At the Bottom of the Box was Hope

Stories and Conversations

[akaratna]

wip wednesday offering --

If I could art, I would be drawing pictures of the characters and the stories I love. But art is not my gift. So words will have to do.

If I had better media access, my stories would be variations on canon. But the stories of fellow fans have been the chiefest, and most joyful of my inspirations.

Make of that what you will.

This story is inspired by Rabbit Heart by charmwasjess, specifically by her OC, Master Ko Shka, keeper of Oueyjo, "the remote and obscure moon that is home of one of the most isolated and ancient Jedi outposts in the galaxy.” 

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Anchoress

Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: Pre-prequels  

Before Order 66. Before the Clones. Before the Chosen One. Before Stark. Before Galidraan. Before Death Watch on Concord Dawn. Distant from everything except the Force. Jocasta Nu had a friend.

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I see you.

I see you.

Ko Shka wound her way forward, touching the life around her with her hands and with the Force.

Oueyjo spoke to her in signs. Her first language. Her native language.

The message came to her in the Force even before she saw it. The river had changed its course ...

Gentle as a guiding hand. Yet it bolted through her like a lightning strike.

Not memory.  Presence. 

Here. 

Now. 

Right beside her in the Force.  

Pay attention!

...

Soon the silhouettes of the hills would merge completely into the black of the sky. Already, the dusty bright band of the galaxy had set, chasing the light of day, leaving only the barest sprinkling of stars. Lonely lights in an infinite dark.

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[chimaerakitten]

idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes

[chimaerakitten]

…well this post sure took off

[bamsara]

new ask game; what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing

[edgar-allan-possum]

[headspace-hotel]

i wonder how many other peer reviewed journal articles there are that discuss My Guy

[headspace-hotel]

HEY THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING ABOUT THE EUGENICS UNDERCURRENT TO CAPTAIN AMERICA

this is so, so good even picked up on some things that I didn't pick up on

[slashermask]

by glass_museum on tiktok

pdf of the quoted essay by jeremy waldron

[rebellum]

Can someone please write out what theyre saying? The closed captions on screen are too short and fast for me :(

[00111010-01010000]

I tried my best, here's what she says in the video:

Everbody wants third spaces until a homeless guy shows up. Now theres a lot of talk about third spaces for a reason. We need places to form community beyond just home and work, but that begs the question of who gets to be a part of our communities? You want more parks, more libraries but then you complain when these public infrastructures are, well public.

For the unhoused the importance of public spaces isn't just a matter of wanting somewhere to chill with friends it's a matter of existence and freedom. In his landmark essay "homelessness and the issue of freedom," Jeremy Waldron argues that the freedoms of the poor are dispraportionately restricted under the law since their material conditions coerce them into a state in which they must choose between survival and the violation of the law. He writes that freedom exists for the homeless "only to the extent that our society is communist."

Now before your redscare ass starts to hemmorage over the C-word let me explain, but first let's define our terms. Specifically let's distinguish between postive freedoms and negative freedoms. While postive freedom is the capacity to act according to ones free will, negative freedom is the capacity to act free from the coercion of others.

So things like loitering laws [and] public indecency violations though they apply to the rich and poor alike, they apply disproportionatly to those who posses no private property of their own and thus who exist solely in the collective space, and so while a homeless person may posses the positive freedom to, say, physically lay down in a park, they have their negative freedom restricted since they'll be forcebly removed for doing so, because of the regulations placed on public spaces that prohibit certain actions that are typically relegated to the private, like sleeping, pissing, showering.

All these actions are natural and necessary, and yet theyre prohibited in the public space. And this limitation is no problem for owners of private property, since the public is conceived of as being complementary to the private.

However, as Waldron notes, "This complementarity works only for those who have the benefit of both sorts of places" so if youre homeless you're stuck in a situation where you're forced to violate the law in order to survive, because in order to exist, one needs somewhere they can exist.

There's oftentimes a contradiction with how people consider the homeless if they even consider them at all, people don't want them pissing in the streets, but they also don't want them pissing in the Mcdonald's bathroom. People don't want encampments, but they also oppose the construction of affordable public housing.

There seems to be a desire for increased public life, but only a certain kind of public.

But if you want to advocate for community building then we need to reconsider who gets to be a part of our community.

[wolfgangleblanc]

"Axis" Still making peace with the fact that we won't have any more ANDOR 😔. What a special series this was.  Here's a quick sketch of Luthen & Kleya because I love them beyond words ❤

[samimarkart]

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[rosellea]

Full of Stars by Aperture Vintage

[akaratna]

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[theinternetarchive]

System wallpapers from Windows XP's RTM, Build 2600; Microsoft Co., August 24, 2001.

[drownedsewerat]

Can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve drawn her

[pathetic-life-form]

“Put the varactyl down, Qui-Gon. We’re here to settle a political dispute, not bond with the local reptavians.”

“But Master, her leg—”

“Don’t dither, Padawan. The senator is waiting.”

“Yes, Master. Sorry, Boga.”

“...Qui-Gon. What have I told you about naming strays?”

“That it encourages me to form unnecessary emotional attachments to them. But... I suppose I thought naming Boga couldn’t hurt, since I’d already formed an attachment before I named her.”

“Perhaps you had formed one, but I had not. Ah, well. It can’t be helped now. Come along, Boga. Maybe one of the farmers will want you, hm?”

Doodle and a drabble for the @jedijune prompt: compassion

[depsidase]

[hahaalaine]

This is leaving out the most crucial piece of why that was a normal reality: UNIONS. Union participation percentage is a measly 10% across all industries for the latest statistics in 2025. Unions are the ones who could fight against the requirement for everyone and their mother to need a minimum of a bachelor's degree. they could fight for working hours to be properly compensated so that the work week was actually 40 hours or less and everything over was actually paid for. The reality of the work place and why we work so much more for so much less is because we are not unionized. the reason europeans seem to have it so much better is because of their strong union culture. there are solutions to these problems and we need to stop obscuring the why.

[depsidase]

correct.

[bobbole]

Mohammed Abed, Palestinian girl flying her kite on Al-Waha Beach - Gaza, Palestine, 2011

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[segamascott]

[depsidase]

[elismor]

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

Can I make that blink? Is that a thing Tumblr can do? Because, seriously. The sooner you believe you are allowed to take up space, the better life will be.