WELCOME TO TILTED TOWERS

as you can see I knocked over many chairs because I get so tilted at the towers ☆ Sol (short for soldering equipment) 25 They/Them ☆ posts mostly star wars ☆ AO3 in pinned post

[c-c2224]

About me

u can find my ao3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/KnightsOfSuns

Hello my name is Sol (short for Soldering Equipment, allegedly) and I am 25 years old. I use they/them pronouns and I am queer.

a fun fact about me is that I tried making pizza with gummy bears. It was bad. I am tempted to try it again tho.

General podcast/translation statements

I’m fine with podcasts of my fics being made as long as u tag me so I know they exists & as long as u mention my AO3 or link back to my work.

I dont allow my fics to be translated and reuploaded elsewhere.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

short but sweet

[gigglepuffpixie]

[c-c2224]

People You’d Like To Know Better!

I got tagged almost a month ago by @sillywizardvoice but I have been MIA on this account oops

Last song: who do you think you are by the spice girls

Favorite color: orange :d

Currently watching: oh god I watch stuff so sporadically I have no clue what show I last watched? probably Bones with my mum

Recent movie: PROJECT HAIL MARY SWEEP RAAAAAH (watched it 3 times, seriouslt considering going again)

Current read: I am reading like 5 books rn lol uhm,,,, one I am too embarrased to mention tho so: Project hail mary, star wars the high republic fallen star, butter, the raven king (AFTG)

Current obsession: star wars and project hail mary RAAAAAAAAH

Currently working on: my codywan amnesia AU (:

Last google search: a company I wanted to apply to for an internship </3 kill m

Phone wallpaper: lock screen rotates through photos from project hail mary and my homescreen is codywan art where Cody is a jedi and obiwan is a trooper (:

idk who to tag sorry </3

[c-c2224]

writers block hates to see me coming

[scorpiosantos]

[ratbreadd]

go watch (and read) project hail mary right now. this instant. go go go . go. go.

[yaoihands]

Guys please reply to this with what your url means or references I’m really curious

[yaoihands]

Guys please reply to this with what your url means or references I’m really curious

[skapediem]

if it's any consolation, you'll be hailed as a hero

[lesbianrey]

the internet consensus these days is that the george lucas hate of the last few decades was overblown which is kinda true but george still deserves all the shit for ‘fixing’ (aka removing and digitally redoing) the groundbreaking special effects work that won that team Oscars in 1978. 

because of this, you literally cannot buy a restored copy of the original theatrical release with the oscar-winning effects intact, and it’s because george always had beef with the original effects artists and wanted to discredit their work. it’s really sad because his revisions of history worked! one of those effect supervisors who got an Oscar, Robert Blalack, died this year and was honored in memorium at the 2022 Oscars. but the effects they showed to honor him (the death star sequence) actually weren’t his original work at all, but digital effects redone by george in 1997. george lucas was always too comfortable to discredit others work and legacy on the basis that it was his sole creative vision that others were merely working on. it was shitty to artists and shitty for the culture. Disney is a different type of evil toward creativity but george did more than his fair share of playing dirty too and that shouldn’t be forgotten

[a-wonderful-use-of-server-space]

Don't forget the fact that he re-edited the original trilogy in part to screw his ex-wife out of royalties. She's the one that edited those movies. She's the reason they're even watchable in the first place. Marcia Lucas won the Best Editing Oscar for the first Star Wars and she deserved it and so much more. Not even that, she edited Taxi Driver, too. She was considered one of the best in the business and her lack of involvement with anything past Return of the Jedi is a very big reason why the rest of the franchise is so flawed.

[tagrin]

My ahsoka fanart what do you guys think?

[saucefunk]

spin

[meanbuddhist]

some things are your fault and some are not and actually it doesn’t matter either way because you have to deal with all of it anyways

[cazort]

the whole concept of fault and blame is not useful in most situations

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[gayteensupreme]

I'm going to address a specific set of notes in this post (without indicating who wrote them) because it's a valuable insight into criticisms of this post. Also keep in mind broadly that this post is a JOKE it's supposed to be FUNNY. But also I'm not stupid enough to think jokes aren't a very effective way to communicate and persuade.

"This is like saying female-owned businesses mean nothing because J.K Rowling is a businesswoman". Incredibly, that's exactly what I'm saying. I applaud this critique for correctly identifying how my stance might be applied elsewhere.

But what I would ask is this: do you not remember how JKR (being a successful female author and businesswoman) was lauded as a feminist hero during the peak of the books' success which allowed her to make a large part of modern feminism incredibly TERF-y because of her influence? Because I think we should all do well to remember that.

Interestingly, this critique then goes on to make my entire point for me, albeit maybe slightly more charitably than I. It goes on to say "queer people are not a monolith" and that we should inform ourselves as to who owns these businesses. Yes! Yes! This is my point! Relying purely on identity politics to judge whether businesses (and people) are good or not is bad!

It closes out by saying big corps "don't count" when talking about queer-owned businesses. Honestly? Yeah, I agree. Most of the time, people are talking about small queer-owned businesses. That is because this post is a joke. I have applied the label of "queer-owned business" to some businesses the label is not usually applied to to point out the limits of identity politics in business.

Corporations are not your friends. Small businesses can be your friends, and they are closer to your level than Big Corporations - but that doesn't mean they always will be.

[halethleia]

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

[pop-squeak]

in less emotionally destroying news i also appreciated a lot of rocky and ryland’s great one liners including but not limited to:

“no understand do puppet show” “do you still need the puppets” “yes yes showtime”

“thumbs up baby” 👎

”do you have to sit right there?” “is usually closer”

”not half bad!” “is full good!”

”bad no good grace die rocky die all earth die we die we die we die”

”how do you know when hug is over” “you just feel it” “oh okay. are you feeling it”