gratuacuun14

I come here to find writers and Star Wars nerds. Essentially, the best two types of people in the world.

[cactusprincewrites]

sorry, what do you mean to finish a project I have to actually focus on that project? without getting distracted? who decided that????

[gratuacuun14]

painfully real

[crowley-and-aziraphales-blog]

the host started a Twitter war oops

the tweet in question

[gratuacuun14]

I'm not convinced this show really was Terry Pratchett's dying wish. It doesn't seem like he really liked Neil Gaiman.

[short-wooloo]

Thrawn would not have saved the empire had he been around during the original trilogy

This is such a common line of thought I see, that his presence single handedly turns everything around (literally this is just the qui-gon lives thing but evil except the people who push this idea are thrawn stans who can never acknowledge that he is evil), usually because "tie defender is better ship therefore victory inevitable"

There are a few things wrong with this

Regarding the tie defender, aside from the fact that it was still in development a year before Yavin and that even when development was done it would take time to mass produce the craft and train pilots for it, a single weapon does not win a war, not even a "superior" one (see the tiger tanks of wwii), how you use it matters, sure thrawn could use the defenders effectively, but not every imperial commander could, and that's not even addressing how rotten to the core the empire is as a system, or how having small ships without hyperdrives is a deliberate choice by the empire to breed dependency and curb independence in pilots and that the defender flies in the face of this foundational mindset of the empire

Secondly is the nature of the fight against the empire itself

This is not a conventional war, this is a fantasy war (dressed in Sci fi), the way to win is via heroes defeating the evil overlord with friendship, trust, and a little magic

And that precisely why Thrawn lost in Rebels!

He only looked at things as a military conflict, a war of resources, strategies, and tactics, that is why he dismissed Ezra acting as a Jedi to be a losing choice, and why he was so blindsided by the end result

[gratuacuun14]

It's not so much about the Defender as it is about the Death Star. The Death Star gets finished a little slower with Thrawn there, not enough, but still, and then he convinces Palpatine NOT TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE. By then, the Defender is in mass production anyway, the Empire doesn't waste money on another Death Star, Palpatine and Vader and the Executor all survive, and the Rebels are fucked.

[short-wooloo]

You're doing exactly the thing I pointed out, presuming that thrawn's mere presence changes everything

[gratuacuun14]

What I'm doing is saying that it's not about Thrawn's presence, it's about the Death Star's failures laid bare with a rational second option nearby. It's not about Thrawn just being there, but the fact that the Empire has another option available in his starfighters, potentially even without him advocating for it

[short-wooloo]

Thrawn would not have saved the empire had he been around during the original trilogy

This is such a common line of thought I see, that his presence single handedly turns everything around (literally this is just the qui-gon lives thing but evil except the people who push this idea are thrawn stans who can never acknowledge that he is evil), usually because "tie defender is better ship therefore victory inevitable"

There are a few things wrong with this

Regarding the tie defender, aside from the fact that it was still in development a year before Yavin and that even when development was done it would take time to mass produce the craft and train pilots for it, a single weapon does not win a war, not even a "superior" one (see the tiger tanks of wwii), how you use it matters, sure thrawn could use the defenders effectively, but not every imperial commander could, and that's not even addressing how rotten to the core the empire is as a system, or how having small ships without hyperdrives is a deliberate choice by the empire to breed dependency and curb independence in pilots and that the defender flies in the face of this foundational mindset of the empire

Secondly is the nature of the fight against the empire itself

This is not a conventional war, this is a fantasy war (dressed in Sci fi), the way to win is via heroes defeating the evil overlord with friendship, trust, and a little magic

And that precisely why Thrawn lost in Rebels!

He only looked at things as a military conflict, a war of resources, strategies, and tactics, that is why he dismissed Ezra acting as a Jedi to be a losing choice, and why he was so blindsided by the end result

[gratuacuun14]

It's not so much about the Defender as it is about the Death Star. The Death Star gets finished a little slower with Thrawn there, not enough, but still, and then he convinces Palpatine NOT TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE. By then, the Defender is in mass production anyway, the Empire doesn't waste money on another Death Star, Palpatine and Vader and the Executor all survive, and the Rebels are fucked.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[gratuacuun14]

Reblog to punch a fascist

[were--ralph]

official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

[burning-sol]

Whenever I see a queer invalidate another queer's relationship with god, I just get disappointed. "We need more complex queers!" You can't even handle religious queer people.

[burning-sol]

If you think that abandoning faith is the only solution to religious traumas, I'm REALLY fucking sorry to say you have a very small worldview. Maybe YOU gain comfort from disowning god, but others will redefine their faith to accommodate their queerness.

It is so incredibly difficult to word how complex faith is, there's a lot I could say.. But I guess to set the record straight, queer religious folk AREN'T your enemy. A queer religious person likely gets treated like shit just like you do, except now you're putting them into a position where they're simultaneously getting shit on by bigoted religious people AND the queer community that's supposedly oh so accepting of them.

This isn't even touching on how tunnel visioned you are that you forget how broad religion is in the first place. You guys DO know that when someone says "god", they might not be referring to the Christian god.. Right?? RIGHT?? (which is implying that major religions like christianity even have consistently AMONGST THEMSELVES like holy fuck they can't even agree on what day you're meant to go to church and what calendar is correct)

Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you Christian queers. I love you Muslim queers. I love you Jewish queers. I love you religious queers that fall outside the abrahamic religions: Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus.. I love you religious queers whose religion is too niche or unappreciated to ever come up. I love you religious queers who have many gods or no gods. I love you indigenous queers.

If you think religion is completely incompatible with queerness then fuck off, this isn't the blog for you.

[gratuacuun14]

Sup, bisexual atheist here, agreed. Any and all rejection of people who are rejected already by those who use religion for evil, on the grounds that they still hold their beliefs, is not something that belongs in the queer community.

[wantonlywindswept]

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

[wantonlywindswept]

oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?

you fucking dare?

[wantonlywindswept]

you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???

[wantonlywindswept]

hey quick question gdocs

what the fuck

[wantonlywindswept]

1. how the fuck did this post become so popular

2. everyone just commenting ‘QUERCHED’ is delightful

3. some people have suggested i use grammarly. this is letting the robots win and also would deprive me of the opportunity to complain about insignificant technical things instead of just wanting to scream over writing all the time

4. i use googledocs because i want access to my writing on multiple platforms and also because fuck microsoft 

5. the difference between [its] and [it’s] is that [it’s] is always used as a shortened form of [it is] and [its] is used as the possessive of [it]. yes, this goes against the usual practice of just tacking on an [‘s] when you want to indicate ownership. yes, english is absolutely a trash language.

[wantonlywindswept]

btw, gdoc’s most recent transgression:

noooope

[wantonlywindswept]

LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE MEANING OF WHAT I WANT, GDOCS

[wantonlywindswept]

i’m sorry what kind of AI FUCKERY is going on here that you are trying to ADD IN ADVERBS FOR ME that could ENTIRELY CHANGE THE TONE from a neutral ‘He’d been young’ to something that would put emphasis on just how young he was and how long ago it was you cannot just THROW EXTRA WORDS IN LIKE THAT

‘he’d been so young’ I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU

[wantonlywindswept]

OH MY FUCKING GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS

me @ everyone else using googledocs:

YOU

[amarits]

I just listened to a podcast with an A.I. research scientist. She said if you wouldn’t trust autocorrect to be in charge of a decision, then you shouldn’t trust another A.I. with it, so… that’s something to worry about

[elfwreck]

Grammarly is not better.

[vaspider]

querched

[curlicuecal]

[hello-delicious-tea]

If you were thinking learning to proofread wasn’t actually helpful…

[lastoneout]

This is funny but also as someone who has dyslexia and relies heavily on spell check to communicate legibly this is honestly horrifying.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#had ‘performances’ autocorrected to ‘romanceances’ today#for reasons unknown

ROMANCEANCES

[gratuacuun14]

Omg I found it in the wild!!!

[sachermorte]

so the thing about english is that people think it's so divorced from other germanic languages based on like. words. I've even heard people try to insist that english is a romance language. because of that whole messy business in 1066 with out-of-wedlock willy and his band of naughty normans. and now a good chunk of the vocabulary is french or whatever and they're prestigious so not using them makes you sound like a rube and this and that and the other

and yes william the conqueror will never be safe from me. I will have my revenge on him. he fucked up a perfectly good germanic language is what he did. this will be me in hell

but the thing is that most words in, say, german do have a one to one english equivalent. not all hope is lost, for those who still dare to see it. it's just that you 1066pilled normancels aren't looking in the right place

dog (en) ≠ der Hund (de) but der Hund (de) -> hound (en)

look with your special eyes. that one was easier. not all of them are this intuitive because of semantic narrowing and broadening and waltzing and hokey-pokeying and whatever else. I'll give you a few more

animal (en) ≠ das Tier (de)

aha! you think. I've got him on the ropes now.

but then

das Tier (de) -> deer (en)

nooooo!! you whine and cry in gay baby jail. the consonants are different!!! listen to me. listen, I say, putting both my hands on your shoulder. /t/and /d/ are the same sound. you just put your voice behind one of them.

nooooooooo!! you wail. deer are animals but not all animals are deer!!! listen to me. LISTEN. they used to be. animals used to be deer. that's just what we called them. it was a long time ago. it was a weird time in all our lives. it's okay.

let's try for a verb this time

to die (en) ≠ sterben (de) but sterben (de) -> to starve

same principle with the consonants, we're just changing a stop (where we completely stop the airflow and then let it through) for a fricative (where we still let some air go through. idk where it's going. maybe to its job or something.)

to starve used to mean generally to die, not just to die of malnourishment. we do that a lot. we take one word for a lot of things and make it mean one thing. or take one word for one thing and make it mean a lot of things. this is common and normal.

"okay but roland," you say, suddenly coming up with an argument. "what about tree? trees are super common. I don't think we'd fuck around too much with that. the german word is baum! what about THAT?"

"when did you learn german?" I ask, but then decide it isn't relevant right at this very moment. but fine.

tree (en) ≠ der Baum (de) but der Baum (de) -> beam (en)

beam??? you ask incredulously. beam???? BEAM?????? you continue with the same tone and cadence of captain holt from brooklyn 99.

yes. beam. like the evil beams from my eye I'm going to hit you with if you don't stop shouting.

but the vowels!!! you howl.

listen. listen to me. the vowels mean nothing. absolutely nothing. they're fluid like water. it got raised in english.

"WHAT DOES RAISED MEAN"

it doesn't matter right now. they were raised better than you, at least. stop shouting. open your eyes and see what god has given you. they're the same word.

"they're NOT the same word. they mean different things!"

we've been over this. they didn't used to. a beam was (and is) a long solid piece of wood. much like the long solid piece of wood I showed your mother last night.

FAQ:

Q: could english be some kind of germanic-romance hybrid?

A: do you become a sexy thing from the black lagoon just because you dressed up as one for halloween? english may have gotten a lot of vocabulary from norman french, but its history and syntax are distinctly germanic. that's what we base these things on.

Q: okay but what does it matter? this doesn't actually affect my day to day life

A: you come into my house? you come into my house, the house of an autistic man living in vienna austria and studying english linguistics and you ask me what does it matter? sit back down. I was going to let you go but now I have powerpoints to show you

Q: you're stupid and wrong and gay and a bad person

A: I know it's you, Willy

[lunasgayshit-deactivated2026050]

Q: okay but what does it matter? this doesn't actually affect my day to day life

um

if I actually agree with you (despite my predilection for English's romance vocabulary) but I pretend to ask this can I still get the powerpoints? please?

[gratuacuun14]

Best thing to die laughing at after a nap, take my reblog now!

[daisyelixir]

"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

[gratuacuun14]

is anyone else getting infested with porn bots

pls help they're scary

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

"Stolas isn't wrong for choosing his own happiness for once after years of abuse and depression"

and

"Octavia isn't wrong for feeling betrayed by her father and fearing she's been only an obligation to him"

are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[oddcuella]

YES

[gratuacuun14]

THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FUCKKKK

[gratuacuun14]

ok so i'm not sure who needs to hear this but

it's not real. it doesn't exist. that character didn't kill that other character. those two characters didn't sleep together. you can ship them, they don't exist. your comfort character can be a precious lil puppy or he can be a canonical war criminal (thrawn😊💙). when a character has a viewpoint, it's not necessarily all the other characters' viewpoint, or the creator's viewpoint, or maybe even really their viewpoint. and none of it matters, because it's not real!

"but that's bad in real life-" i know!😊 what an awful thing to do, in real life.

"this upsets me because of my own experiences-" same buddy. i've seen some shit, and i'd like to never see it again. everyone's got lines they will and won't cross. but you don't need everyone to not cross it with you!

"what if someone does something illegal or wrong?" then they suck. we should do something about that. sort them out. grrr.

"it's wrong to like this character, they did-" finger to lips shhhh. it's ok. it didn't happen.

[marzipanandminutiae]

"you do not owe friends instant responses to every social message, and anxiety over not receiving the same is something for the anxious person to work on, not your responsibility to totally change for"

AND

"you have to put some effort into friendships, which can include open communication with your friends about how to make both of you comfortable re: messaging. expecting other people to do ALL of the work ALL of the time, in terms of getting in touch and carrying on the conversation, may make them feel ignored and/or and leave"

are ideas that can and should coexist

[gratuacuun14]

this. i miss people.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Gosh, Even In The Merchandise They Have To Pity This Selfish Pos As If He's The Real Victim And Not Like He Brought This On Himself

No matter how much this narrative tries to make him to be a uwu baby victim it doesn't erase Stolas is a cheating pos who wrecked his family life to pursue imp dick. Seriously, he didn't divorce Stella for Octavia but because he wanted to selfishly pursue Blitzo. His daughter despite saying he loves her is a back thought to him and one only really focused on if she is used as a tool for sympathy. She deserves to hate his ass because time and again he puts his boy toy before her and doesn't regret what he's done. And no matter how much they demonize Stella to make him sympathetic, I still will despise him more.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

I despise that owl and she keeps making promises and not delivering them or it's shoddy bs. Dude, stop being butthurt people hate your demon show.

[gratuacuun14]

Not butthurt at all, like what you like, hate what you hate. I'm just slightly confused as to why you're wasting your life bitching about it on the internet. Do you not have anything better to do? I assume you don't have many significant people to talk to?

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Why waste interacting with us?

[gratuacuun14]

My composition is taking ages to load and it's 1 in the morning where I am. I'm just scrolling to pass the time.

No comment on anything better to do, I see.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Gosh, Even In The Merchandise They Have To Pity This Selfish Pos As If He's The Real Victim And Not Like He Brought This On Himself

No matter how much this narrative tries to make him to be a uwu baby victim it doesn't erase Stolas is a cheating pos who wrecked his family life to pursue imp dick. Seriously, he didn't divorce Stella for Octavia but because he wanted to selfishly pursue Blitzo. His daughter despite saying he loves her is a back thought to him and one only really focused on if she is used as a tool for sympathy. She deserves to hate his ass because time and again he puts his boy toy before her and doesn't regret what he's done. And no matter how much they demonize Stella to make him sympathetic, I still will despise him more.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

I despise that owl and she keeps making promises and not delivering them or it's shoddy bs. Dude, stop being butthurt people hate your demon show.

[gratuacuun14]

Not butthurt at all, like what you like, hate what you hate. I'm just slightly confused as to why you're wasting your life bitching about it on the internet. Do you not have anything better to do? I assume you don't have many significant people to talk to?

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Gosh, Even In The Merchandise They Have To Pity This Selfish Pos As If He's The Real Victim And Not Like He Brought This On Himself

No matter how much this narrative tries to make him to be a uwu baby victim it doesn't erase Stolas is a cheating pos who wrecked his family life to pursue imp dick. Seriously, he didn't divorce Stella for Octavia but because he wanted to selfishly pursue Blitzo. His daughter despite saying he loves her is a back thought to him and one only really focused on if she is used as a tool for sympathy. She deserves to hate his ass because time and again he puts his boy toy before her and doesn't regret what he's done. And no matter how much they demonize Stella to make him sympathetic, I still will despise him more.

[gratuacuun14]

Cheating implies emotional betrayal. Stella is not hurt that he cheated, and cheating on one's abuser is fine. Leave the poor bastard alone. He's made mistakes, that's the point of character development.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

F that noise. She was hurt despite his narcissistic ass saying it. It's one issue to make mistakes but it's another to not admit your mistakes and double down on them.

[gratuacuun14]

She doesn't love him, so she wasn't hurt. She didn't want to sleep with him and hadn't done so in years, and said this publicly to belittle him. Why should she give a damn that he went and slept with Blitz? She only cares that he did it carelessly. If it was done with discretion, I doubt she'd care.

And frankly if it did hurt her? Good. No abuser should receive sympathy when their party finds connection elsewhere. She can shove her pain up her feathery cloaca.

The real victim here is Octavia, and for his mistakes there, I resent what Stolas did.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

You don't need love to be hurt.

[gratuacuun14]

You don't need love to not abuse your partner either but I notice we're giving her a bit of a pass on that one.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

U dolts give stolas a pass for being an abuser.

[gratuacuun14]

I love that you've just gone through my account to find every recent post I've just made. Tell me, how is that chip on your shoulder doing?

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Tell me you aren't butt hurt I notice a pattern with you.

[gratuacuun14]

With pleasure.

I'm not butt hurt you "noticed" a "pattern" with me.

I've been back on tumblr 10 minutes. I'm not emotionally invested enough to care yet.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Dunce

[gratuacuun14]

Bellend.

Why, if I was too look for a pattern in you, I'd say you're probably the kind of person who routinely ignores and diminishes female on male domestic abuse. Ringing any bells?

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Dude I know bad writing when I see it.

[gratuacuun14]

A second pattern emerges: you don't understand the concept of flaws and any character who has them must simply be the product of bad writing.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

He's babied and his flaws are treated sympathetically to a pathetic degree.

[gratuacuun14]

Maybe a little, but that's the tone of the show for you - and yeah, the flaws are treated sympathetically but they certainly aren't shied away from, because if we didn't like the No1 Gay Owl we wouldn't be invested in his growth.

If it's any consolation at all, Viv says that Stella will be fleshed out a little more later on, so don't you worry your little cotton socks, your favourite domestic abuser peahen will get her say.

My question is, if this media makes you so deeply unhappy - since you have a whole account dedicated to hating it - why not just... not watch it? Not engage? Why are you keeping so up to date that you're making multiple posts about an episode of a show that came out barely a week ago? What are you gaining from this?