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Slowly turning into a Becky Lynch fanblog. NO RAGRATS -sw;hp;lgbtq;wwe-

[5000letters]

“Forgive me father for I have sinned, I have loved a woman more desperately than I have loved God. I have looked to a woman more reverently than I have the sky. There, in the sulk of her bottom lip, I find myself talking about a heaven that only exists when she is looking at me, father she has not been forged between the dip of my teeth, she is not my rib, or my left side, she is my entire stomach, she is my spine. I have been searching for prayer, father but I have found that I can only say her name Dear God, let me have her Dear God, let her rest with me Dear God, let the sky turn red from how we burn The plum tree in our back garden has withered because I have not seen the sun for five days. I have been worshipping at the cradle of her hips father, she has cleansed me with those hands and those eyes, I do not know how to turn unless it is towards her, I do not know where to go except in her direction.”

— Azra.T “Take Me to Church”

[cowboyshit]

but honestly what I want to do is climb back on my horse and ride off into the sunset and just say the hell with it.

[shiftythrifting]

[gallusrostromegalus]

For those of you that are wondering, please have one of the fiest pieces of radio comedy ever:

[jaynavajasso]

the first time i watched this i laughed so hard i nearly puked

[orwellsunderpants]

THIRD BASE

[lordkevington-deactivated-deact]

Since I was 8 and found out about this for the first time my family has always followed up on someone saying “I don’t know,” with shouting “THIRD BASE”

[kenobirey]

— Richard Siken, The Worm King’s Lullaby

[lornamoose]

dark side reylo

🖤

[prewars]

[spoopywitchboy]

Wholesome quarantine content popping up a lot these days.

[ironndred]

[theforceawakens]

enemies to lovers excellence

[driverdaily]

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

[eventualruin]

Handsome space boi

[betterthanabortion]

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

[albinwonderland]

reblogging for commentary 

[generalmaluga]

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

[fandomsandfeminism]

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

And that is gross. 

[thekaraokeninja]

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

[updatepls-deactivated20180722]

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

[dancinggrimm]

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

[atlinmerrick]

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

[septembre-songstress]

be with me

[eventualruin]

Woah!

[c0ffeebee]

…be with me 💙 without animation

[smokingroom1]

[happynewfears-deactivated201701]

when u thinking bout risking it all

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

amazing double dance by hao ruoqi ( in blue)and wang xuerou(in red)

[darkersolstice]

@aveimperatormagnus

[benperorsolo]

The way that Chris T says TROS is about Rey completing Leia's Jedi path (which is a story for Leia that did not exist before this movie in any way) and somehow completely not caring that it's in the text of the movie that Leia foresaw Ben's death at the end of that path, and as soon as Rey completes that path, Ben dies. I genuinely find it weird how Chris T makes such a big deal of the twins and the Skywalker name but the last Skywalker doesn't matter narratively in any way at all to that story

It’s another example of a the trap of masturbatory navel-gazing that so many long standing franchises run into when fans grow up to write content (I’m thinking of Doctor Who as another major example). 

One of the greatest challenges a fan-turned-creator has to learn (and which Rian actually did with such gusto) is learning to write as a writer and not as a fan. Fans are aware of all the little fandom bells and whistles that the characters have no fucking idea of and don’t care about. Fans are the ones who are aware of people being Protagonists™ and Villains™ and therefore have some sort of emotional connection to the Skywalkers™ as an entity. But as a writer, you need to think of these things through in-story logic, and in story the Skywalkers are not a pure heroic family (they are a good family, but this is different). Half their family became freedom fighters trying to defeat the half of their family who became dark side overlords. The scars of the Skywalker family is what Ben inherited and what fucked him over. 

And yet– the audience doesn’t want that. The audience wants the fun they associate with the Skywalker family, largely because of their association of “Skywalker” with “Luke Skywalker” and their own nostalgia. They hate Ben for being “ungrateful” for having Han and Leia as his Super Awesome Parents, never mind how Han and Leia and Luke all objectively failed Ben and pushed him into Snoke’s clutches. But that doesn’t track when you’re obsessed with the fun fluffery of the Luke and Leia you had in the OT, your heroes that you would love to have as your cool family members. 

Ben Solo was a metacommentary on what a real Skywalker heir would have to carry with him as a result of his family’s unresolved baggage. This was too complicated and real for an audience that wants to self insert themselves into Han and Luke and Leia’s adventures. And thus Ben Solo is killed and shunted to the side for Rey “Skywalker”, who is Good and actually Appreciates The Skywalkers unlike that filthy Solo boy who wasn’t grateful that Palpatine targeted his mind from infancy for being born into his cool awesome family.

This is the whole logic TROS runs on. The binary suns? Meaningless to Rey personally. Tatooine? Meaningless to Rey and a place of horrors for every Skywalker who lived there. The Skywalker name? Belonged to a dude she didn’t get along with during all the 48 hours she knew him and also to his dad whom she never met. But it’s more marketable than Solo, a surname belonging to two people with whom she did have a deep and true connection, so out the window it goes. Rey being “worthy” of Luke’s saber? Rey didn’t even know this saber existed until a year ago and did not have a fond relationship with either of its owners. Leia being a Jedi? Totally nonsensical for all established characterization, but Leia is a Skywalker so she Needs To Be A Jedi or else that’s not cool enough, nevermind that it turns Leia’s treatment of Ben in his childhood into neglect. And on and on. All internal logic at the altar of external nostalgia which makes no sense for any character in the story because they have no nostalgia for these objects, only we do.

[eventualruin]

Becky Lynch is a legend on the mic

[kenobirey]

The Force can take you places. The Force is deeper and more powerful than anyone can ever imagine. Yes, there’s that impressive ability to move things with your mind, to do Jedi mind tricks, to fight with a lightsaber, but that is ultimately a mortal manifestation of the Force. There are bigger, deeper things out there.  

 — Dave Filoni

(+ My Tears Are Becoming a Sea by M83)

[shuploc]

Kylo Ren / Ben Solo

[ismeriewrites]

Holy shit. This is glorious!!