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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2019 15:25:29 EST jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ
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@Are0h yeah, I think from a sith perspective we can even see the whole imperial project as basically Palpatine wanting to maximise strife+suffering for his own ends, disaster capitalism style ('greed is good'='peace is a lie, there is only passion'??)–I can't imagine he ever saw himself has having alllies, just various playthings to smash into each other. Reminded of a really good in-universe style summation of that fan theory, in the form of an obituary for Leia Organa: https://mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/leia-organa-a-critical-obituary/
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1. Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary
  
  By malcolmsheppard from you're always being judged
  
  General Leia Organa. Official portrait, Hall of Darasuum Kote, Coruscant.
  
  Leia Organa, the politician and revolutionary who led the defeat of the Galactic Empire, died after a short illness. She was 60 years old. Hers was a life laced with controversy concerning everything from her tactics to her very ancestry, but her intelligence, commitment to the Republican cause, and place at the heart of the Rebellion, and later the Resistance against Neo-Imperialism, remains the indisputable core of her legacy.
  
  Early Life in the Rebellion
  
  Organa was born Leia Amidala Skywalker, and the name presaged the uncertainty with which she would be viewed, even before her parentage became a matter of public record. Her mother, Padme Amidala, organized the Delegation of 2000 which resisted the foundation of the Palpatinian New Order, yet her father, Anakin Skywalker, would become better known as the Imperial war criminal, Darth Vader. Leia’s twin brother Luke Skywalker would be separated from her and taught the Jedi legacy by members of its hidden diaspora, but Leia was adopted by Delegation of 2000’s Senator of Alderaan, Bail Organa, who never told her about her true ancestry.
  
  Yet he freely shared other secrets, including the networks, irregular forces and war materiel he and other anti-Imperial leaders organized to resist the New Order. By her early teens, Leia Organa demonstrated talents ranging from logistics to sapient asset intelligence analysis. Even as she helped him build the nascent Alliance to Restore the Republic, she found herself drawn to a different aspect of the broad front’s efforts. Her critical materialist analysis of the Rebellion drew from Gererrist radical pragmatism and (not knowing the author was her biological mother) Amidala’s Interspecies Discourse on Naboo, a text banned throughout the Empire due to COMPNOR’s human supremacist policies.
  
  While Leia Organa’s letters, doctrines and later, command directives formed the ideological-strategic core of the Alliance, she avoided the leadership roles assumed by her father and Mon Mothma. Indeed, she used the courtesy title Princess (afforded by her adopted parents, as elected officials in Alderaan’s post-monarchic democracy) sparingly, and purely for political effect. She became a field operative instead, managing diverse intelligence assets under the cover of diplomatic and sapient-relief travel. Before the Battle of Scarif, her missions shared intelligence with numerous Alliance cells. Her uncanny ability to predict the actions of enemies and allies alike made her essential, but the Alliance treated her warily, concerned she might manipulate its forces for her own ends.
  
  Operation Rogue One/Stardust successfully destroyed the Tarkin and Krennic cliques, using high risk methods that would become a hallmark of Organa’s tradecraft. While imprisoned, she refined her thoughts on asymmetric warfare. Reconstructed image.
  
  These worries may have been justified when Organa prevented Yavin IV Flight Command from properly securing arms and spacecraft related to the extraction of Jyn Erso. She correctly predicted Erso and the Andor faction would act on their own, and made a shuttle, droid and weapons conveniently available. Operation Rogue One remains controversial; critics note that Organa sacrificed the entire volunteer cadre, hundreds of troops and much of the Alliance fleet to acquire Designation Stardust intelligence, and that its ultimate success owed itself to her activation of a Jedi asset, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as she was captured by Imperial forces. Indeed, the coincidences behind her subsequent escape and organization of the defense of Yavin IV have been ascribed to the Force, singular tactical genius or pure luck – all ideologically fraught options.
  
  The Organa Doctrine
  
  Before the Battle of Endor, where she would train local insurgents and send Luke Skywalker on an additional unsanctioned mission. Although Organa wears Captain’s insignia here, she was often given temporary commissions, and refused formal promotions to remain in the field. Nevertheless, she became General of the Resistance during the New Republic period.
  
  Most historians now see the Stardust/DS-class superweapons as relatively minor parts of the Empire’s war machine (The Imperial-class Star Destroyer remained the primary engine of its force-projection capabilities), but Organa demonstrated the importance of stymieing these and similar efforts through her landmark analysis of the Empire’s ideology and political economy. Later published as The Head of Clay: Elitism, Warlordism and Weakness in the Galactic Empire, her papers proved that as competition for political prestige motivated the Empire’s factions, they would necessarily centralize power, organizing capital in progressively less efficient “superprojects:” initiatives a clique could explain to the Emperor and his inner circle in simple, direct terms, and control through a centralized command structure. Superprojects caught the eye of the inner circle, while more complex proposals (such as Holonet infrastructure improvements) and those requiring cross-clique cooperation (such as maintaining Clone Wars era advanced military technologies) fell by the wayside.
  
  The superprojects trend began during the Palpatinian Republic (and possibly earlier, if GAOR clone forces could be considered one of them), reaching an early peak in Stardust/DS-1 itself, a massive undertaking that consumed 1% of GaDP over nearly two decades. Alliance attacks on superprojects inflicted devastating economic damage and often led to the death and capture of key Imperial influencers, who preferred to personally supervise their work in case a competitor attempted to sabotage or seize control of it. Each attack made the Empire more reliant on successor superprojects to recoup losses and keep systems dependent on its common economy, but each failure prompted peripheral worlds to secede and escape the fallout. Although it would later become famous as a verse in Interstellar People’s War, Organa first explained her doctrine’s essence to Wilhuf Tarkin himself: “The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Yet the Empire remained locked into the cycle, to the point where the Emperor personally commanded a successor to Stardust/DS-1 in the hope that this economic necessity would at least create a viable terror weapon.
  
  The Organa Doctrine is widely believed to have won the Galactic Civil War. According to Admiral Gial Ackbar (Ret.):
  
  “It was impossible to defeat the massed Imperial Starfleet, so the question was always one of choosing the most effective targets. The Sienar and Kuat combines possessed redundant facilities to the extent that we could barely put a dent in ship production. The Organa Doctrine identified the Empire’s critical weakness and through rigorous materialist analysis, showed us where to hit the hardest, and hurt them the most. And as one faction fell with its project, another took its place, eager to please the Emperor with some new, grand mission. It was their trap – inescapable, embedded within their political praxis.”
  
  Covert Operations, Victory and Controversy
  
  In deep cover during Operation Krayt Onyx, pursuing the primary objective of eliminating Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The secondary objective of recovering Captain Han Solo was also achieved.
  
  The Organa Doctrine identified the path to victory, but the woman herself remained on the front line, rarely pausing for conferences with Alliance intelligence droids. This may have contributed to the ambiguous reception she received in the post-Imperial era, as she didn’t emerge with the political influence accorded leaders like Mon Mothma . While they directed large scale operations (often per Organa’s theories and recommendations) she led covert operations on numerous worlds. She worked under deep cover as the bounty hunter Boussh, and during Galactic Concordance negotiations at the end of the war, admitted that during this period, she personally assassinated Hutt leader Jabba Desilijic Tiure.
  
  She was also revealed to be Darth Vader’s daughter, contributing to further marginalization not because of her ancestry per se, but in the context of an operation where she authorized Luke Skywalker (her collaborator in the killing of Jabba) to infiltrate DS-2, turn Vader into an Alliance asset, and kill the Emperor. Representatives raised questions about her objectivity, her use of political killing as a tool of warfare, the possibility that she might have granted Vader immunity from war crimes prosecution, and her indifference to risk, given that she was willing to sacrifice the last known Jedi in multiple operations. Organa was unrepentant.
  
  Resistance Against Neo-Imperialism
  
  A candid moment before addressing the New Republic Senate.
  
  Yet the Galactic Concordance relied on her analysis, though she argued that it had been misinterpreted. By shifting the New Republic capital periodically, leaders hoped to prevent clique formation, and through demilitarization, they planned to prevent future superproject fiascoes. Organa maintained that without a strong de-Imperialization program, these measures would fail. In her address to the first session of the restored New Republic Senate, she said:
  
  “After the transition from Sith Empire feudalism to the Reformation and Republican capitalism, Sith ideology transformed from a system of promises in kind to an absolutism eager to step in during crises: a Rule of Two for inner leadership, and an array of industrial, military and social cliques with ambiguous positions, hoping to enter the realm of the Two. That was the Empire. Sithism and the Dark Side have always been politically and economically engaged ideologies – and necessarily so, because the Force gives ideological mastery direct, material consequences. We can’t live in a galaxy with Republic and Imperial ideologies, since the latter exists to subvert the former. Neo-Sithism and Neo-Imperialism are the same ideology, and must be destroyed through the ongoing liberation of worlds into a Republic hardened against crisis through social programs. As for disarmament: The last blaster bolt can only be eliminated by shooting it at the last Stormtrooper.”
  
  It was an unpopular position; the Old Republic aristocrats who controlled the Alliance’s resources were tired of war, and concerned that the New Republic would spring into being utterly impoverished. Some Imperial remnant forces seemed ready to fight to the last. The Galactic Concordance denied Leia Organa the opportunity to finish off the Empire, but it furnished her with the New Republic’s militarized deep state. Alliance factions maintained independent militias and arms they weren’t willing to contribute to the New Republic, but could be found through the intelligence channels she’d developed over decades. These were primarily Gererrist columns situated in the Outer Rim, who had never been well served by the Old Republic, and whose worlds the Empire exploited for labor and natural resources. Organa was popular among them not for political theories, but as the hardened guerrilla who’d broken the Hutt slave labor cartel, and as a quasi-religious figure attuned to the Force. She took overall command of this combined irregular force: The Resistance.
  
  The Problem of a Personal Life
  
  Leia Organa was hardly one to maintain a strict separation between her political and personal life. She was willing to discuss her upbringing and family background when it was relevant, but did not bring up her lovers and contemporary family for public consumption. Rumored lover Lando Calrissian only came up as an Alliance officer and elected official; Han Solo was a pilot, a fellow operative and a fleet commander. Although personal motives likely drove certain operations late in the war – Solo was a Jabba’s captive – she responded to critics by noting that she was willing to bring her closest associates into the thick of the most dangerous missions. Nevertheless, son Ben Solo must be considered as a possible inspiration for her hard line against Neo-Imperialism due to his membership in the First Order.
  
  If Organa must bear some responsibility for her son’s defection, it might ultimately stem from the operation that sent Luke Skywalker to DS-2, where he allegedly attempted to recruit Darth Vader. By suggesting Vader might be redeemed not through formal justice but by reawakening a familial bond, she might have recast him as a romantic, tragic figure, and not the mass murderer attested to by countless sources. Indeed, she allowed Skywalker to give Vader an ad hoc Jedi funeral. Of course, this was Skywalker’s choice, and he subsequently trained Ben Solo, so the “last Jedi” may bear greater blame than either his mother or oft-absent father.
  
  Ultimately, the best way to judge Leia Organa might be through the same materialist critical analysis that drove her to revolutionary action. Before Leia Organa, the Empire destroyed civilizations to power a war machine for the glory of its elites. Because of her, galactic civilization doesn’t consist of thousands of starving worlds, whose inhabitants gaze into skies swarming with Death Stars built from their stolen productivity. The ideology of the Dark Side never rests, and it might return to reap capital from oppressed planets, but for now, many worlds enjoy a certain amount of peace and freedom.
  
  About the Author
jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2019 15:09:37 EST jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

I know Anakin on the operating table shouldn't make me crave BBQ...yet we live in a fallen world, so here I am
#StarWarsFedi

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2019 14:28:09 EST jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Gods above below & around us how is there still an Hour Left?!‽
#StarWarsFedi

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2019 13:03:00 EST jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Here we gooooo!!
#StarWarsFedi

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2019 13:04:08 EST jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Here we goooooo #StarWarsFedi

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2019 07:14:45 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Recently I took part in a v. special project–A Peculiar Organism of Unlimited Kindness and Benevolence, a gorgeous digital zine to raise funds & awareness to preserve the Amazon.
12 artists! 22pg of incredible, diverse+exclusive artwork! $5+! profits go to the Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Alliance and Amazon Watch!
Get it here:
🌿 https://gumroad.com/l/apeculiarorganism
🌿 https://papayaya.itch.io/a-peculiar-organism
please purchase if you can, boost, spread the word💞
#mastoArt #fediArt #mastoDraw #zine #creativeToots

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 06:22:37 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

I'd like to take a moment of your timeline to ask folks to use CamelCase in your tags. I didn't know until I came to masto that this helps people who use screen readers parse them as words rather than jumbles of characters. When there are multiple words mashed together in a tag, try capitalising each one, for instance #CommissionMe #CallForArt #LookingForArtist
you can go to an online screen reader site like this one to check out the difference it makes: https://ttsreader.com #accessibility
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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2019 06:18:28 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Good morning friends! Clouds simmering away again at last & the heat is a big relief. I'd thought the buddleia looming over our fence was flowering, but evidently that was just a prelude—now in full bloom & w/warmth distilling the perfume its sweet scent is a powerful, almost physical presence filling the garden like a bowl.
Heavy lethargy slowly lifting—aiming to be patient still, let recovery take its time.
May we recognise our own value today, & nurture ties w/those who treat us w/respect!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 07:57:23 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ
- ✨Heather G. :squishygecko: ✨
Thank you so much @rheall for this lovely postcard! I'd love to keep the chain of good vibes going, so for those wanting something fun in the mail I'll send a postcard to the first three folks to reply to this post (or you can nominate a recipient!) You can choose any from this selection:
https://www.spideronasnail.co.uk/art-by-james-allan-dale

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Sep-2018 00:05:11 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! A day of winds & rushing, everchanging skies. It was almost uncanny watching through the window, seeing a featureless overcast sky become bright blue, all the leaves gaining stained glass radiance before returning to grey within a few minutes. It was like the way days whip by in timelapse photography.
An exhausted low-energy day for me–bad sleep & intermittent rain conspiring—so even w/o the weather it felt like I was in strange slow motion.
May we find healing truths today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 23:27:19 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! A damp, unpreposessing day, with vibrant pinpricks of orangey-red from new crops of ripening berries. There were several stretches of fine, almost silent misty rain, giving that pavements a dull sheen to match the pale grey sky.
That rain snuck up on me & v. quickly got into my bones, slowing me down & stopping me from getting any sleep until now.
May we appreciate the quiet ways in which we've grown today, & believe in our capacity to continue towards kinder, better selves!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 21:45:25 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ
- jmz🦀(CARCIFIED)
- Damage (Carapesque)
#reintroductions are in the air, & I'm nothing if not extremely pliable! I'm James, @paralithode but in a smaller community w/a nicer feel! I'm an illustrator, fantasist & broad-spectrum nerd.
I've lived w/ #CFSME since I was 14–a chronic illness that affects cognition & means I'm always exhausted+in pain. Usually not v. active (except for boosting a lot of visual art & some nice social justice threads), tho every day I say goodnight before I got to bed.
My primary partner+carer is @Damage 💕

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jul-2018 00:15:59 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! Today really slipped by me, kinda shaken up by a long, painful+exhausting period of immobility yesterday, one that came mostly out of the blue. Shorter+less severe today, but still sore moments—sleep thrown utterly off course again for now.
The weather stayed close & warm, wind rapidly flipping through weather channels from overcast murk to sunlight with piercing, dizzying physical presence.
May we find & value the chance to listen to & trust each others' experiences today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jul-2018 10:56:29 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

https://spideronasnail.co.uk updated & we're really excited by our curent print selection. There's gorgeous brand new animals, we've restocked some favourites & found some older work that hasn't been seen much before. The colours came out super vivid & true on our mini prints, which are really pleasing oversized-postcard dimensions.
@Damage also has some beautiful originals for sale+my free 2nd design riso print deal is still running! Check it out! https://www.spideronasnail.co.uk/all-work
#CreativeToots #MastoArt

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 21:28:50 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! Sun broke apart & through a sulky grey morning bit by bit, until by the evening cement was hot under bare feet.
A lot of my energy today was taken up w/a classic housework errand—emptying all the bins, taking all the rubbish+recycling to the end of the road for pick-up. I probably mention this whenever I do it—it's such an unutterable pleasure+privilege to have days when I''m able to take part in maintaining our household.
May we find joy & love in serving each other today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 21:53:33 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! Another day of wind slowly winding down from brightness & motion to grey, humid stillness. The air smells like stone again, & there were prickly shocks of potential rain on the skin whenever I was outside.
As my mind swims into clarity I feel something like I imagine people wearing glasses for the first time feel; almost visceral feeling of understanding, everything gains sharp, crystal edges.
May we greet each other w/solidarity & humility today, to lift us all up together!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 20:49:48 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! While the clouds aren't in full retreat, they were already much thinned & paled by morning. By midday the streets were starting to simmer gently again. We set off into town for another(!) zine event—everyone in the city seems a little heat-dazed.
The experience of being in fellowship w/folks engaged in & passionate about making art & generating cultural experiences felt overwhelming & encouraging all over again.
May we find & share inspiration & joy in our communities today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 21:45:33 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! After an afternoon of slowly encroaching shade the unbroken streak of ferocious brightness broke this evening. I couldn't quite believe it until I stood on the still-hot wet concrete pavement in the blue dark, my head damp & full of the thick sandy smell of petrichor.
I was p. knocked out most of today, having pushed my physical limits the past few days. It feels at least unusually temporary, like real exhaustion.
May we grow in understanding of ourselves & each other today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jul-2018 21:30:24 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! There was a comfortable breeze on & off today, & the first sight in days of significant clouds, looking determined & ponderous. Perhaps a break in the weather ahead? A sticky, glossy beetle-black pool of melted pitch has formed around the base of the telephone pole.
Moving onward w/exercise & research today—my brain+my muscles both reaching a half-pleasurable ambiguous point of struggle, where challenges start.
May we empower each other to act justly & compassionately today!

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jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ (paralithode@playvicious.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2018 21:17:48 EDT jmz🦀ᵛᶜᵐ

Goodnight friends! More heat today, & more slow-baked lethargy, the air largely still. Cats seeking refuge under cars, birds hushed, pedestrians doing their best to slide from the shadow of one tree to the next. Only crickets, dry brown in the brown dry grass, seem excited.
I had a few bursts of activity though, most of if a little aimless—surging forward a little with light exercises, more NVC research, drawing that isn't really for anything.
May we celebrate the humble acts of living today!

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