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[cd-call-official-blog]

Is there any precedent for why people want nuanced Sith or is it just because of the aesthetic?

When Star Wars has written nuanced an interesting Sith like Kreia, the Empire's Wrath or Darth Imperious, the writers always sit down and put their whole pussy into the writing.

It always ends up standing out leaps and bounds above anything else Star Wars has ever written, largely because the people who write it are extremely passionate about it.

Much of the rest of Star Wars rigidly adheres to certain formulas, but every nuanced or complicated Sith story has been unique, personal, and always the creme de la creme of Star Wars writing.

[erratic-meowmeow]

ironically, shinigami eyes being subject to a huge hate train kinda made it better for its actual purpose. previously, due to how many people (notably non-transfems) used it, it was very vulnerable to getting hijacked. just didnt really have the ability to moderate that much traffick.

but now its pretty much just transfems who use it again. making it much easier to handle, and thus, much more effective for keeping the people who need it safe. kinda funny

[maidslime]

The thing about the "trans women are capable of harm" type posts and blogs like transmascvoicesproject is that on a daily basis trans women are told that we are predators, that we are violent, that we have the rape organ, that we solely exist for fetishistic reasons and that makes us dangerous to be around. Society never lets us forget this. Cinema never lets us forget this. Terfs never let us forget this. Political parties on either side of the spectrum never let us forget this. These people post like they live in a world where trans women/transfeminine people are shielded from the consequences of our actions by our identities, but that's a fantasy. We are not only held accountable for our actions, but responses to our mistakes and transgressions are often extremely worse than that of other people. Not to mention, a lot of trans women are lied about, marked rapist/pedophile/abusive by an abusive, transphobic ex, and then isolated and removed from friends groups for the crime of coming out as trans. This is so, so, so common.

We do not need you to remind us we are capable of harm, trust me when I say we fucking know.

[fleshengine]

Every trans girl I know is too afraid of being seen as a predator to allow herself to be intimate with someone else. It takes years of understanding ourselves as something outside of the common archetype for us to get over that.

But go ahead. Tell me again that I'm capable of harm.

[helen-was-here]

Me when Supergirl convinces the 13 year old not to kill the irredeemable villain because it would retraumatize her: yeah ok fair enough :/

Me when Supergirl kills the irredeemable villain herself the second Ruthye’s back is turned, thus ending the cycle of abuse without involving the terrified grieving child: YEAH OK FAIR ENOUGH :D

[cd-call-official-blog]

There's been this recurring theory that Leia embodies the Sith Code. Is there any merit to that?

I think I started that, actually.

Anyway, that is mostly a thought experiment of interpreting the Sith Code differently than people usually do, how the throughline of Passion > Strength > Power > Victory mirrors the Rebellion.

It's less about Leia and more about the Sith Code.

If anyone's comparing Leia to a Sith, it's likely because of the two of Anakin's children, she's the one who's most like him.

[cd-call-official-blog]

is it "abuse" if its not consistent? like if you smack your cheating husband or something with the intention of divorcing him, is that abuse or is it just revenge/assault?

Abuse is a repeated pattern of exploiting a power dynamic over someone. For something to be abuse, it has to be

More than once

Involving one person exploiting their power over another

For example: Sexual Assault is any instance of sexual contact done to you against your will. Sexual Abuse is repeated instances of it over a period of time.

Here's the important part though: Many people use abuse to mean only the second one, and many people use abuse to mean any kind of assault at all.

If you can tell this is what they're doing, don't be pedantic with them.

[annotated-dc]

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair B

This relates to this guy, FYI.

FCC Chair Doubts State AG Lawsuit Against Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Succeed

Brendan Carr says reports of California AG Rob Bonta's interest in a CNN sale are "a bit of a tell that this really isn't a legitimate antit

Like, is he really so arrogant that he doesn't care how hugely corrupt he looks?

I mean, the reason why the Paramount shareholders are suing the Ellisons is because they know that there's going to be a day after Trump is president where everyone who assisted in his web of corruption is going to be liable for prosecution, is this guy really so oblivious that he thinks he can do stuff like this (and threaten to take away broadcasters' licences for airing critical news reports about Trump) as if he's going to be around forever to suck up to?

[espanolbot2]

Like, Mayor Quimby in the Simpsons is less comically corrupt than this man.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The FCC is a worthless dogshit organisation in general honestly

One of the many MANY reasons you can easily tell that DOGE was bullshit is that their approach to "government eficiency" didn't involve just firing everyone who worked at the FCC and shutting it down completely

"Can you imagine a world WITHOUT the FCC????"

[failure-to-adult]

FCC and Paramount, standing in front of Congress, explaining that no no this deal is a GOOD thing:

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I see only facts here XD

[yawntchi]

this is so silly I’m sorry

[boccher]

funny seeing the google ai go on full defense for white people over the word honky while the wiki article it's sourcing is just like "yeah its some insult". they're injecting their own #alllivesmatter weights into the bot

[cd-call-official-blog]

You and other critics often say it's possible for something to be objectively good while not liking it. But can you give even one example of that? Nobody ever does.

Star Wars - Andor.

An objectively well-made show and probably one of the best things to come out of Disney Star Wars, and one of the few things to get anywhere close to the level of writing and character work that KOTOR 2 set 21 years ago.

However, I've watched exactly three episodes of it, and I can't stand it in the slightest. I'm that bitch who doesn't give a shit about any Star Wars property that isn't about the conflicts between the Jedi and Sith, and I'm so sick and tired of the way the series lingers on the Rebel Alliance while refusing to move on.

Every Star Wars fan goes through a phase where they're like "Star Wars would be good if they just got rid of the Force" but that's usually when you're a dumb teenager.

[occasionalvirgin]

Right wing manipulation tactics explained

[taraljc]

this is an epic exposure of how propaganda functions.

[aniseandspearmint]

Always worth watching, even if you've seen it before, bc its a great refresher for how propagandists like Kirk work.

[thickness-protection-program]

According to fox entertainment this is who we should be afraid of. I didn't know who Francesca Hong was 10 minutes ago but thankfully now I'm aware of this monster and her monsterous policies

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

one of my moots has been posting about Francesca Hong for 6 months

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

she isnt one of my Tumblr mutuals we are moots on Bluesky

[cd-call-official-blog]

Since you've talked about why Ground News is bad, how do we make sure we're getting unbiased news?

You don't.

When it comes to Left vs Right, Liberal vs Conservative, etc, you can't be both unbiased and true because the second of both of those dualities is always wrong about everything.

There is nothing in the universe that conservatives are correct about.

Reality has a liberal bias.

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[cilantrhoes]

[spicymancer]

Slumber Party

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