existence? in my me?

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[mevil]

[gildeddlily]

I think what makes Andor one of the best pieces of star wars media is that it's a show that didn't get lost in the aestethic of the cinematic universe. the fans' fascination with jedi and mandalorians was of course exploited by producers and writers to make money with movies and series that are beautiful and that I love, but that missed (at least most of them) the one thing that truly makes Star Wars maybe the best franchises in the world (my opinion ofc). I'm talking about the political theme. all star wars movies/shows deal with politics, but some of them treat them as an afterthought, as something that's in the background, and it becomes maybe a plot device to further advance the main story. what happens in most of these shows is that people become the centre: people as friends, parents, parteners. which is fine, of course, god knows I love them all, but nothing hit me as hard as Andor, where people are oppressed and angry before they're friends, spouses, parents. where family is important, but freedom is something that matters even more. what I mean is that yes, people are important and Star Wars has always been about real, complex people that act like real, complex, hurt and flawed people, but I feel like Andor did something that none of them managed to do. it was beautiful and entertaining and so star wars even without lightsabers fighting scenes and crazy plot twists about people being cloned or still being alive after dying four times. Andor was about real people who fought and died and suffered and still did it all because it was worth it.

Andor wasn't made to sell funko pops and plushies, Andor was made to say something. the people behind it wanted to tell us, the audience, the world, something, and they said it loud and clear. and I think that a lot of people liked it for this exact reason, because to watch something that truly means something is a beautiful experience, one that leaves you on the verge of crying and makes your chest feel heavy and your mind swirl with thoughts. Andor is what Star Wars was always supposed to be.

[afurioushawk]

[frilledshark17]

There's been a lot written about how right-wing politics are bound up with hypermasculine sexual posturing and the anxieties underlying it. It's high time to understand that applies just as much to the left.

[afurioushawk]

There's a direct correlation between leftists' fetishization of violence in the form of revolution and toxic masculinity.

Leftist men HATE being associated with the effete liberal male stereotype for that reason and that's why they try to distance themselves from liberal men by also calling them a bunch of shitlib soy boys.

[pagecommando]

Has Ken EVER boosted Democrats or been normal about Jews?

[feetdavidson]

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

[feetdavidson]

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[dreamingnemleria]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[riverlarking]

free museum trips are wasted on unappreciative middle schoolers. let me go

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[hungwy]

download killing upload pain. instant thousand deaths to brain. motherboard on murder spree. blood computer victory.

[max1461]

online chilling upload nice. posts give life a little spice. cpu is pure and true. internet for me and you :)

[fipindustries]

[disgustinggf]

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, not gonna lie, it is so refreshing to have a major cultural moment that's just FREE. You don't have to pay a cent to watch this on NASA's YouTube. There's not a single ad, not a single sponsor plastered anywhere. It's just smart people doing cool things.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Closest thing we got to an ad was the jar of Nutella that escaped.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I wanna talk about this more, as someone who worked in marketing for ten years and then left because of how fucked up the industry has gotten.

There is no world without some level of "marketing" because, at it's core, marketing is just telling people about things you want them to know about. The problem is that it, like everything, has been vastly overdeveloped into something that no longer functions by people determined to squeeze every last penny out of it.

It's no longer trying to share things you think are cool, it is trying to make things cool so you will share them. It's backwards. And despite what corporations desperately want to be true, doing it backwards doesn't work. It's exhausting and grating and just pisses people off.

If this were backwards marketing, Nutella would have paid to have a "Nutella" patch on the astronauts' suits, would've had some deal for them to eat lunch in view of the camera while spreading Nutella on a tortilla and some canned line of "this stuff tastes even better in space!" and then Nutella would've ran that ad to fucking death trying to act like "isn't this so cool?! We paid thousands of dollars to send our shit to space! TELL US WE ARE COOL BY BUYING OUR SHIT BECAUSE WE SENT ONE JAR TO SPACE AND SPENT SO MUCH MONEY."

But that's not what happened.

I doubt anyone at Nutella even knew that jar went along until it escaped its confines and had the most picture perfect label reveal spin as it passed over the working astronauts. You could not have planned that, could not have made it look any better. It was COOL and funny and got everyone talking. Nothing about it was manufactured or forced. NOW Nutella is coming in and running with it. They're not forcing anything, they're taking something that became cool on its own and building off it, not making it up and shoving it everyone's face.

Good for them.

[evilsoup]

it's so sad to get recommended like "marriage" shit on facebook reels or whatever like girl if you're saying all this "oh men are like [bad self-centred thing] women are like [suffering put-upon thing]" jesus just get a divorce. that isn't "men" that's your man. leave that schmuck. you only have one life are you really going to pretend that there's this big gendered divide to brainwash yourself into staying with a guy who you are telling the whole world basically doesn't care about you. it's the twenty first century please take some responsibility for your life and dump that man.

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[isuggestlandback]

I have a baby cousin who's Two Spirit.

Their parents are leftists, open minded, pro LGBTQ+, learned to use the right pronouns (to their face at least) all that jazz.

Their Auntie grew up in a remote area, little old fashioned, doesn't really "get" the non binary thing, and hasn't quite got the hang of the singular 'they' yet. But she tries.

When my cousin got injured and couldn't drive their parents shrugged and told them to quit their job.

Their Auntie drove them to and from work every day until they got their cast off.

Which family member do you think they'll ask next time they need help?

Do you want to be ideologically perfect, or do you want to help?

[probablyapinecone]

[isuggestlandback]

☝️☝️☝️

[infectiouspiss]

a tiny heist went down to rescue Rise and now he's being taken everywhere by Reid Wiseman because he's extremely important (he was supposed to be left on the craft, he has instead been adopted)

[the-bar-sinister]

Never be afraid to take your favorite plushie everywhere. If it's cool enough for an astronaut, it's cool enough for you.

[dykeselfcest]

life is so hard when you love being competent and knowledgeable and helpful but you also love slacking off