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[copperbadge]

Headcanon that Luke and Obi Wan got the money to pay Han Solo by selling the moisture farm at bargain-basement prices in Anchorhead without telling anyone that it was totally torched, and by the time anyone find out they were well off planet. Luke now has a reputation as one of Tattooine’s most famous con men despite the fact that it was Obi Wan who ran the con.

[yulesend]

#I don’t know if you meant it this way but I totally interpreted this as them selling the farm multiple times to different people#luke: *wrestling over selling the wreck of the farm to someone he knows is a complete scumbag*#obi-wan: hello are you interested in buying a farm#complete scumbucket: *interested noises*#luke:  wait didn’t we already-? *gets zapped by R2* ow!#luke: oh#luke: ohhhh#luke: >:)

[nevertheless-moving]

i haven’t cared about star wars ‘canon’ since i was 3 years old- I LOVE the idea that the reason Luke had to dramatically speeder in and out of Jabba’s without hitting up any of his local connections is he is like, wanted by a bunch of scum in Mos Eisley. Can you- can you imagine Vader or whoever doing a recon in town on ‘the last son of the Jedi who blew up the death star.’ His close friends and family have all a) died b) moved off planet or c) both. 

So the only reputation he has is ‘that bastard con artist who banked 19 years of aw-shucks-wormie-ness and used it to outrageously fleece everyone who’s almost anybody.’ Vader reading the report like…damn you Kenobi did you get HONDO to raise my son??

Jabba’s reaction to Luke’s message is INFINITELY funnier if we consider the idea that ‘Skywalker’ amongst the wretched local villainy (who mostly ignore imperial and rebel propaganda) is actually synonymous with TWO things - that brat who totally messed up the podrace bookies 25 years ago, and the infamous Anchorhead Con. Jabba gets this message about ‘Jedi’ and is like LOL i think the other Skywalker tried to pull some hotshit with that too before wimping out.

Everyone openly laughs like sure you’re a Jedi and I’ve got a bargain vaporator farm I want to sell you. 

AND THEN HE WRECKS THE JOINT WITH A DEBT-RIDDEN HALF-BLIND SMUGGLER A RANDOM SLAVE GIRL ONE GUARD AND TWO BEAT UP DROIDS WHAAAT

[he-who-ships]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Don’t forget the Wookiee!

[enby-life]

A short thing about “weird triggers” inspired by this that I’ll end up deleting later honestly-

You can reblog this but like... don’t fuck around??? I won’t hesitate with the block button on this I swear to fuck I won’t.

[enby-life]

Well this doubled in notes in like three hours so... I’m glad other people are finding this validating

[lupusdraconis]

Here is my completed pinup animation for @monarobot! She commissioned Goblin King Jareth from Labyrinth, all crystalline and trying his best to be seductive. And then someone comes along and interrupts him. How dare!

And then, a minute later:

He’s planned this for months and now everything is RUINED

[maq-moon]

hey y’all does physical therapy suck?

I’m getting mixed reviews. For clarification, it’ll be my ankle.

Mom says I “will hate my life”. Friends report varying degrees of ouch, from “a good workout” to “not bad”.

I need a bigger group from which to draw a conclusion.

[taco-soup]

[endreal]

Say how old you are on the internet without saying how old you are

Here’s mine:

gpoy

[iscriptikus]

Wannabe

[maq-moon]

labyrinth

[maculategiraffe]

me @ any sort of Discourse

[morepopcornplease]

still seeing equivocation between BLM and MAGA, so let me spell this out:

BLM broke windows of stores because people have repeatedly been murdered in cold blood by actual agents of the gov’t

MAGA broke into the Capitol buildings with the goal of taking hostage representatives of the people because they lost a democratic election

they are NOT the same.

[glockpaperscissors]

Just some January 6, 2021 Twitter highlights

[star-wars]

✧ STAR WARS TAROT CARDS: THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA ✧

gifset inspired by the beautiful artwork of @elithien 

[annabananasx]

Me, walking into 2021 with my eyes closed: I’m one with the force and the force is with me I’m one with the force and the force is with me I’m one with the force and the force is with me

[ultrashadowkai]

Go watch Pixar’s Soul if you have Disney+.

Go watch Soul because it actually has black people on screen for most of the movie.

Go watch Soul because we’re not caricatures or flat, one-note black stereotypes.

Go watch Soul because it actually has an important message on one’s passion and purpose in life that I refuse to spoil here.

Go watch Soul because the trailers DON’T actually give away the plot and the movie’s genuinely better the trailers.

Go watch Soul because you bet your ass corporate’s gonna blame low numbers on the film having vast majority black characters and try to stop this kinda movie from ever happening again.

Go watch Soul because judging the entirety of a movie before it even airs based on the freakin’ trailer (which is hardly ever actually put together by the creators of the film itself and is more tied to the marketing department) instead of the actual film itself is an incredibly ignorant thing to do.

Go watch Soul and form your own opinion instead of jumping on a woke bandwagon.

Signed,

A black person that actually watched this movie

[elidyce]

Also go watch Soul because it is a genuinely deep and beautiful movie about what makes us people.

[nixcraft]

Hack the planet. 

[sophiaslittleblog]

SHES IN THE SYSTEM!!!!

[ash-and-art]

*hacker voice*

AAAAAAAAAAA

[beyondthesunrise]

[Video description: A video of a toddler standing at a laptop on a low table, mimicking typing by mashing her fingers into the keys. Two people behind the camera talk as the baby types.

Person 1: Hack the cloud.

Person 2: Hack the cloud, hack the cloud, girl.

1: Hacking hacking… wait, are you in the mainframe? Get in the mainframe!

(The baby points at something on the screen)

1: Yeah, there’s the mainframe. Get it!

(Person 2 laughs)

1: Get in the mainframe!

(The baby looks up and yells excitedly)

1: Yeah! We’re in!

2: Yes! Get it, girl, get it!

1: We’re in!

2: Hacking hacking hacking! Go go go!

(Baby starts excitedly slapping the keys with open hands)

(Person 2 wheezily laughs)

1: That’s what I do too.

End description.]

[bencsolos]

“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.” - ROTS Novelization (Matthew Stover)

[albertserra]

[kanna-ophelia]

So I have read several people complaining that they can’t be expected to know the “unwritten rules” of fandom. So here’s what I wish people knew:

Fanfiction is fiction.

Fictional people are not real.

Fictional people do not have rights.

Fictional people cannot be abused.

Reading or writing about something does not mean the desire to do or support it in the real world.

If I find art upsetting/triggering/disgusting/outraging/unpleasant/squicky/distressing/offensive, it is on me not to read it, not the creators and hosts to remove it.

Curate your own experience. The back buttons exist for a reason.

If you don’t trust yourself to do that, get someone you trust to do it for you.

Fandom is an adult space. Adults create and own and host fandom spaces. If minors want to participate, then the onus is on them and their parents/guardians/trusted adults to ensure they participate appropriately, not on strange adults to stop being adults.

You often don’t know the assault status or mental health status or neurotype or race or nationality or religion or gender or sexuality or age of a creator or consumer, and they do not have to disclose to you to justify their fantasy.

AO3 is not a safe space. It is not intended to be a safe space. Proceed accordingly.

Just because you don’t like something or find it offensive doesn’t mean it is a “problem” that “has to be dealt with”.

Most characters in anime are not white.

There is no onus on you to reblog or share anything.

Everyone makes mistakes in fandom and is less than their best self sometimes.

Persistent pseudonyms encourage long term relationships.

Ship wars are stupid.

Someone else enjoying things does not impact on your own enjoyment of other things.

Tagging and warning is a courtesy, not a requirement. Assume any fic might contain untagged content.

Rating is an imprecise art, not a science.

Don’t hassle IP creators.

Most people who are in fandom are hoping to make connections based on a shared passion.

Trying to profit from transformative fanworks puts us all at risk.

No one is obligated to share your head canon or fanon.

Being kind rarely fails to pay off.

It is okay to block and remove people who make your experience unpleasant. You don’t have to placate them. (Learn from my mistakes).

Britpicking is a good thing.

You don’t have to justify why you like a canon/pairing/trope/kink. Sometimes navel gazing is fun, but you don’t have an obligation to explain yourself, especially to strangers. I share the overwhelming desire to refute an unfair accusation, but the people accusing you are rarely doing so in good faith, so you’re batting a losing wicket.

I’m not your Mum. (Well, okay, a very few of you can call me Mum or Mom, but if you are one of them you already know who you are ❤️)

If you aren’t mature enough to take responsibility for your online experiences, you aren’t mature enough to be in fandom spaces.

[tendervvolf-deactivated20211230]

I just want to add that not only is fanfiction fiction, it is fiction that has significantly less influence on the real world than mainstream media. A fanfic with 500 or even 2,000 kudos that was made by 1 (or at most 2 or 3 if it’s a collab) random person(s) in their free time is NOT worthy of the same level of political criticism as a Disney film with a massive budget made by a powerful company that will reach millions of people worldwide. It is easier to attack a tiny fandom creator than to attack a big company because you can may succeed in bullying them, but it’s not activism and it won’t make a positive change. It’s just bullying. It will just make fandom - one of the last safe havens we have for queer and marginalized voices - a less safe place.

[freshfruitforrottingvegetablez]

“Live and let live” is an idiom for a reason

[mystericmoon]