like WAIT MASTER NO DON’T DIE NO ONE LOVES ME LIKE YOU DO and clutches Obi-Wan’s hand like he’s an expiring coma patient in a soap opera, and a doctor almost has to drag him out of the room
the fact that when he and Padme are eating space grapes in bed, ANAKIN is the one being fed like he’s a fancy princess because of course
He goes to the Council Room to tell them Dramatic and Surprising Information, and when one person is like “wow, really?!” in response to this, Anakin flips his shit on them and is like OH I SEE HOW IT IS YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME OR OBI-WAN FUCK YOU GUYS and later Mace is like “…wow, that guy? Is a pain in the ass” and I’m like SAME, MACE. SAME.
he gets annoyed thinking about how Obes is such a Rules-Follower and this naturally morphs into what REALLY reads like him wishing he and Padme could have a three-way with him
Anakin is mid-Dramatic Farewell Makeout with Padme and practically shoves her off a balcony to go rescue Obi-Wan after sensing that he’s in danger, literally seconds after thinking about how much Obi-Wan annoys him and how he’s wrong about everything
he has a hissy fit in the hallway at Ahsoka (who did something egregious like say hello to him or whatever) and when people stop to stare at a grown-ass man yelling at his teenage student he thinks to himself that everyone there is UGH ALWAYS so super invested in his personal business because he’s the Chosen One as opposed to, you know, the fact that he’s a grown-ass man making a scene in public
I don’t think I have ever enjoyed reading a Star Wars book more. It genuinely delights me. 😄
Bruce posts three types of posts on his social media (which includes Facebook, and Instagram because Tim said he had to have them or he’d be fired from WE)
The first is posts about where he’s working out. He likes to challenge himself in more places than just the cave so he goes to a bunch of different weird places.
Some of his top workout photos include:
Bruce doing pullups off the side of the WE building
His cliff diving off of some of Gotham’s most famous cliffs
The one time he was spotted chasing Damian up a children’s jungle gym (this was more of a Damian get down incident, but it was also tagged MY SON and Workout)
The short video of him literally swinging through the trees in one of Gotham’s parks
Him swimming out to one of the bouys in Gotham’s pier
The second is where he eats:
When Bruce isn’t eating at the manor he’s usually on a date or at some charity thing so he posts about these often. Most of the time he’ll talk about the charity, discuss his food, or talk about the person he’s with.
The Batkids get very interested if he’s posting a lot about a woman. They’ve learned how to tell how serious Bruce is about his current date by how much he says about their date on FB. They also keep close tabs on his relationship with Selena this way, because it’s easily more reliable than either Bruce himself or the Tabloids.
The third is his kids. Some favorites are:
The time Bruce posted on his FB: “Just went shopping with Tim and learned the ingredients in a Red Bull, needless to say they are off the shopping list forever”
The infamous Steph winning the Waffle Eating competition Facebook and Instagram cross post. During this event Bruce gave a moment by moment break down of the contest, right up to the point where Steph won then proceeded to ask for ‘another plate of waffles.”
Multiple shots of Damian looking put out at a meeting or a charity event, even more shots of Damian beaming while accompanied by animals. A favorite on Instagram is him with Batcow.
A lot of selfies with Dick, mostly of them doing mundane things like eating ice cream or arm wresting, there is also the rare photo of them working out together.
The famous shot of Bruce and a ‘mystery son’ (aka Jason) washing a motorcycle together. It looks like it belongs in a magazine and is captioned: Bonding Time. A lot of the comments for this read like: They look so happy.
The FB post where: “Cassandra and I just finished watching Inside Out, and we’re both still sobbing”
And the follow up post including a picture with Cass surrounded by plush figures of each of the characters, an ear-to-ear grin on her face captioned: Got her these because she loved the movie so much #Best idea ever
The Facebook post announcing that Bruce and Barbra started a team for the annual GCPD charity run and anyone is invited. A ton of people signed up and they raised a record amount of money that year. Plus Bruce got a great photo of him and Barbra together at the finish line.
The short video he posted of Duke trying to teach him how to skateboard cross posted on both Facebook and Instagram. This sparked a Meme of Famous People on Skateboards where people Photoshopped faces over Bruce’s in the video. (His favorite is the one someone did of Superman. He sent it to the League the moment he found it)
Hands down, everyone’s favorite posts are the ones that include the entire family, most of these come in the form of Instagram posts, but the Facebook conversations that happen in the comments are not to be ignored either.
at superman's secret base: fortress of solitude, complete silence, memoir for the fallen krypton, v serious place, only 3 people granted access
at batman's secret base: I AM 200% SURE I DID NOT ADOPT THAT ONE, SOMEONE TELL ME WHY DAMIAN IS LICKING THE DINOSAUR, WHICH ONE OF U BRATS BLED ALL OVER THE BATHROOM, WHO LET THE GREEN FLASHLIGHT IN HERE, ALFRED!!!!
ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader
“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”
“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”
Cedric: What did you want to tell me, Harry?
Harry: Have my babies
Cedric: ...
Harry: I mean, the first task is dragons
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McGonagall: Potter, who is your partner for the Yule Ball?
Ron: *kicks down the door while in a stunning blue dress and four-inch heels*
Ron: It's me, bitches.
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Ron: My dad sent you this to help with the second task
Ron: *opens up box to reveal a bunch of rubber duckies*
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Harry: Can you give me advice on how to talk to girls?
Sirius: *stares at Harry blankly while the Mii theme plays*
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*Quidditch world cup*
Arthur: Hey, where's Percy?
Harry: I'll go check
*five minutes later*
Harry, traumatized: He's fucking my old Quidditch captain
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Draco: *sees Harry and Ron dancing at the Yule Ball*
Draco: MY FATHER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS
*later*
Draco, writing a letter: Dear Father, I have never been so heart broken or betrayed
One thing I love about the Batfamily is that they’re all so smart and talented and at the same time such dumbasses:
Bruce: Is the worlds greatest detective and has contingencies for everything yet can’t have a conversation about emotions to save his life
Barbara: has the worlds most advanced information network and yet she thinks that the best way to get out of danger half the time is to blow up whatever building she’s in (she has done this multiple times)
Dick: Has led multiple super hero teams but has no idea how to do his taxes and had to rely on his literal Alien Girlfriend for that
Jason: Recites Shakespeare and quotes Orwell. Took over half the Gotham Underworld at 18 and yet he crashes into buildings and the entire reason he wears a mask under his helmet was it became a habit after he did it once for dramatic effect
Tim: The Actual Worlds Greatest Detective and he forgets that miles and kilometres aren’t the same thing
Cass: Worlds greatest fighter who started learning English at like 17 and can hold conversations easily by 19-20 (that’s an entire language!) and yet she comes up with plans like ‘beat up every mob member until I get the one I want’
Steph: Made puzzles that the police needed to call Batman into solve, she tracked down multiple villain operations multiple times, she knows how to break into the batcave, she once locked Tim out of his own computer systems, she can combat majority of Gotham villains with nearly no equipment or training and has gotten in the way of Penguin’s operations multiple times, she can stay one step ahead of both Bruce and Tim the world greatest detectives for extended periods and can take down the most sophisticated ai in the world yet she falls down in construction sights and thinks crashing a car into a guy with a superspeed suit is a good plan.
Duke: Is smart enough to listen to seasoned vigilantes & solve crimes yet he thinks being shot is cool & says things like “go go ghost vision”
Damian: Raised by an elite assassin organisation from birth and got PHD’s at like 7 yet he tries to do things like drive a bus even though his feet don’t reach the peddles and jump on guys with gasoline blood in a room that’s on fire
Update! Luigi's Attorney Dickey confirms that his "outburst" where he tells the cameras that this is unjust, was because he was never read his miranda rights and was under the impression at that time that he was being denied the right to a fair trial, an attorney, or any legal representation.
He is angry and terrified in that footage because they have failed to follow basic procedure to inform him that he has any rights at all. This is a major red flag of police corruption. This is UNACCEPTABLE and further means any interrogation they did of him is unlawful, and inadmissible in court.
i feel like the fact that all these superheroes know each other but have secret id’s has so much comedy potential
This is a fun option if you use, for example, phrases in other languages in your story. I often do, and this is a nice way to give translations without having to scroll to the end of the text, or putting them in the starting notes where people have to keep checking back – or where they spoiler the story!
HOWEVER. The drawback is that the floating boxes only work when a ‘mouse’ is ‘hovered’ over the marked text. They do NOT show up on tablet or phone screens, so you’ll still need to put a list of translations in the notes for readers using those devices.
Let’s have an example.
“Qu’est ce que tu veux?”
Now if you speak French, you might know that means “What do you want?”
But not all of your readers will know that. So, you offer them a translation. And since the boxes don’t appear unless you hover directly above them, I usually add a Beginning Note to the chapter that reads something like this;
‘Hover over italicised foreign language text for translations! (Mobile and tablet users please see the Ending Notes)’
In HTML mode in Ao3, (if you try this in Rich Text mode you will get a horrible mess so don’t) the line with this example would appear as:
<p>“<em>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</em>”</p>
To add the floating box with the translation, you would select the words to be translated (that is, Qu’est ce que tu veux?) and paste in the following HTML.
<span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span>
The whole line will now read:
<p>“<em> <span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span> </em>”</p>
Review your work, hover over the part that requires translating, and you should see the following:
And you’re done!
I tend to set up a Word doc with all the <span> lines I want to use created in it, and then when the time comes, just copy/paste them into Ao3. Saves lots of time!
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