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huxismyman:
General Hux first and last scenes- Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi
huxismyman:
General Hux first and last scenes- Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi
Apr. 29th, 2019
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mckitterick:
why-ask-why:
Today I learned about a couple that decided to rebuild their deserted piece of land of 600 hectares in Aimorés, Brazil. They planted more than 2 million tree saplings. As a result, the site has 293 plant species, 172 bird species and 33 animal species, some of which were on the verge of extinction. It only took 18 years!
In the early 1990s, Brazilian photo-journalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was stationed in Rwanda to cover the horrific accounts of Rwanda genocide. The on-ground experience left him traumatised. In 1994, he was returning to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a heavy heart, hoping to find solace in the lap of a lush green forest, where he had grown up.
But, instead, he found dusty, barren land for miles and miles, in place of the forest. In only a few years, his beautiful hometown underwent rampant deforestation, leaving it fallow and devoid of all the wildlife. For him, everything was destroyed. “The land was as sick as I was. Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees,’ he shared in an interview with The Guardian. Salgado was shattered.
Saldago’s Wife Wanted to Recreate The Forest
It was at this time that Salgado’s wife Lélia made a near-impossible proposal. She expressed her wish to replant the entire forest. Salgado supported her idea, and together the couple set out on a heroic mission.Brazil Photographer Forest
Salgado bought an abandoned cattle ranch from his parents and started building a network of enthusiastic volunteers and partners who would fund and sustain their mammoth project. In 1998, the couple founded Instituto Terra – the organisation which tirelessly worked to bring a forest back to life.
PNHR Bulcão Farm | by Weverson Rocio – 2012
Salgado sowed the first seed in December 1999. The couple hired around 24 workers in the beginning and was later joined by numerous volunteers over the years. They worked day and night – from uprooting the invasive weeds to planting new seedlings. Soon, their hard work bore fruit as tropical trees native to the region started flourishing in the area. They received a donation of over one lakh saplings which gave rise to a dense forest. The handcrafted forest comprises mostly of local arboreal and shrub varieties. Latest satellite imagery revealed how a soothing green forest cover has enveloped the area which once was a devastating arid eyesore.Since 1998, they have planted more than 2 million saplings of 293 species of trees and rejuvenated 1,502 acres of tropical forest. The biodiversity-rich zone has recently been declared as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve (PNHR).
The Impact of Salgado’s Forest
The afforestation project, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest environmental initiatives in the world, has also helped to control soil erosion and revived the natural springs in the area. Eight water springs which once dried up, flow at around 20 litres per minute at present, relieving the drought-prone region of its woes. Salgado’s forest also happens to solve the much-debated notion about climate change, proving that the trend can be reversed if tried. His forest has resulted in causing more rainfall to the area and cooler weather, bringing a drastic and desirable change in the climate.
Instituto Terra’s Fauna | by Leonardo Merçon – 2012
The most important positive aspect of the forest till now has to be the return of the lost fauna. More than 172 species of birds, 33 species of mammals, 15 species of amphibians and reptiles have been spotted in the forest interiors, something which was beyond imagination two decades ago. Many of the plant and animal species in his forest actually feature on the endangered list.
Efforts For Good
Climate change is a harsh reality. Mankind is bearing the brunt of the relentless destruction they inflicted on the planet. Yet, people like Salgado and Lélia fill us with hope, proving that patience and persistence can be our keys to heal the wounds of nature. If two people can create a 1502-acre forest in just 20 years, then imagine how much can be done if everyone comes together to protect the environment. It must be reminded that for every tree we plant, we are adding 118 kgs of oxygen to the air every year, and reducing the carbon footprint by 22 kgs.
Efforts For Good urges all the readers to actively engage in planting trees and gradually turn this into a fixed habit.
Sources: http://www.scienceinsanity.com/2019/03/brazilian-couple-created-1502-acre.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bg0ebn/a_couple_decided_to_rebuild_their_deserted_piece/
Solarpunk in action
mckitterick:
why-ask-why:
Today I learned about a couple that decided to rebuild their deserted piece of land of 600 hectares in Aimorés, Brazil. They planted more than 2 million tree saplings. As a result, the site has 293 plant species, 172 bird species and 33 animal species, some of which were on the verge of extinction. It only took 18 years!
In the early 1990s, Brazilian photo-journalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was stationed in Rwanda to cover the horrific accounts of Rwanda genocide. The on-ground experience left him traumatised. In 1994, he was returning to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a heavy heart, hoping to find solace in the lap of a lush green forest, where he had grown up.
But, instead, he found dusty, barren land for miles and miles, in place of the forest. In only a few years, his beautiful hometown underwent rampant deforestation, leaving it fallow and devoid of all the wildlife. For him, everything was destroyed. “The land was as sick as I was. Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees,’ he shared in an interview with The Guardian. Salgado was shattered.
Saldago’s Wife Wanted to Recreate The Forest
It was at this time that Salgado’s wife Lélia made a near-impossible proposal. She expressed her wish to replant the entire forest. Salgado supported her idea, and together the couple set out on a heroic mission.Brazil Photographer Forest
Salgado bought an abandoned cattle ranch from his parents and started building a network of enthusiastic volunteers and partners who would fund and sustain their mammoth project. In 1998, the couple founded Instituto Terra – the organisation which tirelessly worked to bring a forest back to life.
PNHR Bulcão Farm | by Weverson Rocio – 2012
Salgado sowed the first seed in December 1999. The couple hired around 24 workers in the beginning and was later joined by numerous volunteers over the years. They worked day and night – from uprooting the invasive weeds to planting new seedlings. Soon, their hard work bore fruit as tropical trees native to the region started flourishing in the area. They received a donation of over one lakh saplings which gave rise to a dense forest. The handcrafted forest comprises mostly of local arboreal and shrub varieties. Latest satellite imagery revealed how a soothing green forest cover has enveloped the area which once was a devastating arid eyesore.Since 1998, they have planted more than 2 million saplings of 293 species of trees and rejuvenated 1,502 acres of tropical forest. The biodiversity-rich zone has recently been declared as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve (PNHR).
The Impact of Salgado’s Forest
The afforestation project, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest environmental initiatives in the world, has also helped to control soil erosion and revived the natural springs in the area. Eight water springs which once dried up, flow at around 20 litres per minute at present, relieving the drought-prone region of its woes. Salgado’s forest also happens to solve the much-debated notion about climate change, proving that the trend can be reversed if tried. His forest has resulted in causing more rainfall to the area and cooler weather, bringing a drastic and desirable change in the climate.
Instituto Terra’s Fauna | by Leonardo Merçon – 2012
The most important positive aspect of the forest till now has to be the return of the lost fauna. More than 172 species of birds, 33 species of mammals, 15 species of amphibians and reptiles have been spotted in the forest interiors, something which was beyond imagination two decades ago. Many of the plant and animal species in his forest actually feature on the endangered list.
Efforts For Good
Climate change is a harsh reality. Mankind is bearing the brunt of the relentless destruction they inflicted on the planet. Yet, people like Salgado and Lélia fill us with hope, proving that patience and persistence can be our keys to heal the wounds of nature. If two people can create a 1502-acre forest in just 20 years, then imagine how much can be done if everyone comes together to protect the environment. It must be reminded that for every tree we plant, we are adding 118 kgs of oxygen to the air every year, and reducing the carbon footprint by 22 kgs.
Efforts For Good urges all the readers to actively engage in planting trees and gradually turn this into a fixed habit.
Sources: http://www.scienceinsanity.com/2019/03/brazilian-couple-created-1502-acre.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bg0ebn/a_couple_decided_to_rebuild_their_deserted_piece/
Solarpunk in action
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budacub:
ebroxas72:
fischyplier:
stimman4000:
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It’s so beautiful! :’)
I legitimately thought at first that those were baked beans and not peanuts. Which was quite the way of interpreting this.
same
budacub:
ebroxas72:
fischyplier:
stimman4000:
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It’s so beautiful! :’)
I legitimately thought at first that those were baked beans and not peanuts. Which was quite the way of interpreting this.
same
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actuallylotor:
my favorite kind of fanfics are “canon divergence” because it’s always like handing back a reviewed essay with comments like “I enjoyed the strong beginning but here is where you lost me, I’ve made some notes”
actuallylotor:
my favorite kind of fanfics are “canon divergence” because it’s always like handing back a reviewed essay with comments like “I enjoyed the strong beginning but here is where you lost me, I’ve made some notes”
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trapqueenkoopa:
shadywinters:
advicefromsurvivors:
When your child says “Why can’t I get a puppy?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules”
Try “Any pet is a lot of responsibility. A puppy would have to be fed, walked, and taken outside to use the bathroom several times a day and taken for regular check-ups and vaccinations at the vet. You can’t do all of that by yourself, and I/we don’t have the time or money either.”
When your teenager says “Why can’t I come home at 2:00 this Saturday?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”
Try “The time you come home is a matter of respect and consideration. I/We will not only be concerned for your safety, but we would either be disturbed in the middle of the night when you arrive or forced to stay up for several extra hours waiting.”
When your child says “Why am I not allowed to do this thing?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”
Try actually communicating a legitimate reason, because children pick up on subtlety and on context and on the unspoken messages, and it’s better to teach children lessons like “You should think really hard before taking on new responsibilities” and “It’s important to show consideration for the needs of the people with whom you share a living space” than lessons like “It’s okay for people to demand your absolute obedience so long as you’re dependent on them for survival.”
TRUTH
Also worth knowing: training your child to accept arbitrary ‘reasons’ for obedience like ‘because I said so’ and ‘my house my rules’ etc trains them to be more susceptible to peer pressure because in their mind, when someone who is at all an authority (older than them, bigger than them, more impressive than them, more confident than them) demands something, they should accept it and not think about it critically.
Let them ask why, and give them a real reason. If not, don’t be surprised when they fall for lots of bullshit when they are older. You’re the one that made them believe ‘BECAUSE’ was reason enough.
trapqueenkoopa:
shadywinters:
advicefromsurvivors:
When your child says “Why can’t I get a puppy?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules”
Try “Any pet is a lot of responsibility. A puppy would have to be fed, walked, and taken outside to use the bathroom several times a day and taken for regular check-ups and vaccinations at the vet. You can’t do all of that by yourself, and I/we don’t have the time or money either.”
When your teenager says “Why can’t I come home at 2:00 this Saturday?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”
Try “The time you come home is a matter of respect and consideration. I/We will not only be concerned for your safety, but we would either be disturbed in the middle of the night when you arrive or forced to stay up for several extra hours waiting.”
When your child says “Why am I not allowed to do this thing?”
Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”
Try actually communicating a legitimate reason, because children pick up on subtlety and on context and on the unspoken messages, and it’s better to teach children lessons like “You should think really hard before taking on new responsibilities” and “It’s important to show consideration for the needs of the people with whom you share a living space” than lessons like “It’s okay for people to demand your absolute obedience so long as you’re dependent on them for survival.”
TRUTH
Also worth knowing: training your child to accept arbitrary ‘reasons’ for obedience like ‘because I said so’ and ‘my house my rules’ etc trains them to be more susceptible to peer pressure because in their mind, when someone who is at all an authority (older than them, bigger than them, more impressive than them, more confident than them) demands something, they should accept it and not think about it critically.
Let them ask why, and give them a real reason. If not, don’t be surprised when they fall for lots of bullshit when they are older. You’re the one that made them believe ‘BECAUSE’ was reason enough.
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themintycupcake:
When you’re teaching sexual orientations to students there really isn’t a reason not to tell them about asexuality alongside the others. It’s not a dirty little secret to be kept from the teens until they’re 18. No more than gayness or straightness or bisexuality should be hidden away. You may as well give them as much information as possible so that they know it’s an option if they need it.
themintycupcake:
When you’re teaching sexual orientations to students there really isn’t a reason not to tell them about asexuality alongside the others. It’s not a dirty little secret to be kept from the teens until they’re 18. No more than gayness or straightness or bisexuality should be hidden away. You may as well give them as much information as possible so that they know it’s an option if they need it.
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robotlyra:
oakttree:
flannelbian:
flannelbian:
why are there all these posts n articles n stuff that are like “girls can have short hair!” “girls can wear suits!” but all the women shown are still always only feminine, and whats actually being said is “girls can have short hair and still be feminine!” and “girls can wear suits and still be attractive to men!” like whenever women want to do something men (and sometimes other women too, but men are awful at this) have to find a way to make it Still Okay, Still Acceptable to them, instead of just letting women be! women dont need to fit any standards of femininity or beauty to do something, and they certainly don’t need mens approval
and its really gross considering these articles are usually about styles/behaviors associated with wlw, like they’re basically saying “doing this is okay, as long as youre straight!”
yeah. if we’re going to say this is great (and it is)
then we also need to honestly promote this as well
Please normalize and celebrate butch.
robotlyra:
oakttree:
flannelbian:
flannelbian:
why are there all these posts n articles n stuff that are like “girls can have short hair!” “girls can wear suits!” but all the women shown are still always only feminine, and whats actually being said is “girls can have short hair and still be feminine!” and “girls can wear suits and still be attractive to men!” like whenever women want to do something men (and sometimes other women too, but men are awful at this) have to find a way to make it Still Okay, Still Acceptable to them, instead of just letting women be! women dont need to fit any standards of femininity or beauty to do something, and they certainly don’t need mens approval
and its really gross considering these articles are usually about styles/behaviors associated with wlw, like they’re basically saying “doing this is okay, as long as youre straight!”
yeah. if we’re going to say this is great (and it is)
then we also need to honestly promote this as well
Please normalize and celebrate butch.
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systlin:
Seriously though, modern fandom, y’all need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I don’t have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.
systlin:
Seriously though, modern fandom, y’all need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I don’t have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.
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sarahtaylorgibson:
Romantic opium binges and fainting couches are all well and good but kids these days just don’t appreciate the late 19th century occultism aesthetic. Get some ceremonial robes, take up pipe-smoking and radical political views, wave some hyssop branches around and claim to have received revelation from mysterious higher beings. Transliterate your name into a Semitic language or sign all your letters with a mysterious Latin abbreviations; schism from your secret society to form a new, even more secret society! Paint a circle on your wealthy parent’s library floor and summon up spirits of indeterminate origin!
sarahtaylorgibson:
Romantic opium binges and fainting couches are all well and good but kids these days just don’t appreciate the late 19th century occultism aesthetic. Get some ceremonial robes, take up pipe-smoking and radical political views, wave some hyssop branches around and claim to have received revelation from mysterious higher beings. Transliterate your name into a Semitic language or sign all your letters with a mysterious Latin abbreviations; schism from your secret society to form a new, even more secret society! Paint a circle on your wealthy parent’s library floor and summon up spirits of indeterminate origin!
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katbelleinthedark:
nerdfishgirl:
alarajrogers:
swamp-ork:
alarajrogers:
fandomsandfeminism:
swamp-ork:
fandomsandfeminism:
Ok, so Brie Larson says she thinks an all female Avengers movie would be cool (A Force!) And all these dudes loooooosing their mind. “What about an all MALE Avengers film?” Uh….the first Avengers films you mean. I get that Black Widow was in it, so I’ll compromise. We’ll have Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, She Hulk, Wasp, Photon, and Storm…..and Hawkeye.
An all female team? So what, they are just gonna fight each other?
Never read A Force, huh?
Isn’t it funny how propaganda for decades has “taught” people that women will naturally fight with each other when in fact men are the violence class and in every mammalian species but hyenas, where the females are soaked in testosterone, males are more likely to fight each other than females are.
It’s not that women don’t fight each other – they do, but not nearly to the same extent that men do, so if you can imagine an all-male superhero team that doesn’t spend all its time in internal fighting, it should be easier to envision an all-female superhero team doing the same thing.
Jesus leave it to tumblr to take that literally. Let me break it down. Men physically fight because we are built and socially guided into roles that suit that. Women judge and compete to destroy each other on a scale so high that I’ve never worked a job where the women I worked with weren’t actively trying to get each other fired. You just don’t see a lot of all female teams anywhere. Definitely no ship crews/sanitation or construction. Women aren’t defending nations or building them. Blame whatever excuse you want, but there are teams of men everywhere on every part of the planet working together. Why can’t women organize on that scale?
Women have been organizing on that scale since the dawn of time. PTA, quilting bees, pretty much all communal work done in a farming community that pertains to either textiles or food preparation, the gathering part of hunter-gathering.
If you’re a man, you don’t get involved in all-female teams and you probably aren’t even aware they are happening. The work women do is consistently devalued by men in every society that anthropologists or sociologists have studied, to the point where the Russians devalue medicine because most of the doctors are women.
Most of the professions you mention women not being part of are because women were explicitly excluded, and since we moved away from being primarily agrarian in small farming towns to mostly working outside the home for large corporations, a lot of the work women used to do communally is now either done by one woman at a time, or a married couple, or it’s done by a corporation that wants you to pay for it (such as the making of clothing). So yeah, there is a lot less evidence in today’s society of large groups of women working together, because the all-male teams you refer to were always about working together outside the home, and the all-female teams were generally about working together to make everyone’s homes better, and the trend has been to isolate people into individual nuclear families so that we have to buy services from companies that in the past groups of women would have performed for the households of all the women involved, but which are way too much work for one or two people and especially if they work outside the home too.
BTW, higher male aggression toward males is actually one of the only biological differences between the sexes, as opposed to cultural – it appears in almost every human society and in almost all mammals and throughout history. It’s true that our culture trains men to make this problem significantly worse rather than trying to fight this tendency, but this is one of very few differences between the sexes that is genuinely rooted in biology (which doesn’t mean it’s universally true of all women or all men; there are many gentle, pacifistic men and many aggressive, violent women, but statistically, human men are biologically more inclined to be violent and especially toward other men. 80% of all murder victims in the US and 90% of all murderers are men.)
If you’ve been in a lot of environments where women backstabbed each other a lot, my guess is those environments were highly competitive and very sexist, so that very few women could get ahead. It’s a lot easier for a woman to get status by backstabbing a woman than by backstabbing a man; what you end up with is a large number of women competing for a small number of high-status slots that might be open to women, with men taking all the other high-status slots. I’ve been in the working world for over 30 years as a woman and I’ve never worked anywhere that this kind of thing happened; also, all of my bosses have been women since I was in my early 20′s and all of them were supportive of my career ambitions and helped me to grow in my field, and in all of them I had a lot of female co-workers that worked well together, too.
(And women aren’t involved in “building nations”? Really? What kind of work do you think goes into building nations? Do you think it doesn’t involve education, medicine, farming and food preparation, all of which are worldwide majority female domains?)
Personally, I’ve seen both situations described above.
I’ve had a couple mentors who were women who I love and deeply respect, I’m friends with a great group of gals and we support and love each other.
But, definitely in high school, other women treated me like crap. Even now I find female society to be difficult to navigate.
I tend to be confrontational when I disagree with someone, which upsets many women. So much goes unsaid, I am no good at reading subtlety, and I get into trouble (again). It’s exhausting, and its a situation one doesn’t have to worry about as much when dealing with men - who are more likely to confront you with a snide or aggressive comment if they think you’ve overstepped your boundaries.
BUT, I think this more about socialization than it is “women are natural backstabbers”.
(White middle to upperclass american) women are raised to avoid conflict, to avoid direct conflict at any cost. Which is nice, I guess, but it means that the only way left to handle natural aggressive or controlling tendencies, or to handle conflict, is by subterfuge and backstabbing.
You see extremely similar behavior in upperclass white men, particularly in academia…..
Once again, open aggression or conflict is deemed “not appropriate” for that particular class of men. And, as with women socialized in that manner, you see similar backstabbing and pettiness. Also…. once again I find it extremely difficult to deal with that society, although its made slightly easier by a higher acceptance of idiosyncrasies and a greater reliance - at least in science - on pure skill and qualifications and an acceptance of conflict.
I think that just denying that such conduct among women occurs (it does) or just occurs in highly competitive environments (it doesn’t), is denial. But not recognizing that such conduct is part of the way men and women (in white american middle to upper class society) are socialized, and generalizing that to all women as a biological category is also false.
Also, despite the backstabbing and pettiness, women most often enable most offices to actually run through organizing and performing all of the “background work” that the men find it beneath them to do.
Basically, if society could cease with the expectation of aggressive behavior in men, and allow for it a little more in women, I think we’d all be a lot happier and would realize that we all tend to aggressive self centered idiots to some degree.
All of this, but also to get to the original point: an all-female team would be amazing, the A-Force comics have been great, that shot of all MCU women banding around Carol gave me strength and made me think of A-Force immediately.
Do it, Marvel. Make it so.
katbelleinthedark:
nerdfishgirl:
alarajrogers:
swamp-ork:
alarajrogers:
fandomsandfeminism:
swamp-ork:
fandomsandfeminism:
Ok, so Brie Larson says she thinks an all female Avengers movie would be cool (A Force!) And all these dudes loooooosing their mind. “What about an all MALE Avengers film?” Uh….the first Avengers films you mean. I get that Black Widow was in it, so I’ll compromise. We’ll have Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, She Hulk, Wasp, Photon, and Storm…..and Hawkeye.
An all female team? So what, they are just gonna fight each other?
Never read A Force, huh?
Isn’t it funny how propaganda for decades has “taught” people that women will naturally fight with each other when in fact men are the violence class and in every mammalian species but hyenas, where the females are soaked in testosterone, males are more likely to fight each other than females are.
It’s not that women don’t fight each other – they do, but not nearly to the same extent that men do, so if you can imagine an all-male superhero team that doesn’t spend all its time in internal fighting, it should be easier to envision an all-female superhero team doing the same thing.
Jesus leave it to tumblr to take that literally. Let me break it down. Men physically fight because we are built and socially guided into roles that suit that. Women judge and compete to destroy each other on a scale so high that I’ve never worked a job where the women I worked with weren’t actively trying to get each other fired. You just don’t see a lot of all female teams anywhere. Definitely no ship crews/sanitation or construction. Women aren’t defending nations or building them. Blame whatever excuse you want, but there are teams of men everywhere on every part of the planet working together. Why can’t women organize on that scale?
Women have been organizing on that scale since the dawn of time. PTA, quilting bees, pretty much all communal work done in a farming community that pertains to either textiles or food preparation, the gathering part of hunter-gathering.
If you’re a man, you don’t get involved in all-female teams and you probably aren’t even aware they are happening. The work women do is consistently devalued by men in every society that anthropologists or sociologists have studied, to the point where the Russians devalue medicine because most of the doctors are women.
Most of the professions you mention women not being part of are because women were explicitly excluded, and since we moved away from being primarily agrarian in small farming towns to mostly working outside the home for large corporations, a lot of the work women used to do communally is now either done by one woman at a time, or a married couple, or it’s done by a corporation that wants you to pay for it (such as the making of clothing). So yeah, there is a lot less evidence in today’s society of large groups of women working together, because the all-male teams you refer to were always about working together outside the home, and the all-female teams were generally about working together to make everyone’s homes better, and the trend has been to isolate people into individual nuclear families so that we have to buy services from companies that in the past groups of women would have performed for the households of all the women involved, but which are way too much work for one or two people and especially if they work outside the home too.
BTW, higher male aggression toward males is actually one of the only biological differences between the sexes, as opposed to cultural – it appears in almost every human society and in almost all mammals and throughout history. It’s true that our culture trains men to make this problem significantly worse rather than trying to fight this tendency, but this is one of very few differences between the sexes that is genuinely rooted in biology (which doesn’t mean it’s universally true of all women or all men; there are many gentle, pacifistic men and many aggressive, violent women, but statistically, human men are biologically more inclined to be violent and especially toward other men. 80% of all murder victims in the US and 90% of all murderers are men.)
If you’ve been in a lot of environments where women backstabbed each other a lot, my guess is those environments were highly competitive and very sexist, so that very few women could get ahead. It’s a lot easier for a woman to get status by backstabbing a woman than by backstabbing a man; what you end up with is a large number of women competing for a small number of high-status slots that might be open to women, with men taking all the other high-status slots. I’ve been in the working world for over 30 years as a woman and I’ve never worked anywhere that this kind of thing happened; also, all of my bosses have been women since I was in my early 20′s and all of them were supportive of my career ambitions and helped me to grow in my field, and in all of them I had a lot of female co-workers that worked well together, too.
(And women aren’t involved in “building nations”? Really? What kind of work do you think goes into building nations? Do you think it doesn’t involve education, medicine, farming and food preparation, all of which are worldwide majority female domains?)
Personally, I’ve seen both situations described above.
I’ve had a couple mentors who were women who I love and deeply respect, I’m friends with a great group of gals and we support and love each other.
But, definitely in high school, other women treated me like crap. Even now I find female society to be difficult to navigate.
I tend to be confrontational when I disagree with someone, which upsets many women. So much goes unsaid, I am no good at reading subtlety, and I get into trouble (again). It’s exhausting, and its a situation one doesn’t have to worry about as much when dealing with men - who are more likely to confront you with a snide or aggressive comment if they think you’ve overstepped your boundaries.
BUT, I think this more about socialization than it is “women are natural backstabbers”.
(White middle to upperclass american) women are raised to avoid conflict, to avoid direct conflict at any cost. Which is nice, I guess, but it means that the only way left to handle natural aggressive or controlling tendencies, or to handle conflict, is by subterfuge and backstabbing.
You see extremely similar behavior in upperclass white men, particularly in academia…..
Once again, open aggression or conflict is deemed “not appropriate” for that particular class of men. And, as with women socialized in that manner, you see similar backstabbing and pettiness. Also…. once again I find it extremely difficult to deal with that society, although its made slightly easier by a higher acceptance of idiosyncrasies and a greater reliance - at least in science - on pure skill and qualifications and an acceptance of conflict.
I think that just denying that such conduct among women occurs (it does) or just occurs in highly competitive environments (it doesn’t), is denial. But not recognizing that such conduct is part of the way men and women (in white american middle to upper class society) are socialized, and generalizing that to all women as a biological category is also false.
Also, despite the backstabbing and pettiness, women most often enable most offices to actually run through organizing and performing all of the “background work” that the men find it beneath them to do.
Basically, if society could cease with the expectation of aggressive behavior in men, and allow for it a little more in women, I think we’d all be a lot happier and would realize that we all tend to aggressive self centered idiots to some degree.
All of this, but also to get to the original point: an all-female team would be amazing, the A-Force comics have been great, that shot of all MCU women banding around Carol gave me strength and made me think of A-Force immediately.
Do it, Marvel. Make it so.
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fuckyeahasexual:
SEX NEGATIVITY HAS NO PLACE IN THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY
Love, Your Local Ace
PS,
Thinking someone’s sex repulsion means they are sex negative, is a ignorant form of hate. Here’s a quick guide:
Sex negativity is a morality call about sex itself saying it’s wrong, shameful, or sinful.
Sex repulsion is akin to a trigger often seen in abuse victims and those whose sexuality can cause people to abuse them.
fuckyeahasexual:
SEX NEGATIVITY HAS NO PLACE IN THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY
Love, Your Local Ace
PS,
Thinking someone’s sex repulsion means they are sex negative, is a ignorant form of hate. Here’s a quick guide:
Sex negativity is a morality call about sex itself saying it’s wrong, shameful, or sinful.
Sex repulsion is akin to a trigger often seen in abuse victims and those whose sexuality can cause people to abuse them.
granny-core: ☕Coffee Jelly ☕ ☕ 5
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granny-core:
☕Coffee Jelly ☕
☕ 5 dl hot coffee, as strong as you prefer (I’m a simple person with simple needs, so I use instant coffee). Decaf works well if you, like me, can’t really have caffeine!
☕ 1,2 dl sugar (you can adjust the amount to your preference, this is a pretty sweet one).
☕ 10 grams gelatin (or 2 grams agar, if you want it vegan!).
Soften the gelatin in a small amount of cold water, then warm it up until the gelatin melts. Stir it into the coffee. (I use gelatin leaf, so I just put them in a bowl of cold water for 5 mins, then squeeze them and add them to the coffee, which I find easier than powdered gelatin).
Dissolve the sugar into the coffee/gelatin mix.
Pour into your mould/bowl/container of choice, and let cool in the fridge until the gelatin has set.
Serve with milk, your fave plant milk, whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk, or custard!
granny-core:
☕Coffee Jelly ☕
☕ 5 dl hot coffee, as strong as you prefer (I’m a simple person with simple needs, so I use instant coffee). Decaf works well if you, like me, can’t really have caffeine!
☕ 1,2 dl sugar (you can adjust the amount to your preference, this is a pretty sweet one).
☕ 10 grams gelatin (or 2 grams agar, if you want it vegan!).
Soften the gelatin in a small amount of cold water, then warm it up until the gelatin melts. Stir it into the coffee. (I use gelatin leaf, so I just put them in a bowl of cold water for 5 mins, then squeeze them and add them to the coffee, which I find easier than powdered gelatin).
Dissolve the sugar into the coffee/gelatin mix.
Pour into your mould/bowl/container of choice, and let cool in the fridge until the gelatin has set.
Serve with milk, your fave plant milk, whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk, or custard!
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armoredsuperheavy:
Special in-person delivery of Blood’s Perimeter to @gefionne. She approves, so my work here is done!
Details of the book:
Edition of one. Paper looks like Jupiter’s storms. The title page uses the Star Jedi font and has Hux’s sniper rifle. Includes the artwork for the story by @littleststarfighter !
Story synopsis:
As an illegitimate son, Hux was thrown into the First Order’s stormtrooper program as a child, in hopes that he would disappear, but he not only survives, he flourishes. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself a target and crosses paths with Ben “Kylo” Solo, a smuggler, who is far more than he appears.
Read this story on AO3
armoredsuperheavy:
Special in-person delivery of Blood’s Perimeter to @gefionne. She approves, so my work here is done!
Details of the book:
Edition of one. Paper looks like Jupiter’s storms. The title page uses the Star Jedi font and has Hux’s sniper rifle. Includes the artwork for the story by @littleststarfighter !
Story synopsis:
As an illegitimate son, Hux was thrown into the First Order’s stormtrooper program as a child, in hopes that he would disappear, but he not only survives, he flourishes. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself a target and crosses paths with Ben “Kylo” Solo, a smuggler, who is far more than he appears.
Read this story on AO3
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rubbady-pubbady:
Me: I don’t really care about James Bond movies
*Rami Malek confirmed to be the villain in #BOND25*
Me:
rubbady-pubbady:
Me: I don’t really care about James Bond movies
*Rami Malek confirmed to be the villain in #BOND25*
Me:
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silverscrollmod:
elfwreck:
neolithicsheep:
What’s interesting to me as an Old, who went through Strikethrough on LJ, is seeing how it’s being remembered now in the Discourse here on Tumblr. I’m seeing a bunch of “it was a lot of people who wanted to post child porn” and ok yes that is certainly a take one could have. I’m also seeing “fandom should police itself!” and again, yes, that is certainly a take.
Pull up a chair, friends, let’s discuss.
What people forget about Strikethrough is that while fandom was Loud As Fuck and also, yes, ridiculous (I thought so at the time for that matter I mean COME THE FUCK ON there was a theme song) and possibly the most widely affected group of people, fandom was not the most *profoundly* affected group of people. See, LJ was working off a list of journals handed to them by the group “Warriors For Innocence” who as far as anyone could tell just kinda…searched for some words? And let me tell you, friends, WfI did not distinguish between Harry Potter fanfic that involved Dumbledore and Harry in compromising positions and communities of child sexual abuse survivors. Those second communities? They got shut down, too. So did communities of sexual assault survivors, because one of the words that got targeted was “rape”.
It’s just that the communities of survivors did not have a theme song and icon sets and of course it’s not nearly as ~funny~ and ~woke~ for y’all to have your hot takes about how AO3 and DreamWidth were founded by a bunch of people angry their child porn got taken away when you factor in that survivors were getting hit, too. Kinda like Tumblr is protecting the children now but it’s harming eg sex workers who are following the rules.
None of the communities I was in got lost because of fandom. No, the community I was in that got deleted was sexual assault survivors. Where we were all trying to come to terms with what had happened to us and suddenly, boom, we were told that having “sexual assault” and “rape” in the community interests so that survivors could even find the place was *soliciting illegal activity*. Yeah. That was fun.
As for fandom policing itself, what exactly do people intend by that? Fandom has always had lengthy discussions about what’s acceptable, they were going on in 2007 around Strikethrough. At great and interminable and occasionally kind of nauseating length. One thing we’ve learned in the past 11 years though is that if you provide a reporting mechanism on a platform, it will immediately be weaponized to silence marginalized voices; cf the fash pulling their brigading on Twitter. People have always spoken up and said “that is really not ok” and others have always responded “we disagree” and the arguments have gone on and on and on and the only thing we’ve learned is that asking for platforms to give us a mechanism to report things ends up being weaponized to hurt people who don’t have a damn thing to do with the problem we’re trying to control.
All I really have for everyone for whom Tumblr’s TOS change is their first experience with this kind of thing is hey, listen, the *actual* history is important. Not what you think you know, not the hot takes and the super woke one sentence versions going around – know what actually went down when LJ pulled this shit, and who got hurt the worst by it. Because it wasn’t the Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms, even though they were the ones being extremely loud and quoting “Hoist the Colors” and making banners and icons (it was a different time, ok). “Protect the children” as a motto will always be used in such a way that it will hurt people who are already marginalized and vulnerable and hurting, we’ve seen it before and we’re seeing it again and already we’re seeing the hot takes about how it’s perfectly acceptable because what’s wrong with you, do you want child porn?
And that’s why all of us who were around for Strikethrough and, for that matter, the actual birth of Tumblr, are tired. We’ve been here before. We’ve heard it all before, word for word. We know who’s going to get hurt, again. We wish people would freakin learn.
“Protect the children” has always, always been used to mean, “protect the white children of upper-class evangelical communities from having to realize that other communities exist.”
LJ, Twitter, and Tumblr aren’t doing a damn thing to protect Jewish children from assaults and doxxing by Nazis.
And as mentioned - LJ reactivated some of the Strikethrough journals because fandom made a hell of a lot of noise, but we weren’t the community that was hurt most by the changes. They were using interest lists - the closest thing that LJ has to global tags - to ban people, claiming that an “interest” in rape or child molestation meant that you were soliciting for criminal contacts in order to do more of it.
Note that they didn’t ban journals with an interest in murder or crime or drugs. Nor did they ban journals with interests like gaybashing.
They banned survivor communities and individual survivor journals. They banned a Lolita book club, and several fashion communities, They banned RPG character sideblogs. And they banned Pornish_Pixies, a fanfic community with over 5000 subscribers - and that’s the group that had enough connections to get vocal about the changes.
(Boldthrough came later, and started with their attempts to tag NSFW art, and ban the stuff they thought was too extreme. It went… poorly.)
I did not even realize this bit of history was a thing. Another perfect example of who *really* gets hurt the most when prudes and bigots insist on a “clean and friendly” environment. Friendly and welcoming for them, and no one else.
silverscrollmod:
elfwreck:
neolithicsheep:
What’s interesting to me as an Old, who went through Strikethrough on LJ, is seeing how it’s being remembered now in the Discourse here on Tumblr. I’m seeing a bunch of “it was a lot of people who wanted to post child porn” and ok yes that is certainly a take one could have. I’m also seeing “fandom should police itself!” and again, yes, that is certainly a take.
Pull up a chair, friends, let’s discuss.
What people forget about Strikethrough is that while fandom was Loud As Fuck and also, yes, ridiculous (I thought so at the time for that matter I mean COME THE FUCK ON there was a theme song) and possibly the most widely affected group of people, fandom was not the most *profoundly* affected group of people. See, LJ was working off a list of journals handed to them by the group “Warriors For Innocence” who as far as anyone could tell just kinda…searched for some words? And let me tell you, friends, WfI did not distinguish between Harry Potter fanfic that involved Dumbledore and Harry in compromising positions and communities of child sexual abuse survivors. Those second communities? They got shut down, too. So did communities of sexual assault survivors, because one of the words that got targeted was “rape”.
It’s just that the communities of survivors did not have a theme song and icon sets and of course it’s not nearly as ~funny~ and ~woke~ for y’all to have your hot takes about how AO3 and DreamWidth were founded by a bunch of people angry their child porn got taken away when you factor in that survivors were getting hit, too. Kinda like Tumblr is protecting the children now but it’s harming eg sex workers who are following the rules.
None of the communities I was in got lost because of fandom. No, the community I was in that got deleted was sexual assault survivors. Where we were all trying to come to terms with what had happened to us and suddenly, boom, we were told that having “sexual assault” and “rape” in the community interests so that survivors could even find the place was *soliciting illegal activity*. Yeah. That was fun.
As for fandom policing itself, what exactly do people intend by that? Fandom has always had lengthy discussions about what’s acceptable, they were going on in 2007 around Strikethrough. At great and interminable and occasionally kind of nauseating length. One thing we’ve learned in the past 11 years though is that if you provide a reporting mechanism on a platform, it will immediately be weaponized to silence marginalized voices; cf the fash pulling their brigading on Twitter. People have always spoken up and said “that is really not ok” and others have always responded “we disagree” and the arguments have gone on and on and on and the only thing we’ve learned is that asking for platforms to give us a mechanism to report things ends up being weaponized to hurt people who don’t have a damn thing to do with the problem we’re trying to control.
All I really have for everyone for whom Tumblr’s TOS change is their first experience with this kind of thing is hey, listen, the *actual* history is important. Not what you think you know, not the hot takes and the super woke one sentence versions going around – know what actually went down when LJ pulled this shit, and who got hurt the worst by it. Because it wasn’t the Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms, even though they were the ones being extremely loud and quoting “Hoist the Colors” and making banners and icons (it was a different time, ok). “Protect the children” as a motto will always be used in such a way that it will hurt people who are already marginalized and vulnerable and hurting, we’ve seen it before and we’re seeing it again and already we’re seeing the hot takes about how it’s perfectly acceptable because what’s wrong with you, do you want child porn?
And that’s why all of us who were around for Strikethrough and, for that matter, the actual birth of Tumblr, are tired. We’ve been here before. We’ve heard it all before, word for word. We know who’s going to get hurt, again. We wish people would freakin learn.
“Protect the children” has always, always been used to mean, “protect the white children of upper-class evangelical communities from having to realize that other communities exist.”
LJ, Twitter, and Tumblr aren’t doing a damn thing to protect Jewish children from assaults and doxxing by Nazis.
And as mentioned - LJ reactivated some of the Strikethrough journals because fandom made a hell of a lot of noise, but we weren’t the community that was hurt most by the changes. They were using interest lists - the closest thing that LJ has to global tags - to ban people, claiming that an “interest” in rape or child molestation meant that you were soliciting for criminal contacts in order to do more of it.
Note that they didn’t ban journals with an interest in murder or crime or drugs. Nor did they ban journals with interests like gaybashing.
They banned survivor communities and individual survivor journals. They banned a Lolita book club, and several fashion communities, They banned RPG character sideblogs. And they banned Pornish_Pixies, a fanfic community with over 5000 subscribers - and that’s the group that had enough connections to get vocal about the changes.
(Boldthrough came later, and started with their attempts to tag NSFW art, and ban the stuff they thought was too extreme. It went… poorly.)
I did not even realize this bit of history was a thing. Another perfect example of who *really* gets hurt the most when prudes and bigots insist on a “clean and friendly” environment. Friendly and welcoming for them, and no one else.
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elithien:
I wanted to try a different colour palette as well as with my other otp
For the reylo ver: [x]
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elithien:
I wanted to try a different colour palette as well as with my other otp
For the reylo ver: [x]
Facebook || Instagram || Etsy || Society6
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deadcatwithaflamethrower:
demad69:
fozmeadows:
words-writ-in-starlight:
jam-art:
thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere
this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.
listen, just Listen for a second, okay.
Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.” because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.
And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned. And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.
And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.
Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf. Like. Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much). Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd. Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.
“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”
“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair. It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working. Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.
“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.
#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment
@deadcatwithaflamethrower
This is like the perfect marriage of headcanon comic and headcanon ranting.
deadcatwithaflamethrower:
demad69:
fozmeadows:
words-writ-in-starlight:
jam-art:
thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere
this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.
listen, just Listen for a second, okay.
Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.” because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.
And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned. And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.
And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.
Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf. Like. Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much). Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd. Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.
“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”
“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair. It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working. Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.
“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.
#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment
@deadcatwithaflamethrower
This is like the perfect marriage of headcanon comic and headcanon ranting.
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huxsmug:
arstyrannus:
I loved bleeding Hux so much.. I made a matching crying Kylo.
STAR WARS: CRYLO REN STRIKES BACK
Really sorry for this! If you need me I will be in the trash compactor down there! 🙏
huxsmug:
arstyrannus:
I loved bleeding Hux so much.. I made a matching crying Kylo.
STAR WARS: CRYLO REN STRIKES BACK
Really sorry for this! If you need me I will be in the trash compactor down there! 🙏