(Geek) Life, The Universe & Everything Inbetween

👩🏻 She/her 📚 Writer 💡 Autistic 🖤 Ace 🦠 Long Covid

[ohjessmarie]

midnight hours 🌙🕯️📚 | my print shop

[charliemalo]

me during the day: I am so hydrated right now! I feel amazing! I’ve started a new habit! I’m going to keep this up forever!

me at night: FML

[pawthorn]

Shout out to Tamora Pierce specifically for making her lead female protagonist have a crush on a friend, not act on it, and eventually out-grow that crush and feel grateful that she never said anything.

There are so few stories that affirm choices like that, that admit that feelings don’t always last forever and that choosing not to pursue romance is actually a very valid choice. I love the Protector of the Small series for a lot of reasons, but this is a big one.

[dduane]

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

[writing-prompt-s]

A strange alien doctor stands near the unconscious body of Padme Amidala. “It appears she has lost the will to live.” A older man with a limp hobbles closer with the aid of a cane. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” says Dr. Gregory House.

[gwenthebard]

-Keeps Padme on life support despite DNR, somehow this ends in him getting punched by Obi-Wan

-Immediately starts putting her on every treatment known to man

-Walks over to Wilson’s office, which is the only part of the entire ship that just looks the same as it does in the show

-Homoerotically complains about how stupid Jedi are, then makes a bet with Wilson on whether Obi Wan is gay or the father of Padme’s twins (Wilson wants House to believe people can be faithful)

-Padme almost dies again. Turns out the treatment’s not working

-“if the dark side nearly killed her, maybe it can save her”

-House uses force lightning to restart Padme’s heart

-Gets brought into Cuddy’s office and told off for using an experimental treatment, and the power of the dark side, in her hospital

-House is taken off the case and foreman is put in charge of the case

-Padme is unexpectedly doing better, but Cuddy refuses to tell House or else he’ll be using the dark side to save all his patients

-House watches on as Wilson tries seducing a relieved Obi Wan while he paces in the lobby. Doesn’t seem to work

-House interrogates Obi Wan about his relationship with Padme, insinuates it’s Obi Wans Fault. Gets in a struggle and once theyre seperated it’s revealed he ripped out some beard hair

-Padme is getting released from the hospital but crashes again with obvious signs of infection. Everyone blames the dark side of the force

-is put in intensive care again, everyone thinks she’s going to die, House is brooding.

-House meets Bail Organa and talks to him, Bail mentions how he was so worried about her the last time she was in a hospital, and this seems much more hopeless

-“what time she was in the hospital?”

-House marches in as they’re about to pull the plug, rolling Padme’s unconcious body over to point at dark spot on the back of her neck

-Foreman looks disapointed, “it’s a bruise house, her husband nearly snapped her neck.”

-“Our princess’ boyfriend here failed to mentioned she was scratched by a Nexu on Genosis years ago. Nexu claws are known as a vicious poison.”

-“it would have killed her years ago”

-“unless a small chunk of claw stuck in her back, working into the muscles near the nape of her neck for years. The little prince of Darkness chokes her, pressure and muscles spasming lets it work into a blood vessel. It’s why the force lightning only was a bandaid, it vaporized what was in her bloodstream but broke up the rest of the claw and let it enter in her bloodstream. Start her on dialysis, she’ll be fine by tomorrow afternoon.”

-Next day Padme’s wheeled out of the hospital with her two children, bittersweetness. House watches from balcony before going back to his office

-Wilson enters with his shirt unbuttoned and a few bruises on his neck, declaring, “the Jedi is gay. I win.”

-House holds up a paternity test, “he’s bisexual, it’s a draw”

[chicago-geniza]

@exteenpopstar

[theothin]

#love the implication that house is force sensitive and decided to become a dark side user for medical malpractice reasons (via @gravity-loves-me)

[cuppatealove]

Me and a fellow writer lovingly describing our extensive lists of plot bunnies to each other:

[charliemalo]

so my hands are really dry right now (thanks winter). I decided to risk buying some hand cream, to try and help since I’m not home for another few hours (where my Acceptable moisturisers are).

I specifically chose one that claimed to be “non-greasy” and “non-sticky”. I also smelled it to check it wasn’t an overpowering smell.

well. it lied. on every damn count.

I put it on my hands & was immediately going AAAHHH, bad texture, bad texture! AND it smells stronger than I’d like.

[charliemalo]

also my hands are all red now and I don’t know if it’s a reaction to the cream, or because I had to scrub as much of it off as possible with a napkin

[charliemalo]

so my hands are really dry right now (thanks winter). I decided to risk buying some hand cream, to try and help since I’m not home for another few hours (where my Acceptable moisturisers are).

I specifically chose one that claimed to be “non-greasy” and “non-sticky”. I also smelled it to check it wasn’t an overpowering smell.

well. it lied. on every damn count.

I put it on my hands & was immediately going AAAHHH, bad texture, bad texture! AND it smells stronger than I’d like.

[chernozemm]

do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?

like...... buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I'll take it from here, get off the stage

[chernozemm]

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara

[naamahdarling]

Keep in mind, this sort of thing is a SKILL. That means you can get better at it if you practice! It works quite well!

(You may not have a Barbara. You may have a Kevin, like I do, who is the one saying the insanely bad thoughts, and every once in a while you have to be like "nobody asked you, Kevin" and shove him into a locker. I normally engage with those thoughts a little, to make sure they aren't covering up a real immediate need, but sometimes you just know there's nothing good in there and you can safely just shut the lid on the dumpster for the night.)

[samstree]

R2-D2's favoritism towards Anakin is so funny like, he's canonically the most foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, grump old cat-coded droid. The cute appearance is only an illusion to lure you in just so he can tase you, and maybe also kick you from behind just because he wants to. Even the disney princess Obi-Wan loved by all animals on first sight doesn't get along with R2. But he just. likes. Anakin. He's the wingman, he's emotional support, he's a good helper in battle. He carries snacks and checks if Anakin is hungry. He looks at this also ill-tempered angsty goth kid and said, yep that's my bff. Meanwhile Anakin goes around saying things like R2 is such a sweetheart 😌he's a little angel he's literally the best buddy anyone could ask for and I will risk my life to save him. Everyone else just looks like the demon droid and be like what the fuck are you talking about.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Seeing Protector of the Small fanart reminded me of something I wanted to say.

One of the things I love about the series is that Kel’s life gets better over the course of it. Oh, the enemies she’s facing get tougher - in the first book of the quartet she’s an 11-year-old fighting bullies at school, by the fourth one she’s an adult fighting in a war - but the number of people she’s got on her side and at her back expands immensely.

In the first book, she’s virtually on her own at the start and she has almost no control over her fate - whether she will be able to pursue her dream of being a knight depends solely on the arbitrary judgement of a raging sexist. By the second one, she still has enemies, but also a sizeable group of friends, and is a mentor to younger students. By the third, she has some of the most powerful people in the kingdom on her side, and is virtually never without either emotional support or people willing to go to bat for her. In the fourth, she has dozens of people – including the aforementioned raging sexist, who has some of the best character development in any Tamora Pierce novel – supporting her when she does something that is technically illegal.

She’s never more alone or less in control of her fate than the moment, as an eleven-year-old girl, when she says (paraphrased): “If I want to be a knight in order to help people, then I’m going to help people now even though it will probably ruin my chances of ever becoming a knight; because otherwise what was the point?” And the fact that she sticks to her principles doggedly and refuses to turn aside from anyone who needs help is why she has so much support by the end. With a lot of that support coming from people whom she helped and supported because they needed it, people whom the rest of society ignored and discarded and regarded as useless, and who turned out to be tough and talented and invaluble friends. It’s not an authorial gift, it’s the cumulative effect of the mountains of hard work she’s put in over the previous books, usually with no expectation of any return.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[wontletyouundermyskin]

Rewatching/rereading and can confirm. This girl has some serious imposter syndrome or something

[shinynewmemories]

The Hunger Games has the FUNNIEST arranged marriage of all time btw. Katniss realizes she'll have to marry Peeta and she's obviously upset so Haymitch tries to comfort her by saying "you could do a lot worse" and Katniss is like "well DUH of course I could do worse than Peeta he's the best & handsomest person on the face of the planet but that's not the POINT I want to be able to choose for MYSELF". Then she goes and chooses Peeta anyway lol. Comedy gold I tell you

[chriscrosswallflower-blog]

Must memorialize the tags

[secretly-a-trekkie]

this is so niche but I believe I've just peaked

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

So I was going through my Star Wars tag, and my brain crosswired the twinswap AU with that post about how, despite their respective professions, Luke takes after Padme and Leia takes after Anakin. So I’m having thoughts like:

Leia Skywalker is gonna be sneaking out to visit Old Ben Kenobi as soon as she’s as old as Anakin was in Episode 1.

Like, Luke bowed to Uncle Owen’s wishes. Leia, full of the anger she inherited from her father, Leia who in the canon trilogy gave up all possibility of a cushy political lifestyle to be a general in the rebellion, would not, I think.

Obi-Wan’s gonna be like “shit, she takes after her father” and starts Leia’s Jedi training early.

“Your father’s lightsaber. He wanted you to have it when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it.” “My uncle doesn’t allow lots of things.” “You’re still not old enough.”

Prince Luke Organa is going to be as compassionate a politician as Padme, and twice as fashionable.

He joins the Rebellion simply because it’s the right thing to do.

He gets away with it for as long as he does, despite being more reckless than Leia would have been, because he also inherited his mother’s silver tongue, and has a talent for smooth-talking his way out of anything. He can stand on a ship in orbit around Tattooine, surrounded by the bodies of his rebel crew, and you would believe him when he says that he’s on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.

He’s a lot more sneaky about dropping R2-D2 the Death Star plans. He gives R2 the plans, and then sneaks off to his quarters, where it will seem more believable that he doesn’t know what’s going on.

Vader captures Luke on the spot less because it’s unbeleivable, and more because he and the Emperor have just gotten sick of this Steamed Hams bullshit.

Basically, I’m saying he will be this radiant ball of charisma, no matter what’s happening.

“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” “Well, he’s certainly handsome.”

He will smile at the Imperial interrogation-bot. “Did you know that torture has a very obvious failure state? The victim will say anything to end the pain. It doesn’t have to be the truth; it just has to be what they think you want to hear.”

“His resistance to the mind probe is considerable. Everything he said sounded perfect, and everything he said was a lie.”

(I mean that’s pretty much exactly what “they’re on Dantooine” was.)

Even after Alderaan is destroyed and Dantooine is confirmed abandoned, he’s able to keep stringing Vader and Tarkin along for a little while longer.

Okay let’s not mince words: Leia is in a lot more danger of turning to the Dark Side, throughout the entire story. Vader and the Emperor are never particularly concerned about the possibility that she won’t turn to the Dark Side, but are instead worried about how much damage she’ll cause in the process, and whether they’ll be remotely able to get her to join them.

Leia takes the speeder back from the still-smoking Lars farmstead back to the destroyed sandcrawler already seething. She’s, like, ready to pull a Tusken Massacre on the next stormtroopers she sees.

Obi-Wan elects to wait until the next day before going to Mos Eisley to give her time to cool off. His plans change the minute he senses a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.

This delay has a domino effect on everyone else’s plots. When Greedo and then Jabba come to strong-arm Han, he doesn’t have the excuse of “just give me a little longer until I get paid”, and Prince Luke is a lot closer to getting executed by the time they reach the Death Star.

The fulcrum of the love triangle is not Leia, but Han.

After getting rescued, Prince Luke flirts with everyone on the Falcon except the droids (which Chewie thinks is hilarious but he politely tells him to stop), but his Force-sensitivity eventually causes him to trail off in mid-flirt with Leia before he goes “hm, I get the feeling I shouldn’t flirt with you for some reason” and she realizes that she’s getting the same feeling.

Chewie and R2 both relax in a way which only now calls attention to the fact that they’d been tense.

[piesandswords]

it’s always been interesting the titles that our two knight protagonists in the tortall books use. the contrast of Sir Alanna vs Lady Knight Keladry just tells us so much about how these two characters relate to their genders, how they use the performance of gender as a tool, and their place within tortall’s legal system. anyway, Alanna is non-binary send post

[charliemalo]

Moana’s dad is Boba Fett??

Boba Fett sings??

[charliemalo]

Tell me this isn’t Jango singing a lullaby to Boba!

and then decades later Uncle Boba sings it to Grogu on babysitting duty.

key lyrics include:

But you better not complain, boy You get in trouble with the man

and

You better not gamble And you better not fight Or the sheriff will grab ya And the boys will bring you down The next thing you know, boy Oh, you're prison bound