Are You Sitting Comfortably?

A restless Australian with British/Asian roots and a great love of smart swashbuckling fantasy/sci-fi adventures with heartstopping characters, proper stories, pirates, musketeers, archaeo/paleonto-logists, travellers in time and space, a sense of fun and not too much violence. Believe. This is where I come to escape reality. 🖤♠️🤍💜

[farewell-to-lorien]

Bix Caleen for Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, by Sara Alfageeh.

[hoot-alex]

Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them!

[felinepurrrstory]

From Ursula K. Le Guin’s Cat Dreams. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.

[cookiescr]

Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing

[cookiescr]

they’re just vibing yknow?

[dimpledgucci]

porcupines do this too :)

[callingallcars]

i have excellent news about the manul cat

[radwolf76]

Manul cat is an automatic reblog from me.

[lokeanrampant]

I am porcupine.

[krakensdottir]

Pretty much most cats that spend any time in trees, tbh

Honestly tho, in terms of lazy chill I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat this bear:

[floridensis]

look at this squirrel

by inaturalist user gregslak

[hyenafiend-deactivated20220214]

@rhythpo

[thequeenofsastiel]

And let’s not forget the time an entire pride of ten lions decided to take a nap in a single tree

Yes these photos are real

[chronicowboy]

i love andor's refusal to be subtle in the face of rising fascism. it's not complex metaphors for the audience to unpick. it's a kick in the fucking teeth. a banner and blaring alarms. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS WHERE WE'RE HEADING. it's knowing there's a time and place to be gentle and knowing the here and now needs us shouting from the rooftops. it's using energy independence, that thing tr*mp harps on about, as a cover for building the death star. it's a bunch of powerful empire officials brainstorming ways to colonise a planet for capitalist gains. it's the pomp and circumstance of the upper classes used to distract from the grit and ruin of the everyday. it's the visa inspection of harvest workers. it's the brutal abuse of power over "illegals" to the point of dehumanisation. but more than that. more than that. it's people working together against these forces of tyranny. it's kellen running around trying to keep them from the troopers. it's mon mothma trying to save her daughter. it's talia putting her legal status on the line to help them. it's brasso trying to save wilmon. it's wilmon running all the way home to help bix. it's cassian choosing home over orders. it's bix fighting for her fucking life rather than giving in. it's the fight. it's the people.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

“Mon is not fully committed to the Cause yet, she hasn't given up her life and enjoys her status quo—” Mon Mothma is doing money laundry to fund terrorist activity/organization. Do people understand that? I think it's important people understand that.

from the perspectives of Imperial auditors and financial regulators that’s literally what she’ll be charged with if she’s caught. Slush fund accounts and blaming Perrin's gambling and strategic child marriages only cover her tracks until the right financial regulator goes looking; until one civil servant with the same amount of Freak as Syril Karn decides to go after discrepancies and she no longer can paper over the cracks. She's being observed by her own driver. She's got enemies everywhere, yearly financial audits, and multiple obligations to powerful people. She's borrowing time with a highest interest rate known to man and she will have to pay that debt with everything she holds dear.

Mon has long been radicalised; she's put everything on the line as down payment for it. She just puts up a front so well it’s apparently tricked the audience.

Moreover, the political thesis of the show is that resistance is everywhere; it’s an old lady clearing the underground rain tunnels for potential rebels as well as it is manifestos and prison breaks and overt attacks on Imperial buildings.

It’s also one person in the heart of the imperial core committing stunning amounts of financial crime.

[gender-luster]

the duo

[areusittingcomfortably]

Second most gorgeous, because...

But it's a small quibble.

Give me big brown eyes over blue always.

And rounding out the Top Five Brown Eyes Are The Best...

[rebeljyn]

Andor S02E01: A Year Later // S02E09: Welcome To The Rebellion

Bonus:

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Andor: Season 2 (2025)

[mon-moth-ma]

oh this?? this is diabolical, I love it

[magicoleanders]

I love how s2 of Andor shows us how all the sacrifices the Imperial characters make for the Empire are ultimately worthless. Syril, Dedra, and Partagaz all have different variations on the same ending. and to them Krennic is the big bad guy who represents the Empire but then in Rogue One we learn that essentially he’s in the same situation: giving everything to the Empire and it amounting to nothing in the end.

[starwarsfilms]

DIEGO LUNA & GENEVIEVE O'REILLY ANDOR | S02E09 “Welcome to the Rebellion”

[hegodamask]

“He built up this totem of Cassian, this kind of voodoo doll, and the fact that he wasn’t even a blip on Cassian’s radar is crushing to him. He’s so desperate to be remembered and to make a difference, and it’s a cut too deep by that point. He’s been betrayed by Dedra and the Empire, and now his one true obsession doesn’t even think he’s worth remembering. He’s heartbroken.” - Kyle Soller

[swshows]

Mon Mothma in Andor 2x01, 2x02 & 2x03

[hegodamask]

ANDOR S02E09 Welcome to the Rebellion x Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

[letshareapapou]

Partagaz saying the excuse to tell the public when they're looking for Kleya is she has a disease that could kill thousands and at the end of him, listening to Nemik's rebellion speech and whispering "it just keeps spreading" mwah cinema

[calkestis]

#rebellions are built on hope alcohol consumption that makes the unbearable weight of a fascist regime somehow manageable 

[areusittingcomfortably]

And for those of us who don't drink and have to face the world sober, I recommend large quantities of chocolate. Make it dark, and it's slightly less unhealthy.

We do what we can.