one for sorrow, two for joy

[tears_of_nienna]

Our Latin professor has figured us out. Instead of the four questions over the English readings, there are sixteen questions, and every single one of them is on Latin grammar. [EDIT: The assignment is also half again what we're used to as far as length.] Maybe it's time I got the fourth declension down...

This is what I get for trying to learn Mando

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[vilify]

Must get back into Star Wars lit.

I have total hatred for Math and Math-related subjects, but...what number caused wizard level wank?! O.o That's hatred even I don't have.

*hugs* Good luck with your thesis advisor tomorrow.

[tears_of_nienna]

Yes, yes you must. And you should start with the Republic Commando books. ;)

Wank rundown: Karen Traviss established the number of clones at around three million. This kind of doesn't jive with a statement from somewhere (wank tends not to bother stating its sources) that there were more than a quintillion battle droids. Even though the clones are at least equivalent in battle skills and tactics to the Spartans at Thermopylae (an example used, oddly enough, on both sides of the argument), there would just be too damn many battle droids for the clone army to overcome.

The story in the latest edition of the Insider reveals that the quintillion number was propaganda released by Voldemort, who was running both sides of the war and tossing misinformation around like confetti. Of course none of these people will accept the theory, even though it appears to make sense to me

[vilify]

Quintillion? o.O ...Then how, exactly, would the rebels have won, Death Star destruction or not?

Star Wars fans are (I hate to admit) among the wankiest of fans...but I still love the devotion XD Karen Traviss wrote about the Wess'har, didn't she?

[tears_of_nienna]

Quintillion? o.O ...Then how, exactly, would the rebels have won, Death Star destruction or not?

Yeah, that's the funny thing. There is no droid army in the original trilogy, so somewhere between RotS and ANH somewhere between a few million and a quintillion droids were...recycled, I guess? ;)

I guess SW is pretty wanky. I thought most of the wank stayed in the 'ship wars, but...apparently not.

And yes, Karen Traviss wrote the Wess'har books, which are also totally amazing and hsould be read by everyone. :D

[sff_corgi]

[waves] Spotted you in fanthropology, which had been intriguingly mentioned in kajafoglio's LJ. Actually, it was your username that caught my attention. I thought you might appreciate seeing this icon I made for 'stuff larger than sad' posts:

[tears_of_nienna]

Random correction: Traviss wasn't the one who established the numbers. That was Lucasfilm and Company... she just got to run with it.

I wondered about the origin of the numbers, but that group certainly wasn't the one to ask. And this just makes the whole "discussion" about fifteen million times stupider. ><

In fact, when I realized that you can't always trust the person who's telling the story I felt like I was the last person on Earth to get the idea.

I felt so betrayed when I realized that narrators weren't infallible. It was kind of like Mulder finding out who his father was. XD So yeah, it's hard to accept that we've been misinformed, but so was the rest of the galaxy.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't be talking so much, since the new Insider isn't even at the bookstore yet. *taps foot impatiently, annoys bookstore clerks, etc*

Weren't we going to make concert shirts for one of the CUSWE bands at one point? ;)

[tears_of_nienna]

Anyway! I'd be more than happy to pass on the clonejoy.

Holy crap, would you seriously? *happy dance* Obviously I'm going to buy it when I get the chance, but that chance may not be for weeks, by which point everyone will be tired of talking about it. ;)

[rimestock]

... and this is why I like not being in fandom!

XD

Seriously, though, I... sit here, in my little corner of nowhere, and I write stuff. (Like right now, am bored and have a thing up in my journal wherein I am crying PLOTBUNNY MEEEEEEEEEEEE.) And then I... post it nowhere but in my journal! And do not wander off and metadiscuss things, because hell, I don't know what the hell I'm on about anyway.

But yes.

[tears_of_nienna]

I think you have the right idea. ;) I wander about the fringes, peering in and getting pissed off at things without actually taking part in any of them. Which is fun, when it isn't maddening.

And nobody in metadiscussions knows what they're on about. It's the people who forget that that cause problems. *wise*