Lonely Smiles

20-something queer disabled bookworm and geek who rarely posts anything but reblogs, and was finally bothered with a profile pic. Pronouns: any.||Occasionally nsfw.||Attempting to be more aware of being screen reader friendly, one reblog at a time.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

gay-blue-space-rock submitted: HEY SO random idea that has been gnawing at me and distracting me from writing my own Star Wars stuff (Damn it it’s coming up on NaNo season, I need to finish my own fanfics, I don’t have time to do fanfics of other peoples fanfics!)

Okay so Re-Entry AU (AU of an AU this is my life now) where after OtherWhen IV, Venge doesn’t get shoved in a box. Obi-Wan deals with his issues by quietly fucking off to do his own thing, and performs therapy via burning various Imperial bases to the fucking ground, mainly because he can and he wants to. At some point, he figures out some weird mash up of Jedi and Sith healing and fixes his aging problems, so that he’s not about to kick in anytime something hits him too hard.

So. He’s running around the galaxy on his own, raising hell and working through his many, many issues, and reconciling the differences between Obi-Wan and Venge. And then one day, he comes across some teenager with a red lightsaber. Except this kid is fighting stormtroopers. And well Obi-Wan isn’t one to question that sort of thing, so he joins in the fight. And after the strormtroopers are gone, to his surprise, the kid immediately recognises him.

As Darth Venge.

It takes a moment, but Obi-Wan realises that hold the fuck up, this is one of the Emperor’s Hands.

So they trade stories and it turns out that both of them are on the run from the Empire (specifically Palpatine), and one thing leads to another, and somehow Obi-Wan takes the kid under his wing, and helps them get stable and stuff, and shares what he’s learned about holding a happy medium between light and dark. And for a while, things are good.

And then they find another runaway ex-sith acolyte. And then another one. And another one.

Until finally, Obi-Wan is running around the galaxy with handful ex-sith of varying abilities (one of them is totally Mara Jade, and one of them is definitely Galen Marek because I don’t care if he’s technically not canon anymore I fucking love that kid and he deserves to be happy damn it), and somehow Obi-Wan is basically the space dad for them.

And so, Obi-Wan accidentally gets the ultimate revenge on Palpatine. Because not only is he systematically burning the Empire to the fucking ground, he’s also stolen like half of Palpatines Hands, Inquisitors and Adepts, and turned them into stable people with free will and hope for the future. And that just inspires more to run for it, because hey, if you can get to Venge, you’re pretty much out of Palpatine’s reach forever, and that’s pretty fucking safe.

So Obi-Wan and his small army of apprentices/children are happy, the Rebel Alliance has a roving band of badass Force users covering it, and Palpatine can’t hold on to a student for more than five damn minutes. Everybody is happy and the space family bonds over violence and shared trauma and everything is wonderful.

(Even though Obi-Wan’s alive and well, Luke still ends up going to Yoda for training bcause Obi-Wan’s murder ducklings are either attempting to adopt him, or attempting to name him their mascot, and there’s only so much of that shit a guy can take before he needs to find a new damn teacher. Also, the apprentice army likes to tease Luke by telling him about how THEY were first trained, in full disturbing detail, and offering to teach him in the same way. And he’s pretty sure most of them were joking, but he’s also sure that some were not.)

OMG  YOU HAVE TO WRITE THE THING.

You don’t understand, I am laughing and losing my shit over what PALPATINE MUST BE THINKING, AND MOST OF THAT IS VERY BAD LANGUAGE EVEN BY SITH STANDARDS.

[hohoeminomirai]

aziraphale: *sitting on crowley's sofa, reading*

crowley: *watering his plants*

anathema (bursting in): so you two ARE having sex!

aziraphale: really? crowley, why didn't you tell me. i would have put my book down

“I’m not ignoring you intentionally I just have no motivation to respond the way that I feel you deserve” - a novel by me.

[queer-all-year]

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Samwise Gamgee is a precious goddamn cinnamon roll

[hokalinart]

“You underestimate my power!”

-Anakin Skywalker

[punsbulletsandpointythings]

@poplitealqueen

[ithotyouknew2-deactivated201710]

Reporter who quit on air to fight for pot legalization faces decades in prison

Pending trial of Charlo Greene raises questions about the war on drugs and could have broader legal implications as more states move towards legalization

Um….y’all remember her? 

[intoxifaded]

“Update | 29 September 2016: The most recent charges against Charlo Greene in her marijuana case include six more offenses than the original indictment, according to a spokeswoman for the Alaska attorney general’s office. Instead of eight counts for a total of 24 years in prison, she is facing 14 offenses for a possible 54 years.”

Please share this. So many states are legalizing marijuana and have it available for medicinal use and she’s facing prison time because her state isn’t as far along in the legalization process.

[odinsblog]

54 years? IN PRISON??

For “permit violations"?

54 years, for not filing the right paperwork in a timely fashion? 54 years, for “infractions” found during undercover police raids, when she wasn’t even on the premises?

Just to be absolutely sure that I have this right, Charlo Greene is facing 54 years hard time – for selling a fucking plant in the very same state where white “entrepreneurs” can get filthy rich from selling weed? 🤔

Nah fam, I’m calling bullshit. Just be honest about it. Just come right out and say it: The state decided she’s the wrong skin color to become a wealthy “pot Barron” in Alaska.

[fed-detector-deactivated2018030]

Alaska is already a full legalization state too. They voted a few years ago.

[girlidiotdotcom-deactivated2023]

a delicate scale

[fennethianell]

[indica-dreaming-deactivated2023]

cAN YOU NOT

[thirst-mobile]

I made a thing

[lizclimo]

group costume idea 

[robothugscomic]

New comic! (link to good version)

This comic was originally posted on Everyday Feminism.

When we talk about consent, we don’t talk a lot about how consent changes in a relationship. People who have been partnered for 20 years sure as heck don’t negotiate sex and intimacy the same way that people who have met just do, and it would be ridiculous to suggest that they should. As our relationships change, we can use consent activities to build a structure that lets us make assumptions about what the other person wants.

So consent castles are pretty much my favourite thing. It’s how I talk about consent as being the root of a stable, trusting relationship. I like consent castles because they make consent a collaborative exercise - you have to build it together, and then you can live in a giant, beautiful (kinky/cuddly/furry/whatever) castle together. Who doesn’t want a great castle?

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

I love this! I wanna add that the foundation of your consent castle is everyone feeling/being safe enough to say “no”. The reason long-together people can skip some parts of consent conversations before engaging is that they’ve already made it okay for somone to initiate an ordinary routine and then be told, “nah, I don’t want to today” without it being A Big Scary Deal for everyone.

Even if you’ve gotten pretty good at knowing what your partner likes, there will be times when you think they’re interested but they’re not, and while asking if you’re unsure is still always the best way, in a well-built consent castle your partner can say “nah” and you can both go about your day without either of you falling apart.

[vaspider]

This is beautiful and perfect and I’m going to use this metaphor forever for consent. Eeee.

[hohoeminomirai]

Asexuals: *exist*

Sigmund Freud: *pterodactyl screeching*

[shenanigans-of-a-young-person]

“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do

[gettingwitchywithit]

“Stay.” I glare at inanimate objects that continuously fall over

[unironicallyenthusiasticknitter]

“Thank you!” I say exhasperatedly to the inanimate objects when they do finally work right/stay put

[joestoyes]

“Sorry! I say to the table I bumped into

[q834tq3hgfq39fh9q348h-deactivat]

“SHHH” I say to the inanimate object that keeps making noise

[bittyblueeyes]

“Yeah, yeah, I’m coming,” I huff at the persistent kitchen timer.

[alex-guerin]

“Don’t take that tone with me!” I exclaim at objects that make strange and sudden unknown noises.

[ralkana]

“Stop crying, you’re fine,” I snap as I’m looking for the charger cord for the electronic device beeping demandingly at me.

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

“Oh nice, real mature,” I snarl at devices that suddenly stop working after I berate them for not working properly.

[sweetlyminiaturesublime]

JESUS CHRIST I HAVE NEVER RELATED SO HARD IN MY LIFE

[meeko-mar]

“GIVE ME A DAMN SECOND, STOP SCREAMING” –me, when multiple timers on my ovens are going off at work while I am trying to do something else. (I am very grouchy and mean to the inanimate objects at my work. .)

[grimreaperchibi]

“No one asked you,” I tell the inanimate object that just fell over when I’m talking to someone else.

[kawaiiorc]

“I know I know I hear you.” Or “oh fuck off no one cares” when the machines or online order printer starts beeping.

[hazeldomain]

“You’re really gonna play it like that” I tell the computer that just crashed in front of a customer. 

[drst]

Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics? 

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you  and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

[darthmelyanna]

Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?

[drst]

^^ I like this idea.

[animatedamerican]

You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials.  But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.

And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery.  Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits.  And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.

Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.

[jessicalprice]

Not to mention that some of the societies portrayed, or inspiring similar fantasy settings, actually had STRONGER protections against and consequences for rape than the ones we live in today. 

Accounts from Vikings’ contemporaries recount a lot of raiding, but not a single case of rape. Viking law didn’t treat rape as a property crime, and the penalty for it was outlawry, which was essentially a death sentence. Medieval English law prescribed that rapists be castrated and blinded. And the sagas contain vanishingly few references to rape (and violence against women is usually followed with comeuppance–often death–for the perpetrator). 

TL;DR: History wasn’t one giant rape-fest, and in fact, members of the cultures high fantasy is usually based on may have actually been more disapproving of rape than we are today (imagine trying to pass a bill making rape a capital offense today!). 

These writers include rape because they like writing about rape, not because history dictates it. 

[mithrel]

Sidenote: I haven’t read the Outlander book series, so idk if it’s the same, but it was written by a woman.

[whitmerule]

All of the above (screw the ‘back then’ argument, how about actually researching the individual complex cultures you’re talking about rather than just making them a ‘barbaric other where anything goes’ fantasy land and blaming it on history); plus, you know, the fact that that actually applies to the 'shaving’ argument of one of the rebloggers above. Many cultures before the 20th century got into shaving this or that part of their anatomy - gendered or otherwise - in accordance with cultural norms of beauty or fashion at the time. Fine blades are not an invention of the 20th century. Nor is makeup. Just ask the ancient Egyptians on both counts. Life and history aren’t a steady march from 'then’ to 'now’, children. Every culture is distinct and ingenious in their own way. STUDY a culture if you want to work out what they did - and, if you’re making a fantasy world, study it again if you want to make a fantasy version of it, in order to work out not only what they did but what resources they had at their disposal to allow ingenious individuals had at their disposal. Because I guarantee all your 'magical’ characters will be building on current cultural knowledge and artisanal structures anyway.

[oshiokiyo]

We found a potential new home and desperately need your help - PLEASE READ!!

I honestly never thought I would be spending my birthday living in a parking lot, bumming free wifi off of a motel, and trying to list things on Craigslist in order to make money for a place to live, but that’s exactly what’s happening.

This whole situation feels so surreal and I just feel so lost right now. I took down my previous gofundme pages because a lot of people were sending cruel messages and telling me how they thought I was trying to profit off of my sisters death. It was too stressful and hurtful that I just decided to take down the pages and try to make it work on my own (well my mom and I would make it work together, of course). But I honestly just need help right now and I’m running out of time to make the money on our own.

First of all, with everyone’s past help we were able to afford a 24 year old Toyota that runs flawlessly. The only major problem is that it is impossible to live in, especially with our pets, our luggage, groceries, and both my mom and myself (It’s a bit smaller than our ford). While it’s great for getting us from point A to point B, it’s not a space we can stay in, even temporarily like we hopped. It’s kinda like sardines in a can.

As a result we started looking for small trailers and we found a travel trailer that we can hitch to our new SUV online for $700. It is a mess cosmetically inside, but there are two beds, a working stove, fridge, AC, heather, microwave, a closet, storage space… It has everything. It is perfect. We already checked it out and everything does work. We refuse to be in the same situation as before with our old Ford.

It is a place we can actually call home while we go through this situation, and it also means that we won’t need anymore assistance once we have it. We would have liked to buy it on our own, but the owners are only willing to hold it without a deposit until Friday, and we are struggling to come up with the money. We’ve been up the past 2 nights trying to list things but have only made $40 so far, and we need at least $350. The full amount for it is $700.

So, once again I am humbly asking for donations. Any amount will help, seriously. Even the smallest amount adds up if enough people donate so I am literally begging you all to help if you can. Please donate and signal boost. My mom and I are so excited to have a place and bed of our own. This is exactly what we need. We are begging you all for your donations so that we may get this trailer, to get our own home. We will pay back anyone who wants us to with whatever we sell, the second we sell things (of course this would be after we buy the trailer). If we don’t get the money in time we will refund the money of those who ask as well.

I will only be accepting donations through PayPal at this time, since gofundme donations take too long to deposit into bank accounts. I’m sorry about this. It’s just the only other account I have a card and access to.

My PayPal address is [email protected]

Please, please, please donate any amount if you can. I hate asking this of you all again. It honestly just makes me feel so worthless and pathetic. But feeling this way is worth it if we can finally get our own home while our disability appeals process.

Please help. Please.

Thank you.

xoxoshiokiyo

(P.S. I will be posting the total amount of donations that come in the second that they do so that everyone can see how close we are to our goal)

$25/$700 donated towards our new home!

[tiarasnteakettles]

To kick off Tiarapocalypse, let’s do a little giveaway~! The winner takes home this lovely replica of the Duchess of Kent tiara! ✨  To enter, just re-blog this post! ✨  The giveaway will run until October 15th. ✨  People are welcome to enter more than once. ✨  Following my blog isn’t mandatory, but I’d appreciate it if you did! ✨  Oh, and I will ship internationally! (If you don’t want to wait to see if you’ve won, you can buy this tiara and many others here.)

[crwnly-deactivated20150506]

i am demisexual meaning i am only attracted to those born of gods or who are themselves a deity. move out of the way assholes, i’m gonna fuck zeus

[cinaed]

#DON’T FUCK ZEUS