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We finished playing our Clone Wars campaign about a year ago, and I thought perhaps my clone feelings would fade. And then Debi and I finished watching the Clone Wars a few months ago, and I thought perhaps then my clone feelings would fade.

Nope! it turns out!

Anyway, I made a Clone Wars vid, it's about created humans and free will and the panopticon.

Title: Velodrome
Music: "Velodrome," by Dessa (lyrics)




(on Tumblr) (on AO3)

I've been feeling playlisty recently, so a few weeks ago I did a Twitter meme where I asked people for prompts for 5-song playlistlets about things we both liked, which I would make in the next week.

...it has now been almonst a month, but on the other hand almost every playlist on this list has more than 5 songs in it, so really it was an equal-opportunity lie!


clones (star wars) for bluestalking - I uh for sure had this one ready to go already, mostly with songs siphoned off from the playlist for my clone amateur oral historian character from our last tabletop campaign

bash for jothra - relatedly, the playlist for my clone amateur oral historian character from our last tabletop campaign

wild theatrical productions for evewithanapple - I was not sure whether this prompt meant 'songs from wild theatrical productions' or 'the mood of creating/experiencing a wild theatrical production', so I attempted to do the second with the first? please note that 'wild' is not a condemnation, some of these are from productions I think are legitimately delightful and some from productions I sincerely believe are terrible

Kay for aella_irene - this was surprisingly difficult, the only thing in my personal feelings about Sir Kay that for sure I feel like I captured was my strong belief that he spends his entire life annoyed and stressed

Russian Doll for aberration - this is another one I definitely had cued up and ready to go already

the Iron Bull (Dragon Age) for agonistes - the Land Down Under here represents Ferelden

bog bodies - shati forbade me from using Zombie by The Cranberries in this playlist, which, technically, I did not

UNIONS! - happydork is lucky this playlist was not composed entirely of Daniel Kahn songs

True Pretenses by Rose Lerner for sophia_sol - this one was so much fun to do AND coincidentally also gave me an excuse to use another Daniel Kahn song >.>

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me for pseudo_tsuga - an attempt at conveying the Mood of this great work without using any actual songs from the show

Princess Tutu - ok YOU guys all know that my personal playlist for this is LENGTHY, but the person who requested it is my roommate M and we've just finished watching S1, so I had to leave off more than half the things I would put on it until a later date when they will make sense >.>

Twelve Kingdoms for izilen - another playlist I have had ready to go for years just waiting for someone to ask me about it

the specific emotion of yankumi pretending that shin rescued her from the scary gang member she just beat up for esmenet - this is indeed a very specific delightful emotion which I did my best to capture!

trapped in an inn for nextian - a mediocre playlist for a great prompt, I would LOVE more suggestions for songs that express the feeling of 'I'm been stuck for a week in this place with a bunch of people I don't like OH WAIT no nevermind I love them now'


Feel free to chime in with a.) song suggestions for any of these playlists or b.) more prompts, I am always looking to grow my music collection and I continue to find playlisting a pleasant and soothing activity.

genarti: The thing is the Clone Wars just sounds like it's really depressing all the time.
ME: It's not ALWAYS depressing! Sometimes the episodes standing alone are perfectly upbeat! It's just in broader CONTEXT they're depressing!
genarti: [deeply unconvinced expression]
ME: Okay, I'm going to prove it to you. We're going to sit down and watch this episode about ADORABLE BABY JEDI and I dare you to find it depressing.
genarti, 20 minutes later: That admittedly was very cute.
ME: Now just don't think about what's going to happen to have happened to all those cute baby Jedi by the end of Revenge of the Sith!

In other news, I want it on the record that the baby Jedi episodes comprise the show's best arc to date.

( The first ten episodes of Season 5, under the cut )

Because she is a sadist, jothra offered to DM a Clone Wars RPG campaign in which all the player characters were clones. Because we are masochists, we agreed that this sounded like a great idea. Last weekend, we played the campaign's thrilling finale, in which we all got brainwashed by Order 66 and spent the entire last battle fighting our own Jedi and rooting desperately for her to destroy us before we could kill her. A good and not at all emotionally fraught time was had by all!

As a result, the past week has been pretty much all clone feelings all the time around here, and the announcement that there are suddenly going to be SURPRISE NEW CLONE WARS was pretty much just the cherry on the cake, so it's probably time for me to do some catch-up Clone Wars posting.

( The first ten episodes of Season 4, under the cut )

My old computer died sometime in between the last time I did a Clone Wars post and today, which means that I lost most of my notes on the per-episode death rate of clone buddies! That said, it feels like we've seen a lot fewer clone buddy fatalities in Season Three so far. (I hope I have not just jinxed a whole battalion of clone buddies to come.)

Anyway! Episodes 1-10 of Season 3 ( under the cut )

We have finished Season 1 of the Clone Wars TV show, and are a good chunk of the way through Season 2! A sign of progress: I think we've now officially hit our first ominous foreshadowing usage of the 'Imperial March.'


( The last two episodes of Season One )

( And the first ten of Season Two )

Having temporarily taken a break from lengthy space operas about terrible wars within ongoing franchises after finishing DS9, innerbrat and I have now started watching through Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I'm going to try to stop to write up about every ten episodes for anyone who is interested in following along on this moderately lengthy journey.

For the record, going in, here is my knowledge of The Clone Wars as picked up via tumblr osmosis:
- there are clones
- Anakin has an apprentice named Ahsoka and we all love her
- Obi-Wan might have a romance with a planetary leader because that's just what Jedi do, apparently
- there is a Complicated and Tragic plot about Ahsoka's ruined relationship with the Jedi order that allows her to survive to appear in Star Wars: Rebels

That's it! That's all I know. Other than what happens in ( these first ten episodes of Season 1 )