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Feb. 20th, 2016 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakPolitics is so depressing right now, crazy nationalists on the rise everywhere, and this morning I learned about Umberto Eco's death, which somehow hit me harder than Harper Lee's. Not just because her bad state of health had been widely commented on last year apropos Go Set A Watchman; The Name of the Rose back in the 80s had meaning for me, and only gained more as the years passed. (Teenage me recognized William of Baskerville as a Holmes avatar, but hadn't read Jorge Luis Borges yet.) Also: the essays! The not giving into the quagmire of Berlusconidom!
Anyway, I needed some comforting fiction, and thus can share a few links. These aren't new stories, so you might already know them, but if you don't:
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit:
Or would they go on aching still:
Tauriel comes to Gondor in the days of the king. Arwen wants to help her carry the grief she shoulders, but in the end, they help each other. Tauriel as Arwen's companion in the world where soon, all the other elves have gone is a lovely idea, and the meshing of book and movie canon works beautifully.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
Old Shadows: Ahsoka asks Anakin about his past after the events on Kadavo and Zygerria. The short Zygerria arc is the most overt way in which The Clone Wars adresses the long term impact Anakin's childhood as a slave had on him, and the story is also a great example of the Ahsoka-Anakin comraderie that makes the show.
Don't Unlace Your Madcap Abandon: in which Anakin takes Ahsoka and Rex to some illegal racing in the Coruscant underground (it's for a mission, honestly!); the story starts out deceptively light hearted but takes some inevitably darker, angsty corners, and again, is a great showcase for the Ahsoka and Anakin relationship (this time complete with both their friendship with Rex).
Anyway, I needed some comforting fiction, and thus can share a few links. These aren't new stories, so you might already know them, but if you don't:
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit:
Or would they go on aching still:
Tauriel comes to Gondor in the days of the king. Arwen wants to help her carry the grief she shoulders, but in the end, they help each other. Tauriel as Arwen's companion in the world where soon, all the other elves have gone is a lovely idea, and the meshing of book and movie canon works beautifully.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
Old Shadows: Ahsoka asks Anakin about his past after the events on Kadavo and Zygerria. The short Zygerria arc is the most overt way in which The Clone Wars adresses the long term impact Anakin's childhood as a slave had on him, and the story is also a great example of the Ahsoka-Anakin comraderie that makes the show.
Don't Unlace Your Madcap Abandon: in which Anakin takes Ahsoka and Rex to some illegal racing in the Coruscant underground (it's for a mission, honestly!); the story starts out deceptively light hearted but takes some inevitably darker, angsty corners, and again, is a great showcase for the Ahsoka and Anakin relationship (this time complete with both their friendship with Rex).
