potboy | Dec. 27th, 2019

Dec. 27th, 2019

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mydeardetective:

You know what really pissed me off? It is bad enough that they are unwilling to give Finn and Poe a romantic relationship when their chemistry is so clearly off the chart…but the fact they found it necessary to give both Poe and Finn new female love interests just makes me angry. You couldn’t give them an arc that had nothing to do with romance or irrelevant backstory or repeating stories already told? It is salt in the fucking wound. I can’t say I am the biggest Stormpilot fan, but it seems so beyond obvious. If it was really so necessary to give Finn a relationship, why not make use of Rose? I don’t understand. And the whole Poe jealosy of and arguing with Rey could have been great if it had been clearly because of his feelings for Finn, but no, it is just random Poe being a dick. He is literally about to die and is asking Finn about what he was going to tell Rey. But even that is never resolved. So stupid. What a waste of potential.

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xanadus-kira:

Give me the Hux cut! My boy was robbed.

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tlatollotl:

squareallworthy:

orbisonblue:

squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:

No such thing as a tomato sauce boat. No such thing as a salad dressing boat. But I guess if you’re gravy you get ~SpEcIaL nAuTiCaL pRiViLeGeS~

I mean, marinara, it’s right there in the name. Who is more deserving, I ask you?

…you know you can put any sauce you want in your own gravy boat, OP? You know that, right?

Well yeah. You can put lemonade in it if you want to. Or use it as a spittoon. Or a paperweight. Whatever.

But when you’re not using it? When you have cleaned it and put it back in the cupboard? What is it then? That’s right. It reverts to being a gravy boat. Because that’s what it’s, as they say, “for.”

And when you take it out again and fill it with, idk, salsa verde, what will people say? They’ll say, “Oh, that’s a good use for a gravy boat.” No one ever says “how clever of you to use a salsa boat to serve gravy.” Because the boat defaults to gravy. That is the problem.

If I go to the store and ask for a raita boat, I get funny looks. If I ask for a gravy boat, they know exactly what I’m talking about. Fair? No. Fact? Yes.

Can you see that this is about what is a marked use and what is an unmarked use? Can you see that, friend orbisonblue? That this is not just about what I, personally, can do with my tableware, but what our society considers to be “normal’ sauce-serving practice, and what is “abnormal”? Can you?

Archaeologists determining if mundane objects are also ritual objects

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lyledebeast:

I know this is probably pretty low on everyone’s list of Hux complaints,but what is going on with Domhnall’s Look in this last movie? He looks so much like he did in TFA, not just in terms of his clothing but like … rested? Hydrated? Shampooed? TLJ Hux looks like death warmed over. He looks like someone who is force-tortured on the regular. TRoS Hux, who has apparently been force-tortured to point that he’s lost all hope for anything other than Kylo Ren losing at any cost, is not okay, and has no business looking like it.

My first thought as to why this could be is that, between these two directors, only Rian Johnson is wise to the fact that Domhnall Gleeson, left to his own devices, is a beautiful man. He said, You think you’re gonna play an evil loser in my movie looking like that? I don’t think so. JJ Abrams, though? Indifferent.

But, really, here’s the thing. TLJ Hux isn’t just ugly; he looks like someone who is under an extreme amount of pressure and stress, and so he isn’t sleeping or taking care of himself. As much as it pains me to say anything nice about TLJ, Hux’s greasy cadaverousness is the result of a lot of thought by different people about how what this character is going through psychologically would affect him physically. In TRoS, though, no one even behind the scenes is that concerned about Hux, which is of a piece with how Gleeson is underused in the plot.

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lyledebeast:

I know this is probably pretty low on everyone’s list of Hux complaints,but what is going on with Domhnall’s Look in this last movie? He looks so much like he did in TFA, not just in terms of his clothing but like … rested? Hydrated? Shampooed? TLJ Hux looks like death warmed over. He looks like someone who is force-tortured on the regular. TRoS Hux, who has apparently been force-tortured to point that he’s lost all hope for anything other than Kylo Ren losing at any cost, is not okay, and has no business looking like it.

My first thought as to why this could be is that, between these two directors, only Rian Johnson is wise to the fact that Domhnall Gleeson, left to his own devices, is a beautiful man. He said, You think you’re gonna play an evil loser in my movie looking like that? I don’t think so. JJ Abrams, though? Indifferent.

But, really, here’s the thing. TLJ Hux isn’t just ugly; he looks like someone who is under an extreme amount of pressure and stress, and so he isn’t sleeping or taking care of himself. As much as it pains me to say anything nice about TLJ, Hux’s greasy cadaverousness is the result of a lot of thought by different people about how what this character is going through psychologically would affect him physically. In TRoS, though, no one even behind the scenes is that concerned about Hux, which is of a piece with how Gleeson is underused in the plot.

I mean if there ever was a man used to living in an abusive situation, it’s Hux. He was in an abusive situation with Snoke in TFA and managed to look rested and healthy. TLJ was him in the middle of an ongoing crisis that started with his life’s work blowing up and went on for several days. But TRoS is a year later. His situation has had time to normalize into the usual “placate the bully in public and work around him in private,” which is the norm for him.

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endlesshux:

Imagine him showing up a couple of weeks later at the Resistance base, after having offered and Poe reluctantly accepting that they need his help to rebuild because he can help them deactivate the programming in all the refugee stormtroopers they’re now dealing with, among other things…and he’s just walking along and Rose is sitting there petting Millicent and Millie sees him and chirps and runs up to him and he just picks her up and says, “Yes, there’s daddy’s clever little girl” and they’re all like…

This is *Hux’s* cat???

endlesshux:

I head canon that Millicent stowed away on the Falcon and after everything they just found this big orange cat sleeping in a nook and they have no idea where she came from but she’s the ship’s cat now and they all love her and wonder who she came from, never knowing she came from the douche who bregrudingly saved their lives.

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reigenriot:

I knew to stan General Hux from the START.

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venatohru:

shinysylver

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pirateangeel:

general hux is like if the malfoys adopted a weasley and raised him as their own

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lyledebeast:

I really feel like Hux and Finn are both victims of JJ Abrams being allergic to depth, individually AND, as you say, together.

It would be great if they could have each seen past their very basic understanding of each other and come to see each other people. For Hux to see the inherent problems with his father’s method and for Finn to see that Hux, too, is a victim of that method would have been beautiful.

But no, we get Finn failing as a Stormtrooper because he’s just A Good Person and Hux saving Finn’s life counting for nothing because he did it for The Wrong Reason. The waste!

rescue-ram:

Ok but Hux and Finn could’ve had SUCH a dyNAMIC. Hux was his general, for crying out loud. Give me Hux absolutely furious because he’s suffered so much (and inflicted so much suffering) in order not just to survive the First Order, but to thrive, to rise up the ranks to the highest echelons of command and he’s still not safe, he’s still one failure from death, and a janitor under his command with one (1) combat action under his belt gets to just leave? Gets to literally destroy Hux’s life’s work and radically destabilize his entire precarious position? Make him look like an idiot in front of the entire Order? All because said janitor didn’t want to fire on a dozen-odd Resistance sympathizers? Finn just left, and he wasn’t killed or captured and tortured- not by the First Order, and not by the Resistance, they just let him join and trusted him? He could just say no and escape and it was that easy?? Man, give me Finn who only knows Hux as a distant and intimidating commander and Hux who hates Finn with a deep personal jealousy, and then Hux saves Finn’s life!!!

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zenkaiankoku:

wheeloffortune-design:

- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown

- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world

- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music

- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when she’s actually one of the coolest people ever

- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer.

- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work.

- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much

- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.

- Hating the color pink during my teenage years, when it’s actually a lovely color and what I resented was society’s pressure to perform femininity.

This is what sexism does. The media runs a smear campaign against women. And when we were younger we knew no better and trusted them. Now we know better.

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Just how motivated and ambitious you have to be, as someone coming from a post-scarcity society, to sign up for such arduous training and potential danger? I have to wonder kind of people decide to go through years of rigorous education, constant work and travel, and the possibility of a nasty death when they are guaranteed lives without fear or want right on their home planets.

Could it be that Starfleet may, in fact, be a place for malcontents? Not the kind of small-time malcontent that turns to destruction and exploitation, but the kind of malcontent that is stifled on some level by the cushy existence of their home planet (even while being willing to die to protect it) and wants something more. Something out there and anywhere but here.

Such people are dangerous to the preexisting system unless they have an outlet for their energies. Just to name a few headliner captains, leave the James Kirks, the Jean-Luc Picards, the Kathryn Janeways, the Benjamin Siskos, the Philippa Georgious with nothing to do but enjoy life, and chances are they’d get restless. You can see their innate drive in the paths they didn’t take and in alternate universes: Picard has a brother who was perfectly content to run a vineyard at home, living a comfortable rural existence. Picard could have had that or any of a million other career paths, but he still chose the uncertainty of the stars. The 20th-century version of Benjamin Sisko had a burning ambition to write groundbreaking science fiction despite being struck down over and over again by racism. Georgiou was goddamned Emperor in the Mirror Universe, and Burnham and Lorcas wanted her throne. Clearly these are not people who can sit content and let the world be; they shift the very earth they stand on and reach for the stars any way they can.

So what do you do with world-shakers in paradise? You could choose to kill them or lock them up and “reeducate” them, but that goes against the Federation’s ideals. You could let them live free and potentially climb to the top, but they might make too many changes and disrupt the whole comfortable arrangement.

Or, you could give them a way out–infinite ways out, in fact, into space. Their boundless energy would be structured and channeled in morally acceptable directions by the strict rules and directives of Starfleet, and their ambition to be better than others and be judged by their abilities would find expression in rank and promotions.

These are, of course, the same individuals who would die to protect the Federation when it is threatened by a race of fierce warriors, a mechanical collective, or vast theocratic empire. The same people who would have felt stifled in civilian life and could have threatened the whole system become its fiercest defenders. It’s a brilliant system, really, that meets everyone’s interests and turns a society’s potential threats into its greatest assets.

I don’t think it’s any wonder, looking at these incredibly trained and driven people who can take down Klingons in single combat and engineer their way out of alternate timelines, that non-Federation worlds–and maybe more than a few Federation ones–hover somewhere between suspicious and outright terrified of the Federation’s intentions. Starfleet is one of the major reasons one can make a case for the Federation being a “soft” empire, and I can see why peoples ranging from the Ferengi to the Klingons are so suspicious of them. Because you do not ever fuck with Starfleet.

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georgiansuggestion:

for the remainder of the year, luxuriate. become a consummate layabout and incomparably indolent. transform into your chaise lounge.

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I liked it too! It was fun, it felt like a solid conclusion to the series. I think there was no way everyone was gonna be happy with it, and clearly the filmmakers saw that and just went “welp, fuck it” and decided to go big or go home. And there are flaws and issues and plot holes and retcons, and I understand why some things are problematic and pisspeople off, eg. Kelly Marie not having a bigger role. But I also think it’s important to try and understand that that was probably a big corporate decision from our cowardly Disney overlords, along with the new mini hetero romance hints in willing to bet, and that the entire massive crew that worked to put the movie together shouldn’t be punished for their overlords’ decision.

So no, I don’t think we are shitty people. I think people just expect different things from Star Wars. I for one have never thought any Star Wars movies were “good cinema”, they are not flawless. For me Star Wars is fun and goofy, and the stuff that really matters, that’s really at the core of it all, is the galaxy andcthe character’s in it, the world building that’s been done, that’s what makes it special for me. So a fun Star Wars movie that feels a bit like RotJ, whichi s my favorite of the OT, is great for me.

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theminingengineer:

every_n_anything

medic981

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chiibbo:

jkl-fff:

maramahan:

808lien:

colacharm:

wildlyannoyingdoofus:

colacharm:

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore

never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.

find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.

talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore

picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else

if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

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That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.

Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining

This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.

Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking

This is so important

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kylo-is-sad:

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koichisteals:

quillusquillus:

no.

you must.

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What a lovely and thoughtful gift idea!

I haven’t read it myself yet, but I’ve been eyeing this book for a while. It doesn’t explicitly state that it’s focused on hopeful stories, but I definitely got that idea from reading the description and reviews. You can buy it here.

I’m currently in the midst of reading Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success by Andrew Balmford. Definitely a good book, but it might be a little too detailed on conservation politics for people who aren’t specifically interested in that field.

Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree has also been recommended on this blog a couple of different times. Haven’t read this one myself yet (my list of books-to-read is ridiculous), but a lot of others seem to like it:

If your teenager or twentysomething is a scientist or interested in the sciences, Letters to a Young Scientist by E.O. Wilson might be a good pick. It’s not so much about environmentalism or conservation, but it is about discovering the wonders of the natural world through science. I haven’t read this one either (yet!), but I love everything I’ve ever read by E.O. Wilson; I’ve always found his writing to be inspirational and beautiful to read.

Any followers with opinions on these books or other recommendations are more than welcome to comment!

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afonhafren:

Remember when some of us were thinking that Hux might be Palpatine’s kid or a clone of Palpatine because he looked like a young Palpatine? Well, now that we know Rey is his granddaughter, why can’t Hux be his grandson?

It’s pretty obvious that Palpatine didn’t give a shit about his heirs until he needed a vessel to reincarnate. It seems as though his son did not have the Force and was thus unsuitable. Legendary content provides the Emperor with many concubines. Many concubines can have many children and if these children do not have the Force then Palps isn’t interested. I could very well see Hux’s mother as the Force-null child of a concubine and thus nothing in the grand scheme of Palpatine’s. Hux, being also Force-null, would be an unsuitable vessel despite being Palpatine’s grandson. This would make Rey and Hux first cousins with the same grandfather.

Hux’s comic revealed to us the constant abuse he suffered from his father and other Imperials and that there was no escape from it. He fears and resents men - especially those who will only use him to accomplish their own ends. It is very interesting that Hux doesn’t become the same kind of monster as his father. Hux is kind to children, we see this in the Phasma novel, and he does not prey on them though they are weaker than him. Hux builds them up while systematically destroying the men who held power over him and abused him. This presents an interesting scenario if Hux were ever to encounter Rey.

Rey is wanting to be used by the Emperor, by Kylo Ren, and even though she has now found power, she’s had a shitty childhood and adolescence. Would Hux feel empathy? Would he think to himself, here is someone who one the Force lottery and it is a shitty thing - just as shitty as losing the Force lottery. I think one f the biggest attractions for me is that Hux would not fear Rey. Rey is a young woman who won’t force him to his knees in a chokehold to fling him across the bridge of a starship. She is powerful, but not an immediate threat to him and I see him reaching out to her in such a way as to ensure that she is never a threat to him, only an ally, and that getting rid of Grandpappy Palps is in both of their best interest. Maybe Hux wouldn’t know what to do right away, how to use this relationship, how to calculate; but the important thing is that he wouldn’t be scared of Rey.

Rae Sloane most likely set the template for positive interactions. Hux seems to be too young to remember much of his mother and his father’s wife hated him. Rae offers him mutual benefits. When he sparks up a relationship with Phasma, he offers the same mutual benefit. I can see him offering the same to Rey, leveraging their familial relationship and even her name on his lips evoking Rae Sloane which fills his tone with a sincerity unintentionally present.

Hux is petty as fuck and he’d also enjoy Kylo hating how he’s becoming besties with Rey and how he can hold over Kylo’s head, “If you hurt me, I’ll tell Rey,” and loving every minute of it. There is lots of fun to be had with this idea.

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thestarswillburn:

Pryde *pointing his blaster at Hux*: You betrayed the order!

Hux: Wait! You don’t have all the facts!

Pryde: Which are?

Hux: Ren is a lil bitch.

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justlookatthosesausages:

adreamingofguns:

angelsaxis:

raghels:

FinnPoe. That’s a non question.

Entire cast: finnpoe by far.

JJ:

Daisy knows their actual shipname I’m

And she gave JJ Abrams that stare as she dropped the shipname

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redandfranticfeelings:

big movie studio: we’re going to introduce our first lgbt character!!! it’s going to be so groundbreaking and important for the lgbt community!!!

the actual movie:

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upcycleability:

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water.

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles.

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful.

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term.

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these-are-the-first-steps:

alexiela:

One of the things that disappointed me in TROS was the retconning of Rey’s parentage, but I also can’t deny that it’s very funny if you think about it. XD

yeah what the fuck was this

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whatisthisnonsense:

hermannsgayhands:

i made this for the discord but its important

You forgot a step

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maxitrash:

The energy that these pictures have.

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glixbitch:

Facebook: we analysed your entire internet history, tracked your location and took a deep dive into your personal relationships, and we’ve decided to recommend you this specific conditioner that you also saw in your local Tesco two days ago, aint that neat!

Tumblr: HEY sHITHEAD *slurring words* how would you like to buy *throws dart* a gym membership for your *spins wheel* pARROT

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dearestangelgirl:

dearestangelgirl:

one thing i do want to say though is i think as h*mosexual women but also just as women in general is that we need to recognize that “i’m not performing for men” is only one half of the picture. maybe you don’t want men’s approval but how much do you need women’s acceptance? how much are you smoking and drinking and doing coke and running and dieting and posting about forgetting to eat and performing other kinds of violence for the approval of other women? how much pressure do women put on you to negate the features of your body or your race or your sexuality or anything else…can you get away with stimming around other women? can you get away with not shaving? can you be around your female friends and feel fat without saying “i feel fat” so no one would mistake you for not punishing yourself for what is (erroneously) assumed to be a “transgression” of the body? can you look ugly and know that the female store clerk or the barista or the girl at the sink next to you or the girl on the bus with you or the girl with you on the elevator on the girl you have to squeeze past in the lecture hall to get out of the aisle will be kind and respectful to you and not act disgusted. can you be around your female family members without them commenting on your body? so much masochism and violence remain normalized among women because we say “well I’m not doing it for men, so it’s my choice” but how much are you doing out of a fear of women?

and thats how things like makeup and shaving get baked into “feminist” rhetoric because we forget the degree to which feminity is enforced by other women, not men. so even for people who have no stake at all in being appealing to men…there’s still the threat of being punished by women. and every post that’s critical of makeup or whatever that ends up with reblogs that say things like “learn to do eyeliner ugly” or whatever stupid shit just proves that. we’re out here doing the same things we’ve always done we’ve just replaced “attracting men” with “placating other women”

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trooperst-3v3:

Thought it was going to be pretty chill today, since we’re all recovering from Life Day celebrations, but it seems like Some Stuff has been going down and the First Order is gearing up for battle again.

I’ll be honest: Sometimes news spreads around this ship like a bad game of Telephone, but it sounds like maybe Ren heard that there was a new Sith GPS device on the market with Palpatine’s voice on it. He left today to start looking for it. I hear it’s very hard to find. Maybe there’s a post-Life Day sale?

Don’t know what that has to do with the upcoming battle, but you never really know what’s going on in our Supreme Leader’s head.

I’ll keep you updated if anything interesting happens.

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themeowmeow13:

dakt37:

grunklerex:

dyingsighs:

mandalorianed:

dakt37:

dakt37:

dakt37:

Can someone point me in the direction of the Single Dad AUs starring Qui-Gon and his four sons, because I know they must exist and I need them.

I’m serious. What I need right now is aging hippie Qui-Gon in a plaid flannel shirt, accompanied by his four possibly-adopted sons aged one to seventeen. Feemor the soft-hearted pushover, Xanatos the shitty emo douchebag, Obi-Wan the tightly-wound nerd, and Anakin the obligatory sitcom baby who comically destroys everything in his path.

Here I’ll start

SINGLE DAD AU

SINGLE DAD AU

SINGLE DAD AU …possibly with glasses?

wait has blastergirls / panharmonium / dyingsighs seen this because this seems like their aesthetic

We have. dakt37 is a senpai I look up to *^* ALL HER COMICS ARE PRECIOUS.

Is Dooku the rich grandpa that doesn’t approve of Qui Gon’s lifestyle and keeps trying to set him up with potential wives?

HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT DOOKU. YES.

Also senpai got noticed ･:*:･(o///u///o)･:*:･

This is amazing. Also, Xanatos described as “shitty emo douchebag”… and obi-wan with braces… perfection.

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I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town:

wyomingnot:

How had I not seen this before?

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mixicandevildonut:

Their expressions don’t change, but you can FEEL the reaction from Peter B and Miles

rootbeergoddess:

Yes!!!!

adventuresoflegobucky:

Different universes

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sovietpostcards:

Soviet art. “It’s Snowing” by Nikolai Viting.

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outpastthemoat:

i just think a lot about how the other jedi viewed qui-gon. like. the man walks around in a cloud of guilt and shame and anger and pain for ten years after xanatos, avoiding the temple, constantly on the run, taking any mission offered to him in an attempt to outrun his past.

qui-gon, being who he is, probably would NOT be talking about his feelings to anyone but i think it’s not unreasonable to say that he is skirting close to the edge of sucidially depressed for ten years after xanatos. don’t you know the other jedi had probably given him up as a lost cause by then, just sort of resigned to expecting to hear that qui-gon has been blown up in a civil war on some outer rim planet.

then qui-gon’s back at the temple with the padawan that nobody else wanted.  and then all these jedi who grew up knowing qui-gon are watching him slowly coming back to life as he starts to take care of this kid. reconnecting with his old friends. working with obi-wan in the training rooms. making plans to go on wilderness retreats. trying to be a better man, confronting his own emotional wounds from his past so that he can be an effective teacher. asking for help, and, in an unprecedented move, even taking advice.

like. can you imagine other jedi hearing qui-gon jinn laugh again for the first time in ten years??

what really gets me me about these two is how they were both so profoundly alone before they found each other. qui-gon with the haunted past he cannot bear to face; obi-wan, unwanted and cast adrift from the only way of life he had known. and then they come together, and slowly all that loneliness and isolation just…melt away.  qui-gon “we don’t have time for a plan” jinn going from his aimless, wandering existence to imagining a future where he and jedi knight obi-wan kenobi would be friends.

it’s not just that obi-wan and qui-gon saved each other from death on bandomeer. they also saved each other from life. and i just find that to be a very powerful thing.

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ireallyneedabetterusername:

Travis McElroy is really gonna make me cry in the last few hours of Christmas, huh?

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thatsbelievable:

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vitasvirginia:

everyone has a movie or a song or a book that they hold in their heart and can say “if i hadn’t experienced this piece of art at this specific point in my life i would not be the person i am today” and it’s just kind of beautiful how someone can create a piece of art that means something to them and share it with the world, and that thing can literally change another persons life… it’s so uniquely human and so. intimate i think

vitasvirginia:

i just think it’s incredible how art can touch people and become facets of their identity… human beings’ capacity for empathy and honest, open understanding is astounding to me sometimes

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cumaeansibyl:

voidbat:

katdensetsu:

redscudery:

saunteringvaguelydownwards:

decemberpaladin:

sizvideos:

Video

I love how she almost drops it until she smells it and that flashbulb memory hits.

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real … Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

Notice she says “who” it was and not “what” it was.

Im crying

sobbing and clutching my stuffed lion i have slept with nearly every night for 33 years. i can’t fathom being separated from him long enough to not recognize him on sight, but if you blindfolded me and held up things to smell, i’d know him just as quickly and as hard as she did.

Video link is broken so here it is on YouTube, and I was already sniffling but then I saw this in the comments:

“The teddy bear was given to Jessica’s mother as a baby shower gift. After a long life, the bear was no more than part of head and a torn apart body with no stuffing. After a month of research and scouring through 10,000 vintage teddy bears online, Jessica’s fiancee was finally able to obtain the missing pieces of the bear, and had have him brought back to life at the local Teddy Bear Hospital.“

So that’s why she didn’t recognize him – he’d been so damaged that they had to reconstruct him. And now I’m crying even harder.

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lesbianrey:

the force awakens’ biggest strength was its promises + premises for things yet to come. the last jedi centered itself around saying those promises and premises were garbage and fuck you for speculating about them. what was left after that? it’s like if you started building the first part of a snowman, someone stomps it back down to ‘deconstruct’ it but you still have to build a fucking snowman in 1/3rd of the time. no wonder it looks like shit todd but having the justice league writer on the case sure didn’t help

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spader7:

medievalpoc:

prokopetz:

Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

It really just comes down to whether a given individual or group is looking for reasons to include, or reasons to exclude. Hypothetical groups like these can go a lot further than this, too.

OK I WANT THIS REALLY BAD SO I MADE THIS REALLY QUICK

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kakademona:

Nobody can convince me Hux is dead I stanned Darth Maul for the last 20 years and that guy survived being cut in half because he was too angry to die and you tell the pettiest bitch in the galaxy died from a blaster fart I think not

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thefeatherofhope:

Huskies are just Like That ❤❤❤

animalwoonz:

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youfoundjacob:

Droids hold the Star Wars universe together.

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slipperydevorak:

ok but imagine this: hux is too smart to think he can deceive the first order after helping the prisoners escape, so he just leaves with poe and finn. they let him stay and he actually is of great help during the final battle, with his intelligence, experience and knowledge.

ben survives and they meet during the resistance reunion. they just stand there, staring at each other for so long while every person, every noise just disappears. they don’t know what to do, they have so many things to tell each other, so many mixed feelings to process and it’s all too overwhelming. in the end they get closer and they greet each other, trying not to show the slightest hint of an emotion.

“hux.”

“ren.”

“kylo ren is dead.”

hux doesn’t flinch. “good. i’ve never liked that guy.” hux doesn’t miss ben’s smile at that.

they remain silent after that. they just stand in a corner watching the resistance celebrate their victory, experiencing mixed emotions - from regret to sadness to joy. but above all, they feel /free/. at last. free to start their new lives away from impositions, their new lives as armitage and ben.

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allthestarsareclose:

in fantasy stories, “representation” like this says to me “you exist in this world. you’re just not important in it.”

lesbianshepard:

this is what straight people think representation is. it took me 4 tries to get this screenshot because if i paused the button blocked their face and it was literally less than a second long.

lesbianshepard:

disney is like “homophobic? how can we be homophobic? we put one (1) frame of lesbians in star wars!”

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thiswaycomessomethingwicked:

honestly same. Team Empress Maude over here.

jeaniefranklins:

#okay op these all sound brilliant but if my time travelling knight turned out to be a stephen supporte r#i’d just leave him there in the snow

robotmango:

hallmark channel please hire me to write more time-travel romances:

no-nonsense modern businesswoman who is secretly falling for this odd but kind stranger: dinner was so delicious! wow… i wish my last boyfriend had ever cooked for me even once. by the way, what was in the pie?

brave yet gentle time-displaced knight: squirrels, of course

*

brave yet gentle time-displaced nobleman of some sort: the miasmas in this… newest of york are indeed foul. here, i have studded half an orange with cloves, hold it against thy nose, that you may not inhale any spirits of pestilence

*

no-nonsense modern businesswoman’s mildly confused dad: so, you follow politics at all?

brave yet gentle time-displaced weaver’s apprentice: the empress maud is a pretender and usurper, i pray king stephen’s forces will break the siege by michelmas

*

no-nonsense modern businesswoman, etcetera: what are all these children doing in my house

brave yet gentle time-displaced prince: these are my new pages. i have given them each a loaf of bread and a pallet of straw in the basement. [snaps fingers] you, boy! a cup of watered wine!

delighted ten-year-old who is skipping school, dressed in old drapes as an approximation of medieval livery: yes sir right away sir!!

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ekatheartist:

About a sand

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karadin:

eh, I couldn’t help it

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aldo-n-canp:

Hunting

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radley-writes:

This. This, this, this.

heywriters:

Yes! Dreame, Ficfun, and anything else owned by Stary Ltd keeps trying this. If you get a message from them on AO3, Wattpad, or any other site a) they’re lying, and b) they will offer you money for your fics if you sign a crappy contract with them. Scammy and illegal!

As for transforming characters, there’s always 50SoG as an example of how far you have to take a fanfic to monetize it.

caffeinewitchcraft:

I’ve had people approach me for this and it’s definitely the right call to turn them down. The original creators of the work retain rights to their characters and their “derivatives” (or something like that), meaning that no matter how much you transform the characters, they still fall under copyright protections.

madammuffins:

Again, to reiterate, I was specifically approached by someone on tumblr offering to monetize my fanfiction.

This is illegal.

They compared it specifically to accepting kofi donations for writing fanfiction, which is also grounds for legal action.

Maybe I should have just posted the images to start with. Anyway, heads up and be wary.

thehappymediumsteapot:

TO BE CLEAR: there is absolutely nothing legally wrong with asking for donations on a fan work (although check the TOS of the site you’re posting on, as it may violate that). You can absolutely post your Ko-fi link at the bottom of a one-shot, or a link to your Patreon. You’ve provided the fan work for free, and no one is obligated to click on that link or give you money.

What you CAN’T do:

Post commission offers *exclusively* for fan work.

Lock fan work behind a specific Patreon tier (other than just the lowest patron level, and even then it should only be “see it here first/in high res” and it should be available free elsewhere, later or at a lower quality)

Publically say “I’ll write the next chapter/draw the next picture when I receive $X on Ko-fi.” You can certainly decide that for yourself (especially if your fan work requires materials and you need that money to purchase them) but you can’t announce it

Pull Cassandra Claire bs like “oh, my laptop broke so I guess I can’t make any more until I get a new one…. ;p” Money isn’t the only kind of compensation, goods and services count too.

madammuffins:

REMINDER

Fan work is legally protected under copyright by their original titles and, as such, should not be monetized.

I’m old enough to remember the days of disclaimers on amv’s and in BIG BOLD FANCY letters (or rambling character discussions) declaring YOU OWNED NOTHING

But

This

Particular

Idea.

What does this mean?

If you accept a ko-fi for writing a 500 word ficlet on BNHA. If someone pays patreon for a specific smut scene for Stucky… you’re legally at risk.

There are people on this site approaching people offering to monetize their fanfictions.

This. Is. Not. Legal.

This threatens fandom.

If you don’t know of Anne Rice, or George RR Martin’s tirade against fanfiction, or the slew of other published Big Name writers who disparage us as authors you need to educate yourself and protect yourself.

Protect us as a community.

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gayerluke:

wongbal:

wongbal:

wongbal:

wongbal:

wongbal:

wongbal:

I really can’t

your life is uprooted every 20 years in galactic-scale wars caused by a neverending blood feud between two tribes of space wizards

choose your preferred form of government:

a) laughably ineffectual and corrupt bureaucracy
b) fascist dictatorship controlled by space warlocks
c) exploitation by evil crime gangster who is probably also a slug

there are no other choices, sorry

“Hey have you heard from Gary? He hasn’t answered my emails for weeks”

“Oh yeah, his whole planet got blown up by the genocidal cyborg sorcerer who controls our entire military”

“But Samuel, what if I am one of the space wizards???” Let’s examine your options:

abducted as a baby and raised by monks, then die a 35-year-old virgin at the hands of a goddamn robot with tuberculosis

hunted down and shot to death by grunts in stupid helmets because space wizards are illegal right now (again)

go through a goth phase, then your eyes get all yucky and one of the monks finds you and cuts your head off

end up in a cult led by some evil wrinkled assface in a bathrobe who shoots lightning at you when he’s mad

Also most of the wildlife seems to be ravenous carnivores with tentacles and/or 6-inch teeth and every urban area has roughly 6,942 assassins per square kilometer

because max rebo band slaps next question

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19silvermirrors:

Bury my dreams, dig up my sorrows~

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softnsoulful:

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Sheev to Padme: You look nice. Who dressed you, the Great Depression?

Padme: You look lovely, Sheev. I’m so sorry I couldn’t attend your funeral last year.

Ben to Rey: Wanna play gin rummy with Dad and the staff

Rey: You read my mind, let’s get OUT of here

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afonhafren:

gamebird:

afonhafren:

Remember this panel from the Hux comic? Hux point blank shoots this traitor in the chest. It’s the same thing Pryde does to him in TROS, it seems like FO SOP. And we are to presume that Hux, knowing this, just shows up in front of Pryde without body armor underneath his uniform? Really? The same guy behind all of the FO military tech is just going to hobble around waiting to be shot dead by Pryde? I don’t think so.

My boyfriend is just now watching the Mandalorian. He wandered by to say that Hux was probably wearing a beskar breastplate under his clothes, since we see Greef Karga take a blaster bolt to the chest and survive due to having a small plate of beskar in his front pocket. Could be intentional precedent.

Noice - I like it. Excellent.