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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

ryliith

Deadpan humor at its finest. Raise your hand if you think highly competent Commander Cody would win this championship.

yy0k08

the fallen

jasminebythebay

love a man in uniform

Cody's uniform is by @rochenn, original post here! Ty for letting me use the design!

captaingondolin

sorry I just noticed THE LIGHTSABER

isthoriel

This is perfect

bubblesthecow

Watching Star Wars in chronological order is so funny.

Obi-Wan Kenobi really took one look at R2D2 in the middle of the desert and said “No, Luke, I’ve never seen this fucking droid in my life. Looks like a real bitch though. Not that I’d know. This is my first time meeting the asshole.”

No one in that whole franchise was Gatekeep-Gasslight-Girlbossing quite like “Ben” Kenobi, regular human-man.

mulanxiaojie

The Stone Dragon by RFakonWolf

hegodamask

babe wake up, full canon accurate and up-to-date map of the star wars galaxy just dropped

splitting-infinities

Did you know you can check out video games from the library? Did you know that you can check out dvds of shows that were released on streaming? Did you know that if the a library doesn’t have what you ask for, they’ll arrange to have it checked out from another library and brought to you at your library?? Did you know you can get all of this for free???

GET A LIBRARY CARD!!! FEAST ON FREE JOY

azertyrobaz

Careful, Wim. It's not one of your stories.

thecollectibles

Art by Leah Gardner

thecollectibles

The Collectibles: Best of 2024

trekscribbles

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

userarmand

Mr. du Lac occasionally finds it difficult to talk about Claudia.

shadowtentacles

And I find it difficult not to look at his cleavage when he talks.

isthoriel

Honestly.

#armand #interview with the vampire

rochenn

Arguments about what's canon and what's not in SW fandom are kinda pointless, I know for a fact that every fan has their personal frankensteined version of canon based on what's best for their own blorbos. I love picking up a random licensed book to sneer at half of its ideas and then steal the rest. Some shows and books and comics and whole movies are simply not incorporated into my belief system. That's how we roll

isthoriel

Preach.

Some of my headcanons are undoubtedly from fanfics rather than "canon".

At the end of the day, isn't it all just Original Trilogy fanfiction now? Isn't everything just fanfic of something else?

Believe whatever makes your weird little heart sing

#star wars #fanfic #canon #deepest thoughts

umulata

"The way Daniel sits here with his arm around the back of the sofa, a conspicuously empty, person-shaped space right beside him..."

@speckled-jim

yeah he was just grabbing a snack

speckled-jim

I can't begin to describe how deeply satisfying this art feels. Compare it to the original screenshot:

It's incredible how much Armand's mere presence changes everything. Daniel's boredom becomes familiar comfort; his malaise gives way to warm intimacy; his body all but molds itself to embrace Armand. The soft domestic coziness of two people who are perfectly content to just bask in each other's unspoken love. They fit so naturally against each other, it makes the original look all the more distressing with its emptiness.